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Apparently I can't. I have Nvidia GPUs and no Intel/ On-Board GPU on my motherboard so everything I'm reading is telling me it's no bueno to install Qubes with Nvidia. 🙁
I'm using a Nvidia GPU. Either use the newest kernel if you have the option (so that nooveau is included) or install the nvidia driver manually in DOM0.
(All of this should be possible from the command line if you somehow get access to it. Don't know at which point you are stuck!)
I have Qubes installed right now on my Framework Laptop and I do recall there's a boot option to boot Qubes with the latest kernel during the install. Hmmm.
Only other thing I'm concerned about is all my other drives are Luks encrypted. I do have the keys saved for all the drives in my credential vault and have copied my /etc/fstab just in case.
And fortunately my $HOME isn't on my boot device so I hopefully won't lose any data (crosses fingers).
Can you boot into rescuing the current Qubes installation? Maybe with the USB-Stick? Then follow this: github.com/Qubes-Community/Con…
(Basically tells you to download the driver from the nvidia site, installing some library and then installing the driver. The hardest part is probably moving your driver installation file to dom0.)
Community documentation, code, links to third-party resources, ... See the issues and pull requests for pending content. Contributions are welcome ! - Qubes-Community/Contents
Never tried to do it and it's probably not sooo smart, but what's about just copying your (with the latest kernel installed) existing qubes+boot partitions onto that device?
S.B. 690 isn’t tech policy — it’s a civil rights threat. It puts immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, abortion seekers, and protesters at risk of silent surveillance. This Corporate Cover-Up Act must be stopped. #StopSB690eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/cali…
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A closeted Zionist (Mamdani) won the primary, Nazi segment of Jewish community seems to be copying quite well — by imagining things that are not there.
If someone who is for actual Decolonization won primary (unlike Mamdani who has bent over backwards for segments of Jewish Nazism to get Jewish vote), they might call them Hitlerᴴᶦᵗˡᵉʳ as Nazis need to be hyperbolic to express how oppressed they fell while enabling non-stop genocide.
Jewish Nazi hyperbole is so transparent that they say Democrats i.e Mostly NazLibs & lil bit of Shitlibs—not even Left,leave alone Far-Left—are bigoted against Jews&these Naz-&Shitlibs are nothing more than Nazis of 1930s.
No wonder, nobody takes them seriously.
Self-delegitimization is what we are witnessing from Jewish community at large (thats filled with Jewish Nazis). Many Jews who oppose Jewish-Nazism are still living in denial.
Handful of of Jews who are for actual decolonization (not only oppose Jewish Nazism, but are for decolonisation) are not taken seriously within their broader Jewish community.
Ofcourse, this last segment has no organised & sizable Jewish groups like other Jewish groups.
So, barring these handful who see clearly where their community is & has been at, most of Jewish community ranges from active denial to full embrace of Nazism.
« On Sunday, June 1, the Israeli military destroyed the Noura Al-Kaabi Dialysis Center, the only one in North #Gaza, which served more than forty patients a week. For these patients my research has become largely irrelevant [...] Many of them will die slowly, each one becoming another number in the growing butcher’s bill of the #GazaGenocide. »
Gaza (Quds News Network)- A total of 18,741 children in Gaza have been admitted for treatment of acute malnutrition since the beginning of this year, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of
I am smitten with DeltaChat... DeltaChat has been making massive strides lately and I think you should consider using it as your full time secure messenger.
Antidark the group that spammed monero transactions for being "complicit in for-crime operations such as those [darknet] marketplaces" and threatened doxing dread user got hacked and takendown
ChatGPT’s 300+ million users submit over 1 billion messages to its chatbots per day, often for personal purposes. Their privacy shouldn’t be put at risk. But a recent court order does just that. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/copy…
Like users of all technologies, ChatGPT users deserve the right to delete their personal data. Nineteen U.S. States, the European Union, and a host of other countries already protect users’ right to delete.
By Sara Flounders June 24, 2025 Stay Alert! U.S./Israeli war on Iran and decades of U.S. sanctions, sabotage and encirclement continue. Genocidal Israeli attacks in Gaza escalate. Iran has succeeded in defending itself from planned U.S.
For example, there's a rule that the lowest priced bid that conforms to all standards needs to win the contract. This sounds good (and it is, in many cases) but it's how Newag keeps selling trains in Poland, even after they were caught boobytrapping their trains so they would immobilize themselves if the operator took them for independent maintanance:
if you have the room for me to stay I'll probably be there from the 20th to 25th. I personally don't mind meeting up with a bunch of other fedi users. I'm just not sure if they would be cool with my other identity or if its best they just know me as vitalis.
