Many of my self hosted solutions are just DIY cludges. I was talking to a friend of a friend on Saturday about media streaming and he told me all about his Jellyfin setup and then asked about mine and I was just like “I just store MP4s on an SSHFS drive and play them in VLC on my TV (which runs Linux Mint).” When the survey asked about the various types of software I was like “No… I don’t use anything like that… wait… yes I do! I just don’t use a prebuilt solution!”

Because Lemmy is like social media and Matrix is like Slack and Discord and they both followed the conventions of their predecessors. You’re welcome to go take it up with the devs on Lemmy.ml.

Enshitification commencing in 10… 9…

In fact, my wife and I already have a self hosted LubeLogger.

Since when does lemmy.ml ban political content? Is it on a specific community?

I just donated money to her campaign.

This article starts with an ideological objective (in principle, we object to killing owls, here’s an impassioned appeal to your heartstrings about how horrible that is) and then cites some research to build a case for the existing ideological conclusion (here’s some links to some studies).

And I get, that from a radical animal rights perspective, culls of any kind can be problematic. But as someone who’s done a bunch of volunteer work helping manage invasive species, I have a feeling the authors might not object to me spending my time cutting down Russian olives on the Colorado front range, or weeding out invasive Chinese grasses in San Francisco Bay estuaries (both things I have spent many hours of my life doing). IDK how they would feel about me killing and eating Louisiana bullfrogs in California streams and ponds (but those assholes are only there because humans brought them there, and they’re eating a dozen native frog species to extinction).

In this particular case, the only reason the barred owls were able to spread from the Northeast the way they did is because humans transformed the Great Plains into an environment they could live in (they need high perches for nesting and sleeping, they didn’t have that until European descended humans started planting trees and building buildings).

Spotted owls aren’t the only species of owl that barred owls compete with and kill (they also target ground nesting owls, and will happily eat great horned chicks as well).

You can make a radical animal rights argument that “killing owls is horrible full stop.” I don’t want to stop you from making that argument, but I don’t agree with it on that sole basis and I do want to provide a counterpoint to it. I love hearing the great horned owls hooting outside my house at night and if some screechy asshole barred owl is killing their chicks, I will personally shoot that motherfucker and sleep like a baby.

You can correctly argue that human industrial society (and the kind of decision making based in capitalism and the profit motive) is causing all kinds of really bad problems. I 100% agree with that assessment, but I don’t think “and therefore we shouldn’t kill owls” necessarily follows. I agree that we should encourage ecology to self-heal, but informed management of the damage we’re causing is also a worthy goal.

Yogurt has taught you well.

So this is… what I do for work, just now in my leisure time?

There’s a learning curve, but if you’re familiar with WAF’s it’s not hard.

If you want to DIY something, I have a bash script that builds OpenResty with NAXSI from source. Most of the web apps I write anymore are actually in Lua, for OpenResty, maybe with an API written in something else. But I also help other members of my team deploy their Node and Python apps and stuff, and I always just park those behind OpenResty with NAXSI, just doing a standard nginx reverse proxy.

Back in the day I had like five Reddit accounts. I still log into one of them sometimes (no it’s not my main one, that one turned into obscene invitations for u/spez to bugger himself with a hot poker, I’m not exaggerating).

Posting this here again. If we want to solve problems, we need to understand their cause:

This really tracks for me. I grew up around wealthy liberals and am intimately familiar with how these motherfuckers think. I have been telling my friends for months that we cannot expect the Democratic establishment or our current batch of elected Democratic representatives to address the problem.

• People are like “Don’t they understand that it’s a war?”
• Most of these people think we’re idiots for thinking of it as war.
• Their high spending donors think we’re idiots for thinking of it as a war.
• They think Republicans are angry idiots who have to be negotiated with so we can “get on with business.”
• They see Republican voters MAGAing and rioting on Jan 6th and they think “What a bunch of yahoos!” (my multimillionaire boomer dad’s literal words).
• They see Leftist protests turning out en-masse and they think “What a bunch of yahoos!” (again, my multimillionaire boomer dad’s literal words).

My father has literally said about the second Trump presidency.

• “This will all blow over.”
• “You just watch, the system will slow all of this down.”

See, it’s not just our “elected dems in office,” who don’t seem to get it, it’s the entire leftish / center leaning, privileged ass, rich ass, mostly white, mostly older demographic, all comfy with their owning of multiple homes and their inflated stock portfolios and their rubbing shoulders with billionaires. We complain about the “elected dems in office,” because we see them out there being like this in public, in the news in front of everybody. But this whole demographic is like this and that’s why we keep seeing it.

