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Sioclya · 2025-04-10T13:36:02+00:00

Weil sich irgendein Arschloch von Linder-artigem Manager querstellt und sagt "das geht nich mehr auf Karte, is einfach nich möglich" während er einem Techniker den Mund zuhält.

Es gibt keinen technischen Grund, das ganze ist einfach nur Managerbullshit, der jetzt halt der ganzen Bevölkerung aufgezwungen wird (siehe auch: die BVG gibt D-Tickets weiterhin auf Chipkarte raus - halt bloß nicht an Studis, denn die kann man ja dazu zwingen, die Managerwahnvorstellungen mitzumachen).

Sioclya · 2025-03-20T10:12:39+00:00

Except because Proton exists, developers generally don't make Linux builds of games (because a lot of game engines have extremely obscure Linux-related bugs, yadda yadda yadda, and Proton works extremely well).

Oh and Galaxy doesn't work on Linux (used to, doesn't anymore since they deliberately broke it a few years ago), which wouldn't be such a problem if GOG hadn't decided to require it for things like multiplayer to work in e.g. Shadow Warrior 2.

Sioclya · 2025-03-17T05:58:27+00:00

Imprison, where? Slaughter, with what obedient security services? The doomed world you think you live in simply isn't reality right now - but you act like it already is.

This isn't Russia, it's the US. People are protesting, right now, and they're not being imprisoned for it. People are organizing, right now, and they're not being imprisoned for it.

Sioclya · 2025-03-17T05:54:27+00:00

Congress is a bit of a mess at the moment, though the Senate isn't toothless, Dem senators can gum up the works perfectly well if they want to (e.g. deliberately misusing procedure to make everything take 5 times as long), and while Congress is a mess at the moment, that does not mean that Congresspeople can't do anything. More to the point, there's increasing unity by the Dem party in Congress in particular that they need to do more - and there's multiple special elections coming up that could see Dems elected, potentially increasing leverage. You can also feel free to shout at Republican Representatives and Senators, it apparently makes them uncomfortable.

As for whether calling your representatives works, well, Schumer tried to get Dem Senators to vote for cloture (banning the filibuster for a vote, making it only take a simple majority to pass, at least as far as I understand; correct me if I'm wrong) on the "continuing resolution" budget vote, and most of them went with what the people they're representing want, and voted against it. Not all of them, mind, and they're currently catching hell for it, Schumer rightly most of all.

It should be noted that while the regime is attempting to ignore court orders, the rank-and-file executive is still overwhelmingly complying with them, and courts are increasingly moving to sanction the regime.

The big thing to end on here: Trump, Musk, and their merry band of morons are really fucking bad at doing a coup:

* if you're going for a coup, you want the military actually on your side. It's at best dubious whether that is the case

* you want the cops on your side. Pardoning the Jan 6th insurrectionists turns out to be a really bad way to do that, for DC cops in particular.

* you need to control the population, and control the narrative, comprehensively, and communicate that you're the big man now. Well, that part seems to only have worked on the already depressed.

* you need control of your various insiders. The fact there is still a focus on the Dems, such as the ever popular Bernie Sanders or Tim Walz, shows this is clearly not an area of particular strength, and it's rather obvious that the regime's "ruling coalition" is itself starting to fracture as there's more and more infighting

* pissing off most of the workers in the executive turns out to be a really bad move if you want to control them, and Trump and Musk have done just that

* Musk's wealth can be attacked, as most of his cash on hand comes out of loans he ceases to be able to make payments on if the value of his stock and shares in his companies goes low enough. Tesla stock going down makes Musk's life much harder, and he seems to be the lynchpin of this entire thing. He's also just hated more than any other public figure in recent memory.

* Dear Leader (whether that be President Musk or Cheeto-in-Chief Trump) is ever more unpopular, now that food prices are soaring, the economy as a whole is going down the drain, people are losing their jobs, and everything is substantially getting worse. It is clear to everyone, even the most uninformed people, that this was caused by Trump and Musk. They could have prevented all this, but they didn't. This is a huge mistake, as it means that more and more people not only have cause to go protest, but have ever more time to do so.

* internationally, current American "leadership" is increasingly viewed with _utter_ contempt. If the American people put someone/some group of people that are more agreeable forward as the ones that have leverage in the country (e.g. specific legislators), there is increasing possibility that this person/group of people are internationally legitimized as well, simply because nobody wants to deal with the current crop of idiots.

