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Fun fact: IBM isn't the same people who made the 5150. Microsoft isn't the same people who made Windows 3.11 and DOS 6.22 either. Companies are not people except as a legal fiction -- a company is still itself even when it's completely changed hands.
Eh, I don't know if that's true when all that changes hands is the brand name. Plenty of zombie brands that exist only to slap a recognizable old name (like Bell & Howell) on Temu-grade crap.
The new brand owner *could* make an effort to bring back a level of engineering comparable to the original company (probably scaled down to serve fewer product lines or taking advantage of modern manufacturing approaches).
But that's not the way to bet. It's usually the Temu-grade crap.
@jonhendry Based on who is involved, I don't see a lot of Temu grade crap in Commodore's future. Jeri Ellsworth and Dave Haynie and Bil Herd will not want their good names so tarnished.
Had to fill up after driving to Madistan yesterday, and they literally changed the price on the marquee as I was pulling in. Saved myself 4¢/gallon. #winning
An interesting approach. I like it. From the article
The attorney general also pointed out that if AI chatbots are deceiving consumers through manipulated “fact-checking,” it may violate the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, which aims to prevent companies from using false or deceptive advertising to sell merchandise in the state. Given the substantial revenue these tech giants generate from Missourians, Bailey asserted that their activities fall within his authority to protect consumers from fraud and false advertising.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is demanding answers from big tech giants including Meta, Google, and OpenAI, about their AI chatbots distorting facts and producing biased results about President Donald Trump.
Its strange, i listen to a #song that has lyrics by a #rap artist and it says "i hear voices" yet in reality i enjoy this fucking song and my neighbours who must be deluded as fuck use this as ammunition against me for things that i dont experience personally. I dont hear fucking voices other than my own #dialogues meaning my own fucking voice and memories of other #people in my life #speaking. People are fucking stupid!
We make a discount to ourselves saying ‘they are antisemites’. I don’t think that they are only antisemites, I think many of them are anti-Israel because of what they watch on television, what they watch on social networks. This is a painful but normal reaction of people who say ‘hey, you guys have crossed every possible line’.
The situation has become so bad that the Environment Secretary has warned that if nothing is done we could run out of clean drinking water within a decade. This is, frankly, embarrassing. We’re supposed to be a developed country and we have abundant rainfall, and yet our state is so dysfunctional that we soon might not have enough drinking water.
While the government has approved the building of two new reservoirs, expected to be complete by 2036 and 2040, and plans to build another seven by 2050, this is not fast enough. And so water companies are considering rationing supply through surge pricing, much to the delight of some environmental campaigners.
Die zufällige Schwankung bei der Zahl der Feiertage, die auf Werktage fallen, dem Schalttag, usw. wird übrigens aus dem BIP einfach rausgerechnet, der Standardisierung wegen. Schon mal was davon gemerkt, am "realen" Wirtschaftswachstum? Didn't think so... norden.social/@bwaaaaak/114847…
Pfoten weg von meinen Feiertagszuschlägen
https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/politik/pfingstmontag-abschaffung-feiertag-dihk-peter-adrian-100.html
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Actors: - Ben Affleck - Kate Beckinsale - Josh Hartnett - Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jon Voight - Tom Sizemore - Alec Baldwin - Jennifer Garner - Jaime King - Catherine Kellner - Sara Rue - Michael Shannon - Dan Aykroyd
I just think its so funny how hard online games have tried to "curve toxicity" by limiting player communication or trying to punish players for toxic behavior.
Don't they understand? Calling someone a slur or telling them to go kill themselves is and will always be part of the online experience.
Retard used to be the medical way to talk about retards, the kind and proper term for talking about the subject.
Then children realized that retard meant retard. Retard became a "slur" because children didn't mean it in the kind medical use way, they meant that a fucker was retarded.
So we went with "Special". Kind word for the unfortunate simpleton. Once again kids found out that it means retard. Now Special is a "slur".
It doesn't matter what word is used for retard, it will always be used to laugh at people being retarded.
Take out the hook and they'll find a new way to tell each other to hang themselves. Sanitize it completely and even the nicest of words will be the ones used to tell each other to kill themselves.
[ Rosie O'Donnell Responds as Trump Threatens Her Citizenship | TIME ] time.com/7301997/trump-threat-… Let's strip #Trump and his family's US Citizenship instead and deport them all to South Sudan. #USpol
[ Gavin Newsom’s Press Office Calls Stephen Miller A 'Fascist Cuck' Amid Rumors About His Wife And Elon Musk ] huffpost.com/entry/newsom-step… Good! More people need to treat that Nazi fuck like the fascist cuck that he is. #USpol #StephenMiller
Government: "Just trust us blindly!", and when the classified documents are coming later declassified out then nobody except "conspiracy theorists/narrators" are looking at it anymore.
