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Depuis un certain temps, les responsables politiques français ne parlent que de réindustrialisation. Avec des années de retard, ils ont fini par réaliser que l’industrie, finalement, était importante. Non seulement en elle-même, mais pour les effets d’entraînement qu’elle a sur l’ensemble de l’économie. S’il en était besoin, la crise du covid, les tensions géopolitiques, les guerres commerciales, la transition écologique sont venues rappeler combien il est essentiel de maîtriser nombre de productions, de chaînes de valeur, de canaux d’approvisionnement et de technologies.
« Il est difficile de parler d’un seuil de masse critique pour l’industrie, cadre Vincent Vicard, auteur de Faut-il réindustrialiser la France ? et économiste au Centre d’études prospectives et d'informations internationales (Cepii). Mais il est indéniable qu’il existe des logiques industrielles, des écosystèmes. Leur rôle est compliqué à évaluer. Ils peuvent varier selon les secteurs : la défense et l’aéronautique n’ont pas les mêmes ressorts que l’automobile. Leur disparition a des effets très longs et préjudiciables, notamment au niveau local. » Une industrie réduite à peau de chagrin
Michelin, Valeo, Fonderie de Bretagne, ArcelorMittal à Reims et à Denain, tout le secteur automobile, qui connaît une crise sans précédent, se retrouve en première ligne. L’émergence du véhicule électrique, qui bouleverse les technologies, les savoir-faire acquis depuis plus d’un siècle, la concurrence sans frein chinoise, mais aussi des stratégies cupides inadaptées sont en train d’ébranler une filière qui est au cœur de l’économie européenne. Donnant un aperçu des dégâts provoqués par une transition écologique et industrielle mal pensée et mal conduite.
Mais les sinistres ne s’arrêtent pas là et vont bien au-delà des conflits sociaux emblématiques de Vencorex ou Exxon. Chimie, papier, métallurgie, matériaux de construction, équipements industriels et même pharmacie… pas un secteur industriel ne semble épargné. La CGT a recensé 286 plans sociaux depuis septembre 2023. Il faut remonter aux années sombres de la crise de 2009-2010 pour retrouver une saignée comparable.
Le drame est que ces nouvelles destructions viennent affaiblir un peu plus un tissu industriel déjà particulièrement fragilisé. À l’exception de la Grande-Bretagne, aucun autre pays européen que la France ne s’est converti avec autant de zèle aux « lois darwiniennes » du marché. Aucun n’a accepté une désindustrialisation aussi accélérée. Un mouvement souvent poussé par nos « champions nationaux » adeptes des délocalisations à outrance, et d’une industrie sans usines.
Entre 1974 et aujourd’hui, la part de l’industrie dans le PIB est tombée de 28,7 % à 10 % – un niveau comparable à celui de ces grands pays industriels que sont le Luxembourg ou Malte –, quand elle est encore de 23 % en Allemagne, de 18 % en Italie. Ces derniers ont pourtant des coûts salariaux comparables.
Un des exemples les plus marquants est à nouveau dans le secteur automobile. Depuis la fin des années 1990, nos deux constructeurs ont systématiquement opté pour la délocalisation dans des pays à bas coûts. Dès 2015, Renault et PSA produisaient moins de voitures sur le territoire français qu’au début des années 1960, entraînant déjà la fermeture ou la délocalisation de nombre de leurs sous-traitants.
« Pour acheter un véhicule produit en France, il va falloir acheter du Toyota », grince, amère, Sophie Binet. Le constructeur automobile japonais continue, lui, de produire en France et gagne de l’argent, ce qui tend à prouver qu’il n’y a pas de fatalité à la désindustrialisation. Encore faut-il en avoir l’ambition. Effet domino
Ces abandons industriels se sont accompagnés d’une destruction considérable du capital humain, rarement prise en compte. Des savoir-faire, des compétences, accumulés parfois depuis des décennies, ont été liquidés dans l’indifférence générale. Entre 1974 et 2023, le nombre d’emplois dans l’industrie est tombé de 5,5 millions à 3,2 millions. « Les nouvelles technologies, la hausse de la productivité ont conduit à la suppression d’une partie des emplois industriels. Mais d’une partie seulement », explique Vincent Vicard.
Les politiques publiques mises en œuvre ces dernières années ont juste permis de stabiliser le nombre d’emplois industriels. Mais une nouvelle hémorragie se profile. Selon les estimations de la CGT, plus de 70 586 emplois sont directement menacés. Auxquels il faut ajouter la menace sur les emplois indirects, qui pourraient aller de 54 664 à 129 744 postes, selon ses hypothèses.
L’effet domino risque de jouer à plein. Au-delà de la fermeture d’un site, de la suppression d’emplois, tout le tissu économique environnant, des clients aux fournisseurs, en passant par les prestataires de services sont menacés. Car, même réduite, l’industrie reste l’un des principaux vecteurs de la création d’emploi à haute valeur ajoutée – recherche et innovation, cabinets d’ingénierie, informatique, gestion des données, cybersécurité, financement et même avocats d’affaires –, devenus indispensables à l’économie. Lorsqu’un site industriel disparaît, ils disparaissent aussi, si la dynamique territoriale n’est pas suffisante pour permettre leur maintien.
