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Tessa Hulls's debut graphic novel is *Feeding Ghosts*, a stunning memoir that tells the story of three generations of her Chinese family. It was a decade in the making, and it is utterly, unmissably brilliant:
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#15yrsago G20 police used imaginary law to jail harass demonstrators and jailed protestors in dangerous and abusive “detention center” memex.craphound.com/2010/06/29…
A European Court ruling allows individuals to request that search engines remove certain web pages from their results. Following the ruling, Google removed a large number of links from certain searches, including some to BBC web pages.
My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
Novelist, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow joins Rachel and David in the cafe to talk about the enshittification of the internet and how we ended up in our current enshittogenic environment.
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is there a name for this art style? Because it reminds me of the litch from adventure time and plenty of metal album covers but in a softer interpretation. I’m here for it
Great to see another slap down for Zionists and other white supremacists - artistic freedom wins. 'Creative Australia has reinstated artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as Australia’s artistic team for the 2026 Venice Biennale,' theguardian.com/culture/2025/j… #auspol
The Ministry of Education and Higher Education called on #humanrights organizations, international bodies, and diplomatic missions to uphold their responsibilities in protecting the right of Palestinian children in Masafer Yatta and other marginalized areas to education.
This follows a decision by Israeli occupation authorities to demolish the Palestine Mixed Basic School in #MasaferYatta within seven days.
📢 WAFA correspondent reported that six citizens were killed and others were wounded when the Israeli occupation forces shelled tents for displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area of #KhanYounis #gaza
Ten citizens, including children, were also wounded when tents sheltering displaced people were shelled in the same area, which is considered a "safe area" for displaced families, but has been repeatedly bombed in recent weeks.
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Tessa Hulls's debut graphic novel is *Feeding Ghosts*, a stunning memoir that tells the story of three generations of her Chinese family. It was a decade in the making, and it is utterly, unmissably brilliant:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
*Feeding Ghosts* is about Hulls's quest to understand - and heal - her relationship with her mother, a half-Chinese, half-Swiss woman who escaped from China as a small child with her own mother, a journalist who had been targeted by Mao's police.
Hulls's grandmother, Sun Yi, wrote a bestselling memoir about her experiences in post-revolutionary Shanghai that made her both famous and notorious, in part because of the salacious details of Sun Yi's affair with the Swiss diplomat who fathered Rose, Hulls's mother.
In Hong Kong, Sun Yi's mental health declines precipitously. Some combination of mental illness and trauma - both from the horrors of the Sino-Japanese War and the her torture at the hands of the Chinese police - sends her into a spiral of paranoid delusions. But Sun Yi has a community of people who feel an obligation to support her in Hong Kong, including one of her rich "boyfriends."
Rose is sent away to a fancy, British-run girl's school dominated by expats where she acquires a cut-glass accent and learns to mix upper-class, colonial English gentry.
Hulls is born to Rose many years later, after Rose has emigrated to the USA, attended university, married twice - the second time to Rose's father, an Englishman - and moved her mother in with her.
For Hulls, growing up in Rose's household as the only Asian kid in a small American town, is a series of torments. Her mentally ill grandmother lives in one bedroom, gripped by delusions, compulsively writing, fretting, begging with her few English words for Rose to come back. Rose, meanwhile, is a duty-stricken domestic saint who does all the cooking and cleaning, cares for her children and her husband, and looks after her totally isolated, profoundly disturbed mother.
Hulls grows up in the shadow of the intergenerational trauma - genocide, war crimes, colonialist discrimination, untreated mental illness, and everyday American racism - that haunts her family. Rose veers from doting to shouting, terrified that Hulls is sliding into the family's madness, unable to understand or grapple with Hulls's identity as a self-proclaimed "mixed-race" Eurasian person, born in America, unable to speak Chinese or to understand her Chinese identity.
