Some dingbat that occasionally builds neat stuff without breaking others. The person running this public-but-not-promoted instance because reasons.

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Cake day: September 1st, 2023

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  • It’s still a year out from election at this point. Right now he’s formally not running against Trump (properly he hasn’t even been nominated himself) so until the nominations are set it’s not helping anyone to effectively endorse a Trump nomination by running the campaign as though you already have a listed opponent. It’s a pretty well given, but treat it as if it’s not.

    People have an exceptionally short attention span these days. Making a more generally economic policy framework as the message rather than speaking to specifics now allows them to leave the details until closer to the election when people have a better chance of taking note and remembering it for the next few weeks until they can vote and then go back to their regular lives.

    At this point the population has become so polarized that all nuance is lost and people are just voting to keep the abomination that is the other site from utterly destroying the country.


  • In my case the proxy isn’t on the same box and ended up with the traffic coming out of the host to the proxy and then back from the proxy to the host, so effectively the host was both the source and the destination of the proxied traffic when it did that domain check. Similar issues for the turn server part. It was technically workable, but not particularly pretty so I ended up just doing a simple manual setup.


  • AIO is nice if you have a pretty well dedicated box it seems. For me, I’ve got a pile of services, split horizon DNS, and reverse proxies that made the domain check and talk modules a pain to set up with a lot of NAT/hairpins coming into play. If you’re pointing straight to the box locally though it’s a great way to get all the more complicated stuff patched in.


  • I guess first I’d ask is why are you looking for your own DNS server? You can use most any server and host it yourself, things like bind or unbound are out there and baked into a lot of the home-server / domain controller type distro.

    When you talk about all your traffic going ng through them, all your traffic won’t go through the DNS provider. The DNS is only turning the name to a number, so they would know perhaps the intent to go there but not the actual traffic. You could just be doing a nslookup for fun for all they know. Even hosting your own, whoever is the next in line from your server will get requests for anything your box doesn’t have an answer for, so it really only adds a mask to say ‘someone asked me to ask you for this address’. That being the case, what’s your goal in running one?



  • Calling someone a fucking ass doesn’t convey anything of what your point is. In those cases where someone absolutely can’t be reasoned with swearing at them isn’t going to change the situation, actions might, but words won’t.

    Another mentioned about it being needed in some cases where the situation doesn’t merit politeness. In those cases though what’s gained by charged emotional responses if you’re going to engage at all? It’s wasting energy on things that have no benefit to anyone.

    Cursing really only has any meaning because we give the words power. Similar to slurs against various groups, they only have bite because we give them meaning and history. I’ll give this challenge, give me an instance where any given situation was benefitted by their use though, outside of mere expression of rage or hate what benefit did it add?





  • That type I think blurs the line on what actually is piracy versus the guy handing out demo tapes on the corner. It’s a sort of a ‘I absolutely don’t want you to go download my stuff, particularly from this link or this link…’

    During the height of the RIAA’s rampage and shortly after some groups started actively promoting the model of give away the music, buy the special package. NIN Ghosts comes to mind as one that from what I gather did pretty well.

    The face of music piracy seems to have changed a lot though. It used to be that buying albums was expensive, particularly when it was one good song and a bunch of crap. The $1/song thing was clunky, disorganized, and the early efforts with DRM sucked. Now things like Spotify exist and let someone play as much as they like for the price of roughly an album a month and have taken a big lead in making stuff that never would have been on the old radio known.

    Music piracy now seems to have shifted to filll in the role that the weird little record shop in the corner of the mall used to play. Finding and keeping those imports, bootlegs, live tapes, etc that you’ll never find on a standard service. Or when places like Spotify yank something that I liked because of some licence BS and say it’s not available well…









  • Fair enough if using a more expansive version of hardware failure. Things like a house fire would presumably destroy a series of optical disks which would make most any in house option non-functional. Network based backups could also fail to transmit data securely and accurately as well so really any sort of replication solution needs validation of the data is of significant value. A first step in preservation is to not have the box that it came from burn down, and have a way to recover if someone does a ‘sudo rm -rf /’ accidentally.