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Comment on How democratic governments came to view VPNs as circumvention software that must be restricted in ~tech
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Comment on How democratic governments came to view VPNs as circumvention software that must be restricted in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentLook I know it's not about the topic at hand or likely to convince you, but seriously I've heard the same poorly structured argument against socialism. Capitalists can be Authoritarians....The greatest fear of a capitalist is not a brutal authoritarian regime. Their greatest fear is a population that will not give in to their every whim and risk slowing down that upward flow of wealth.
Look I know it's not about the topic at hand or likely to convince you, but seriously I've heard the same poorly structured argument against socialism. Capitalists can be Authoritarians. Authoritarians can be Capitalists. There's not that much more of a link between the two ideologies than any other because almost by definition an Authoritarian will seek control through whatever means available.
If those means are market economies they will be there. If it's political appointments they'll be there. You do your cause no favors with these conflations especially between an economic system and a governmental one.
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Comment on How democratic governments came to view VPNs as circumvention software that must be restricted in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentThis isn't really a phenomenon? Messaging is important? "Should ID's be checked at a liquor store" "Sure!" "Should the liquor store scan your ID, store a copy locally, and be required to provide...This isn't really a phenomenon? Messaging is important?
"Should ID's be checked at a liquor store"
"Sure!"
"Should the liquor store scan your ID, store a copy locally, and be required to provide the scan, date, and time to any and all authorities"
"No!"
Obviously this whole issue, like many before it with privacy and tech, has hinged on taking a fairly reasonable problem (holy shit kids can get to too many sites, but lets not highlight the gambling ones too much they're funding us....), and then coming up with an unreasonable solution.
And once again, like in the past, people are unwilling to do half decent messaging to counter that like the above example, and instead wind up sounding like lunatics who think "parents should just pay better attention" is a reasonable answer in an era of parents working double jobs, kids knowing more about tech, and very little in the way to help them.
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Comment on ‘It’s shameful’: New York’s elite lash out at Zohran Mamdani’s second-home tax in ~finance
Eji1700 (edited )LinkFrom my limited research this tax is one of the better ones proposed and implemented. It’s not these weird hard to enforce wealth taxes, it’s just straight up on a fairly easy to define extra...From my limited research this tax is one of the better ones proposed and implemented. It’s not these weird hard to enforce wealth taxes, it’s just straight up on a fairly easy to define extra asset.
I wish more discussion was in this direction
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Comment on Railway solar project turns unused track space into energy in ~enviro
Eji1700 Link ParentI suspect the answer might be "physics". They've supposedly already clocked they need to keep an eye on maintenance. There's a LOT of energy going over those tracks/across those ties, and I...I suspect the answer might be "physics". They've supposedly already clocked they need to keep an eye on maintenance. There's a LOT of energy going over those tracks/across those ties, and I assumed they've accounted for some amount of flex and damage, but I'm not sure I can see this working.
Just off the top of my head, ignoring the flex, a single train dragging ANYTHING will destroy a huge swath of panels, and I assume it's sorta the same if it kicks up any sort of debris? It doesn't need to be something large either. Just some tree branch or something that a train can easily plow through but then gets caught under one of the cars and is now plowing through every panel?
Suppose it's possible that's less common/easier to handle than my instincts, but i'm skeptical this works out. It at least looks better thought out than solar roads.
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Comment on Woman covertly filmed for 'humiliating' social media content - then told to pay for removal in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentThey almost certainly do (depends on the state but there's some they must violate). It's part of the trick of rolling these things out and stuff like recording in public areas in a 2 party consent...With that in mind, I do wonder if there's a chance that recording a conversation with smart glasses potentially violates two party consent recording laws in some states.
They almost certainly do (depends on the state but there's some they must violate). It's part of the trick of rolling these things out and stuff like recording in public areas in a 2 party consent state.
The government basically gets to ignore it with things like body cams (which has always been a valid discussion with those), but private citizens being walking cameras is all sorts of problematic. It's part of the issue with camera's on cars, not just because of 2 party consent stuff, but the idea that removing footage of a crime could be considered destruction of evidence.
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Comment on Why so many people are going "no contact" with their parents in ~life
Eji1700 (edited )Link ParentThis is such a loaded standard, and while I hope you're being hyperbolic I suspect you're not. The swath of people one includes with stances like this almost always overlapping with some group...These people are not worthy of being sympathized with;
This is such a loaded standard, and while I hope you're being hyperbolic I suspect you're not. The swath of people one includes with stances like this almost always overlapping with some group they'd go to the barricades for in another topic.
