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Jernej Simončič �35m ago

Cassandrich 2h ago

@2something @bitwarden @keepassxc @cmccullough We need a hall of shame site for all the "FOSS" projects welcoming unlicensed unlicenseable unknown provenance slop.

v 6h ago

updated the dependencies for this Flutter project which meant that Firebase got bumped, which bumped the iOS plugin it brings in, which requires a newer version of Swift to compile, which requires a newer version of XCode to install, which means I need to upgrade MacOS

Jernej Simončič �1h ago

asie 1h ago

my fellow followers, i'm pleased to tell you today that my gacha boycott includes paying fanfiction writers to bring all the terrible mlp fanfiction tropes into the uma musume fandom. we begin with the conversion bureau in five minutes

✧✦Catherine✦✧2h ago

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Inspirational Skeletor💀5h ago

Kevin Beaumont 2h ago

if anybody knows anybody at the UN Umoja (the UN's shared services), get them to patch these boxes for CitrixBleed2 and reset all sessions (including AAA) - there's somebody from Chinese state logged into them going brrr for the past three weeks.

Nivex 🐧 📻4d ago

Some back-of-the-napkin math for those worried that we might still exhaust #IPv6 if we're not careful:

We are currently numbering out of 2000:/3, but effectively it's been 2000::/4 so far. The smallest amount of space that can be announced in BGP is a /48.

4 bits off the top and 16 bits off the bottom leaves us with 2^28 individual /48 networks we _could_ issue (obviously we're issuing larger chunks where possible, eg: /32 for many ISPs). This is representable without having to go to engineering notation: 268,435,456.

Last night's bgp.tools dump shows 117,731 active ASNs. We could issue every org with an ASN a starter /48 and still have several orders of magnitude worth of room for growth. And that's even before we get to 3000::/4.

So, don't worry about filling up the pool. Grab what you need (and maybe a bit more) and build the network you've been dreaming of.

@tml I think that's a limitation of Apple Silicon itself (no support for nested virt).
You can also try VMWare Fusion, AFAIK it's completely free to use now (but it won't help you with nested virt).

Jernej Simončič �3h ago

Paul Chambers🚧4h ago

I found my stomach laugh of the day.

"Usenet, I have never heard of that VPN provider"

LOL

Jernej Simončič �3h ago

🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)3h ago

You get exactly one of the following powers.

Choose wisely.

	Detect all Blåhaj within 3 miles
	Cute lost socks appear in your dryer (clean)
	Takeout never spoils in your fridge
	Know definitively if a lesbian is into you
	All seats conform perfectly to your ass
	Know definitively if it's just a fart beforehand
	Always have amazingly minty fresh breath
	Can always unsay the last thing you said
	Cat's understand you perfectly
	Your bites are always endearing
	Always know any person's favorite food
	Can sleep 8 hours consistently
	A human always answers your phone calls
	Weekends feel longer than weekdays
	Everything tastes like butter to your enemies

Poll ends at Jul 12 at 6:26pm.

Ika Makimaki 1d ago

I think about this a lot.

@pezmico it is not enough to recognize but one must also stop this mind virus* from propagating. the core counterargument is: there is more than enough space for twice more people as we are today. all it requires is a reduction in waste production, and there are so many blatantly optimizable avenues here. as long as states refuse to cooperate even on the bare humane minimum to stop global warming, we don't need to discuss killing people.

* as in "meme"; see ff discussion

@pezmico or, even better put as i have once heard a character say this in fiction: "you just want to kill people. you can't wait to do it."

Caro S.1d ago

@lritter I agree with you, but want to point out how pervasive eugenic thinking is in a lot of us, unwillingly and unconsciously. You respond to a warning about eugenics with the right-wing eugenic "mind virus" while there are very good words like e.g. "ideology." And I'm sorry to say, words do matter in fighting supremacist and eugenic thinking.

@Heidentweet @pezmico ideology is not a good word either. nothing is good words because the fuckers (there's a good word) take whatever verbiage intellectuals like us come up with and misappropriate it to attack the ideas that we hold dear.

in german parliament, putin's far right party frequently uses the word "ideology" to describe the fight against global warming.

nothing is good words and yet we need to speak.

sea 1d ago

@lritter @Heidentweet @pezmico "Mind virus" is problematic specifically because it relies on the idea of sickness as making people "bad." Viruses do not make people into Nazis. Being sick makes you less privileged and more in danger, sick people are othered by society which prevents them from accessing help. One of the ways that we other sickness is by correlating sickness with things like right-wing ideologies.

This is not about how right-wing pundits learn the vocabulary of leftists and weaponize it. This is about ableism.

@s3a @Heidentweet @pezmico you misunderstand. this is more like a computer virus. but yes. do not use the term "mind virus". i used a more popular interpretation of the idea of memes. but meme is also burned. we'll have that discussion every other week. best is we use no term for longer than 3 days.

sea 1d ago

@lritter @Heidentweet @pezmico I don't misunderstand. Your words have impact beyond your intent and you are being informed of that harmful impact. You're welcome to keep using the harmful words you've chosen to use, but you will be doing so knowing you are participating in the very harms you're trying to rail against going forward.

@s3a @Heidentweet @pezmico got it. thank you for educating me.

NilaJones 1d ago

@lritter @s3a

You sound like you're being sarcastic. I just want to mention that @s3e is right. If you don't see it, it might be helpful to reframe it in terms of race, in your head. Would you say that, if it was racial?

