That makes sense. I’m aware of 4chan’s anonymity system, but thought it might have to do with that massive user data leak that brought the site down, and thought he might have made an actual username lol.

Many people read his leaked 4Chan comments saying how great hitler was

Whoody wat now??? I feel like this needs to be more publicized, like posted everywhere right alongside his little saluting stunt.

How can one’s character even be assassinated after one has murdered it themselves live in front of billions?

No no you’re throwing your heart out to it! /s

Not to mention his specific interventions in designs that lead to various fatalities. (Why the cybertruck/wankpanzer is a complete death trap, despite being designed by some likely talented engineers.)

Been talking about this a lot lately. Older millennial here. I loved that brief little slice of time I got to experience, when DSL / cable was around and no longer “pay by the minute” and someone answering a phone wouldn’t kick you off.

Web pages loaded fast enough. They were fine. Downloads? Just be patient. No problem. WoW and friends, Unreal Tournament, Battlefield 2142, all ran just fine.

But mostly…

I miss when the Internet was a place you went all its own, it wasn’t everywhere, it wasn’t inside of literally everything. You had to “visit” it. Logging on meant you could also log off. It didn’t follow your every move.

Handheld game consoles were still airgapped, the main ones had it optional.

People had blogs for fun, they used the web to express themselves and share ideas and stupid subcultures and memes. It didn’t “matter.”

It wasn’t “the commercial internet.” It was just The Web. It was somewhere else.

Everything wasn’t built on inescapable addiction algorithms that follow you everywhere, and have already your shadow identity shared to innumerable servers because someone knows someone who used one of those services and you were in a group picture once.

For the younger kids, there was a time when your entire life from birth wasn’t shared without your consent for the world to see. (How many people really understood privacy?)

Disconnecting now feels more impossible than ever, it takes a huge effort not unlike fasting, and mental overload is the norm.

So much of it is just corporatized, weaponized, and predatory.

I’m gonna venture he means being totally unreachable…

… by your boss on your day off.

Suburbs and freeways, man. :(

I’m laughing and I don’t even understand the random hostility in this image LOL.

I love sad songs that sound happy.

OutKast’s “Hey Ya!” has entered the chat.

Absolutely ungovernable!

How complex is making a roll-your-own NAS?

It really depends on what you want out of it. I personally installed ProxMox on an old gaming machine (DDR3 RAM old lol) and have an Open Media Vault virtual machine running on it with access to my ZFS mirrored pair of storage drives.

Enabling Samba support in Open Media Vault gives you a nice little NAS. I believe it’s okay to install bare metal if you really want to also.

It also has a nice Docker interface, so although I should probably not bundle services together so tightly, it runs things like Jellyfin for media, Paperless NGX for document storage, and NextCloud AIO for a convenient (if slightly resource-hungry) interface.

ProxMox lets me do fun things though, like back up the VMs, spin up virtual machines for PiHole ad blocking and Klipper for controlling my 3D printer.

My most important data gets synced to a subscription to a service called iDrive as my offsite. Pretty affordable for 5TB and my own encryption keys. :)

I want to stress that I’m not an IT professional or anything either. If you’re reasonably comfortable with Linux and understand some basic networking, I’d say at least getting Proxmox and/or Open Media Vault up and running so you can access it on your home network isn’t too hard.

Outside of that, and if you want HTTPS and stuff? There’s lots of guides but I would recommend using TailScale instead of opening any ports to the web.

Sorry if this post was meandering but hope it gave you a little bit to go on! :)

Exactly. The man saw horrors we pray the world would never see again, and still somehow, he came home and finished one of the greatest legends ever told about the indomitable power of fellowship, hope, goodness, and love, against the machinations of ever-hungrier evil and darkness.

He faced the abyss and found light where others would have emerged only with cynical disillusionment and despair.

He fought for a belief that there was still good in people. He wrote the story about those who wanted to turn back and lose hope only they didn’t.

Those are the stories that really stick with us.

I’m with you. People can be… Yeah, I can’t really top:

willfully ignorant assholes sometimes

…But we can be the light even they can’t ignore.

Actually no, not the guy who tries to name everything (and everyone) “X”, but one of his fellow Mordor-mentality’d ilk, an entirely unoriginal and stupidly rich aristocrat spawned from the same pits, Peter Thiel .

Most famously, founder of, I kid you not, “Palantir”, a big-data information analytics and surveillance company…with military contracts and ethics that mainly revolve around “How much line go up tho?”

Would certainly get Saruman’s approval, but I have no freaking idea how he got the Tolkiens’!

Here’s a quick article just listing how profoundly the guy misses the point with his LOTR inspired blatantly plagiarized naming scheme, over and over again, wrecking the good name of a fictional world we hold dear as a contrast to this ridiculously stupid timeline.

(Don’t care much about the article, it just lists the companies and their primary functions in one spot.)

https://qz.com/1346926/the-hidden-logic-of-peter-thiels-lord-of-the-rings-inspired-company-names

And of course, he’s a major player for the Republican machine, because why not? (He’s apparently got a husband too, which is even more LeopardsAteMyFace.)

Dude really, actually, got super into Lord of the Rings, made his whole life about pursuing neverending wealth and power, contributes to the military industrial complex, starts ventures about unnaturally extending life, likely contributes massively to climate change, and decided to make the world look more like the one Frodo saw in Galadriel’s mirror in Lothlórien.

If you asked him, I’m sure he’s the Good Guy™ in his story.

Freaking LOL. It’s all too stupid to make up.

What artifact do we gotta throw into the fires of the NYSE to implode all this nonsense and save Middle Earth?

Its so ridiculous that one of the worlds villains uses LOTR as his naming scheme.

100%. This deliberate villain-for-lulz flaunting of his lack of self-awareness is one of the most irksome annoyances of our era.

Absolutely timeless wisdom.

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam.

SAM: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.

FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?

SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

This can now be considered funny since the attempt was thwarted. Phew! Lol