I found on my Linux or Android systems, magnitudes more power can be saved by minimizing I/O consumption, like "data saver." This brings down by magnitudes those CPU wakeup interrupts. I also found increasing the time between flushing the write data to storage helps too. A quiet I/O bus is a power saving I/O bus. Displaying seconds uses orders of magnitude less power than wifi or cell phone modem wakeups.
I guess the race to "I can do that in 1 watt" is real. I would worry more about potential corruption from delaying writes without a UPS which uses power. And around we go.
I found there was a limit to delaying writes. After about 24 hours, the memory overflows and there was no automatic flushing handler in the kernel at the time. And that was the kernel panic...
No. Schrödinger's cat isn't a thought experiment that makes any goddamned sense. It was designed (by a serial pedophile, no less) to be confusing and ridiculous.
Just drop it. You do not need Schrödinger's cat to make sense of anything, not sexual assault (e.g. "Schrödinger's rapist"), not the genocide taking place in Gaza, not even quantum mechanics itself.
You will be better off just explaining what you mean than hanging onto a pedophile's shitpost.
I am begging people to please find a second analogy for uncertainty.
(Setting aside that *the whole point* of Schrödinger's cat is that uncertainty in quantum measurements is ontic, not epistemic, a conclusion he found unpalatable and thus decided to mock.)
The biggest practical reason I hope the new Commodore 64 Ultimate is a success is that it will drastically increase the installed base of REU-capable systems in the wild -- which opens up the chance to really push what the REU can do for the system without wasting my time.
Everything you do on the C64 involves moving data from one address in memory to another address in memory -- that's because it's a memory-mapped I/O architecture. The DMA engine on the REU moves data many times faster than the CPU can do.
"The event showed working class solidarity—but also the rising tensions in a Reform-supporting County ~ Tom Brown ~ It was an early start for Durham Miners’ Gala, these islands’ largest gathering of the working class. The event had well over 100 thousand participants. I marched with Teesside Radical Bookfair collective and we joined the Palestine The post Durham Miners Gala:
“The last people anyone expected to come out of that gig as being the memorable ones was Queen,” said Bob Geldof in an interview, looking back at the band’s stunning 24 minute set at Live Aid on July 13, 1985.
I think it was all the do gooder Whites who adopted communism which were massively in the way of the Whites who knew what was going on 😏 had most White Americans felt this way, the world would be a very different place right now and wouldn't have had the world wars, Korea, nam, middle east bullshit. Wouldn't have open borders, faggots, forced nigger integration. But because of bleeding heart do gooder Whites, their AIDS has allowed the infection to take hold
Fun fact: a screenshot of Super #Mario Bros (256×224×6bpp=43008 bytes) is larger than the game itself (40960 bytes).
This is definitely not true of later NES titles, the largest of which (Kirby's Adventure) is a staggering 1048576 bytes.
Nor is it true of the first SNES Mario game, Super Mario World, whose screenshots are only slightly larger at 256×224×8bpp=57344 bytes but the game itself is 524288 bytes.
Die Herren der Regierungsbank wirken auf mich wie Zeugen Jehovas, die mit dem Verkündungsblatt vor meiner Haustür stehen, und mit mir dringend über Demokratie und Wachstum reden wollen, um mich dann zu überzeugen wie gut das für alle ist.
Native German speakers: I'm looking to find a name for a sort of mythical creature, a "hunter dragon" — that is, a dragon used by its master to attack specific targets, much as a falconer would use a bird of prey.
Is "Jägerdrache" correct German? Thanks for any help.
My biggest fear is having spent 18 months devoting every waking second to making Enigma Heart, and then having it die on the vine, leaving me a broke failure with no employment prospects, because I didn't do enough(or proper) PR or the algorithm fucked me.
I need this to be a success. Games are the only thing I've ever wanted to do, ever since I was a wee lass. And now I'm finally making one.
I don't need it to make me rich or anything. I just want it to fund food, shelter, and my next game.
ICE smashed the car window of a US citizen who is also a disabled veteran, pepper-sprayed him, and disappeared him. He's been gone for days, and no one will tell his family where he is.
Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo.
A truck toy sends him to another world? Good, the genre is now self-referencing, slowly turning into parody. The inevitable trajectory of all overused genres and tropes. I'm so tired of isekai.