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Astronomers use Andromeda to understand the structure and evolution of our own spiral, which is much harder to do since Earth is embedded inside the Milky Way. The galaxy […]
Blogger, author, and activist Cory Doctorow is the most provocative, original, and widely admired thinker on the politics of Big Tech in the world today.
The "Eurostack" is a (long overdue) project to publicly fund a European "stack" of technology that is independent from American Big Tech (as well as other powers' technology that has less hold in Europe, such as Chinese and Russian tech):
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:
A secret group chat reveals that Democratic strategists plan to support the pro-crypto GENIUS Act for political gain, despite acknowledging it’s a Trump corruption giveaway.
I said goodbye to my wife and turned back to Big Agnes, the new yellow & red tent I had just erected on the lawn of Fairview-Clifton German Language School. It was dinnertime, but instead of eating a…
My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.
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Blogger, author, and activist Cory Doctorow is the most provocative, original, and widely admired thinker on the politics of Big Tech in the world today.
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.
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Blogger, author, and activist Cory Doctorow is the most provocative, original, and widely admired thinker on the politics of Big Tech in the world today.
And thank you for coming all the way to NZ - so few ever do, on account of it being so far away from the rest of the world that it is practically on the moon.
The bit that echoed the longest was the Corpus callosum severance story, where the spoken word is the spark that jumped the gap.
The analogue hole between McGilchristian hemispheres... and I'm prone to going a bit Milton/Blake on the whole thing so am tempted to see the gap between the hemispheres as being a literal physical instantiation of The War in Heaven - and "in the beginning was the word" has a certain ring to it.
“Wiring up a country is not the lost art of a fallen civilization, like building pyramids without power-tools or embalming pharoahs. It's something that even the poorest counties in America can manage, bringing fiber across forbidden mountain passes on the back of a mule named "Ole Bub.” 😅
Cue up your ad blocker, a short and easy to implement list from J Morgenthaler - make sure your recipe doesn't suck, use stronger ingredients, and ice ice baby, keep cold drinks really cold.
Let’s be honest, there are a million versions of every cocktail out there online these days, and most of them are fairly terrible.
That sounds more like a matter of taste and making sure that you actually have the same ingredients (or knowing how to adjust if you don't) as the person who made the recipe.
Whenever I see a car on the road that has a dealership badge glued onto the rear I immediately look down on the driver as a cuck. Imagine getting financially raped on a new car purchase and then driving around in a vehicle branded with the name of your wallet rapist.
Secretary of Defense (War!) Pete Hegseth, together with Military Representatives, will be holding a Major News Conference tomorrow morning at 8 A.M. EST at The Pentagon, in order to fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots. These Patriots were very upset! After 36 hours of dangerously flying through Enemy Territory, they landed, they knew the Success was LEGENDARY, and then, two days later, they started reading Fake News by CNN and The Failing New York Times. They felt terribly! Fortunately for them and, as usual, solely for the purpose of demeaning PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, the Fake News (Times and CNN) lied and totally misrepresented the Facts, none of which they had (because it was too soon, there were no Facts out there yet!). The News Conference will prove both interesting and irrefutable. Enjoy!
Ayer el parlamento iraní aprobó la retirada de #Irán de la #OIEA y la expulsión de todos sus inspectores y trabajadores del país. Existen claros y repetidos indicios de la colaboración entre la organización y el estado judío, cuya documentación publicamos anteriormente, con respecto a la ubicación no solo de los depósitos de uranio sino también de los ingenieros nucleares, sus nombres y sus domicilios. Se da el caso que #Israel no es miembro de la OIEA, por lo cual está libre de sus inspecciones.
Please do not watch the video where a Israeli/Belarrusian man beats an Iranian 2 year old child in Moscow's air port.
I wish I didn't.
Anyway yo already have all the information, an Israeli beat a 2 year old Iranian child for no motive whatsoever. The Russian authorities detained him, so he'll prob. get some jail time, not that it'll help him. He seamed not a bit remorseful of his heinous act.
Anyway, you don't need to watch violence against children, it's horrible.
@disisdeguey Yeah, I wasn't prepared for the level of violence. I though maybe he slapped the child, but seeing the clear intent he had to kill, and how he didn't hesitate to attack the kid. Disturbing.