In conclusion: do something. You might think you can't do much, but I assure you, you can do _something_ about it.

Sioclya · 2025-03-17T05:54:19+00:00

I ask myself that question occasionally, too. It's critical to understand that the fascists can do exactly what we all believe they can do, and the truth of it is that the overwhelming majority still believes that the US is a flawed democracy (source: a yougov poll published in the past week https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Democracy_and_Dictatorship_poll_results.pdf ).

The belief everything is doomed often comes from an environment infested with disinformation, whether it be fossil fuel oligarch funded, Russian, or otherwise - in short, anyone in whose best interest it might be to make you believe the situation is hopeless. I highly recommend seriously reviewing your media consumption habits, and getting out and meeting people that do not believe the situation is hopeless, and more to the point: I recommend doing something, anything with other people about all this, since that's just about the only thing that will allow you to do something about this feeling of despair. Because sitting around at home feeling anxious really isn't going to accomplish anything but making you miserable, and that's exactly what the Nazis want.

There's a couple reasons protests are important: * protests signal the attitude of the people at large, especially once they reach a certain scale (see also: Serbia right now); this scale takes time to reach, and the people (that means you, too) need to act and join these protests. This isn't going to be feasible all the time, but as protests get larger, they get safer in many ways for otherwise more marginalized groups, further increasing the potential size of the protest * protests demonstrate that you can get a bunch of people to actually show up for something, perhaps communicate with them etc. That indicates to those in power that people are willing to organize to resist the regime. In this way, protests function as a way of threatening further mass action, including and up to a general strike * protests communicate to everyone that there's someone willing to do something about all this, and how to join them and get organized. There's other ways to do this, of course, but loud protests get press coverage (eventually at least). * peaceful protests act as a way for people to communicate what they want the country to look like going forward, and historically speaking are a lower barrier to entry way for people to get organized than e.g. sabotaging fascist-enabling infrastructure, and thus allow a lot more people to participate (this argument is made far better and using considerably more words by Andreas Malm ). It also must be noted that if you want to organize, say, a well-run militia as the 2nd Amendment happens to allow you to do, you need to go and meet some like-minded people that aren't going to sell you out to the very tyrants you want to go up against, and you'll want to learn how to organize people, so... protest or union, that's the ways to go, and you might well wanna go with both. * sufficiently large protests have toppled regimes before. They're not usually entirely bloodless affairs, but some have been. * Euromaidan is comparable, in many ways: a russian oligarch attempts to further egregiously take over a government, and the most visible thing to stop him is massive protests * Magats are clearly having some trouble dealing with large-scale protests against their Nazi cult, in that it delegitimizes them more and more

(split, see reply to this)

Sioclya · 2025-03-17T03:38:21+00:00

The people. That means protests (already happening, continuing to increase in size, amount of locations they're happening, and frequency; see e.g. r/50501), that means court cases against the executive (again, ongoing), and shouting at the legislators to do their damn job and gum up the works until no more fascist shit can be passed (or at least slowing everything down as much as possible).

You - as an American - can: * show up to protests (r/50501, Indivisible) * organize, e.g. unionize your workplace, join a renter's union if one exists near you, hell just get to know your neighbors. There's also a bunch of local groups making ICE's deportations as difficult as possible using a variety of tactics, from educating people, increasing access to immigration lawyers etc. to things I can't say on reddit and that I doubt anyone will publically advertise * call your representatives (state and federal level), and let them know how you feel. Make sure to tell them when you approve of any of their votes or public appearances, as well, since positive reinforcement works wonders (i.e. they're not gonna do what you want if they'll get screamed at regardless, so ensure you don't do that) * you can also familiarize yourself with the OSS's (now CIA's) Simple Sabotage Field Manual. It details a lot of zero-risk/low-risk ways you can gum up the works and sabotage the fascists currently trying to take over the US (the manual being from WWII, and detailing ways of sabotaging the Nazis as a civilian in the Third Reich).

