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ExtremeDullard @ ExtremeDullard @sopuli.xyz
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  • And here we go again

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  • I always assume there is someone working to fix things

    After being a member of SDF for over 2 years, I always assume there isn't.

    Have you asked the SDF community if there is anything you can do to contribute to better uptimes?

    No, for three reasons:

    • I paid for SDF. That's more than I can say for most services I use that are orders of magnitude more reliable. In fairness, I paid once, expecting to pay every year, because I like to pay for what I use. But I never paid again because the service is utter shit. Sorry to be rude, but that's just the plain reality.
    • I tried to contact someone in the SDF shell chat thingy and it's always been crickets. I've given up on that.
    • What the hell can I do to "contribute to better uptimes" aside from running a server at home on behalf of SDF?

    Putting out there that if you’re waiting for the next outage of a few days to move servers, [...]

    I'm not waiting. I'm currently evaluating Piefed with a view to moving my communities over there if it proves good and reliable. As for my personal account, I already have this one on Sopuli as a backup (now my main account) and I've created another one in piefed.social and imported my settings there too.

    I'm done with SDF. The next - and last - time I post from my SDF account is to lock my communities and redirect subscribers to their new home.

  • And here we go again

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  • Let's hope it lasts this time.

    Next time it goes down, I'll move my communities and my user account out to Sopuli permanently.

  • ICE Uses Celebrities’ Loophole to Hide Deportation Flights

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  • Two things can be true at the same time. Someone can be a fascist and a pedo.

    In fact, other interesting historical parallel, there are strong suspicions that Hitler was a pedo.

    How uncanny... It's like the US was an almost perfect historical reenactment of early 3rd Reich.

  • Bill would give hackers letters of marque against US enemies

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  • First of all, there are better ways to deal with anything than privateering. There's a reason why all countries in the world have abandoned it.

    Secondly, everybody is operating under the assumption that cybercrime is something that happens and there's no way around it. I contend that if software vendors were penally responsible for vulnerabilities in their software, you'd see a dramatic reduction in hacks very, very quickly.

    As in, if a piece of software is exploited, the engineers who worked on it, their managers and the CEO of their company had better come up with extensive documentation proving how they did their best to implement security before releasing the unfortunate piece of code, else one or all of that bunch gets to spend time in the slammer.

    If this was implemented into law, I guarantee you software would become very secure across the board in no time flat.

    But of course, in the age of tech monopolies and generalized corruption, it will never happen.

  • politics @lemmy.world
    ExtremeDullard @sopuli.xyz

    Bill would give hackers letters of marque against US enemies

    www.theregister.com /2025/08/21/congressman_proposes_bringing_back_letters/

  • ICE Uses Celebrities’ Loophole to Hide Deportation Flights

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  • You know who else ran unlisted trains of deportees - or listed under some euphemistic name like "special train" or "resettlement to the east"? Can you guess?

    Hint: if ICE feels the need to conceal what they're doing, it's because they know what they're doing is not right. Just like the SS.

  • Politics @beehaw.org
    ExtremeDullard @sopuli.xyz

    The Great Gerrymander

  • U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector

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  • It's almost like socialism. In the name of preserving national corporate interests.

    A kind of national socialism if you will...

  • U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector

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  • This is where the very word Fascism comes from: fasces in latin means bundle - the bundling of state and private sector together. The government and private companies in cahoots is one of the core features of any fascist regime.

  • U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector

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  • Hmm nationalization... That's so Republican...

    If you ever needed proof that MAGA ≠ GOP, this is it. The Republican party has disappeared off the radar.

  • sdfpubnix @lemmy.sdf.org
    ExtremeDullard @sopuli.xyz

    And here we go again

  • Is there a direct correlation between overall stomach pH and sweat pH/composition?

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  • I doubt it and here's why - but bear in mind that this is purely anectodal, based solely on my experience:

    Some people have acidic sweat and tend to make everything they touch rust overnight. For those in the high-precision, or high value metalworking industry like gunsmithing, it's a real problem.

    Sadly, I'm one of them: when I worked as a gunsmith, I had to either thoroughly clean all the parts I had touched during the day with degreaser, or store them in a jar of lamp oil or petroleum to resume work on clean parts the next day - something my colleagues with neutral sweat didn't have to do.

