Often High Pope Bob Dobberson, at your service. I'm a "hacker" with years of experience with unix systems, and knowledge of more than a handful of programming languages. I will learn what you know by asking silly questions. I do not like all of my friends, and I think it is silly to want that. I am fallible. You will not like everything I say. Have patience while we learn together; I will endeavor for the same. No gods, no masters, plenty of irony.
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Last Notes npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane ah, interesting. Who are the strong proponents of the ICC? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Like. I've been wondering where the newb hackers are chatting, to participate and learn from their chats... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Ya know, given that I have like... 30 years of Linux experience at this point, as I started back in 1996... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Why the fuck did I attempt to tag 2020... Woops... Whatever... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane So let's say I wanna get into a #cybersec job in 2026, and I haven't officially been employed as a blue team #Linux admin since #2020. What should I brush up on? What should I study to maybe get a gig? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane is the US a major component of the ICC? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane the ICC is about as useful as the UN. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane in fairness, both mastodon.online and mastodon.social share the same IP addresses... So... this sheds doubt on my idea they are on separate infrastructure... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane why is this troubling? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane > runs more than one instance (why?) Because it's best to have multiple points of failure? Why centralize things? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane you didn't wanna play that game anyhow. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane they're a friend, renting me a room in their house at a below-market rate, so I don't need those items just yet. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane the 2002:: thing was something I'd forgotten about long ago. I might have to explore this further. In my current situation, my ISP may provide my landlord with IPv6 addresses, but they operate the network between the ISP and me, and ... getting them to move their stuff to IPv6 is a heavy lift that is likely scheduled for never. It would be an interesting world if IPv4 was forward compatible with IPv6... Like they planned that in before IPv6 was an option... ;) npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I would also say that the reason it hasn't been adopted by now is because it is fundamentally a different network, and it is difficult to switch from one network to another when it isn't coordinated in any way, and likely impossible to coordinate. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I don't see how having an IPv6 address frees you from your upstream provider. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane there are benefits outside of address space, but I'm not clear on what they are. Intelligently designed NAT solves the problem of public IP exhaustion for IPv4. The real problem, it seems, with IPv6 is that it isn't an extension of IPv4, but a replacement for it, which inhibits global adoption. If IPv6 could handle IPv4 addresses, it might have actually taken over at one point. AFAIK, it's only /really/ used on cellular networks. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane so... Even if I want to move to IPv6, I still need to do IPv4... What's the benefit of IPv6? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Furthermore, what if I move my websites to IPv6... Doesn't that prevent someone on IPv4 from being able to access it? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane One of the problems of attempting to move to #IPv6 -- what's the point in moving to IPv6 if upstream networks are IPv4 only? I've learned recently that #CCNA now requires IPv6 knowledge, and I mean, I'm only 20 years behind in trying to learn this, and it'd be nice to have hands-on practice with it, but it almost doesn't seem worth it at this point. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Here's the thing. The way things are going, I doubt humanity has more than 50 years before enough of us die that our species is doomed. But if we accept that, then we stop doing the work we /might/ be able to do to extend that time. How do we trick ourselves into caring about something that is likely useless? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane oh? What do you mean by that? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Help me understand. How is it a false equivalency to say that both the liberals and conservatives have a goal of enriching the billionaires? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane what are some examples of it being false? @npub1r8k…ddv2 [@n_dimension](https://infosec.exchange/@n_dimension ) npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane many of the jobs that would be eliminated by LLMs are bullshit paper-shuffling jobs in the first place. Jobs we don't want to automate because we "need" to sustain the delusion that everyone must labor in some way to survive. [@n_dimension](https://infosec.exchange/@n_dimension ) @npub13f9…ech3 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism... Why should we labor for the sake of laboring? Why should humans do work, just because they could when a machine could do it for us? @npub13f9…ech3 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane not that you remember, anyhow. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Lots of very smart people doubted the airplane before the airplane. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane what shows are using this narrative concept? And yeah, Boring company is definitely doing something for the rich fucks. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane What if the billionaires secreted information about a high-probability near cataclysmic event that they intend to survive by burrowing underground? Could information like that be kept secret from us? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane lock-down days of covid were lovely during the day... Even in the suburbs, no car noises... Was incredible. I would much prefer living somewhere rural, but we still treat the rural areas like second-class citizens, and it makes life out there a bit... different. Dunno about mountains, I like waterfalls and creeks and rivers and such, but I don't like switchbacks and steep climbs... lol. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I'm thinking the days would be more tranquil as more people are sleeping and not competing with everyone else on the roads and such. But the nights would become noisier... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane same, but the world doesn't serve people like us, in most areas. If it did, I suspect I wouldn't be a night owl anymore... But... It would be nice to have things to do at 3am that don't involve high risk. