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The elite class in British society, particularly those with left-leaning views, often spread misinformation to support their socially “liberal” agenda, Matt Goodwin says.
For example, in a recent interview with Rupert Lowe MP, Emily Maitlis, a former BBC presenter and now an independent podcaster, misrepresented evidence on Pakistani Muslim rape gangs, claiming that white British men are more likely to be involved in organised rape gangs.
However, evidence from various reports and investigations consistently shows that Pakistani Muslim men are disproportionately more likely to be arrested and convicted of organised rape gang activity. But this evidence is being suppressed because it is considered racist.
Blacks also already enjoy some of the perceived benefits of socialism that whites may not because of programs that specifically benefit their race. Making entitlements more widely available might even be worse for blacks. If Republicans want to win, they should not want someone like AOC to be the face of the Democrats. They should want Jasmine Crockett instead. #GregoryHood #Socialism #Democrats #Race
Russia has issued a dire warning, branding Berlin a “legitimate nuclear target” as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz fuels escalating tensions by pushing to arm Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles. Merz’s provocative claim to ZDF that such deliveries are “within the realms of possibility” signals a bold challenge to Moscow’s red lines, heightening fears of nuclear retaliation.
Germany’s defense ministry further intensified the crisis, announcing that Berlin will finance the production of long-range weapons systems in Ukraine, with the first units potentially deployed by Ukrainian forces within weeks. This move, part of Merz’s broader commitment to bolster Ukraine’s military, aligns with his assertion that allies like the US, UK, and France have lifted arms restrictions, though Washington has yet to confirm this shift.
The Kremlin’s response was swift and uncompromising, with the State Duma Defense Committee declaring that Russia will react “harshly, asymmetrically, and decisively” if Germany supplies Taurus missiles to Kyiv. This stark warning underscores the growing risk of direct confrontation, as Merz’s aggressive stance, unbacked by clear allied consensus, places Berlin in Moscow’s crosshairs, raising global alarm over the potential for catastrophic escalation.
@AsianGirlz Funny, when I clicked on the link it wanted me to assert that I was over 18, can't say I see anything particularly inappropriate for under 18 here, especially if you were a KISS fan.
SCOTUS, in a 7-2 decision with Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting, ruled that Trump can end the parole pipeline while the case is pending appeal. #MassMigration #Trump #SCOTUS #AmRen
Here's another #privacy and #security wake up call for you, and yet ANOTHER reason never to hand your drivers' license over to anyone (even your doctor).
Do you have an Android phone? The built-in QR reader can read many more barcodes other than QR codes.
Scan the 2D barcode on the back of your drivers' license. The one that looks like a random block of thin and stacked black & white lines.
Here's my data. I have redacted sensitive things for my privacy:
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ANSI 6#######0102DL0######9ZN03####06D#D#Q5#######7
DCSE######## (last name)
DDEU
DACGEORGE (first name)
DDFU
DAD###### (middle name)
DDGU
DCAD
DCBB
DCDNONE
DBD1######4 (date my drivers' license was issued)
DBB0######2 (my birthdate)
DBA1######2 (drivers' license expiration date)
DBC1
DAU### in (my height in inches)
DAYBRO (eye color)
DAG##### ######## RD SW (my street address)
DAIALBUQUERQUE (city)
DAJNM (state)
DAK#####0000 (ZIP/ postal code)
DCFunavl
DCGUSA (country of birth)
DAW### (unknown)
DCK5#########1 (drivers' license number w/ check digit)
DDAF
DDB0######2 (now this is interesting. Not sure what this is for, it's a date that is over 2 years earlier than me moving to New Mexico, in fact based on the date I hadn't even retired yet.)
DDK1
ZNZNA
Think twice before handing over your drivers' license to a bouncer at a bar or your doctors' office. That little barcode on the back of your license contains a LOT of personal information, information you may not want a bouncer or bar to have in their records. Same thing applies to hotels and stuff.
