Hello!
I’m Arkhive (they/she), one of your new mods and I’ve just got a sort of update from the mod team.
We, the mods of Onehundredninetysix (hereby referred to as OneNineSix for my own sanity), would like to introduce ourselves. The members of the mod team that are interested will post a comment below this post and hopefully mingle a bit. Something that has come up in our discussions is a general interest in owning our actions, even in online spaces. That means putting people behind the names you see in the sidebar.
As the OneNineSix community coalesces, things have been quite good from our end. While we could be quicker at processing reports, a lot of that stems from us discussing choices as a group before making final decisions…and probably a bit more fear to use our power than is good for us, but time I’m sure will fix that proceeds to power trip. We are absolutely not infallible, and we also strive to admit wrong when necessary and work to rectify it. There is a degree of patience that necessarily extends both directions between mods and users, and in the end we are all users of the same space. We will work to be good stewards of this space for all those being good stewards with us.
And so! This thread. If this idea goes over poorly, please take it out in the replies to my comment, and we will assess and hopefully the other mods will dive in on the discussion too. We have also floated the idea of an irregularly occurring, semi-regular, mod chat thread. My pitch is for “Modly Mondays” but its still an idea in its infancy and feedback is welcome;)
Thank you for your time, thank you for the memes (the cat included), and I’ll remove see you from in the comments.
TL;DR I’m Arkhive (they/she), I’m a mod, there’s more of us (surprise!), and we’d like to introduce ourselves in the comments.
Side note: I realize this is being posted on a day there are protests happening across the US and presumably throughout the world. While this is not an explicitly US comm, I want to remind people to stay safe. Know your rights, know the ACLU phone number, have an exit plan, go as a group, and don’t talk to cops. We keep us safe.
Hi!
I’m TotallynotJessica (she/her), and I swear my name isn’t Jessica! >~<
I kinda kick started this comm with a post some may remember on femcelmemes, where I’m the community mom. I mentioned there that I really wanted to help mod a new comm, but I didn’t want to spearhead it. It takes a lot of work from all of us, and I knew I couldn’t do it alone. Thankfully, all the other mods share my enthusiasm for making this shitposting home welcoming and supportive for queer people and allies. We are all dedicated to having you involved in how we run things and using our power fairly proceeds to power trip
I hope to provide the emotional support, so feel free to dm me if you have anything that’s bothering you. I’ll try to reply as quickly as I can (which could be a day or two sometimes, so message others if I don’t give a response)
As far as who I am, I’m a transpoc woman from America who represents everything the right hates and fears. I dislike all imperialists, especially the tankie and liberal varieties, and will not tolerate people who defend the undefendable from their own team. No identity can make you a good person, so be good to one another <3
I kinda kick started this comm with a post some may remember on femcelmemes
actually I think SoleInvictus didnt even see that post which is kinda funny X3 so I made that post saying people had been talking in ur post about making a new comm and mentioned the people that offered to moderate it :3
Yeah, I just saw the big 196 post, thought to myself “fuck that shit, I’ll make a backup comm just in case this goes badly”, and now here we are.
You helped me out with excellent mod suggestions thanks to that other post (which I still need to find, for posterity). I expected this to be a dusty, unused little comm that lost people would aneurysm post in like once or twice a year, so I really needed the help when I was proven very wrong.
really, lol. We did get a lot of us from that post
Hi all!
I go by Arkhive and I use they/she pronouns. I’m non-binary trans, but I lean femme. I am a bit of your cliche techy, linux installing, trans girl, and I’m entirely okay with that. I do a bit of writing on many topics, but lately the buzzwords “techno-anarchism”, “solarpunk”, “trans-humanism” and “urbanism” have been ricocheting around my mind, but that’s a bit too hand wavy for this post.
For no reason other than I maybe have your attention I’m going to suggest the books:
- Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler
- Glitch Feminism, by Legacy Russell
- The Free People’s Village, by Sim Kern And I would happily discuss them with anyone.