Old school winter fishing in Finland. youtube.com/watch?v=DvYjC7_UJY… The subtitle translation does not work, as they speak Swedsih. And I cannot see a way to make it start from Swedish. Seems like Google missed something here? Most countries are multilingual. Or am I missing something.
Filmat på isen på Gloskärsfjärden, mycket folk hade samlats och många nyfikna samlades dit.This video vas filmed on a lake in Larsmo, Finland. It's one of th...
En la Armada se han venido arriba con lo del aumento del gasto militar y han decidido ignorar positivamente la principal enseñanza de este último cuarto de siglo: en el mar, hoy por hoy, solo hay submarinos y blancos. Te gastas mil millones de euros en un portaaviones para que te lo hunda un yemení de 19 años volando un dron hecho con un Passat del 1981 y dos alas de fibra de vidrio
La noticia dio la vuelta al mundo, como lo hacen esas noticias jocosas que informan de puentes que se quedan cortos, o se caen. Uno se divierte mucho leyendo esas cosas que en el caso español fue calificada como ‘chapuza hispánica’.
Les archéologues de l’INRAP viennent de mettre au jour une mosaïque antique exceptionnelle à Alès, dans le Gard. Une découverte survenue dans le cadre de fouilles préventives menées entre février et juin 2025, à l’Ermitage,...
🌻❤️ Please Click the THUMBS UP Button 👍 and SUBSCRIBE! 💚😎 . "Liars, Cheats, and Crooks" is out now on all digital music - Get it Here: https://tinyurl.com/zs2t6uwv Featuring Pete Parada on drums (The
honest to god. my server, as long as we dont count my music library, is using 8gigs of disk space. my Android operating system (JUST the OS) on this fucking spybox i carry around with me everywhere is using 10 gigs. and now is itching for me to go to sleep to use another 1.8 gigs. i cannot get around to running #mobian fast enough.
@ChristiJunior I have no idea. But it doesn't matter what I believe, or what reality is, so long as they believe it. He does seem to be genuinely anti-Israel, which is actually inseparable from being against organized Jewry.
@ChristiJunior imagine all the jew tunnels that could be found once they leave NYC. Also isn't he going to make government owned grocery stores. Perfect for him to turn new york into new jeet city. The NuJeet Mafia inc. only their stores will have proper anti-theft protections. Everyone else is chopped liver.
BREAKING: DOJ has filed a Complaint against Tim Walz for Minnesota Laws providing in-state tuition benefits for illegal aliens
“The Department of Justice just won on this exact issue in Texas, and we look forward to taking this fight to Minnesota in order to protect the rights of American citizens first.” - Attorney General Pam Bondi
Welp, it looks like Trump bombed Iran. The Babylon Bee has assembled headlines from various media outlets here in one place so you can pick a little bit of the truth out of each to learn the whole story.
CachyOS looks really good, and I want to try it. But what's the effect of being sponsored by cloudflare? Is it FOSS? Does it collect data? What's Cloudflare getting out of the sponsorship?
They're fighting against AI scrapers, are objectively one of the best CDN providers and they offer a quite decent DNS resolver service. I wouldn't call them trash.
Create interactive AI apps directly in Claude. Users pay for their own API usage, you pay nothing. Build games, tools, and assistants with zero deployment complexity.
The "Eurostack" is a (long overdue) project to publicly fund a European "stack" of technology that is independent from American Big Tech (as well as other powers' technology that has less hold in Europe, such as Chinese and Russian tech):
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:
But "technological soveriegnty" is a slippery and easily abused concept. Policies like "national firewalls" and "data localization" (where data on a country's population need to be kept on onshore servers) can be a means to different ends. Data localization is important if you want to keep an American company from funneling every digital fact about everyone in your country to the NSA.
At its worst, "technological sovereignty" is a path to a shattered internet with a million dysfunctional borders that serve as checkpoints where thuggish customs inspectors can stop you from availing yourself of privacy-preserving technology and prevent you from communicating with exiled dissidents and diasporas.
Some bad ideas never die. Since the late 1980s, spy agencies and cops have argued that the public should not have access to working cryptography, because this would mean that terrorists, mafiosi…
But at its best, "technological sovereignty" is a way to create world-girding technology that can act as an impartial substrate on which all manner of domestic and international activities can play out, from a group of friends organizing a games night, to scientists organizing a symposium, to international volunteer corps organizing aid after a flood.