Trente ans ou quarante ans après, des territoires entiers dans le Nord, les Vosges, le Centre ou ailleurs portent encore les stigmates de la disparition de leurs usines textiles, minières, métallurgiques, de chaussures ou d’électroménager. Peu d’activités sont parvenues à prendre le relais.
Les gouvernements successifs n’ont guère tiré de leçons de ces expériences amères. Ne jurant que par la politique de l’offre, toutes leurs initiatives menées pour tenter d’attirer des investisseurs, de nouveaux sites industriels, reposent sur les mêmes ingrédients. L’attractivité se décline sous le seul angle d’une compétitivité par l’abaissement du coût du travail en négligeant tous les autres paramètres.
Plus de 26,8 milliards d’euros ont été dispensés par an depuis 2020 en allégements fiscaux et sociaux et en subventions, distribués sans contrepartie ni contrôle, selon la Cour des comptes. Pour un résultat des plus médiocres, de l’avis même de l’institution. « Les projets en France comportent moins de créations de site qu’en Allemagne et au Royaume-Uni », note-t-elle dans son dernier rapport sur la politique industrielle publiée fin novembre. Absence de dynamique
Le constat n’est guère étonnant. Ces dernières années, une véritable bataille s’est engagée entre les pays, notamment en Europe, afin d’attirer de nouvelles industries, de rattraper les retards accumulés dans les nouvelles technologies (semi-conducteurs, intelligence artificielle, médicaments, gigafactories). Les grands groupes font monter les enchères autant qu’ils le peuvent, essayant de décrocher les conditions les plus favorables en termes de subventions, exemptions par rapport au fisc, au droit du travail, au droit de l’environnement et autres.
Dans ces bagarres, la France est le plus souvent perdante. Non pas parce qu’elle offre moins d’argent public, ou moins d’exemptions. Mais parce que l’attractivité se mesure bien au-delà du coût du travail. Elle englobe une série de facteurs que les politiques industrielles n’ont cessé de négliger. En termes de compétences, de savoir-faire, de dynamique industrielle, la France offre beaucoup moins que les pays voisins en concurrence.
Les grandes plateformes industrielles, offrant débouchés, filières, réservoir de main-d’œuvre formée, universités, centres de recherche, sont de moins en moins nombreuses. Les dépenses de recherche et développement, d’innovation ont été déléguées, au nom de la bonne gestion, au privé. En dépit de l’explosion du crédit d’impôt recherche (plus de 7 milliards d’euros en 2023), la recherche française ne cesse de reculer. Les écoles de commerce ont été privilégiées aux formations d’ingénieurs.
Et pour faire bonne mesure, les pouvoirs publics, au nom de la bonne gestion, ont supprimé nombre de services publics – tribunaux, perceptions, gares, puis hôpitaux, postes et maintenant écoles –, dégradant un peu plus l’attractivité des territoires les moins bien lotis, accélérant l’exode des emplois plus qualifiés vers les grands centres.
Si aucune politique d’envergure ne vient arrêter la destruction industrielle en cours et corriger les excès passés, cette désertification économique risque de s’accélérer, accentuant le sentiment d’abandon de nombreux habitants sur tout le territoire. Elle risque aussi de condamner l’économie française à une stagnation, n’étant plus capable de créer que des emplois de troisième zone, précarisés et mal payés.
nope, I got nerdsniped by the changelog, but that's a job that had to happen before 4.0 anyway. I'll do the tarball tomorrow perhaps. There's still a stack of issues that need to be added, but I'll do that another time.
There's probably a thread in what I want to achieve with the changelog/release notes, but the short version is I think it's hard because it requires altering your perspective from developer to user (or occasionally packager).
For example I just removed an entry that says "The HTML-based configuration UI now uses Alpine.js instead of AngularJS" because this should be invisible to users and packagers, and it is not actionable.
The Rust port is a high-priority entry, not because it has any impact on day-to-day use of fish, but because it has major implications on packagers -- including the dropping of at least one platform.
Anyway, this is probably the biggest blocker of releases: I spend a lot of time polishing the release notes. It is not clear to me whether the cost is worth it.
It's not cutting the actual release, which is about fifteen minutes of copy-pasting from the checklist and waiting for various processes. Communicating the release also takes a lot longer than actually making it.
These are the draft release notes for fish 4.0.0. Like this release of fish itself, they are in beta and are not complete. Please report any issues you find.
fish’s core code has been ported from C...
I’m wondering why this is? “Download links: To download the source code for fish, we suggest the file named "fish-4.0b1.tar.xz". The file downloaded from "Source code (tar.gz)" will not build correctly. The SHA-256 sum of this file is 534334e10f85722214e9daff82a57cc3501235523f16f8f131c2344e4ec98da7. A GPG signature from David Adam (key ID 0x7A67D962D88A709A) is available as "fish-4.0b1.tar.xz.asc".”
most CHANGELOG/release notes don't really seem to have any impact on the adoption of the program. Every Android app just says "Bug fixes and improvements", autogenerated texts like Homebrew's are impenetrable, and they're doing way better than we are at getting releases out the door.