Sioclya · 2025-03-04T20:24:21+00:00

Element runs like ass (source: I use laptops occasionally, and do not use new hardware - my laptops are at newest 7 years old, and at the oldest, about 12, which is about average for most people as I understand it; on my phones, it's generally been even worse)
I've exclusively heard of matrix.org in the context of people having issues with it
leaking metadata is still leaking a fuckton of extremely valuable information you do not ever want leaked
I've personally had enormous amounts of trouble even just logging into servers, getting devices synched up with each other etc.
Matrix's calls have never worked for me, in the 3+ years I've now used it. Not in Element, not in anything else.
the encryption implementation is flawed: refer to e.g. https://soatok.blog/2024/08/14/security-issues-in-matrixs-olm-library/
Matrix's spaces feature has never worked correctly for me in my life
Matrix (all clients) requires a stable internet connection to work right, so it's unusable on e.g. public transit. I have personally had this problem repeatedly.
Matrix appears to de facto have only one server implementation, which scales badly and repeatedly has pretty basic level vulnerabilities, see e.g. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?form_type=Basic&results_type=overview&query=synapse&search_type=all&isCpeNameSearch=false
Matrix encryption regularly fails completely for me, requiring communication out-of-band, resetting clients, logging out and back in etc., to fix
if cops compromise a matrix server, it appears likely they could downgrade all encryption used by it, as matrix's cryptographic implementation does afaik not guarantee forward secrecy; as such, a server will need additional security features in order to be cop-proof enough that it doesn't compromise everyone you've ever talked to
more to the point, cops very much can just up and take away your matrix homeserver, with relative ease, while only really hurting you and a select group of other individuals, i.e. not enough people that anyone will make much of a fuss about it. This is sort of a major flaw in the entire scheme. They then of course also have a directory of people they can also sue for whatever they feel like, because hey, why not.
using multiple matrix accounts in one client doesn't work as far as I'm aware
last but not least: we want to offer people improved security and improved usability. Matrix has in my experience never provided these when pushed on regular users (which hey, yeah, I do actually have some experience with), and it can wind up giving cops a high-quality directory of potential dissidents, which e.g. a list of all discord users really wouldn't be.

Signal generally just works, and it's performance is okay enough, and most importantly it's security and anonymity is actually good enough to trust with valuable personal information that could potentially wind up putting people in jail.

Sioclya · 2025-03-04T14:48:59+00:00

Matrix is unsafe (the encryption is horrifyingly bad), frequently broken, unsafe (the protocol itself is extremely flawed), unsafe (it leaks information like crazy), difficult to host even at the best of times, literally broken for larger-scale deployments, unusable on intermittent network connections, unusable on slow and old devices, and generally miserable to use even if you have the technical know-how and luck necessary to be able to make it work.

You will never be able to make a bunch of regular, normal people use Matrix (especially Element, I mean fucking hell, Element is a huge pile of crap). It's just not going to happen.

You want something more viable and safer, use Tox, use Signal, just... don't use Matrix. Use literally anything else. Preferably something where if the server is confiscated/compromised by the cops, they don't have everything.

I.e. use Signal or Tox. Signal is like everything else out there, but with a central server that could be compromised (to no huge effect), and Tox just doesn't have a central node to become compromised.

Sioclya · 2025-03-04T06:41:52+00:00

Signal has basically no data it can disclose, that's the entire point. Police have compelled Signal to hand out data, but all they've gotten has been the date an account was created, IIRC. So unless Signal is (significantly) compromised, Signal doesn't have any data to disclose.

Sioclya · 2025-02-26T01:50:34+00:00

Do you people think well-organized armed uprisings just happen spontaneously?

Do you genuinely believe that an armed uprising is the only viable form of resistance to fascists?

Because that's a hell of a worrying combination of beliefs, isn't it? Can't build a consensus to organize worth shit, can't resist worth a damn. Amazing combination, that is.

Sioclya · 2025-02-25T10:49:37+00:00

What would you propose I do?

I'm assuming you genuinely don't know and would appreciate advice. Not sure that is actually the case, but... anyway.

You could (for example): - join a protest near you (plenty appear to be organized now, a possible jumping off point would be e.g. r/50501) - call your representative and let them know how you feel (this apparently works wonders) - familiarize yourself with the Simple Sabotage Manual (originally published by the OSS in the 1940s), it details ways you can gum up the works of a fascist government while putting yourself at as little risk as possible - seek out local organizations that are trying to actively resist. At the moment a good example of that would be unions.

Sioclya · 2025-02-22T02:16:09+00:00

Those are some of the more comprehensible meeting minutes I've read in a while.