In other words, "technological sovereignty" can be a way to create a *public* internet that the *whole* public controls - not just governments, but also people, individuals who can exercise their own technological self-determination, controlling crucial aspects of their own technology usage, like "who will see this thing I'm saying?" and "whose communications will *I* see, and which ones can I block?"
A "public internet" isn't the same thing as "an internet that is operated by your government," but you can't get a public internet without government involvement, including funding, regulation, oversight and direct contributions.
Here's an example of different ways that governments can involve themselves in the management of one part of the internet, and the different ways in which this will create more or less "public" internet services: fiber optic lines.
Fiber is the platinum standard for internet service delivery. Nothing else comes even close to it. A plastic tube under the road that is stuffed with fiber optic strands can deliver *billions* of times more data than copper wires or any form of wireless, including satellite constellations like Starlink:
(Starlink is the most antifuturistic technology imaginable - a vision of a global internet that gets slower and less reliable as more people sign up for it. It makes the dotcom joke of "we lose money on every sale but make it up in volume" look positively bankable.)
The private sector *cannot* deliver fiber. There's no economical way for a private entity to secure the rights of way to tear up every street in every city, to run wires into every basement or roof, to put poles on every street corner. Same goes for getting the rights of way to string fiber between city limits across unincorporated county land, or across the long hauls that cross national and provincial or state borders.
Fiber itself is cheap like borscht - it's literally made out of sand - but clearing the thicket of property rights and political boundaries needed to get wire everywhere is a feat that can only be accomplished through government intervention.
Fiber's opponents rarely acknowledge this. They claim, instead, that the physical act of stringing wires through space is somehow transcendentally hard, despite the fact that we've been doing this with phone lines and power cables for more than a century, through the busiest, densest cities and across the loneliest stretches of farmland.
Wiring up a country is not the lost art of a fallen civilization, like building pyramids without power-tools or embalming pharoahs. It's something that even the poorest counties in America can manage, bringing fiber across forbidden mountain passes on the back of a mule named "Ole Bub":
When governments apply themselves to fiber provision, you get fiber. Don't take my word for it - ask Utah, a bastion of conservative, small-government orthodoxy, where 21 cities now have blazing fast 10gb internet service thanks to a public initiate called (appropriately enough) "Utopia":
So government have to be involved in fiber, but *how* should they involve themselves in it? One model - the worst one - is for the government to intervene on behalf of a single company, creating the rights of way for that company to lay fiber in the ground or string it from poles. The company then owns the network, even though the fiber and the poles were the *cheapest* part of the system, worth an unmeasurably infinitesimal fraction of the value of all those rights of way.
In the worst of the worst, the company that owns this network can do anything they want with its fiber. They can deny coverage to customers, or charge thousands of dollars to connect each new homes to the system. They can gouge on monthly costs, starve their customer service departments or replace them with mindless AI chatbots. They can skimp on maintenance and keep you waiting for days or weeks when your internet goes out.
They can lard your bill with junk fees, or force you to accept pointless services like landlines and cable TV as a condition of getting the internet.
They can also play favorites with local businesses: maybe they give *great* service to every Domino's pizza place at knock-down rates, and make up for it by charging extra to independent pizza parlors that want to accept internet orders and stream big sports matches on the TV over the bar.
They can violate Net Neutrality, slowing down your connection to sites unless their owners agree to pay bribes for "premium carriage." They can censor your internet any way they see fit. Remember, corporations - unlike governments - are not bound by the First Amendment, which means that when a corporation is your ISP, they can censor anything they feel like:
Governments can improve on this situation by *regulating* a monopoly fiber company. They can require the company to assume a "universal service" mandate, meaning they *must* connect any home or business that wants it at a set rate. Governments can ban junk fees, set minimum standards for customer service and repair turnarounds, and demand neutral carriage.
All of this can improve things, though its a lot of work to administer, and the city government may lack the resources and technical expertise to investigate every claim of corporate mafeasance, and to perform the technical analysis to evaluate corporate excuses for slow connections and bungled repairs.
That's the worst model: governments clear the way for a monopolist to set up your internet, offering them a literally priceless subsidy in the form of rights of way, and then, maybe, try to keep it honest.
Here's the other extreme: the government puts in the fiber itself, running conduit under all the streets (either with its own crews or contract crews) and threading a fiber optic through a wall of your choice, terminating it with a box you can plug your wifi router into.
