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It seems that microwave manufacturers have figured out this trick a while ago. Y'all ever seen a microwave commercial? Me neither.

This is exactly how modern fascists operate. The majority of people will brush it off with "It's just a joke" or "It was an accident", but the extremists in the crowd know that it wasn't, and they feel right at home. There was a video on youtube called something like "the pewdiepipeline" that explained this perfectly.

Saying that the russians are the ones pushing "gender ideology" on the west is an absolutely senile opinion to hold. For years every russian news channel has been hollering that it's The West(TM) poisoning russian society with "LGBT propaganda". Did that guy really try to pull a "no u" on the entirety of russian state media?

Like seriously, how do you go from "haha these people have silly horny thoughts" to "you're an insufferable human being if you can't get laid"? That sounds like what a middle school bully might say.

Mods are supposed to be janitors (not an insult, just statement of fact), but too often act with the presumed arrogance of “leaders”.

Yes exactly. I have no stake in the 169 thing, but this applies universally. We don't need you to remove comments that "don't contribute to the discussion". We don't need to hear whether you think someone is "participating in bad faith" (the fuck does that even mean!?). We need you to remove spam and rule-breaking content, and ban repeat offenders. That's literally it. We can put up with some bullshit because after all mods are unpaid volunteers who don't owe anything to anyone, but at some point enough is enough.

but I do have encrypted directories for my sensitive data

What do you use for encrypted directories? Ecryptfs?

some people can’t handle that most humans just wanna be friends regardless of gov politics bs

Yes exactly. There are lots of internet weirdos trying to spread culture war nonsense, but if you actually go outside every once in a while, you realize that most people just aren't like that. I work in a restaurant that has a lot of ukrainian and russian visitors (migrants). At one point, a large group of russians came in for a birthday party, and they asked the owner to put on a playlist of russian music. Like, really cheesy russian pop. After some time, a girl from a smaller table of ukrainians calls me over and complains about the music. I relay it to the owner, and he asks them what they would rather listen to instead. They tell him, and he adds their songs on the queue. The rest of the evening was spent playing and dancing to russian and ukrainian and armenian songs (the owner is armenian, and there were some armenian guests too) and the atmosphere was just generally very chill. Not a single fuck was given about politics that evening.

The reason the direct link works but not the post image is because post images use your instance's image proxy. So the post tries to load https://sopuli.xyz/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.catbox.moe%2F5vruxj.jpeg , which, at least for me, gives error 500 with the following json: {"code":"command-failure","msg":"ffprobe Failed with exit status: 1"}. Sounds like the image proxy on sopuli is broken.

Looks like it works! Congrats!

But being too rigid with letting stupid opinions of a project’s founder cause you to reject everything, would have you miss the big-picture benefits of having such a project exist

That's the truth. The reason online "communities" constantly argue and never get anything done is because everyone is focused on not doing the wrong things that they forget about doing the right things. A while ago I saw a post making fun of some chuds who compiled a list of "woke" video games that they wanted to boycott. The people in this thread deciding to leave proton because its ceo said something positive about trump once don't strike me as much different.

The .net-ification of *nix just seems bonkers to me.

It IS bonkers. As a case study, compare the process of setting up a self-hosted runner in gitlab vs github.

Gitlab does everything The Linux Way. You spin up a slim docker container based on Alpine, pass it the API key, and you're done. Nice and simple.

Github, being owned by Microsoft, does everything The Microsoft way. The documentation mentions nothing of containers, you're just meant to run the runner natively, essentially giving Microsoft and anyone else in the repo a reverse shell into your machine. Lovely. Microsoft then somehow managed to make their runner software (reminder: whose entire job consists of pulling a git repo, parsing a yaml file, and running some shell commands) depend on fucking dotnet and a bunch of other bullshit. You're meant to install it using a shitty setup.sh script that does that stupid thing with detecting what distro you're on and calling the native package manager to install dependencies. Which of course doesn't work for shit for anyone who's not on debain or fedora because those are the only distro's they've bothered with. So you're either stuck setting up dotnet on your system, or trying to manually banish this unholy abomination into a docker container, which is gonna end up twice the size of gitlab's pre-made Alpine container thanks to needing glibc to run dotnet (and also full gnu coreutils for some fucking reason)

Bloat is just microsoft's way of doing things. They see unused resources, and they want to use them. Keep microsoft out of linux.

No, sorry. I'm a python dev and I love python, but there's no way I'm using it for scripting. Trying to use python as a shell language just has you passing data across Popen calls with a sea of .decode and .encode. You're doing the same stuff you would be doing in shell, but with a less concise syntax. Literally all of python's benefits (classes, types, lists) are negated because all of the tools you're using when writing scripts are processing raw text anyway. Not to mention the version incompatibility thing. You use an f-string in a spicy way once, and suddenly your "script" is incompatible with half of all python installations out there, which is made worse by the fact that almost every distro has a very narrow selection of python versions available on their package manager. With shell you have the least common denominator of posix sh. With Python, some distros rush ahead to the latest release, while other hang on to ancient versions. Even print("hello world") isn't guaranteed to work, since some LTS ubuntu versions still have python pointing to python2.

The quickest cure for thinking that Python "solves" the problems of shell is to first learn good practices of shell, and then trying to port an existing shell script to python. That'll change your opinion quickly enough.