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane The world not being 24/7 and primarily 9-5 with everyone 'asleep' by 11pm makes it feel a lot fuller than it is. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane the symbol minded _are_ victims. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane who's dying for Russia? Who's dying for Israel? Who's dying for Iran? Not the billionaires. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Have you guys ever thought about ... not ... having countries? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane we cover up our natural scents with artificial smells so much that we're no longer used to natural scents and think we must get rid of them, or to have a natural scent means to be uncivilized... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Linux in 1995 was very different from Linux in 2025. Have you installed Linux Mint recently? Or Ubuntu? Or Fedora? The Linux install process from 1995 was DRAMATICALLY different from the install process today. Much like installing Windows in 1995 had a different feel than installing it today. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane when was the last time you explored a few different distributions' installation processes? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane oh. You aren't complaining about the "new Linux"... What are your issues with the eye-candy heavy desktop environments like KDE and Cinnamon? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane what is your issue with https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html ? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane what was fragmented into distros and mired in confusion? Are you saying Debian and RedHat maintain their own forks of the kernel? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane everyone _CAN_ currently commit and make changes to a local clone of the kernel source code. Whether their patches are approved is up to existing developers of the Linux kernel project. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane ok, so you me, and all the other Linux fans out there get to go through the commit logs and axe a bunch of developers, and remove them from the Linux project? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane "whom we deem to be honest" who is we, and how do we deem them to be honest? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane ok, so explain to me how you would "change" the way Linux is developed to move it to this new model. Help me understand the benefit of your new model versus how things are in the present. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane where is the hierarchy: Who decides on a million eyes per commit? Who has the authority to change that number? Where does that number come from? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane well, who is operating the website that hosts all of this, how is it being paid for, is its code also subject to arduous examination? Anarchism eschews hierarchies of all kinds wherever they are not justifiable. Deliberately placing onerous restrictions on projects of all sizes seems extreme and would need some serious justifying. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I think all of that works against the strong reason open source has seen the success it has, which is its anarchistic nature. Centralizing all projects under one roof seems like a good idea until that roof falls down. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane so it'd be like GitHub, but every commit would need 1,000,000 approvals from various 'members' of the site? What would stop someone from hosting their own project / site, and offering commits after 250,000 approvals, In the name of speeding up development? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane what you seem to want to do is somehow bring all open source projects under the same roof with some sort of hierarchy to manage the code-bases. Am I following this properly? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane in my experience, people become programmers and documentation writers when they partake in the development process. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane absolutely. A percentage of the Gimp users would lend time to code-review. The problem we are also facing is that most people don't want to lend their eyes for free, even if the software is free. But that issue is a whole other ball of wax. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane a million eyeballs is less practical than the tools we are developing today. Finding 1,000,000 to care about ncmpc (as just one example of an open source project) would be really difficult. It shouldn't be, but we do a poor job of teaching computer literacy to people at the moment. That alone might spark more interest in free and open code, especially given what the alternatives are. And many bugs are non-obvious, which is why projects like the Linux kernel, which sees a lot of eyes, still has critical vulnerabilities. We can either learn to use the tools or hope they poof and disappear, and I don't put great odds on that happening, as the current-day tools are already being leveraged to do some serious work (most of it bad, because it is not in the hands of the masses.) The way the tools are used has almost always been the problem, with every tool we have so-far developed. Moderation is key. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane We could theoretically use machine learning tools to examine open source code-bases in order to detect intentional tampering done by potential bad actors. That could be kind of interesting. You gotta figure "bad actors" have certain signatures, and might help flush out malicious saboteur accounts. Just a thought. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane step one is getting that group together that doesn't mind buying in bulk and distributing to anyone who needs it. I imagine a buyer's club is exclusive to those partaking, but it ought to expand beyond that to help take some burden off those who can't afford much to help. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane definitely familiar with that book and its concepts, and I have a copy on my shelf, but I have yet to read it. I am working on Project #Recombobulation to take a bit of control over my life, and make time to read books, so ... it's in my future, with Debt the first 5,000 years, and a few of his other books. