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Not a lot of fancy stuff here, just a quick breakfast for the family. I do enjoy an egg in a hole often. These are very easy to make and are very scrumptious!
The philosophical arguments against authoritarianism are clear: People have a right to self-determination & freedom from domination. (See Locke, Mill, Marx, Dewey...) But there's also a practical argument: the harms suffered if the leader turns out to be unstable and (cognitively, psychiatrically, morally) unfit.
"Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy taught me to distrust authority, and that we live in just one of many possible worlds ~ Taib Hayat ~ Set in a steampunk-themed alternate universe, the orphan girl Lyra grows up among scholars in a venerable British college. Reformation and Enlightenment never happened in her world, and the The post “Northern Lights” at 30 appeared first on Freedom News."
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Nasser Hospital, the last medical center still operating in southern Gaza, is threatened with shutting down as the Israeli army tightens its siege on the area. The hospital warns that fuel shortages will turn the facility into a "silent graveyard."
Nasser Hospital, the last medical center still operating in southern Gaza, is threatened with shutting down as the Israeli army tightens its siege on the area. The hospital warns that fuel shortages will turn the facility into a “silent graveyard.”
The populist angle is not as important. Ppl will go along with anything, we all learned the hard way in 2020, some harder than others...
The real news here is there's a circle of elites who talk this way and are willing to do so at mainstream events. Unapologetically. Consistently. Persistently.
There is no turn in power structures that does not emanate from existing power structures. Never happened otherwise in the history of power.
My family came here in the late 1600’s. Family graveyard on the family farm. What a disgrace it would be to them, to love another country and vision equally or more than the one they fought and worked for.
One huge impact mass FOSS adoption would have is that there would be a lot less software and hardware churn. Commercial nature of proprietary technology is the main driver for constant upgrade cycles we see. Companies need to constantly sell products to stay in business, and this means you have to deprecate old software and hardware in order to sell new versions of the product.
Windows 11 roll out is a perfect example. Vast majority of Windows 10 users are perfectly happy with the way their computer works currently, they’re not demanding any new features, they just want their computer to continue to work the way it does currently. However, Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 and now they’re forced to buy a new computer to keep doing what they’ve been doing.
This problem goes away entirely with open source because there is no commercial incentive at play. If a piece of software works, and there is a community of users using it, then it can keep working the way it does indefinitely. In cases where a software project goes in a directions some users don’t like, such as the case with Gnome, then software can be forked by users who want to go in a different direction or preserve original functionality. This is how Cinnamon and Mate projects came about.
Another aspect of the open source dynamic is that there’s an incentive to optimize software. So, you can get continuous performance improvements without having to constantly upgrade your hardware. For most commercial software, there’s little incentive to do that since that costs company money. It’s easier to just expect users to upgrade their hardware if they want better performance.
Non-technical users in particular would be far better off if they had the option to fund open source software instead of buying commercial versions. Even having to pay equal amounts, the availability of the source puts more power in the hands of the users. For example, building on the example of Gnome, users of an existing software project could also pull funds together to pay developers to add features to the software or change functionality in a particular way.
This is precisely what makes licenses like GPL so valuable in my opinion. It’s a license that ensure the source stays open, and in this way inherently gives more power to the users.
so how do you intend these advantages of open source development to get funded, so they are actually realized? i'm confused, because you say, there's no commercial incentive at play,
@ikonoklast there are already plenty of examples in the wild with open source foundations. I'm not sure what's confusing here because non profit organizations are not commercial in nature.
the point is that most of time the foundations don't actually pay the devs. there's a really small shift there where kde and gnome are starting to pay development work but the bulk is funded by for-profit-companies, it's not even close
@ikonoklast thing is that people don't do open source work with the profit as their primary motive, nor should it be. This whole thread is literally about explaining the perverse incentives that profit motive causes.
Frankly, your whole argument makes little sense to me given that we have plenty of large scale successful open source projects already. Things can be improved of course, but clearly the model already works.
i'm not arguing against open source, i'm arguing against this quote of yours "This problem goes away entirely with open source because there is no commercial incentive at play"
While most of the work on open source software is actually done and paid for by companies with commercial incentive, just a different business model. Unfortunately we still live in capitalism after all: if there's no commercial incentive, then it usually doesn't happen
@ikonoklast the problem I'm referring to is the one of perverse incentives that commercial software development creates.
