ShellMonkey
@ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com
Someone with too much time and server space who decided to host a couple things because reasons.
- Comment on Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities? 1 week ago:
I really don’t see that happening. The internet and the real people that build it tend to be innovative tinkerers and hackers. Things get built because there is a need and someone tries to say they can’t. P2P, darkness, proxies, VPNs, heck the whole concept of the fediverse defies the idea of control by an external entity. So they may try, but the chances are slim it works.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 2 weeks ago:
It happens, the ‘did I miss a cue’ can be brutal if it keeps replaying. Only real answer I know is being content with your own self and if someone also happens to fall into that same space all the better. People get so inundated with images of what’s ‘possible’ which a good chunk of it’s enhanced with selective posting and filters, so we get some unrealistic view of what a normal happy life is supposed to be.
As for the sending pics, shitty people aren’t worth the brain space to stress over, you dodged a bullet there.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 2 weeks ago:
How dare you imply my ego is fragile?! Don’t question me!
- Comment on It slaps tho 4 weeks ago:
Goes well with the Mac&Chz made with water because you don’t have milk
- Comment on youtube thumbnail 4 weeks ago:
I’d say he’s full of shit…
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 4 weeks ago:
Bah, minor inconveniences, fix it next cycle.
- Comment on 4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts. 4 weeks ago:
Ok, so badly phrased, yes companies will do geo fencing principally for security threat containment. If a company has no means to serve customers in a region they may also block access to avoid people making orders that can’t be fulfilled.
Denying service that they functionally can perform because of the whims of politicians and politically minded actors is a foolish behavior though. Every place on earth has some wing of society that would prefer isolationist and ultra conservative practices, to self censor to the lowest common denominator is going to only push away those users who aren’t zealots.
- Comment on 4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts. 4 weeks ago:
GeoIP fencing is an eternal whack-a-mole, I’ve had to track down issues where a site owned by MS was blocked because they bought some public IP space previously owned by countries the client blocks.
In the end you have countries trying to get a piece of the pie from a company that they have no ties to but being unwilling to upset the people living there by taking an effort to block it. If they think the company is behaving incorrectly then it’s on them to deny access to their citizens that they have to answer to.
A company can’t reasonably decide which jurisdictions and IPs it should serve at any given time. If I don’t want a site in my house I don’t petition them to block my IP.
- Comment on 4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts. 4 weeks ago:
By that token, I could start my own private Island nation, make some batty rules, log into a sight, and demand a bajillion dollars because my laws say so.
Internet doesn’t work that way, access is not presence of operations.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 1 month ago:
Long running troll, posts a bunch of hyper-capitalist, winner take all, libertarian bullshit. I’d almost call it a bit.
- Comment on US education 1 month ago:
The planet can, maybe the next species of critters to pick up a pointy stick can make use of it after it resets itself.
- Comment on The boy ain't right 1 month ago:
None of that amature level pain here.
- Comment on Valve are now removing a bunch of sex games from Steam to keep banks and card companies happy 1 month ago:
Meanwhile I got an email from GOG having a sale on the same today…
- Comment on Milking dust 2 months ago:
You got F’d when you 69’d in school? Sounds wild.
- Comment on I tried this coffee but it kept sticking to my teeth 2 months ago:
A cafe selling ‘cum drops’ in Bangkok, they knew what they where doing.
- Comment on What are these markings from? Bugs? 5 months ago:
Basically small chips pulled off rather than cut off. I might have gone with a finer tooth saw, but not master carpenter to speak to that part.
- Comment on Neo(Nazi)Liberals 5 months ago:
You’ve been around here long enough to know that ‘neolib’ gets thrown out for anyone this side of Stalin. Trying to equate the term with these sociopaths isn’t going to work.
- Comment on Neo(Nazi)Liberals 5 months ago:
Oh yeah, very liberal there with the whole demanding people conform to their ways, controlling women’s bodies, declaring DEI and the very concept of large swaths of the LGBT invalid, deporting everyone not white and Christian they can…
Totally owning those shitlibs am so right?
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 5 months ago:
Most common place I see those is when the site doesn’t want to talk to a known VPN endpoint. Like another mentioned site owners don’t want to given any more info to what they perceive as a possible threat than needed, so they just give a generic failure page.
- Comment on OpenAI calls for US government to codify 'fair use' for AI training | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
The way the maga crowd hates Disney lately for being ‘woke’ pissing them off might encourage pushing a rule like this through.
- Comment on What could cause one to randomly twitch? 6 months ago:
Closest thing I can say to that is when I’m in a sort of half sleep state I’ll have a reaction if I happen to dream/think of stepping off something and try and catch myself in real life. Essentially the brain playing tricks on my body.
- Comment on I'll show them 7 months ago:
Haven’t personally looked at the dev tools too much, but even if they come from the same domain, of the path had a unique pattern when it’s ads vs content you could use a decrypting proxy. I don’t know if the PS4 can install a custom certificate or proxy settings, the intercepted cert would possibly cause problems, but it may be possible.
- Comment on 2025, still no flying cars! 8 months ago:
You ever heard the noise a small personal drone makes? Multiply that a few times over flying over your house routinely. That surely wouldn’t get annoying.
- Comment on FediMeteo - The Weather Forecasts comes to the Fediverse 8 months ago:
Why tho?
What’s the use case for a ActPub based weather info service that wouldn’t be adequately addressed by a basic API on an existing service?
- Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity 8 months ago:
A reliable source on TV told me you can’t go wrong with
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 8 months ago:
For me a lot of it is in trying to maximize efficiencies. Setting up task duties and resources where you have plenty enough but not overloading your storage. Defensive position designs to counter any possible situation. Layouts to the base to allow free movement.
Lot of others try for specific artistic ideas or scenario goals, but I’m something of engineer minded player.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 8 months ago:
Rimworld, way too much Rimworld. A big part of it is that I’ll often have it one a second computer during the workday just on pause to pop in during downtime but I guess that still counts as playtime just being loaded.
- Comment on Time is an unstoppable force 8 months ago:
I mean it’s technically not wrong. I’m 46 was born in 98, also in 88, and 78 as well.
- Comment on Roskomnadzor sent an abuse report to Hetzner regarding @Bellingcat account on mstdn.social fedi instance 8 months ago:
Pretty simple simple ‘castle & moat’ setup. Lots of firewall, IPS, dynamic threat, etc around it with separate subnets and all the usual biz. My ISP doesn’t use CGNAT so I’m lucky that way, though they did question WTF I was doing last I made a service call to them based on the bandwidth usage.
- Comment on Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"? 8 months ago:
That’s a big part of the appeal of the fediverse for me. Setting up a personal site used to be fairly easy, but was largely isolated and unidirectional. With the AP protocol, and frankly a lot of self-hostable apps in general these days, you can make something to converse with the whole globe and you don’t even need to make a big effort to help people find it.
Webrings still exist, but finding them is less than trivial when they get drowned out by the noise of corporate sites. I’ve used IRC within the last year, but had to look up the proper use of nicserve commands. The old web mentality is still out there, but for the major part people want simplicity. Few want to go through the learning curve to deal with some of the more esoteric parts of it when they can just auth into a site and do a thing.
