So we’re getting it from all the drug dealers we’re killing? Great! Is there a polymarket bet for how long it will be before I can buy the gold extracted from the fillings of people dying in the concentration camps? I’m so happy to be living in the time of the Fourth Reich. /s

And if you add wings anyway, you’re going to have a really bad day.

So enlighten me then, save me from my terrible hack that is working fine for me and tell me what it DOES have to do with. I thought S3 was a remote filesystem you can use, essentially Amazon’s proprietary version of webdav where you get a http bucket you can only access with aws proprietary tools. What’s the attraction? Clearly it seems like people love it, and I am getting dunked on for asking an honest question, which feels a bit unhealthy and unpleasant for the self-hosting community.

Am I supposed to be familiar with AWS infrastructure as a prerequisite for being here?

Yes that’s exactly what he said, all the worst of humanity. (partial sarcasm. maybe.)

S3 compatibility is nice I guess if you need S3 compatibility but also… why would you need that?

sshfs does everything I need and compatibility is almost native.

It can’t? Why not? Lots of other cities do. Granted, Athens could probably do it differently, or better, and that’s their call. If they want less tourism, that’s certainly their right to decide. But tourism is also pretty damn lucrative, and for a country like Greece that last I heard was still pretty cash-strapped, cracking down on tourism seems like an odd choice.

No, you will just be able to talk to Mlario, the legally-distinct sicilian plumber who fights tortoises instead. /s

The bull will have to be proud from the afterlife, since killing them is the whole point of the performance. But you’re right, he absolutely should be proud, good aim. And since he’s taken down the supposed “finest bullfighter ever”, we can recognize and remember this bull as the now undisputed champion of bullfighting, and the actual finest bullfighter ever. Let him be an inspiration to all future bulls fighting in this deplorable sport. Even though the bulls never win, I will celebrate their efforts to make as many humans lose as possible.

Damn dude, you don’t have to get so defensive.

Wow, I guess I could say the same to you, huh? I’m not going to bother trying to explain the myriad ways you’ve misread and misunderstood my comment, go ahead and keep believing whatever it is you’re believing right now, it doesn’t bother me a bit.

Who says we need or are entitled to a decentralized replacement for the modern internet? Communication can be accomplished with much less, and necessity is the mother of invention. We managed to communicate quite effectively by having computers intermittently screeching at each other through a phone line for several decades. This discussion is about the modern internet being cut off while they try to identify and root out persecuted populations and dissidents against the regime. Nobody said it was going to be fun and you will still be able to freely watch all the youtube your bored brain can handle while streaming video games on another screen. If that’s your expectation, you might as well go sign up for the brownshirts right now.

He’s also talked publicly about sprinkling people he disagrees with (financial analysts IIRC) with fentanyl and urine from drones.

He’s sick in the head. Absolutely unhinged.

If the US government still has any functioning watchdogs left I’m sure that mistake will be corrected in short order.

It doesn’t sound like you really have any understanding of, or concern for, what happened to the other 77 women, nor what happened to the other 79+ men your girlfriend “swiped left” on in your scenario.

And you’re accusing me of using boomer logic? That’s some classic boomer logic if I’ve ever heard it: “I got mine, fuck the rest of you, it’s obvious why you all failed, you just need to work harder or lower your standards, even though I didn’t, because everything just worked out flawlessly for me and I don’t want to be too introspective about why in case I accidentally develop some empathy about it”

Yeah, dating apps are just fine the way they are. Nothing wrong with them at all.

Yeah yachts are among the least disgusting things rich people do. I mean, they’re still disgusting in some ways, but it definitely can and does get a lot worse than that.

My girlfriend had 80+ matches when I started talking to her. I had 3. And yet here we are.

That math ain’t mathing, bud. You ever wonder what’s going on with the 77 other women you didn’t match with? Or are we supposed to believe they somehow never actually existed? Are hospitals lying about the number of girls born into the world? Are 90% of girls dying as children? Do women have lower standards for relationships? Is there one guy out there engaged in polygamy with all 77 women? Or are they all ugly and don’t deserve love?

