The Satanic Temple

These guys are pretty decent. And TST has spread pretty much globally.

My LG TV is blocked from my network and always has been. However, the andriod tv connected to it is a different thing, so it’s more or less lost cause anyways and I haven’t had enough incentive to block the android box from the rest of network since it’d need some tweaking so that casting and other occasionally used features still work. And even if I’d block the android tv box there’s still our cellphones gathering all the data, so I’m pretty much just running things on hopium that EU offers at least some protection on my data.

There’s a better way. Here in Finland it’s pretty common that you can just call/text your boss that you have a common cold and you can be on a sick leave for few days (3 days is pretty common limit) just self-diagnosing it. With longer sickness you’ll need a doctors note, but at least on my company with common cold and other minor stuff it’s taken care of either over text chat or via a call with a doctor.

Obviously if the doctor thinks the whatever you have requires more in depth examination they can schedule a meeting, but for seasonal flu and stuff like that it’s pretty rare you need to see a doctor in person at all. And of course they’ll follow the numbers, so that if you call in sick every monday or whatever the rules are more strict and examinations are done more frequently, but for vast majority a few days laying in bed with a fever isn’t any kind of issue.

Poliisin mukaan antifasistien mielenosoitukseen odotetaan osallistuvan kaksinkertainen määrä ihmisiä verrattuna sinimustien kulkueeseen.

Hyvä. Itse olen sen verran kaukana, että näihin kemuihin ei tule lähdettyä, mutta hyvä että noille leikkinatseille löytyy vastavoimaa.

– On jostain mielenosoituksesta mitä mieltä tahansa, niin heillä on täysioikeus osoittaa mieltään. Siihen ei tarvita edes poliisin lupaa, vaan riittää ilmoitus poliisille.

Ja tämäkin on meidän yhteiskunnassa hyvä asia. Mielenosoitusten kieltäminen yhtään keneltäkään kun on melkoisen kalteva tie kävellä ja etenkin nykyisessä algoritmien ja muun mielipidevaikuttamisen ympäriöimässä maalimassa se luiska saattaa yhtäkkiä kääntyä aivan toiseen suuntaan.

Mutta tuo sinimustien kuulapää-lippukulkue menee kyllä lujasti vastakarvaan oman maailmankuvan kanssa. Ainakin minulle se siniristi symboloi jotain ihan muuta kuin rasimia tai fasismia.

You should rotate the supply on your daily life. Get canned foods, eat them, replenish supply, rinse and repeat. That way the shelf life isn’t really any concern. Also it’s only for 3 days and for emergencies. If you have water and biscuits it’s enough to survive long enough that rescuers and volunteers have time to set up pre-planned places where people can gather with generators, gas/wood stoves and such so you’ll have more permanent shelter to stay in until the bigger problem is resolved.

Sure, it’s not glorius and you might miss a french omelette for breakfast couple of times, but if you have even something it’s way better than having nothing and being in immediate crisis if something happens.

Here in Finland we have a strong recommendation from the government that everyone should have enough supplies to last 72 hours. There’s guides available on what to have, how to do it and what to take into consideration. It’s far easier for everyone if something big happens (storm, flood, war, problems with electricity/water grid…) to the rescue workers if the whole population isn’t in an emergency after few hours. I think that’s becoming more and more important globally as the climate changes and global environment gets more and more unstable.

Once upon a time it was enough to behave a bit silly to lose your seat on the politics. Today, not so much. And not just in the US, seems to be pretty global thing.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Less cinematic, though.

True. I wonder if their stance would be any different if there was someone at week 35 on the line, but I highly doubt that.

Abortion is done (at least around here) before week 12. At that point it’s barely visible over clothing, specially if the mother isn’t the smallest to begin with. So a bit too big hoodie is well enough, no need for fake belly.

Very interesting piece of history. Thank you!

You are obviously correct on that but we could also grab pitchforks about the term ‘sideloading’. Everyone knows what ‘installing’ is and ‘sideloading’ (in this context) is just a bullshit term to make it feel like something mysterious and/or dangerous. Installing software from play store is no different than installing from f-droid.

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Käsittelyynhän tuo nyt on jokatapauksessa menossa, mutta ainahan se painoarvoa lisää mitä enemmän on nimiä listassa.

True, but today it doesn’t really work anymore as traditional search engines aren’t as good as before and also everything is filled with AI slop so they are even worse.

Kyllä on ylenkin kommenttipalsta melko surullista luettavaa. Artikkelin ilmiö on kyllä aivan todellinen, eikä todellakaan rajoitu pelkkään politiikkaan. Somessa kiertää jatkuvasti erilaisia nostoja naisilta joissa käydään läpi kaikenlaista törkyä mitä kommenttikentissä tulee vastaan, tilien varsinaisista aiheista riippumatta. Omaan ymmärrykseen ei vaan oikein mahdu että miksi joku persvako-pena kiertää kommentoimassa omalla nimellään ja naamallaan tissipersettä IG-tileillä ym. missä alansa huiput naiset esittelevät omaa osaamistaan ja/tai arkeaan.

LLMs are actually pretty good on searches like this: Eyes of an Angel. Also seems to be known as “The Tender”.

Another recommendation for storagebox from here. Cheapest option I’ve found and they are pretty reliable. I use proxmox backup server to sync my VMs there (encrypted of course).

There’s plenty more reasons than filesystem corruption to use clean shutdown and even just plain UPS without any status information to the host. I haven’t seen a full drive corruption due to power loss ever. Various levels of corruption, yes, but not ‘all the data is gone’ scenario due to filesystem being broken. But I have seen multiple hard drives which have died on host shutdown without any warning (no smart errors or such), after power loss they just refused to start again.

Just today we had multiple short (~30 second) power outages and without UPS that would’ve put considerable strain on my hardware. Gladly those are pretty rare and those were well short enough that my UPS kept the system running, without one that would’ve meant that my hypervisor would’ve crashed and that would’ve resulted on several unclean reboots for the VMs.

Also, back to filesystems, with selfhosting, some kind of hypervisor is often in the picture, so the drive activity is generally much higher than with single workstation and corruption on a single file or some part of filesystem is way more likely. Total data loss is pretty unlikely, but a corrupted VM image can be a pretty big deal, regardless if it’s filesystem or single file which is the main issue.

there’s no standardized mechanism for forcing applications to save

On Linux (and I guess BSD and other *nix variants) there is. SIGTERM is exactly for that situation. Sure, programs can choose to ignore it, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen at least any FOSS software which wouldn’t respect that. Of course the program might crash and cause loss of data, but the mechanism is there.

You’re of course generally correct about modern filesystems being more resilient to power loss, but they’re not immune to problems and also you’ve omitted a large chunk of other reasons why people like to have UPS on their system, with or without monitoring them.

For me personally the hardware is least interesting part of running a homelab. I’d happily run everything on VPS if there was no constraints on money or bandwidth (among other things). But as the limitations are there running things on my hardware is a necessary evil and for that an UPS or two are practically must to have to prolong life span of hardware and prevent data losses. Of course that’s just one box to check on the stack, but when planning for a home server setup for anything I’d say it’s a pretty vital part for the whole setup.

But in the real world it doesn’t really matter if it’s the whole filesystem or an idividual file which is corrupted. Either way the data is compromised and nitpicking that the filesystem is actually just fine doesn’t make any difference.

Modern filesystems can corrupt as well with unclean shutdown. They are just less likely to do so. My server stores photos of our life over couple of decades with other nearly irreplaceable data so having the UPS and clean shutdown on power loss gives at least some confidence that the files stay where they are.

Of course I also run backups of the data, but it’s another layer on data safety setup.