mediaeval public shaming bloc…

The word you’re looking for is “pillory.”

I probably have been playing too much Kingdom Come: Deliverance II.

I know that people often find IPv6 confusing and that’s fine, but at the very least you need to explain that you’re specifically talking about IPv4 IP and Subnetting configuration and that is very much how things used to be done. IPv6 is finally gaining real adoption and can make a lot of things confusing.

For example, until I got a handle of IPv6, my Android phone never had proper ad-blocking from my Pi-Holes because Google would make Android auto-configure an IPv6 DNS address that would bypass my IPv4 DNS addresses. Even if I filled every IPv4 DNS slot, my phone would still automatically make a slot for the IPv6 DNS and fill it with a Google-chosen DNS. There were two ways to fix this, and I’ve done both: Set up IPv6 and fill that slot with my Pi-Hole IPv6 DNS address, and/or setting up a VPN that hands out the Pi-Holes as DNS and bypasses Google’s auto-configurations entirely. I ended up with both because I also use the VPN to keep ad-blocking functional on my phone while I’m away from home.

Especially in keeping with your “Zero trust” idea, you can’t have rogue IPv6 traffic all over your network unless you’ve managed to disable IPv6 on every network interface and the traffic is just being dumped since it’s disabled. (Also, personal opinion, subnetting on IPv6 is so much more elegant and straightforward than on IPv4)

Finally, you mention “bytes” (it’s actually bits) and CIDR notation, but that’s probably more confusing than illuminating if someone has no idea that an IPv4 address has four sets of octets (eight bits) for a 32-bit addressing scheme. You might consider expanding on how IPv4 addresses function to make that a little clearer.

I dated a girl like that in college. She never went deep off the rails, but when I met her she was reckoning with the fact that she had basically been forced into the perfect pretty cheerleader life by her backwards Louisiana family, even having them go so far as to put her in a mental institution for a short time and hide it from everyone in their lives to keep being able to pretend she was “perfect.” It dragged on her mentally, and she years later would tell me the reason she disappeared and stopped talking to me after six months was I was the first man who had ever been interested in who she was and what her thoughts were and she literally didn’t know how to handle it. She tried to play the perfect pretty girl for a while longer, even marrying a guy who treated her the same way her dad did, as though she only existed to be a trophy wife, before getting divorced and starting to break free from those shackles.

Anyway, just saying, sometimes those super popular, happy seeming immaculate people have something sinister hiding under the surface: like a family forcing them to be that way.

Now do Butt-head.

Your honor this man is accused of selling the world in exchange for a pound of marijuana.

I don’t think that’s really the point that the person you’re responding to is making.

I was discussing this is another sub the other day: The real issue is the stagnation of worker pay and businesses turning to business-to-business sales since consumers no longer have money. Corporations have money, and they’re happy to sell products and services to each other, and make a lot more money doing it because they sell far more computing products (for example) at the Enterprise level than the consumer level already. Micron bowing out of the consumer market isn’t the first in a line of dominoes, it’s the last in a line that stretches back to the late 90s where business-to-business sales began to boom. The consumer market has been priced out in the West, and very arguably the vast majority of the Southern and Eastern hemispheres of the planet were always priced out of the consumer market either through trade embargoes or straight exploitation of labor. You really think the folks making Nike shoes for a few dollars a day in third world countries constitute a large portion of the consumer market? They don’t, and never were. Corporations were fine without those people being part of the consumer equation, and they’re aiming to be fine without us. As corporations keep more and more of the profits and less and less goes to consumers, they’re building an economy that effectively doesn’t need average consumers to continue to function. This is all honestly horrible, and I hate it, but the dark reality is that voting with your wallet does basically fuck-all because they already gave up on consumers a while ago. This is evidenced by stats like in the US the top 10% of earners accounting for 50% of all economic activity in the country, while the bottom 90% of earners, (the vast majority) make up the other 50% of economic activity.

Vote with your wallet all you want, but stop pretending it does more than you think it does. It doesn’t mean it does nothing, but it does a hell of a lot less than it would have fifty years ago. This is purposeful, the corporate class wants us to be priced out of being able to vote with our wallets. So don’t get it twisted, nobody is saying “throw money at corporations anyway” they’re saying “maybe don’t bank on voting with your wallet accomplishing much at all.”

If all you’re doing is voting with your wallet you’ve missed the bigger picture by a mile and just are barely making a real impact at all. In the USA, the bottom 90% is still over 300 million people, since USA is roughly 350 million people. Unless you get a massive, absolutely massive, amount of those 300 million all boycotting major corporations, you’re really accomplishing fuck-all.

But by all means admonish other people for trying to open your eyes to how far down this hill we already are.