The government builds a data-center with all the switches for providing service to you and your neighbors, and hires people to offer you internet service at a reasonable price and with reasonable service guarantees.
This is a pretty good model! Over 750 towns and cities - mostly conservative towns in red states - have this model, and they're almost the only people in America who consistently describe themselves as happy with their internet service:
(They are joined in their satisfaction by a smattering of towns served by companies like Ting, who bought out local cable companies and used their rights of way to bring fiber to households.)
This is a model that works very well, but can fail very badly. Municipal governments can be pretty darned kooky, as five years of MAGA takeovers of school boards, library boards and town councils have shown, to say nothing of wildly corrupt big-city monsters like Eric Adams (ten quintillion congratulations to Zohran Mamdani!). If there's one thing I've learned from the brilliant No Gods No Mayors podcast, it's that mayors are the weirdest people alive:
But that's OK! A public fiber network doesn't have to be one in which the government is your only choice for ISP. In addition to laying fiber and building a data-center and operating a municipal ISP, governments can *also* do something called "essential facilities sharing":
Governments all over the world did this in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and some do it still. Under an essential facilities system, the big phone company (BT in the UK, Bell in Canada, AT&T and the Baby Bells in the USA) were required to rent space to their competitors in their data centers. Anyone who wants to set up an ISP can install their own switching gear at a telephone company central office and provide service to any business or household in the country.
If the government lays fiber in your town, they can both operate a municipal fiber ISP *and* allow anyone else to set up their own ISP, renting them shelf-space at the data-center. That means that the town college can offer internet to all its faculty and students (not just the ones who live in campus housing), and your co-op can offer internet service to its members. Small businesses can offer specialized internet, and so can informal groups of friends. So can big companies.
In this model, everyone is guaranteed both the right to *get* internet access and the right to *provide* internet access. It's a great system, and it means that when Mayor Sarah Palin decides to cut off your internet, you don't need to sue the city - you can just sign up with someone else, over the same fiber lines.
That's where essential facilities sharing starts, but that's not where it needs to stop.
When the government puts conduit (plastic tubes) in the ground for fiber, they can leave space for more fiber to fished through, and rent space in the conduit itself. That means that an ISP that wants to set up its own data center can run physically separate lines to its subscribers. It means that a university can do a point-to-point connection between a remote scientific instrument like a radio telescope and the campus data-center.
A business can run its own lines between branch offices, and a movie studio can run dedicated lines from remote sound-stages to the edit suites at its main facility.
This is a truly *public* internet service - one where there is a publicly owned ISP, but also where public infrastructure allows for lots of different kinds of entities to provide internet access.
It's insulated from the risks of getting your tech support from city hall, but it also allows good local governments to provide best-in-class service to everyone in town, something that local governments have a pretty great track record with.
The Eurostack project isn't necessarily about fiber, though. Right now, Europeans are thinking about technological sovereignty through the lens of software and services.
That's fair enough, though it *does* require some rethinking of the global fiber system, which has been designed so that the US government can spy on and disconnect every other country in the world:
They could just procure data-centers, server software, and the operation of social media, cloud hosting, mobile OSes, office software, and other components of Europeans' digital lives from the private sector - sort of like asking a commercial operator to run your town's internet service.
The EU has pretty advanced procurement rules, designed to allow European governments to buy from the private sector while minimizing corruption and kickbacks.
For example, there's a rule that the lowest priced bid that conforms to all standards needs to win the contract. This sounds good (and it is, in many cases) but it's how Newag keeps selling trains in Poland, even after they were caught boobytrapping their trains so they would immobilize themselves if the operator took them for independent maintanance:
The EU doesn't have to use public-private partnerships to build the Eurostack. They could do it all themselves. The EU and/or member states could operate public data centers. They could develop their own social media platforms, mobile OSes, and apps. They could be the equivalent of the municipal ISP that offers fast fiber to everyone in town.
As with public monopoly ISPs, this is a system that works well, but fails badly. If you think Elon Musk is a shitty social media boss, wait'll you see the content moderation policies of Viktor Orban - or Emmanuel Macron:
Publicly owned data centers could be great, but also, remember that EU governments have never given up on their project of killing working encryption so that their security services can spy on everyone.
Ever since Snowden, EU governments have talked a good line about the importance of digital privacy. Remember Angela Merkel's high dudgeon about how her girlhood in the GDR gave her a special horror of NSA surveillance?
