The brexit thing isn't really about xenophobia, although there is always a quotient of that. It's a power struggle between the westminster and brussels governments over who gets to make laws. Who owns the proles on this particular runway strip. The manner in which both of these create laws is opaque and very corrupted by lobbyists.
The reason why people, especially on birdsite, get so riled up is that they do want genuine control over their lives and communities. But neither westminster nor brussels has the intention of delivering that, and nor can they.
The current economy consists mostly of scams anf oppressive stuff. We've had a lost decade of austerity and food banks and other really grim stuff. It's not surprising that people want more autonomy, and to dismiss that as xenophobia is to miss the point.
βCritics of the big tech companies are often told, βIf you donβt like the company, donβt use its products.β I did this experiment to find out if that is possible, and I found out that itβs notβwith the exception of Apple. These companies are unavoidable because they control internet infrastructure, online commerce, and information flows. Many of them specialize in tracking you around the web, whether you use their products or notβ
@jeff m.s. is getting so large that even though they have at least one paid moderator it will be too be too big to have any meaningful oversight. At some point if it keeps growing then it will become a threat model, because an unmoderatable space will be an easy dwelling for bad hombreys.
The got zot campaign was some years ago when Redmatrix started. At the time I didnβt realize how big of a deal it was, but now itβs obvious that zot was ahead of its time in anticipating the sorts of issues which became more obvious later.
Although I use my real name, in general I don't think its a good idea to enforce that. In some areas of the world using your "real" name in a programming forum can result in death and the imprisonment of your family. This is not an exaggeration.
Whether you use your real name or not should be the decision of the individual depending on circumstances. It shouldn't be something which an admin enforces.
@mattcropp@Ana Yes. The apolitical claim made me laugh. Probably a significant fraction of my posts here are political in some manner. Plus the fediverse as we know it came out of the Quitter anticapitalist/communist/anarchist perspective.
The server recently died due to running out of disk space. It turned out that there was some kind of possibly recursive Syncthing error going on.
For now I've removed all the #freedombone downloads to free up space.
Also, probably as a consequence, pleroma was killing the CPU. The CPU usage was normally about 8-10%, but was going above 300% constantly.
After stopping the syncthing daemon and removing the tens of gigabytes of files that it had recursively created restarting pleroma fixed the CPU problem.
So the upshot is that if I'm going to continue using syncthing then there needs to be a hard limit on the amount of drive space it can use.
@finlaydag33k The diaspora developers should also get onboard with ActivityPub, even if they don't especially like it. ActivityPub may be less than ideal, but it's the most adopted thing we have so far. The more systems talk the same protocol the better the chances we have against the network effect of Facebook and Twitter.
Had to uninstall unar, iceweasel, icedove and reinstall a bunch of packages. Such is the nature of Arch, and I expect that's due to nonfree things being found and removed.