In your specific example "these people" appears to be
that is that estranged parents and family members are usually mentally and/or emotionally abusive, and/or they are psychotic or have other mental disorders
So by your logic, what, poor people are less likely to be deserving of sympathy? There's reams of research and just common sense that families in struggling situations are vastly more likely to be abusive, be it emotionally, mentally, or physically.
And the fact you're just willing to throw people with mental disorders in there is a whole other problem.
Yes, they need to get help. No that does not excuse their actions. Yes they (mostly) need to to it themselves, but saying they "are not worthy of being sympathized with", from their child no less, is such a giant mess. You can very much need to cut ties with someone and still feel sympathetic to the situation that destroyed the person they were.
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Comment on Why I find woke criticism of veganism and effective altruism so outrageous in ~society
Eji1700 (edited )Link ParentIt basically blew up as a discussion point with FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried as he was pretty obviously one of the poster children for the latter definition and in the media's brief love affair with...It basically blew up as a discussion point with FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried as he was pretty obviously one of the poster children for the latter definition and in the media's brief love affair with him it put even more of a spotlight the whole discussion. Naturally whatever sane discussions that were being had were not the focus.
EA reminds me of some other "views" like rationalism or to go farther randian stuff.
It's the sort of thing where the cliff notes or core concept basically boil down to "yeah that's an interesting discussion point and thing to think about", however the people who seem to use it as a core point of their identity often do so to justify some behavior they don't want to admit might just possibly be harmful/selfish/batshit insane. Hell to throw grease on the fire I'd argue much the same about the hyper woke crowd as well.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
Eji1700 (edited )Link ParentThat kinda helps narrow things down, but it leads me back to thinking its a Cosmos Cloud thing. Connecting locally from one VLAN to another gives As this all sorta comes back to me, that of course...That kinda helps narrow things down, but it leads me back to thinking its a Cosmos Cloud thing.
Connecting locally from one VLAN to another gives
Bad Request: Invalid hostname. Use your domain instead of your IP to access your server. Check logs if more details are needed.
As this all sorta comes back to me, that of course reads quite clearly saying that the server itself, via cosmos, is ONLY allowing connections from domain.
So this is where I kinda hit my wall as I have found a few things that should help in both documentation and configuration, however odd behavior and unfamiliarity have kept this a dead end so far.
There is an option to enable http access via local ips, but it mentions you can already make ip:port urls for your apps, its just that this forces them to be http only.
Okay, lets make a local URL for jellyfin. No idea what i'm doing here, and I generally wind up making a few things that it accepts, but never work.
The doc's unfortunately seem to assume you know what you're doing https://cosmos-cloud.io/docs/urls/ so im still futzing around and asking questions to see if I can figure out what part of this puzzle im missing, and what the actual proper method for doing this is.
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And going through old notes and chat i had .local domains SORTA working (as there is an option to enable that which i have on) buuuut never consistently, and I've seen others struggle with it, so still trying to figure out alternatives and how to properly route to a host IP without possibly killing the whole thing
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miiiight have finally gotten the right combo of local host ip and path prefix settings to get some basic stuff working. Will have to keep poking and see if this lasts. Still very "in the dark" as to what the hell is actually going on under the hood between my ubiquiti router and my cosmos instance, and trying to figure out how exactly it determines where to route the traffic, and how I can better see that to debug on my own.
Digging through logs of course helps but god does it feel like there should be a cleaner way sometimes.
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Okay...I think I have A valid config.
- Enable allow insecure access via local IP in config.
- Create a new url using the server IP as the host, and just give it some path prefix and strip it.
- Yay local access (I think?)
I still need to confirm that, and have so far confirmed that turning off the insecure access via local IP leads to an odd situation in which cosmos claims the URL is live, but attempting to access gives 404 not found white page
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annnnnnnnd the fun part. Deleted the new url, tried recreating it with exact same steps, failure this time. Guess its back to the log mines to see what about the config was working and what's different and if there's just some time lag or what.
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So just to poke the bear I tried doing a curl request.
http://ip/app
404 page not foundhttps://ip/app
SEC_E_UNTRUSTED_ROOT etc..Sooo yeah. Best guess is that changes take some time to flow through the system and in screwing around I juked it into some invalid state. I'll just blow away the new url, revert the config, and try again later.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Eji1700 Link ParentI think olden era is great, but I feel like games like this are always in a damned if you do damned if you don't nostalgia tar pit situation. HoMM3 is "fine". It was great for the time, but in the...I think olden era is great, but I feel like games like this are always in a damned if you do damned if you don't nostalgia tar pit situation.
