felbane

I think what OP is wanting is "block this person from seeing/commenting on my posts" in addition to "block me from seeing this person's posts."

This is certainly possible (and exists) on many platforms, but is much more difficult on a federated platform. It becomes actually impossible if your posts are accessible to the unauthenticated public.

N.B. I'll withhold judgment on whether full-stack blocking is beneficial, but there have been cases where this style of blocking is used to amplify echo chambers (e.g. Reddit). There is no perfect system besides simply staying the fuck off social media.

This is fantastic.

I wouldn't recommend running docker/podman in LXC, but that's just because it seems to run better as a full VM in my experience.

No sense running it in the hypervisor, agreed.

LXC is great for everything else.

Thank you, I thought I was going crazy. Reading through this post and comments had me convinced I'd read it all before: the OP, most of the comments, etc... to the point that I thought the whole thread was just bots reposting old data to each other.

I'm happy to see ARM gaining enough traction these days to be a solid alternative to x64. I'm happy to run it for server workloads but I'm skeptical it's ready to replace my AMD PC desktop.

Granted, I haven't been paying super close attention to the state of the art for the past few years, but from what I gather Apple was a major catalyst in the uptake of ARM for the desktop. Ironically, we have Intel's abysmal Skylake QC to thank for that 😅

How is Linux ARM support these days? Any particularly outstanding distro that shines on ARM?

You understand it fine.

Intel thought they could get away with their usual MO of "make a leap forward in technology and slowly meter it out over time" forever. Now that we're running into physics limitations, AMD has fully caught up and even sprinted past Intel for certain workloads.

I used to prefer Intel+nvidia for pc builds, but when the last generation of the Core lineup fell a bit flat I built a Ryzen+Radeon setup that's been kicking ass for years.

I'm content to just let Intel hang themselves with their own rope.

That last one is just depraved.

Welcome to Costco, I love you.

It's not worth the headache IMO. Just run a docker VM and use lxc for the one-off systems that you want to experiment with.

I have a "production" docker VM and a "sandbox" docker VM and prod only ever runs compose files that I've vetted in sandbox. Super stable, basically bulletproof, and still has the flexibility to experiment and break stuff without affecting my core services.

This comment made me physically ill

Chrome = virulent nonsense at this point

When they changed the behavior of the android version to only allow either google password manager or a third party manager (not both, as it was before), they lost my interest completely (and they were already on the cliff's edge because of the adblocker bullshit).

Exported all of my gpass passwords and switched fully to vaultwarden and Firefox mobile.

The internet is steadily regressing.

It is impossible for anything with mass to travel at light speed. Even if it were possible, entities traveling at light speed (1) do not experience time, at least not in the way that a sub-lightspeed entity does, and (2) are effectively unable to communicate with sub-lightspeed entities. In fact, the only thing they can "communicate" with is the thing they're going to collide with due to relativistic beaming.

So given the above: if you imagine that you were traveling at light speed toward a black hole, you'd have to think of it as experiencing your whole existence simultaneously. Your creation, crossing the event horizon, being stretched by tidal forces, and collision/absorption into whatever exists inside the sphere... all happens at once.