All of this biography is interspersed through several time-hopping sections that recount the history of the Chinese revolution and the lives of Sun Yi and Rose, along with scenes from the decade that Hulls spent writing and drawing *Feeding Ghosts*, during which she and her mother travel to see their family in China, on a literal and figurative journey of reconciliation.
It sounds complex and confusing, but it's anything but. Each of intertwined narratives - revolutionary China, Rose's girlhood, Hulls's girlhood, the trips to contemporary China, Hulls's adulthood and Sun Yi's institutionalizations and long isolation - are high stakes, high-tension scenarios, beautifully told. Hulls hops from one tale to the next in ways that that draw out the subtle, imporant parallels between each situation, subtly amplifying the echoes across time and space.
In the final third of this long, large book, we get to the meat of Hulls's own story: her tempestuous relationship with her mother, her mother's immersion in a psychoanalytic cult, the sad demise of Sun Yi, and the wild flight of Hulls herself, in which she breaks off her stultifying engagement and teaches herself to be a bicycle mechanic and begins cycling all over the world, living on pennies and consummating her love of wild and empty spaces.
At college, she becomes a cook through a weekly women's drunken pie-baking night, and somehow parlays that into a long session as a cook in Antarctica on McMurdo Station.
This final third acts as a kind of keystone to the many interwoven tales, as well as to the complex relationship between Hulls, her mother, and her own sense of self.
Up until this point, the different threads of Hulls's family's story are subtle echoes of one another, motifs that repeat and vary. But in this final third, the reader - and Hulls - experience a profound psychological realization,
We see how the three stories of these three generation of women, along with China's tumultuous history and the experience of an American immigrant all produced the person whose bold illustrations and sharp prose we've been immersed in for hundreds of pages. It's a *wild* moment.
Hulls's art style runs to dark, stylized inks, with horrors and ghosts puncturing individual panels' frames and wending through the page. It's a phantasmagorical experience.
*Feeding Ghosts* came out in March, and has gone on to win the Pulitzer Prize, only the second graphic novel in history to take the honor (the first was *Maus*, another memoir of intergenerational trauma, horrific war, and the American immigrant experience).
The prize is a big deal, obviously, and it's no coincidence that this kind of difficult illustrated memoir has won both graphic novel Pulitzers. Hulls joins the annals of world-altering comic-book memoirists, from Lynda Barry to Emil Ferris (*My Favorite Thing is Monsters*) to Art Spiegelman and Chester Brown.
She has pulled of a magnificent feat, one that illuminates history, contemporary racial and gender politics, the immigrant experience, and the impossible problems of parents and children in the aftermath of unspeakable trauma.
The real question is why is a fucking sociopath allowed to teach a class at a university? Oh, it’s Stanford. As you were. mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113…
Eric Schmidt:
‘learned that there were people who I call “glue people”. The glue people are incredibly nice people who sit at interstitial boundaries between groups, and they assist in activity.
sociopaths = professor & most leading administrators at "high end" US colleges & that's been pretty consistent for at least a few decades.... which is why many believe that an advancement towards a better educated society would be to dismantle those colleges completely.
Or yale -- their IRB approved a study that was "let's scare toddlers" in 2020. a lot of the anger was over scaring autistic toddlers, but they DID have a control group and it's not like scaring autistic toddlers is worse.
(this has basically no connection to the post I just like to complain about that study as often as I possibly can)
Deux soldats franco-israéliens sont visés par une plainte de plusieurs ONG, déposée ce 1er juillet à Paris, pour crimes de guerre, crimes contre l’humanité et génocide commis à Gaza.
Ce mardi 1er juillet 2025, une coalition d’organisations de défense des droits humains engage une procédure judiciaire contre deux ressortissants franco-israéliens, accusés d’avoir commis des exécutions sommaires à Gaza, entre novembre 2023 et mars 2024.