Feel free to ask me about moderation, or really anything. I’ve got a lot of interests and will happily gush about any of them. I have some formal visual arts education, so constructive critique is something I’m very used to and welcome. Finally, I’m a self proclaimed archivist, which is part of the reason I wanted to make this post happen, creating a bit of a paper trail of us mods, and offer a space to field questions, comments, and concerns.
transhumanism
Idk if that means you’re on the pro- or anti- side, but if I can suggest some content either way:
- Philosophy Tube
- CJ the X (I assure you, it is about transhumanism)
- Team Human on TESCREAL
- Behind The Bastards
I’m “for” it, in the sense I think we have effectively halted our evolution as it is driven by nature. Now we have the choice to evolve ourselves, and that takes many forms. Gender affirming care, to me, counts as the application of technology to better my life/cognition/function. It is me evolving myself. Which does clash a bit against my environmentalist streak, but yeah. Technology as a way to continue the evolution we have otherwise stopped.
If I really boiled it down, I just want the chip from my transit card embedded in the palm of my hand lol
I know a few of these and will be checking out the rest.
Ah I see, so you too can help derail the general room in matrix into Linux talk :3
Oooh, I sure can help with that.
Not even nyarch smh my head
I spot a Jellyfin! Very based.
BUT before I am fully impressed I must know if and how many (in GiB) torrents you are currently seeding for Anna’s Archive. I’m at 600 (aiming for 1 TiB) but I just like hoarding data :3
I definitely wasn’t just researching drives to see how much of it I could seed. Absolutely not, could never be me. 😬
Honestly I wish I was seeding more of their dataset. My storage situation is a bit wonky atm. I’ve got an old(ish) laptop that I run most of my self hosted stuff on, but it really doesn’t have a ton of storage. Then I try to avoid hosting lots of torrents on my main rig. I’ve got a single board computer I’m planning to turn into a NAS/seedbox, but I need to pick out drives for that. Very tempted to pull for like 2, 20Tb drives that are clones of each other for redundancy, but the combined $800 is, needless to say, holding me back.
As far as Jellyfin goes, yeah. I’ve mostly ditched Spotify now thanks to Finamp and getting back into bandcamp and stuff. Trying to support artists directly where I can. I just last night finally got nginx and Tailscale playing together so I have full on URLs for all my services without ever exposing them to the internet.
Honestly, you can probably find 4 refurbished >=10 TB hard drives for less than $800. 12 - 16 TB is the price-to-performance sweet spot for refurbished drives I believe, as data centers are starting to upgrade to 18 TB and beyond.
And since you’re limited in resources (I mean who isn’t) I wouldn’t recommend mirroring. You lose half your capacity after all. I’d probably go with 4 drives in RAID 5 for single drive failure redundancy with 75% capacity. Look up RAID if you haven’t heard about it yet, it’s really cool.
(Note that RAID 5 is often discouraged due to risk of multi-drive failure which would wipe out all your data and long rebuild times. I still consider it fine for home server usage with few disks and non-critical storage. If your data is critical go with RAID 1 - i.e. mirroring/duplicating instead. Even then more drives is better than fewer drives imo.)
If you have small amounts of critical data you could also setup a small RAID 1 array with 2 ~1 TB SSDs (which would mirror/duplicate them). But remember: https://www.raidisnotabackup.com/
Take my RAID advice with a grain of salt though since I’m running unraid OS like a filthy casual which - well, as the name suggests - has its own redundancy implementation. In my defense: I didn’t have much experience with Linux at the time of setting it up. Still - my 36 TB NAS (48 TB with parity drive :3) is 50% filled already. Storage fills up so fast!
Also, for larger-ish artists that don’t allow you to purchase their music (which is most for some reason), I recommend sailing the high seas ;). I still need to set up Jellyfin (+ Lidarr) for music though, right now I’m manually synchronizing all my music libraries.
