Notices by Dash 🇸🇬 (dashrandom@kopiti.am), page 3

@alwynispat I spent about 2000SGD last year advertising. Multiple platforms, multiple strategies. I got 2 clients. They didn't cover that 2000SGD spend.

My service is quite niche so I don't think it's easy to get customers from advertising. My manually typed cold email haven't gotten any responses yet.

Now I don't want to come across as ranting or whining because I know freelance IT consulting isn't the most attractive product. I'm just amazed that everyone else thinks cold emails are the way

Man, ever since I started a small freelancing business on the side and made a website (about 1 year or 2 ago?) I've been inundated with emails. Unfortunately, not from clients but from people wanting to sell me things: tech talent hiring, dev outsourcing, cybersecurity services, etc.

It's really tiring and obviously automated.

a) I wish finding clients was easy
b) I wish finding clients without being spammed by salespeople who obviously don't care about you was possible.

My brother just introduced me to Rob Braxman by sharing a video about how Google's new Find My Device network will be Skynet.

I had to explain to him while it is a privacy concern, BLE beacons are not a mesh network as claimed by this fear mongerer.

After looking at the preview for Ultimate Spider-Man #4, my bets are on Felicia Hardy being Harry Osborn's wife.

Some Pixelfed history that you may not know:

I registered pixelfed.org on Apr 15 2018, 2 days before I announced it

I knew I wanted to build a federated IG, but I spent hours picking a name and making sure the .com was available.

I registered the domains/github org before I wrote a single line of code, this was a side project habit of mine at the time

What I never expected was for Pixelfed to be more than a throwaway weekend project

If it wasn't for the huge response from the fedi...

@hyolo @freemo @volkris @avlcharlie @mapto speak for yourself, I make 500 John Mastodon tokens per post here

@volkris @freemo @avlcharlie @mapto furthermore, pointing to the drug market analogy as evidence of capitalism being default human behaviour is a terrible example because the drug market in that example exists within a context of a capitalist system. Maybe you should be asking "How do illicit drug markets look under communist economy? Do they exist at all and how are transactions conducted?"

I find the assumption/opinion that capitalism is default human behaviour flimsy at best.

@volkris @freemo @avlcharlie @mapto That assumes that capitalism is default human behaviour. That simply isn't true. There is already sufficient evidence that this assumption isn't true. Even in times when capitalism can be chosen, sometimes altruism is chosen instead and things are given away for free.

Secondly, I dislike the capitalism vs communism framing when it comes to human economic decisions because that's a false dichotomy.

@freemo @avlcharlie @mapto @volkris could you link the article please? Would appreciate it.

@freemo @avlcharlie @mapto @volkris I tried a quick Google search to confirm what you've said but I've been unable to find any articles about Jewish Communism in ancient Israel. Wikipedia seems to indicate that Israel and it's surrounding area has always been a monarchy which would imply the non-existence of Communism. Could you provide me some articles or books to read up about this?

@freemo @avlcharlie @mapto @volkris my response was to your statement that Communism has nothing to do with Marx. Marx was the founder of Communism, it kind of implies it when he wrote the Communist Manifesto. Saying communism has nothing to do with Marx is like saying Higgs has nothing to do with the Higgs-Boson. Marxism is a way of thinking, Communism is a way of looking at the world and living life. You can be Marxist, but not Communist. You however, cannot be Communist but not Marxist.

@freemo @avlcharlie @mapto @volkris I beg to differ. Marxism is a philosophy (with his species-being and alienation concepts), Communism is an ideology that the workers are exploited by those who control the means of production, and thus the only way to stop being exploited is to seize the means of production.

@volkris
@avlcharlie @mapto it isn't. It's a property of the economy. I guess what @freemo may be alluding to is that government influences whether or not capitalism exists. It will definitely exist in a democratic system but may also exist in a totalitarian/authoritarian system (e.g. China).

@houfu Fun fact, I just learnt today that my problem is behaviour specific to the docker container orchestration engine. If I was using Kubernetes, I wouldn't get have this issue...

Might need to migrate 😕

@houfu nginx proxy manager is a lot easier for most things.

I wouldn't say Traefik is necessarily bad but it is complicated. Same for docker. The issue is because they hide most of their complexity from the average user with some templated deployments, it becomes hard to untangle once you need to touch those complicated parts to achieve stuff.

That being said I'm not going back to native installs and equally complex networking. What we have now is simpler and more complex at the same time.

@freemo @avlcharlie @mapto @volkris

Remember that Marx never viewed capitalism as evil, but a necessary step in achieving communist utopia.

@freemo @avlcharlie @mapto @volkris focusing on the Communist Manifesto alone, it would be better to take into consideration the entirety of Marx's works (Das Kapital and the very important but seldom mentioned 1844 Manuscripts) to form an understanding of how he envisioned the political system to function with Communism.

1844 was essentially the un-watered down version of the Manifesto meant for academics and not the Proletariat; it isn't filled with charged revolutionary language or ideas.

@freemo @avlcharlie @mapto @volkris and manage these functions. However the Communist Manifesto was written in a time of revolution and unhappiness with the current leadership. Telling the proletariat that after the Bolsheviks were disposed of, a new centralized replacement would take over its function would've been just trading one evil for another (human greed and selfishness and all that) and that would not have compelled the people into revolution.

I would recommend that instead of solely

@freemo @avlcharlie @mapto @volkris very early social Russia under Lenin. All real life examples of Communism have had either authoritarian or totalitarian rule, often dictatorships.

The reason for this is that while Marx did define what Communism should have been, he (perhaps intentionally) never defined how it should have been run. With centralized and planned production, it should have been foreseen that a permanent centralized government should have been established to oversee

@freemo @avlcharlie @mapto @volkris very interesting discussion. Just thought I'd like to point out that comparisons between Communism and capitalism are tricky because while capitalism is viewed primarily as an economic system (and democracy as a political system that everyone assumes underpins it), Communism is a political, philosophical and economic system.

The problem is that there have been no real life examples of "pure" Communism ever existing, except perhaps