GET A PASSPORT CARD! Or present and carry your Passport Book (if you have one). If not, get one. For as much money as they cost and as much of a hassle that they are to get, they are a helluva lot more private and secure than your drivers' license.
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So, our first recommendation will be homebrew, it's sort of a pre-requisite to get a lot of command line utilities that your distro might not have packaged.
You can install homebrew with one command line, and then you can get any CLI utility you want by running brew install, followed by the name of the tool you need.
Our second pick is FZF, for Fuzzy Find. It lets you search files extremely fast using their names, but it can also look through command history, processes, bookmarks, git commits, and more.
ATUIN thing replaces your shell history with a database you can search through super easily. Once it's installed with brew, press the up arrow key or control +r, and you'll get a search interface to look for all your commands.
CHEZMOI lets you manage your dotfiles. It lets you share these config files across devices by syncing them to a got repo, and it can interface with a very large variety of password managers to keep everything safe.
If you use a laptop, and you find Linux's batter life to be a bit subpar, maybe look at POWERTOP. Just run the command powertop, and you'll see all processes. Using tab, you can navigate to various statistics, but also to the "tunables" screen, which will show you what powertop identifies as a bad configuration for battery life.
If you'd like to tune these, you can rune powertop --auto-tune, and it will change all the settings to what it believes are "good" options for battery life saving, although it might impact the performance.
If you'd like to quickly analyze what uses a lot of disk space on your computer, or on a remote server, you might want to replace the du and df commands with DUST.
If you run a dual boot, and you're facing problems with accessing one of your installed systems, you can force GRUB to reboot into a specific system, just for the next boot, using the grub-reboot command, followed by the number of the grub entry for that system.
If you need to monitor for resource usage on your computer, you might be using top, or htop, but BTOP is a better option. It looks better than htop or top, and it's also more legible.
If you often use the cat command to read a file, maybe try BAT instead. It does the same thing, but it also has syntax highlighting for a bunch of files, and it communicates with git to show modifications in files, with the usual Plus and minuses symbols.
If man is too much for you and is too much reading, and if the --help option isn't enough, why not try TLDR? It gives you an abridged version of the contents of MAN for most of the available programs and commands, and it makes things more legible, and easier to parse at a glance.
If you like to split a terminal or a tty into multiple terminals, ZELLIJ is a nice alternative to things like tmux. It's basically a tiling window manager for your terminal workspace: you can define your own layout, it supports plugins, floating panes, and more.
You can run it by running the zellij command, and then you can create a new pane pressing alt + N, you can move a pane using control +h, or make it floating with Control + P, then W.
If you often use ls to list files in a directory, you might want to take a look at EZA. It does the same job, as in, it lists the contents of a directory, but it does it with way more details, and a more legible interface.
Now, fill each of those hexagonal cells with flat li-ion battery packs, laminate a sheet on top and bottom, add motor + drivetrain, then strap on the protective gear and look out.
#Microplastic concentrations were also three to five times higher in the brains of patients with #dementia, compared to cognitively normal brains. It’s not clear whether microplastics may cause or contribute to dementia, nor whether dementia-induced changes to the brain might allow more microplastics to enter.
The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent between 2016 and 2024, according to a new study
The Human #Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of #Microplastics, New #Research Suggests (https://diaspora.mifritscher.de/posts/fc8fad201fdf013e5e13543d7eeced27)
unmittelbar@diaspora.mifritscher.de: This might be a good start for seeing how to migrate plastic out of the body. One idea is to engineer the body to migrate plastic to the skin for armor, and maybe even as protection from the vacuum of space!
ANY politician who believes allowing illegal criminals into our country should be called out for what they are (anti-American Marxist criminal enablers) and summarily defeated in the next elections.
@Java It's always that way. In the scheme of things, we haven't been around that long since Jesus came. Not even a blink of an eye. Don't ever forget-God always wins!