EDIT:

The only way we’ll change this is to STOP ELECTING DEMS FROM THAT DEMOGRAPHIC. They’re not “spineless cowards,” they just DON’T ACTUALLY REPRESENT YOU. They represent other neolibral rich people (people just like them, in other words). Those people’s highest values are

• Stability.
• Business Economics (the price of gas and eggs doesn’t really effect them that much).
• Maintaining their comfy “compassionate upper class” culture.

They DO genuinely care about

• Philanthropy (usually of a sort of egocentric variety).
• Social safety nets (most of them genuinely value compassion especially when it doesn’t really cost them anything).
• Sound fiscal policy.
• Science (they believe in climate change and worry about their children and grandchildren).
• They LOVE to reassure and prop themselves up by talking about all the good they’re able to do because they’re rich / influential.
• On that note, they tend to embrace a kind of leftist, New Agey take on Prosperity Gospel and see wealth as something that enables them to do good in the world and help people (See? Greed is GOOD!). Some of that has merit, but it is NOT nearly as true as they tell themselves and others it is.

Faced with chaos and instability they will

• Try to negotiate with the people causing it, to get things “back to normal.”
• Compromise with those people to keep things as stable as possible Every. Fucking. Time.
• Run off to meditation retreats and vacation homes and time shares in Hawaii or ritzy parts of Mexico to “find their center.”
• Abandon their higher values to circle the wagons around the first, basic three (Stability, Business, Culture).

Importantly,

• They DO NOT see you as being “like them,” “their people,” or “part of their culture.” They’re actually VERY aware that you are NOT part of their culture.
• They usually honestly think that that’s because they made better choices than you. They ARE able to acknowledge that there are people less fortunate then them, and even that they may have an obligation to these people. But they don’t think they OWE you anything.
• When I say culture, I’m not talking about your Italian heritage, your black southern cuisine or how your abuela only speaks Spanish. I’m talking about private school / charter jets / fundraiser dinners / owning a mint condition classic car / keeping your boat in the garage of the OTHER house you own on the same street as your primary home.
• They do not feel obligated to go out of their way to defend your culture. Although if your culture is artistic, entrepreneurial, agitates for social justice, or is tangential to their own religious beliefs (looking at you Buddhism), they might be willing to fund it.
• They DEFINITELY feel entitled to exploit or profit off your culture, if they see an opportunity to do so, and will pat themselves on the back for “the good they’re doing in the world” and “how they were able to help people” the WHOLE WAY TO THE BANK.
• This doesn’t mean they’re bad people or lack compassion for you.

When we’re asking our congressmonsters to fight, we’re asking them to take up our values in ways that many of them (rightly or wrongly) see as abandoning their own core values. THAT’S why they’re angry.

They’re NOT cowards. They just don’t actually value the same things you do and their core priorities aren’t in the same place yours are. They never have been. And as long as we primarily elect Dems from this demographic, they NEVER will be.

EDIT:

People who want to just STOP VOTING DEM, like this will do anything other than further degrade the world as you shit more ineffectual, inactive anger into it…

NO. Let me be very clear: Evidence shows you are JUST MAKING THE PROBLEM WORSE. Not liking it doesn’t make it not true. We need to find dems, especially state and local, who come from a different background and support those people. You could BE one of those people instead of whining on the internet.

See, these people I’m talking about here --^ will ALWAYS conclude that they lost because they were too far left and lost the moderate vote. Their political consultants will ALWAYS tell them they lost because they ran too far left. The DNC will tell them they lost because they ran too far left. And they will get feedback FROM THEIR PEERS (that is, other neoliberal rich people) that they lost because they ran too far left. Isn’t that a shame? Isn’t that such a bummer? That is who they will listen to, not your thrown away vote, not your abdicated power, not your hipster ass nihilism, but at least you have your fucking principals to keep you warm at night, as Palestinian children die, migrant families are locked in cages and Christian politicians look for ways to charge women who have abortions with murder. That all can’t possibly be partly your fault, can it?

That’s why I say above, we have to STOP ELECTING DEMS from that demographic if we want change. We can’t pressure those people into changing, they won’t. They are who they are, they do what they do. They’re richer than you, they think they know more than you and they’re not going to listen to you. We have to replace them.

But WHEN YOU DON’T VOTE FOR THEM WHEN YOU HAVE NO OTHER OPTIONS, you JUST EMPOWER REPUBLICANS. And Republicans are ACTUALLY stupid, evil AND crazy.

