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I understand the 14th doesn't require a conviction. But the SC ruling that Trump does not need to be removed from the ballot sure would look an awful lot like a ruling of "not guilty of insurrection" to a sizable segment of the population.

And the SC ruling that Trump should be removed from the ballot (1) will begin an absolute shitstorm and (2) opens up plenty of other candidates and politicians to shitty political games around this. How strongly can you criticize the actions of the federal or state governments with regards to LGBT rights, abortion, etc before you're "providing aid or comfort to the enemies [of the US]"?

And any ruling is going to entrench everyone further into their view of "activist judges" that are part of a "politically-motivated" court.

I know that "half the country is insane" isn't a great reason to avoid this, but honestly applying a hastily passed and vaguely written post Civil War provision to this current situation in our current society seems like it will do more harm than good.

It seems to me that this is a dangerous game being played here. There is no ruling here that will lead to an overall positive outcome or be seen as legitimate by broad swaths of the country. I see any ruling creating more trouble than it solves.

To be clear, defeating Trump one last time in an election also isn't going to solve anything, given how far gone the GOP is at this point. But it'll be a damn sight better than the kind of political games that will start popping up if this works and better than giving Republicans a way to claim Trump was found not guilty of insurrection in court if it doesn't.

Yeah, my plan is PS5, too. I was worried because been playing these games on PC almost literally my whole life, from BG1 and IWD through to PoEII and DOSII. But I don't have a PC that can play any sorts of games right now, so it's gonna have to be PS5.

Watching a few let's plays and streams, it sounds like controller support is solid. So despite not being what I'm used to, I'm confident it'll be a solid experience.

I read the His Dark Materials trilogy in middle school, and that hugely influenced my thinking about power structures generally, religion specifically, and morality broadly. I mean, I didn't have words for a lot of that stuff at the time, but looking back they were massively influential.

I re-read them a couple years ago and they really hold up astonishingly well. And yes I am secretly smug about having read these books as a kid while most of my peers were reading Harry Potter.

Different folks have different definitions of retro - the most common I've heard have been 15 years, 20 years and two console generations. So 2000 handily fits into all of those definitions and also you are correct on the Deus Ex front.

This instance that you are posting to is in fact run by a guy who has proven to thwart DDoS attack without resorting to CF using methods 1 and 3 (confirmed), perhaps more.

I'm glad to hear it. Did they share these solutions in an easy-to-consume manner for other instance admins who may not have the same expertise, resources, or time? As I said before, I'm not suggesting they must do the work to share these things in an easy-to-consume manner - I'm just saying if these solutions aren't available in an easy to consume manner, then you shouldn't be so surprised and upset that other people are reaching for the easy-to-use solutions instead.

Telling people “bring a PR or GTFO” is very much the non-constructive shitty attitude we need to avoid.

The sentence you quoted very specifically did not say "bring a PR or GTFO," so I'll ask that you try to not put words in my mouth. In fact, I went to great lengths to make it clear I wasn't saying that because I happen to agree with you - it is an unconstructive attitude.

I very specifically did say "bring a PR or don't get mad that other people aren't immediately doing the work for you." If you aren't bringing a PR then you are bringing an idea. If you aren't bringing solutions but are bringing a sensationalist and confrontational attitude, don't be surprised when you have a confrontation rather than a conversation.

Maybe it would be more constructive to identify barriers to adopting privacy-respecting solutions rather than getting judgemental about using other solutions. What makes Cloudflare easier than tarpitting? How could the barrier to adopting tarpitting be lowered to make it a reasonable solution to adopt? Are there any Lemmy admins that can weigh in on the conversation and share their challenges?

Okay, you've doubled down on hating Cloudflare, which is fair.

Do you see why maybe instance admins are reaching for the Cloudflare button, though? They are often individuals or small teams with relatively little expertise, time, or financial resources. Plus a lot to lose financially if an attack blows out their bandwidth budget or gets them kicked off their hosting. And they're under extreme pressure to keep their instances available and reliable because that's what users expect from web services these days, whether it is realistic or not. Saying "the instance will be offline for two weeks while I work on this haproxy config a couple hours each evening after work that may or may not effectively mitigate this attack" isn't really a reasonable expectation.

Throwing out "just move to tor," "jusy build a firewall rule with the last-known IPs of your users," "just do tarpitting," and "just turn off images." Are nice ideas (except for maybe the known IP thing which has a lot of problems in an age of mobile devices and VPNs), but none are yet solutions.

So presenting it as "I can't believe people are doing [this incredibly easy thing that I have an ethical problem with] rather than [this series of complicated ideas that have not yet been proven to actually solve the issue] this is a disaster in every way" is not conducive to open conversation and instead makes people who did [incredibly easy thing you have a problem with] defensive and/or just straight up annoyed and dismissive.

Ideas are good and having ideas for instance admin tools for things like moderation, ddos mitigation, etc is good because we need to start somewhere. But you can't jump right to "I had this great idea it's an absolute travesty that nobody has already implemented it" and expect people to take you seriously.

Now that's not to say that your post is bad unless it comes along with "Intro to Tor for Lemmy Admins" or "how to configure rate limiting with tarpitting in your reverse proxy" or "here's a PR I made for Lemmy that implements an optional text-only emergency mode." But if you aren't coming with those things you should instead come from a place of collaboration, education, and curiosity.

I haven't seen that particular error before, but based on the error name it sounds like you may be using the generated root CA cert directly as the cert served by your app. You'll want to generate a leaf cert off of the root and have your app serve that locally.

Right? I'd never heard of either of these games before, but after playing the Goodboy demo and watching some YouTube videos of Witch n Wiz, I'm pretty excited for this cart.

Yeah, it's not for everyone a lot of folks prefer emulation on steam decks, anbernics, retroids, pis, etc.

The things that drew me to Evercade are:

• Licensed emulation. Lots of folks don't care about this, but I'm happy to pay for my media when I can. In cases of indie/homebrew releases, devs get paid which is great. In cases of retro releases, rightsholders get paid which is sometimes just someone with a piece of paper saying they own a particular IP. Which is maybe less important than paying the people who directly made a thing, but in the way our society is structured, imo it's also important to pay people willing to keep something commercially available as long as they aren't trying to gouge you.
• Curated library. I mean, part of this is just because not everyone will license to Blaze so they need to pick and choose. But back in college when my roommates and I built a mame machine, or later when I was emulating on a raspberry pi. I would mostly play the same handful of games over and over again. I love that I hadn't heard of like 70% of the Evercade library and hadn't played like 80% of games in the library until they came out on carts. So much discovery. I also love the fact that not all the games are all-time greats - average and below average games deserve a chance to be preserved, played, and loved as well.
• The community. I probably should have listed this first because I'm not sure if I would have gotten as into Evercade if it weren't for the community. The folks in the discord are great. Lots of really chill and knowledgeable folks to chat games with, a few colorful characters to keep things interesting, and Blaze themselves are pretty active and transparent in the chat which is really great to see. There's a weekly games challenge (often but not always high score related) that one of the moderators runs that has lots of us playing the same games at the same time which is always fun.

Anyway, definitely no judgement for you wanting to enjoy games the way you want - that you are enjoying them at all is the important part. Just wanted to share a little bit about how Evercade works for me for folks who may be curious.

Forget learning to debug DNS issues, most developers I work with have no concept of how DNS works even a little bit.

I can forgive them not understanding specific client behaviors of their chosen language, framework, or OS as far as TTLs (or if they even cache at all) and other stuff like that, cause those implementation details often vary and are abstracted away. But if I need to explain the difference between a CNAME and an HTTP redirect one more time...well it'll probably be next week.