Power captures power. Money is a form of power, but there are many forms and the powerful tend to try to grab more power no matter the situation.

Perforated galvanized plumbers strapping. While most of my equipment is wall mountable, I used exactly this sort of thing for all the power supplies.

Likely similar to whatever you’re planning to use with the plastic strap, but more metal is more betterer

You think that’s all they produced?

WE GOTTA GET THOSE NUMBERS WAY UP QUICK DO SOME COCAINE AND POST ONE HOUR A DAY MORE EACH WEEK UNTIL YOU NEVER STOP. ABP, ALWAYS BE POSTING

If people decentralize and stop hopping on the biggest few instances, that’ll help a lot.

People can then just hang out on smaller instances and federate to other communities, and the load will be spread out a lot more.

“no” followed by 28 null characters and a small code payload that’ll crash their server (ok won’t work but it’d be funny)

I’m not opposed to intellectual property because there’s an argument for providing a limited time monopoly to the creators of works to provide incentive to make works public. Without any such incentive, it’s entirely possible that the monetization structures for different works change, for example locking content behind restrictive systems that don’t allow for personal use at all.

The key is “limited time”. If you can’t make your money back in 15 years, then maybe it’s time to make a new thing? The idea that someone should own a thing you made after you’re dead is stupid – how exactly will that promote you to create new works? If you’re dead, your creating days are over except for creating plant food out of your bones and organs.

I put my money where my mouth is, and the legal page of the graysonian ethic specifically lists that the book is put into the public domain or license after Creative Commons CC0 license after 15 years from the date of first publishing.

I have yet to unleash my true diabetes level!

Relevant meme

11/10 subverting expectations.

I’ve been on a pretty big history kick lately. :)

On a lark I went to check out if animesuki was still up. I used to use that all the time back in the day.

Nope, dead since 2019.

RIP

Might have to see a doctor after testing that.

Historically speaking we don’t even know that science and technology will progress.

You know the weird trope in a lot of RPGs where an ancient artifact is this strangely advanced thing? If you think about it, that’s happened before. After the fall of the Roman empire, Western Europe was in a dark age. People were living in the ruins of buildings they couldn’t figure out how to build, and often those ancient artifacts were better than anything that could be produced by current technology. Imagine something like some of the Greek clockwork showing up in some dark age village.

That’s not the first time that happened, either. The early classical Greeks were often living in the ruins of Mycenaean Greek castles, and after the bronze age collapse some of the societies in the region didn’t even maintain writing as a technology, so there were artefacts that were impossible for the people of the time to reproduce with current technology.

We also saw the collapse of the Indus valley civilization that had things as advanced as plumbing and sewage systems, where those technologies were lost to the indian subcontinent until much later.

There are ruins in Zimbabwe which are incredible of castles made of stone, completely inconsistent with what we imagine when we hear the word “Africa” as well. It seems that the high level of technology represented by Great Zimbabwe was not comparable to later civilizations until relatively recently.

The Terracotta army created after the death of the first emperor of the Qin dynasty in China was on such a level of magnitude and precision that the following periods of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period simply couldn’t have reproduced it.

The Moche civilization in ancient Peru was known for its elaborate irrigation systems, advanced ceramic arts, and complex social organization, but the civilization collapsed and with the end of that civilization much of their technologies were lost.

Many societies before us didn’t see history as a straight line, but a cycle. If it’s true that civilization existed for in some form for 100,000 years before recorded history began which is suggested by some things like the story of the 7 Pleiades sisters where one sister left to describe a 6 star constellation where 100,000 years ago there may have been 7 stars showing then it could be that such a worldview is mor consistent with reality than our modern one.

While our postmodern view of societies says that civilizations fail because things aren’t progressing enough, the dark age Christians believed that their predecessors collapsed because of a lack of moral virtue. The Bronze Age civilizations blamed “Sea People”. The Mesopotamians told stories about a great flood sent by the gods as punishment for hubris. Two American civilizations claim that our current world is either the 4th or 6th one to exist and the rest were destroyed in cataclysms.

Jesus Christ!

I’d be spitting fire!

Ew… Ew… Ew…

Go to actual jail, pizza hut.

The one thing you can’t say about Kanye West is that he’s not entertaining. Every edgelord I know was having a field day with it.

Contract stipulation was all coding had to be done in a domino mask.

“haha jughead you sure love hamburgers!”

Imaging software is a godsend for that sort of thing. I ended up using BartPE for something like that, and it worked great – it has a free imaging program on it. You only need a removable drive large enough for all your files since it’ll compress everything.