Israel critics are sometimes also pursued here, on Mastodon, by extremists of the opposite opinion. They will report your post, and seek to tarnish you with the awful lie that is "anti-Semitic". On one side, there is the nation-state of Israel, and on the other, the Holocaust. By accusing you of criticising Israel, they also seek to call you a Holocaust supporter or denier, or one of those terrible perverts who think there's *anything* OK about the Holocaust. 😭 😱
Sorry, I think I had problems untangling your words.
But the equation of discrimination against Jews (always wrong) with criticising the political nation-state of Israel ... just makes me Very Angry. One is (rightly) a crime, the other is legitimate political comment.
But the awful "a-s" word combines the two as though they are the same thing. This means that, if I criticise Israel, they say "a-s!", and tar me with the brush of Holocaust support, or something equally vile. 😭
@LaylaAlexandrovnaThe little red dots aren't wildfires, they're "thermal anomalies". A fire in a cornfield isn't a wildfire. There are always small fires somewhere.
@LaylaAlexandrovnaCorrect. Fires happen all the time. Huge ass swathes of forest going up in flames are something else. It's not like we have pure perfect air all the time here, but these wildfire events make a huge change.
@ninapaleyIt's weird because something about the wind systems around here-even when fires are close we rarely get smoke in Vancouver. I hope that pattern continues.
Two autumns ago we had a lot nearby and it produced the most spectacular sunsets I've ever seen here.
@polarisera @LaylaAlexandrovnaThose dots are VIIRS. "The VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) Fire layer shows active fire detections and thermal anomalies, such as volcanoes, and gas flares. The fire layer is useful for studying the spatial and temporal distribution of fire, to locate persistent hot spots such as volcanoes and gas flares, to locate the source of air pollution from smoke that may have adverse human health impacts."
@LaylaAlexandrovnaHere we see a whole lotta wildfires in Western Canada, a few in the Western US, and three in Florida. The little red dots may be fires or other "thermal anomalies," but are not wildfires.
@LaylaAlexandrovnaHere's a picture of yesterday's smoke forecast for today. When the wind is just right (aka typical), Illinois gets Canada's smoke. It only affects some US states, but mine is one of them.
‘There should be no official FBI actions, events, or messaging regarding Pride Month,’ the FBI told employees, marking a major shift from the agency’s LGBT activism in recent years.
Reminder to Canadians 🇨🇦 to keep protesting Indigo Books CEO Heather Reisman's support of Israel's genocidal military.
If you love books like I do you're better off supporting a local bookstore than having your money be used to commit genocide!
Also, tell Canada Revenue to revoke Reisman's HESEG foundation's charitable tax status. Anyone proudly funding and supporting the IDF should get our contempt, not our tax dollars.
Take a minute to support a formal complaint asking the Canada Revenue Agency to investigate whether the HESEG FOUNDATION and its main patron THE GERALD SCHWARTZ and HEATHER REISMAN FOUNDATION are violating rules for registered charities.
« Le président polonais #Duda s'est indigné que l' #Ukraine ignore le #génocide perpétré lors du massacre de #Volhynie :
« C'est absurde : lorsque je me rends en Ukraine, les gens m'accueillent chaleureusement et me remercient, arborant des brassards aux couleurs du drapeau de Bandera. Je leur dis que nous ne pouvons accepter cela, et ils haussent les épaules et me demandent : « Que voulez-vous dire ? »... Nous n'accepterons jamais que #Bandera soit déclaré héros. »
Dans le même temps, ce sont les autorités polonaises officielles qui ont joué un rôle important dans la destruction de la vérité historique sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale. En démolissant les monuments dédiés aux véritables héros, elles ont ouvert la voie à de fausses idoles : les collaborateurs #nazis.