In the morning Gitmo Nation! We are all charged up to be Human Resources and servants in all lands and all ships at sea. From the East to West Down under to the lowlands and beyond. We are happy and distracted slaves… Hear our Gitmo Nation Song
Being partial to coincidence fun to note Pfizer trial was Israel & Palestine almost control group Gates got ceasefire long enough to jab refugees before bombing resumed while Bondi lobbying thinly veiled by Ballard because who needs FARA for Tel Aviv offices!
"In addition to disclosing her work for Pfizer, Bondi’s Public Financial Disclosure Report also reveals, among other sources of income, that Bondi earned $1,067,000 last year as a lobbyist/consultant for Ballard Partners." web.archive.org/web/2025011815…
Your article does not mention USB boot image for installing to a blank drive. You don't specify if boot image file for applicable hardware will be different from install image. Are you saying your phrasing is flawless and no other person could articulated as seamlessly as you did thereby being a comprehension issue?
This thread is popping up for weeks since I first replied. I can assure you the original links posted by @vermaden@bsd.cafe would work if you understand the basics and then follow them. In my case I tested similar partition layout on my laptop where a single disk in GPT layout was used to install #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD. The two systems share a common #EFI partition. But I didn't use the VM image for installing FreeBSD though, which I would not say is substantially important.
@kaixin What did you use for the boot image to first format a blank drive? A standard image for your hardware? The article only talks about using a VM image but never says what to to use to boot from USB to start the installation. You say a VM image is not important but he only gives instructions for using VM. It sounds like both of you are making the elitist statement "Until you master how to do something flawlessly without any questions, I can't help you at all"
I booted and installed #FreeBSD first using a USB flash drive made by dd and the standard memstick img. I say its is not important because you aim is to install the system, which should not matter which media you use. In my case I did not even use the standard installed for this because I want to customize some partition sizes (see link below for details from a FreeBSD wiki page I found useful examples). I will laugh out loud if only I am capable of making the elitist statement about #BSD stuff since I only started to try #FreeBSD for not too long and I knew almost nothing about system development. To you my friend, patiently read the tutorials posted by @vermaden@bsd.cafe and make plans about the steps you will have to take, try in a VM if you are not sure. The main question is how to prepare a partition for ZFS not a disk, and then install system on it, not about which install media you use.
Immerhin gut und richtig, was die ZEIT da schreibt. Auch wenn es wahrscheinlich viel zu wenige Menschen im Land erreicht. Der kinderliebe Opa Merz will leider nicht wahrhaben, dass genau er die Zukunft der Kinder zerstört, weil ihm seine alten, fossilen Seilschaften und deren längst zerlegte Phrasendreschereien wichtiger sind. zeit.de/kultur/2025-07/friedri…
Der Regierungschef rechnete jüngst vor, dass der deutsche CO₂-Ausstoß eigentlich egal ist. Wer sein Land so kleinmacht, kann auch sonst nicht mehr den großen Mann geben.
@StefanMuenz, traurig was in Deutschland die letzten Jahre so abgeht, mit unfähigen Lobbygreisen in der Regierung die eure Ökonomie an die Wand fahren, wo ihr doch so fähige Leute habt die wesentlich besser geignet wären.
@Catweazle Ich finde es ja toll, dass die anderen europäischen Länder etwas aufholen. Und was Deutschland angeht: Meines Wissens sind wir 2024 immerhin zur drittstärksten Wirtschaft weltweit geschrumpft! 😉
@GerryHeki @StefanMuenz, schon, aber weiter im Sinkflug bei der aigenblicklichen Politik, da kann sich das mit dem dritten Platz schnell ändern, besonders wenn sie weiterhin dem Trump die Schuhe putzen.
Really? I'd be interested to know how you define "real". It's got luminaries from the original, it's got the IP rights, it's got traceable lineage back to Jack.
You can just say you don't like it. You don't need to make up reasons.
You are allowed to not like things. Rationalizing it only makes you look immature. You don't like Perifractic? That's cool. Nobody is going to be everyone's cup of hot brown liquid. That has no impact on the reality of the situation.
Perifractic releases two videos where he's making the case to save Commodore, for the love of the brand, his childhood memories etc. Very emotional. It's like a holy mission of his.
Fast forward a couple of weeks and "let's sell shit and make money".
I understand it's a business and not a charity but contrast between the two was a bit striking imho.
If you think the boys & girls in the lab would not be using a programmable processor if available back then, well then you didn't ever really understand COTS tech engineering that made that era of computers possible at all.
