I’m embarrassed I donated $10 on the last donation ask if these two are the quality of admins Lemmy tolerates.

I’m outie.

The previously defederated instance has 165 total accounts

The heck does that have to do with anything?

Honestly, with comments in this thread being removed by mods and the delays and prevarifications over this defederation, I’m starting to think LW is run by children.

Do better.

It’s closed loop.

That is getting pretty far behind unless you’re leaving yourself open to go back to Gitea. I think 12 was the hard fork.

It might be OK now, but for a while there before they hard forked, you set yourself up for issues if you updated majors without being aware of breaking changes.

Jesus fuck, this is the shit I heard back around 2006 wrt Facebook.

Damn right. And the solution isn’t to substitute another unreliable trading partner like China. By all means, make deals that make sense, and I think for the most part China will keep them, until they don’t. They will always look to gain an advantage and wield the hammer when it suits them, including hostage diplomacy. I have more confidence in Europe, Indo-Pacific, and expanding new markets in Africa and South America.

But strengthening self-reliance and removing internal barriers can only pay dividends. And working with reliable partners that keep their agreements is the only way forward. The only thing that has long term value in trade is trust.

Non

“Does he think China’s… going to buy his stuff? China is an entirely export-driven economy. So what did he do? He came back and said, ‘Oh, we’ll take their electric cars.’ I mean, is this nuts?”

The blithering idiot didn’t know that the agreement removed canola and canola meal tariffs, which vastly outweighed the minimal sales China is going to see from their EVs? I mean, the difference in the benefits is orders of magnitude in terms of dollars.

This guy shouldn’t be in charge of a lemonade stand.

If somebody with too much money pays more for a speeding ticket in Sweden, everyone here would be getting justice boners.

Maybe one person paying more means another person gets to afford it because the average price is the same or higher for the company to be happy with increased profits overall. Yah, yah, companies are never happy… but overall, if line goes up, there might be something to be said for those that can pay bearing the brunt of the profit motive.

I don’t believe you.

I have horses, they definitely don’t pee lemonade.

Because every time there’s an incident, it’s never the thousands of illegal guns pouring over the border that gets the blame, it’s somehow legal gun owners that need to pay a new price.

It’s like giving more money to cops instead of addressing mental health issues to stop crime. Dog and pony show.

Probably use Gemma4 if your machine has the chops for it.

Just let the chuds have their referendum question and it’ll be firmly trounced. Prosecute any foreign influence operations extremely harshly from a federal level, with sedition charges for any residents that are implicated in such operations and extradition requests for foreign actors (Heritage Foundation carpet baggers).

The victim’s kids should be given bamboo canes and left alone with her for an hour.

Just give it a bullshit email address if you don’t want a receipt.

The term you would search for here is “split-horizon DNS”. Assuming you’re using a real domain name with hosts, you want a DNS server inside that resolves the LAN address, and the outside DNS server for everyone else resolves your WAN address (which presumably you reverse-proxy to inside host).

Even better is to not expose the service at all from the outside, use a VPN like Tailscale, and then use their MagicDNS service on the tailscale network to keep everything behind the firewall.

Every service you expose to the outside is more attack surface.

I had a car dealership I was to add new servers into a new rack and recable it. I walked into a room with about half a dozen servers balanced on a pile of cat5, BNC and serial cables about 4’ high. I spent 3 weeks untangling cables, removing dead cable, decommissioning serial and token ring networks and re-terminating or re-running ethernet that didn’t test well.

Pretty much everything was done by scream test because nothing was marked. I found an ancient server that was still used for manuals occasionally that was drywalled into a old closet in the shop when I traced down a line I disconnected and one of the mechanics asked where his manuals had gotten to. That server was shut down every night when they turned off the shop lights and booted back up every morning for who knows how many years when someone came in to work and turned on the lights.

I eventually got to the point I could set up my rack and SANs/servers, patch everything over from the network rack I mounted on the wall, and get guys going on the workstations.

We had a series of meetings after that with the sales team about getting a technical appraisal before we sold our equipment into dealerships. And every dealership I worked in after that was pretty similiar.

Honestly, it was an amazingly satisfying feeling at the end to look in that room after I was done. I get a little shiver 20 years later thinking about it now.