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**Emerson disait : « Tout homme m’est supérieur en quelque manière et je m’instruis auprès de lui. » Ce qui était vrai pour Emerson n’est-il pas mille fois plus vrai pour vous et moi? **
Israel's Genocidal Intentions Have Been Obvious This Whole Time
"So when people claim at this late date that they are coming to the reluctant conclusion that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, I have a hard time believing them." caitlinjohnst.one/p/israels-ge…
Οι μικροί εξαγωγείς και συνεταιρισμοί κακάο στην Ακτή Ελεφαντοστού προειδοποιούν ότι ο νέος κανονισμός της Ε.Ε. για την αποψίλωση μπορεί να τους οδηγήσει στη χρεοκοπία
ABC - NSW Police say 90,000 pro-Palestinian protesters took to the Sydney Harbour Bridge to highlight the humanitarian impacts of the war in Gaza. abc.net.au/news/2025-08-03/nsw…
At the individual scale, self-hosting is not a good way to “be in control of my data.”
It’s like saying I do a vegetable garden to be in control of my food. I need much more than I can grow, it’s an inefficient use of my time, and I’m one bad season away from losing it all.
Resilience and transparency are key to be in control of my data and I can’t achieve this alone. This is a social problem, we need to bring solutions as a society.
I don’t want to self-host, and even worse: I think most individuals shouldn’t host services for others. Yet, I am self-hosting services and I even teach people how to do it.
I think !Selfhosted will.give you some thoughtful responses. I actually agree that if you try to do everything yourself without any input and cooperation with others then yeah you have a hige level of risk but then if you cooperate in groups, use design patterns and templates then self hosting could sort of be like #rooftopsolar - contributing to the whole - its that balance of leaning in and leaning back. Thats why I am interested in things like a combo / drop in router - home server combo that could be used by every day people and things like federated backup. But as you say it requires the organisational as well as technical models. Thats how I got interested in things like #creditunions where they can potentially avoid the problem of third interests that drive #enshitification. I think that #opensource software, legal and process designs are useful.
I like this comparison, but the missing, and most important piece is the small commercial farms that *should* be the main supplier (of food and hosting services!)
Individual solutions are fun, but not efficient for really feeding ourselves, and industrial megafactoryfarms come with a huge pile of problems. True with data, true with agriculture!
You are not in control by doing it yourself, if you don't know what you are doing. Some vegetables you just plant and receive a good harvest, but there are more than enough that are hard to grow.
Self-hosting sensitive data is more like: To be in control of the safety of you home, build your own lock. Yes, you exactly know how secure it is, but that doesn't matter if you exactly know: I know jack-shit about making locks.
so far, Ive not had any trouble with "being in control of my data", for about 10 years of it now.
What is the connection to the analogy of growing a garden? A garden is usually a finite plot on rented land with strict limits.
Data warehousing is much more flexible, the cost of warehousing a LOT of it is much cheaper today/low energy, and there would never be any way to scale a garden like you can scale personal storage. Also the philosophy of WHAT we store, and why.
yes! I support anyone building and running their own stuff (just like having a vegetable garden is a great idea), but we need to create better IT *as a society*. We can't do it all by ourselves individually and call that a solution. What we mainly need to do as individuals is speak out and educate people, to cause fundamental shifts.
We need hosting by small national companies (10.000 to 100.000 users) instead of big tech. Individual hosting is necessary to develop and test distributed systems based in open standards.
and I don't grow much of my own food, but I would rather support diverse local farmers than giant distant food conglomerates.
The analogy is not precise, but I am also happy to support small service providers who respect my data privacy instead of giant companies that are exploiting and selling everything I do as part of their business model. Unfortunately, it is even harder to do this in tech than it is with food in our modern world.
This is a bad take. It's more like having your own notebook for your diary vs sharing a big notebook with everyone in your neighborhood for recording your personal thoughts - the former is (or should be) utterly easy and the latter is obviously bonkers wrong and has no advantage of scale.
The *only* reason self hosting your data is "hard" is that software is such hideously over complicated shit. Not anything fundamental.
It's not that self hosting as a concept is a bad way, it's that we don't do it in a user friendly, easy to set up, way.
We've figure out how to make applications easy to install on a phone - that's what Android is. Making them easy to install on a "Self hosters appliance" ought to be just as easy. A "Self hosters' Android" is something achievable, but with the ISPs locking down connections, and the average person is now so dumb that they can't join Mastodon because "You have to pick a server", the problem is fighting a lot of bias that prevents anyone from having the incentive to build a OS and ecosystem like that.
@mark What you want is a provider that has no control over you via handling your data and metadata. I am going to give a talk about implementation of such thing at HOPE_16. I did rehearsal at my local LUG meeting. I am looking for feedback. Second video in kwlug.org/node/1440
in my opinion (30+ year tech workers), I think we should be generating less digital content, attempting to immortalize less digital content, and considering more seriously (climate change, late stage capitalism, etc) the whole subject.
