I’ve Moved pleroma back onto the VPS to see how it handles. I might move lemmy and/or piefed too, it mainly depends on if running them interferes with streaming services.

Started playing Ocarina Of Time using Ship of Harkinian

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/mX2wLCSnp8XDSzfUCHyMpV

REMEMBER: Strikes don’t end until demands are met, If ICE doesn’t leave then the strike shouldn’t stop, anything less will be ineffective.

Minneapolis-St Paul general strike STARTS January 23

No work

No school

No shopping

Make noise

Do good

Be good

#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis

Man, it pisses people off when I say that marches and protest don’t have any practical effect when the government doesn’t care about the will of the people.

Listen: if rallies make you feel better and connected to other people, great. Really. That’s a good thing. But as Malcolm X once pointed out, nonviolence only works when your oppressor has a conscience… or is worried about being reelected.

Does anyone think Trump gets worried seeing people rallying against him? Do you think he thinks he’s in any jeopardy at the midterms? No. Whether or not he actually is is not the point; the point is that, delusional or not, he doesn’t worry about 3% of the US population coming out to march against him because he either believes the other 97% are on his side or he thinks he’s got a way to either rig or suspend the midterms. Y’all get that, right? That the idea that he’ll try to simply not allow midterm elections is not a crazy fringe idea but entirely plausible, if not likely? I mean, if you don’t think he’ll do it just because he’s openly talked about it, you’re a dummy. He talked about trying to get Greenland and invade Venezuela and a lot of you didn’t think he was serious… until he did it.

If protests get too big or too visible or disruptive - much less turn violent - he’ll just declare martial law and suspend elections that way, plus start mowing motherfuckers down in the street, and nobody will stop him. I can’t believe anybody is still naive enough to think the Democrats will do anything but issue more strongly worded statements if he does, but what can they do? He is the commander in chief of the military and since he’s already legally immune for anything he does as president, no order he gives is illegal even if it violates the Constitution. I mean, if that logic occurs to me it’s almost certainly what he’ll claim.

What I want is for those of you who are desperately clinging to the idea that the vox populi is still the most powerful force in America to please stop deluding yourselves, because it’s dangerous. I don’t mean metaphorically dangerous, I mean physically dangerous. This is not 1968, this is not Vietnam, and all the old glories are gone. This is: you’re gonna go out there in pink pussy hats and whichever faction of the American armed forces he sends are gonna use those brightly colored symbols as targets. I’m not exaggerating, I’m not being hyperbolic, I’m telling you the exact truth. You are not going to defeat fascism by marching. All you’re going to do is, quite frankly, pat each other on the back so hard you’re going to get a false sense of the power of collective voices against state which has deafened itself to your voices. And it’s gonna look like every generation or so of Iranian or Chinese students who think this time is gonna be different… and end up smeared on the stones of some public square or another.

There are and have been times when protest and nonviolent resistance were very good and effective ways of making the will of the people happen. This is just not one of those moments. I mean, I’d be glad to be wrong but absolutely nothing suggests I am.

It may not look it but “BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT” is a pretty solid quake mod, like damn.

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/2SRxJ2Bwu6qrTD3no1DdQQ

RE: https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/115845954658479816

I spent a lot of time in the 90s working on Y2K. It wasn't a huge panic. It was just a slice out of everything else we spent auditing code. It wasn't "spend 80 hours a week fixing this." It was just boring. Incredibly boring. And we made it be ok by being bored and fixing stuff.

And the one thing I never thought would happen was that people would say it was never a problem. Oh good grief, it was a problem. All over. We just fixed it. Like we thought grownups should do when there's a problem.

We need Democratic leaders who don’t dodge questions about whether an agency that teargasses babies and kills innocent people should keep having a bigger budget than most countries’ militaries.

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New PSA from Black Panther Party

I’m planning on attempting to spin off some services using a pretty low end mini-pc and a cable modem. A lot of people are still stuck with only cable as an option and that tends to come with heavily limited upload speeds so my plan is to see what the limits are on a typical 50mbps upload in terms of running services like jellyfin or pleroma. A lot of this stuff is already easily run over Tor so a 50mbps connect should be more then enough for a handful of users.

I love how organic the growth of this project has been so far. I’m not sure how active everyone is but seeing over 100+ users a month, with new sign ups on things regularly is pretty great.

My main goal is to encourage other people to run things at home, and I’m trying to do that in the most slacker friendly way possible.

It’s been suggested that #Minneapolis residents should water their yards with the sprinkler turned way up, just before sundown.

My question is how do we get more Ronalds to join the resistance against corporations, so the Gates and Jobs get put in their place and remembered as nothing more then wealth hoarding gatekeepers.

Mew hurt one of his toe-beans the other day and is now stuck in wearing the cone-of-shame for a while. Poor buddy #catsofmastodon

The thing with Maduro being arrested in his own country and brought to USA to face changes really puts all those sovereign citizen “lawyers” into an interesting position. Like sure their arguments are complete non-sense but even if they where valid, how are you going to argue anything other then “might makes right” in a world where you can just kidnap a head of state and charge them with wanting machine guns.

Narco Terrorism i sort of understand, but how tf do you charge a head of state with both owning a machine gun and the conspiracy to own more machine guns? Is that just like so they have something to offer to drop in a plea bargain?

After discovering (Hypermind)[https://github.com/lklynet/hypermind] and the accompanying HACS plugin, I have surrendered control of my living room lights to the swarm.

#hypermind #Selfhosting #HomeAssistant

So today I learned that fd can mass delete hundreds of files at once… and also my trash folder has at least a bajillion duplicate files

I’m the Juggernaut BITCH!

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/f4xgMYgZD7RQjcwXQQ4gby

Apparently, there is a sticker version, too.

#39c3

ETA: https://punx.social/