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I mean no shade, but I was honestly expecting as I scrolled down that this would be posted in c/ABoringDystopia

This is one I wish I hadn’t stopped to think about.

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PixelFed is also part of the FediVerse and uses ActivityPub, meaning people using Mastodon clients can follow PixelFed accounts.

You can run it yourself, but if you’re not able to for whatever reason, there are a ton of established servers.

Absolutely. The German term equivalent to writing “Sincerely,” at the end of letters is “Mitt freundlichen grußen,” and it was (is?) often written as “M.f.G.” There’s even a song by the German pop/rock band Die Fantastischen Vier titled “M.f.G.” The lyrics are almost entirely various abbreviations (here’s a version of the song with the lyrics, but not the video).

Mine too. I look specifically for this feature when buying.

I still do a TP dab-dry first; even with a heated fan, it takes forever to fully dry with only the fan. But a couple of TP squares to dab most of the water away, and the fan makes fast work of the rest.

Nice kit. The Ukrainians will figure out how to take them down; Ukraine has been impressing me with their innovation and creativity all throughout this invasion.

Slava Ukranini

I don’t disagree. In fact, I think a strength of US culture is the diversity in embraces. I do feel sorry that this came at the cost of indigenous cultures, but the end result has been a wonderful melting pot, ruined only by Laissez-Faire economics and some badly wrong turns in how we do Capitalism. Plus the inherent bigotry that hypocrite descendants of immigrants are unable to recognize. Or, worse maybe, an attitude of “we stole this land fair and square, and now it’s our’s and everyone else fuck off!”

All I’m saying is that my personal preference would be that this not happen to the entire world. I’d like to visit Germany and see a historic Germany, not another version of America with different preserved buildings. I’d love to visit the Basque region and immerse myself in Basque culture, not some mashup globalized culture selling Basque trinkets, which no-one uses at home anymore, to tourists. It’s selfish, I know.

Edit 2024-07-04 relevant comic

So many Far Sides come to mind.

Wireguard really changed the landscape, for me, and my entire approach to networking. Suddenly, VPNs became fast and easy, and where previously impractical for casual (hobbyist) admins, it made creating enterprise-grade secure subnets easy. It’s astonishingly stable and reliable, such that my initial concerns about cutting off all access except through the VPN - once a truly nerve-wracking concept - is now a no-brainer. It’s made my network administration easier and more secure. My firewalls are simpler.

Wireguard is one of the biggest high-impact, low-visibility networking game changers I’ve seen in decades.

That tracks.

Cats are purely carnivorous. And yet we’ve had cats who’d regularly eat:

• lettuce
• potato chips
• popcorn
• canteloupe
• grass
• Hershey’s Kisses

The lettuce thing was a kitten phase; she stopped doing it as she got older. Potato chips and popcorn are “cheat” foods; most of the chips we eat have MSG, which is the “meat” flavor, and we put seasoning with MSG and nutritional yeast on our popcorn, so they probably think they’re getting meat. I’ve read many cats like cantaloupe; something in it tastes like meat, and it’s pretty common. Grass, well… I don’t know. Supposedly they eat it as an emetic, but this one just gnoshes on it and never throws it up. We have to keep a small lawn in the house for him; he’s just a weirdo.

The Hershey’s Kisses thing was odd. I know chocolate is toxic for cats, and we’d try to keep it away from him, but he’d find the bowl wherever we put it, pull one with carefully unwrap it, and eat the chocolate. He’d eat one or two at a time, and never seemed to suffer any ill effects from it. We’d re-hide the bowl, and when we discovered the wrappers around the house we knew he’d found it again. It was only around Christmas; Kisses in a bowl at Christmas was something my wife was brought up with. Anyway, strange cat.

Oh! We had another who’d dig through the trash for fast food wrappers and eat them. The paper. I think that’s because he was an older adoption and had lived on the streets and learned to live out of trash cans, though.

This has nothing to do with owls, but there’s a pure carnivore parallel and it makes me wonder. Are there owl individuals who pick up a taste for something omnivorous somehow?

So… you’re saying I shouldn’t be using my 45-70 as my home defense gun?

I set up a wireguard VPN network between my computers and servers, and then firewalled off all services except Wireguard, and a few services on one server. That one server is my weak point, but even it has sshd firewalled off except through the Wireguard subnet.

It’s stupidly easy to set up WG subnetworks. I’m not a networking guy, and it was trivial for me to do. If u can run an ssh server, you can set up a Wireguard subnet: just do it.

Will owls eat pears, or are they strictly carnivorous?

The most perfect and delicious of pears, even! Asian pears are manna.

The word has negative connotations, but I stand by it. I an not saying there result isn’t stronger, but if you extend cultural mixing out to the maximum - say humans and the planet survives another thousand years, and global travel is no harder than traveling to the next town over - what you end up with is homogeneity, and this would be sad, I think. Imagine it: the entire world speaking some pidgin derivative mashup of Mandarin, English, and Hindi, with essentially the same culture everywhere on the planet. Just as has already happened, languages are lost, because nobody speaks them natively anymore. All that’s left of the original cultures are some UNESCO sites and preserved old movies. I can’t say the world wouldn’t be stronger for it, but in the process, something irrecoverable is lost.

I’m with you; I prefer date versioning for many things. Semver does work really well for things with exposed APIs; it’s a stretch to justify using them with user tools, and especially GUI tools. Semver is used to great effect in Go - which is how it should be use: mainly by the language’s module management system. Outside of that, it’s human readable, but like XML, its main value is to machines, and only secondarily to humans.

Calendar versioning is far more human-oriented, and so more useful for things without exposed APIs or module tooling.

@best_username_ever mentioned Semantic Versioning. It’s an actual spec. Not everyone follows it, and it doesn’t make sense for a lot of things, and far too many people are dogmatic about it. But it’s a good thing to read, and it’s not long.

A related, but not tightly coupled, spec is Changelog. Used together, and used correctly these two are nice for users.

I don’t know about this meme, but you know memes come in waves. It’s just the nature of memes.

That said, Germans - at least the Bavarians - have a special relationship with pizza second only to Americans. It’s kind of weird, because it’s so random. You don’t see this in, e.g., Southern France, and Italians seem almost ambivalent to it.

I think it’s because, despite the world wars, Germans generally have a fondness for American culture, the same way Americans generally have a fondness for Mexican culture. They have Germanized versions of American food, like we have Americanized versions of traditional Mexican food.

I don’t know who the French are fond of, besides themselves.