I’m starting to really consider the whole “reality is a simulation” angle, and whoever is running the game has put in a cheat code. (not really really, but more than I ever have before)

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I have some reeeeeeal bad news for you: the American voters handed Trump and the Republicans not just 1, not 2, but ALL 3 fucking branches of government, on top of a media in which at least 33% is in his fucking pocket and at least another 33% is too stupid to see through his bullshit.

I’m not sure what kind of push back you’re expecting or who you’re expecting it from exactly, but to whatever extent there IS push back it’s gonna be 90% performative gesturing and hand-wringing until at least 2026. And that’s the best case where people are smart enough to vote in their best interest, which knowing how fucking stupid you all are, I’m not gonna hold my breath.

GLHF.

Now that’s a headline!

Yeah it’s wireguard under the hood iirc, so you probably could put in effort in order to achieve roughly what tailscale does, if you have the knowledge and time involved in doing that. I don’t think there’s any secret sauce that would be impossible to someone to DIY.

I don’t blame people for being skeptical, especially those of us in the Linux, FOSS, and self-hosted world. I was skeptical too, because part of the reason I wanted to self-host was to move away from a dependency on companies, and I’m weary of the mere possibility of tailscale’s eventual capitalist enshittification. But after trying it, I have to admit that it’s been a game changer for me.

For me personally, tailscale is just an easy out-of-the-box solution that works well for what I want it to do (give me encrypted access to my server from anywhere in the world). I’m not so good at networking that I could get anywhere near the level of convenience that tailscale affords me, and I have too many other projects that I want to do before reinventing tailscale for myself. So instead I have a small free tailnet with all of my devices (and a couple other users’ devices), and it has totally changed my relationship with self-hosting and my server.

In my view, It’s a pretty good deal, for now at least.

Do you actually want to expose the things to “the internet”, or do you just want yourself (and an approved set of other users) to be able to access them from outside of your network?

If it’s the former, you’re going to want to learn about DNS, NAT, exposing ports, firewall settings, and network monitoring.

But if it’s the latter, then I recommend checking out tailscale because that gives you and some friends LAN-like access with a great internal DNS and it works really well.

Holy fuck no thank you

I’m a big guy (6’2", 250lbs) and edibles in my state (OR) are legally portioned into 10mg servings as the recommended dose, and that usually gets me pretty high for the rest of the night.

Cutting the gummy into a 5mg half gets me a little high, and a 2.5mg quarter puts me into sober feelgood mode.

Maybe it’s because I’ve only been taking weed for a few years.

The fact that this clown even felt the need to talk about this shows that a noteworthy number of people are leaving the platform.

It’s a slow burn, but legacy social media must die.

Good fucking riddance. (No offense cool innocent Russian people.)

Good. Let it stay that fucking way.

Raise your hand if you want to read the suspect’s manifesto!

One doesn’t have to go far to find a boot-licking class traitor who thinks if they run the rat race well enough they’ll get a piece of cheese.

But to be fair to the McDonalds worker, the cash reward is designed to do just that.

That’s fucking crazy. Anyone notice how AI has only made everything shittier?

Until we have a voting system where 3rd parties are viable (for example. Ranked Choice Voting, Star Voting, Approval Voting, etc.), we absolutely do not benefit in any way for the existence of more parties.

Whether intentional or not, America today is a two-party system by design. If you want more choices beyond the Democrats and Republicans, you need to help us enact voting system reforms which are necessary to allow 3rd parties to exist legitimately. We aren’t joking when we say that voting 3rd party is throwing your vote away; it very much is.

Try out a mesh network VPN like tailscale (others are available, but i haven’t tried them).

Tailscale is basically just a simple but powerful wireguard manager that does all of the work of setting up a mesh network for you, and it works amazingly well in my experience. The free account is good for I think 3 users and 100 devices on a network and has been the perfect thing to expose my home server to my various devices no matter where I am.

I like it so much after having used it for the last few months that I just spent way too much money upgrading my server… but that’s another thing entirely. lol

These guys smell like CEOs, and we all know what happens to CEOs.

Dude, he literally did BOTH of those thing 2 years ago… 🤦

The DEA was supposed to have rescheduled by now, but of course decided to slow-roll it until after the election. Now either Trump will cancel the rescheduling or take credit for it, both of which are fucking stupid ways for this to end.

Not to rub it in, but as someone who lives in a state where it has been legal for about 10 years and who also works from home, my experience couldn’t be more different than yours.

I guess it just comes down to electing better people to represent your state, or moving.

This is a slippery slope argument.

The “problem” re TikTok is that they are a Chinese company with ties to the Chinese government who have managed to get a closed source black box app on millions of Americans phones that servers as about the most perfect avenue for social/political manipulation as any adversary could dream of.

The solution to that problem that was offered to TikTok more than a year ago was to simply sell to an American company (and thus a company that could in theory be held somewhat accountable, but probably not if we’re being honest) for doing bad things here in the USA. ByteDance would have made billions of dollars selling the American version of TikTok, but they knowingly chose the other option, which was to face a ban at the end of this year.

FWIW, American companies cannot operator or sell product in China without going through a Chinese company, and social media platforms like Facebook are banned in China, so in my opinion some degree of reciprocity here is at least warranted.

TikTok could have sold to an American company (read: a company that we can hold legally accountable for bad things that their product does) and made billions of dollars in the process. They chose not to, for some reason, and thus knowingly opted to face a ban in the United States. Those were the options and they knew it.

As I understand it American companies doing business in China almost always have to go through a Chinese company in order to operate legally and make products available to the Chinese market. Platforms like Facebook are already banned in China and must be accessed through a VPN because they don’t play ball with the Chinese regime, so why should it not be reciprocal?

Until TikTok is being managed and operated by a company that can be held legally accountable here in America, they are nothing but a security threat and a backdoor for the Chinese government into every cell phone of every person who is dumb enough to install that shit. Is that what the people want to hear? Probably not, but it’s the truth.

I wouldn’t install TikTok on my phone any sooner than I’d install RedStarOS on my PC, because the implications of using a proprietary, closed source application with ties to the Chinese regime should be fucking obvious to anyone with bare minimum technical knowledge. Likewise, I wouldn’t blame a Chinese person for being skeptical of Microsoft Windows or X.com for their close relationship with the American government. To think otherwise is just not smart.

From China’s perspective, Facebook probably IS a “national security risk”, which is why it is already banned over there.

For American to do business and sell products in China, they almost always have to go through a Chinese company. I’m sure that’s part capitalism and part accountability theater, but it’s just a fact. So why is it such an outrage for America to ask TikTok to do the same?