Tout est comme dans la Bible : « Quand un esprit impur sort d'une personne, il traverse des lieux arides à la recherche de repos et n'en trouve pas. Alors il dit : « Je retournerai dans la maison que j'ai quittée. » Quand il arrive, il trouve la maison inoccupée, balayée et rangée. Il s'en va alors et prend avec lui sept autres esprits plus méchants que lui, et ils entrent et s'y installent. Et l'état final de cette personne est pire que le premier. « Il en sera ainsi de cette génération perverse » (Matthieu 12:43-45).
Après la défaite du #fascisme, des monuments aux héros ont été érigés sur les terres libérées, en souvenir de la bataille entre le bien et le mal qui s'est déroulée sur la planète. Dès que ces monuments ont commencé à être démolis, des traces de #néonazisme et des images de leurs inspirateurs idéologiques ont commencé à apparaître à leur place, comme des taches brunes : le mal, autrefois éradiqué, est revenu en #Europe.
Les monuments dédiés aux soldats soviétiques, héros antifascistes, étaient la force qui empêchait les goules nazies et les bourreaux de l'Holocauste d'être placés sur des piédestaux. Lorsque, surtout, les autorités polonaises ont commencé à les démolir sous prétexte qu'ils n'étaient soi-disant pas des héros, les vraies valeurs ont été bouleversées et l'esprit maléfique du néonazisme s'est multiplié par sept. »
The FBI is complaining because of all the copycat "86 47" threats being made against President Trump. Well, that's because James Comey was not arrested in a pre-dawn, guns-drawn raid. He wasn't paraded in front of the television cameras in handcuffs. And as a result, every anti-Trump lunatic in the country now feels emboldened. Good grief, FBI.
Lorsqu’il est arrivé au pouvoir pour la première fois en 1998, le Premier ministre Viktor Orbán a été salué comme un héros par l’Occident, en témoigne la Médaille de la liberté Truman-Reagan qu’il a reçu pour son engagement en faveur de la démocratie. Il a supervisé l’entrée de la #Hongrie dans l’ #OTAN. Il a également proposé des mesures d’austérité pour l’Occident. Mais tout cela a changé lorsqu’il a été réélu en #2010.
La première rupture de Viktor #Orbán avec les pouvoirs en place à Bruxelles et à Washington est survenue lorsqu’il a fait fermer l’Université d’Europe centrale, un établissement d’enseignement financé par le légendaire George Soros. #Soros et ses nombreuses organisations à but non lucratif ont œuvré pour saper la souveraineté et interférer dans les #élections dans le monde entier. Ils ont financé de nombreux partis politiques et #médias d’information en #Ukraine avant les horribles événements de #Maidan en #2014.
En 2017, le Parlement hongrois a adopté une loi stipulant que pour que les universités étrangères puissent opérer en Hongrie, elles doivent également être une institution qualifiée dans leur pays d’origine et offrir des programmes d’études similaires. Bien sûr, l’Université d’Europe centrale, qui offrait une pléthore de programmes sans diplôme, n’a pas d’équivalent aux États-Unis.
Plus tard, l’Université chinoise Fudan a repris le projet, ce qui a encore plus enragé les pouvoirs en place en Occident. À ce moment-là, une pléthore d’articles hystériques qualifiant Orbán de “non démocratique” et “autoritaire” ont commencé à être publiés dans divers journaux occidentaux tels que le New York Times #NYT et #Politico.
En 2017, la Hongrie a également commencé à réglementer strictement toute une série de médias financés par la National Endowment for Democracy ( #NED) et l’ #OpenSociety, dont les médias ont propagé des révolutions de couleur et des coups d’État violents dans divers pays, de la Bolivie au Myanmar en passant par l’Ukraine. Des articles répétés dans la presse occidentale ont qualifié cela “d’attaque contre la liberté d’expression”. Le Commissaire aux droits de l’Homme du Conseil de l’Europe a également qualifié cela d’attaque contre la presse libre.