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EDITORIAL: Does it sometimes seem like life is too much about paying bills then dying? Karl Marx – a communist – agreed with you. You might need to rethink your outlook on life.
Super Bayrou : à 73 ans, ce parasite de l’argent public cumule 6 fonctions importantes !
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L’actuel Premier ministre François Bayrou cumule, à 73 ans, une impressionnante liste de postes importants : Premier ministre d’un pays en ruines, Maire de Pau (ville de 77.000 habitants, travail qui devrait, à lui seul, lui prendre 100% de son temps), Président de la communauté d’agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées (164.785 habitants, 144 millions de budget), Président du MoDem depuis 17 ans (réélu président avec 96 % des suffrages exprimés, un score stalinien), Co-président du Parti Démocrate Européen, haut-commissaire au Plan et secrétaire général du CNR et il veut rétablir le cumul des mandats. L’âge de la retraite ne vaut pas pour nos parasites, la soupe est trop bonne.
Faut-il rappeler que le 8 février 2024 le parquet a fait appel de la relaxe de François Bayrou dans l’affaire des emplois fictifs des assistants parlementaires européens par l’UDF-MoDem (eux-mêmes condamnés ainsi que de nombreux collaborateurs), estimant que « les faits caractérisent les infractions reprochées et que les preuves de ces délits sont réunies contre tous les prévenus ». Nous avons donc, aujourd’hui en France, un PM qui attend la date du procès en appel pour une grave affaire de détournement de fonds publics.
Vous comprenez maintenant pourquoi rien ne va plus en France ! Tout le monde comprend qu’il ne travaille pas, que ce sont d’autres qui réalisent le travail, des complices médiocres, des deuxièmes mains soumises ! Pendant ce temps les meilleurs quittent le navire, dégoutés par les magouilles politiciennes.
TRIBUNE – Historique. Pour la première fois, toutes les associations labellisées du spectacle vivant et les festivals signent une tribune dénonçant les coupes franches opérées partout dans la culture, qui menacent jusqu’à l’existence même des artiste…
The plan is literally to implement the TV set from "Idiocracy", filled with AI-generated garbage and ads.
Catherine Zhang, TCL’s vice president of content services and partnerships, then explained to the audience that TCL’s streaming strategy is to “offer a lean-back binge-watching experience” in which content passively washes over the people watching it. “Data told us that our users don’t want to work that hard,” she said. “Half of them don’t even change the channel.”
“With premium original content, precise ad-targeting capability, and an AI-powered, innovative engaging viewing experience, TCL’s content service will continue its double-digit growth next year.”
When you've served in 3 branches of the military like Will C, you basically know everything there is to know about the military. In this clip from his first ...
it's fucking hard being critical of everything, while still remaining positive.
There are positive things in the world. Knowing motivations is the hardest part, because sometimes you're afraid to find out what they are, or if you're right.
The League's purpose is, quite simply, to support the principle of Monarchy. It represents adherents of differing styles of Monarchy, from Constitutionalists to Absolutists, recognizing that differing traditions require differing styles of leadership.
The only reason to have a universalist religion is control. The pagan gods were specific to cultures, but even more were hierarchical and esoteric. No use as a control structure. But enter in the Abrahamic gods, and you sudden have Truth to worship, and it must be imposed on all, especially those ignorant and uneducated pagans, for us to reach Babel Utopia. I do not disagree with the aim of the Christian religion -- increased holiness through mental self-discipline, basically what Plato and Buddha said -- but I disagree with the method, which is universalism expressed as metaphysical dualism.
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So, if you’re a dedicated PC gamer, you're not content to just collect games through Steam. Nah. You’re probably getting your games through other stores as well!
And if you’ve got an Amazon Prime account, you can get a bunch of free games each month across the most popular stores, too! For instance, I just got BioShock through GOG because of my Amazon Prime subscription. But how do you actually PLAY GOG Games on your Steam Deck? That’s exactly what this video is going to cover.
Keep in mind that for this video I’m using a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard connected to my Steam Deck, but all of this is possible to do with just the built-in controls. If you get to point where the right trackpad is no longer controlling your mouse cursor, you can hold the Steam button and it will put the right trackpad into mouse mode. You can also hold the Steam button and press X to bring up the virtual keyboard.
Now, there are two ways to do this and we’ll cover them both. Then we’ll review the pros and cons of each method, so stick around to the end of the video for that!
Heroic Game Launcher
The first option is Heroic Games Launcher. Heroic is a separate application from Steam, but it also offers greater flexibility and control over the games you have installed, how they’re launched, and their Proton configuration. If you like having control and you don’t mind a few minor inconveniences, Heroic is an excellent option.
The first step to getting set up is to switch over to Desktop mode. Hit the STEAM button, then go to Power → Switch to Desktop Mode.
Now, let’s open up Discover store. If it’s not down here on your task bar, you can click on the Deck logo and search for Discover.
Next, let’s apply any updates that are pending. This can take a few minutes.
Finally, in the search field type in “Heroic Games” and it should be the first result. Once it’s done installing, I’d recommend going into the Start menu, search for “Heroic Games,” and then right-click (left trigger if you’re using the Deck’s controls), then select “Add to Steam.” This will enable you to launch Heroic from game mode.
