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oddlyqueer

@ oddlyqueer @lemmy.ml

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  • Interesting. Didn't know that this instance had that reputation. Is there anyone out there archiving and cataloguing removed posts / comments across instances? I'd be curious to see some data around this. Would be a fun NLP project to try to identify who might be running certain instances based on the ideological bent of their censorship interests. Could be fun to try to parse out state propagandists from the religious extremists, from the single-issue warriors, from the non-ideological power-trippers, etc.

  • Finally Useful

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  • you misunderstand. a Skeloton is a spooky stationary bike that steals your data, but it's very expensive. You could buy a knockoff skelaton, but it's more economical, privacy-protecting, and environmentally friendly to just use a dead body you already have lying around.

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  • I've never used mastodon and I'm not familiar with mastodon.lol. I'm fairly new to federated platforms in general tbh just figuring it out as I go along. I tend to browse all instances but I made an account on lemmy.ml because that was the one that was recommended to me on reddit. might join a different instance at some point if I find lemmy.ml to be unsatisfactory at some point e.g. if I find out they defederated from some instance I am interested in.

    The peer pressure thing... I mean yeah, people voice their opinions, disagree, and if they can't reconcile they defederate. It's messy but I think that's kind of the point. The only alternative to peer relationships is some kind of asymmetry.

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  • I mean, kinda. in the Fediverse anyone can set up a town and appoint themselves sheriff. More towns (instances) -> more sheriffs. And because the power is more distributed, there are more checks, which has a side effect of making discussions about power (and the abuse thereof) noisier. If it makes you feel any more at peace with it, the perpetual argument about norms and rules is the only alternative to having a single faction seize control and enforce their rules, so anything that is being argued about in public (and not censored) hasn't been fully captured by a single thought-policing entity.

  • Setting up ProtonVPN on an OpenWRT router, no internet access with service up (UPDATE: found workaround)

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  • Good call, I haven't yet but I think I should in any case. I got big plans for this little fella and network administration is one of the gaps in my education I've been meaning to fill in for a while now.

  • Setting up ProtonVPN on an OpenWRT router, no internet access with service up (UPDATE: found workaround)

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  • They're both functioning as routers at the moment, the topology is:

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internet fiber cable <---> ISP Router <---> OpenWRT Router <---> (ideally VPN'd) client devices

    Both routers are handling DHCP on their own LANs, and if the OpenVPN service is stopped, clients connected to the OpenWRT router can connect to the internet without any apparent issue.

  • Setting up ProtonVPN on an OpenWRT router, no internet access with service up (UPDATE: found workaround)

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  • I don't think so, I'm not trying to do port forwarding or anything like that, I just want the secondary router to be treated like a regular client by the ISP router (that only sends traffic to the VPN). Thanks for the rec though, if I can't get the native client working I'll give Gluetun a shot.

    EDIT: I added some rules for UDP ports 1194 and 5060 to the ISP router just in case there was some back traffic that wasn't getting back to the client, restarted the server and same result, Host Unreachable :(

  • Setting up ProtonVPN on an OpenWRT router, no internet access with service up (UPDATE: found workaround)

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  • It came with the ovpn config file I got from Proton, and I can reach it when the openvpn service is down. Not sure why I can't hit it (or anything else) with the service up but I think there's something wrong with how the service is capturing traffic from the wan interface. Not really sure but that's where my head is at ATM.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    oddlyqueer @lemmy.ml

    Setting up ProtonVPN on an OpenWRT router, no internet access with service up (UPDATE: found workaround)

  • How to set up a decentralized game/chat server

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  • It does something similar, in that you can replicate servers and have one act as a failover for another, but I think you'd need a lot of extra code to sync the primary game host with the failover hosts, and more to make sure all the clients detect a failed host and all gracefully switch to the same failover host, and probably a hundred other things I'm not thinking of. If I were going to build something like this I probably would look to kubernetes as a foundation but there would be a lot of customization on top of that.

  • What turn of phrase do you hate?

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  • That phrase has always had a Buddhist-type quality of acceptance for me, even before I knew what Buddhism was. But I think it is favored by people who fail to recognize the difference between "seeing reality as it is" and "believing that reality can't be challenged or changed".

  • What turn of phrase do you hate?

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  • People who champion "brutal honesty" generally seem much more excited about the brutality than the honesty.

  • Should I go back to my old job?

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  • I've job hopped a medium amount. It's extremely common. The red flags you're seeing are most likely indicators of serious problems, and you should trust your intuitions about them. Especially the thing about everyone being overworked jumps out at me. That kind of problem is systemic, and unless the new company leaders are honest about it being a problem and are taking steps to fix it (for example, hiring more people) you won't be able to fix it as a low level employee and it can burn you out if you try. On the other hand, one month is not a lot of time to get familiar with a new workplace and understand the dynamics. Are there upsides that counterbalance the downsides? Can you find ways to mitigate or improve the situation at your new job? How much power do you feel like you have with your team to change the problems you see, and is this job worth the effort that that will take? Since you're on a short clock, you won't be able to get all the information you need to make an informed decision, so this is partly going to come down to your gut, which is scary. And no one on the internet is going to be able to make the decision better than you, for better or for worse.

    Something else to consider: counteroffers are sometimes a trap. If your employer knows you are actively looking to leave, they will often begin preparing to replace you on their own, before you can make a move. Deciding whether this is a realistic possibility comes down to how much you trust your manager friend, how much you trust the other powers that be at your old company, and whether or not your old company can resolve the issues that led you to leave in the first place. Because if you go back to your old job and it's the same old job, you will probably still want to leave at some point, and now your manager knows it.

    Good luck. that's a tight spot, and I hope you navigate it and land somewhere you feel comfortable ❤️

  • How to set up a decentralized game/chat server

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  • I love this idea. As others have said, a distributed game server would be a really tall order, and AFAIK there's not really anything already made that does what you're describing. But you could have a setup where one server hosts the game and syncs the game state with the other servers in the network, and if one server fails the network decides which failover server to connect to, all the clients connect to that server and continue playing on the new host. But it would be a gargantuan task to implement something like that.

  • People who don't like math, why?

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  • This is true in all cases. The proof is left as an exercise for the student.

  • "You're entering a realm which is unusual. Maybe it's magic, or contains some kind of monster ... The second one."

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  • I think you're just describing DS9

  • What turn of phrase do you hate?

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  • Really blows my mind that so much ink is spilled over "literally" while "really" gets a pass for doing the same thing really.

  • Using rsync for backups, because it's not shiny and new

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  • This is why I still don't know sed and awk syntax lol. I eventually get the data in the shape I need and then move on, and never imprint how they actually work. Still feel like a script kiddie every time I use them (so once every few years).

  • What's the real danger of opening ports?

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  • it's an extra hurdle, but it's far from a guaranteed barrier. There's a whole class of exploits called container escapes (or hypervisor escapes if you're dealing with old-school VMs) that specifically focus on escalating an attack from a compromised container into whatever machine is hosting the container.

  • And they expect to be taken seriously?

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  • Sometimes minor league ball is a more interesting game.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    oddlyqueer @lemmy.ml

    Seriously, how would a global democracy work?