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pacija commented on U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/JeanKage
epolanski · 12 days ago
How?

I'm European, and from my point of view:

- despite the current executive and its lackeys clearly stating they were going to do exactly what's happening (the dismantling of institutions, the violent, word-wise, targeting of any criticism, the tariffs, etc).

- despite the open attack to US democracy on January 6th 2021

Americans voted for all of this to happen.

What's happening isn't exposing a fault in a particular individual, that's way too convenient.

Not only they voted all of this, but keep believing this paranormal constitutional nonsense where winner-takes-all elections where you rule under no oversight, you have no opposition, and don't even depend on your own party support is actually a sane democratic system.

Of all the countries that slid in authoritarianism during the last 4 decades (from the Philippines to Russia, from Nicaragua to Belarus, etc) not one was a parliamentary republic.

All of them, literally all, where presidential republics.

pacija · 11 days ago
Serbia used to be parliamentary republic. Nominally it stil is. In fact it is currently governed by SNS, former political party turned criminal organization.
pacija commented on CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun   fulghum.io/self-hosting... · Posted by u/websku
drnick1 · 2 months ago
I'd rather expose a Wireguard port and control my keys than introduce a third party like Tailscale.

I am not sure why people are so afraid of exposing ports. I have dozens of ports open on my server including SMTP, IMAP(S), HTTP(S), various game servers and don't see a problem with that. I can't rule out a vulnerability somewhere but services are containerized and/or run as separate UNIX users. It's the way the Internet is meant to work.

pacija · 2 months ago
Of course. A port is a door. If service listening on a port is secure and properly configured (e.g. ssh), whole Internet can bang on it all day every day, they won't let through without proper key. Same for imap, xmpp or any othet service.

But what can you expect from people who provide services but won't even try to understand how they work and how they are configured as it's 'not fun enough', expecting claude code to do it right for them.

Asking AI to do thing you did 100 times before is OK I guess. Asking AI to do thing you never did and have no idea how it's properly done - not so much I'd say. But this guy obviously does not signal his sysadmin skills but his AI skills. I hope it brings him the result he aimed for.

pacija commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes   reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot
ponector · 2 months ago
>> Russia stood by while everything Russian, including the Russian language which is the native language of millions of Ukrainians, was facing many restrictions

You think Ukrainians shouldn't decide which language to use? Also russian is native for millions of Ukrainians due to ethnic cleansing done by russians for centuries.

pacija · 2 months ago
Well behaved governments will provide national minorities with everything they need to feel at home. Bilingual street signs, schools in minority's native language, churches, radio and TV broadcasts in minority's native language etc.

Any government who denies this to their national minorities should be promptly replaced as this kind of disrespect to other peoples' culture, religion and national identity inevitably leads to bad outcomes.

pacija commented on A website to destroy all websites   henry.codes/writing/a-web... · Posted by u/g0xA52A2A
IvanK_net · 2 months ago
You choose to spend your time on a place A instead of the place B, it means that the place A is better than the place B. Why else would you do it, if B was better? It is a simple logic.
pacija · 2 months ago
Addiction & Tolerance. You choose to take bigger doses of Heroin more frequently instead of living a healthy life. Your logic seems a bit too simple.
pacija commented on Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD   conradresearch.com/articl... · Posted by u/vermaden
soupbowl · 4 months ago
For those unfamiliar with FreeBSD, this is using base OS tools to manually create this type of immutable jail/container. This can be done with 'less effort' by using a jail manager.
pacija · 4 months ago
Jail managers come and go. Base OS tools stay and are getting better and better. I would definitely stay away from ezjail as it us quite old, active development or even maintenance has stopped long time ago.

Author of the article seem to know what they are doing so I'm puzzled why they don't use `bsdinstall jail /path/to/jail` to implement basejail instead of manually unpacking archives.

No need for separate custom rc script to start `lo1`, it can be done with `cloned_interfaces` directive in rc.conf.

Updating and upgrading jails by passing `-b /path/to/jail` to `freebsd-update` works, but new recommended way has lately been `-j <jailname>`.

Cool article overall, the beauty of FreeBSD is also in possibility to do things in many different ways.

pacija commented on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week   cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazo... · Posted by u/jbredeche
newsclues · a year ago
Should we be giving 25% raises to grocery store and retail workers who don’t have the option of WFH? Lots of people don’t work in an office and still have to commute, shouldn’t they get compensation if the office workers get this benefit?
pacija · a year ago
In my country it is already visible. New entry level corporate white collar jobs are scarce, and they pay like half or one third of entry level blue collar jobs, which there are plenty of. Just a few years ago it was the other way around.
pacija commented on Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo (2016)   new-east-archive.org/arti... · Posted by u/omnibrain
082349872349872 · 2 years ago
I'm guessing that's the sr., not the hr. version? (certainly not the en.)

PS. looking at the girl who accompanies Mme Dion from taxi to stage at the start of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1CwpCNThO4 : was her outfit a yugoslav school uniform?

pacija · 2 years ago
Well, I was thaught in my primary school in then Yugoslavia, now Croatia, quite some time ago, that majority of members of all Yugoslavian nations - Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, Macedonians and Muslims (nowadays called Bosnians or Bosniaks), rose against traitorous, collaborationist official local regimes (both Croatian Ustaše and Serbian Četnici) which sided with fascists and nazis after king Peter II of Yugoslavia cowardly ran away to London. With help of our allies, UK, USA, France, Russia and others, we managed to liberate our country not only from temporary foreign nazi and fascist occupiers, but also from local parasites who lived on the back of working people - royalty, nobility, bankers, industrialists, capitalists etc.

Current mainstream global narative, along the lines of "Eurasia is in war with Eastasia. Eurasia has always been in war with Eastasia" is trying to convince me that the history I had been thought was a lie. So far I'm not convinced.

About PS: indeed, outfit looks similar (but not identical) to uniform of Yugoslav Pionir https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Pioneers_of_Yugosla...

pacija commented on Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo (2016)   new-east-archive.org/arti... · Posted by u/omnibrain
pacija · 2 years ago
Овене Србине, нека си им рекао истину свака част! Сви су ови споменици у сећање на жртве фашистичког терора, а не за лајкове и кликове. Победили смо фашисте ономад, и победићемо их поново!
pacija commented on The Most Dangerous Email (to my career) I've Sent   notyourlanguage.com/post/... · Posted by u/dnoberon
pacija · 2 years ago
To realize one does not want to climb the ladder is fine. To realize there isn't any ladder to climb is enlightenment.
pacija commented on XMPP vs. Matrix    · Posted by u/nibbusu
pacija · 2 years ago
It's apples vs oranges. I selfhost and use both, ejabberd / conversations for xmpp and synapse / element for matrix.

XMPP is traditional IM. I use it exclusively from Conversations client on Android / GrapheneOS and it is really instant, supports presence (knowing whether contact is actually online), rings for audio and video calls, gives feedback about whether user read the message etc. I use it mostly for 1:1 conversations, it has all but replaced SMS and phonecalls.

I consider matrix more like 'fast forum'. Perhaps things changed but last I checked (from element on Android / GrapheneOS) there was no presence so I have no idea whether contact will get my message immediately or not. No confirmation that contact read the message. Audio and video calls not working, not even ringing when phone is locked. Quite laggy in message delivery.

So, after some years of using both, XMPP is best for replacing one-to-one SMS, video and audio calls, while I enjoy hanging in public matrix rooms, treating them like '(not really) instant forums'.

u/pacija

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