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For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] erev@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

I answered a lot more in depth in the comment I'm linking below. I will say i was very frustrated and emotional when writing this post, and having had time to cool off, think about it, and discuss it with some other people my stance has softened (which you might've seen in my responses, the one linked included). But I don't disagree with what I said, just changed my focus onto what needs to happen first.

https://lemmy.world/comment/13305217

For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] erev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

  1. I understand that. I'm not advocating for an immediate revolution but organizing and building mutual aid networks to protect those that are gonna be hit hardest. I also personally don't care about the economy; i think caring about the economy more than people is how we got here.

  2. I understand. It's really fucked up but that's why we need to organize first. Whether or not a revolution happens, it's never bad to organize.

  3. The majority also elected a fascist; see point 2.

So, the answer to your question is that you won't find much support IRL because most people don't actually think they are supporting fascism.

Half the country doesn't think hes a fascist, but the other half does. Especially around the area that I am, I'm not worried about garnering support.

Time will tell if Trump is an actual fascist or just a blowhard.

Those who lie in bed with fascists are fascists imo.

For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] erev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah that's fair, i know i glow like a rod of uranium

For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] erev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You're right, but resistance is more than just revolution and even if everyone else is ok with living in 1984, I'm not. I know plenty of people who aren't and I have a feeling the majority of the people where I live aren't either (especially based on the voting data). Resistance to tyranny and injustice itself is just, and it can take many forms. Ideally yes there would be a revolution to remove the fascists from power and build something better, but that's mostly lip service. I won't lie, i was very frustrated when I wrote the post but in cooling down I am remembering that the resistance will have to start small and will have to grow. You're welcome to see some of my other comments for what I'm talking about that isn't revolution.

For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] erev@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Whether he supports it or not, Trump is ushering in Project 2025. The Republican party has control over the presidency, the senate, and the house. Additionally the Supreme Court has been compromised. Disagree if you want but Project 2025 is a christo-fascist plan to overtake the entire government. The implementation of Project 2025 is a literal life or death situation for a lot of the country. It will cause many women, people of color, queer people, and gender non-conforming people to die. This will also kill many services and programs that the working class people rely upon. This will only benefit the powerful and uber-wealthy. For everyone else it will be a horribly dystopic future. Anyone who thinks that they will benefit from this is misunderstanding how much will actually change. Otherwise they would have to lack empathy for their fellow humans.

For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] erev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I think organizing needs to start immediately. There's no downside to organizing, even if we're massively overestimating the amount of fascism we'll see

For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] erev@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

No problemo, i welcome the feedback and criticism. Thank you for engaging in a good discussion

For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] erev@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

but are you suggesting the election was rigged or fraudulent?

no.

Because if not you're the one trying to impose an authoritative regime.

also no, I'm advocating for community organizing against a very obviously fascist regime. im advocating for mutual aid and self reliance. y'know, the things people who are typically targeted by fascists need.

So what you're talking about is for a minority to raise arms against the democratically elected government.

again, not what I'm saying.

Even if you were to win the revolution you would need to put a tyrant in power because calling a new election would result in the same outcome.

not necessarily?

That's one of the dangers of democracy, but starting a revolution to remove a democratically elected president in the name of democracy is just as dumb.

nowhere did i say i was fighting in the name of democracy. I do think democracy is generally good, although i do not view the US as a democratic country. but that's not what im advocating for at all in this. I'm advocating for genuine survival under an oppressive regime and solidarity amongst the people against tyranny. if shit gets real bad, do i think it's just to fight against it and resist? absolutely. but as I've said in other comments, the American people aren't close to that yet. we need to organize first.

For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] erev@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

What is the goal you're trying to achieve? A more democratic government?

That'd be great but I think at this point achieving something other than fascism would be nice.

For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] erev@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I do, and logically it makes sense. I'm not historically inept, I largely saw it coming. But the very human part of me wanted to believe it couldn't happen. And that same human part of me is trying to grapple with the fact that it did.

For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] erev@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"Get organized/involved" - What's that mean in more practical terms? Start attending social gatherings put on/hosted by radical leftist organizations? And maybe start ones if they don't exist in your area?

"Start organizing" - Same as that first bullet?

"Get involved in mutual aid" - Yeah, ok. I've read Eisenstein. I know his book Sacred Economics has some tips for how to get involved with existing mutual aid organizations. I definitely need to re-read that bit and read other sources about that. But at least I have an idea where to start with some of that, I guess. I'd still like more specifics on what in particular you mean by this, though.

