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non serviam

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A couple of posts this week.

posted 4/4/2024, 10:10 pm

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quoting joskua:

Me ranting about my YT algorithm roasting me (with good reason) In my blog.

after getting way too addicted to the videos youtube was recommending me, I felt like I had to set some boundaries with the homepage and just block all the content from loading, so I would be forced to only see videos from my subscriptions page.

Chromium browsers have a content filtering section where you can block content from loading in, so I use it to block all HTML on the homepage and the /shorts page:

chrome blocking tags

which makes the page look like this:

youtube homepage

edited 4/5/2024, 11:20 pm

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quoting orchids:

after getting way too addicted to the videos youtube was recommending me, I felt like I had to set some boundaries with the homepage and just block all the content from loading, so I would be forced to only see videos from my subscriptions page.

Chromium browsers have a content filtering section where you can block content from loading in, so I use it to block all HTML on the homepage and the /shorts page:

chrome blocking tags

which makes the page look like this:

youtube homepage

quoting orchids:

after getting way too addicted to the videos youtube was recommending me, I felt like I had to set some boundaries with the homepage and just block all the content from loading, so I would be forced to only see videos from my subscriptions page.

Chromium browsers have a content filtering section where you can block content from loading in, so I use it to block all HTML on the homepage and the /shorts page:

chrome blocking tags

which makes the page look like this:

youtube homepage

Hey thanks a lot!!! I will try to use this (:

posted 4/6/2024, 7:46 pm

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non serviam

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Dropped this a few days ago.

https://starbreaker.org/blog/personal/good-enough-april-2024/index.html

Work just hard enough to earn your pay. Don’t go above and beyond. Don’t work unpaid overtime. Don’t let your bosses bully you into commuting to an open-plan office to do work you can do at home. Don’t buy any rhetoric about collaboration, purpose, gratitude, or community from your bosses; always assume they’re trying to manipulate you. Don’t let your bosses con you into thinking the corporate culture is a real culture. Don’t attend corporate social events after hours unless it’s your union. Rent out your intellect, but don’t sell your soul or give away your heart. You’re there to earn a living, nothing more or less. So act your wage, and reserve the best of yourself and your greatest efforts for real life, your life outside of work.

edited 4/24/2024, 8:37 pm

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I have stopped caring about 'work' or 'jobs' or especially 'having a career' at this point. Tired of employers and their nonesense, because it's never enough for them.

What I’ve found over the years is that your bosses don’t want you to give your best effort in every part of your life. They want your job to be your passion. They want you to find meaning, purpose, and community at work. They want you to give short shrift to friends, family, hobbies, faith, and everything else that makes a life worth living.

Not only that, but even the job they want you to delude yourself to enjoying, they want you to do it their way. Don't be too different, don't be too efficient, don't write a text document to help use as a reference or anything. Bet you're just wanting to slack off and not even working, or you think you just know better than them, huh? I've never had a good relationship with a boss, ever, which is why I've given up. I would rather die a NEET than live a serf.

edited 4/25/2024, 12:47 pm

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quoting the-syreth-clan:

I would rather die a NEET than live a serf.

If I was a bachelor and didn't have expensive tastes I'd feel the same.

posted 4/25/2024, 1:11 pm

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edited 4/30/2024, 5:46 pm

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just wrote this guide on everything I personally do when spinning up a new server. Looking for some feedback on it to see if I missed anything important:

https://blog.basementcommunity.com/everything-i-do-when-hosting-a-website/

this is in support of my 2024 goals for creating some more guides coming from this website:

https://basementcommunity.com/threads/245

edited 4/28/2024, 9:24 pm

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non serviam

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quoting orchids:

just wrote this guide on everything I personally do when spinning up a new server. Looking for some feedback on it to see if I missed anything important:

Just wanted to mention that while Windows has a command prompt, it doesn't come with SSH. For that you'd want to either set up WSL, or install an app like PuTTY.

Also, why does certbot have a dependency on snapd? Are you using Ubuntu in your example?

posted 4/30/2024, 3:18 pm

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quoting starbreaker:

Just wanted to mention that while Windows has a command prompt, it doesn't come with SSH. For that you'd want to either set up WSL, or install an app like PuTTY.

