It’s not about winning, it’s about making them clearly state their intentions.

It’s important to never let the monsters hide behind their masks. They want passive compliance; never give it to them.

What tariffs? This pathetic sack of shit keeps changing his mind about whether or not he’s even imposing any.

So, unfortunately, this latest update seems to have created a lot of issues. First off, MobaXTerm support appears to be borked. Second, attempting to connect directly to LXC containers throws an error because I haven’t linked a WSL2 instance for X11, even though X forwarding is not enabled for the connection.

I’d suggest maybe testing with a plain Debian or Fedora install. Just enable KVM and install virt-manager, and create the environment that way.

Good resources to start with:

• https://sh.itjust.works/comment/17125825
• https://robertreich.substack.com/p/this-weeks-ten-reasons-for-modest
• https://youtu.be/By1Z1nk31iE

Remember that small acts of resistance build big acts of resistance. Every time someone stands up, a few more people stand up next time. Don’t sit around waiting for “the revolution” or “the general strike” or whatever other thing feels “big enough” to you. At that point you might as well just be waiting for the rapture. You build heaven one brick at a time.

And equally importantly, getting involved in the small acts of resistance gets you connected to the people who are doing things. The first part of organized resistance is organizing and that’s never going to happen by sharing a meme or two. You need to get into the Signal chats, and the person to person networks where the real action is being talked about, mostly offline. So signing up to protest against book removals at your local n library might not feel like “doing enough” but it’s how you get started. Things will move from there.

Search around for any kind of leftist resistance happening in your area, no matter how small. Get involved at the local level. It will make a difference.

Does someone need to sit this guy down and explain the concept of linear time to him?

Unfortunately, militaries are built around getting people to follow orders regardless of how they feel about them.

Many of the Russian soldiers invading Ukraine had Ukrainian family members.

Unfortunately I’m not very familiar with Cloudstack or Proxmox; we’ve always worked with KVM using virt-manager and Cockpit.

Our usual method is to remove the default hard drive, reattach the qcow file as a SCSI device, and then we modify the SCSI controller that gets created to enable queuing. I’m sure at some point I should learn to do all this through the command line, but it’s never really been relevant to do so.

The relevant sections look like this in one our prod VMs:

<disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/XXX.qcow2' index='1'/>
      <backingStore/>
      <target dev='sdb' bus='scsi'/>
      <alias name='scsi0-0-0-1'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='1'/>
</disk>

<controller type='scsi' index='0' model='virtio-scsi'>
      <driver queues='6'/>
      <alias name='scsi0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</controller>

The driver queues=‘X’ line is the part you have to add. The number should equal the number of cores assigned to the VM.

See the following for more on tuning KVM:

• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/epub/virtualization_tuning_and_optimization_guide/sect-virtualization_tuning_optimization_guide-blockio-multi-queue_virtio-scsi#sect-Multiqueue_virtio-scsi
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/epub/virtualization_tuning_and_optimization_guide/sect-virtualization_tuning_optimization_guide-blockio-multi-queue_virtio-scsi#sect-Virtualization_Tuning_Optimization_Guide-Introduction-7_Improvements

Yeah, I was briefly starting to like him again. Reality always comes crashing back in at some point.

What are your disk settings for the KVM environments? We use KVM at work and found that the default configuration loses you a lot of performance on disk operations.

Switching from SATA to SCSI driver, and then enabling queues (set the number equal to your number of cores) dramatically speeds up all disk operations, large and small.

On mobile right now but I’ll try to add some links to the KVM docs later.

Listen, Canadians are very, very aware that we’re Poland in 1936 right now.

We are literally begging Americans to wake the fuck up and realise this too, and hopefully stop this insanity before it gets that far.

Yeah, we’re cutting out every American product we reasonably can.

Been using Xpipe for probably over a year now. It’s amazing and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

You can’t, but you have to try anyway. All of this is just buying time anyway, until the American either decide to get rid of him or dive headlong into being a fascist dictatorship.

Yeah, self hosting gets you all the pro stuff. And you can even use their web-app and point it at your backend server, as well as the desktop and phone apps.

The Notesnook mobile app is really slick.

For anyone who has been recommended Joplin and found it kind of clunky and ugly, I want to throw a shout out to Notesnook. You can self host it, it’s beautiful, and it’s absolutely brimming with great features. And any of your notes can easily be exported in markdown so there’s no lock in.

And they’re definitely not a fan of his obsession with tariffs. Just look what’s happening to the stock market.

So they’re illegal then?

Trump was only able to enact these tariffs without sign off from Congress (which he would absolutely not get) because they were enacted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The act allows the president to apply certain controls over the economy so long as they’re in response to a national emergency. At some point a while back either Trump or Biden, I forget which, declared a state of emergency over fentanyl. Trump is now using the tiny trickle of fentanyl coming from Canada as his justification for these tariffs because has to connect them to a state of emergency to enforce them.

If they’re actually about making America richer (no matter how wrong he is about how that works) then they need approval by congress to go into force. Every single affected business in America should have standing to sue over that.

Yeah, this is the first dog my wife and I have had since either of us were kids. It’s been a learning process.