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twovests wrote (edited )

Reply to This is cool, how do I do this? by astroaron

Hi! I'm the current sysadmin of jstpst and I recently figured out (with lotsa help from emma) how to host it!

Right now we're hosting Jstpst on a DigitalOcean VPS using Docker.

Are you already familiar with selfhosting on Linux? The whole "Rent a VPS or something, set up a domain, host a service, put it behind Nginx or whatever" and all the "sudo nano /etc/blahblahblah"?

If so, you have the prerequisite skills :D I'm using Docker to host Postmill because I've had so many pains with dependency conflicts and upgrades before. Docker's promise that I would never have to worry about that again has held true.

The repo with Dockerfiles is here: https://codeberg.org/Postmill/Postmill

The docker instructions are here: https://codeberg.org/Postmill/Postmill/wiki/Serving-Postmill-using-Docker-and-Caddy

The Docker Compose (which sets up and links the multiple Docker images which a Postmill install uses) is here: https://codeberg.org/Postmill/postmill-docker-example

For directed guidance, are you familiar with using Linux and hosting web services / sites on Linux? (I think you can do this on other OSes too, but I can't speak to BSD or Windows or whatnot)

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by twovests in DEBATE QUESTION: if we were food for an alien species that eats planets and considers complex civilization to have a more complex and desirable flavor. kind of like how we do with cheese. how would u feel about that by twovests

(Different cheeses are just different molds, i.e. foodstuffs which get their distinctive flavors from being highly complex lifeforms. To me, a cheese is a civilization. And our civilization is like a cheese.)

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by Moonside in waow. Taylor Swift is maybe going to be a paragraph in an AP US History text book in 20 years by twovests

She endorsed Harris after Trump had a really bad debate.

I think the 2024 debate will be recent enough in 2044 to warrant a subchapter, and the "Biden had the worst debate performance of all time > Trump took the crown by doing worse > Taylor Swift endorses Harris" would be a chapter itself if the next step is "Harris wins"

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twovests wrote

Reply to comment by Dogmantra in what are some good things to put in a backpack? by Dogmantra

Woah, I went over two decades of life and never learned you can't carry knives in the UK. (But you probably don't need to jerry rig public accommodations on a semiregular basis either hehe)

For dental purposes, I also pack miswack sticks into my go-bag instead of toothbrushes. (My thinking is "floss gets you 50% of the way there but I would also like to brush".)

The idea is that you cut the bark at the end and chew on it for dental hygiene. When the end gets dirty, you can just cut off the half inch and get a fresh half inch.

But they're plastic shrink-wrapped, cheap, and you can also use them with toothpaste if you want.

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twovests wrote

Reply to what are some good things to put in a backpack? by Dogmantra

Leatherman makes the good swiss army knives and I keep getting use of it. Adds weight but doesn't take much volume!

I also keep art wire and floss with me, which have come in useful (wire) in highschool for picking poorly made doorlocks and (floss) for flossing.

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twovests wrote (edited )

Reply to just learned something depressing about my flatmate by neku

Man :(

I'm in the US, so things might differ worldwide, but $5/month seems egregious for this. Some games give you in-game bucks when you watch ads. Microsoft Rewards is generous for the same deal (or, at least it was in ~2012, I bought an Assassins Creed game for $5 with my sick ad loot.)

Places like r/beermoney have good resources for this kind of "surveillance capitalism labor" and places like r/churning have good resources for the kind of "credit card rewards" or "$200 to open a checking account with us". In a few US and Canadian states, you can even get paid something like $0.05 per can or bottle you return. And Fiverr, MTurk, etc.

Hell, I've made about ~$2000 so far just from class action and related suits. This person (if in the US) would make a lot more money by just opting our of arbitration when possible.

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twovests wrote

Reply to comment by 500poundsofnothing in Yo what the fuck is up with the recent two vests post. by 500poundsofnothing

  • A lot of terfs I've interacted with have a poor understanding of radical feminism, and even an unfamiliarity with the most prominent radfems, like Valerie Solanas
  • Coffee is a roasted seed tea and it'd be funny to say I can't make you a cup because I'm jacking off too much, and that's the lefts fault
  • To two MRAs, "misandry" might be something that occupies their mind, but mean different things. This should seem like a problem or issue to us, but is not to MRAs.
  • We would not have sushi if we did not have people on the brink of starvation.
  • Cement would be a bad food to be introduced to cuisine if more people were starving.
  • Someone who wanted to have sex with me told me they don't have "the socioeconomic reach" to meet at a third place or to buy condoms. I stopped talking to them but did thank them in my head for the post
  • Coffee and weed is pretty bad. I don't know why people do this.
  • "I don't even have a womb so I can't go on Gay Dating Apps and ask people to get me pregnant" is just a conversation from my latest ChatGPT debugging session
  • I really meant the disability one. Everyone is either pre-disabled, or going to die before they become disabled.
  • blub blub
  • The Queer Community(tm)(?) seems to have started using "amab" and "afab" entirely in the same way people uses "boy" and "girl" 100 years ago. It's the same gender binary. (Also, reference to the same person before.) ("Erm... What the sigma?" is a new quote the younguns are saying)
  • Under communism, we'll have more child labor. Which sounds scary, but we have a lot of child labor all the time, such as when children clean up after themselves in school. We should have more of that and less coal mines.
  • I saw someone very angry about the new capture button on the latest Apple iPhones and that was funny
  • I have eaten about 18 eggs worth of homemade egg salad in the past 24 hours.
  • I can't stop thinking about her
    • This also applied to the aforementioned egg salad
  • i feel gay yearning
  • i am dehumanizing straight people. this is not a good thing but it is funny
  • why is jack black playing a confident and knowing steve? when you play minecraft, only brand new players have the steve skin. new minecrafters have three questions and they go in this order: (1) how do i get a pickaxe? (2) ok, how do i get a crafting table? (3) how do i change my skin?
    • the autistic he/him lesbian with the sonic skin is an amalgamation of two different people i knew: an autistic he/him lesbian (his name is xbox) and an autistic trans lesbian who was very into sonic.
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