Notices by FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)

@silverwizard It doesn't seem like the ISP is blocking Tor in general; I think it's the firewall on my router blocking incoming connections. I've tried to switch exit nodes but it doesn't seem to help.

@silverwizard https://forum.torproject.org/t/re-tor-relays-comcast-blocks-all-traffic-with-tor-relays/8008

Turning off "advanced security" allowed me access.

With ProtonVPN now untrustworthy, I was trying to use Orbot on my phone, but my ISP seems to block Tor getting through my router to the Web-facing interfaces of my self-hosted services.

Maybe I need to work out the configuration more, but it's quite frustrating.

No one else was using those services anyway, so I don't know if it's even worth the trouble anymore.

@cwebber It's the year of hoping MS Teams doesn't jump in front of my terminal window again.

@Azuaron @mekkaokereke The little I did high school sports, I was used to teens of both genders expressing mutual respect for each other's performance. Mutual respect and support was a big part of the ethos.

@guyjantic @mekkaokereke Years ago I was listening to a Democracy Now interview with a Deep Green environmentalist, who went on about (European) explorers in North America encountering dense populations of wildlife; he kept repeating, "rivers so full of fish that you could walk across them".

I thought, that doesn't sound like a lost paradise. That sounds like an ecosystem out of balance because of the sudden disappearance of a predator species.

Humans are part of ecosystems, not alien to them.

@cwebber @davey_cakes social.coop should re-evaluate its policy.

https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

Facebook's primary function is propaganda, but don't forget its secondary function of surveillance for political repression.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/

@dalias @schmic @nixCraft @trinsec Fair.

I mean, I'm still using Firefox. I'm just really pissed every time I get their newsletters now.

@schmic @nixCraft @trinsec Over 80% of Mozilla's budget comes from Google. It's a Google subsidiary and has been for years.

Has anyone else tried to file an application for a US passport recently?

I tried to fill out the online application, which is supposed to generate the form to mail in. It doesn't. I thought it might have a hard dependency on Acrobat Reader, so I tried it in a Windows VM, but that doesn't work either.

@dalias @skinnylatte If I'm ever asked "How to solve the crisis at the border", I'd say, "Step one: give members of ICE and the Border Patrol 24 hours to resign".

@skinnylatte A lot of liberals have been ratcheting hard to the right since the election. It's pretty horrid to see.

Bernie Sanders Says Defeating Oligarchy Now Most Urgent Issue | Common Dreams https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-oligarchy-2670453795

@hisham_hm @aethernaut I've literally seen people say that "lawful evil" doesn't make sense to them. Once, I saw someone insist that the Nazis couldn't have been legal.

The "just world fallacy" is real.

Eowyn hasn't been eating. On the regular vet clinic's advice, I'm at a veterinary emergency clinic.

Poor cat has been having a hard time of it.

She didn't make it.

I feel like about 95% of IT operations is about figuring out who is authorized to change a setting.

This brought to by my default shell, "/bin/csh", defined in LDAP.