Still not sure what to make of it, TBH. A not inconsiderable portion of me thinks that, despite the number of C= heavyweights involved, it's a vanity project.
@Yoss1960 I mean, it might all go tits up. But the product they're putting out is real enough, and their current goals are realistic. In fact, I'd say they made the right call, bundling a customized Ultimate 64 in a case with mech keyboard -- it gives them a real product they can deliver on time.
the internet is the greatest hate amplification system ever conceived.
I can understand how someone might hope Commodore might become a real competitor in computing again with cutting edge tech comparable to the Amiga back then, but that's just not realistic. The biggest companies in the world can't even figure out how to make cool new tech, they're just flailing putting out dumb shit. There's no revolutionary improvement left. Computers are cheap enough and good enough for anything.
@swelljoe That's the thing, though: Commodore don't need to take over the world. The investment is low seven figures, which means they only need to make a quality product or five that make a reasonable profit.
yeah, I think the folks behind it are making very reasonable choices. They're not slapping the brand on bullshit (e.g. cheap PC clones with a dumb-ass Linux version that looks like it's made by/for children), which is a great start. They're embracing all the folks who are already working in the space...the people who have implemented Commodore computers and accessories and software from scratch in various ways.
I'd love to see a ~$400 Amiga 1200. Fingers crossed that comes to pass.
@swelljoe I'm 100% certain they'd love to do that -- but it faces more barriers, because the Amiga IP wasn't included in the sale. Licensing it is certainly possible (THEA500 is a thing after all!) so maybe.
I'd love to see the Amiga IP come home for good, though.
@swelljoe Wikipedia says "The Amiga intellectual property is fragmented between Amiga Inc., Cloanto, and Hyperion Entertainment. The copyrights for works created up to 1993 are owned by Cloanto."
@swelljoe Indeed. One could hardly blame Simpson &co for avoiding that mess. They have enough on their plates just filling orders for the product they have the rights to make.
yeah, I'm not informed enough to make any recommendations. I love the Commodore 64, but I feel like it's not quite enough computer to spend a lot of time with. I want 80 columns, stereo sound, and a wee bit more color and pixels. Not a lot, mind you. Just a little more. A Commodore 128 would almost scratch the itch (the 80-column graphics chip has too many limitations to really do the job). The C65 definitely does scratch the itch, but I don't know how broad that nostalgia is.
@swelljoe Based on who is involved and what I know they can do, I seriously think there's more coming than just a new C64. It would be a waste of talent otherwise. You don't need Jeri or Bil to put out a rebadged Ultimate 64 in a nice case.
yeah, that's my thinking, as well. I'd even be enthusiastic about a new computer in the Plus/4 lineage. But, that's probably a dumb idea from a "make some money" perspective.
so, maybe they ought to work something out with the MEGA65 folks. I'd like it to have a slightly better case (it's not as sturdy as I'd like), and a new version with all the fixes. And, having Commodore branding and a legitimate claim to the original OS (with fixes) would be great. If volume could bring the price down that'd also be good.
yeah, it's nostalgic, but expensive and delivers no real value. You can't even really buy floppies anymore, we're all just re-using old stock made 20 years ago and hoping it doesn't die. A lower-cost version of the C65 without the drive would be fantastic.
I'm not, like, super excited about all this, but I think it's neat.
The things that will be shipping with the Commodore name are things that already exist, and could exist without this having happened. They're cool things, and they don't need a Commodore name to be cool, but having the Commodore name may bring in new people who didn't know how to tap into the retro Commodore community.
but, folks who want Commodore to return as a colossus that ships world-record numbers of units and ushers in a new era of personal computing are going to be disappointed. Nobody can do that because the world has changed.
It's dumb to hate on this stuff because it's a realistic plan meant for hobbyists, not for the masses. If they can increase production runs by tapping into a broader market with effective branding and marketing, they can drive prices down some, but that's about it.
@swelljoe I'm not seeing any of that -- what I'm seeing is either people genuinely happy that they can buy a C64 that works with a modern screen, or people being super bitter about the whole thing.
yeah, haters gonna hate. But, I think there's also a lot of unresolved grief among folks who lived through the death of Commodore. People were really invested in that, and there were so many dumb and sad disappointments along the way. Management failures, Gateway, Escom, all that bullshit. It felt like vultures just picking at the corpse, and that's pretty upsetting for folks whose identity was tied up in Commodore.
I view the haters as people who've been hurt and need therapy.
@cstross @swelljoe And we need to nurture a new generation of low-level programmers, else who will make it possible for those consumers to enjoy their fancy shit when the current guys and girls retire and die?