Get involved with local organizations, preferably radically left (because otherwise your options are more centrist or conservative, which imo is how we ended up here), that will help you set up mutual aid networks for basic resources and protection. Organize your communities so people have a support structure that isn't dependent on our broken and corrupt system so that they feel comfortable protesting and resisting tyranny. Build it up so that within the networks you have access to secure communications, free access to information, basic necessities and resources (i.e. food, water, healthcare, medicine, etc.), and planning for resistance and direct action.

"Get armed" - So, acquire firearms. To use in some particular way? (You mentioned you're not advocating for "acts of violence or an insurrection like January 6th", so not that, apparently.) Or just to have for when "something" happens? If so, what specifically?

"Don't wait until troops are rolling down the street to stage a resistance" - 'K. Not really helpful until I understand more specifically what you're advocating for people to do.

"Get involved with resistance" - So, let's say you're a respected voice in a mutual aid radical anarchist collective with guns and enthusiasm. What do you suggest they do?

"Stand, fight, and maybe even die" - How? Not January 6th, but... how then?

"Don't do nothing"/"Don't lay down and accept our fate" - Not really helpful on its own if we don't know what you're suggesting we do instead of "doing nothing" or "laying down and accepting our fate."

Get armed, trained, and be prepared to fight so that you can protect those mutual aid networks when the fascists come to dismantle them. Be prepared to fight and lay down your life for those in your community who are bigger targets (i.e. women, people of color, queer and gender non-conforming people, immigrants, etc.) just as you would want them to do for you. As much as possible, become a unified force against the tyranny.

I'm not advocating for random acts of violence or Jan 6th like action because yes that would get me banned, but that also will not be an effective form of resistance. Effective resistance will need to be directed, organized, and focused with specific goals. At some point that may look like fighting a revolutionary war or a coup, but the American people need to crawl before they start walking, let alone run. We need to build strong communities, whether virtual or physical, where we can support each other and try to minimize the harm being done.

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[–] erev@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm not saying to start building pipe bombs, but waiting for the fascist to fascism before organizing sounds like a terrible strategy.

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For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by erev@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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I will preface this by saying I understand that I am more radical, revolutionary, and extreme of a leftist than most. Despite that, I still ask that you actually engage with this as I'm asking in good faith.

When is enough enough? We have elected a fascist into the highest office and handed the keys to him and his friends. Is now not the time to actually get organized, involved, and armed? In my opinion, the time for peaceful, democratic means of avoiding fascism was before the election. But we have failed to do so, and as such there will soon be a tyrant in power. Are we going to wait until troops are rolling down the street to stage any form of resistance, because by then it's far too late. Now I want to be clear that I am not advocating for random acts of violence or an insurrection like January 6th. But is this not a point of radicalization? Is this not where we start organizing within our communities and getting involved in mutual aid and resistance? How much more do we need before people are actually ready to stand, fight, and maybe even die to avoid continuing down the path that we are on? Fascism is not on the horizon, it is here. Are we really to do nothing about it as a society except lay down and accept our fate? Because that doesn't jive with me. That makes absolutely no sense to me.

ETA: To the people responding, I will admit that I was heated and frustrated when writing this post. Having had time to cool off, reflect, and get some differing viewpoints my stance has changed to focus more on what needs to happen first and what's practical. You may have seen that in my responses. That being said, I don't disagree with what I said here, and I'm still frustrated we're at this point at all. I've linked a comment though that elaborates upon what I actually want to see done though, which is a lot more reasonable and is still inline with this post.

https://lemmy.world/comment/13305217

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Can we have a discussion about the rhetoric in this community? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by erev@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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I often see people in the comments acting like having a fast or loud car immediately makes your dick smaller or that you have ED. And people talk about owning a car as if they've never gone above 40 MPH and are terrified to do so.

For context I live in a city with actually ok mass transit, don't own a car, and prefer to bike/take the train whenever possible. Trains, trolleys, bikes, and feet are the best forms of transportation imo.

That being said, body shaming or making fun of people with physical or mental issues (that may be no fault of their own) is just shitty. It makes this community look shitty. I hate reading comments about "loud car small dick this" or "fast car ED that". It's unnecessary. You can shit on asshole drivers without having to stoop that low. Secondly, some women enjoy cars as well; be more creative.