La Fédération internationale pour les droits humains (FIDH), qui regroupe 188 organisations dans 116 pays, a déposé une plainte avec constitution de partie civile auprès du pôle « crimes contre l’humanité » du tribunal judiciaire de Paris. Elle est accompagnée dans cette démarche par la Ligue des droits de l’Homme (LDH), l’Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS), ainsi que par les ONG palestiniennes Al-Haq, Al Mezan et le Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR).
Sur le même sujet : « L’armée qui fait ce qu’elle peut »
Deux noms apparaissent dans le dossier : Sasha A. et Gabriel B., snipers de nationalité franco-israélienne, membres d’une unité spéciale de l’armée israélienne. Selon les associations, les deux hommes sont impliqués dans des « atteintes volontaires à la vie constitutives de crimes de guerre, de crimes contre l’humanité et de génocide ». Le dossier repose notamment sur un reportage du journaliste palestinien Younis Tirawi et une série de témoignages recueillis par les ONG sur le terrain à Gaza. La Ghost Unit, unité d’élite qui s’affiche et revendique ses actes
Au cœur de l’affaire : une unité militaire israélienne baptisée Ghost Unit. Cette unité de tireurs d’élite, rattachée à la 202e brigade de parachutistes de Tsahal, est mise en cause dans une campagne systématique d’exécutions de civils, documentée pendant plusieurs mois.
Dans un documentaire de 38 minutes diffusé fin 2024, Younis Tirawi dévoile l’identité, les visages et les nationalités des membres de cette unité. Une photo de groupe, tirée des réseaux sociaux, révèle que près de la moitié des soldats possèdent une double nationalité, notamment française, belge, allemande, italienne et américaine.
Tous les éléments constitutifs du crime sont là : c’est revendiqué, filmé, documenté.
A. Deswaef
Mais ce qui est particulièrement frappant, c’est l’aveu filmé d’un sergent de l’unité, affirmant face caméra des tirs, parfois à plus d’un kilomètre de distance, sur des personnes non armées, le tout avec l’aval de ses supérieurs. « Ce qui est effarant, c’est qu’il revendique ouvertement les crimes de guerre. Il précise même tirer à proximité des hôpitaux. Tous les éléments constitutifs du crime sont là : c’est revendiqué, filmé, documenté », s’indigne Alexis Deswaef, avocat et vice-président de la FIDH. Des témoignages accablants de victimes de snipers
Les éléments du reportage sont corroborés par des témoignages recueillis par des ONG à Gaza. Dans un document consulté par nos soins, plusieurs témoins racontent comment des proches, enfants, femmes, blessés, ont été visés délibérément par des tireurs postés sur les toits autour des hôpitaux Al-Quds et Nasser. Un père raconte que sa fille de 17 ans a été tuée « d’une balle dans la tête » alors qu’elle rentrait à l’hôpital chercher de l’eau. Une autre famille rapporte que trois frères ont été tués dans la rue, tandis que leur mère, venue demander une ambulance, a elle aussi été blessée par balle.
Sur le même sujet : Palestine : c’est la jeunesse qu’on assassine
En février 2024, de nombreuses vidéos attestent de tirs de snipers sur des personnes non armées aux alentours de l’hôpital Al-Quds. Des images d’un enfant mort au sol devant le portail, un médecin (les liens suivants contiennent des scènes explicites qui peuvent ne pas convenir à tous les publics) pris pour cible, un homme âgé rampant, en sang, en train de rentrer dans l’hôpital sous le bruit des tirs parmi de nombreuses autres scènes tout aussi choquantes.
Les témoignages, enregistrés par Al Mezan et d’autres ONG, pointent tous un même mode opératoire, dans les mêmes zones et périodes que celles ciblées par l’enquête. « Le recoupement de ces récits avec les faits documentés dans le reportage laisse penser que les soldats de la Ghost Unit pourraient être impliqués dans l’ensemble de ces crimes », explique Issam Younis, directeur d’Al Mezan. Un objectif clair : briser l’impunité
Alors que la plainte cible deux individus précis, le dossier soulève une question bien plus vaste : celle du nombre et du rôle des Franco-Israéliens dans l’armée israélienne. Depuis le début des massacres, plusieurs centaines de citoyens binationaux, jusqu’à 4 000 ressortissants français, serviraient actuellement dans l’armée israélienne.