You can’t create change by not voting, and you can do nothing but harm by encouraging others not to vote or to throw their votes away on a third party. We have First Past The Post voting. Do you see it going anywhere? Are YOU doing anything to make it go away? No? Then shut the fuck up about your third parties and not supporting dems. You have no logical leg to stand on. At BEST you have gravely miscalculated the situation and failed to understand the math at work. At BEST!

Get out there and support DIFFERENT dems. And if those dems don’t win… vote AGAINST Republicans. PLEASE.

https://runforsomething.net/ or shut the fuck up. You are wrong in a stupid, destructive way, LITERALLY like climate deniers. There’s no point in arguing with them and I’m done arguing with you.

We still have an FDA?? Cool! Protect it!

does this issue not apply to other programming languages? dependency hell exists outside of python too yk…

This is like I have a swimming pool and a snapping turtle from the local estuary sometimes ends up camped out in it. But YOU have a swimming pool and it’s full of alligators. When I complain that I don’t wanna go in your swimming pool, you’re like “Doesn’t yours ALSO sometimes have dangerous reptiles?” And I’m like…dude…

I’m been a developer for a long time. I know what a normal amount of pain is. This stack causes an ABNORMAL amount of pain, like badly designed exercise equipment a bunch of sycophantic fitness bros keep pumping on social media, even though it regularly causes back injuries.

I think Python devs only think it’s normal because you’re used to it or something.

allso, I’m not using too many modules

Great, but you picked a stack in the middle of a toxic garbage dump. Maybe it’s the clean part of the garbage dump. IDK. I just wish people would stop, because there are so many awesome stacks out there, so I don’t have MORE reasons to have to wade back in here.

And THAT is the origin of the Facebook analogy (the only reason I have to keep using this is because EVERYBODY ELSE IS).

I’m LITERALLY going through Python dependency hell again right this very second, trying to deploy some shit we need for next week and I’m just like I swear to god, this motherfucking broken ass ecosystem

🚀💥

As long as I continue to sometimes waste hours of my life on irresolvable dependency hell, after exactly following the “deploy my project” instructions, trying with multiple environment managers (venv, conda, poetry), watching my system environment somehow get broken even though I’m using some kind of virtual environment (happened to me just last week), I will continue to AGGRESSIVELY have the opinion that

• The only reason we’re all still here is everybody else is.
• The only reason someone would actually voluntarily CHOOSE this tech stack, in 2025, is for comfort zone reasons, they don’t know any better reasons, their boss told them to reasons, or the libraries they need are ONLY here reasons.

Thus the Facebook of programming languages.

And oh yeah, “so use docker.” Dude, if your ecosystem only works reliably in carefully controlled containers, in 2025, the problem is your shitty shitty, stupid, chronically broken ecosystem, not me for being frustrated with it.

This problem IS AND HAS BEEN so bad that every few years someone does a WHOLE NOTHER BIG PROJECT to try to solve it, so now we have multiple buggy ass environment resolvers, non of which work well enough to be considered anything other than an embarrassment to the community, when compared with say the modern Lua or Rust ecosystems.

Like this stack ALL YOU WANT, I not only don’t get it, I’m (I believe justifiably) grumpy and frustrated because when I want to use your shit, now I have to use this crummy stack. Thanks for that Python advocates. I’m so grateful to you for that. Thanks so very very much.

THUS the Facebook of programming languages. Facebook is “fun” and “easy to get started with” too. Lua is JUST AS EASY to get started with, but its’ ecosystem doesn’t do this to me. Explain that, if you can.

I know you’re human beings like me and you deserve compassion, but damn it, I have wasted SO MUCH TIME trying to get your broken, buggy ass shit to work, and I’m VERY frustrated about it. You’re not gonna talk me down.

I don’t care about how easy or fun the syntax is. The syntax is irrelevant to me. I care about how borked up and bloated the ecosystem is, and how so many “here’s how you deploy my project” instructions fail horribly to work due to unexplainable dependency conflicts, and how fragile and unstable and specific and unforgiving the complex web of virtual environments (and their multiple different managers) are just to run some 5,000 line script someone wrote that requires shittylib 2.1.3 and pieceofgarbagemodule 0.5.1, but shittylib 2.1.3 requires abandonedproject 4.1.1 and pieceofgarbagemodule 0.5.1 requires abandonedproject 3.0.99 and “pip failed to resolve dependencies after 15 minutes of installing shit because we didn’t write it to do that, fuck you, hahaha, modify your requirements.txt to use a different version of abandonedproject lol!” That shit is unacceptable in the modern world, given the alternatives available.