HoMM3 is "fine". It was great for the time, but in the modern age you can look at all sorts of ideas the game had and say these were not well implemented and rarely mattered.
Changing the formula in any way gets you blasted by the classic fans, while leaving it as is lets the new fans find out "eh actually it's usually not that deep"...like how the actual battlefield rarely matters by the mid game...
Olden era is doing a pretty great job of being customizable while actually catering to its competitive community (and its sub shards) in a decently sane way. Feels like the best thing to happen since Hero's Hour.
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Comment on Star Fox Direct shadow dropped right before premiere in ~games
Eji1700 Link ParentIt's even funnier, because there were all sorts of cool ideas that were planned for 64 that they ran out of time to include (like most games). So if you're going to do a remaster, why not say "and...It's even funnier, because there were all sorts of cool ideas that were planned for 64 that they ran out of time to include (like most games).
So if you're going to do a remaster, why not say "and guess what, we're adding the REST of the content!"
I get it won't always be perfect but take a swing. When you look at classics like FFVI and hear that they're great because oops the game got an extra year of development, I don't see why someone hasn't decided "yeah we didn't know how to top that, so we just decided to go back and dive in with a ton more paths/endings/bosses/secrets"
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
Eji1700 Link ParentSo this is where I get confused. It seems silly if i'm at home to route traffic to my router, out to the web, back to the router, and then to the server. With that in mind I have a domain with...So this is where I get confused. It seems silly if i'm at home to route traffic to my router, out to the web, back to the router, and then to the server. With that in mind
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I have a domain with lets encrypt. It has been working. It is how i currently access everything, even when local using the silly loop I just explained (which also comes with small limitations and is in theory wasting my bandwidth)
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I do have a VPN for external as well (for smaller rare use cases), but its not the external traffic that's the problem, its the local traffic.
If i'm on my main computer, it's on VLAN A. The server is on VLAN B and only accepting Https.
I'm not sure how to handle that case, and what the best practice for that case is.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
Eji1700 LinkTHE SERVER MUST GROW! but yeah i'm at the point where I have all the parts, but I'm still confused about a few configuration things. I went for cosmos cloud because it's basically a reverse proxy...THE SERVER MUST GROW!
but yeah i'm at the point where I have all the parts, but I'm still confused about a few configuration things.
I went for cosmos cloud because it's basically a reverse proxy package with sane defaults that tries to be closer to turnkey so you don't blow your own foot off. I've got https up and working and it's been online for months now, but since i've got my NAS configured i'd like to do a final pass, maybe move the server to headless, and solve one problem....i can't connect locally.
With https enabled local connections bounce because they don't have certs and there's some additional struggles because the server is on its own DMZish vlan, so it seems like ubiquiti's local dns doesn't work (although i've seen it fail on the same vlan...so ??). That part is minor because I can just hit the IP, but it rejects the traffic.
I'm...unsure of best practices to solve this. The whole point was to try and keep things secure, but I don't fully understand the whole cert process so i'm not sure if i should just whitelist an address, do self signed certs, host something, or what.
Difficult issue to research since cosmos is a small project. Obviously i can find about a million articles on hosting your own reverse proxy, but finding the details I need has been harder than I hopped, especially since "oh just whitelist http traffic" or something like that seems wrong, but maybe is correct and I can't ask a doc for context.
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Comment on Did wokeness leave us worse off? (gifted link) in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentYes. And my question to you is do you have a problem with what consenting adults do in private. Be it jokes or otherwise. Because I frankly don’t see a difference in your arguments and methods to...Yes. And my question to you is do you have a problem with what consenting adults do in private. Be it jokes or otherwise. Because I frankly don’t see a difference in your arguments and methods to anyone else who has sought to control that space.
“If you do it keep it private and don’t dare discuss it or we have the right to shun and bully you” is an attitude I clocked as, at the very bare minimum , unproductive a long time ago and I dislike seeing people claim to champion causes I feel strongly about with methods I find gross, and that in my eyes is the standard you are dancing around.
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Comment on Did wokeness leave us worse off? (gifted link) in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentSo to be clear your stance is I should listen to strangers on the internet who don’t care about context vs the opinions and feelings of those around me who are perfectly fine with it and will...If enough people tell you that a joke is in bad taste, it might be time to take pause and consider that viewpoint.
So to be clear your stance is I should listen to strangers on the internet who don’t care about context vs the opinions and feelings of those around me who are perfectly fine with it and will gladly voice when they are not?
Do you not see how leading with this completely undermines the entire point of the rest of your post?