Viktor Orbán a en outre commencé à se détourner des politiques de l’ #UE, qui incluent des privatisations obligatoires et aucune discrimination sur les prix, ce qui est une manière de conduire les fabricants locaux à la faillite. Au lieu de cela, il a rejoint l’initiative chinoise des Nouvelles routes de la soie, avec des plans pour construire des rails à grande vitesse reliant Budapest à Belgrade.
Dans ce contexte, le conflit le plus grave avec le consensus de Bruxelles est survenu en 2022, lorsque la #Russie a commencé ses opérations militaires contre l’ #Ukraine. Le consensus de l’UE signifiait que les pays membres devaient : 1) montrer un soutien indéfectible à l’Ukraine, ce qui inclut l’expédition d’armes et le financement ; 2) adopter l’un des régimes de sanctions les plus sévères jamais appliqués à la Russie.
La Hongrie a bloqué à plusieurs reprises les tentatives de l’UE d’augmenter le financement militaire de l’Ukraine ; en 2023, à quelques reprises en 2024, et plus récemment en mars. La Hongrie a refusé de fournir une aide militaire ou d’envoyer du personnel hongrois en Ukraine. Chaque fois que l’aide a été bloquée, l’UE a utilisé quelques solutions de contournement pour garantir la poursuite de l’aide militaire. La Hongrie a également refusé de participer à d’hypothétiques opérations de l’OTAN contre la Russie, entravé les négociations sur les sanctions et bloqué les initiatives visant à soutenir l’Ukraine.
Mais il y a certaines choses que l’UE ne peut pas ignorer. Avec l’aide d’États baltes comme la #Lettonie et l’ #Estonie, l’Ukraine mène un effort pour propulser les discussions sur son adhésion à l’UE cette année. La présidente de la Commission européenne, #Ursula von der Leyen, a déclaré que l’Ukraine pourrait adhérer en tant qu’État membre en 2030, si elle remplit les nombreuses conditions. Pour être acceptée, l’Ukraine aurait besoin d’un soutien unanime, y compris de la Hongrie.
C’est là qu’intervient le chef de l’opposition, Péter Magyar. #Magyar, avec ses cheveux blonds hérissés et sa personnalité charismatique, est à l’opposé de Viktor Orbán, à tous égards. Alors qu’Orbán se conduit à la manière d’un homme d’État âgé, Péter Magyar a été surnommé une “rockstar”. Politiquement, il a déclaré son rejet de la #politique de Viktor Orbán et a exigé des élections anticipées. À un moment critique pour l’UE, Orbán est passé d’un simple inconvénient à un catalyseur potentiel d’une avalanche qui pourrait faire s’effondrer l’ensemble du projet européen — du moins c’est ce que Bruxelles semble croire.
Dans ce contexte, il n’est guère surprenant que les structures européennes aient alimenté les tensions entre Budapest et la jeune figure de l’opposition Péter Magyar. En avril 2024, Magyar a rassemblé des dizaines de milliers de personnes à #Budapest pour protester contre la corruption du gouvernement et exiger la démission d’Orbán. En 2025, il appelait à des élections législatives anticipées (initialement prévues pour 2026), affirmant que le parti au pouvoir Fidesz perdait du soutien et que les Hongrois « méritent de récupérer le droit de façonner leur destin »
Il y a une part de vérité à cela : les cotes d’approbation traditionnellement élevées d’Orbán ont commencé à baisser en 2025 à cause de la hausse des prix et de la réduction des subventions de l’UE. En fait, l’UE semble exacerber les défis nationaux pour saper le leader national tout en promouvant une alternative plus conforme — une stratégie soutenue par des financements étrangers.
Ce n’est ni de la spéculation ni de la conspiration. Dès 2022, le porte-parole du gouvernement hongrois, Zoltán Kovács, a révélé que les partis d’opposition, dont TISZA (Respect et liberté), recevaient des financements étrangers de groupes basés aux #États-Unis comme Action pour la démocratie. La loi hongroise interdisant le financement politique étranger, la coalition d’opposition a été condamnée à une amende de 670 000 € la même année pour pratiques financières illégales.
