Notices by rhys the great (rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf)

@GossiTheDog Can confirm rhys.wtf's only downtime through this eventful year was the time I accidentally removed my user from the sudoers file and had to restore from backup.

@vga @gravitas_deficiency Adhering to the much-flaunted spending commitments wasn't ridiculous, but Trump's framing of it was.

Back when he raised it, he was threatening to withdraw the US from the alliance if other nations didn't start adhering to it, and as recently as this year he's said he'll encourage Putin to do "whatever the hell he wants" to states who don't meet the spending commitment, directly undermining the collective defence principle of NATO.

Democracy must defend itself — against military conquest by authoritarian states, against information warfare aiming to disrupt and manipulate its integrity, against theocratic terror, and against a princely billionaire-class pursuing a fascist future.

Also against apathy and disillusionment that enables all of the above.

I've been experimenting with not doing CWs for my politics posts lately, and I've been having more and better conversations as a result.

Of my followers, if you don't like this, please let me know — in a reply or a DM.

I know the reasons people like CWs and I know the reasons some accounts don't do them. I'm all about what *I* should do.

Reach out and tell me if you want me to go back to CWs — by email at rhys@rhys.wtf if you want to remain sorta anonymous.

I kinda sorta miss the vibe a couple of years ago when I felt like this lovely, polite, wonderful #Fediverse was something I was trying to be a part of.

CWs were a part of that, and I was keen to do what the Fediverse wanted then, but I see less of it now.

Please interact and tell me if you want me to CW my politics, Ukraine, Israel, and other posts.

Curious to see the detail of and the fallout from this.

I'm all for minimising Russian cultural influence while they're engaging in military conquest and I absolutely believe our open information spaces need to be more forceful around protecting themselves against malice and misinformation, and that sometimes (regrettably) means banning Russians themselves.

This however sounds like it might be related to sanctions or other similar restrictions on Russian contributions.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Russian-Linux-Maintainers-Drop

Torvalds seemingly confirms this is due to sanctions, but also highlights that he's Finnish and very much not supportive of Russia. Firmly states it's not getting reverted either.

Good on him.

#linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

I'm hating how much of my life is dominated by #Fortinet right now.

It's gotten a bit easier now some media outlets are reporting on it, mainly based on @GossiTheDog's toots, but good grief, what a mess.

On the plus side, it's encouraging my place to finally start taking vendor assessment and how we architecturally position vendor appliances a bit more seriously.

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and the United Nations. That is to say that the whole global order, resolved toward global peace, rightly fought a war against an authoritarian state together as one.

To see that war that never quite ended be extended such that North Korean troops are now being employed to help invade a burgeoning liberal-democratic state is just galling.

The United Nations once had the will to oppose this evil, but it seemingly doesn't today.

#Ukraine

It's insane to me that we now have reports of North Korea intervening in Russia's invasion of #Ukraine and the response is so timid.

That's now two — or three, if you count Iran — autocratic states engaged in military conquest to quell a burgeoning liberal-democracy, with the rest of the world too paralysed by fear to prevent it.

This is a glimpse of how future decades are going to look. It's the great moral and liberal issue of our time. We'll be judged harshly for our failures now.

One of the quirks of the #reddit API is that it only ever retrieves 1,000 results from each of the category combinations you can query — which also limits the total history you can see in your profile on the web. For me, with 15 years of history, the few thousand comments I was able to delete were a drop in the water.

So I did a GDPR request, got a bunch of CSVs referencing every post and comment I've ever made there by ID, and tonight's fun project will be to script deleting them all 🥳

Given that the culprit never had sight of Trump and never fired his weapon, I wonder if these firearms charges will be all they can manage against him? I doubt it'd meet the threshold for attempted murder, and I think conspiracy charges require more than one person be involved.

I feel like I'm forgetting something obvious. Surely he's committed a greater crime here.

#USPolitics #USPol #Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/16/trump-assassination-attempt-suspect

@ThePlant Even beating out Skull & Bones for the worst launch ever. Incredible.

I swear to the old gods and new, he has the worst political instincts of anyone ever.

#UKPolitics #politics #election #GE2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo

Starmer: young people should be allowed to vote.

Sunak: young people should face jingoistic death.

The Labour policy is necessary to prevent the Tory policy ever, ever being enacted.

#UKPolitics #politics #election #GE2024

Every now and then I read something casually and it takes a few minutes for my brain to acknowledge the gravity of its meaning.

Like this sentence: "According to UN-endorsed projections, global demand for fresh water will exceed supply by 40% in 2030."

Global demand for fresh water will exceed supply by 40% in 2030! How is that not headline news driving a massive global effort to prevent the ensuing tragedy!?

#climate #water #environment

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-42982959

@GottaLaff That's interesting. Does that mean that the US can never renege on a treaty obligation?

That very much appeals to me after Tory disdain for our treaty obligations here in the wake of Brexit and the ECHR.