Would it be fine if they didn’t threaten violence? Why does anyone else have a say in how I interact with consenting adults in private?
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Comment on Did wokeness leave us worse off? (gifted link) in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentWell i've watched communities dog pile and threaten the lives of people who don't get it right first try so maybe that? This framing that everyone's being reasonable about this is more than half...Well i've watched communities dog pile and threaten the lives of people who don't get it right first try so maybe that?
This framing that everyone's being reasonable about this is more than half the problem.
There's another side of this which is basically:
What actual harm is done by people stating their preferred religion, and asking for the modicum of respect when discussing it?
Which is a mirror problem in that the issues mostly stem from the people who champion these positions and how they use it as an excuse to control or bully others.
If I tell an off color joke to my friends who find it funny, I shouldn't have to deal with supposed liberals claiming I deserve death. And I have. Frequently in some communities. Just for ADMITTING i've told such jokes. Not repeating them because yes I think respecting your group is important, just honestly answering a question.
I am tired of being told I'm a serial killer because I played violent videogames, a psycho path because I'm not religious, and a fascist because I find dark humor fine in the right setting.
I am an adult who can make their own moral decisions and see the line between fantasy/humor and reality, and am tired of the wannabe policy debater who's certain my casual use of a slur in a dumb joke is leading fascism and the biggest problem facing the world right now.
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Comment on US landlords want to be paid for pandemic losses and hope to reach a deal with the Donald Trump administration in ~finance
Eji1700 Link ParentBingo. It's impossible to have a mature discussion about the topic. Don't get me wrong, I will be the first to say that there are large landlord firms that are unhealthy for humanity and there's...Bingo. It's impossible to have a mature discussion about the topic.
Don't get me wrong, I will be the first to say that there are large landlord firms that are unhealthy for humanity and there's ABSOLUTELY price fixing and other illegal activity going on. We've also just got a natural problem in that yes, if you can afford to, when you move you might as well rent out your old place rather than sell, getting a % of the proceeds some management company will take.
Any sort of property management has pretty heavy risks and dealing with tenants/cam/upkeep SUCKS. There's a reason the rental market should exist, but there's also a reason it needs to be better regulated.
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Comment on Are there alternative ways to invest savings? in ~finance
Eji1700 Link ParentThere's also the very legit issue in that family/friends are generally the last to get to get paid back. Even when people mean well, if something bad happens, you're probably at the back of the...There's also the very legit issue in that family/friends are generally the last to get to get paid back.
Even when people mean well, if something bad happens, you're probably at the back of the line for payments. You're not going to tank their credit/evict them so naturally more important creditors come first, and that can mean not getting your money back for a long long time.
This is healthier in the long run financially for the one who took the loan, but it's not going to be anywhere near stock market/standard investment returns, and of course that's before you get into the social awkwardness of it all.
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Comment on Are there alternative ways to invest savings? in ~finance
Eji1700 Link ParentI mean....you're asking for capitalistic gains without a capitalist outcome. "I want someone to pay me for storing my money" is....well..certainly the essence of the lending industry. You do that...Alternatives that are on par with stock market growth may not really exist under capitalsm - but i really wish there is something somewhat comparable.
I mean....you're asking for capitalistic gains without a capitalist outcome.
"I want someone to pay me for storing my money" is....well..certainly the essence of the lending industry.
You do that because you don't want your money to be worth less due to inflation, and to sit there in a vault being unavailable is worse for most everyone (less money in circulation ='s less opportunities/jobs/start up loans and the like).
Further, inflation doesn't care what your economic model is, it's a function of production and availability.
Finally, your investment provider needs to honor their returns. That means investing in reliable things with a proven track record.
To be more ethical you could source startups/companies you'd like to invest in directly, or just buy stocks of companies you find ethical yourself. Basically build your own fund.
The issue here is that you're now day trading in a high risk sector... with all the added tax overhead you now get to enjoy and likely none of the benefit.
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Or to maybe summarize quicker, all returns are because you're becoming a lender and just have a middle-man lending the money for you.
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Comment on Are there alternative ways to invest savings? in ~finance
Eji1700 Link ParentI would guess that if you're avoiding the private sector buying government bonds to a government that then supports the private sector is kinda counterproductive to the goal, but yeah it's...I would guess that if you're avoiding the private sector buying government bonds to a government that then supports the private sector is kinda counterproductive to the goal, but yeah it's probably your best option if you're ok with that.
I understand your point. I think you're objectively wrong, much like how people who define socialism by the standards of only communist Russia are wrong.