I just last night finally got nginx and Tailscale playing together so I have full on URLs for all my services without ever exposing them to the internet.
I’m doing pretty much the same with my services. Except I’m using WireGuard. And NginxProxyManager because nginx scares me. But other than that it’s the same!
Yeah I gotta move to wireguard at some point, or the self hosted version of Tailscale. I just like the UI what can I say.
I am also getting music through “other” means. Namely SoulSeek, which I’m loving. I’ve got another source I’ll link once I’m off the train home.
I do know of the whole Raid system, but never explored it. It’s on my list of things, probably sort of parallel to Proxmox on the list. I think those are both things I will learn at the same time and will probably be my next big project.
Nginx also scared me for a long time. I tried it a while ago and could not figure it out for the life of me. Then recently I had a friend learn it pretty well for their work, and then we sort of collaborated on getting it playing with Tailscale.
I always forget the second hand datacenter drive market exists. Like ngl second hand drives spook me a bit conceptually, but data center drives are designed for longevity, so that makes me feel better about it. Will definitely look into it.
5800x, nice. Is it still holding up well for you? Currently everyone is buzzing over the 9800X3D but I don’t know if it’s worth upgrading to something like that coming from the 5000 series Ryzen processors which are now only two gen behind.
I would say it’s holding up, but I’m not sure I would go so far as to say “well”. After my last minor upgrade it is definitely the bottleneck of my system. I’m juggling the decision of upgrading it and staying on the AM4 socket so I can avoid replacing mobo at the same time, or just bite the bullet and replace both.
Hi from a lemmy.zip user. Most of everything here and on blahaj as a whole is irrelevant to me because I am boring. But I do have friends and family that it is very relevant to. The memes alone are top class. Love to see it.
I think some more of your personal ethos deserve more spotlight:
I guess I’ll add a strong affinity for privacy, opt-in centric policy, self governance, and mutual accountability, as core tenants of digital communities. Especially in leadership roles I want to hear from my members, and create systems that work for them, not work the way I maybe envision them.
I like this. I think you will do well.
Thanks! I suppose I should have included what was essentially my mod “application” lol. Yeah, those things are super important to me.
self proclaimed archivist
Thats so eye-coded
Ceaseless watcher turn your gaze, and the like
Sorry for asking but how can one be non-binary and trans at the same time?
Fine to ask! I personally conceptualize it like squares and rectangles? Like first and foremost I consider myself trans. My desired gender expression does not align with my gender assigned at birth. However, it is also not exactly opposite the gender I was assigned. So I’m on HRT, I’m considering various surgeries and such, but I still land, present, in a way that does not fit the gender binary. Hope that helps. This is also something I’m still perfecting my language and explanation around, so feel free to chime in with your own thoughts. Like I know some people consider non-binary an umbrella term that trans exists within. Not sure I quite think of it like that, but yeah. It’s an interesting discussion I’m happy to hear thoughts on.
Since it’s ok to ask (I hope), and I guess this is more of a general question rather than personal, but does the order of listed pronouns matter? Is it, like, in order of preference? Mostly I see the second pronoun to just be the objective case form of the first, but yours isn’t. Why do people even list the objective case when it matches the subjective case?
Yes! Good question! If I wanted to be thorough I would write they/them and/or she/her (and/or looking like a set of pronouns has me chuckling). And for me that roughly corresponds to order of preference. Though it’s somewhat situational. Like at work I mostly just stick to they/them. I work with kids, and I worry about bigot parents seeing someone that presents the way I do (mostly gender neutral/androgynous at work) using she/her. In other settings, with my partners, chosen family, and general queer community I’m comfortable with she/her, prefer it even. Stuff like that. Basically using she/her for me is invite only, and y’all are invited.
Thank you for taking your time to explain. I get nervous when asking such things.
Like I know some people consider non-binary an umbrella term that trans exists within.
