Notices by Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social), page 26

@mwlucas I usually say, "allow" and "deny" lists.

I've never felt comfortable with saying black/white list, and think we should all stop using the terms.

Another one that shouldn't be used anymore is master/slave. Primary/secondary, or primary/replica usually fits well there.

@Wolf480pl @switchingsocial In that case, you could consider putting a self hosted application like Matrix or Mattermost on a super-cheap VM at OVH or something.

My workplace does that for our back-up monitoring servers.

@danyork @switchingsocial Indeed. Matrix seems to me to be more of a replacement for IRC, though it could certainly work as a team chat option. Mattermost is more like slack.

@blaubachn @switchingsocial Mattermost is really nice. It's open source, very much like slack, and stable. We've been running it at work for a few months and it's working out really well so far.

Rocket.chat was a bit of a pain to set up, whereas Matttermost was quite easy to get going on a standard Linux machine.

From everything I've tried (Matrix included) Mattermost seems the best team chat option, especially for those who like slack.

"A digital gangster destroying #democracy: the damning verdict on Facebook"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/18/a-digital-gangster-destroying-democracy-the-damning-verdict-on-facebook

@thurloat Sadly, at least two clients have said that to me in the past. Everyone at their company would share the same keys. 🤪

@dosnostalgic wow. Neat.

@jankoekepan @bob You clearly have not learned anything, nor shared any wisdom to learn in this discussion. It has been pointless. Goodbye.

@jankoekepan @bob You say Amazon isn't doing anything "wrong" because they aren't breaking the law, & here you seem to have law and ethics confused.

Law doesn't define right from wrong, but what is permissible. It is possible -- as in this case with Amazon -- to behave unethically & still potentially be acting within the letter of the law.

Amazon's actions are unethical. Tax law in the US doesn't ensure firms & the wealthy pay their fair share. That is what is inexcusable.

@jankoekepan I wouldn't shout about it, though the problem is mostly bad tax law. Amazon exploited that law to the maximum by off-shoring and such, so they are still responsible and have done wrong here.

Social media is a very ineffective platform for debate. So I won't continue the conversation beyond what we have already said here.

@jankoekepan Oh, my. Inexcusable apparently doesn't mean some people won't try making excuses anyway. 😆

"Amazon made an $11.2bn profit in 2018 but paid no federal tax"

This is the second year in a row that #Amazon has paid no taxes. Inexcusable.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/15/amazon-tax-bill-2018-no-taxes-despite-billions-profit

@mprv @ksteimel Have you tried dstat or iostat to monitor disk I/O? sar is also a good thing to see historical data on system utilisation.

iptraf can show you bandwidth utilisation.

Also check top -- is the load average high, is something eating up all the memory?

Those are just a few thoughts. I hope that's helpful! :)

@aral haha. Yes. Sorry I was not more specific. :)

@alana You're welcome! Oh, one thing that makes this project easier is using a well supported, low maintenance distribution like Fedora, OpenSUSE, or maybe Ubuntu (in my experience, upgrades on Ubuntu were often painful in the past though).

If you have to compile lots of software, or hunt around for solutions to issues a lot, you'll have to invest a lot more time and effort on the project, which could be a pain when you just want to watch a movie or listen to some music. 🙂