Now, let’s launch Heroic and click on “Manage Accounts.” This will allow you to sign in to your GOG Account as well as your Epic Games and Amazon Prime accounts.
Go ahead and get logged in here and then let’s head to the Library page. I’m gonna install BioShock as well as SimCity 2000. I’m gonna try SC2K first. It will ask about which version of Proton you want to use. You can just select OK here. After a few moments, the game should launch. And there’s SimCity 2000.
Let’s see about BioShock. Again, we have the usual installation process and then the game launches. Excellent.
I want to point out that if you find Heroic Game Launcher worth your while, you can support them on Patreon or Ko-fi. They’re a truly awesome utility and Linux gaming would be worse off without them.
At any point, we can head back into game mode, navigate to Library → Non-Steam Games → Heroic Games Launcher. Once you’ve got it started, you can launch any game. To get back to Heroic while your game is running, you can hit the STEAM button. You’ll see Heroic Games Launcher at the top of the options on the left. Go into this menu and then, at the bottom of the list you’ll see Heroic Games Launcher. This will let you switch window has focus.
Junk-Store
At the top of this video, I mentioned that there are two ways to set up GOG games on your Deck. The first way (Heroic) is simpler to get started with. The other?
The other is a little more involved. It’s also not free. But I does provide a way to get your GOG games feeling a little more “at home” on your Deck.
To get started, you’ll need to set up DeckyLoader. I’ve made a video about that here. This step is crucial so make sure you check that out. When you’ve got DeckyLoader set up, come back here.
The next step, let’s go into Game Mode, push the Quick Access Menu button and then go to the plugins tab. Here, you’ll see the store icon in the top right. Open that up and then search for Junk-Store.
Go ahead and install it. This plugin initially only gives you access to Epic Games which you are free to take advantage of. But if you want GOG, there are a few more steps we need to take.
Let’s drop into Desktop mode. Hit the STEAM button, then go to Power → Switch to Desktop Mode.
Open up your favorite web browser and head to one of the two links in the description; choose between JunkStore’s Patreon and Ko-fi pages. You can either become a Patron of their campaign and contribute monthly, or you can buy the GOG extension for a one time payment of $6.
Once you’ve made your purchase, download the latest version of the GOG extension and then open the zip file. Now, open up Dolphin (the file manager) and go to your home folder. Next, find Homebrew → data → Junk-Store. Finally, extract these files here.
Now, click Start and log out. Once you’re back in game mode, let’s hit the Quick Access Button and then navigate to Plugins → JunkStore → “About”. Finally, go to the dependencies tab and hit “Install Dependencies”
Once this is complete, we’re ready to install games from our GOG Library. Go back into the Junk-Store plugin. Then select Games. At the top of the screen you should see supported stores including GOG and EPIC. On the GOG tab, you should see a “Login” button. Let’s hit that and then fill in our credentials. After a few moments, you should see your GOG library appear.
Go ahead and install your favorite games and launch them!
Once your games are installed, you can launch them from this screen or from the Non-Steam Games section of your Library.
If you’re enjoying this video and want to see more content like this, go ahead and hit that like button. I post new videos every Monday and Friday so get subscribed so you don’t miss that! You can also support the work I’m doing here on Patreon or as a YouTube Member. Now, let’s get to the pros and cons.
Pros and Cons
Aside from the obvious differences of UI and ease of installation, why would you want one over the other?
The way I see it, there are two big things to consider.
JunkStore offers a simply and easy way to get a game installed into your Steam library where Heroic does not. Why is that important? And it’s because games installed through JunkStore can have their own individual Steam Input profiles set.
There are ways to do this with Heroic, but it’s much more of a manual process.
JunkStore also uses the native Steam Play support afforded by Steam. This means that managing which version of Proton the game runs through is a breeze. But it also is limited.
Heroic, on the other hand, gives you many more options when it comes to setup. If you need finer control, Heroic is the way to go.
So that’s the video. No matter which option you decide to go with, you’ve now got access to your GOG Library on Steam Deck. Even better: both of these options should work on other Linux gaming distros, as well.
I want to give a special shoutout to my Patrons and my YouTube Members. These folks make my work possible. You can find details on how to get your name listed here with the link below. That’s going to do it for now. Thanks for watching. I hope you all have a great day and I’ll see you next time!
-- Chapters -- 00:00 Introduction 00:31 Usability Notes 01:10 GOG Games through Heroic Games Launcher 04:06 Junk-Store GOG Extension 06:56 Pros & Cons
Heroic Launcher is absolutely awesome. It's such a great way to add non-Steam games to your library, without having to do all the manual setup yourself. It's a seriously impressive piece of work.
I'd love to see something like Heroic become the basis of an alternative shell environment for handhelds. SteamOS is great, but there just aren't really any open alternatives to Big Picture Mode yet.
No, he killed an unarmed man walking down the street because of the overwhelming but somehow still legally allowed corruption in the man's field of business. That's murder in the first for anyone, I don't care who you are.
Most Americans should be questioning why a health insurance CEO is being considered part of the government by the government but instead they'll just keep talking about how sexy they think Luigi is.
