Thanks for your professional input, I really appreciate it.

Your last paragraph is especially important. I overlooked that part, although it’s obvious in retrospect.

I had also bought the standard line that it’s about imbalanced or incorrect brain chemistry, but I’m not sure anymore if that theory holds any water.

There are a lot of criticisms leveled against it, but I found the book Lost Connections by Johann Hari to be incredibly thought provoking. This was even before I had gone full tankie and read a bit into the links between mental health and capitalism. The tl;dr thesis of Lost Connections is that anti-depressants are cover up the symptoms for a time, but the root of the issue is a broken social structure, for which capitalism is responsible.

That’s fair. I also didn’t mean to imply that anti-depressants aren’t currently without value. Even just speaking from personal experience, my family would look a lot different without them.

I always wonder if anti-depressants would even be necessary in a people’s state on its way to communism.

Wait, so workplace SA is now just casually called “unusual” and “boundary-blurring” relationships?

Wholesome US espionage-industrial-complex backdoor!

Between basically every process being done on paper, and most of the civil servants having no idea what an operating system is, I’m sure this will go great.

Can’t make a profit if you give all the margin to your CEO

It may be a (likely made-up) hardware limitation, or it may be a feature only available in more expensive Windows licenses. That’s ultimately what “trusted computing” comes down to. A computer will compute whatever Microsoft trusts it to, not what the person operating it wants.

The level of surveillance and control tech in modern cars is really concerning.

As far as I can tell this just fixes some relatively minor issues the contributor was experiencing deploying the hacky self-host stack on his Kubernetes home lab or private server. It doesn’t bring anything new to the table, and I’m not sure that a full on Kubernetes or similar distributed swarm deployment is really what the average self-hoster needs or even wants.

It could just be that Omnivore tries to do too much for it to be feasible to self host. It was also conceptualized with certain third-party backend services in mind which makes it tricky to adapt.

Maybe I’m asking for too much, but I would be looking for a two service stack, one for the app and one database service. The current and forseeable future state of Omnivore is four backend services excluding the database, and like I already pointed out you’re not even getting the full feature set.

From their blog post (linked to by the docs page) about self-hosting:

The following Omnivore features will not be included in this minimal Omnivore setup:
- The web app (we will use the iOS app from the AppStore as our client)
- Search of PDFs
- Saving URLs instead of pages (more on this below)
-Receiving newsletters via email
- Text to speech

Not only that, they use a non-self hosted elasticsearch provider.

Their example docker-compose file in the repo has no less than four containers defined, not including the database server, and you have to build them all yourself, so it’s more of a local dev environment type deployment rather than production.

Here’s their “make self-hosting more practical” Github issue, coming on two years old with no progress: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/issues/25

All of that was more than enough for me to not even bother to try to deploy my own instance. I manage with Wallabag for now, it’s not the greatest implementation either but at least it can be self-hosted. Omnivore looks slick but the backend just doesn’t keep up.

Looks like a cool app but it’s super unpractical and hacky to self host and you can’t even use a bunch of features when it’s deployed that way.

Wikipedia has already been ruined by a billionaire, namely its founder.

It’s the same universe.

Just think of a stereotypical police slogan, “to serve and protect.” It’s incomplete, it’s missing “capital.” In capitalist nations, so all of the west, the police exist to serve and protect capital. So of course they’re at the beck and call of corporations and wealthy people.

In fact police don’t even need cause in some countries (in the example I used before, a company owns the IP but not the physical object). In the US for example, police can use a mechanism called civil asset forfeiture to just take your stuff. That you legally own. Just because they want to. And you can do nothing about it.

They call the police, simple as that. I mean have you heard of swatting?

Even that aside, a company can and will send police to a private residence when they think their all holy private property rights are being violated.

You don’t have to register how you’ll vote, but in most states you have to register to say that you will vote. Depending on the state the rules are different. Sometimes you only have to register once per residence, sometimes you have to register for each election. And then there’s the whole “purging the voter rolls” silliness which some states use to try to exclude certain demographics from voting at all.

The distinction is, to oversimplify it, between living in a parched desert or living next to a toxic river or a contaminated well. In the case of contaminated water, you may not even really know that your water is contaminated with, say, cholera or dysentery on a given day, you just drink it because you must.

I would also venture to guess that most people, even in overexploited nations, have access to water of some sort. So wording it as lack of clean water is probably more accurate than lack of water.

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1931–1933

More than the next guy.