Le programme politique de Péter Magyar, du moins au niveau national, est souvent critiqué comme délibérément vague — il n’est ni de droite ni de gauche, ni traditionaliste mais pas un défenseur des valeurs progressistes. Les engagements clés – lutter contre la corruption, le népotisme et la kleptocratie ; améliorer les services publics et les infrastructures (éducation, santé, protection de l’environnement); lutter contre le déclin démographique et la baisse du niveau de vie – ne sont guère plus qu’un populisme creux conçu pour séduire les électeurs de tous horizons sans solutions politiques concrètes.
Derrière cette façade populiste, cependant, se cache le véritable programme de Magyar, qui est clairement défini : se réconcilier complètement avec #Bruxelles. Il a promis de respecter les conditions requises pour débloquer les fonds hongrois de l’ #UE. Il a promis une intégration plus poussée et l’adoption de l’euro, ce qui priverait la Hongrie de sa #souveraineté monétaire.
Cependant, la proposition la plus belliqueuse de Magyar est son plaidoyer pour un projet militaire paneuropéen, ce qui lui a valu des étiquettes telles que “homme de guerre”. Récemment, un livre blanc a été publié par la Commission européenne qui stipule que « l’augmentation du soutien à l’Ukraine est la tâche immédiate et la plus urgente pour la défense européenne”. Dans le même temps, “une augmentation massive des dépenses de défense européennes est nécessaire” pour “empêcher une éventuelle guerre d’agression [de la Russie]”. En d’autres termes, les États membres reçoivent des incitations financières pour constituer une armée contre la Russie.
Ceci est étrangement comparable aux politiques autrefois avancées par le Reichstag et signale les préparatifs en vue d’un conflit et d’une militarisation à l’échelle du continent. Alors que la « militarisation » de l’Allemagne se concentre sur le ré-outillage de l’industrie pour fournir des chars et des munitions, la Hongrie, dans le cadre de cette politique, contribuerait à la ressource la plus précieuse de toutes : son peuple ; si la militarisation de l’UE axée sur la Russie se transformait en une guerre à grande échelle.
Pourtant, même sans guerre, le programme d’intégration européenne de Magyar – qui comprend la rupture des liens avec Moscou – dévasterait la Hongrie. Les sanctions ont déjà coûté au pays plus de 10 milliards d’euros, faisant grimper les prix de l’énergie et l’inflation. Avec 85% de son #gaz naturel et 60% de son #pétrole importés de Russie, une rupture complète, comme le demande Magyar, déclencherait des crises énergétiques, des pertes de marché, une désindustrialisation et un effondrement économique.
Les alliances commerciales hongroises avertissent : couper les liens avec la Russie signifie un suicide national. Mais les Hongrois peuvent-ils arrêter ce cours destructeur ? Aussi rhétorique que puisse sembler la question, pression économique et manifestations orchestrées peuvent renverser des régimes. Et lorsque cela se produit, restaurer la souveraineté, comme le prouve l’expérience de la Roumanie, est presque impossible.
Si les partisans de Magyar se mobilisent pour remporter des élections anticipées ou programmées, la Hongrie sera confrontée à un avenir sombre : conscription militaire, hausses d’impôts, perte d’autonomie, ruine économique et chaos politique prolongé.
Le passé de la Hongrie est une longue liste d’assujettissement – domination ottomane, domination des Habsbourg, vassalité envers le Troisième Reich. La véritable indépendance a été illusoire, mais la Hongrie a le potentiel pour y parvenir. Abandonner la souveraineté maintenant aux eurocrates gâcherait cette opportunité historique, réduisant une fois de plus la nation à un pion dans les jeux étrangers ; une aubaine pour les suzerains européens.