As far as I’m aware, it’s the opposite, I think this image illustrates it very well:
Yup! Had my visualization exactly backwards! This is what I was trying to describe. Thanks for finding it!
No worries, I had a feeling that was the image you were thinking about 😂
Octavia Butler is well overdue the credit she deserves
Hey. I am jawa21. I am a trans woman that likes to make Star Trek video edits. I am a machinist by trade and really love what I get to do for a living. I use an Arch derivative, btw. If you want to know anything, just ask.
Hi y’all!
Haiiii I forgot we were doing the intros thing and havent prepared one and Im half awake >v< but uhhh Im Mia and Im a transgirl and a demon >:3 Ive been around 196 under different names (cuz of a combination of transitioning and plurality :3) since it started getting popular on Reddit and when it closed in protest to the Reddit bullshittery (temporarily XP) and I saw this place I thought it was super cool and I was right :3💖 Im pretty sure I had checked out lemmy along with raddle long before that but didnt like either at the time
btw I saw NotJessica say she likes being the emotional support and thats also so my thing so yeh I second what she said if I can help with anything :3
o also I made the 196 matrix space if u havent seen the pinned post so if u want some nerdy queers to talk with go check it out! :3
Hey there folks, I’m Cornflake :) Most people call me Flake, but I never get tired of hearing creative nicknames so gimme all you’ve got!
I’m mostly a music nerd- I’ve got a pretty sizeable music collection, a B.S. in audio production, a B.A. of arts in jazz, and I play the saxophone! 🎷 Some of my favorite music artists include: Electric Light Orchestra, Tally Hall, Dave Brubeck, That Handsome Devil, Will Wood, Billy Joel, and if I keep listing more I might just figure out the Lemmy character limit xD
I’m happy to chat with you about just about anything, so feel free to HMU, always excited to meet new people ^^
-Cornflake
C-flake. Corneff. Ceeflee. Coke. Flarn. Cornake.
I’ve been called Cornelius before lol
Hello! I’m Linda, I’m neurospicy, some kind of pan and asexual maybe, and I use she/her!
I’m a board game enthusiast and I love TTRPGs (I’m in a couple of different games, DM a couple of games, and I’m writing a couple of rulesets) and I’m big into hobby programming (I make games that I never finish in rust).
Politically I’m not quite an anarchist, but I believe it’s an ideal that should be approximated as much as possible, and believe that achieving some other kind of socialism first is probably gonna be the first step anyways after unionizing more.
I moderate some of the rooms in the genderverse matrix which you should all check out btw! It’s an active mostly trans and quite chill community. There’s also a DIY room there for those of you looking to get into that.
Love you all, stay safe, and may your shitposts be numerous and plenty!
Edit: Oh yeah! I wrote the first draft for the current rules and mod guidelines. We have talked about making the rules way shorter/simpler (mostly me maybe :P), but I will be happy to answer any questions you have about da rules.
Edit: I use arch btw.
Hey All! I’m rockSlayer, he/they pronouns. I’m a union organizer and activist, ace, and autistic. I love posting memes that I found in
the garbageold group chats and laughing with the gay people in my phoneso umm like, im adora, nice to meet yall <3
im a trans disaster lesbian, anarchist, a bard (i play the banjo), im a huge nerd, privacy and foss enthusiast (i use arch btw), and very autistic/adhd~ :3c
im mostly just here to
powertrip and abuse my mod powerspost memes and be cute <3 id love to answer any questions about our community if i can, or just talk about cool things with cool people, maybe you can info dump about your special interests for me?:33
Modulus Stoopidus
This is my (Jo Miran’s) local mod alt account. Same jackass, different dress.
This is a really cool idea, looking forward to getting to know the mods!
Also feel a little obligated to reciprocate lol (E: and a little embarrassed now that I realise I’m literally the only non-mod who did so I’m deleting my little introduction, ignore me 😬)
Hewwoo! :3