@cstross it is so incredibly hard to hire low-level hardware+firmware devs. In the valley, they're paid a fortune and are often terrible. But so few people know how to do it that "terrible" is better than nothing. And, they trend much older than the average frontend or cloud developer.
@cstross I mean, we're still shipping ten+ year old microcontrollers in our robots. Partly because they don't need more capability and partly because the firmware folks we've had haven't been up to the task of major upgrades. We have people who could do it, but it'd require dropping everything else.
So, at some point it becomes retrocomputing, because you need an old Windows to run the old Keil compiler to build the old source. (We're not at that point, but I can see it happening.)
to be fair, the Amiga wasn’t „real“ Commodore either. And the Atari ST arguably more Commodore than the ST. 😀 Either way: I am looking from the sidelines how this turns out. I am not in the market for the machine, but maybe others are…?
@cstross @swelljoe Is that really such a risk? I get the impression that there is always a good fraction of programmers interested in low-level, close-to-the-hardware stuff. Often more than there is demand for really, with most embedded programming being pretty high-level nowadays.
@artwaw @cstross @swelljoe It's neat. But it's also going to face an uphill climb to get people to develop for it -- and as someone putting out a system with even fewer units than that, I know what that means.
@cstross @swelljoe don’t mean to steal the conversation but what is your opinion on Mega65? As should my old C64 finally fail, this would be my next machine.
that's noise. I'm more concerned about the people taking issue with the fact that it's a for profit endeavor. I mean, it's SMALL, it's niche, it's driven by people with a documented history of loving what the brand stood for... Is anybody allowed to sell anything anymore? I'm pissed at capitalism as much as the next person, but... Who is this hurting?
❝I have noticed that we people privileged by supremacy have a tendency to take this same stance toward newly aware people, a stance which is not ours to assume. We seem to feel that it is our business to meet people who are in the same place that we were just a few short years or decades ago, and meet their shock and surprise and anger and dismay with a skepticism and an impatience we haven't earned.
We say things like "are you surprised?" We say things like "why does this shock you?" We say "oh so you're only angry now?" We say things like "where have you been?" … Instead of asking “are you surprised?” say “I was surprised once, too; here's what I know.” Instead of “what took you so long?” say “I just got here recently; here's what I've learned.”❞ mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/11…
I wrote about being a person of privilege in a supremacist society while trying to oppose supremacy, and the some ideas on how best to avoid becoming an obstacle to that struggle.
https://www.the-reframe.com/be-bolder-not-a-boulder/
😎 4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
At this day in age I block others who persist in using #twitter/ #x or #substack, they are known #nazi bars and you insist I goto those #websites, fucking idiots who call themselves #anarchist use a nazi bar website, #contradictory much?!
»Habe für euch gelesen, weil Paywall und als Frage formuliert. [Spiegel + Begeht Israel in Gaza einen Genozid? spiegel.de/ausland/israel-gaza… ] Die Antwort: Israelischer Völkerrechtler sagt ja, deutscher Völkerrechtler sagt ja, britische Völkerrechtlerin sagt ja, deutscher Völkerrechtler, der beruflich die Position von Myanmar und Türkei zur Genozidfrage vertrat, sagt nein.« bsky.app/profile/yossibartal.b…
Die Uno-Völkermordkonvention entstand einst als Reaktion auf den Holocaust. Soll sie nun ausgerechnet auf Israel angewendet werden wegen des Kriegs in Gaza? Eine Debatte zwischen Moral und Recht – das sagen Experten.
N.b. das ist selbst in dieser weichgespülzen Form schon die totale Widerlegung der realitätsfeindlichen Staatsräsonisten. Denn deren Position ist ja nicht: "es ist kompliziert, aber letztlich gerade eben nicht, sondern "nur" Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit", sondern "der Vorwurf ist infam und haltlos, und überhaupt begeht Israel überhaupt gar keine Verbrechen".
Nur um auszubuchstabieren, was das bedeutet, dass die einzige Gegenstimme die Position von Myanmar und Türkiye vertritt: d.h. das ist jemand, der ohnehin schon bekanntermaßen eben •nicht• eine völkerrechtliche Mehrheitsmeinung repräsentiert. Und der obendrein einen Anreiz hat, nicht rein die vorliegende Sachlage zu beurteilen, sondern aufpasst, seinen früheren Interpretationen nicht zu widersprechen.
@bifouba In der Tat. Damit auch die Gegenseite der Bundesregierung etwa in Myanmar in der die Bundesregierung dafür plädierte die Genozidkonvention weit auszulegen.