Don Pettit is one of the astronauts currently on board the International Space Station. He's also a serious shutterbug and amateur astronomer. To take advantage of his current lofty perspective, he rigged up a special star tracking mount that he could use to take long-exposure astrophotos from the ISS. The homemade orbital sidereal tracker rotates at a 90-minute period to match the pitch rate of the ISS, allowing him to take 30-second exposures.
Trump is sticking with his destroyers because they're his people. We're told that this time around, he's vastly less inclined to second-guess his instincts when senators or advisers warn him to be more cautious.
Face recognition has been creeping into our lives for years. Are we looking at a future where we can’t escape it? Opt out! aclu.org/news/privacy-technolo…
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Video and data gathered by the Wall Street Journal from over 200 Tesla Autopilot crashes shows that longstanding concerns about Tesla’s camera-based technology, which differs from the rest of the industry, are showing up on the roads and putting the public at risk.
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Video and data gathered by the Wall Street Journal from over 200 Tesla Autopilot crashes shows that longstanding concerns about Tesla’s camera-based technolo...
everything is in position to start welding on the frame. my only hope is now that i didn't embed little bits of paint in the metal by grinding that will contaminate the welds. that, and any paint on the back side is going to catch on fire, and a few of them are near the fuel line.
maybe i'll keep the fire extinguisher handy over here and a spray bottle of water...
'UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI' theguardian.com/technology/202… creatives won't be the last people sacrificed to this government's 'growth through AI' delusion
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Large firms have been less impacted by the changes the Brexit has brought to cross border trade with the EU;
for the most part the largest firms have managed to maintain or expand their business across borders by responding to the new situation... however, overall imports & exports have declined because other than the top 20% of firms all the rest have either reduced or completely stopped their trade with Europe.
For an economy as open as the UK this is seriously concerning!
The DNC hacks can't handle it Trump broke them even more after they tried to get rid of him after cheating him out of a second term Now he's won the Electoral College and Popular Vote They have no argument here nor care for the Constitution They just want to do whatever they want with rules the make up as they go as long as it ensures they are in power She's on her way out anyway
Today's story features interviews with two recent cryptocurrency heist victims (one who lost > $4.5M) who were hit by the same scammers. The fraudsters used:
-Google Assistant to automate outgoing calls to victims warning of a security incident with their account, and to press 1 to speak to a rep;
-An email from google.com warning about an email hacking incident, including the name and phone number of the Google rep who will be calling. The alerts were sent via Google Forms, which makes them come from google.com.
-Victims were convinced someone had taken over their accounts when they received an alert pop up on their mobile from Google, asking if they were trying to recover access to their account. By this time, the victims were convinced they were talking with Google, and clicked "yes, it's me" trying to recover access:
How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click
Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device.
Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from…
"Tony told KrebsOnSecurity that in the weeks following the theft of his 45 bitcoins, he became so consumed with rage and shame that he was seriously contemplating suicide. Then one day, while scouring the Internet for signs that others may have been phished by Daniel, he encountered Griffin posting on Reddit about the phone number involved in his recent bitcoin theft.
Griffin said the two of them were initially suspicious of each other — exchanging cautious messages for about a week — but he decided Tony was telling the truth after contacting the FBI agent that Tony said was working his case. Comparing notes, they discovered the fake Google security alerts they received just prior to their individual bitcoin thefts referenced the same phony “Google Support Case ID” number."
2) "years ago he used Google Photos to store an image of the secret seed phrase that was protecting his cryptocurrency wallet"
3) "Google Authenticator by default also makes the same codes available in one’s Google account online"
next person:
4) "I put my seed phrase into a phishing site"
This is not a post about people being dumb, on the contrary. It's too easy to put trust into the wrong apps/web sites - and that's where the real issue lies.
The lesson should be: Your data is not safe in the cloud. Stop putting pictures, codes and security backups there.
I'm constantly hearing how crypto people are losing everything and yet they go on and on and on about how secure it is, and it just reminds me the whole thing is a con and a criminal enterprise.
"In reality, the thieves caused the alert to appear on his phone merely by stepping through Google’s account recovery process for Griffin’s Gmail address." Does this mean they had his password or auth code? Recovery notification couldn't be sent otherwise.
So much silliness because someone was too cheap to spend $50 on a proper fido2 hardware key. (I like the yubi, but there are other options)
Word to the wise: your cellular phone is a horrible MFA factor. Just horrible. If someone wants you to use your cell for MFA - add a heaping helping of mistrust there, because it means they don't listen to (or maybe have) security folks.
Thats going to be our Social Security Fund in a few months unless we find a way to stop the Republican Mafia from “investing” (stealing) OUR hard earned retirement fund 👀
I recall pundits saying just that in 2021, re. the cheating in AZ.
For a quick minute in 2021 it seemed that the AZ house of election cards would fall, but then, no, it never was actually even close to falling and continued on in fine form for the 2022 midterm and 2024 down ballot cheats.
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Not over yet including the voter fraud of 2020, 2022, & miscellaneous voter fraud throughout the nation in 2024 like CA, AZ, et al. per The Boss, President Donald J. Trump.