If we also limit what we consider essential data, this makes the whole problem much easier. I dont think we live in a world where our data can be as immortal as we maybe want it to be...
@threetonesun I warehouse all important data for my family, and I've never spent more than $1000 doing so. Combined total.
If you add up the cost of everything I've done to preserve all important data over 20+ years, the total cost (of JBODs or standalone) is under $1000. Since around 2002. I just finished extracting the rest of it from Google, who had a bunch of it thanks to smartphone image sync and drive.
I've got pretty good resilience for my data. I'm not sure why I would ever want any kind of transparency for it.
The difference between a veg garden and claiming you're in control of your food and self-hosting and being in control of your data is the order of magnitudes in difference between the resources required for both.
You can be in control of your data for something like 1000 bucks a year or something like that, combining HW, some remote backups and electricity.
Then there's the time required. That's also an investment, yes, but absolutely nothing compared to what you would need to supply yourself with a healthy diet just on your own.
The comparison is absolute hyperbole, and ends up not being useful at all.
agreed. For me part of the answer is to find small companies and co-operatives to work with. A couple of examples for me are @Codeberg and our blog ( sustainablesailing.net/ ) which is now on @hey which is magicpages.co/ running Ghost.
Yeah community hosting for sure. There's no reason besides corruption that the local library couldn't host all the services that the local residences need, support local libraries.
I would argue there is difference on smaller scale. I can be control of my data and I can suffer trough setting it all up, and sharing that experience with others. Good thing about IT that there are non costly ways to scale it up. No such thing for producing food or ensuring health care, etc. So while generally I agree, it is small reprieve, I wouldn't stop people for attempting digital independence.
We WERE self-hosting, until the cost of "business" internet service (for static IPs and public-facing servers) more than doubled. Now we use a VPS for mail and web. The VPS is also more reliable, as our location has frequent outages.
We use an EU based nextcloud provider for offsite backup (because the GDPR is your friend).
The trick, for me at least, is to not do it just for yourself. Do what you like, do what you can do easily and do well, and share it with others so that the most people possible can benefit.
Question: how do these communities defend themselves from profit-seeking actors? I've seen several community resources get taken over by for-profit interests and it's a perennial challenge.
Most are tax-evading sleazebags who freely take government subsidies, tax cuts, and bailout money with lightning fast readiness whenever there's a crisis.
Hugely profitable oil refineries still taking tax breaks 50 years after the 1973 OPEC Oil Embargo; that's just one example.
As MLK Jr wrote "This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor."
I self host too and I also host other people. However, I don't do as much of it as I used to. Hosting other people is a huge headache so I let that business fade out.
I never made a serious effort to grow my #hosting service. It ran it as a social enterprise.
I didn't just offer good hosting to them, I also offered them support and advice they could trust. That kind of service is something that I should have valued more and priced in a way that was more fair to me.
Offering artisanal hosting run by an expert who knows you, your site, and your goals is something I wish I had more time to do. I'd love to see other people build a business from this model. My advice is to be sure to price it fairly to yourself and clearly explain the value you are providing.
"Trois textes à propos de l'instrumentalisation des luttes queer par Israël à des fins coloniales et génocidaires. Outil de lutte créé pour diffuser sur les prides ou réflechir au pinkwashing. 1. Un plaidoyer pour la libération de la part des Queers en Palestine2. « Pas de fiertés sans la Palestine »3. Israël : le pinkwashing comme arme coloniale en Palestine
le philosophe Emerson disait: «Ce que vous êtes parle plus haut que ce que vous dites»; c’est à dire: choisissez le langage qu’il vous plaira, vous ne pourrez jamais l’empêcher de révéler votre vraie nature.
Le roi George V avait fait inscrire six maximes dans son bureau de Buckingham Palace. Voici l’une d’elles: «Apprenez-moi à ne dispenser comme à ne recevoir nulle vile flatterie.
Some minutes ago, I was slightly disturbed by the photo of a beheaded #corpse in my timeline. I just scrolled down, but I wonder, if such #gore images should be #CWed, even if it's "only" a killed #bird.
So when the Detroit Red Wings were in finals the tradition was to throw octopuses onto the ice. Now there is a new tradition in the WNBA throw dildo's onto the court.
The suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society by the International Sociological Association marks a significant milestone in the international academic boycott of Israel.
As John Naughton points out the AI 'revolution' is starting to eat its own with the major Big Tech owners of major AI assets laying off lower level staff whose work will be replaced by the AI they control, while at the same time paying massive hiring bonuses for AI 'talent'.
If you wanted an example of how Big Tech is a mechanism for the concentration of wealth, this would be it (but of course by no means the first indication or example of that trend).