💧 Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland’s coast is a breakthrough for tidal energy
The MeyGen tidal energy project off the coast of Scotland has four turbines producing 1.5 megawatts each, enough electricity collectively to power up to 7,000 homes annually. On Thursday, the Swedish company SKF announced that its bearings and seals on one of the turbines had passed the 6 1/2-year mark without needing unplanned or disruptive maintenance. It has been working closely with the industry for a decade on design and testing.
Erwin Schrödinger (Austria-Ireland. 1887-1966), who seems to have been not very fond of house cats, proposed a theoretical exercise for quantum physics.
The approach is simple, although its implications are very complex. A cat has been placed inside a box. The box has a device that, with no definite time, releases a sort of lethal mechanism and the cat will die. Since the box is airtight, it is not known whether the cat is still alive or has already perished. Once the box is opened, one possibility or the other is proven. The previous moment, when we do not know if it is alive or dead, suggests that there are two worlds or two simultaneous universes. In one the cat is already dead, in the other it is still alive. A mortal mechanism activated and not activated; a cat alive and dead at the same time; a superposition of states according to quantum physics.
Let’s leave aside, for now, the references to comic book multiverses and the consequences in quantum physics. Let us also leave aside Don Schördinger’s animosity towards cats, and that he obviously did not know much about those felines (anyone who has dealt with them knows that they would not let themselves be caught, much less allow themselves to be locked up, without protesting and without defending themselves -even more so if it is a… cat-dog-). Let’s also not take too much notice that the cat is imprisoned and condemned to death, unless someone sees fit to open the box when the lethal mechanism has not been activated, and the cat jumps out and frees itself from the prison.
This theoretical exercise is supposed to be a basis for showing that worlds in several universes are possible, that is, in a multiverse (although it is also to show that the laws of quantum physics do not apply in everyday life).
As far as my limited knowledge of comics allows me, I understand that, in those diverse worlds, the individual still prevails, but in different versions. In one world, Sheldon Cooper (TV series “The Big Bang Theory”), is a scientist with social problems. In another, he is an irredeemable womanizer. In another, he is a “popular” judge in Mexico’s judicial system (oh, I know, my perversity is sublime).
And this digression that, I hope, is perplexing, comes to the topic, or point supposedly that even with the imaginative capacity to raise the simultaneous existence of the living cat and the dead cat, the possibility (or the universe) of there being one or several cats that refuse to enter the box is not raised. And perhaps with the aggravating factor that the supposed cat is actually a cat-dog.
In pointing out some possibilities, others are omitted.
When talking about the capitalist system, the different proposals refer to what they can do to improve the conditions of the cat locked in the trap, to lengthen its life (or its chances of life), or to “humanize” the lethal device.
It is, shall we say, what progressivism is all about. Definition of progressivism? Well, those who are leftists until the eve of taking office and having a position, office, pay, well, then. Then they stop being leftist, they become the establishment, and disguise their pragmatism (which leads them to ally and join their enemies of the eve -and to distance themselves from their social past-), as “political realism.” It is, then, a capital-friendly left. That is to say, a “cool”, pretty, demure and blushing right wing.
In this case, progressivism promises, on the eve of the event, to free the cat from its prison. Then, because he cannot or will not do it, he “changes” his proposal: “I will make you more comfortable”; “I will get better conditions for your death”; “I will fight so that the lethal mechanism does not activate too quickly.” Or, he may instead urge the prisoner to hang on, since he has a 50% chance of temporarily surviving. Imprisoned, yes, but alive.
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The capitalist system is that box. Inside it, multitudes wait, without knowing it, for the murderous mechanism to be activated. Wars, famines, “natural” catastrophes, violent assaults, assassinations, governmental arbitrariness, destructions that will have to solve the enigma: “to live or to die.”
In the box there are those who have the crime of being a woman, boy or girl, young, old, other, dark-skinned, native, with a foreign language in their own land, and so on. No matter their condition, gender, race, ideology, religion, manner, stature, physical complexion: that person is inside the box and is subject to those deadly laws.
Not only without the possibility of getting out, but also without even imagining that another world exists out there.
The option to delay death or improve the conditions of condemnation is submission and acceptance to be part of the showcase of “weird things” that the system exhibits for its own amusement. Woman, Non-binary person, Native, Race, Neighborhood, Nationality, every “oddity” has its place in the curiosity store if it behaves “well.” If not, well, the “invisible hand of the market” will pull the exterminating lever.