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The White Hats are culling the traitors out of the political herd for We The People & the world to see & ostracize. May they never be able to walk on the streets of this country without feeling the scorn of patriots.
so i shared a video of nintendo's luigi shooting people in a cartoon version of a "billionaire convention" and they completely deleted my account and all 7 of the accounts connected to it (some were parking usernames that bad actors liked to steal from me)
“I can’t leave Substack, the alternatives charge monthly fees!”
For a mid-sized paid newsletter, you will pay: Ghost Pro: $149–$269/month Beehiiv: $131–$218/month Buttondown: $239/month Mailchimp: $285/month Substack: $700/month
Cheapest option is self-hosting, though of course there is added time cost and a technical barrier to entry. I pay $100–$150/mo to self-host Ghost with a bit over 25,000 subscribers.
All of this is true, but I'd guess that most of those making that complaint have a small enough number of subscribers that they're "free" on the substack plan. To move from $0 to even a $50/month Ghost Pro entry level plan for the same number of users is a prohibitive jump in out-of-pocket costs.
Oh neat. I've been aware of this for a while and I'm glad in an academic sense that it exists. I guess I would need more people that I care about who are on Bluesky.
As an academic, there are several users on Bluesky I would like to follow. Sadly very few are bridged for now. Hopefully all Bluesky accounts will be open for bridging at some point.
Another advantage is that thanks to Bridgy I can convince my partner to join Mastodon instead of Bluesky to promote her work, as the reach is the same on either platform.
Somewhat selfishly, I'd suggest she try Mbin instead. It allows her to interact with both the microblog side of the fediverse (including bridges) and the thread side, from the same interface.
She's not interested in using any social media at all, she just wants a place to toot about her publications because it's part of the job. So some Mastodon instance specific to her field is pretty much as good as it gets for her usecase. As an academic the domain-specific Mastodon instances are pretty great.
THIS is what I keep telling people. The fediverse will win in the end as long as it bridges out to everyone. Because eventually the centralized services will die, or lose popularity. Myspace is dead. HotOrNot is dead. Digg is dead. Friendster is dead. Facebook is dying. YahooIM is dead. AOLIM/AIM is dead. ICQ is dead. MSN Messanger is dead.
All these communication services died because they were centrally supported. But if MissKey dies, the fediverse doesn't die. The MissKey users just migrate to a new service.
Now if twitter, and threads, and facebook, and reddit, and instagram, and all these other services integrate with the fediverse, the fediverse benefits. And if meta dies in 2042, that's fine. Threads will go away, and facebook, and whatsapp, and instagram will all go away. But the users will say "Now, I heard about pixelfed. Instagram is gone, lets just go to pixelfed."
Whereas HotOrNot users didn't have a fediverse they COULD federate with. So back then, the website just died, and nobody's heard of that concept for a website. There was no replacement. The userbase just ceased to exist.
The pillars for centralized services will fall in time with or without the fediverse. But WITH the fediverse connected before they fall, you implant the suggestion that there IS more out there to an audience that otherwise had no idea the fediverse existed.
Only reason I know of Lemmy/the fediverse is because I got autobanned from reddit. I went out of my way to search for a reddit replacement. Prior to that, I had no idea the fediverse existed. I think I vaguely heard of mastodon......but had no idea it was connected to a bigger network.
Blocking an instance is a powerful tool if it is what you have in mind. Blocking or defederating with such activitypub bridge may have unwanted side effects. It has been discussed before, when meta moved closer to the fediverse. Some kind of fediverse split may happen : those who connect with wallet garden platforms vs the others living in the fediverse as we know it today.
Doesn't make threads itself any more open. If the only thing that matters to be "open" is the individual's ability to block content from them why not "federate" with twitter?
I mean that's not the only thing, I can follow this MBin account that I'm using to talk with you from Threads, and I can interact with Threads posts as well, I've even gotten likes from there
Something like that is impossible with Twitter, altho I wouldn't be fully against the idea to reconnect with a few people I know who refused to leave it for whatever reason
Also, look at the bright side, people that use Threads at least don't use Twitter, I think it's a small step in the right direction, no?
You say that like I don't want to federate with twitter, and then choose who I block.
Because let's face it, 95% of the profiles ARE on twitter. Not everybody who uses social media gives one shit about open source. I'd say most on mastodon DO, but I'd say the vast majority on bluesky DON'T.
This will help you understand why bluesky has 24.5 active million users, and mastodon has 1.5 million active users.
Twitters new reputation is a rightwing hellhole. THAT'S why they're bleeding users. Bluesky is exactly like twitter in functionality, but left wing leaning.
Mastodon isn't political by nature, but functions very differently. The people who care about open source, and decentralized, and all these other things, those people signed up for mastodon. Everybody else who didn't care, didn't.
Now to be fair, mastodon has 10 million registered users, but only 1.5 active users. Compare that to blueskys 25 million users, with 24.5 active users.
Given mastodon's older age compared to bluesky, it suggests to me that at some point in the past, people signed up for mastodon as an alternative to twitter.....and by large have left the platform.
My speculation is that it probably happened when must bought twitter 2 years ago. Before bluesky became popular. Then they left when they realized mastodon works differently than twitter.