En décembre 2024, une plainte similaire avait déjà été déposée en France contre Yoel O., un sniper franco-israélien accusé de torture et d’exactions à l’encontre de prisonniers palestiniens. « À ce jour, aucune enquête n’a encore été ouverte », rappelle le communiqué de la FIDH. Ces procédures sont engagées pour rompre avec ce que les ONG dénoncent comme un cycle d’impunité judiciaire. « S’il peut le dire face caméra, c’est qu’il sait qu’il ne risque rien. Il y a un sentiment d’impunité totale. Nous pensons que seule une première décision judiciaire, en France, en Belgique ou ailleurs, pourra briser ce cycle », insiste Alexis Deswaef.
Sur le même sujet : Gaza : au-delà des chiffres, visualiser la tragédie
La plainte s’appuie sur le principe de compétence universelle prévu par le droit français. Comme le rappelle l’avocat, « en France, comme en Belgique, des ressortissants peuvent être poursuivis pour crimes de guerre ou contre l’humanité commis à l’étranger. Et ce, même en leur absence ».
Selon la FIDH, cette affaire présente une spécificité majeure : l’essentiel des éléments probants sont déjà disponibles au moment du dépôt de plainte. Entre les aveux filmés, les témoignages et les éléments de géolocalisation, les ONG estiment que la justice peut avancer rapidement. « D’ordinaire, dans ce type de dossier, il faut attendre des années pour obtenir des preuves. Ici, ce sont les auteurs eux-mêmes qui les apportent. La justice peut donc agir, y compris en l’absence des suspects. » Pour une coordination judiciaire internationale
La plainte déposée ce mardi en France n’est que la première étape. Des procédures équivalentes seront engagées en Allemagne et en Italie, tandis qu’une enquête est déjà en cours en Belgique contre un membre de la Ghost Unit. En Colombie, la Hind Rajab Foundation a déjà déposé une plainte pénale contre un des deux hommes, Gabriel B., repéré sur son territoire.
Il n’y a pas d’exception israélienne. La boussole doit rester le droit international.
A. Deswaef
Les ONG appellent à une coordination européenne des enquêtes. « Il ne peut pas y avoir deux poids, deux mesures. Ce qui serait fait pour des binationaux russes partis se battre en Ukraine doit l’être pour des binationaux israéliens engagés dans des crimes à Gaza », souligne Deswaef. « Il n’y a pas d’exception israélienne. La boussole doit rester le droit international. »
Si les suspects restent en Israël, ils ne seront pas réellement inquiétés. Mais pour la FIDH, une condamnation ne serait pas seulement symbolique. « Ils ne pourraient plus sortir d’Israël sans risquer une arrestation immédiate dans un autre pays. Et un jour, même en Israël, un changement de pouvoir pourrait les rattraper. »
La plainte pourrait aussi ouvrir la voie à des enquêtes sur la chaîne de commandement, puisque les snipers affirment avoir agi sur ordre hiérarchique. Un organigramme militaire de la Ghost Unit serait en cours de reconstitution par les ONG, en vue de remonter vers les donneurs d’ordres. À ce jour, aucune juridiction n’a encore jamais condamné un binational israélien pour des crimes de guerre commis à Gaza. Ces plaintes espèrent en terminer avec ce silence.
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot selected the French chef Anne-Sophie Pic to develop the bonus food she will bring to the International Space Station during her mission εpsilon.
With the caveat/caution that, sociologically speaking, part of the equation is a combination of educational hyper- or at least homogamy with higher female participation in higher education. Which is to say that capturing that component under "standards" is potentially classist.