Example: the crime of being born, growing up and fighting in Palestinian lands is not to accept being part of the showcase of capital. And to resist and rebel against the machine. The machine wants a recreational center in Gaza and Palestinian civilization is in its way, the Palestinian people are fighting for a land to live in.
Palestine is the best example of the terminal crisis of the so called “Nation States” and their governments. They do not command, they only obey at convenience. They are incapable of presenting an independent, dignified and consistent foreign policy.
And in the ongoing mass murder, the complicity and neglect of the governments of the planet (with a few exceptions), is pathetic. The police of the different European and American governments repressing the demonstrations for the cessation of the genocide in Palestine, are the best oratory about Western “humanism”.
In the world above, European governments are the idle and useless court of the reigning king, Russia and China are the counts and dukes conspiring for regicide, and offering an alternate monarch. The rest of the national governments in the world, except for those who have clearly spoken out against it, are the busy pages, stressed by the continuous demands and harassments of the royal family.
Who are those that contemplate, operate, have fun and make bets on what happens in the box? The big financial, commercial, industrial and, now, digital and aerospace capital.
The governments of the world, for the most part, are just the ticket-takers of the bets, the “brokers” on the stock exchanges where the wars are always up, and life below… down. And, as the Mileis of the world are and will be, they are the ones who are sent to buy and serve the wine that will preside over the monarchic banquets (the chainsaw is an autochthonous detail).
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However, there are those who consider another possibility: not to enter the box or to get out of it.
Moreover, there are those who question the box itself, its eternal and omnipotent existence; and its claim to be the only universe that tolerates the existence, within itself, of diversity, of several universes or multiverses… domesticated.
Those people who are posing that are what we Zapatistas call “resistance and rebellion.” Resistance to enter the box or, if you are inside, Rebellion to fight to get out.
Resistance and Rebellion that proposes the destruction of the box, of the logic that created it and of the belief that “something else” is not possible.
"A paradox of Schrödinger’s paradox Erwin Schrödinger (Austria-Ireland. 1887-1966), who seems to have been not very fond of house cats, proposed a theoretical exercise for quantum physics. The approach is…"
@JaykeBird, if you can't remember it, it's for sure nothing very important and nothing what you can'y do somewhat later. Important your health and anxiety for sure isn't good for it.
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"At least five Zionist soldiers were wounded in three separate incidents in the Gaza Strip, occupation newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Saturday. A “security incident” in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza…"
Resistance in Gaza: Command Post Struck, Tanks Destroyed
At least five Zionist soldiers were wounded in three separate incidents in the Gaza Strip, occupation newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Saturday. A “security incident” in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, also prompted an emergency aerial evacuation of wounded personnel.
The Palestinian Resistance launched a series of coordinated attacks against Zionist occupation forces across the Gaza Strip, delivering yet another blow to the military amid the ongoing genocidal war.
Al-Qassam targets C2 position, snipes soldier
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that its fighters targeted a Zionist command-and-control post east of al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City with heavy mortar fire. In a separate operation in Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, a Resistance sniper struck a Zionist soldier with a fatal shot.
Al-Quds Brigades targets forces across Gaza
Simultaneously, al-Quds Brigades—the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)—confirmed multiple successful operations targeting armored vehicles. The group detonated a pre-planted anti-tank explosive device east of al-Tuffah, destroying a Merkava tank during its incursion.
Another explosive device was used to destroy a tank east of al-Zaytoun neighborhood. Fighters returning from the operation reported direct hits and confirmed the tank was neutralized.
Earlier in the day, al-Quds Brigades said its fighters struck a military vehicle along the Kissufim supply route northeast of Khan Younis using a pre-planted improvised explosive device (IED). Additionally, a barrel-shaped explosive device destroyed another military vehicle in the Sheikh Nasser area east of Khan Younis.
Occupation troops were also targeted with mortar fire on Jabal al-Sawrani, east of al-Tuffah, where occupation forces have been massing in recent days.
Please please please don’t impose dark mode on your websites. Honor the user’s system settings.
There are plenty of people with visual impairments as common as astigmatism who can’t read light text on dark background, because it’s like staring at a strong lightbulb in the dark.
Yes, I can *somtimes* use reader mode, but 1/ I shouldn’t have to, and 2/ that means all the trouble you went to to design your site was for nothing wasn’t it?
D’ailleurs, sur mes sites et RS favoris, j’ai souvent une surcouche CSS même en clair pour limiter les contrastes trop durs (Genre, noir-noir sur fond blanc-blanc, c’est pas terrible) et les typo pas assez grasses.
