danielquinn

danielquinn, 1 hour ago

It says it’ll hit “overnight”, but surely in 2024 we can be more accurate than that?

danielquinn, 23 minutes ago

Awesome, thanks!

danielquinn, 2 days ago

challenging the place of Zionist leaders in mainstream progressive politics.

We really have to stop conflating Zionism with Judaism. Only the Zionists benefit from it.

danielquinn, 2 days ago

You’re probably thinking of Cardassia, which I will also note has a judicial system where the state decides the defendant’s guilt in advance of the trial. In such a system, it’s typical that the rich & powerful simply aren’t prosecuted. So it’s the same system as ours, just with fewer steps :-(

danielquinn, 5 days ago

I don’t understand. Surely if you’ve got a limited amount of water in the lake, drawing that water from a shallow well reduces the available water by the same amount as it would from the lake itself?

danielquinn, 5 days ago

“Deeply frightening” can you name even one thing Corbyn said or did that was antisemitic other than be openly antizionist? Given that it’s Israel’s Zionist regime that’s currently committing genocide, I would think Corbyn would have been vindicated by now.

danielquinn, 6 days ago

Public services aren’t meant to be profitable. They’re meant to provide a service that serves the community.

danielquinn, 6 days ago

That’s a fair point. So long as it’s addressed from a position of “is the community being served well” and not “this should be run like a business”. Canada Post has a difficult (and expensive) mandate: to service all of the country, no matter how remote, and the knee-jerk reaction to such headlines is often to privatise which would change that mandate to “earn as much profit for investors as possible”.

I’m living in the UK these days, with private post, and private water companies. Things have literally been enshitified, with raw sewage flowing down the river Thames, so I’m concerned when I see such headlines.

danielquinn, 6 days ago

Because post is more than just letters, it’s parcels too. Canada Post is infrastructure that ties the whole country together, not just the denser, more profitable cities. Imagine if there were only for-profit postal services in the country. What would it cost to send a parcel to 100 Mile House, or Baker Lake, or whole swathes of the country that only speak French? Think of all the things that go out by post, like Carbon tax rebate cheques and voting information. It’d introduce a massive disparity in service and access to basic services, and so we socialise that cost across the country.

There are always ways to improve of course, but you asked specifically about why the system was socialised.

danielquinn, 8 days ago

I read that quote in Londo’s accent!

danielquinn, 8 days ago

Can someone cobble together a list of video clips of PP just being an asshole? My family thinks he’s this great, clever “everyman”, and I think we could do a lot of damage to bike by supercutting all the times he’s demonstrated what a slime ball he is.

Of course, if the Liberals and NDP insist on running with their current leadership, they might as well just hand him the keys now.

danielquinn, 9 days ago

That was lovely, thank you!

danielquinn, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

• Kubernetes Cluster
  • pi-left
  • pi-right
  • pi-centre
• Other Servers
  • pi-katamari (file server & database)
  • pi-athens (DHCP, DNS, pi-hole)
  • Alexandria (Synology)
• Desktops
  • Berlin
• Laptops
  • London
  • Brighton
  • Brussels
  • Cambridge
  • Toronto
• Phones
  • Laconia
  • Vulcan
  • Bajor

danielquinn, 12 days ago

Relevant Canadaland Commons episode.

danielquinn, 12 days ago

They also support genocide.

danielquinn, 13 days ago

Snowfl has some pretty good results (note the addition of the keyword complete). But you can do a lot better than Paw Patrol! “Bluey”, “The Owl House”, “Hilda”, and “Kipo and the age of the Wonderbeasts” are all far better choices for kids and your own sanity ;-)

danielquinn, 12 days ago

Heh. We’ve convinced our kids that Paw Patrol and Cocomelon “don’t work on our TV”. All I had to do was let her select it a few times and then kill the network connection when she wasn’t looking. After that, we marked them as “disliked” in Netflix and now they never appear.

It may not last, but I’m doing what I can :-)

danielquinn, 22 days ago

I rather like the FSFe for general Free software stuff, but you may find nicer-looking stuff if you visit merch store for specific projects, like GNOME, KDE, etc.

danielquinn, 22 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

Not throwing any shade, just some advice for the future: try to always consider the problem in the context of the OSI model. Specifically, “Layer 3” (network) is always a better strategy for routing/blocking than “Layer 5” (application) if you can do it.

Blocking traffic at the application layer means that the traffic has to be routed through (bandwidth consumption) assembled and processed (CPU cost) before a decision can be made. You should always try to limit the stuff that makes it to layer 5 if you’re sure you won’t want it.

The trouble with layer 3 routing of course is that you don’t have application data there. No host name, no HTTP headers, etc., just packets with a few bits of information:

• source IP and port
• destination IP and port
• A few other firewall-specific bits of information like whether this packet is part of an established connection (syn) etc.

In your case though, you already knew what you didn’t want: traffic from a particular IP, and you have that at the network layer.

At that point, you know you can block at layer 3, so the next question is how far up the chain can you block it?

Most self-hosters will just have their machines on the open internet, so their personal firewall is all they’ve got to work with. It’s still better than letting the packets all the way through to your application, but you still have to suffer the cost of dropping each packet. Still, it’s good enough™ for most.

In your case though, you had setup the added benefit of Cloudflare standing between you and your server, so you could move that decision making step even further away from you, which is pretty great.

danielquinn, 26 days ago

Mozilla’s VPN is just reselling Mullvad, so you can support Mozilla and use Mullvad at the same time if you like.

danielquinn, 29 days ago

You might want to consider just Dockerising everything. That way, the underlying OS really doesn’t matter to the applications running.

I’ve got a few Raspberry Pi’s running Debian, and on top of that, they’re running a kubernetes cluster with K3s. I host a bunch of different services, all in their own containers (effectively their own OS) and I don’t have to care. If I want to change the underlying OS, the containers don’t know either. It’s pretty great.

danielquinn, 1 month ago

Revealjs is a pretty great replacement for PowerPoint, but it does require rudimentary HTML skills.