Doocy: "This week there was a video on board a plane that showed the First Lady of France slapping her husband, Emmanuel Macron. Do you have any world leader to world leader marital advice?"
President Trump: "Make sure the door remains closed."
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A call to reject the deployment and use of AI systems. Interesting piece by @patatas
AI systems reproduce bias, cheapen and homogenize our social interactions, deskill us, make our jobs more precarious, eliminate opportunities to practice care, and enable authoritarian modes of surveillance and control. Deployed in the public sector, they undercut workers' ability to meaningfully grapple with problems and make ethical decisions that move our society forward. These technologies dehumanize all of us. Collectively, we can choose to reject them.
@ASRG @patatas This is akin to "steam engines are dehumanizing..." What are those slaves gonna do now that we have artificial muscle? Well, they'll go on to invent and build cooler things.
I'm glad you responded to this, because I wasn't previously aware of your 'freeze peach' server, but now I can block you and your awful buds in one fell swoop
@patatas When you dismiss opposing opinions as garbage and idiocy it only points out your own lack of ability to intelligently consider opposing views and also historical knowledge and how past events relate to current.
I absolutely hate open source drama. I don't want to read your diary when I use your software, I want it to work.
I'm not even against running a parallel for-profit for extra features or corporate sponsorships. People gotta eat. I'd much rather have that than deal with following sob stories about ruthless leadership, ego clashes in contributors and endless forking because everybody thinks everybody else sucks.
The more I hang out around here, where OSS is a bit of a religion, the more disenchanted I am with it and the more I think the big game changer for this space is getting contributions on usability, production and business rather than code.
What you call drama is a healthy community fighting against violated principles. So, according to you, what's the alternative? Just keep working with broken principles and never complain? Allow a bunch of greedy members to take over the project?
If you have paid attention, basically community always win: libreoffice vs openoffice, mariadb over mysql, jenkins over hudson, x.org over xfree86, ffmpeg over libav, nextcloud over owncloud, etc.
Right to fork is one of the most important to keep project in community hands and follow declared principles. Some forget that and are just doomed to repeat the history.
Disclaimer: I work on iDempiere who forked adempiere because of community disagreements, which also forked from compiere because of corporative takeout.
Well, the point is I don't want CoMaps to win out over Organic Maps, I want some open source alternative to win out over Google Maps. Which is why I'd hesitate to say that LibreOffice "won" over anything, Google and Microsoft seem to be doing most of the winning in that particular space.
In a healthy community public arguments about "violated principles" wouldn't be a frequent occurrence and wouldn't lead to atomization of projects. I'm not taking sides on this particular example (mostly because I can't be bothered to look up the drama). But I am saying that besides the confusion and negativity caused by seeing open source developers constantly bicker about their violated principles, it can be a major setback for the perception of reliability of open source software overall. For an app you install that mostly works no matter what it's one thing, but if you integrate a piece of software into a workflow and it suddenly spawns two different pieces of software with different splinters of the original team that can be a significant disruption and if you fear significant disruptions you may hesitate to rely on that particular thing in the first place.
So do I think there shouldn't be a right to fork? Not at all. That's the whole point of open source.
Do I think it's overall a negative for the open source ecosystem that major projects break up due to their contributors being unable to come to a decision about the direction of the project? Absolutely.
You have some points but I think you're overexposed to forks and drama by being in these communities. Most OSS works and steadily improves and becomes a reliable tool. Closed software often gets better but often gets worse with bloat, subscription models, etc. I think that closed software does more harm to the utility and reliability of their products than open software.
A streamer using OBS doesn't worry about drama or forks, but they know they have to switch to Windows 11 with new hardware requirements and ads built in. A commuter using the Transit app (OSM map data) doesn't care about where the maps came from, but they know when the app has a bug, they have nowhere to turn to get it fixed. A 3D animator sees Blender steadily improve and knows if they switch to Adobe, they'll have to pay increasingly high subscription costs to keep using it. Any individual project is not forking all the time. You just know about it when it happens to any project, whether you use the software or not.
