[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

One use for wireguard in a container is that if you're using other containers on the same host you can use container magic to route the traffic of specific containers through the wireguard tunnel, while other containers bypass the tunnel.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

What's up with Star Trek communities and doomerism? Seems like missing the point of the shows

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I agree that democratic socialism is probably the closest IRL system, I just think it's fairly vague about it and any assertions are easily glossed over or disregarded as fiction, or attributed to the advanced tech.

It comes back to the disconnection of tech, the vagueness, the allegory. You don't see queer people, you just see allegories for queer people that are either safer to accept or just aren't acknowledged as allegories. You don't see Federation imperialism being questioned that much, they're pretty much always right. The only meaningful people who question it are the Maquis, and Sisko loses himself in his vengeance and pursuit of them (but is never humbled for it—from the audience's perspective, he's right). And then there's S31, which is fascist to begin with.

And I'm just talking about canon here. Not the books or anything like that.

Technically money was abolished prior to the invention of the replicator, but we never hear any details about that. The most detail we get is a one off line in Voyager about a "New World Economy".

They don't flesh out what the economy actually looks like, or how we got here without replicators. The "without replicators" is an important bit, which might seem like a random thing for me to be focusing on but I've talked to conservative fans who will often cite replicators as something that would be required for the Federation's socialism. Even liberal fans often think that. The message of the show is about post-scarcity, not workers owning the means of production. It's not socialism in the ways that it exists on earth, and so conservatives don't hate it.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

Okay, but that's capitalism. There's the classic cope of "this is simply a requirement because scarcity exists." They think it's necessary and unavoidable.

The conservative read of Star Trek is that feeding all its citizens is a sign of the Federation being so rich that it can feed all its citizens without the need for capitalism as we know it. True post-scarcity.

It doesn't challenge their belief that starving citizens are required in the modern day. If anything, to a conservative techbro like Musk, it reaffirms their beliefs because it's all about how rich the Federation is and how feeding the whole world would require massive advances in technology like replicators. It's even a common plot point how other civilizations want access to Federation replicators and other tech.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

But how will you get a "universal" view of the fediverse? No single authoritative view exists.

You yourself acknowledge that this is complicated, but I honestly don't understand what appeal a hacked together fake centralized system would have for people if they don't care about decentralization in the first place. Any such solution is almost inevitably gonna end up being janky and hacked together just to present a façade of worse Reddit.

Lemmy's strength is its decentralization and federation. It's not a problem to be solved, it's a feature that's attractive in its own right. It doesn't need mass appeal, it's a niche project and probably always will be. I don't think papering over the fundamental design of the software will make it meaningfully more attractive to the non-technically minded.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Not familiar with the game or the publisher at all, but this definitely feels like engagement bait.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I have nothing wrong with lighthearted takes on Trek, but choosing to make the movie about "fascist space emperor joins the CIA" lighthearted seems like a dubious choice. I guess we'll see how they portray it but given how Trek has handled S31 so far, I don't want to get my hopes up.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

We already have a confusing abbreviation: B vs b. One is bits, one is bytes.

It's a pretty drastic difference. One Gb per second is only 125 MB per second. Don't mess up your capitalization!

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

You should ideally be updating manually so you can handle any issues as they arise and you don't wake up to a silently broken system. Manual intervention is occasionally required. Usually it's associated with a breaking change that's announced on the mailing list, but sometimes it'll just happen.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"as opposed to" is an idiom that just means "in contrast". You're creating a contrast between what they're actually doing as opposed to what they're supposed to be doing. "As supposed to" doesn't work as a preposition and doesn't actually create a contrast on its own.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I largely agree with your analysis here. My point was that the way the economy is portrayed is such that we don't get to see much of how it actually works, meaning that a lot of our understanding is speculation based on a handful of lines.

Meanwhile, they're still participating in the aesthetics of commerce within the Federation, and literal commerce beyond its borders. The idea that there's a currency used for trade outside the Federation, but citizens get everything for free within it, is a popular interpretation but it's never actually explicitly stated within the text outside vague mentions of a "Federation credit". It's personally my favorite interpretation, but I think everything's vague and in the background enough that I can see how people can walk away with different interpretations. Just look at that Ex Astris Scientia article; I even disagree with where some of the evidence should fall on whether it's pro- or contra- money.

The wildcard here is that we see Federation worlds that seem to still use money, namely the Bolians who are members of the Federation, but the Bank of Bolias is a major financial institution.

The interesting thing to me is that people often assert that replicators are the reason that money doesn't exist in the Federation, but that's simply not the case; it's established in VOY that money "went the way of the dinosaur" in the late 22nd century, prior to the invention of the replicator over a century later. Neither replicators nor money existed in Kirk's era. It seems that replicators are not essential to eliminating money in the Trek universe, although I'm sure they're a boon to the standards of living.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The term is real, it's even used in scientific literature. The term possibly even predates 4chan, or maybe it's just a success on 4chan's part, successfully laundering a term into scientific discourse? It's hard to find too much solid evidence on the origin of the term. 4chan did seriously signal boost it with the whole "MAP Pride" thing though.

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