Threads is a great example of a company acknowledging that the open web exists and bringing content people want to places where they want to be. I'd like to be able to interact with everyone through one or two accounts, not have to maintain a Meta account, an Mbin account, a Google account, and all the rest.
You may not like it, but I believe the open web is about things like Threads being federated - individual platforms interacting freely, no matter who built them.
Threads acknowledges the fediverse like Microsoft acknowledged IRC. Their goal is to drain out the voices of all instances, since that is the only way to defeat a product not owned by a single entity. Will they accomplish it? Most likely not, but that doesn't make them any more appealing.
I don't remember MSN Messenger being able to handle IRC chats. If it had, I wouldn't have needed an IRC client. But Threads won't drown out other voices, they'll just add voices to the conversation. There's content on Threads that's worth following, and I don't think it's valuable to lose that because of a few engagement farms that you can either personally block or defederate.
Most social media has a leftward bias. Avoiding politics in any form of social media now is like trying to avoid plankton in ocean water - you might be able to do it, but you'll need a really tight filter.
George Stephanopoulos's future at ABC News hangs in the balance following a significant defamation settlement. Discover the implications of this turning point in his career.
Georgia senators want mental health funding and staffing to address prison deaths
“A lot of the deaths happening in the Georgia Department of Corrections are preventable,” said Nasir Jahid, who left the department’s custody almost two months ago. He told the panel that he saw two people die, including Garry Lloyd Gerald Matthews Jr. He and others had to repeatedly call for help and when officers finally arrived, they “stood by doing nothing,” Jahid told lawmakers.
A Georgia senate study committee released a report with nine recommendations to address long-running concerns about violence, deaths and neglect in the state’s prison system.
Russia's health ministry claims it has developed a personalized vaccine against cancer that will be rolled out to patients for free. It's unclear which cancers it is meant to treat or how effective it is.
Starmer’s vision isn’t for Britain. It’s for the enrichment of himself and his political associates. Start there, then the behaviour of this government [#Labour ] the previous one [ #Tory ] and very probably [#ReformUKPartyLtd ] as the next one makes absolute sense. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…
Christian SAINTE, promu à la tête de la toute puissante police judiciaire, est embourbé dans une affaire de violences familiales qui le rend susceptible au chantage et le soumet aux désidératas du pouvoir.
Visés en janvier 2021 par une plainte de son chauffeur pour harcèlement moral, qui dénonçait (photographies à l’appui) la présence de casquettes nazies et de trafics en tous genre au sein du service, Christian #SAINTE fait tout pour étouffer l’affaire avec sa numéro 2, Marie-Elisabeth CIATTONI, en s’attaquant notamment à l’avocat du plaignant.
Cet avocat, c’est moi, et la méthode utilisée a été très simple: Marie Elisabeth CIATTONI, directrice de la 1ère DPJ, s’est vue confier, en plein conflit d’intérêts, l’enquête sur mon vrai-faux kompromat, qu’elle a immédiatement publicisée pour faire pression sur la partie civile qui, rappelons-le, a affirmé à la procédure « ne jamais avoir porté plainte » et se sentir sous pression de la police.
Alors qu’elle se savait visée par une procédure pénale initiée par mes soins et qui l’amènerait à être longuement entendue par l’IGPN, Mme. CIATTONI décide de se maintenir à la tête de la direction de l’enquête, ce qui l’amènerait à falsifier des PV, faire disparaître des pièces et faire pression sur des témoins, parties et des experts pendant près des trois ans pour tenter de sauver une procédure aberrante.
Les informations recueillies par la 1ère DPJ remontaient à l’Elysée, plus précisément auprès d’Hélène Davo, conseillère justice de l’Elysée, et étaient ensuite disséminées de façon tronquée dans la presse pour tenter de me nuire et de faire pression sur la magistrature, mais également mon client.
Rappelons que ces individus ont joué un rôle clef pour étouffer les scandales de la #macronie, notamment l’affaire Laurent #Bigorgne (co-fondateur d’En Marche ayant tenté de droguer sa belle-soeur et employée, qu’ils feront échapper aux assises) mais également l’affaire #Benalla, sauvant notamment le directeur de cabinet de l'Elysée.
Dans la foulée, Mme. #CIATTONI a été promue auprès de M. SAINTE comme toute-puissante cheffe d’état-major de la #PJ, à l’échelle nationale. Voilà ce à quoi vous expose ce pays le fait de dire la vérité et de, sans crainte, défendre l’intégrité de personnes honnêtes.
En l’espèce, un policier de la brigade fluviale à la carrière exemplaire qui, après avoir servi au sein de nos armés, serait traumatisé d’avoir eu à repêcher le corps décomposé d’une collègue, Amandine, morte noyée dans la Seine du fait de défaillances incontestables de son service. Un homme qui, reclassé auprès du directeur de la PJ pour le tenir en silence, y découvrant la pourriture du pouvoir, aurait pour seul tort que de le dénoncer, se faisant littéralement jeter à la rue par l’IGPN après avoir tenté de porter plainte seul, avant de faire appel à moi pour l’aider. Une procédure pour prise illégale d’intérêts a été enclenchée à l’encontre de Mme. CIATTONI. Trois autres instructions sont en cours pour faire la vérité.