I wonder if anyone has managed to make a #Faircamp site that respects browser choice.. or at least allows switching. Mine is more on the dark side I guess, but I think my Hyper 8 site switches depending on user preference and it definitely has a switcher top right.
👍 A few month ago, I noticed I had hard times reading code on my screen, its was blurry. And I stumble upon someone saying it can happen if you have astigmatism or other troubles.
I've read a bit about that, and I switched all my tools, terminal, IDE, database GUI etc on light themes, just to give a try. It felt a bit strange strange the first days but I read really better.
When I encounter a dark mode site without that option I go straight to reader mode, losing all the author's formatting changes but, hey, it's readable.
If reader mode doesn't work, I close the tab and move on.
I prefer dark mode, but I _absolutely_ think it should be a choice. Makes sense to go with the user's system setting, but could add a toggle in addition for extra points.
the problem is that CSS does not distinguish between "no preference" and "prefers light", so if we want dark by default, light can only be a toggle. automatic switching only works for themes that are light by default
yeppp. i have the accessibility shortcut on my phone set to invert the display because of this. one big block of light is tolerable, bright bands of text are prettttty unbearable
Just a few lines of CSS if you layed out your CSS in the correct way. If not it's a refactoring.
I don't say, don't do it. But sometimes it's much more work than just changing some lines of code.
Especially if your CSS is older than a year.
I made the mistake in one of my projects back then not thinking of light mode (and wasn't aware of the accessibility implications) and now it's a big refactoring. Yes the code is rushed and it's entirely my fault.
But the time needed to fix this properly I was able to add light mode (or dark mode respectively) to 6 other sites.
While I agree that honouring theme selections is an easy accessibility fix that every website should implement, I never understood how astigmatism was particularly affected by dark themes as someone who has had astigmatism for about as long as they've been able to string together words into a full sentence and strongly prefers dark themes.
at the same time, please don't lock users into whatever color mode the stystem setting has. i prefer dark mode for most things, but some products have a darkmode thats SO AWFUL that i cant look at it for more than a few seconds without getting eyestrain, and most of those dont allow me to change to a different mode (or make it really hard to)
🌲 👭 The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want
More women are connecting environmental degradation with attacks on women's rights, seeing both as rooted in similar values. They’re drawing on personal experiences and reams of research to make their case.
Denver is not unlike a prison. Its inhabitants, too, have been sent there “to do time.” That which makes the position of the prisoner preferable, is the consolation that the State will feed him and that some day his time will expire. The majority of Denverites have no such cheerful outlook. Although arriving there with hopes of a speedy return, it’s usually imprisonment for life.
- Light and Shadows in the Life of an Avant-Guard by Emma Goldman
I learned from reading her autobiography that she always carried a book in case she ended up in prison. I doubt they let you carry a book in with you these days, but the habit took.... never know when you'll get stranded.
"Communist revolutionay Julia Njoki was murdered by police in a cell in the Nanyuki police station, a city in central Kenya. Julia Njoki was kept in detention because she was…"
Kenyan Communist Revolutionary, Julia Njoki, Murdered in Police Custody
Communist revolutionay Julia Njoki was murdered by police in a cell in the Nanyuki police station, a city in central Kenya. Julia Njoki was kept in detention because she was unable to pay the deposit of 50,000 shillings decided by a Kenyan court. She died following multiple head injuries.
Her death comes in the context of a huge uprising against the right wing government.
The death toll from the uprising in Kenya has surged to over 30 people,with at least 107 others wounded during the nationwide marches.
The marches saw clashes erupt between protesters and police in the capital, Nairobi, as well as the city of Eldoret, with the KNCHR accusing the police of cooperating with armed gangs, who were armed with machetes and spears, in the wake of the violence.
There was widespread destruction of property in the uprising as the privatization of the country drives poverty and resistance.
Jonathan Hendry
in reply to mos_8502 🇨🇦 • • •Eh, I don't know if that's true when all that changes hands is the brand name. Plenty of zombie brands that exist only to slap a recognizable old name (like Bell & Howell) on Temu-grade crap.
The new brand owner *could* make an effort to bring back a level of engineering comparable to the original company (probably scaled down to serve fewer product lines or taking advantage of modern manufacturing approaches).
But that's not the way to bet. It's usually the Temu-grade crap.
mos_8502 🇨🇦
in reply to Jonathan Hendry • • •Jonathan Hendry
in reply to mos_8502 🇨🇦 • • •Right, Commodore is probably a unicorn in that respect.
As opposed to the "RCA" brand painted on flimsy universal remotes.