I'd like to see citations that most of the work on open source is funded by commercial companies. Last I looked, companies are actually quite terrible at contributing money back to open source they use. It's literally a meme at this point.
I hear that, this cheapish laptop I'm posting from right now has Linux Manjaro running on it because I wasn't interested in Windows 11 and now it runs better than it did with Windows 10. I might not have bothered switching it if I wasn't getting forced to in the first place.
The trouble with FOSS and Linux is that it's been hijacked by corps already. The corps realised that they don't have to pay employees to develop their own software, they can just steal unpaid work of FOSS programmers (hence MS "embrace" of Linux). They just have to steer its development in the direction that suits their agenda (redhat systemd).
@ilpalazzo this is precisely why I mentioned GPL at the end. It is key that the license has a clause ensuring that the source stays open. The whole permissive license idea has been a campaign by the corps to undermine free software.
They're sadists, so they like sadism. They enjoy making people suffer. They also enjoy making money and having sex.
So if there's something that will cause others to suffer, make them money, and get them aroused, they'll go for it no matter what laws they have to break.
Well....not that laws are binding us as a society any longer.
i have had a tremendously long break from client work, which is really nice in some ways but number is going way down 📉
checking what sort of dev jobs are available on the job boards it's not looking too great for human employment. i think it's going to continue imploding until AI basically does everything and no jobs even exist
big corpos will just trend toward low cost jeets where humans are strictly needed and gradually replace human devs with AI agents except for a few upper management positions and a few lead dev positions that will interface with the agents. so if you are not in one of those senior roles, good luck
as AGI approaches then it'll just be shareholders, executives, boards of directors, and their AI agents
obviously there will have to be systemic changes cause on this trajectory the whole concept of a job will be obsolete, for the vast majority of human labor
my main client has basically been saying "Yea i have some updates for you to do" for like 6 months and we never do them. so it's an extremely minimal amount of system admin stuff that an AI agent could probably take over within a year or two.
don't get me wrong i am definitely taking advantage of this pause in work to deal with other stuff like getting moved onto my property (thus reducing expenses) but still it's rather disconcerting
gm did a bit of server administration, now i need to *really* do shop work today and wrap up this project soon. got all my measurements set for more drilling
A new satellite constellation called SWIFT aims to predict dangerous space weather events up to 60 minutes before they hit Earth, giving more time to protect vulnerable technologies.
It is very important that you view this list of celebrities and public figures all with a left black eye and come to the conclusion that conspiracy theorists are crazy for wondering why.
I remember each one. Harry Reid was a nasty POS. When asked if he felt remorse, he said, "I would do it all again. It's about power by any means necessary."
I remember 2 official explanations about his bruises and getting beat up. One was he fell off the treadmill. The 2nd was that his brother beat him up. I don't know if this black eye picture is that or a separate time.
people hate on translators a lot for reasons that seem obvious, but completely forget about editors, chief editor, simply censors, and others who will and do impose on perfectly fine beautiful text with their own failed writer ambitions while bragging about not even knowing the language of the source material
and speaking of hate, graphic designers also get a ton of unwarranted hate, when it's their clients who choose the final result
Oh look, Israel's OWN experts say the Rafah concentration camp plan would be a war crime, crime against humanity, and potentially by itself an act of genocide.
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So if you've installed Windows 11 recently, you're familiar with the very lengthy setup process where you can uncheck a lot of toggles to try and limit what the OS collects.
What the OS will collect is the following: - Microsoft Store Logs - Network data - Hardware information - Accessory data - Application-related data - Event metrics
You'll also send complete words that you typed or wrote, not just statistics. You'll also send speech recognition data, and activity history, so every document you opened, website you visited...
But that's just what Microsoft tells you about. Recently, a youtuber called "The PC Security channel" analysed a completely fresh Windows install, using Wireshark, and what they found was is that Windows makes a few connections to third parties it never really told you about.
THEIR VIDEO:
trustedsource.org.
scorecardresearch.com
Bing and msn.com
privacyportal.onetrust.com
So what exactly can Microsoft do with all this data?