Elle est aujourd’hui protégée par le parquet de Paris, qui fait tout pour entraver les procédures visant à faire la vérité. Elle sera demain, si la France redevient un Etat de droit, poursuivie et condamnée, pour avoir monté une des affaires les plus scandaleuses du siècle, dont je peux vous assurer qu’elle ne fait que commencer.
As we continue to see sustained death + disablement due to COVID, the public health + disability justice implications of criminalizing mask-wearing are disastrous. Mask bans also violate our fundamental civil liberties. themarshallproject.org/2024/11…
Le cynisme de l'Oxydant est inqualifiable. Depuis qu'il a permis à ses bandes criminelles de détruire le dernier grand État laïc issu du nationalisme arabe, il n'y a plus de tintamarre sur #Daesh, #Al-Qaïda, #Al-Nosra.... Plus d'aboiements dans les #médias sur la lutte contre le #terrorisme. Rien ! Et dire que personne ne croyait les analystes avisés qui, depuis une trentaine d'années, affirmaient, preuves à l'appui, que le #jihadisme, c'est eux, Been Laaden, c'est encore eux, Al Qaïda, c'était leur créature, etc. Ces analystes étaient-ils des devins ? Non. Ils s'appuyaient simplement sur la naissance des Frères musulmans, une création des services d'intelligence anglo-saxons pour contrecarrer le nationalisme arabe, incarné par le Parti Baas. Les mêmes analystes se rappelaient également la montée des mouvements fascistes dans les années 1930-1930, où la grande bourgeoisie avait lancé ses gangs criminels recrutés parmi le lumpenprolétariat pour détruire le mouvement ouvrier et les organisations communistes. L'histoire semble se répéter. Nkolo Foé .
El Ayuntamiento del PP de Zaragoza sigue con su obsesión de no dejar ni un árbol en pie. Plazas de cemento sin árboles, talas para poner foodtrucks y ahora destruir los Pinares de Venecia El día 21 los vecinos de Torrero y de toda Zaragoza se lo dejarán bastante claro.
All-powerful God, renew us by the coming feast of your Son and free us from our slavery to sin. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
⚠️Threads.net has blocked us from federating with them. Can't say I'm surprised, but it does expose their federation push to be a charade. Same old facebook, censoring free speech!
I would be entirely unsurprised if the American education system is the next thing to be gigified given the incoming administration.
Ready for the school principal to be an app with classes being taught by the lowest bidding teacher and surge pricing on tuition for classes in high demand?
Murdoch's disinformation on the Wall Street Journal:
Murdoch & the GOP wage wars on all unionized female workers; nurses, teachers, social workers, HCW, clerical, retail - all at risk of being AI'd or automated.
Stable employment with decent wages are under attack by every Republican.
@Bandersnatch @msh TechBros: So much $ in education! Instead of having unpredictable human teachers in schools, we could just digitize education and sell the algorithm!
COVID 19: Hold my beer!
Kids: (Turning off camera and mic) Whee! We're alone in our room and they actually GAVE us a laptop to play games on.
Teachers: Johnny? Johnny? Johnny!
TechBros and Oligarchs: So much $ in education! Let's make it into a gig!
Now we're fighting tooth and nail to claw back our rights they stole "on the web" and so avoiding labor laws and the like.
Massachusetts JUST passed the right for Lyft, Uber, etc. drivers to unionize.
MA also failed to pass raising the minimum wage for tipped workers, due to what can only be described as "technological class warfare" by rich people on the poor. Convincing some of the most vulnerable of the workforce that they don't need more, and that the assistance proposed is actually an attack?
@tankdigital @Npars01 @Bandersnatch @msh You can find your local school’s math and English rankings on the state test in seconds. Good luck looking for civics, environmental science, or healthy human relations scores. What you measure gets done.
@tankdigital @Bandersnatch @msh That right there is the crux of it! We've accepted a very musical-chairs-to-homelessness scarcity approach to education. If we want a civil society, we must stand up and say NO every time someone says that the function of education is to prepare children for work. Even if they act nice and call it a profession. Education is not just for work. It is to prepare kids for a civil society and a good life. -Not blaming you, Tank.
Uncover the shadowy funding behind the 65 Project and its radical agenda against conservative attorneys. Explore the connections that threaten our legal system and electoral integrity.
With its brand new design, PeerTube's new interface isn't just prettier (although it is). It is also simpler, easier to use and understand and more accessible. Welcome to a new era of this software...
FYI Framasoft, non profit behind PeerTube also has an official Lemmy community on !framasoft@lemmy.world , I was surprised to see how small it is, so give them a follow
We had a "big bada boom" here in #Albuquerque too over the past week and officials said #KirtlandAFB was the source. And now apparently #EglinAFB is the source of a big boom near #Pensacola. Wonder what's going on? Is the military preparing for war? (Doubtful.)
Anybody who has ever, even once, enforced or supported locking people in their homes and shutting down the economy by force is now and forever ineligible from holding elected office.
They are either an authoritarian tyrant, or a weak-willed simp. In either case, they must not be allowed in a position of power over other humans.
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