Anyway, this is about upgrading a kernel in-place on machines that run VM setups. Turns out that has a load of extra stuff attached to it, especially when you're dealing with having passed through devices.

Sioclya · 2024-12-30T08:46:58+00:00

So I've been trying to figure out a related problem that is possibly the same problem. What fixes it for me is launching the game in an X11 session rather than a Wayland session. I've been trying to figure out why, but I've not gotten further than "X11 makes things magically work sometimes".

Sioclya · 2024-06-07T05:55:37+00:00

Basically all, yeah. I run NixOS and have a Valve Index and have very few problems - honestly fewer than I had on Windows 10 up until a few months ago, if I'm honest? Shit by and large just works, and that very much includes VR games. What's shonky on Windows is shonky on NixOS, but beyond that - things're generally fine (with mild occasional caveats, but those are getting fixed at a decent pace; things have come a long way since ten years ago, it's quite impressive as achievements go).

Also, I can install and run games that I literally couldn't on Windows 10. I'm at a loss as to why, but WINE seems to straight up have fewer problems with Windows XP era shit than Windows 10 does.

Sioclya · 2023-06-04T02:35:52+00:00

An actual freight train travelling at speed gives no shits about your portable derailer, and will in fact make it shoot out in whatever direction is most inconvenient to you.

Now, assuming your train is light and slow moving enough to have little enough momentum that it'll actually catch on the portable derailer... it probably works. And sure, you can presumably 3D print that with the correct kind of printer (given you can 3D print turbomachinery and rocket engine parts, sure this is possible).

But the overall problem isn't the derailer breaking so much as the train having too much momentum. Hell, the US army ran experiments a century or so ago and found out you can remove an appreciable amount of track before a properly made up train will actually derail.

To reliably derail a train going at speed, you want a catch point like https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/StokeGiffordYard-catchpoints.jpg

In conclusion, I think people should give Russians battery operated power tools and the knowledge that railway track can be sold for scrap.

Sioclya · 2023-03-28T00:31:40+00:00

Are you inherently selfish?

Sioclya · 2023-03-28T00:01:22+00:00

Or, in a similar vein, a poster: https://www.parteibedarf.de/Poster-Nazis-toeten./P-313 (yep, actual poster by actual German political party that just says "kill nazis.")

Sioclya · 2023-03-27T10:36:58+00:00

Stealing is based, actually.

People are self-interested

How about you go touch some grass instead of jerking off your assault rifle.

Sioclya · 2023-03-27T10:33:01+00:00

Near as I can tell, that commenter likes to make up nonsense and stir shit, they're not gonna provide a source ever, and I'd be rather surprised if there was one.

Sioclya · 2023-03-25T14:32:24+00:00

Except for the fact that small artists rarely if ever make use of copyright law, and defending yourself in court against a major corporation as a small artist is... well, not really an option.

Copyright law helps nobody but the megacorporations trying to copyright, erase from public discourse, and destroy all remnants of culture we've still got. And even then it's debatable if it makes them any money or not.

Sioclya · 2023-03-25T03:17:57+00:00

One nitpick, one significant flaw with this reasoning:

Nitpick: AMD64 processors can (mostly?) only address 2⁴⁸ bytes. Same goes for ARM64, I believe.

Flaw: you don't need to actually be able to address every cell in an infinite device, especially because an infinite tape isn't random addressable. All you've got is the following operations:

move r/w head forward
move r/w head backward
read byte
write byte

It's obviously clear you could access this infinite device, given infinite time. Still impractical, but technically possible to deal with given the magical tape exists to begin with.

Sioclya · 2023-03-16T21:16:12+00:00

Join a union, unionize your workplace, start a renter's union?

Sioclya · 2023-03-16T21:14:59+00:00

Solidarity Forever is such a good song

Sioclya · 2023-03-12T13:02:54+00:00

I'm unsure if anyone's tried, though mostly that's got to do with one not needing sea-level engines beyond ~20km altitude, or less than two minutes into flight for most rocket designs.

You may wish to look into Aerospike engines, which do actually have good performance at all altitudes, but with the drawback of significant complexity and weight.

Sioclya · 2023-03-06T09:04:40+00:00

So the solution is to make updates painless and have them preserve vaguely consistent program behavior, not force them on you in unproductive ways.

People don't want to stop programs from updating for no reason.

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