For Context: I'm Chinese American, and I do not feel "ashamed" for my heritage, neither do I feel "ashamed" for being a US Citizen.

The CCP is not my fault. I do not feel any shame of saying I'm from China.

Similarly, the trump admin is not my fault, I voted Harris. I do not feel any shame for being American.

So what is the thought process of people feeling shame/guilt?

love/hate that commercial

There they will be FORCED to pick up a PENCIL and DRAW and WRITE POETRY, BY HAND!

"Nooooooo, I just wanted to write prompts to make shitty catgirl pictures!"

"You will draw a pretty flower or be shot."

COMING THIS SUMMER!

A grizzled CIA agent that plays by his own rules is recruited to save a billionaires white daughter from an evil Mexican cartel. He tracks down the cartel finds out the cartel is actually a front for an evil terrorist group that is going to kill a bunch of people to start a new world order because they hate billionaires. The terrorist leader then kills one of his goons just to prove how bad and evil he is. He also yells a lot so you can tell he's a meanie bo beanie.

Our CIA agent hero infiltrates the terrorist hideout and shoots a bunch of terrorists (it's OK to shoot them because they're evil extremists that want to change the world.) And finds the boss with the kidnapped girl and after monologuing about how evil and bloodthirsty he is he ends up being shot in the leg by one of his goons, a Latina woman who is like "I always hated that guy. I want to be a CIA agent now." Allowing the grizzled CIA hero to make the kill shot and save the day. The movie ends with the kidnapped white girl tearfully hugging her billionaire dad while the grizzled hero thinks about freedom and nods approvingly at his new Latina colleague.

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Caracas has denounced United States President Donald Trump’s announcement that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be considered closed “in its entirety”, as tensions between the countries escalate.

In a statement on Saturday afternoon, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said Trump’s statement earlier in the day amounts to a “colonialist threat”.

“Venezuela denounces and condemns the colonialist threat that seeks to affect the sovereignty of its airspace, constituting yet another extravagant, illegal and unjustified aggression against the Venezuelan people,” the ministry said.

Trump had written on his Truth Social platform on Saturday morning: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY”.

Maybe it's well known but I just came across journalctl-desktop-notification and I find it very useful so I thought I'd mention it. It's basically a bash script that monitors systemd's journal and pops up a notification when there are warnings or errors (or anything else you want to make it catch besides the default config).

What makes it so useful for the selfhoster is that it can monitor the journal on hosts your user has ssh access to with key authentication (set up in 2s with 'ssh-copy-id').

So case in point, this just popped up:

My reverse proxy can't renew certs, that's bad. For some reason netdata didn't catch it, and the service didn't trigger a system email that would have been forwarded to my smtp. Uptime kuma would have caught it when I would have had only a few days to fix it, but this caught it immediately, and I have 52 days to figure it out.

So you install that on your daily driver and you get these notifications on your desktop. They only have packages for Arch and Gentoo but the thing is just a batch script and a systemd unit. So to install anywhere you just download the "source", extract it, cd to it, and run 'sudo cp -r usr etc /' which is exactly what the Arch package does (line 22).

Just a nifty little tool I wanted to share in case others haven't heard of it.

Edit: I made .deb and .rpm packages so it's a lot easier to install now :)

"Antifascist combat training is about feeling safe, not tough, writes Tom Tanuki."

This article is from anarchist Tom Tanuki, in response to an article in SAlt's publication denouncing "black bloc" violence. This discussion notes both points of agreement and divergence of opinion.

Venezuela has accused Donald Trump of making a "colonialist threat" after he said the airspace around the country should be considered closed.

The country's foreign ministry called Trump's comments "another extravagant, illegal and unjustified aggression against the Venezuelan people".

The US does not legally have the authority to close another country's airspace, but Trump's online post could lead to travel uncertainty and deter airlines from operating there.

People implicated in the late sex offender’s crimes might face criminal charges or, at the very least, social ostracism

First my specific questions, down below more info:

• how do you use ansible? Is there a good source for roles or playbooks to set up services? I feel like ansible is 30% more headache right now during config.
• how do you deal with motivation loss?
• how do you deal with the overwhelming amount of choices and information and disciplines (networking, storage, VMS, Linux..) that comes with selfhosting?
• how do you find the sweetspot between ease of use, ease of set up, security, redundancy? I feel like I am maybe too pranaoid to loose my data again (dropped a hard drive many years back, I lost all of my projects)
• maybe overall, how do you manage your perfectionism?

Thanks a lot! I hope you have some insights for me.

More info

Soo I have a motivational push to work on my server every few months for a few weeks or months. I always make progress and I feel like I landed on a good solution by now. Its the third time I redid my setup, everytime I got closet to what feels like the perfect setup for me.

I have a vps for headscale, a home server with proxmox for the rest.

Last push I switched from manually configuring and documenting to ansible. I like ansible, but its also a pain and not as fast to set up my server as just installing it and fiddeling around manually until it works.

My problem is: I want to do it right, so my server is robut with enough redundancy to move all my cloud stuff to it. But I am still kind of a noob and still learning and figuring things out.

My fear is, that if i don't document well or not use ansible, I will be hating my life once my server dies and I have to restore my data and also set um my services again in a few years.

So ansible seems like the only valid choice here, together with proxmox to be as flexible and future proof. But I am burnt out again and lost Motivation even though I am close to my first goals and running services.

Thank you for reading :)

I’ve spent a lot of time recently trying to find a self hosted PaaS to replace my usage of Vercel to host a couple of static websites. I use 11ty and Astro as Static Site Generators and I love the functionality of pushing to a git repo to update my site, and being able to create preview versions using pull requests.

If you haven’t used a PaaS before and are wondering what they’re used for, two of the biggest reasons people use them for are basically as Web GUIs to deploy OCI containers from a marketplace, think similar to the UnRAID App Store, and as hosting environments for code that’s built and deployed directly from the contents of a git repository like static sites or other apps. In my case, I use them to deploy static sites that I either build myself using SSGs, or for example the popular Digital Garden plugin for ObsidianMD.

The defacto leader in this space seems to be Coolify. And while it is fairly robust with a nice feature set, I couldn’t get past the dreadful UI. I’ve never encountered software that goes so far out of its way to hide information from you. It technically has a “dashboard”, but that only consists of a top level list of “Projects” with absolutely zero information about them or their current status Unless you drill down through the options all the way to individual services.

Nixopus appears to have a much more functional UI, but the focus of this one for the time being seems centered around spinning up docker containers of existing services. It has the functionality to deploy your own but that isn’t as fleshed out at this time.

ZaneOps is a little light on extra features, but has the most functional and informational UI of the three. I can see the status of all my deployed services at a glance, and its very lightweight.

Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture the families, farmers and fishers who have been forced to leave their homes by extreme weather – and the landscapes they left behind

Nobody could have predicted.

I don't think ii would ever hurt anyone. But in nursing if have seen severe cases. I just want to make sure their are safeguards for me in place. It scares the shit out of me.

Last year, Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States:

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/juan-orlando-hernandez-former-president-honduras-sentenced-45-years-prison-conspiring