Well, they have more than enough to completely fingerprint your device, they can reliably tell what you use in terms of apps, and what type of content you watch, and they also basically can have a keylogger on your computer. And finally, Windows sends some data to third parties.
Fortunately, you can disable all the option stuff straight from the settings.You can go to the privacy and security options, and go into each category and disable everything there.
You can also completely disable the telemetry service. Just hit Windows + R, and in the run dialog, type services.msc. In there, look for something called "Connected user experiences and telemetry", double click that, and in the "General tab", you can set "startup type" to "disabled".
Apple talks a big game when it comes to privacy, but in the end, is it really true? Out of the box, macOS sends to Apple your IP address, location, and some usage patterns, like all the apps you run, and when you run them. Other telemetry data, out of the box, includes browsing history, search history, crash data, performance and diagnostic data, location information, health information if you use that on an iPhone for example, all the info you entered in your AppleID, the device serial number, payment information, everything you bought using that Apple ID, and potentially your government ID.
Fortunately, macOS lets you disable virtually everything that's being collected. You can just head over to the Security and Privacy settings, and in analytics and improvements, uncheck everything.
Now, how about Linux? Well, Linux based operating systems, or at least desktop Linux distributions don't collect any data out of the box, with a few exceptions.
The first one is Ubuntu, who will collect telemetry data out of the box, with no personal information at all. It's just hardware data, but it could still be used to fingerprint your device. Canonical doesn't currently have any ad server that I know about, so they probably only really use this to know what their users actually use and focus their efforts on that, but if you're uncomfortable with that, you can disable it at install.
Some Ubuntu derivatives that use the same installer might also have that kind of telemetry. On top of that, you have the ability to turn some entirely optional telemetry on in KDE's settings; and GNOME also has a telemetry tool that you have to install manually.
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I like Tom Luongo, he has an interesting speculative thesis on the war against of The City of London vs Trump & Powell.
His placement of a Comey & Brennan prosecution above the pure evil of child sex trafficking blackmail networks is disappointing & off putting. There are more in addition to Epstein/Maxwell.
There not only needs to be punitive accounting for all the 'clients', but also a reckoning for the all the intelligence agencies that managed the currency of blackmail.
Ya, Tom Luongo has become very off putting, but beyond the distastefulness of his and his partner's opinions, they sell an outside, speculative view of reality for a living.
And if they don't have the Israeli part, that anyone can just see, what does that say about their outside speculations?
@jazzilla I think Luongo has developed a mechanism to capitalize on the established debt leverage backed monetary system that relies on the baton of control being passed to New York/Wall St. from City of London control, without destroying that system.
Epstein info being fully reckoned with would profoundly effect Wall St. dependant income schemes, he knows this.
The proximal control mechanisms that blackmail networks influence are a profound & primary cancer that needs a cure. @RoboftheVolcano
Listened to a lovely rendition of Shostakovich's quartet #8 and reminded that it was dedicated to the victims of fascism. I thought of those already murdered by Trump and his nazi Gestapo.
Lord, we praise you with our lips, and with our lives and hearts. Our very existence is a gift from you; to you we offer all that we have and are. We ask 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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Trump's Justice Department has said Venezuelans deported to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison are out of U.S. reach. A new United Nations report says otherwise.
The accident of what country you were born in should not dictate whether you can walk a street without fear of abduction. I am traveling overseas and feeling safe doing so, even though I’m from the rogue country that is the U.S. Why should anyone experience differently in my country?
Yesterday was the remembrance day for the genocide of Srebrenica. War criminals Radic & Karadžić were convicted by the International Court of Justice and are serving life sentences in jail. icty.org/en/press/radovan-kara…
A similar massacre is taking place in Gaza, with 800 hungry civilians recently killed while searching for food. It won't be too early until the #ICJ also convicts Netanyahu & Gallant, currently charged with war crimes & crimes against humanity. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
I just created an account on the newly-launched social media platform UpScrolled.
First impression: clean, really easy to sign up to and get going. Format looks like a mix between Twitter and Instagram.