Smashy Road is a captivating and intense racing game that provides players with exhilarating and demanding encounters. Here are several reasons to consider playing smashy road: 1. Encounter the excitement and intensity Smashy Road places you in the position of a driver attempting to evade a police pursuit. The game delivers an exhilarating sense of excitement and tension through rapid pace and captivating pursuits, maintaining an unceasing momentum. 2. Vivid visuals and audio The game features simplistic yet striking graphics, complemented by vibrant audio, resulting in a visually appealing and engaging gaming environment. The sound effects of crashes, police sirens, and car engines are rendered authentically, enhancing the enjoyment of the game. 3. Uncomplicated yet appealing gameplay Smashy Road features straightforward, comprehensible, yet highly engaging gameplay. Controlling the vehicle to evade obstacles and law enforcement is essential; yet, attaining high scores and sustaining prolonged evasion presents a formidable challenge.
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🦆L'équipe qui a travaillé sur cette vidéo : Préparation : Maxime Interview / Montage : Yohan Miniature : Nina
MUSIQUE : Intro/outro : @Lamiseultoutseul
00:00 Intro 01:30 La nature de l'état 04:44 : On fait quoi sans capital ? 06:57 Histoire du socialisme 12:38 Socialisme au quotidien 14:57 Le déjà la communiste ? 17:26 Conclusion
Kahana was the Religious Affairs Minister from 2021 to 2022 in what was known as Israel's 'government of change,' the first coalition since 2010 not led by current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
This weekend in Hungary’s capital Budapest, Human Rights Watch staff witnessed the city transform—if only for one brilliant afternoon—into a beacon of resistance.
The Instagram account of a well known anti-Zionist Jewish comedian was deleted after Meta's Public Policy Director for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora viewed one of his stories. This is just one example of the anti-Palestinian bias across Big Tech.
On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, Meta permanently deleted the Instagram account of anti-Zionist Jewish comedian Michael Schirtzer.
The Instagram account of a well known anti-Zionist Jewish comedian was deleted after Meta’s Public Policy Director for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora viewed one of his stories. This is just one example of the anti-Palestinian bias across Big Tech.
"Delegates and international activists with the Global March to Gaza, Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Al-Soumoud Convoy met in Tunisia to chart a collective path forward for Palestinian liberation ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ Over the past two weeks, thousands of international Palestine solidarity activists have gathered in Algeria, Tunisia, Libya,
Delegates and international activists with the Global March to Gaza, Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Al-Soumoud Convoy met in Tunisia to chart a collective path forward for Palestinian liberation ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ Over the past two weeks, thousa…
📢 “The International Committee of the Red Cross is deeply alarmed by the intensifying hostilities in #gaza city and Jabaliya, which have reportedly caused dozens of deaths and injuries among civilians over the past 36 hours,” the #ICRC said in a statement
The statement was released as Gaza’s Ministry of Health announced that the ISR assault on the Strip has, since OCT-2023, left (at least) 56,647 Palestinians dead and 134,105 injured.
The creation of the State of Israel has always been a project of erase/replace: erasing Palestinians and replacing Palestinians with imported Jewish immigrants.
This is why Israel has always gone to extreme lengths to destroy Palestinian towns, villages, homes and communities; why they changed the names of places; why they planted European trees and why they have no problem blowing up hills to make way for ugly Israeli settlements.
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank.
Part of the underlying problem around the proscription of Palestine Action (rendering protesters committing criminal damage as 'terrorists') is its based on the assumption Govt. has the right to judge whether protests are 'legitimate actions' or not;
A Govt. that can decide what and what isn't legitimate protest is reserving to itself the ability to shape & distort the articulation of political views.
Its a desire to enforce the Overton Window by legal means & is anti-democratic!
When you play speed stars, you become a top speedrunner and fight in fast races to win difficult tracks. Do you think you’re very good at time, speed, accuracy, and rhythm?
Speed Stars is a running game where players take on the role of elite speedrunners competing in high-speed races and try to reach the finish line in the fastest time.