Finally, don't act like cars can't be fun. I'm all for phasing out the automobile and revolutionizing transport by returning to the ways of olde, but cars are fun. I understand some of you are grandparents and don't like someone revving their straight pipes mustang down your block on a Saturday morning. That's completely reasonable. But my god does this community act like you can't have fun in a car. I absolutely enjoy loud and fast and powerful cars, because that's an incredible work of engineering and it simply can be fun. Going fast can be fun. Being in a car that purrs like a lion can be fun. Going offroading or drifting or racing or anything in a car can be fun.

We won't convince people to see our side by shitting on the things they enjoy. We convince people to try and see things from our point of view by actually looking through their perspective first, and acknowledging that while cars can be fun they are not sustainable.

ETA: Some people seem to think I think public roads should still be for cars. Never did I say that. I think the appropriate place for cars is the track. I would love to convert all the roads in my city to a mixture of bike and pedestrian lanes with trolleys running down the median. But cars can be fun and a track day can absolutely be a great time.

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What do you prefer to selfhost? (lemmy.world)
 

I've been around selfhosting most of my life and have seen a variety of different setups and reasons for selfhosting. For myself, I don't really self host as mant services for myself as I do infrastructure. I like to build out the things that are usually invisible to people. I host some stuff that's relatively visible, but most of my time is spent building an over engineered backbone for all the services I could theoretically host. For instance, full domain authentication and oversight with kerberized network storage, and both internal and public DNS.

The actual services I host? Mail and vaultwarden, with a few (i.e. < 3) more to come.

I absolutely do not need the level of infrastructure I need, but I honestly prefer that to the majority of possible things I could host. That's the fun stuff to me; the meat and potatoes. But I know some people do focus more on the actual useful services they can host, or on achieving specific things with their self hosting. What types of things do you host and why?

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Recommended containerized CardDAV/CalDAV solution? (lemmy.world)
 

Hello! I am migrating some services from an old cloud instance to my homelab. The cloud instance was running NextCloud and as I don't really need the entirety of NextCloud, I'm moving to individual services. It's now time for me to move the most important thing from this NextCloud instance: my calendars and contacts.

I'm looking for a good containerized service to run this. I've taken a look at both Baikal and Davis, but both seem to have issues running rootless. As I have Kerberos throughout my network and am storing the persistent volumes on an NFS share, I prefer to run all my containers under dedicated service accounts. This also means that I would like the DAV server to have LDAP or IMAP authentication. I am also using podman quadlets rather than docker compose, but I can figure out the translation on my own. Worst case scenario here is I just run Davis and talk to the dev about the issues I have (which will probably be done anyways), but I'd like to get something up and running sooner rather than later. Any solutions would be greatly helpful. If there isn't a good containerized solution, I'm also willing to make an LXC or VM but I'd prefer to stick to containers. Thank you!

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FreeIPA & Proxmox - DNS selectively doesn't work (lemmy.world)
 

So this is an interesting one I can't figure out myself. I have Proxmox on a PowerEdge R730 with 5 NICs (4 + management). The management interface is doing its own thing so don't worry about that. Currently I have all 4 other interfaces bonded and bridged to a single IP. This IP is for my internal network (192.168.1.0/24, VLAN 1). This has been working great. I have no issues with any containers on this network. One of those containers happens to be one of two FreeIPA replicas, the other living in the cloud. I have had no issues using DNS or anything else for FreeIPA from this internal network nor from my cloud network or VPN networks.

Now, I finally have some stuff I want to toss in my DMZ network (192.168.5.0/24, VLAN 5) and so I'll just use my nice R730 to do so, right? Nope! I can get internet, I can even use the DNS server normally, but the second I go near my FreeIPA domains it all falls apart. For instance, I can get the records for example.local just fine, but the second i request ipa.example.local or ds.ipa.example.local, i get EDE 22: No Reachable Authority. This is despite the server that's being requested from being the authority for this zone. I can query the same internal DNS server from either the same internal network or a different network and it works handy dandy, but not from the R730 on another network. I can't even see the NS glue records on my public DNS root server.

I'm honestly not sure why everything except these FreeIPA domains works. Yes, I have the firewall open for it and I have added a trusted_networks ACL to Bind and allowed queries, recursion, and query_cache for this ACL. The fact it only breaks on these FreeIPA subdomains makes me think it's a forwarding issue, but shouldn't it see the NS records and keep going? It can ping all the addresses that might come up from DNS, it's showing the same SOA when I query the root domain, it just refuses to work from my IPA domains. Can someone provide any insight on this please, I'm sick and tired of trying to debug it.