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane As long as money is required for survival, jobs will be flooded with people who are barely skilled enough to not get fired in order to continue surviving. I think about this every day. I think about the quality of a world that builds and sustains. Do me a favor and sit and think about this for a few minutes. The solution, the only solution, is to remove money as a requirement for survival. The only solution is to allow some people to not work when they don't feel like working. The only solution is to help educate our fellow humans so that they can find work they love enough to be truly competent at. The only solution is to remove all of the jobs we have created to allow people to trade their lackluster skills and time for money so they can survive. Think for a moment about the tremendous waste this generates. The oil burned. The wear on the roads. The consumption of trees for paper and water and chemicals to bleach that paper. The lives lost in mines to make the computers and everything else. We can have luxury without sacrifice. Think for a moment about all of the bullshit generated that wastes time and causes confusion, just because somebody 'needs' to 'be able' to toil for 60 hours or more a week in order to survive. How am I in the minority with all this thought? If you're nodding along, how are we? How can we work together to change things? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane The whole banning children from social media thing is going to be used to clamp down on things like #Mastodon, right? "Oh, you wanna run an #ActivityPub instance and federate with others? You need to pay for a service that will confirm the ages of your users." npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane another thing to keep in mind is that we cannot choose to abstain in all cases, therefore it is in our interest to practice moderation where we can so we can moderate ourselves where we cannot abstain. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane abstinence removes the temptation to over-indulge. Not having one beer is easier than stopping after 3. Not saying either is easy, just saying moderation is harder, because you dance with temptation and have to learn to limit yourself. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane everything is addictive. Abstinence is not the answer for me. If it works for others, groovy. Like any addiction, being a real friend means being there for our friends when the addiction takes over. It's also worth noting that we are not encouraged to moderate, we are encouraged to over-indulge and consume. Moderation, like any skill, requires practice and willpower. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I see a benefit of having access to our collective (apocryphal) knowledge-base while out and about. Moderation and mindfulness doesn't mean tossing your phone and getting a land-line. It means using your phone less often. It means not sitting around with friends at a bonfire watching TikTok videos instead of chatting with one another. Likewise, you can have a TV in your home and watch a movie every so often without needing to go to a theater. Ignoring the benefits of technology because of the abuses is not the right path. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane the trick to everything is moderation and mindfulness. Individual transportation while awful, does have its strengths. Same for TVs and pocket computers. The real problem with television and pocket computers is what people tune them into and allow to program them. [@Air_Quotes_Comedian](https://kolektiva.social/@Air_Quotes_Comedian ) npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I don't think it's the phones themselves that are making us fear our neighbors... [@Air_Quotes_Comedian](https://kolektiva.social/@Air_Quotes_Comedian ) npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane there is that approach, assuming you have enough social interaction elsewhere. If we cut ourselves off completely from our devices for communication, then we really don't communicate much. Maybe that works well in a small community where there are plentiful ways to meet up with one another randomly and serendipitously, but... I don't live somewhere like that. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I think it is telling of the fact that they want us staring at our screens that they no longer seem to make phones with a status LED. You have to interact with your phone more often (it seems) these days, you have to turn on the screen and see if you missed a message from someone, for instance. And I just now realized, there's probably a wearable device out there that does the LED notification, probably with a yearly subscription model. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane only when we learn to accept each other's differences, and work together. That obviously also implies transphobes and homophobes getting over their bullshit and getting the help they need to be constructive members of society, before anyone jumps down my throat. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane yeah. And we've known for so long and we can see it and we can tell others, but we just can't divert their eyes from the glitter and glamour. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Long story short -- The transphobes are not your enemies. The billionaires are. The transphobes are a product of the billionaires investments in media. As are you, the people who would draw blood from a transphobe. They want you to fight each other. Extend this as a metaphor for any other goddamn division. Cubs vs. White Sox -- keep the people in a large city divided and controllable. Have them fight one another. Not the powers that be. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Hell, people are still averse to suggestions of homosexuality, which is at least a little easier to understand. It's fucking tragic. Don't get me wrong. That people would do violence to people for their sexual preferences is the fucking ... weirdest goddamn concept to me. But those people are out there, and they've been fucked and abused in the head to feel the way that they do. We leave child rearing to individuals instead of healthy communities, if only because we do not have the healthy communities. We need those. We need support networks. We need each other. That is not a weakness, that is by design. We are a social species. None of us can be experts in all skills, yet all of us need access to most of the skills we have mastered as a species. Do you seriously not get this? This is not about me. This is not about you. This is about our fucking species and our cohabitation with the planet which we also have to keep healthy. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane This might lose me some followers. I encourage you to give me the benefit of the doubt. I think we need to be more understanding of people that have issues with the concept of transgenderism. 1. The media "anti-trans" people unfortunately favor tells them awful things about transgender people. 2. It is not a simple concept and not something that is easily digested. Or quickly digested. People need time. I personally fucking HATE "identity politics", mostly because I don't have a solid identity that I hold onto. I am what I am, and what I am shifts and evolves and changes. If I pen myself in with one identity or another, then I limit myself. But whatever... I 'get' how important identity can be to some. But we have to recognize and understand that 'identity' is being used to divide and control us. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane that also sounds like a pretty dismal environment, the fences and whatnot. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I'd just rather live somewhere less population dense. I think that is one of the biggest invisible / unrecognized stresses that metropolises suffer from. I imagine many people don't even realize how anxious they are, because everyone around them is equally anxious. