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    20 hours ago

    idk, I feel like in particular the arguments I’ve had advocating for UBI with people arguing against it from a left wing perspective, those arguments often tend to be basically accelerationist (that it would be bad to improve things for people in a way that enables the continued existence of capitalism) or at least gesture at that. And as others have pointed out, the right is even more outwardly accelerationist.



  • I checked just to be sure (and debugged some problems while I was at it like the certificate having been expired), the certificate is from Let’s Encrypt via certbot.

    Here is how to configure Cloudflare for this (I am using the free version):

    In the settings under SSL/TLS Overview, in “Configure encryption mode”, select “Custom SSL/TLS” instead of “Automatic SSL/TLS (default)”, and under that select Full:

    Full Enable encryption end-to-end. Use this mode when your origin server supports SSL certification but does not use a valid, publicly trusted certificate.

    Edit: looking into it more, might have been mistaken about how this works



  • Many, many people will tell you that the key to reducing bean gas is to eat more beans. Eating more beans, they argue, works because it allows our digestive systems, and the microbiome in them, to acclimate to the beans. Over time, they say, the gassiness will go down. This makes no sense to me. If these oligosaccharides are food for bacteria in our gut, common sense would say that feeding that bacteria more food would, if anything, do the opposite by supporting their population growth while giving them plenty of raw material to digest. It wasn’t within the scope of this project to test (and, I suspect, disprove) this theory, but count me as highly doubtful. If anything, I have to imagine that eating more beans more often just makes people more used to being gassy, and that, in turn, makes them notice it less. (Their significant others might have a very different take…)

    All these people are right though and this guy is wrong. I don’t know what the mechanism is but it’s clearly there whatever it is. If someone who doesn’t eat beans much can notice having bad farts after eating beans, someone who does eat lots of beans would be able to notice if their farts suddenly get less bad after taking a break from beans. Or be aware of the other foods that actually do give them gas, and the stark difference between that and the norm. “They’re just pretending not to fart all the time” is not a realistic explanation.




  • The real reason it’s not the best argument is the exaggerated relative scale of those issues and plausible fixes. Water use in particular is orders of magnitude lower than other industry, only a serious issue if building it in a really bad location. The electricity use is enough to raise prices for people nearby which could be a good reason to oppose local government allowing them to be built, but they can get around that by expanding grid capacity themselves to make up for it, and even better if they did it with renewables.

    It’s a good argument for holding datacenter builders accountable for doing it responsibly, but a flawed one for unconditionally opposing AI.


  • It still seems like a very drastic and destructive step, depending on how you are defining social media, which many of these laws seem to do very broadly. If what it amounts to is that minors cannot share their experiences and viewpoints or ask questions in public spaces, there’s a lot of harm in that. Personally I feel that being able to talk to people from other parts of the world through web forums, games and message programs when I was 12-18 made a huge positive difference, and I otherwise would have been way more lost and alone.


  • How can they act as a proxy if they can’t terminate the connection?

    Why wouldn’t they be able to? The DNS record points to Cloudflare’s IP, they forward the traffic to your server’s IP. This is a common choice for self hosting setups because it’s a free service and it is a way to avoid pointing a DNS record at your home IP, which you may not want everyone to know. That doesn’t require decrypting the traffic.

    How this squares with the ddos protection and caching stuff, I’m not sure, but I know I set up SSL locally, did not give Cloudflare the keys, turned off all the options for them to handle it, and everything seems to work.



  • I’ll be more specific: if you set up a website on your own server, and use Cloudflare as a reverse proxy. If you do SSL yourself, on your own server, then the traffic is encrypted between the client and your server, and therefore Cloudflare cannot read it, they do not have the encryption keys, even though the traffic is passing through them. If you use Cloudflare’s https solution, Cloudflare provides the keys and decrypts the traffic before passing it on.

    The former is the more secure way to do it, but they encourage you to do it the way where they get to read all the traffic, which is pretty shady of them, because if a website has https people assume that means it is end to end encrypted to the website itself, but that assumption is being violated here and a user has no way to know.


  • Cutting off sexual predators is all well and good but it doesn’t justify cutting off all perspectives other than those of their parents and immediate community. I think that would overall make abuse worse, which is most commonly coming from family anyway, especially for adolescents that may have something different about them that their parents have regressive attitudes towards. People really don’t give enough credit to how much of a positive difference the internet has made with that sort of thing.