If you have always wanted to do a talk, or if you feel that security conferences don't seem to provide you with the content you'd like to see in the world, I encourage you to apply.
The CFP process is very open and it is a very supportive community to learn to present.
The talk structure is also a lot of fun - having a fraction devoted to personal hobbies keeps things fresh.
Check it out. And I'm always happy to review proposals in addition to Pancakescon slack.
Dans une de ses émissions radiophoniques, Paul Harvey raconte comment il est possible de transformer la vie de quelqu’un simplement en lui témoignant de la considération. Il cite l’exemple de ce pro fesseur de Detroit qui demanda un jour à Stevie Morris de l’aider à retrouver une souris égarée dans la salle de classe. La nature avait fait don à Stevie de quelque chose que personne d’autre dans la pièce ne possédait; Pour compenser la perte de sa vue, elle l’avait doté d’une ouïe très fine. Mais c’était la première fois que l’on manifestait de l’intérêt pour son talent auditif et ce fut pour lui le point de départ d’une vie nouvelle. C’est à partir de ce moment-là qu’il désira développer ce don et qu’il devint, sous le nom de Stevie Wonder, un grand auteur compositeur interprète de musique pop dans les années 70.
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Imagine if there was an article written about every Palestinian held hostage by Israel and mistreated by Israel. Imagine if there was an article written about every Palestinian starving today. We would run out of words before we run out of stories of Palestinians enduring atrocity.
Don't ask that: They take it as a challenge, and they've already murdered people in their hospital beds, bombed and starved babies, and shoot children for sport, but they'd find another level of mindless violence. #FuckIsrael
a redshifted photon's energy doesn't go anywhere, it gets spread over a larger area due to the larger wavelength.
A photon's energy is inversely proportional to its wavelength since the speed is fixed. Speed being constant means that distance and time are proportional. In the context of cosmological redshift, space itself is expanding, stretching out the wave and causing the same amount of energy to be spread over a larger volume.
I'm not sure what you mean by time being the variable to determine cosmoslogical redshift. The deciding factor is distance, the larger your distance, the more space there is in between, and since each unit of space expands at a constant rate (theoretically), if you have more units of space in between, you see more expansion. Time only comes into play in the sense that it's an expansion "rate". AFAIK the exact way this association with time works is a quantum gravity issue (eg is the expansion rate affected by time dilation?), so kind of an unknown.
Many alternative theories do try to suggest that perhaps our assumptions on redshift are in some way wrong (eg variable speed of light), causing our distance ladder to be wrong, and that changing some assumption in some way can eliminate dark matter and/or dark energy. But so far they have yet to provide any testable predictions.
actually, I thought about it a bit more and noticed that I immediately contradict myself lol, if wavelength is inversely proportional to energy, there is obviously energy loss and saying it's just spread out doesn't make sense.
The real answer seems to be much more complicated, where the gist of it is that conservation of energy holds within the same reference frame, not between reference frames. The energy kind of just disappears.
to be fair, in Newtonian physics, you can record a video of a ball throw, play it in reverse and not really be able to tell that it's in reverse without looking at other things.
But if space itself is expanding, it's very obvious when you play it in reverse (because you can see the space itself shrinking).
In general, conservation of energy only really holds on average, and falls apart at extremely large and extremely tiny scales.
the energy lost isn't enough to explain the expansion of space if that's what you're thinking. That energy isn't being "converted" to space, it's being lost due to the expansion of space.
Traveling forward in time is "easy", astronauts on the ISS have traveled forward in Earth time by ~10ms every year. You just have to be moving really fast or be deep in a gravity well, causing time to be slower for you than on Earth, so when you come back, more time has passed on Earth than has passed for you.
Traveling backwards requires FTL shenanigans though, barring the existence of new physics (eg exotic matter, stable traversible wormholes etc), even infinite energy isn't enough to go backwards.
it's kinda complicated, stretching into things I really can't claim to understand too well, but quantum physics seems to kind of muddy things due to the uncertainty in the energy of the system until you measure it. So, you can never actually measure (or observe the effects of) any non-conserved energy, but that isn't the same as energy being conserved until you measure it.
Oui, nous nourrissons les corps de nos enfants, de nos invités et de nos employés, mais nous leur donnons bien rarement l’aliment nécessaire à leur propre estime. Nous leur dispensons le rôti et les pommes de terres génératrices d’énergie physique, mais nous négligeons de leur offrir les bonnes paroles qui résonneraient longtemps dans leur mémoire comme une incomparable mélodie.
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The shadow of clouds drifting across a field. Was it a happy accident, or did they wait hours for it? Anyway this has few flaws and of those none of significance, and deserves the canonization. Works even better in the age of Luigi.
