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How would an instance block an IP without storing IPs?

They could be blocking entire IP ranges. So they wouldn’t have to store specific IPs. I’m not in the hosting industry but I would imagine there are groups tracking the CIDR blocks (IP ranges) that VPN providers use for their exit nodes. If such a list exists, a host could simply subscribe to accept whatever updates occur to those lists and implement the block for them.

Especially when they’re using it as a defense to use racial slurs in a Wal-Mart on a Saturday afternoon.

Only IKEA and Pottery Barn photographers I think.

I know, right? Save the cheerleader, save the world! /s

Don’t forget the controversy around Leo Trapeze before he was exiled.

Carl Mark is like the dollar store version. Everyone remembers when Carl Mark and Fred Angles wrote the Kommunist Metafisto.

“Mom can we have Communism?”
“We have Communism at home.”

Communism at home: Carl Mark

I had to read it three times to realize “mow” was “Mao” (Zedong).

Also I think reading it that many times has caused me to have a stroke.

Growing up, our household had a giant roll of butcher paper. It was 2 ft (60cm) wide and about 1000 feet (300m) long roll. I have no idea why we had it, but as kids we were allowed to use as much as we wanted for whatever we wanted. It turned into a childhood of projects, games, costumes, banners, signs, crafts, wrappings, pranks, etc. Close to the beginning as kids, we’d asked for art supplies like markers, paint, pens, pencils, charcoal, etc to transform that boring cheap paper into different universes. We became creative because it was available.

Something about having an unlimited supply of something and infinite permissions was an unexpected freedom.

Nuclear was was always an apocalypse that might happen.

I’m not sure if you know the history of how close we came to nuclear war in October 1962. It was the first time in history the USA ever went to Defcon 2. We had 25 nuclear bombers in the air with the rest of them on 15 minute standby.

Hitler was bad, but he didn’t have anything like the arsenal and intelligence networks available to Trump. We have the consentration camps, and the death camps too, although those are outsourced in other countries.

As bad as trump is, has he murdered 13 million innocent people yet? That’s Hitler’s number of murdered innocent people.

We have been at worse points in history than we are right now.

The world is in a bad place right now, but it was even worse of when we are right at the edge of global nuclear war in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Before that the world was on the verge of falling in the early 1940s to fascist rule of Hitler and the Emperor of Japan with most of Europe occupied and concentration camps exterminating thousands of innocent people a day.

As bad as it is today, we’ve had worse, and we made it through it to better times. It won’t come without effort, but humanity will get through this too.

Reusing names of critical system directories in subdirectories in your home dir.

But in general it’s just understanding what makes people happy: dopamine. And then understanding how that specific person varies from average.

Like, it’s entirely possible they keep doing all things that would make most people happy, and they’re just wired differently so it’s not working.

This is where my answer would go to. I’d extend on what you said about dopamine though in two specific directions:

• Learn what drives you as an individual. Besides chemical inducements, what actions/accomplishments/behaviors give you a sense of satisfaction? For most there is some form of creative or active pursuit like artistic painting, dance, woodworking, moto racing, skydiving, sport, memorizing trivia, study of a field of science, organizing, home design, or any number of the endless activities that exist. Figure out what it is that you like doing, and do more of it.
• Cut back on the chemical inducements of dopamine. If you can get the 10x-100x the dopamine hit you need from just putting a chemical in your body, the tiny bit of natural dopamine you get from a non-chemical activity won’t even register with you. You’ll be desensitized to the natural dopamine you get from the things you like doing. The things you like doing that would normally give you dopamine won’t anymore that you’ll be able to detect. This means you stop doing the things you like. So the only way you can get any measurable amount of dopamine you detect is by the chemicals.

Use the Google flag of “before:2022” added to any search. This will limit returned results to only those captured before 2022, which is when AI slop feedback started. Obviously this doesn’t work for current events, but if the data you’re looking for doesn’t need to be recent it can be useful.

Example:

I covered both in my post. One explicit one implicit.

I’ll say probably yes, but the world will look very different for them than it did for us. There will be far fewer younger people than today on most continents besides Africa.

They’ll have far more power to shape and change society than most previous generations. Boomers will be almost entirely dead when they Alphas reach adulthood. GenX would be next on the death chopping block, but GenX is far smaller. So lots of jobs will be open and Alphas and Millennials will be holding those positions with GenX mostly in retirement homes. Millennials are saddled with debt and a lack of lifetime earnings while Alphas are looking like they’re skipping a good chunk of that debt burden.

Taxation on working Alphas and Millennials will be monstrous dealing yet another setback for then aging Millennials. Climate change will also wipe out lots of opportunities. Alphas I think might be the generation to finally give the finger to the generations prior that kicked the can down the road and simply let parts of society they don’t care about fall away. Part of that will mean not caring for multiple generations of aging parents and grandparents where the declining birth rate means a single Alpha may have 8 to 10 aging relatives still alive and in need of some kind of support exclusively relying on the Alpha. This would mean 16 to 20 aging relatives for a married Alpha couple. There’s just no way they can support that.

In Lemmy, if you put two spaces after the last letters, THEN go the next line it will make the vertical list you want

This text has two spaces after
This text does too
This text does not This text does not

Odd markup, but here we are.

(this may not apply to burning music, I usually burn PSX games)

The original 23 wire modchip installation was not for the faint of heart.

So like… I feel scared about the idea of like… just going for a walk all by myself…

How about making a list of the things you think would possibly happen to you going for a walk by yourself that would justify being rationally scared. Then go through the list and consider even if each event is possibly, how probable is it? I think you’ll find that that things you’re most afraid of are the least likely to happen.

Now as a comparison, make a list of all the things that could happen to you staying at home. Another list of all the things that could happen to you being driven to your destination. Assign realistic probabilities to each event. I’m guessing you’ll find that the probabilities of bad things on each of these three list will all look pretty equal. If they are equal, then going for a walk is no more dangerous that staying home or being driven somewhere.

In a sense, if you’re afraid to go for a walk, you should be equally or more afraid of going for a drive or staying at home. As such, its not more dangerous to go for a walk than the other option.

Nobody runs AWS in their data center,

Well, that’s exactly what the AWS Outpost product does. Oracle has the same type of product for OCI called Cloud@Customer. This is on-prem equipment that runs the cloud vendor’s hypervisor along with integration into CSP.

Oracle Linux was forked from RHEL in the mid 2000s for this use-case.

While you’re right about its origins, and options for bare metal use, in addition to that Oracle has evolved it to be their “free but supported” enterprise grade Linux for VMs running in OCI, just as AWS does with Amazon Linux.

I never had any interest in it because it didn’t make sense to run Oracle Linux for the DB and some other distro on everything else, so we went with a more mainstream enterprise distro we could use for everything.

I completely agree with your approach for on-prem deployments. However, for OCI VMs its a compelling case to use Oracle Linux when there’s no licensing costs compared to RHEL or SLES while still being an Enterprise supported OS.

I’m pretty sure you can run Oracle Linux on bare metal?

Yep, you’re exactly right. I was incorrect on that. I’d never looked at trying to license it on bare metal (or for use in another Cloud provider), but I looked it up and found you’re correct! I had assumed it was following the same licensing model as AWS does with Amazon Linux.