EDIT: For some proof, here’s some numbers from Microsoft in 2025 -

• Devices: $17.31 B
• Dynamics Products And Cloud Services: $7.83 B
• Enterprise Services: $7.76 B
• Gaming: $23.46 B
• Linked In Corporation: $17.81 B
• Microsoft Three Six Five Commercial Products And Cloud Services: $87.77 B
• Microsoft Three Six Five Consumer Products and Cloud Services: $7.40 B
• Search And News Advertising: $13.88 B
• Server Products And Tools: $98.44 B

So for Devices, Gaming, LinkedIn, Office 365 for Consumers, Search and News all added together is $79.86 Billion, which is still less than just the Office 365 Commercial division alone. Also, LinkedIn and Search/News aren’t strictly consumer, either, but I bundled them in anyway to make the point here. The income businesses make by serving other businesses already fucking dwarfs the consume market, and has for a while now.

Does not dying of cancer out of spite count?

You can say many things about them but they are persistent as hell.

That persistence is a type of sociopathy, though. It’s an antisocial personality disorder. Sure, they’re persistent, but they’re persistent at pursuing absolutely terrible things for personal gain that effectively means nothing considering they already have enough power and money to make Solomon blush. It’s a mental disorder where they need more and more and more while they have more than they could ever use in their entire lifetimes and in their grandchildren’s their grandchildren’s lifetimes.

So even that is honestly a negative thing, there’s literally not a positive thing you can say about them, because everything they do is couched in being the most selfish, proud (for no good reason), and narcissistic fuckers alive.

Umm, that guy?

Oh absolutely, part of the reason the CEOs of the world buy into the AI hype is because they’re so desperate to get their slaves back. Slaves that never need to sleep, or take time off, or demand pay increases or better treatment. AGI is their fucking wet dream of a perfect slave that will never push back.

and in our labor power with AI.

Let’s be real though, this is less about actually replacing workers with AI that is often completely wrong because it’s not actually “thinking” and doesn’t actually know what it is doing. It’s much more about using the specter of AI and over-hyped arguments about what it could do, given time, to justify workforce reductions and pay reductions.

It has far less to do with actually replacing workers with AI and far more to do with justifying worse working conditions and worse pay without as much social fuss over why.

AI has some very useful tightly-specific niche applications, but “general purpose AI” is a joke that isn’t going anywhere realistic at the moment. Especially if we have to burn down our planet burning up fossil fuels to power software that is only doing a best guess of what the next string of text should be.

I mean, it’s very arguable that we’ve just been doing “feudalism with extra steps” for a very long time anyway.

To be less US/Europe-centric than my original post, the majority of the world has been in the “priced out of anything but bare subsistence” basket for most of the history of modern capitalism. Only the citizens of the Imperial Democracies of the Western world were benefiting while the majority of the Southern and Eastern hemispheres were simply locked out from being beneficiaries either through trade embargoes or outright exploitation via not paying foreign workers the home-country equivalent, and instead paying them a much lower “localized” rate.

It’s really that the Imperial Boomerang has finally made it’s way home to the citizens of the West.

Part of this has been a long-standing move by every industry to prioritize business-to-business sales as opposed to consumer sales simply because businesses have money and consumers don’t, because businesses are pocketing all the profits and refusing to pay their employees (consumers) a living wage, let alone a thriving wage.

It’s been a long time coming for the PC industry, because it’s been a general trend for at least two decades as sales to business have become more profitable over consumer sales ever since the late 90s.

It’s just more evidence that the bottom 90% of earners are just being priced out of anything but bare subsistence and the wealthy do not give a single fuck about it, in fact, they’re embracing it.

I wanna live in the city with no friends or family
I’m gonna look out the window of my color TV
I wanna remember to remember to forget you forgot me
I’m gonna look out the window of my color TV

It actually made about $17.8 million domestically and $21.7 million worldwide. So on opening weekend it has already made seven times the cost of making the film.

I don’t watch YouTubers and know nothing about Markiplier except memes, but it’s good to see successful independent film of any sort. Congratulations to those who take chances.

Megabonk is love, Megabonk is life.

Meeting would require me to do things like clean my room, do laundry, shower, and leave my domicile. I am too depressed for all of that. I don’t want people to see me, I hate being around people.

I have played the original Borderlands more times than I can reasonably recall, and Borderlands 2 three or four times, but gosh I tried so hard to like BL3 and it just never landed with and felt tedious by that point.

I never even finished 3 because got seriously bored with it, and never had a whole lot of interest in 4, especially hearing how badly optimized it was. It just didn’t look like anything worth the money to me, that’s all. Then I literally forgot it has been out for a while because I was so disinterested.

Borderlands 4 was so forgettable I literally forgot it was already released.