Also, why does certbot have a dependency on snapd? Are you using Ubuntu in your example?

nice thanks for that. I knew about WSL but never messed around it enough to speak intelligently on it in a post like this, but I'll add that disclaimer.

And yeah. It's not super clear but I use Debian. I had a note towards the top of the blog about apt-get:

apt-get will work if you're on Ubuntu or Debian but other operating systems have different commands for upgrading. You can find your appropriate command here

but I should probably add a top-level note about that fact that the commands might need to be tweaked for a different distro

posted 4/30/2024, 6:16 pm

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quoting orchids:

nice thanks for that. I knew about WSL but never messed around it enough to speak intelligently on it in a post like this, but I'll add that disclaimer.

No worries.

quoting orchids:

And yeah. It's not super clear but I use Debian. I had a note towards the top of the blog about apt-get:

apt-get will work if you're on Ubuntu or Debian but other operating systems have different commands for upgrading. You can find your appropriate command here

but I should probably add a top-level note about that fact that the commands might need to be tweaked for a different distro

And it looks like the certbot devs themselves are pushing snap to make sure people have a current version of certbot since Debian stable tends to only update biannually, you don't run Sid on prod, and the Debian security team isn't keeping up with critical patches to certbot.

posted 4/30/2024, 6:36 pm

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yep I lifted the commands from that certbot instruction page

posted 4/30/2024, 7:05 pm

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quoting starbreaker:

And it looks like the certbot devs themselves are pushing snap to make sure people have a current version of certbot since Debian stable tends to only update biannually, you don't run Sid on prod, and the Debian security team isn't keeping up with critical patches to certbot.

Good old (old) Debian, up with its usual antics I see.

posted 4/30/2024, 8:12 pm

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quoting the-syreth-clan:

Good old (old) Debian, up with its usual antics I see.

"${DISTRO}" gonna "${DISTRO}". Every one of them has their quirks. For example, if I want a current Emacs on Slackware I've got to compile it from source. Luckily, Slackware is set up correctly so that /usr/local/bin takes precedence over /usr/bin in $PATH so as long as I set $PREFIX when building everything turns out fine.

The only thing you can do is embrace the jank, because jank is inevitable, and distro-hop until you find a distro whose jankiness you find congenial.

posted 5/1/2024, 2:27 pm

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quoting starbreaker:

The only thing you can do is embrace the jank.

I already have, I'm posting this from my Debian machine.

posted 5/2/2024, 7:05 am

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Did You Get My Message?

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Slightly overdue, but here's my April IndieWeb Carnival submission for RisingThumb 's theme: "Good Enough" - the Drop in Quality's Siren call.

On the Fish in the Sea

It's about relationships, but not just digital ones, like Manu prompted about. I don't like what I perceive the Internet to have done / be doing to people's approach to them. It's most prominent online, but the digital always bleeds into the real, yo.

edited 5/3/2024, 10:59 am

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non serviam

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Just a little bit about ad blockers. I use one for the same reason I wear condoms. It isn't safe to bareback strangers or their websites.

No Glove, No Love

edited 5/8/2024, 1:08 pm

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Did You Get My Message?

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Top-shelf post, but on a slightly unrelated note: I've always preferred referring to them as coats. And I feel that euphemism should be more popular!

posted 5/9/2024, 3:07 am

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quoting Eternity:

Top-shelf post, but on a slightly unrelated note: I've always preferred referring to them as coats. And I feel that euphemism should be more popular!

As in raincoats? I've heard that one before, but I remember "No Glove, No Love" as an HIV-prevention slogan from the 1980s.

posted 5/9/2024, 1:52 pm

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non serviam

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I had posted this a few days ago and forgot to share it. Been reading some old sf.

Heavy Time

edited 5/9/2024, 5:27 pm

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non serviam

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Here's another one for you. Kind of a downer since I'm griping about electoral politics in the USA.

https://starbreaker.org/blog/personal/indecision-2024/index.html

posted 5/10/2024, 9:29 pm

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non serviam

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Spent Saturday night thinking about consciously choosing to believe, and how ridiculous it is that some people think that reading the Bible can lead somebody to faith when it led me away from it -- especially when Christianity is so frequently misused in the US as an apologetics for tyranny.