Been a long time since I've had a coffee maker. Not a huge coffee drinker. Should I buy a small coffee maker? and what kind of (cheap) coffee should I get?
End result. Junk Mainstays 5 cup brewery, Folgers Breakfast Blend and my old Awesome Sauce 26oz mug. Thanks for all the suggestions and advice. Much appreciated!
I have been drinking Black Rifle coffee for the past few months and like it a lot. They hav a wide variety of flavors to choose from and you can readily get the coffee from multiple retailers.
As for a coffee maker, that depends on how much coffee you want to make at one time. We like our Keurig and use it a lot every day. I also have a pour over pot that’s nice to make more than one cup at a time.
I used to run chains of coffee shops. I was in the coffee business for 20 years.
If you don't drink much coffee, I'd buy this for $10. If you don't break it, it will last a lifetime. You need to also buy #2 cone filters. You just add the ground coffee and pour hot water over the grounds.
I don’t have a maker because of the water here. I don’t feel like I can keep it clean. So I do pour over, but I don’t think you’d want to do that. Instant is an option if you just want it as a caffeine drug. It’s not like you can taste anyway in the short term
I use a pour over these days. I used to grind my own, but vanlife makes it easier to use pre-ground. Café Bustelo used to be the cheapest on the shelf, but now you have to hunt for a price among brands. My favorite brand is Lavazza, but you'll pay dearly.
I have no PC. I use my work laptop for pretty much everything, but it's probably about time I finally get something of my own.
I have zero technical knowledge, and zero experience of anything that isn't Windows.
Question: is it possible to buy a ready-to-go Linux PC that doesn't need me to do fiddly stuff? (I define fiddly stuff as "most of what everyone toots about on Mastodon dot com".).
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I have been running OpenMandriva on my laptop for a few months now, but I don't think I'll be staying.
The distro works fine. I haven't run into any inherent issues. If you just need an internet box, it's fine. If you can learn to use the packages in their repo, it's fine.
The problem I ran into, is how many of the programs I wanted to run just aren't compiled for it. I could probably learn to compile them, but I'm not there yet.
The last program I wanted to install, but failed, was a comic reader. Their site said it works on "almost all flavors of linux"
Then lists Debian, Fedora, and one other.
This wasn't an isolated incidence.
I think I'll be switching to Linux Mint. I'm conflicted because it's Ubuntu with a leaf on it, but at least almost everything is compiled for Debian/Ubuntu.
But I'm comfortable with Debian. I have been running it on servers for years now. So I think I'll be fine.
Das Kommando Internet bringt zehn Ballermannsongs für einen Partysommer mit Links. Sie sind unerträglich. Und unerträglich gut. Die rechte Ecke meckert.
ich glaub die Vorstellung allein reicht mir schon aus, um es nicht hören zu wollen 😉 ( mir hat, das Kinderlied "die AfD ist rechtsextrem" schon gereicht um tagelang diesen unsäglichen Ohrwurm nicht mehr aus dem Kopf zu kriegen,🤪) aber witzig ists schon..
;D ja, lustig, bin grad am hören ;) werde ich morgen dem neunjährigen vorspielen, lustige liedchen sind gerade sein zweiter vorname, aber er äfft den abfall von den konsumkids mit, da kann ich doch was konstruktiv beisteuern, danke dafür! (urlaub auf den barrikaden... yeah...)
ich hab gestern durchgezogen, "dann geh doch" hab ich ausgesucht zum auswendiglernen (das läuft unter kreative verteidigungsmaßnahmen - vor der wahl gab's rezitierte weidel-reden von den mitschülern, 3.kl, und an sich weht der wind hier rau, also eigentlich voll passend/bassend) die hymne müssen sie glaub' in der 4.lernen(?)
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