I will die on this hill, regardless of hate and downvotes.

Ah Python, the Facebook of programming languages.

We should all remember that this stuff is fringe until it’s not.

This is something I wrote on a recent post. I think it’s something that we should help as many people as possible understand:

This really tracks for me. I grew up around wealthy liberals and am intimately familiar with how these motherfuckers think. I have been telling my friends for months that we cannot expect the Democratic establishment or our current batch of elected Democratic representatives to address the problem.

• People are like “Don’t they understand that it’s a war?”
• Most of these people think we’re idiots for thinking of it as war.
• Their high spending donors think we’re idiots for thinking of it as a war.
• They think Republicans are angry idiots who have to be negotiated with so we can “get on with business.”
• They see Republican voters MAGAing and rioting on Jan 6th and they think “What a bunch of yahoos!” (my multimillionaire boomer dad’s literal words).
• They see Leftist protests turning out en-masse and they think “What a bunch of yahoos!” (again, my multimillionaire boomer dad’s literal words).

My father has literally said about the second Trump presidency.

• “This will all blow over.”
• “You just watch, the system will slow all of this down.”

See, it’s not just our “elected dems in office,” who don’t seem to get it, it’s the entire leftish / center leaning, privileged ass, rich ass, mostly white, mostly older demographic, all comfy with their owning of multiple homes and their inflated stock portfolios and their rubbing shoulders with billionaires. We complain about the “elected dems in office,” because we see them out there being like this in public, in the news in front of everybody. But this whole demographic is like this and that’s why we keep seeing it.

EDIT:

The only way we’ll change this is to STOP ELECTING DEMS FROM THAT DEMOGRAPHIC. They’re not “spineless cowards,” they just DON’T ACTUALLY REPRESENT YOU. They represent other neolibral rich people (people just like them, in other words). Those people’s highest values are

• Stability.
• Business Economics (the price of gas and eggs doesn’t really effect them that much).
• Maintaining their comfy “compassionate upper class” culture.

They DO genuinely care about

• Philanthropy (usually of a sort of egocentric variety).
• Social safety nets (most of them genuinely value compassion especially when it doesn’t really cost them anything).
• Sound fiscal policy.
• Science (they believe in climate change and worry about their children and grandchildren).
• They LOVE to reassure and prop themselves up by talking about all the good they’re able to do because they’re rich / influential.
• On that note, they tend to embrace a kind of leftist, New Agey take on Prosperity Gospel and see wealth as something that enables them to do good in the world and help people (See? Greed is GOOD!). Some of that has merit, but it is NOT nearly as true as they tell themselves and others it is.

Faced with chaos and instability they will

• Try to negotiate with the people causing it, to get things “back to normal.”
• Compromise with those people to keep things as stable as possible Every. Fucking. Time.
• Run off to meditation retreats and vacation homes and time shares in Hawaii or ritzy parts of Mexico to “find their center.”
• Abandon their higher values to circle the wagons around the first, basic three (Stability, Business, Culture).

Importantly,

• They DO NOT see you as being “like them,” “their people,” or “part of their culture.” They’re actually VERY aware that you are NOT part of their culture.
• They usually honestly think that that’s because they made better choices than you. They ARE able to acknowledge that there are people less fortunate then them, and even that they may have an obligation to these people. But they don’t think they OWE you anything.
• When I say culture, I’m not talking about your Italian heritage, your black southern cuisine or how your abuela only speaks Spanish. I’m talking about private school / charter jets / fundraiser dinners / owning a mint condition classic car / keeping your boat in the garage of the OTHER house you own on the same street as your primary home.
• They do not feel obligated to go out of their way to defend your culture. Although if your culture is artistic, entrepreneurial, agitates for social justice, or is tangential to their own religious beliefs (looking at you Buddhism), they might be willing to fund it.
• They DEFINITELY feel entitled to exploit or profit off your culture, if they see an opportunity to do so, and will pat themselves on the back for “the good they’re doing in the world” and “how they were able to help people” the WHOLE WAY TO THE BANK.
• This doesn’t mean they’re bad people or lack compassion for you.

When we’re asking our congressmonsters to fight, we’re asking them to take up our values in ways that many of them (rightly or wrongly) see as abandoning their own core values. THAT’S why they’re angry.

They’re NOT cowards. They just don’t actually value the same things you do and their core priorities aren’t in the same place yours are. They never have been. And as long as we primarily elect Dems from this demographic, they NEVER will be.