Bah. This is just a piece of clickbait nonsense, or somebody trying to be edgy. I’m actually mildly offended by their “review” of “On the Road”. Just makes me think that they probably haven’t ever read anything other than somebody elses review of it.

Well, RIP Simon & Schuster. I give em five years, tops.

I don’t care about beeper one way or another, but that bloody image with the post, it needs to die in a fire.

That’s XMMP different thing =P

It’s still around. I’m using it right now, in fact. Makes for a pretty damn good phone service as well, in conjunction with JMP

Because the Rich are gonna Rich?

Hm.

Famke Janssen, if she’s reprising her character from Goldeneye
Kate Beckinsdale, in her role as Selene from Underworld
Kathleen Turner, as Jessica Rabbit.

Yes, I’m a simple Man, with simple tastes =P

Ok, so it looks like I’m going to have to do a bit of jiggery pokery, as I don’t need caddy, I’ve already got an nginx reverse proxy running on the host. (I think they both provide similar functionality?)

Hot Damn, thanks. That should get me headed in the right direction anyway.

I mean, that’s sort of what xdg is intended to accomplish, with making $HOME/.config be the place, but it’s kind of up to the individual software developers to comply. (Yes, I know, this doesn’t really apply to Windows/Mac OS) But yeah, it would really be nice if configs/config locations were even remotely standardized.

I’ve been daily driving openSUSE Aeon/Kalpa for the better part of two years now. I don’t see any good reason to return to a traditional distribution for a desktop machine. I very much know what I’m doing as a linux user/admin, having been using it for years, and the no-fuss/no-hassle nature of an immutable system is exactly what I want for my workstations. And ultimately my servers.

Negative. If the seat is that untrustworthy, I’ll just find a different toilet.

Element/Matrix can be E2EE, it is most decidedly not P2P

Sort of. Open Pit mining can be incredibly dangerous, the dangers are just different. I haven’t ever seen any numbers from MSHA breaking down the incident rates (I haven’t looked to see if they even publish them, in a broken down form like that), but you can really get your ass in trouble in an open pit mine, if you’re not cognizant of the highwall, keep track of the very large equipment, Not paying attention to blast times or barricading, or not paying attention to the Shovel Cables, and where the approved crossings are.

I’d suspect that the numbers of overall incidents are probably higher underground, but I’m not sure about actual deaths. I spent about 20 years working in/around/as a vendor to both open pit and underground operations, and just completely anecdotally, I mostly remember most of the underground reportable incidents to be less serious than the ones I saw in the pits.

In general, while it makes for convenience for end-users, I’m just not interested in hitching my buggy to another “single point” social media platform.

I already have a Discord account, I don’t really need to sign up for a Discord clone based on a “Trust me Bro” sort of guarantee that they won’t enshittify it in the future. Because nothing really stops the Revolt developers (and I’m not trying to imply any evil intentions, or even plans on their part) from deciding to accept VC money, or just sell the whole thing outright to $corporation_with_a_dumptruck_full_of_cash, and there’s not a thing that a User can do about it.

It’s entirely possible that with Matrix, that an individual matrix server administrator (lets call it matrix.foo.bar) could get up to shenanigans, but as it’s a federated chat protocol by design, I’m free to take my custom elsewhere (matrix.bar.foo), and basically have the same access to all the things I did before. There is no single point of control, or failure for somebody to break, or sell.

You misunderstand what kbin is, if you think there’s A server that has to cover operating costs. kbin isn’t a site, it’s just server software, it’s meant to be run in many many places, and those individual servers talk to each other.

Correct. That’s sort of the whole idea behind “The Fediverse” Lots of smaller instances of a thing talking to each other, instead of one big monolithic thing.

I’ve got no issue kicking Ernest a fiver (and in fact I did), but part of the issue is, we shouldn’t be advocating for kbin.social or any of their other instances becoming the “Big Kahuna” That defeats half the purpose of being a federated protocol in the first place. Get a VPS of your own, spin up an instance, invite your friends and family, and spread the load. If you poke around, you can get a suitable VPS that can support a small number of users quite inexpensively.

I don’t have mine up and running yet, but it’s in the works, as soon as I muddle through how.