Posts by sidawson@mas.to
(DIR) Post #AyqPpyQDeEDdF2LedM by sidawson@mas.to
2025-10-03T18:34:16Z
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@essjax You're an evil, evil man.
(DIR) Post #AzscBKw6rihvqYo7Gq by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-03T20:43:03Z
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@lightweight Not to mention - how sure can they be that life critical information isn't lost, garbled or outright fabricated.It's a sausage machine - whatever goes in one end comes out mashed up and mixed together at the other.
(DIR) Post #B0HQCHHXjqY5k0OAfg by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-15T19:56:34Z
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@futurebird uhhh, if they were that size in my backyard/kitchen, I think I'd be moving planets.
(DIR) Post #B0RiUHCBBJcIfU4SIK by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-20T18:52:24Z
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@SimonCHulse It's never about the money (except putting more of it in their own personal pockets, of course).Also, just in general they're assholes. So there's that.But yeah, free buses are a HUGE win for everyone. Poor people. Rich people. The whole community.So SO dumb that people in power don't just... do it.
(DIR) Post #B0RirnSvMtKTPd7Poe by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-20T19:12:52Z
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@lightweight We have the American problem - hire the biggest, most ignorant idiots available, then be constantly shocked at just how awful they are.
(DIR) Post #B0RjBCDxXZ9zhaMx0a by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-20T19:16:22Z
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@lightweight This might be just a human thing.How many orgs, the biggest asshole with the loudest voice gets final say on key decisions. Not, I dunno, the experts who actually know what they're talking about.it's depressing as hell.
(DIR) Post #B0RjTsz9IIyFXHLzKi by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-20T19:19:45Z
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@lightweight yeaaaah.<sigh>I grew up reading cyberpunk, and various other dystopian futures.I _really_ didn't want to be living in one :(
(DIR) Post #B0RkCKqb45hGgqY4dE by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-20T18:55:18Z
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@SimonCHulse 100%.Also, nationalise a whole bunch of services.I'd MUCH rather pay a lot less/nothing for occasionally crappy services than what we currently do for services we KNOW will be atrociously worse and exponentially more expensive over time.
(DIR) Post #B0RkCM0ujDXmJ8NpLs by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-20T18:56:43Z
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@SimonCHulse Ai ai ai. I hadn't thought of that, but yeah. They really are. UGH.
(DIR) Post #B0RkCNIJxz3uHPXF7g by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-20T19:01:00Z
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@SimonCHulse Maybe.The tracking aspect though.Personally, i'm a fan of cash (for all of the above reasons).
(DIR) Post #B0RkCOdywvz0Ssg3Wa by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-20T19:02:46Z
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@SimonCHulse It's a small risk I'm willing to take.Can't think the last time I lost cash.Can definitely think the last time I was tracked by a large organisation/legal entity whom it was none of their goddamn business that I was doing some entirely legal, harmless ordinary thing.
(DIR) Post #B0RkG3nkNpfoytzYlE by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-20T19:28:28Z
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@lightweight Strong agree.And Apple are, alas, looking at MS record profits from turning into a spyware company, and, now Jobs is out of the way, sidling steadily in that direction themselves.
(DIR) Post #B0RkdGisVXo7iVmUSG by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-20T19:32:40Z
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@lightweight Huh. Interesting observation.I think you might be onto something there (size directly related to speed/closeness to ethical bottom).Hmm.
(DIR) Post #B0Rl1oW4W3uRTXUkng by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-20T19:37:05Z
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@lightweight yeah nice, good read!
(DIR) Post #B0RlOwlE1u5Xhnc6Vc by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-20T19:41:16Z
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@lightweight Time is a big factor, too.For scale, I have a password manager on a local linux box. It busted maybe a month ago. I haven't bothered to even look at why (I can still read, I just can't write).Last time it needed kicking it took 3 full work days to fix (messy complex shit). So, fuck that.Maybe next month. Maybe next year, I'll look again. I _really_ can't be bothered with that level of pain.But, that doesn't bode well for a whole new platform. At least, not yet.
(DIR) Post #B0Rm4gnrkVweNQkkvg by sidawson@mas.to
2025-11-20T19:48:48Z
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@lightweight Yep, that's more or less how it's done here.Something is wrong with it, somewhere inside. Can't be fucked triaging it.I've used linux since maybe 1991? I did spend a month trying to get desktop running (as in, one month where I did _nothing_ else), a couple of decades ago, but it was super jank, so I gave up.I realise it's much better now, but I'm also fully pragmatic that shit breaks. It takes time to fix.I've been in IT 40+ years. I'm not new at this. But also, life, blah.
(DIR) Post #B13UgkVPJ2PRmpTNbc by sidawson@mas.to
2025-12-08T20:05:13Z
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@ygathgoch yeaaah, docker has definitely not been my friend. Like, ever.Unfortunately for me, this device was setup by someone else, so, I don't really even have basic control over it (it runs 3 or 4 things that I can't just wipe+recreate).Quite painful, really.Although pihole, when it's working, is pretty damn good. I'm happy about that. Mostly it doesn't break too often, maybe once a year.bitwarden can go fuck itself though. that's been nothing but pain. Necessary, alas, but ugh.
(DIR) Post #B1ti1TgYhw6FnEZgOW by sidawson@mas.to
2026-01-03T05:05:34Z
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@ben bah. went through the first 5 pages searching for 'posse' - found nothing.Do you have a direct link, or a better search term? You have me curious! :)thank you!
(DIR) Post #B1tiqcPA35KtbXp41Q by sidawson@mas.to
2026-01-03T05:16:31Z
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@lightweight @ben Ahh, thanks Dave. Acronym only visible on clicked page. Thank you. Reading now.
(DIR) Post #B2vrqT4sB8LsUGBRVg by sidawson@mas.to
2026-02-03T03:58:59Z
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@strypey lollllllllllllthe police will be the _last_ people surveilled.