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I feel that. I like dogs, but I don't want to be responsible for one, especially without the freedom to roam and have a mostly independent life. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane only if you have a puppy that isn't friendly... Beyond that, I don't see a point. A visual barrier between us and the world, keeping us separated... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Front porches are the key to a better future. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Just a reminder, this is what the conservatives are reading these days about #ICE ... This is how your [insert derogatory slur of your choice] Trump voting neighbors see the world. They are likely sensible people, but what you imagine they know is not actually what they know or see, I would wager. And this is just from FoxNews; I'm really not aware of the other 'center-conservative' news orgs, and don't care to look. I just got curious. I was wondering how the events I am hearing about from generally left-leaning sources is being seen by those who do not lean left. Pay attention to the language of the headlines... If that was all I read, and I was ignorant of leftism and so forth; I might think that ICE was doing good, and saving us from those bad rioters, terrorists, Iranians, and so forth. We have to figure out how to turn the propaganda off. We have to figure out how to talk with our neighbors and build community with them when they don't think us. Anyhow... Enjoy the screenshots from my search of 'site:foxnews.com ICE' https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/456/380/433/787/512/original/9b4fff405ae70d09.png https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/456/380/427/826/428/original/544bb45ec9136102.png https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/456/380/414/708/294/original/1012ad2be3a860b9.png https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/456/380/447/404/930/original/f0b8b71ab5b0d1ff.png npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane good news! There are 70,000,000 technical people that could run their own servers. @npub189r…eks9 @npub1m9z…whzq npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane frankly, XMPP is a better solution as it is considerably more light-weight than Matrix... @npub189r…eks9 @npub1m9z…whzq npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane OK, so there are some issues when a major portion of the internet goes down. But things still work. If I have a small homeserver and peer with a friend's small homeserver, and neither of us is using AWS, we can still communicate. @npub189r…eks9 @npub1m9z…whzq npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane the difference between a system like Signal which is entirely on AWS versus a network of Matrix homeservers where some of the homeservers are on AWS means that when AWS goes down, some Matrix homeservers are still up, while Signal is down. @npub189r…eks9 @npub1m9z…whzq npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane yeah, that happens when we ask questions without blindly accepting narratives. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane we're being conditioned to be this way, it makes it very difficult to organize with others because we cannot handle nuance or disagreement. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane ok, but here me out. I love the idea of breaking up a large private (or stock market controlled) corporate farm, but what if those massive industries were owned and operated by the workers, instead of whoever owned the land? Breaking large farms up into smaller farms would be especially good if the tools and machinery needed to work the land were owned collectively, instead of individually purchased by each small farmer. Working together to reduce the overall expenses and labor required would be a great goal. Breaking them up to create jobs and create more labor seems like a bad direction. But I'm a looney that believes in our ability to operate and function as a society when a large number of us do minimal labor, and many of us are seen to be 'idle'. @npub17v8…nhln npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane why are you assuming that? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane that blows. Why are your coworkers planning to murder animals? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane pisses me off that big tobacco (or whoever) destroyed JUUL, because those were a pretty solid vape product, good cig simulation, easy to carry... Only problem was all of the discarded plastic pods that people couldn't be bothered to throw in the trash. Now we get batteries that are discarded because of single-use products... Fucking awful... @npub1ekj…wjxt @npub19j7…dn56 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I much prefer 'smoking' a pipe. Its less about bringing anything into my lungs, and getting whatever nicotine from the smoke in my mouth. I did vape for a long while, but I was really tired of my mouth feeling coated with syrup from the vape juice. @npub1ekj…wjxt @npub19j7…dn56 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane indeed. Non-tobacco users don't understand the insidiousness of putting cigarettes in modern movies and TV... It's so 'benign' and 'background' and 'they usually portray them negatively'... Yeah, but it still makes every nicotine addict watcher want to put the show on pause and light another cigarette. @npub19j7…dn56 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane ah, I see your point. I wouldn't say that's exclusive to nicotine. @npub19j7…dn56 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane dunno, I feel pretty content in a comfortable chair with a good pipe... @npub19j7…dn56 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane yeah, that's generally how it goes with addictive substances. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane my only point is the problem with cigarettes (and alcohol, and plenty of other things) is that you only experience the harm after extensive use. People convince themselves they'll be fine, because smoking for 10 years hasn't hurt them yet, etc etc. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane do you suppose she started smoking yesterday and it all went down-hill in 24 hours? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane it takes a long time for cigarettes to make you sick. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane how is jaywalking wrong? By text? By decree? Who is suggesting condoning anything? @npub1ekj…wjxt npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane one need only understand and accept their own ignorance, and the fact that many others are equally ignorant, and everyone is ignorant in their own ways. Once we can get past that, we can do anything. @npub1ekj…wjxt npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane if only because we are short on patience, tolerance, and actual empathy. @npub1ekj…wjxt npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane what is missing that BlueSky had? @npub1t9a…qmg2