Aceivan [they/them]

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  • yeah... tents are kinda troublesome, they're not very resistant to heat, embers, etc so I have a hard time recommending wood stoves if the structure theyre being used in is camping tents.

    but I do suspect that providing wood would be much more cost effective in the long run than gasoline.

    building wood stoves to the extent that people have structures that can safely accomodate them might be worthwhile but whiz bang stuff like rocket stoves are not it for an encampment in my opinion, too much complexity for something that might just get tossed by pigs next week, all to save a little bit of wood which can often be gotten for free

    the yurt zine is cool, but a big project depending on the size of y9ur org. I could probably find the group that made it, they are doing similar work it sounds like to you. And their stove design is dirt cheap (half a barrel and 5 pieces of stovepipe)


  • running a generator and electric heating is dramatically inefficient. only advantage is no carbon monoxide in the tent/structure, but it doesnt take a ton of airflow to keep that from being a problem with propane, and any reasonable wood stove also doesnt have that issue. plus monoxide detectors are like $3 on aliexpress if it becomes an issue. propane can be a bit scary (tent fires and tank explosions) in an encampment scenario but it beats freezing to death certainly

    is it a tent situation primarily or are there other structures that can more readily be insulated? even just a shitload of blankets makes decent insulation if done well

    also all depends how harsh the winters are there.

    I've seen a zine online of how to make a yurt with a woodstove for exactly this use case. but that doesnt eliminate the need to provide insulation (a tarp layer or two and then blankets mostly) and firewood. the advantage there is it can house a few people per so they can share heat, and its a much sturdier structure than a tent and is designed around the wood stove so it doesnt catch on fire.

    edit: here's the zine: https://files.catbox.moe/1t9148.pdf

    if there are more permanent structures in place those RVing diesel heaters might also make sense but might not be cheap enough/trivial to set up.



  • Aceivan [they/them]tohexbear*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    I'm not sure there's any way of knowing that for sure actually... since it was a clientside exploit. it would have been anyone browsing the megathread (or anywhere else the attacker posted, I think it was just the mega?) in that 30 min window would have had their token sent to the attacker's server (exposing their IP if they were not using a VPN). Then if the attacker used the token they could have logged in and viewed profile settings (of which really the only sensitive one is email I would think) or DMs. I can't think of a simple way to prove whether or not the attacker did so, but given their MO and relative lack of sophistication I'd guess they weren't interested in user info, just defacing the site by gaining admin accounts, which they failed to do. I assume the 3 accounts were the ones that posted the gore or targeted admins with the stealer via DM.


  • Aceivan [they/them]tohexbear*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    yeah lol. it has a dark mode even! and we could self host it in single instance mode. browsing at least works without js, didn't want to give them my login info to see if anything else did



  • They usually work, though many bt headphones and many devices that connect to them are flaky, bad range, dumb broken features, etc. but most of all I just detest the concept of taking something dead simple that will just work for decades unless you like, break the wires or speakers, and turning it into another disposable device that will die in at most like 3-4 years because the non replaceable batteries wear out or the electronics shit the bed.

    I have headphones from the soviet union that still work fine with modern equipment, I have 40 year old koss headphones that still sound nice, etc. bluetooth shit is inherently disposable.



  • Aceivan [they/them]tochat*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    eh I like the way it turbocharged lemmy (and I only browse there with libreddit when it gets linked or comes up in search results so nothing is changing for me really )

    I mean there's a lot of shitty redditors flowing into lemmy, but at least its mostly the leftlib anti-corporate redditors, a lot of them aren't even hardline anti-communists which is nice. If mastodon is anything to go by, lemmy will remain a viable if niche alternative and the enshittification will continue, driving further waves of people away.

    Its not like the less reactionary posters are just gone, they've just dispersed to elsewhere on the internet (or will cave and go back to reddit soon, hard to say)




  • Aceivan [they/them]tohexbear*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    ohhhh gotcha

    if you can still reproduce the problem on that other browser I'd check for things like cookies and cached service workers and stuff... (if it's firefox, ctrl-shift-e and then go to the storage tab to look at cookies. Things like the domain, expiration date, and settings like httponly, secure, samesite should be innocuous to share but potentially useful to infer if it's an old stuck cookie, or using the wrong domain, etc)


  • Aceivan [they/them]tothe_dunk_tank*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    yeah instagram users but basically. I assume all the content farmers and bots are jumping on it, plus some fraction of the 1.6 billion instagram users, since the accounts are inextricably linked for now it does make it easy to sign up anyhow.


  • Aceivan [they/them]tohexbear*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    judging by the response time on this issue I think pretty diversified. I'd be surprised if there was anyone west of the US or east of central europe though just based on site demographics