@NilaJones @s3a not sarcastic at all.

NilaJones 1d ago

@lritter @s3a

Okay, I apologize for misunderstanding

not ch1c 1d ago

@pezmico any argument made by white people that focuses on “overpopulation” is suspect

Jargoggles 1d ago

@cthon1c @pezmico
Strangely, you never see people like this say anything along the lines of, "People are consuming way too many resources on this planet and that's why I think myself and everyone in my economic strata and above should just go walk into the sea until the planet reclaims our bodies."

beemudd 1d ago

Already saw this with Covid. All these leftists talking about the revolution and not a mask in sight in most cases.
Everyone is a eugenicist in the same way everyone is racist.

Melvin Gundlach 1d ago

@pezmico It's the exact same ideology we already hear with COVID.

John Maxwell 1d ago

@pezmico The amazing thing to me in that mindset is their absolute certainty that they will survive.

Grant (solely for the purpose of illustration) every bit of their shitty attitude, you'd still have to be very stupid to be certain you'd survive.

Cersei Trannister 1d ago

@pezmico This theory fits with conservative goals now

Infrogmation 1d ago

Hi from New Orleans, aware this was already happening in 2005.

#NewOrleans

Nol Malone ☭1d ago

@pezmico Exactly. We do not have a population problem, we have a capitalism problem. Mao was right. The wealthy would rather kill everyone than let go of their wealth. We fight their greed, or they kill everyone. It's that simple.

Jon Sullivan 22h ago

@anolandria @pezmico I'm not sure about this. I don't see over-consumption and over-population as mutually exclusive here. They can both be problems for the planet, even if one (over-consumption by wealthy countries) is currently the bigger impact.

8.2 billion is *a lot* of people and it's hard to imagine this many of us living comfortably and safely on our one planet for even hundreds of years, without massive social, economic, and technological changes.

I'm in New Zealand and 8.2 billion people living even like a low income New Zealander would very quickly wreck the world. Yet, as a country NZ is never going to give away most of its wealth to poorer countries.

Thinking longer term will need us to find a better balance between per-person consumption and population size, one that fits within what the planet can sustainably provide for us.

(Sorry for the long response. I have no idea how we get to there from the mess we're in now.)

Matt McIrvin 1d ago

@pezmico this kind of thinking was big among ostensibly environmentalist writers in the 60s and 70s when the big worry was overpopulation. At the time, of course, most of the less developed world had very high birthrates so it conveniently put the onus on poor countries, not rich ones. There was a lot of ugly just under the surface.

BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺1d ago

@pezmico It's why Trump's backers want Denmark and Canada - they need somewhere to go to escape the poors.

Passwordsarehard4 1d ago

@pezmico scarcity forces people to actually examine who they consider in thier group. Some consider all life on earth as one group, David Attenborough I would imagine is amoung them. Some only consider humans, Bill Gates eliminating polio from his group. Sometimes the group is smaller, some people feel like taking care of themselves trumps everything and everyone else. It’s how people treat those outsiders that tell you who they are, not those closest to them.

NilaJones 1d ago

Yes. They might appear to be leftist at first, until you realize they are not wearing an n95

Stanley Grill, Composer 1d ago

@pezmico I think about that a lot too. The part of the world that contributes the most greenhouse gases will NOT be the part of the world that suffers the most.

Forza4galicia 1d ago

@pezmico Really, nothing is inevitable except climate situation gets worse so fast that the invitability is for all human beings, really.

In all cases: or all or noone.

Adrien Plazas 1d ago

@pezmico Which reminds me of Jean-Marc Jancovici a lot. Or Anti Tech Resistance.

Adrien Plazas 1d ago

@pezmico Si y'en a qui doutent toujours que Jean-Marc Jancovici est de la graine de fascite, lisez ça, et allez écouter ses dernières sorties populationistes.

ouroukaye 1d ago

@KekunPlazas @pezmico celui qui a dit que chaque citoyen ne devrait avoir droit qu'à un seul trajet par avion dans sa vie ? ça me semblait plutôt égalitaire comme discours, plutôt que favorisant une élite

Adrien Plazas 1d ago

@ouroukaye On parle eugénisme dans les milieux écologistes et donc écofascisme, je dis qu'il a un discours populationniste en lieu avec l'écologie, et tu réponds un truc complètement à côté du sujet. On trouve assez facilement ses positions écofascistes sur la démographie.

ouroukaye 1d ago

@KekunPlazas un fasciste eugéniste qui propose des solutions égalitaires, ça me semble un peu paradoxal. je m'attendrais plutôt à ce qu'il propose des solutions favorisant les individus "valables".
j'ai entré "j m jancovici population" sur google et je tombe seulement sur des discours disant que la surpopulation mondiale va poser des problèmes. J'ai pas vu autre chose que ça, j'ai peut être loupé mais je chercherai plus tard.

Maximilian Overdraft, Esq. ES 1d ago

I mostly think about how easy it is for people to let wildlife, i.e., animals of other species, and plants and bugs, die in "natural disasters" or "manmade disasters" and how easy it is to go from a mindset of neglect of the consequences of our actions toward other creatures, to a mindset of neglect toward members of our own species, which we also neglect, but also favor when it comes to ideologies.

This mindset that neglects nature will also neglect any human being's nature, and will consider it subjugable.

David McMullin 1d ago

@pezmico
Eugenicist logic has been especially easy to spot since COVID hit—unfortunately, it turns out to be how most people think. (I note the date on that screenshot is from 2019.)