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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • They aren’t yet putting up barriers since their sole purpose is people connecting to each other. There is every chance they do move to restricting access but I think it would be the death of Twitch and certainly Twitter if they started doing so. Social media doesn’t require us to trust some group of people to choose our content for us and as such is a lot less prone to that bias and billionaire control. That isn’t to say the billionaires don’t have an effect, on Twitter what people are exposed to by the algorithm is very intentional and controlled as is the front page roll on Twitch, but unlike mainstream media its still possiblr to see and connect with the unfavoured content and grass roots movements can still form. I would prefer this was all on the fediverse but its not where the people are yet.


  • The mainstream press, being owned by the mega wealthy, hasn’t exactly been platforming and fair in its reporting of left wing candidates in general. This has now morphed to a strategy by left wind politicians to go directly to their voters on social media. Zack Polensky, the Green party leader in the UK, has drastically improved his parties standing simply by delivering their policies directly on Twitter and other social media. This is quite likely to become the way that left wing politicians operate in the near future. They potentially seek to gain leverage to fairer representation and presence in mainstream media, although that might not even matter given the mass exodus and distrust of the people of those old platforms.





  • My ISP provides a /48 for IPv6 via prefix delegation so all internal machines that support it have a ULA and DHCPv6. I have disabled SLAAC . In docker I assign a /64 of that prefix to docker containers. The local addresses is what most of the internal network stuff is based on (DNS etc) rather than the globally accessible address. The PD addresses are only about going onto the internet.

    SLAAC actually is just fine, I just didn’t really want to be exposing the manufacturer information of the addresses online so preferred DHCP, but either or both together works from OpenWRT prefix delegation.


  • If we avoid a bigger outbreak of this it will be luck not because we actually did this right. I am not convinced we should have been taking these exposed people and spreading across the globe and certainly not with very different procedures, only some countries are actually quarantining those who have been exposed. It could still be in the community from one of the people exposed on the plane. Given how slowly this virus progresses it could smoulder for quite a while before we have an epidemic that we recognise.

    I really wish the WHO would get over its aversion to saying viral spread is airborne, they still haven’t admitted Covid is airborne despite the scientists proving it is and they have called Hantavirus “close contact”, which isn’t actually a transmission mechanism its either droplet or aerosol and given the exposures where its spread its airborne.