Conversely, why did your girlfriend have to go through 80+ guys to get to you?

Dating apps are incel factories. They have no incentive to actually match you with a mate at all, much less a soulmate. The fact that you did anyway is actually a failure-to-profit on their part, and you have successfully defied their business model and found love despite their efforts. Good for you.

Good for you doesn’t imply good for everyone though, nor good for society. They are toxic hellholes, and I stand by my assertion that they are what broke dating (for almost everyone, genuinely glad they didn’t get you, enjoy your life of never having to use a dating app again)

Dating apps are what broke dating. If you are using dating apps, you’re doing it wrong.

From what I understand, social credit score is mostly an invented bogeyman to demonize China in the west, and while many frightening “consequences” of low social credit score were imagined, none ever materialized and it was rarely even actually tracked. Yes, they could, in theory, but we imagine a massive level of administrative competence and effectiveness that I think serves both western interests and Chinese ones without necessarily being reality. As far as I can tell (granted, not very far as I’m not in China and haven’t been for a very long time) it actually had very little real impact in China itself and has already been mostly forgotten. China’s got lots of problems, but social credit score isn’t really part of any of them. They don’t need to have social credit score to genocide Uighurs. They didn’t need social credit score to massacre Tienanmen square. They don’t need social credit score to prepare the South China Sea for war and try to subvert Taiwan. They’ve got bigger fish to fry, and they’re frying them, and social credit score is a silly distraction that nobody there is taking seriously and neither should we.

I don’t have to worry about my OS because it’s open source. Yours should be too. They can’t actually enforce age verification on an open source OS because my OS can lie, and I can use its source code to make it lie if I have to (which I won’t, because many other people will do it for me). For that matter they’ll find ways to make Windows lie too, but you still shouldn’t be using it, it’s shit.

I don’t have to worry about my ISP either because I live in a still-civilized country, but yeah, if they really lock it down at that level that’s going to be tough, you’ll probably have to identify someone for that if that’s the next place where they go to. There are countermeasures and workarounds though. VPN, mesh networking, borrowing somebody else’s wifi or mobile data hotspot, finding open networks. Maybe we’ll get to the point where we need point to point links, pirate satellites, datajacking ourselves into communication lines, who knows.

But we’re not there yet. We’ll continue to develop more countermeasures as these sorts of hostile police surveillance state measures encroach on our freedom as it becomes necessary. You don’t have to let your identity be associated with anything beyond your ISP if you’re only using your ISP to get to somewhere you do trust with a VPN. If they block VPNs, then we will find other ways around the blocks. Are you familiar with I2P? If you aren’t, maybe you should get familiar with it. We already have plenty of ways of sneaking information into and out of even more totalitarian of states like China, Russia, at least until there’s an absolute shutdown like in Iran. You should also consider not living in a totalitarian country, and doing what you can to stop yours from becoming more totalitarian, because it’s only going to get harder the longer you let them do this. Give them your ID in exchange for internet access for now if you absolutely have to and can’t find any other option, but you might not absolutely have to, yet. And if you do have to, do it with caution: start learning and planning what you’re going to have to do after that and how you’re going to get very active in your resistance to being monitored and observed.

You sound like you’ve got a little bit of learned helplessness, but people in shitty, scary countries have been dealing with this for a long, long time. Yes, it sucks, but it’s not the end of freedom. You have to learn how to fight it.

I mean, the fediverse that you’re already on already kind of is the ground floor. Most of these places are not going to be affected by age verification.

But if you want to climb a few floors up to where the blackjack and hookers are probably hanging out, there are things like I2P it’s delightfully sketchy. the best kind of sketchy.

It actively divests itself from any centralized shit like SSL or DNS, it’s a raw HTTP only darknet that operates through its own peer-to-peer proxy network, totally anonymized and encrypted and segregated from any hint of open network traffic.

The death of anonymity for most people, yes. Not me though. I’m going to make my own internet. With blackjack. And hookers. And protonmail too, probably.