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A recent t480 purchase may replace my second workstation tower, which I think is about to become my most powerful server in the cluster…

So nothing new hosting-wise, but that tower I can shove the spare 12tb and 4tb drives I have and net myself another 30ish TB’s of usable storage, more once I replace the 12TBs in one of my NAS boxes with 18tb or more.

Speaking of which - where the hell do I track prices these days? diskprices.com seems to be a mess of inaccurate pricing and shucks.top can no longer track even half of what they used to. What a mess.

Thats a slim and trim article there. You’d have to think they’d at least put the email info in from the dump.

Edit: I a whole word

I’m not sure when it was a good idea and I also don’t know a time when it was not being abused, if I’m being honest. At least in IT (and in general, engineering, or so I’ve heard) going back to the 90s…

Well the H1 came decades before (and still exists, its more generic), and the B was supposed to be specific gaps for skilled workers - longer term allowed, you can change jobs on this one (the original requires you to get a new visa, the h1b you just need to file a petition), allowed for a longer stay which was helpful for people trying to become citizens, it was meant to be used far, far, far less than it is today and has limited that are constantly ignored, etc,

The H1B came out in 1990, it only took a few years for companies to work around the limitations that were intended and use skyrocketed.

So probably for around 2-3 years it was a good idea.

Is the logo ai generated? I’ve had coworkers who could rip out a logo like this in no time from scratch. I’m on my phone (without my readers) so maybe I’m missing something. As far as style goes, I’d just note that every time a new style is “the thing”, everyone did things in that style - long before AI.

That said, that looks pretty cool and I’m going to check it out. I don’t really give a crap about branding unless its something problematic (like the person mentioning the qanon distro - I won’t touch framework anymore, won’t touch ruby on rails, Omarchy, etc, but thats less branding and more leadership). Ive seen terrible branding for amazing tools, and amazing branding for terrible tools. As long as they aren’t parroting the proud boys or something, its fair game to me.

Cue, BTW.

Queue is for making a line, cue is the signal for them to say their lines.

I’m thinking of it as an alternative to a software emulated RISC-V more than anything else

I think the rk3588 based boards are a better bang for the buck than pi (aside from my continual disappointment from how the managed things during the pandemic, but thats a whole other thing), and some esp32 boards fill the other gaps, but thats how I think about things, obviously not an answer for everyone.

But even with the really comparatively bad performance of this little guy, its still going to be way better than emulated I think. Of course, I’ll have to buy one to confirm that. A perfect excuse! 😄

Performance seems pretty terrible, but as a cheap RISC-V dev board thats a pretty great price…

Ceph for the proxmox cluster, 2x48 port switch + 16 port 10gbit as the core, 2xNAS (technically one is the backup, and there would be a few moments of downtime as the containers restart - a different container with the same config pointed to the backup NAS instead).

UPS and internet are the SPoF.

Well the only way my media server goes down is if the power is out for more than a few hours or my internet connection is down.

So I’d have to say that.

Even in the comments on this post I can see the argument that basically boils down to “spaces that don’t cater to me should also bear the effort of keeping out of my way” being voiced.

I think that sums it up well, even if the sidebar was presented the very first time someone went into a community, some people wouldn’t read it, some people wouldn’t care about the rules, etc.

So thats where moderation has to step in like happened here. Every community has rules, its not on the community (or the server) to make sure that visitors are aware of them, its on the people joining in on the conversation. I don’t know that there is a better way to present the rules than simply making them available.

The blahaj server is dedicated to the gender diverse, and a safe space server.

196 is a safe space community, since before Lemmy (r/196 is over 10yrs old)

It is quite specifically a community that contains people who have dealt with these sort of divisive comments before, and a server that has dealt with those sorts of divisive comments before, and is explicitly not permitted on either the community or the server itself. Detailed out rather thoroughly in the sidebar, including noting comments that challenge someone’s identity.

So yeah, OP only has themselves to blame, though I’ll say the argument that resulted in a ban has zero merit anyway (for reasons previously mentioned).

Slight correction, I said no other context matters.

You realize they kept expanding on the comment, right? And doubling down on it?

Well intentioned or not isnt really relevant. I’m not calling them a bad person, I pointed out the problem with what they said, and that the wording wasn’t relevant.

When it comes to the ban though, it wouldn’t matter anyway. They were in violation of both site-wide and community rules.

There is no other context that matters here. They could be trans and it still wouldn’t matter. The comment created an arbitrary (and altogether meaningless) distinction on how to define women, specifically separating trans women from women.

A rule violation on both counts.

So what exactly is your point here?

Can we please just judge people by what they say

That is precisely what I’ve done. Just because youre unfamiliar with the rhetoric doesnt mean trans folks aren’t, since they’ve seen these same lines of comments again and again and again… And again, and again, and again.

For you to say I’m applying bad faith here just tells me you aren’t actually reading my comments.

It doesn’t seem to diss trans or sterile people, just mentions that it can be important. Or is OP saying it is important, and that’s the problem?

The comment was made in that it suggests trans women are not women. As well as cis women who can’t have children not being women, though unintentionally.

The comment was a specific callout to separate trans women from women in general. Intention is irrelevant, a distinction was made, though despite being about trans women, it was a distinction with no bearing or value on the definition of a woman.

Its a very common talking point for terfs, as well. It is not a new or original attack on trans women, but it is what it boils down to - an attack on trans women.

One that doesnt make sense after a bit of thought is applied either.

Just tested myself, there are definitely ads that show up after a download has been selected and started.

Was OP being shitty with their comment?

Yes.

Whether it was intentional or not. I mentioned elsewhere that there are cis folks who can’t have children. So that comment was shitty to a wider group than just trans folks. Its also pretty common terf stuff.

It also broke the rules for both the instance and the community.

You could just not be shitty and it wouldn’t be a problem to post on blahaj at all.

Just to mention, your comments (that got you banned) were also deeply flawed logically.

Cis-gendered men and women can be unable to have children. Your statement says that they are not men and are not women by the (incredibly flawed) definition you provided.

I’d also note that the wording of your message was irrelevant, the meaning behind it was straight out of terftown, whether you recognized that then or now, it is what it is.

What you consider yourself and what you’ve considered in the past is honestly irrelevant to me, and I hope you realize that my comments are not made in anger or frustration, but just as an explanation and a hope that you can do better going forward.

A bit about blahaj:

this is a server that is very protective of our minority members and bigotry of any variety will be squashed with great prejudice.

Embracing inclusion and acceptance means listening when people tell you who they are and what their needs are. It means not telling people that you know their experiences better than they do. It means not gatekeeping experiences of identities of others. It means no bigotry such as racism, sexism, anti LGBT commentary, ableism etc. It means doing your best to ensure that you don’t over-talk the voices of folk who don’t share your privileges.

Now as far as this:

I also recognize that I was on a meme sub and people aren’t there to defend their identity with a stranger - there’s a time and a place

I would point out two things.

One, that place will never be blahaj.

Two, many will sit in stark disagreement with what you’ve said - myself included - because no one should ever have to defend their identity from a stranger. Its their identity, not yours, you putting things to a place of their defense means you are already in a position of attacking their identity. You are on the offensive.

Thats never going to fly on blahaj, and I would really recommend you reflect on the meaning behind what you said before even considering messaging ada, or its just going to be a complete waste of time.