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Le Sénégal se lance dans un bras de fer avec le plus important exploitant pétrolier du pays, l’australien Woodside Energy. “L’administration fiscale réclame 62,5 millions d’euros au groupe australien, qui exploite le champ de Sangomar. Contestant tout arriéré d’impôt, celui-ci a lancé une procédure d’arbitrage international.” explique Le Monde. Le journal ajoute que “Le cœur du litige serait dû à des évolutions dans le régime fiscal sénégalais. Le groupe pétrolier considère que les exigences sénégalaises contreviennent à des clauses contractuelles censées protéger les investisseurs en cas de changements fiscaux ou légaux. Or entre la signature du contrat de Sangomar, en 2004, qui s’appuyait sur le code pétrolier de 1998, et les revendications des contrôleurs d’impôts, le texte régissant le secteur des hydrocarbures a changé, en 2019.” Souvent, nous avons parlé dans l’Instant Porcher de ces grands groupes qui exploitent les ressources dans les pays africains. De cette relation d’interdépendance mais aussi de la mainmise de l’Occident sur le continent africain. La procédure lancée par le groupe pétrolier peut durer des années. Et Le Monde rappelle : “l’Etat (sénégalais) est engagé dans une course contre la montre. Surendettement, note souveraine dégradée, gel du financement du Fonds monétaire international (FMI) à hauteur de 1,8 milliard de dollars ayant pour effet de suspendre d’autres financements comme ceux de l’Union européenne (UE)… Les marges de manœuvre du Sénégal, extrêmement limitées, contraignent les autorités à multiplier audits et redressements. Du français Eiffage au turc Summa, beaucoup de grands groupes passent sous les fourches caudines des inspecteurs des impôts.” Cela démontre dans quel étau l’Occident a placé les pays africains avec des ressources.
Le fameux “conclave” sur la réforme des retraites par François Bayrou a fini sur un échec… assez prévisible me direz vous. On l’avait dit ici. Le Premier Ministre voulaient laisser syndicats et patronat discuter, mais a mis des contours : ne pas revenir sur les 62 ans par exemple. La CGT comme d’autres avaient alors quitté la table des négociations. En dernière ligne, les “partenaires sociaux” restants ne se sont pas mis d’accord sur la pénibilité. François Bayrou a tenté de sauver les restes, et avance que le “travail s’est déroulé dans un climat de coopération”.
Lisa Lap et Thomas Porcher décryptent tout cela, c’est l’Instant Porcher !
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"Coming soon: the completion of a global geospatial pollution monitoring network and, for Europe, a geo infrared sounder that can catch storms before they form."
The US and US science are not necessary for civilization. Other places will carry it on.
CN Suizid Laut vertraulichen Quellen (u.a. @dastanjasim.bsky.social) nahm sich ein 16-jähriger geflüchteter Kurde das Leben, nachdem erfuhr, dass eine Familienzusammenführung nicht mehr möglich sei. 1/
Not only do economists assume that everyone has a model of the economy in their heads that is the same as the model they have developed, they also assume that this model is an accurate predictor of the future. Bear in mind that this is after they’ve already admitted that their models completely failed to predict the Global Financial Crisis.
@Su_G Funny how I was branded “extreme” for clearly stating that they’re the enemy a decade ago.
I guess it didn’t help that nearly everyone in tech either had (has) “good friends who work there” and/or wanted (wants) to work there and/or were (are) employed by and/or were (are) bottom-feeders – consultant(cies), “influencers”, etc. – that depend on the scraps thrown at them by Big Tech.
“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair
@aral @Su_G I remember the exact same 35 years ago when I was still in high school, albeit with slightly more of a hardware /embedded systems focus and different companies (Marconi, ICL, Acorn/ARM, Ferranti, RACAL, Plessey etc)
Tomorrow, MPs will debate and vote on a measure to proscribe the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Novara Media stands opposed to this historic infringement on freedom of expression.
What do you have against the project and the people behind it? It sounds personal.