I like the core ideas behind this platform. It's based in Australia, with servers in Ireland. Created by Issam Hijazi, an Australian-Palestinian, and backed by Tech For Palestine incubator.
So, unlike Instagram, Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon, Palestinians and Arabs will not constantly have to deal with shadowbans or suspension.
It promises to be activist, artist, and organiser friendly. Will be interesting to see how the community develops.
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Let’s be honest.
Some Dems are terrified to be blamed for shutting down the government. What leverage do we have, they whine. THE PURSE:
1. The budget on offer is going to be absolutely horrific; reject it and OFFER BETTER.
2. MusktRump has already shut the government down by firing so many thousands of people.
3. DEMANDS: a. no budget until he rehires all those people they were illegally fired; b. a SANE budget; and, most importantly, c. FIRE MUSK & RATS AND ELIMINATE DOGE. rsn.org/001/what-leverage-do-w…
Sadly, of course, nazi ass-licker and genocide supporters Schumer, Gillibrand and several other neolib Dems joined the fascist repugniQunts to hand the cash over to quisling homosexual Bessent and his boss, Unterscheißeführer Muskolini and DOGe shits.
Clearly an option many are considering. A few may have the wherewithal? Or maybe Trump will surprise everyone and change into something more decent and rational. (Who knew a laugh tastes bitter.)
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If you want to know how a country gets to the point where people from a targeted minority are forced to wear some sort of visual signifier of their identity on their clothing, it really seems like this is the progression. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2vtbm…
NAS.ai has been following the arc of the cosmic account.
We now predict he will lose his tech career over refusal to modernize his test and environment management, move to El Salvador, and become a grizzled, bitter Bitcoin clinger, shaming ppl online for not loving "freedom" and wanting to "stay poor".
Just to be clear: Palestinians who refuse to “voluntarily” enter this concentration camp will be MURDERED if Israel decides with no proof or obligation to provide any proof. Those inside the "most humanitarian concentraiton camp" will also be killed if Israel "think" they are Hamas or may be a danger to Israel any time in the future, even children since many IDF forces see Palestinian resistance as something in the bloodline of the resistance fighters.
That’s the plan. Stated openly. And people still insist with a straight face that this isn’t genocide.
And this is the country and the criminal regime the EU, US, Canada, Australia and the Arab league support, fund and protect!
Is it possible to have a national class action suit to remove Trump and Krew due to his acts of sedition (destroying the US government), treason (same), murder, fascism or any other litany of CRIMES these nazi shits are committing? WE MUST RID OURSELVES OF HIM.
"But a new Washington Post report reveals quite the opposite — that Florida officials are relying in large part on minor traffic stops to find immigrants to throw in the facility." rawstory.com/alligator-alcatra…
When Florida Republicans unveiled a makeshift detention camp site for migrants in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz," they characterized it as a facility for hardened criminals who needed to be deported in the interest of public safety.
@MercG I suspect hundreds of thousands if not millions of us are understanding this will not end peacefully as the fascists have already initiated a significant amount of violence that will only ratchet up.
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It's common for anxiety dreams to drag us back to school, where we haven't started on the assigned readings or are unprepared for today's test. But am I the only one with nightmares of facing Master locks to which I can no longer remember the combination?
I used to have those combo-lock anxiety dreams frequently. It's been many years now though.
While speculative / anecdotal, it seems that these dreams were frequent during a period of my life when I had enormous insecurity about my home / privacy. I.e., making rent month to month with a horrible landlord who violated tenant privacy on a whim for little to no reason.
While I still have my share of financial anxiety, I own my own home now, and have not had those dreams since.
Das ist nicht nur kein Widerspruch, sondern ein und dasselbe. Es ist gar nicht möglich, zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt "pro-israelisch" zu sein ohne dadurch effektiv übelsten Antisemitismus zur Schau zu stellen. Was ist antisemitischer als jüdische Menschen zwanghaft mit Völkermord in Verbindung zu bringen? Was ist antisemitischer als zu behaupten, jüdische Menschen seien ipso facto gar nicht zur vollen Bandbreite menschlichen Handelns fähig? bird.makeup/users/hahauenstein…
Stell dir vor, du bist derart menschenverachtend und moralisch verwest, dass du in einem offiziellen Dokument, behauptest, es sei ein gutes Argument gegen ein Aussetzen der privilegierten Sonderbehandlung Israels durch die EU, dass ein “bake sale" zugunsten von Kindern in Gaza stattgefunden hat, den du irgendwie doof findest. Dass das also irgendwie genauso schlimm sei, wie lückenlos dokumentierte sadistische Kriegsverbrechen und Massenmord und gegen diese aufgewogen werden müsse.