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China has declassified some of its top-secret military operations via a five-episode documentary that began broadcasting on Friday, which marked the 98th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
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It always takes time to gear up--now past the first 10, more deaths are acceptable and they can start ratcheting up to the hundreds, thousands...millions...UNLESS WE FUCKING STOP THEM.
Playing through all the Mozart string quartets--we played that second volume of mostly early stuff (K. 100s), but has at the end a few flute and oboe quartets--and this gem. youtube.com/watch?v=yngstFiha3…
Based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s "Adagio and Fugue in C minor K. 546", Glenn Gould gives us an overview of the musical form known as the fugue, originally ...
D'un bout à l'autre, il s'agira de faire comme si le peuple palestinien, non seulement ne devait plus être, mais n'avait jamais été. Les conquérants étaient de ceux qui avaient subi eux-même le plus grand génocide de l'histoire. De ce génocide, les sionistes avaient fait un mal absolu. Mais transformer le plus grand génocide de l'histoire en mal absolu, c'est une vision religieuse et mystique, ce n'est pas une vision historique. Elle n'arrête pas le mal; au contraire, elle le propage, elle le fait retomber sur d'autres innocents, elle exige une réparation qui fait subir à ces autres une partie de ce que les juifs ont subi (l'expulsion, la mise en ghetto, la disparition comme peuple). Avec des moyens plus "froids" que le génocide, on veut aboutir au même résultat.
Les USA et l'Europe devaient réparation aux juifs. Et cette réparation, ils la firent payer par un peuple dont le moins qu'on puisse dire est qu'il n'y était pour rien, singulièrement innocent de tout holocauste et n'en ayant même pas entendu parler. C'est là que le grotesque commence, aussi bien que la violence. Le sionisme, puis l'État d'Israël exigeront que les Palestiniens les reconnaissent en droit. Mais lui, l'État d'Israël, il ne cessera de nier le fait même d'un peuple palestinien. On ne parlera jamais de Palestiniens, mais d'Arabes de Palestine, comme s'ils s'étaient trouvés là par hasard ou par erreur.
Et plus tard, on fera comme si les Palestiniens expulsés venaient du dehors, on ne parlera pas de la première guerre de résistance qu'ils ont menée tout seuls. On en fera les descendants d'Hitler, puisqu'ils ne reconnaissaient pas le droit d'Israël. Mais Israël se réserve le droit de nier leur existence de fait. C'est là que commence une fiction qui devait s'étendre de plus en plus, et peser sur tous ceux qui défendaient la cause palestinienne. Cette fiction, ce pari d'Israël, c'était de faire passer pour antisémites tous ceux qui contesteraient les conditions de fait et les actions de l'État sioniste. Cette opération trouve sa source dans la froide politique d'Israël à l'égard des Palestiniens.
Israël n'a jamais caché son but, dès le début : faire le vide dans le territoire palestinien. Et bien mieux, faire comme si le territoire palestinien était vide, destiné depuis toujours aux sionistes. Il s'agissait bien de colonisation, mais pas au sens européen du XIXe siècle : on n'exploiterait pas les habitants du pays, on les ferait partir. Ceux qui resteraient, on n'en ferait pas une main-d'œuvre dépendant du territoire, mais plutôt une main-d'œuvre volante et détachée, comme si c'étaient des immigrés mis en ghetto. Dès le début, c'est l'achat des terres sous la conditions qu'elle soit vides d'occupants, ou vidables. c'est un génocide, mais où l'extermination physique rester subordonnée à l'évacuation géographique : n'étant que des Arabes en général, les Palestiniens survivants doivent aller se fondre avec les autres Arabes. L'extermination physique, qu’il soit ou non confiée à des mercenaires, est parfaitement présente. Mais ce n'est pas un génocide, dit-on, puisqu'elle n'est pas le "but final" : en effet, c'est un moyen parmi d'autres.
La complicité des États-Unis avec Israël ne vient pas seulement de la puissance d'un lobby sioniste. Élias Sanbar a bien montré comment les États-Unis retrouvaient dans Israël un aspect de leur histoire : l'extermination des Indiens, qui, là aussi, ne fut qu'en partie directement physique. ll s'agissait de faire le vide, et comme s'il n'y avait jamais eu d'Indiens, sauf dans des ghettos qui en feraient autant d'immigrés du dedans. À beaucoup d'égards, les Palestiniens sont les nouveaux Indiens, les Indiens d'Israël.
L'analyse marxiste indique les deux mouvements complémentaires du capitalisme : s'imposer constamment des limites, à l'intérieur desquelles il aménage et exploite son propre système; repousser toujours plus loin ces limites, les dépasser pour recommencer en plus grand ou en plus intense sa propre fondation. Repousser les limites, c'était l'acte du capitalisme américain, du rêve américain, repris par Israël et le rêve du Grand Israël sur territoire arabe, sur le dos des Arabes.
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