The US Department of Labor is proposing a new rule that would have the effect of allowing federal contractors to opt out of anti-discrimination requirements simply by stating that they are a religious organization:
As should be obvious, this is a back-door assualt on a lot of people, particularly the LGBTQ community. If you can spare a moment for largely symbolic opposition, it'd be nice to flood the comments with opposition to this. The comment period closes on 16 September.
@a_breakin_glass@acrata I don't expect much, yet I'm conistently disappointed and dejected about just how evil this administration is, and just how much of the country supports it.
Please make sure to block fedichive.tk, they've connected to every activityrelay running on the fediverse. You can do this either by using admin utilities or blocking the current IP, 71.234.189.151
Here's a copy of their peers as of the current date. If your instance is connected to any of the relays on this list, you know any of the people running these relays, or your instance itself is on this list, please alert your administrator. https://files.smooch.computer/x/2019-08-16_17-55-55.txt
Don't assume your workflow will work better for others, especially not if they already enjoy what they've chosen for themselves. It's okay to suggest things if they're open to it, but don't tell them they're wrong for not doing things your way.
- I have run Arch as a desktop - I have run various forms of Ubuntu as a desktop - I have run OSX as a desktop - I have run Windows as a desktop - I've built and managed servers running FreeBSD and various flavors of Linux - I've built a router using Stage1 Gentoo and it was about as powerful as pfSense is today
I've spent enough time with Windows, OSX and Linux desktop environments to be able to say it's nearly an even split between the 3. Linux/Windows are both things I've run as recently as TODAY.
I pay for a number of services, e-mail and Office365 come to mind.
I self host even more services, NextCloud, Pleroma, Syncthing, Wallabag, TT-RSS ,Matrix, XMPP and more come to mind.
Driving by and telling me my choices for hardware/software layout are "dumb" or "stupid" or anything in that vein is gonna get ya blocked.
Asking why and having decent discourse where we can explore other options is fine. I may even suggest a *different* approach than mine if asked.
I've been at this game a looooooong time. I know what I need and how my mind works.
Blanket telling me I'm doing it wrong is just fucking mean.
I optimize for what *I* need. Save your holier than thou bullshit for judgement day.