Notices by David Benfell (benfell)
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David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2016 21:46:40 CET David Benfell @clacke I don't think there's any sense to be made of Trump's policies, foreign or domestic. If 'reactionary' wasn't already in use to describe capitalist libertarians, I might choose it to describe authoritarian populists who make up the larger part of Trump's support. It's probably a mistake to expect any political ideology to be coherent but with these folks, it's purely about rage and backlash.
Obama was wrongly perceived as anti-Israel. Therefore Trump is chauvinistic in the worst possible way in being pro-occupation.
There will be a lot of 'collateral damage' with Trump. Maybe different collateral damage than there would have been with Clinton, but collateral damage nonetheless. And we should never forget that that terrible euphemism stands for a lot of dead human beings. -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2016 01:54:17 CET David Benfell The left lost. It needs to stop making excuses: Daily Bullshit, November 25, 2016 https://cybernude.org/url/31644 -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2016 18:38:29 CEST David Benfell !crypto and !gnupg #GnuPG's decision to rely on #pinentry is a catastrophe. I've been one of the die-hards, faithfully signing all my emails. Now I can't find a client that will work properly with GnuPG version 1 or 2. Yes, that includes #mutt . -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2016 15:12:58 CEST David Benfell @hikerus it's not just theater. It's the outcome of a two-party system in which voters are repeatedly informed over the course of numerous elections that they must accept the lesser of two evils. And so now evil is the totality of what we've got. -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2016 07:35:57 CEST David Benfell @kat None of us can be competent in all things. That's why there are many of us, so we can each have our own set of talents.
But while we might expect it in a pubescent male, there is clearly something deeply wrong, mentally, with any adult who insists that everything must be done *his* way. One doesn't need a credential to understand this most obvious point.
As for code quality, I rely on others who are programmers qualified to evaluate code quality. And understanding the importance of job 1 on any UNIX or UNIX-like system entails certain obvious conclusions, hence that whatever you have for init must be robust.
I understand lots of people didn't like init scripts. Hell, I don't like init scripts. But it's really, really hard to see how that required writing a whole new init with the worst case of mission creep in programming history, taking on ever more functions.
There are no great mysteries here. And many, many people have raised these objections over a period of many years. -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Oct-2016 06:28:11 CEST David Benfell @kat the fuss arises because this is an overly complex and crappily-written init. Job 1 needs to be robust. Systemd can never be robust because it's far too complicated. Nearly as important, Lennart Poettering has about the worst case of narcissism anyone has ever seen in a programmer: Nothing is good enough unless he's rewritten it or piled on layers of bloat atop it. It's extremely troubling that Linux distributions are enabling someone who needs to be taken far, far away from a keyboard and gotten psychiatric help. -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Sunday, 02-Oct-2016 22:10:20 CEST David Benfell !selfhost !selfhosting Remember to bow down before our great god Lennart Poettering: https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_tweet -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Sep-2016 09:55:26 CEST David Benfell So now I get to figure out why, despite fixing #DNS, phpinfo() hangs. Really.
I don't even know where to begin.
And guess what? It turns out that some of the !gnusocial cryptography code depends on phpinfo(). -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-2016 23:02:11 CEST David Benfell Apparently I have to fix #DNS.
Again.
Why can't this just work? Why does it have to have been invented by idiots from another planet who seek inspiration from their assholes?
It really, really, really didn't need to be even remotely this complicated. -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-2016 07:59:52 CEST David Benfell Oh, man @zoowar , you can't imagine what a relief this is. I just hope it's right. The messages are all gone. !gnusocial https://cybernude.org/conversation/166283#notice-220640 -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-2016 07:53:49 CEST David Benfell @zoowar !gnusocial I don't know but it sure *looks* like $this should be $nli . I tried that substitution and things *look* a helluva lot better. -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-2016 06:47:24 CEST David Benfell @zoowar !gnusocial a screenshot is attached.... https://cybernude.org/attachment/27872 -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-2016 06:39:48 CEST David Benfell Logs are in a separate notice. But setting up a new instance didn't fix it, and subscriptions are taking forever (I'm assuming they hang), so I'm ditching that effort. @zoowar !gnusocial -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-2016 06:33:21 CEST David Benfell I tried setting up a new !gnusocial instance on https://n4rky.me . But things seem really awful there. Subscriptions never complete. And I still see in the logs:
[Mon Sep 12 21:30:48.066537 2016] [:error] [pid 13163:tid 37174202368] [client 78.46.90.23:38945] PHP Notice: Undefined property: ActivityVerbPostPlugin::$notice in /var/www/new-gnu-social/gnu-social/lib/activityhandlerplugin.php on line 556
[Mon Sep 12 21:30:48.066565 2016] [:error] [pid 13163:tid 37174202368] [client 78.46.90.23:38945] PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /var/www/new-gnu-social/gnu-social/lib/activityhandlerplugin.php on line 556
Which suggests to me I haven't solved the problem by setting up a new instance. -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-2016 06:06:44 CEST David Benfell Followers of my old friendica instances at https://disunitedstates.com and https://n4rky.me should follow me at my new !gnusocial instance at https://n4rky.me/benfell -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-2016 05:55:47 CEST David Benfell Because I haven't been able to solve the "undefined property" messages on https://cybernude.org, I have created a new !gnusocial instance on https://n4rky.me . Please follow me at https://n4rky.me/benfell -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 08:06:04 CEST David Benfell #TTIP is dead, long live #CETA: Daily Bullshit, September 8, 2016 https://cybernude.org/url/27616 -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Friday, 02-Sep-2016 04:48:33 CEST David Benfell For-Profit Institutions? Just shut 'em down already: Daily Bullshit, September 1, 2016 https://cybernude.org/url/27211 -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Aug-2016 09:59:42 CEST David Benfell I don't recognize SWPL.
SPLC is Southern Poverty Law Center: It is authoritative in cataloging right-wing hate groups.
The ADL is the Anti-Defamation League. They're okay on hate groups and Holocaust-deniers, but they're partial towards Israel against Palestine. -
David Benfell (benfell)'s status on Friday, 19-Aug-2016 22:37:43 CEST David Benfell Here's a creation myth I can go with.... https://cybernude.org/attachment/26402