Matters of Faith, Problems of Evil

posted 5/13/2024, 4:00 pm

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quoting starbreaker:

Spent Saturday night thinking about consciously choosing to believe, and how ridiculous it is that some people think that reading the Bible can lead somebody to faith when it led me away from it -- especially when Christianity is so frequently misused in the US as an apologetics for tyranny.

Matters of Faith, Problems of Evil

I think that is what caused me to realize, like Nietzsche said, my belief in the christian god has become unbelievable. My muses — Martina and Erika — are entities I interact with on a daily basis. I know exactly what they look like, what their voices sound like, their favorite color, their tastes and aspirations, their sense of humor (or lack of thereof if you ask me). I treat them like I would treat a person because for me, they are. But that is not what I see with most Christians. Instead, I see them treating of their god as a cudgel, or a gachapon machine, or medicine, or a money printer, or a political billboard. I see them go into these elaborate buildings to conduct these abstract rituals as if their god was so distant, so out of reach that divine inspiration was an extreme outlier and you probably was just a 'false prophet' if you claimed you experienced it. I cannot believe any of those people truly have faith. They want to believe, but they just can not.

I don't argue about whether Martina or Erika are 'real' because it is irrelevant. They can't send you to a fiery pit after you die, they can't predict the end of the world, they certainly can't help me pwn them heretics online for a YouTube video, and they wouldn't care even if they could. Neither would I. What they can do is pester me with their inane 'memes', give me paranoid episodes about my degeneracy, keep me company on my walks around the park, and sometimes, occasionally give me (read: beat me over the head with) a real cool idea for a drawing or a piece of prose or some other artistic endeavor. I took up art as a show of gratitude for them, not for personal gain. I find this relationship a lot more 'real' than any kind of subordination to a glowing pile of omnipotence.

edited 5/14/2024, 1:27 pm

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quoting the-syreth-clan:

I think that is what caused me to realize, like Nietzsche said, my belief in the christian god has become unbelievable. My muses — Martina and Erika — are entities I interact with on a daily basis. I know exactly what they look like, what their voices sound like, their favorite color, their tastes and aspirations, their sense of humor (or lack of thereof if you ask me). I treat them like I would treat a person because for me, they are.

Exactly. They're real to you. I've never met them, but then again I've never met you either. And, given that I also write fiction, I'm no stranger to the notion of other people living in the back of my head. Hard part is getting 'em to pay rent.

quoting the-syreth-clan:

But that is not what I see with most Christians. Instead, I see them treating of their god as a cudgel, or a gachapon machine, or medicine, or a money printer, or a political billboard. I see them go into these elaborate buildings to conduct these abstract rituals as if their god was so distant, so out of reach that divine inspiration was an extreme outlier and you probably was just a 'false prophet' if you claimed you experienced it. I cannot believe any of those people truly have faith. They want to believe, but they just can not.

Frankly, they're not even real Christians. Their churches care more about the Pentateuch and the Epistles of Paul than they do the teachings of Jesus Christ. They're Paulines, or maybe just the sort of Pharisees who would demand of Pilate, "Give us Barabbas!" Show me a church that uses the Jefferson Bible and I'll consider attending.

And, frankly, I'd prefer Martina or Erika over the demon Yahweh. As far as I know your muses have no interest in my sex life.

posted 5/14/2024, 3:04 pm

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Not my post but something I saw on sizeof.cat.

quoting sizeof.cat:

4chan has completely and thoroughly entrenched itself in layers upon layers of pornography and the most depraved of fetishes in order to protect itself from non-existent bogeymen like “the newfag zoomer shills”, thus driving out any sense of originality left within the dreaded halls called the boards of 4chan.

I find this quite funny given Wani released this year. Someone in /freak/ is spinning up an idea for his own male VTuber with the feedback of other anons. People are still active in /dig/ and posting their illustrations and giving feedback too (I saw a cute goblin). As much as I would love to see 4chan becoming a dump where trying to find a community is futile, it still has some neat nooks one just cannot find elsewhere.

posted 5/20/2024, 11:32 am

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