I never thought it was shit. For sure, it was the weakest of the three by a pretty good measure, but it does end the story decently enough. Plus, considering the success of the first two, there was nowhere to go but down with the third one!

There’s also an execution problem.

There absolutely is. Way too many of these fuckers are still breathing.

Those “good old days” were propped up by strong unions, excellent public education, high taxes on the ultra-wealthy, and not much regulation beyond not letting another stock market crash happen (See also: rivers literally on fire in Ohio and elsewhere).

So, 3 Good Things, and 1 really Bad Thing (that makes a lot of money). We’re currently speed running back towards the Bad Thing, we’ve effectively killed unions, public education has long since been gutted, and taxing the ultra-wealthy at all is basically un-American. So…

The Fix Is In Has Always Been In…

FTFY.

From what I can tell, notes are stored in the DB, but can be exported as JSON, or I think markdown. It sure about markdown. I’ve only been able to export JSON, and it didn’t include the image I had embedded in the note. Whatever isn’t a note (images, movies, pdf, doc, etc.) is stored on the file system in a directory structure that files them under heap -> asset checksum. Thumbnails are included there if applicable. In that regard, it kind of forces you to use its folder structure.

Also, it’s important to remember, if resistance gets to the level of Jan 6, this president likely won’t hesitate in implementing the Insurrection Act. That would effectively start either a mass slaughter of civilians and/or a civil war.

There are a couple of factors that play into the “lack of resistance.”

• Healthcare and employment are intertwined in the US. Also, healthcare is more expensive in the US than just about anywhere else in the world.
• Employment in most states is “at will,” meaning employees can be fired without cause. For most employees, there is also no employment contract. Unions in the US are very weak for the most part.
• Most people in the US live paycheck to paycheck, and don’t own their primary residence.

These are the ingredients of a captive population. They can hate something all they want, but objecting to it is a risk of losing everything they have. And that’s not hyperbole. There have already been reports of people being fired for social media posts, and ICE collecting info on “anti-ICE” social media content. Unfortunately, this is going to have to get to a point where enough people are willing to die to oppose this. When the economy starts hurting the upper-middle class, things might change, but I don’t know.

There is and has been resistance, and it’s resulted in American deaths. There just hasn’t been the craziness of, e.g., Jan 6 (irony intended)!

Some notes:

• This can be self-hosted. My working compose.yml is below
• Free until August, and he has a discord for feedback, but I can’t find the invite. It was in the live-stream he did.
• He said in the stream that he’s open to open sourcing the project. Just not there yet.
• He admits the licensing is a little confusing. He stressed that self-hosting does not have a storage or block limit. Also, self-hosting is possible with all licenses (I think).
• Supports macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS, and Android (in beta I think)

My compose file:

services:  
  heaper-postgres:  
    image: ghcr.io/janlunge/heaper-postgres:latest  
    container_name: heaper-postgres  
    environment:  
      POSTGRES_USER: $POSTGRES_USER  
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: $POSTGRES_PASSWORD  
      POSTGRES_DB: $POSTGRES_DB  
    ports:  
      - "5432:5432"  
    volumes:  
      - /path/to/heaper/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data  
    networks:  
      - heaper  
    healthcheck:  
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U heaper -d heaper || exit 1"]  
      interval: 10s  
      timeout: 5s  
      retries: 5  
      start_period: 20s  

  heaper:  
    image: ghcr.io/janlunge/heaper:latest  
    container_name: heaper  
    platform: linux/amd64  
    environment:  
      HOSTNAME: heaper.caruthers.us  
      ENABLE_INTERNAL_POSTGRES: "false"  
      DB_HOST: heaper-postgres:5432  
      DB_USER: $POSTGRES_USER  
      DB_PASS: $POSTGRES_PASSWORD  
      DB_NAME: $POSTGRES_DB  
    ports:  
      - "3000:443"  
      - "4499:80"  
    volumes:  
      - /path/to/heaper/config:/usr/src/app/config  
      - /path/to/heaper/thumbnails:/mnt/thumbnails  
      - /path/to/heaper/storage:/mnt/storage  
    networks:  
      - heaper  
    depends_on:  
      heaper-postgres:  
        condition: service_healthy  
    healthcheck:  
      # Docs show example health probes; adjust host/port if your container differs.  
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "curl -fsS http://localhost/api >/dev/null || exit 1"]  
      interval: 15s  
      timeout: 5s  
      retries: 5  
      start_period: 30s  

networks:  
  heaper:  
    name: heaper  

I have the DB, config, and thumbnails on local NVME, and storage on NFS-mounted NAS. Working fine so far.

ETA: Correction in compose file.

Great, now I can imagine the prompt, “make an image of Trump with trademark neck vagina and Rambo’s body…”

State law. Kind of. It’s Alabama, so…

One of the stupidest public consultations you’ve read about so far.

You know how I know this isn’t AI?

Neck vagina.

That or this is just performative so they can deny it anyway.

Doing the Lord’s work, sir.

I mean, maybe he saw a poll by Liberty or Bob Jones U that said Trump’s approval rating went from 29% to 34%. BIGLY GAINS!

Texas: Fucking Florida!

Florida: Fucking Texas!

Dems: “ICE needs to obey the law!” MAGA: “WHY ARE YOU SO UNREASONABLE!?” Dems: “ICE needs to focus more on immigrants who are actually here illegally and stop terrorizing & killing citizens and legal visitors.” MAGA: “WHY ARE YOU SO WOKE ABOUT EVERYTHING!? I CANT DEAL WITH YOU!”

“Mission Accomplished!”

Something something dildo of consequences…

I would try dish soap and a toothbrush first. If that doesn’t work, a weak bleach/water mixture might work, but make sure to rinse it well. Too much bleach can discolor it. I’m sure there are some howto videos out there.