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Would a vacuum extraction affect a QWISO solution? (lemmy.world)
 

Basically title. If I make a quick wash isopropyl alcohol (QWISO) solution, would a vacuum extraction have a meaningful effect on the resulting concentrate? I'm doubt it would have a meaningful impact in terms of flavor and terpene content, but I can see it producing an interesting consistency. The only way I could see it affecting flavor would be if the low pressure caused some volatiles to change, but I kinda doubt that. For the vacuum extraction I would probably just put it in a vacuum chamber.

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Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive? (lemmy.world)
 

Completely random stoned hypothetical. Lets day im old as fuck and I decide I'm ready and done. Could I have the same postmortem autopsy done on me while I'm still alive? Like give me a ton of drugs and let me watch myself get dissected as my final moments. I understand there is a legal and possibly moral concern, but is it really ethically that bad if I also want it? Like I'm not taking myself out at my prime, I'm nearly dead anyways. Lemme see myself cut apart that'd be cool as shit, only if I couldn't feel any pain though.

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Good file servers for Proxmox? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by erev@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello! I have Proxmox VE running on a Dell R730 with an H730. Proxmox manages the disks in a ZFS RAID which is exactly how I want it. Because I intend for this server to have a NAS/file server, I want to set up a container or VM in proxmox that will provide network storage shares to domain-joined systems. Pretty much everything in my lab is joined to FreeIPA, so I'd like to use the IdM features with my file server. I have given TKL FileServer a shot but it really didn't seem up to snuff with what I wanted. I am not looking for a NAS solution that will require me to pass through the RAID controller and disks to Proxmox, as I want Proxmox managing the ZFS pool. I can set up an NFS/Samba server in a container, however in trying to do so I was running into issues (due to it being an unprivileged container) that I can probably figure out but I want to see if anyone has any recommendations first.

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What's a common occurrence in your hobby that you think shouldn't be? (lemmy.world)
 

For me it's driving while under the influence. If you couldn't tell, I like me some ganja. However I have long since held the belief that it is utterly insane to drive while under the influence of most substances, with maybe nicotine and caffeine being the exception. All too often I see other stoners smoking and driving, which I simply can't fathom. I've only operated a vehicle once under the influence and it was just to move a U-Haul around the block to a different parking spot, which was such a scary experience while high that I refuse to even consider getting behind the wheel again while high.

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Well I guess it's my turn now (lemmy.world)
 

See previous post and the comments in this link for context.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/util-linux-selinux

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Genuinely the only time Arch has broken something I can't fix myself (lemmy.world)
 

Context: A few days ago Arch pushed out a legitimately broken update. This was because they shipped out a testing version of util-linux. They very quickly fixed this... except I use SE Linux (say what you will I wanted to dive into it) and now I'm stuck waiting for the maintainer to update the AUR package so I can fix my system. This is not a general arch problem but a me problem because of my less standard, more niche build. Although the wait is genuinely making me reconsider using SE Linux as it's been a hassle to maintain (just to keep things up to date, I gave up on keeping it in enforcing mode).

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What is a good multirole server setup for a racked server? (lemmy.world)
 

I recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge R730 at a killer price, and intend it to be the cornerstone of my home lab. I plan to use it as both a NAS and a container server so I can set up whatever I want with it. I'm a bit unsure of what a good setup here looks like, so I'm hoping for a bit of guidance.

As my R730 has 16 drive bays, I intend for 10 of those to be high capacity HDDs for the NAS with the remaining spots for SSDs for the containers. The R730 will also have a PERC H730 RAID controller. I want a full featured NAS solution (although I am open to more lightweight solutions) so my go to thought is TrueNAS. My plan was to install Proxmox and run TrueNAS on top of it, but I am unsure if this is the best method. Does anyone have any insight on how well this works or if there's a cleaner solution?

Addendum: Anyone have any recommendations for RAID setups? I currently have 4x900 GB 10k SAS Dell Enterprise drives but I intend to bump that up to 10x900 GB over time. I'd like to be able to add these without much hassle, but I'm unsure what to go with. It seems that ZFS can handle it well alone, but I don't want to have gotten the good raid controller for nothing so I'm wondering if using ZFS with the RAID controller in HBA mode will be more worth it than a dedicated RAID setup. And if I'm using a RAID setup, should I go RAID or unRAID? If I go RAID, is RAID 01, 10, or 60 a better option here? Based on my research, it sounds like I'll need a lot more drives for a proper RAID setup and it'll be less flexible, but I would like some second opinions.

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