There are plenty of non-commercial Linux distributions. Some managed better than others. Some generic, some with niches. OpenWRT is a favourite of mine.
Its my experience with server software for beginners in general, which gets my enshittification senses tingling. I just dont trust in a company providing a hell of a service (like, getting tens if not hundreds of docker images to work with the click of a button) for free.
With Truenas I know that their community branch is an ad for their enterprise service because no single person will key thousands for the caliber of support their enterprise has, so they make their money by offering cloud services. So that explains how it is still feasable for them to give me their dataset and UI and everything frontend for free.
But with Casa, I just dont know where the money comes from. I dont see how they can keep up their operations and make a profit with this kind of effort. So I can only assume that many non essential services will be put behind a paywall.
And if they do it, I still know that they use docker and ZFS, and I can spend a day or 2 learning how to set up a software raid and an ssd as a ZFS buffer for it, and everything else i‘ve set up with their OS.
But thats the problem: Beginners dont know. Its like with the Iphone: If the user dosent learn how to deploy a docker instance from a compose file themselves, they will be bound to that frontend and all the enshittification that happens to it.
Therefore I would like it way more if Selfhosting was more like the AUR. First learn how the Process of pulling an image and makepkg‘ing works firsthand, then you can use the frontend like yay. Not the other way around.
But if no one learns how to do something the old fashioned way and relies on a frontend for everything, at some point the company behind the frontend will vendor lock everyone into their system, since there is no competition anyway
Beginners will always gravitate to what is easier.
The upstream tools (Docker in this case) must orient themselves more towards the newbies, not only the pros, if we want to see the progress here.
Personally, as a non-IT guy, I find myself fighting uphill battles every time I want to do something seemingly simple, because the basic tools we're offered are not made with common folk in mind. And I'm sort of an enthusiast - most people just won't bother if it's not plug&play, they don't have time and energy to figure everything out.
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So you're basically saying "I don't have any proof of any of this, but I'm scared so I'm scaring others as well".
Your first point makes zero sense: it can't be both "for profit" and have "no means of generating income".
Their way of generating income is the reason they created the distro/OS in the first place: selling hardware. To my knowledge, they wanted to ship their mini servers (ZimaBoard) and later NAS-like devices (ZimaCube I think?) with an easy to use OS that can do all basic home server tasks. That didn't exist, so they made one. They didn't need to make money from the OS, it's a catalyst to bring able to sell (more) hardware. I personally think that is a great way to use Linux as a company and contribute to the wider ecosystem, why does it scare you so much? They could've closed this of much more, but made it for available to everyone, on any hardware.
From what I heard, they did achieve their design goals. It's a bit simplistic for me personally, but probably great for a beginner.
I get that enshittyfication is everywhere these days, but maybe don't try to stop people from using things that haven't actually seen ANY yet, just because they might? With no indication that they will, either.
4&5 might be fair points though, I for know enough about the details.
Your first point makes zero sense: it can’t be both “for profit” and have “no means of generating income”.
Are you for real? The entire concept of Enshittification hinges on the real fact that most internet services start out with a net negative "profit" and are kept alive through large injections of VC capital. This allows them to offer the service for free or close to free to gain a massive user base, which they then leverage for profit later on through measures that make the service worse for consumers. The entire reason Mastodon, Lemmy, and the federated social network exist is because of this contradiction.
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Casaos is a Chinese commercial "loss leader" software added to tons of Chinese brands. It is not intended to make money by itself, it is intended to sell more home nas market gear like zimaboards.
It's also not an os, despite its claims and confusing terms on Wikipedia.
Last, casaos sends telemetry to Chinese IPs, a fair amount more than most software, based on what I saw with tcpdump alone.
I'm not sure how casaos made its way into the "open source os" space, but none of what you're saying is new.
I ended up with a device that shipped with it and replace it with Yunohost for a similarly beginner friendly experience that, so far, seems a whole lot more open.
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