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what? why? can you not persist your mounting scheme in the fstab? sorry if i’m being ignorant just genuinely wondering

i don’t disagree but i think it’s more complicated than that. (explicitly don’t take this as a justification for saying slurs, i don’t condone being a shithead)

for better or worse the word has been reclaimed and not every use of the n-word has racist motivations. it’s not even always racially motivated at all anymore, and it’s been that way for decades now at least here in the US. in fact, i’d being willing to bet money that this usage of the word has likely far outpaced its use as a slur in most of America by now. both are still in use but there are clearly two entirely different sets of semantic meaning floating around. you’ll see poor white people saying it a lot now but they’re still using it in a semantic sense to just mean bro or homie, it’s not being used the way their ancestors were saying it. and back when i ran in those circles more everyone said it and nobody batted an eye, regardless of race. the word is more of an in-group vs out-group identifier in modern vernacular. you can argue about how racist the n-word is and how its history makes using it at all problematic all you want but realistically 99% of the people saying it would laugh you out of the building when confronted with those ideas and don’t give a shit. honestly a lot of discourse surrounding the n-word on the internet is made fun of by black americans. it’s tone deaf and ignorant of the black experience, most this discourse online. at worst it’s a literal white savior complex.

because 4chan strips all context and identity from threads we, as an audience, can’t really know whether or not this is what we would colloquially call racist. and if you argue that this is racist regardless of the context, that’s fair, that’s my reflexive take too - but you have to realize if you make that argument you’re implicitly arguing black reclamation of words like that is invalid under conditions of anonymity. and that’s… a whole can of worms that im probably the wrong person to open up.

is that all fucked up? yeah! but it certainly says more about culture and society than it does 4chan individually, imo. i think people like easy little boxes more than messy reality, generally speaking.

well yeah forwarding your VPN’s ports is a possible leak… that’s the point of opening the ports?

i think it’s only a privacy risk if you don’t understand the network stack and don’t understand what using port forwarding on a VPN entails so that you can take proper precautions.

regardless, it’s fair that most users would be at risk just wantonly fucking with settings they don’t understand. probably not a valid justification to limit services but i can see the business rationale.

anyway not disagreeing with you or anything i had just read the mullvad team disabled port forwarding because they were experiencing distress/PTSD dealing with the administrative and legal issues that arose due to the way some of their user base chose to use the service, and they decided removing port forwarding would be a reasonable way to target and cut down this type of traffic without affecting most users. privacy leaks might have been mentioned somewhere but ig i just hadn’t seen it. not exactly a mullvad expert, myself lol.

i dont use VPN services like mullvad anymore, though. don’t really trust the big VPN companies and prefer running my own hardware and nodes.

mullvad is good for most casual users but if you want to do anything technical i’d steer clear.

you can’t forward the ports anymore in mullvad. don’t get me wrong, they did it as a measure to reduce the volume of CSAM and other trauma-inducing imagery their administrators had to deal with and i totally respect that reasoning. people get legitimate PTSD moderating and administrating certain platforms/services.

just a shame torrenting gets made harder for everyone because of a handful of despicable individuals.

as much as i hate thiel the ycombinator was an ingenious idea and use of capital. nothing in human history has had bigger returns on investment.

we need a morally aligned version of the ycombinator. we need zuckerbergs who won’t abscond open source early on but still have big money backing.

we need to build a better world and we need to use the right tools for the job.

my arch laptop with i3wm is riced to look like temple OS.

god loves elephants, and so do i.

then lobby your government to open more nuclear power plants? why do you anticipate a nuclear reactor owned by ms is going to be used for anything but what they as a company need it for? like yes it is a fucking waste for them to hoard an entire nuclear power plant to themselves… from the perspective of society at large… microsoft themselves probably view it as a good investment, not wasteful, why wouldn’t they?

microsoft is a corp, they’re only beholden to profit. even if they could give a shit about the poors they wouldn’t unless it could make pretty lines go up.

Because we really need that energy elsewhere rn

yeah, i mean ig. lmao smh. “we” and “elsewhere” are doing a lot of the heavy lifting here in this sentence. i don’t mean to be a dick but this is poor rhetoric. “their nuclear power plant is selfish and bad bc i said so >:(“ really only serves to give libs canon fodder for the “personal responsibility^tm” gun. maybe not as frequently here on lemmy but in the real world that is the response this would get. ik it seems like pedantry but this is a serious issue with leftist messaging in the modern world.