Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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Cake day: 2023年6月15日
  • Zagorath@aussie.zonetoWorld News@lemmy.world•China says Australia must accept Taiwan reunification or face ‘no forgiveness’English
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    2 天前

    None of what you said is new to me, or likely to anyone in this thread. And apart from the last two paragraphs, none of it is even controversial.

    The penultimate paragraph is a bit misleading. It’s not that Taiwan is not “a legitimate national government”. It’s that its claims to be the national government of all of China were obviously bullshit for a government that had not had actual control over mainland China for over two decades at the point that UN recognition changed.

    The last paragraph is true in the sense of what is official recognised, but obviously incorrect in reality. Taiwan is an independent country as a matter of fact and has been since the end of the civil war. I’m not interested in what they claim, or the PRC claims, or America claims, or even what Australia claims. It is an entirely separate country that maintains entirely separate foreign policy, separate defence force, and entirely operates its own internal affairs. In no real sense is it part of the same country. And that’s what actually matters. Anyone who claims Taiwan is not an independent country is doing so for political reasons, and their discussions on the subject should be treated with significant scepticism. At best, they’re playing a game of realpolitik. At worst they’re talking bullshit.

    I know which is going on here.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zonetoWorld News@lemmy.world•China says Australia must accept Taiwan reunification or face ‘no forgiveness’English
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    2 天前

    Nice deflection. We’re not talking about what happened 400 years ago. We’re talking about what’s going on right now.

    Yes, the pre-communist, pre-republic Chinese imperialism against the native Taiwanese population was bad. It doesn’t justify modern-day imperialism from the PRC, any more than poor treatment of the various central Vietnamese native populations would justify Chinese imperialism against Vietnam. Or indeed any more than Australia’s treatment of its Indigenous population would justify China deciding to invade Australia.

    Your blatant whataboutism is not a defence of China here.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zonetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•What's up, curd nerds?English
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    2 天前

    Yup. Grana Padano.

    edit: honestly, fuck PDOs. Or as Australia calls them, GIs (geographical indications) and CTMs (certification trade marks). They’re such utter bullshit. I don’t know whether they actually had legal legs to stand on with him calling it “Grana Padano–style”, or if the “style” puts him legally in the clear. It’s bullshit either way, but it’s extra bullshit if even adding the “style” doesn’t clear it.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What to look for in building/buying a server?English
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    3 天前

    Sorry for the late reply. I’m just disorganised and have way too many unread notifications.

    LXC containers sound really interesting, especially on a machine that’s hosting a lot of services. But how available are they? One advantage of Docker is its ubiquity, with a lot of useful tools already built as Docker images. Does LXC have a similarly broad supply of images? Or else is it easy to create one yourself?

    Re VM vs LXC, have I got this right? You generally use VMs only for things that are intermittently spun up, rather than services you keep running all the time, with a couple of exceptions like HomeAssistant? What’s the reason they’re an exception?

    Possibly related: your examples are all that VMs get access to the discrete GPU, containers use the integrated GPU. Is there a particular reason for that distribution?

    I’m really curious about the cluster thing too. How simple is that? Is it something where you could start out just using an old spare laptop, then later add a dedicated server and have it transparently expand the power of your server? Or is the advantage just around HA? Or something else?

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What to look for in building/buying a server?English
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    3 天前

    Sorry for the late reply. I’m just disorganised and have way too many unread notifications.

    LXC containers sound really interesting, especially on a machine that’s hosting a lot of services. But how available are they? One advantage of Docker is its ubiquity, with a lot of useful tools already built as Docker images. Does LXC have a similarly broad supply of images? Or another easy way to run things?

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