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@QOTO when did the second O change from "others" to "ourselves"?

@freemo @design_RG @realcaseyrollins Yeah I haven't used the web interface much since Tusky got full-length toots. It doesn't look great here - much like those twitter crossposts littered with "RT" on the federated timeline.

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@Pezhman

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@freemo @design_RG

Could local users still see federate-only toots by going to the federated timeline? If so, it would be really nice to apply such a setting to the arxiv bots. That both keeps the local timeline tidy and makes it pretty easy to find the bots for anyone who wants to subscribe.

@mngrif yep we had a bunch of 3TB drives (they were the flood-affected Seagates not WDs, I was wrong above). So we bought some pcie cards that gave enough sata ports, and got a giant desktop tower case that could hold it all. Not much to it.

If your disks are different sizes it's more complicated. Each vdev limits to the smallest disk size (wasting 3/4 of your 2tb disks). So you probably want 2 vdevs in a pool, disks allocated by size. Downside is you spend 2 parity disks per vdev not per pool.

@mngrif

I used to run a 30tb data store in zfs at the lab. I chose the doubly-redundant setting RAIDZ2, used commodity disks, and scanned for failures a couple times a week. If all the disks were good, I took a snapshot. If one had failed (which did happen as we got bit by the WD flood victim drives) I did the switcheroo & rebuild first.

The system ran debian off a separate SSD and didn't use the zfs system for swap or anything except data storage. Served it on the network as a samba share.

@Tulikaa when you compose the toot, there's an icon of an eye, possibly with a slash though it. Make sure it isn't selected.

@realcaseyrollins

Tor switches circuits every ten minutes, which is going to cause you to reconnect with a new IP address (or if you keep it active on the old connection, you lose the benefits of a constantly changing route).

@freemo

I think the uniaxial distribution in the US has led to a shift in terminology. Imagine the candidates' positions were rotated 45 degrees or so to lie mostly horizontally. Now their relative positions probably line up better with common use of the terms "left" and "right".

A true pure libertarian (ACLU?), is now left- libertarian.
The Libertarian Party, shown pure right, is now right-libertarian (& the overall most libertarian).
The Green Party, shown left-libertarian, is now pure left.

@freemo

That's roughly how I'd go about it - maybe we need a more precise way to say when two principles are equally engaged?

Ignoring the vertical axis, I'd have put:
Canada, basically capitalist with some socialist policies: near right
USA, basically capitalist with fewer socialist policies: further right
China, basically communist with some capitalist aspects: near left
North Korea, pretty much entirely communist: all the way left.

The neutral point might be somewhere around India.

@freemo

How do you locate the centre? I understand from the description how to say one belief is to the left of another, but not how you arrive at an absolute position such that we can say almost all countries are left of centre.

Notably, when the test site uses platform details to complete the test on behalf of political candidates/parties, the results mostly wind up right of centre.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
https://www.politicalcompass.org/canada2019

@snow

It did; I see it here.

@design_RG

I don't think so. The secrets they want to protect are handled by entirely separate networks (e.g. SIPRNET) on which hostile actors aren't even supposed to be present. The US doesn't generally transmit classified data on the public Intenet, even encrypted, as I understand it. American military exposure via an exploit like this would be pretty limited.

But terrorists etc don't have separate networks and have to use encryption. It's their traffic that this patch protects from the NSA.

@design_RG

The cynical side of me wonders if there's something else in the update they are anxious to get on as many machines as possible. Seems to me some benefit to them has to outweigh the cost of all the exploitable traffic they lose out on by going public, right?

@freemo I just tried & was near the centre (Left 0.47, Libertarian 1.26) despite quite a few "strong" answers. I suppose they cancelled out.

Have you tried politiscales? That test rated me strongly essentialist and reformist, weakly capitalist and internationalist, and near-neutral on the other axes.

Even so, I tend to cast my vote for the candidate in whose sound judgement I am most confident rather than the one whose views best align with mine, so this is mostly curiosity interest for me.

@Ajz@mastodon.nl

For my part, early 2018 is when I jumped to Pale Moon. Got too fed up with the extension disaster of FF57, which hit the repo at the end of 2017. So I'm part of that 13% decline.

@freemo

I think this is similar to the discussion a while back about how to allocate quotas. At some point, the most effective solution is to say, "I am an arbitrary god and QOTO is my creation; if I wish to expel you, I am at liberty to do so." Access to the service isn't guaranteed unless we start paying for it.

Trying to publicly impose on yourself restrictions limiting your options to deal with troublemakers just offers an incentive to game the rules and look for loopholes.