    Back when I worked as a gunsmith, I had a bad case of acid reflux. As a result, I would guzzle gallons of Gaviscon and other antacids all day long. That lasted for a good 15 years until I got so close to oesophageal cancer that I got experimental surgery to my stomach to solve the problem.

    The surgery worked great. But guess what: I still sprinkle rusty fingerprints on all the steel parts I touch. My stomach probably had higher-than-normal pH for years with all the antacid medicines I popped, and now it's back to normal, yet there's zero difference to my unfortunate ability to ruin nice steel parts with my sweat.

    Make of this what you will. It's not proof of anything, I'm a statistical sample of one here. But I figured maybe my perspective on your question might interest you.

  • Politics @beehaw.org
    ExtremeDullard @sopuli.xyz

    What’s Driving Trump’s D.C. Takeover?

  • sdfpubnix @lemmy.sdf.org
    ExtremeDullard @sopuli.xyz

    Someone rewind the SDF server dynamo

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  • I owe my entire life to piracy.

    I learned all I know on pirated software, and all the jobs that I've ever held are entirely attributable to it.

    Did I shaft the software vendors I pirated the software of? Absolutely. But! I'm also very well paid and I pay a lot of taxes thanks to my ill-gotten skills. So overall, I contributed to society as a whole orders of magnitude more than I stole from the individual software vendors.

    Of course, I recognize that this sort of logic is self-serving and leaves the software vendors I shafted without any money. But... just sayin'. There's more than one face to this coin.

    As for media - music, movies and such, I've almost never purchased any. I bought a few LPs as a kid before my parents bought me a cassette player (and more importantly, recorder). After that, I never ever paid a single dime for any media I've ever consumed. Never. And I still don't.

    I make no apology for this: it's theft pure and simple. The only weak justification I can offer is that if I tried to purchase music or movies, it would be inconvenient to procure, DRM'ed, force shit I don't want to watch down my throat, like those stupid unskippable FBI warnings on DVDs, and the pirated versions of mp3s and movies are much more user-friendly and resistant to time and deprecation. But at the end of the day, I fully admit that I'm a shameless freeloader.

    The only thing I pay for religiously is books. No particular reason why I respect writers more than musicians or film directors... It's just like that. I want writers to get paid.

  • What comes now after the death of Pope Francis?

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  • Nah, no way. Their scam has been working great for over two millenia. Why would they give it up?

  • What comes now after the death of Pope Francis?

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  • The Catholic church will elect another magical thinker in chief and he'll carry on peddling magical thinking. What else could happen?

  • El Salvador won’t return wrongly deported Maryland man

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  • I can well believe that.

    Whoever it was, it wasn't Dubya, anymore than any of the shit Trump is doing was his idea: both are much too dumb to come up with any of this.

  • El Salvador won’t return wrongly deported Maryland man

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  • I left the US 24 years ago. I saw all this coming when Dubya shat out the USA Patriot Act.

    The US has been a fascist country for decades. Just ask any Gitmo detainee... Now it's official.

  • Politics @beehaw.org
    ExtremeDullard @sopuli.xyz

    Can We Fix Our Rigged Tax System?

  • Trump to discuss potential suspension, cancellation of military aid for Ukraine on March 3

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  • Except he doesn't give a fuck. Haven't you noticed?

  • DOGE releases updated "wall of receipts" with more discrepancies

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  • I think that ship has sailed.
    The country has been quite comprehensively fucked over at this point.

  • An overwhelming majority of Senate Republicans voted against Democratic-backed measures to block tax cuts for the wealthy

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  • It's okay. Yes, the megarich will become even richer, but it's worth the sacrifice because the price of eggs will come down eventually.
    Any minute now...

  • UK vs US homelessness

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  • Sorry I must have remembered the place wrong. The last time I lived in the UK was in the late 90's.

    That's why I pulled my post. No sense in misleading people.

  • Lemmy.sdf.org is down for the count (Update: It's back)

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  • That's the exact kind of messy migration I want to avoid.

  • Lemmy.sdf.org is down for the count (Update: It's back)

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  • Agreed. I wish I could transfer my SDF communities over here but it's not possible, sadly.