Besides "don't use Cloudflare/AWS/etc", how can we make our selfhosted setups resilient to outages like the ones we've seen recently?

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/37234687

Per the title. If an animal dies out in nature without any human involvement, shouldn't it be considered vegan to harvest any of the useful parts from it (not nessicarily meat, think hide), since there was no human-caused suffering involved?

Similarly, is driving a car not vegan because of the roadkill issue?

Especially curious to hear a perspective from any practicing moral vegans.

Also: I am not vegan. That's why I'm asking. I'm not planning on eating roadkill thank you. Just suggesting the existence of animal-based vegan leather.

It's a question I sometimes remember, when doing fitness. I always wanted to wear weights on my arms or legs. But they are always filled with sand and are very bulky and weird. I am wondering, why we're not using more dense materials? Why not metal? The weights at the gym aren't sand.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39081494

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The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika — an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and the deaths of more than 400,000 U.S. troops who died fighting in World War II — as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.

Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as “potentially divisive” under its new guidelines. The new policy, set to take effect Dec. 15, similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag, though display of the latter remains banned, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

The idea is that the purist has unrealistic standards and makes everything worse by refusing to support a lesser evil (or an imperfect socialist). In some contexts, “purity” has positive connotations, but this version of the term highlights its negative qualities: moralism, naivete, obstinacy. The purist is a liability to the successful implementation of socialism in the United States.

Nobody gets branded a “purist” more frequently than people who refuse to compromise their opposition to Zionism on behalf of an aspiring DSA politician. It is a parochial accusation. Palestine, after all, is not any American’s compromise to make. The accusation tells us nothing of value about either Zionism or anti-Zionism and doesn’t even pretend to give a damn about Palestinians. In fact, the only thing the term illuminates is a lack of imagination among those who use it.

What does it mean to be pure in the political arena, which is universally considered dirty? It means nothing, which is the point of the accusation. It is way of expunging anti-Zionism from the moral calculus of electoralism. If politics is a dirty business, then there is no place for principle or sincerity. These qualities merely get in the way of what pragmatists routinely defeated by power like to call “winning.”

The indignant pragmatist always punching left doesn’t want to avoid purity. He thinks that avoiding purity is his strategy, but only because he is even more confused about language than he is about politics. His actual desire is to cleanse the left of impurities that might disrupt the ascent of a new influencer class in the United States. The entire production is rooted in U.S. exceptionalism, particularly in its positioning of Palestine as a faraway problem that needs to be deferred or diminished. The language of purity means nothing without the resurrection of America as its ultimate goal. That goal is anathema to Palestinian liberation.

And so the indignant pragmatist repeats bromides like “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” another formulation that consigns Palestine to a utopian realm extraneous to the material world. Palestine is a luxury, the bromide suggests, not an essential element of our politics. Moreover, the bromide contradicts its own apparent generosity because while the indignant pragmatist positions Palestine in opposition to “the good,” he clearly doesn’t view it as “the perfect,” either. It would be much easier if Palestine just went away.

I guess one thing I like already is that there's no requirements for Karma, stupid rules about Reddit's filters which got my 100k karma account permanently banned for no reason at all.

Would you prefer Lemmy to be smaller like it is now or get to a reddit level popularity but without the reddit jank.

I always want to wear a baseball cap while wearing a helmet so I can have it when I arrive at place so I can offset my helmet hair. But my helmet is really uncomfortable with a bb cap in the way. I don't want to carry a bag with the hat in it and I outworn my beanies. Would it look stupid to place the cap on the handlebars or clip the cap into the strap of the helmet to carry it while riding? Does anybody have a good solution to wearing baseball caps with a helmet?

Hi all, I've been looking for a solution for keeping track of the versions of my docker containers and when they might need updates. I tried cup and cupdate but I didn't feel like I had enough granular control of which docker images were showing up and it was tricky to find github release notes for each release. I found argus which allows more control (indeed, you have to manually configure each service you add) and you essentially scrape github for version numbers and then either scrape your service webpage for a version number or use a service's api for version. This works for a lot of services, and I really like it so far. However, I have no idea how to get version numbers for some services like karakeep or actual. My question is: are there hacky ways that I can expose version numbers from my services, or am I shit out of luck if it's not on the login page or exposed by an API?

Thanks!

I legit have a signed copy of this that I bought over a decade ago.

DOORDASH?!?!?!

No budget for now, and I own the SSDs already I just want to know what's out there and what other people like.

My current setup is cobbled together from random parts and the HDDs are loud in my bedroom. I want all SSD storage (at least 4x) but with enough CPU/Ram to handle a lot of apps/VMs and some above-average demanding tasks (jellyfin, syncthing) than just being a NAS.

The only other criteria is that I would prefer it to be as small as possible (not rack mount).

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/30840627

Genuine question, so please don't be mean to whoever responds. Better to learn than to judge.

Curious if people who are on Cloudflare are considering any selfhosted alternatives? If not, interested to hear what is a deal breaker in regards to using a service besides Cloudflare. I do hear a lot of praise for Cloudflare when facing DDOS, and always happy to learn more!

Genuine question, so please don't be mean to whoever responds. Better to learn than to judge.

Curious if people who are on Cloudflare are considering any selfhosted alternatives? If not, interested to hear what is a deal breaker in regards to using a service besides Cloudflare. I do hear a lot of praise for Cloudflare when facing DDOS, and always happy to learn more!

Another look into how a lot of people (sadly) in the real world think.. not just our lemmy bubble:

These countries are the embodiment of toxic masculinity