Die EINZIGE Erklärung ist, dass Frau Schnurbein Palästinenser*innen als buchstäbliche Untermenschen betrachtet, und sich dazu auch noch schriftlich bekennt. bird.makeup/users/hahauenstein…
"Does anyone really believe that would not have happened if there were just some different executives at Google? The structural forces of capitalism, of the public market, of the demand for growth at all costs would have bowled them over too.
Indeed, we’ve already run the experiment on whether a set of companies and executives claiming they’d be better than the old guard will really deliver on that promise. That was exactly the narrative the tech industry sold to the world when it was a bunch of startups and scrappy founders fighting to displace the dominant firms they were going up against. They promised they would “do no evil.”
That narrative was valuable in selling themselves and their products to the public, with ample help from a credulous media that loves to chase money and power. Years later, we can see it was an effective marketing campaign that allowed them to evade regulation and taxation that applied to traditional industries for far longer than they should’ve gotten away with.
The tech oligarchs are just as bad as — if not worse than — the executives and monopolists that preceded them, and a new crop of founders won’t change the way that vast wealth and power tends to corrupt those who wield it.
There are certainly exceptions to these rules. Wikipedia remains a non-profit entity and Signal seems to be resisting the pressure to pursue growth at all costs. But they’re few and far between, and it’s not better founders that will change that. It requires upending the structural forces that push companies and the people who run them to cast all other considerations aside in the pursuit of power and profit."
Now that I have an Intel machine that is 99% idle and has two gigs of RAM free, maybe I should host tootik too! 🤔 Or Mitra! Not sure about its web frontend though — I've never used Node and I'm not sure I want to start.
@jae@darkdork.dev True. I've never used it myself, but I think it has a command line tool for administrative tasks, for everything else there is Bloat.
@jae@darkdork.dev @zer0unplanned@friendica.rogueproject.org Yep, they work as expected! I must have a DM-related trauma — my original Fedi instance, Librem Social, which is a fork of old Mastodon, has no DMs… I don't think it has any scopes. It also has no other timelines, but people you follow — so finding people to follow was no small feat. That is probably why I expect nothing to work 😆
@zer0unplanned old pcs are the best imo. amazing what you can do with smol softwares. the mitra instance i test is an old freebsd machine i rescued from trash dumpster. some cleaning and a drive later it was online and has been running for a year.
@jae@darkdork.dev @zer0unplanned@friendica.rogueproject.org I believe this instance is hosted on the potatoest computer of all Fedi. The PowerPC MacMini with only 1 gig of RAM it runs on also hosts an XMPP server (Prosody), all my Git repos and acts as a bittorrent seedbox (transmission) and a print server! It's 20 years old of which I think for 15 it was running 24/7, poor thing 😅
My proxy server/VPN box has 512 Mb 😂 I still like that thing because it's passively cooled, it's connected to the amp and I run cmus on it and listen to the music — really appreciate being able to do this without computer noise. It also hosts my Gemini capsule and few other small things. It's kinda funny because my "client" machines have their RAM maxed out, by I manage to get away using very little on the machines I host things on, I think I've even patched its kernel to prevent RAM from being reserved for video 🤔 512 Mb is surprisingly usable BTW. I have Toshiba AC100 — one of the early widely-available ARM machines, for TUI software it's perfect! I can't use it any more — the backlight died, maybe I'll replace it one day. It has a built-in cellular modem and with a new battery it could be a nice machine. Then I have an old ThinkPad T40, also with 512 Mb — with software like gomuks, profanity, w3m, tut, cmus — works like magic. Lagrange works fine and I can even open a lightweight website in surf/WebKit. I think we got spoiled with overabundance of it — of everyday things web browsers consume most RAM, otherwise you can still have fun with very little.
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