Apparently, Merkel managed to get over her horror of mass surveillance and back total, unaccountable, continuous digital surveillance over all of Germany:
VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria's coalition government has agreed on a plan to enable police to monitor suspects' secure messaging in order to thwart militant...
So there's good reasons to worry about having your data - and your apps - hosted in an EU cloud.
To create a European public internet, it's neither necessary nor desirable to have your digital life operated by the EU and its member states, nor by its private contractors. Instead, the EU could make Eurostack a provider of technological *public goods*.
For example, the EU could work to improve federated social media systems, like Mastodon and Bluesky.
EU coders could contribute to the server and client software for both. They could participate in future versions of the standard. They could provide maintenance code in response to bug reports, and administer bug bounties. They could create tooling for server administrators, including moderation tools, both for Mastodon and for Bluesky, whose "composable moderation" system allows users to have the final say over their moderation choices.
The EU could perform and/or fund labelling work to help with moderation.
The EU could also provide tooling to help server administrators stand up their own independent Mastodon and Bluesky servers. Bluesky needs a lot of work on this, still. Bluesky's CTO has got a critical piece of server infrastructure to run on a Raspberry Pi for a few euros per month:
Previously, this required a whole data center and cost millions to operate, so this is great. But this now needs to be systematized, so that would-be Bluesky administrators can download a package and quickly replicate the feat.
Ultimately, the choice of Mastodon or Bluesky shouldn't matter all that much to Europeans.
These standards can and should evolve to the point where everyone on Bluesky can talk to everyone on Mastodon and vice-versa, and where you can easily move your account from one server to another, or one service to another. The EU already oversees systems for account porting and roaming on mobile networks - they can contribute to the technical hurdles that need to be overcome to bring this to social media:
In addition to improving federated social media, the EU and its member states can and should host their own servers, both for their own official accounts and for public use. Giving the public a digital home is great, especially if anyone who chafes at the public system's rules can hop onto a server run by a co-op, a friend group, a small business or a giant corporation with just a couple clicks, without losing any of their data or connections.
This is essential facilities sharing for *services*. Combine it with public data centers *and* tooling for migrating servers from and to the public server to a private, or nonprofit, or co-op data-center, and you've got the equivalent of publicly available conduit, data-centers, and fiber.
In addition to providing code, services and hardware, the EU can continue to provide regulation to facilitate the public internet.
They can expand the very limited interoperability mandates in the Digital Markets Act, forcing legacy social media companies like Meta and Twitter to stand up APIs so that when a European quits their service for new, federated media, they can stay in touch with the friends they left behind (think of it as Schengen for social media, with guaranteed free movement):
In this video, we discuss the forces that keep us using services like Facebook long after we stop enjoying them (hint, it's not because social media is "addictive") and we present a short "design fiction" explaining what it might be like to use socia…
With the Digital Service Act, the EU has done a lot of work to protect Europeans from fraud, harassment and other online horribles. But a public internet also requires protections for service providers - safe harbors and carve outs that allow you to host your community's data and conversations without being dragged into controversies when your users get into flamewars with each other.
If we make the people who run servers liable for their users' bad speech acts, then the only entities that will be able to afford the lawyers and compliance personnel will be giant American tech companies run by billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
A "public internet" isn't an internet that's run by the government: it's a system of publicly subsidized, publicly managed *public goods* that are designed to allow *everyone* to participate in both *using* and *providing* internet services. The Eurostack is a brilliant idea whose time arrived a decade ago.
Digital sovereignty projects are among the most important responses to Trumpism, a necessary step to build an independent digital nervous system the rest of the world can use to treat the USA as damage and route around it. We can't afford to have "digital soveriegnty" be "national firewalls 2.0" - we need a public internet, not 200+ national internets.
Blogger, author, and activist Cory Doctorow is the most provocative, original, and widely admired thinker on the politics of Big Tech in the world today.
In The USA they should make USPS an ISP, call all fibre "post roads" with all the protections and rights this gives them under the constitution (US Art 1 Sec 8), and start building… 😁
The European Union has emerged as a hostile force to Moscow, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed, accusing the bloc of arming the “neo-Nazi Kiev regime” to attack Russia. rt.com/news/620492-russia-eu-e…
A paramilitary is a military that is not a part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces.[1] The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the term "paramilitary" as far back as 1934.[2]
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in reply to George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ • • •I'm using a Nvidia GPU. Either use the newest kernel if you have the option (so that nooveau is included) or install the nvidia driver manually in DOM0.
(All of this should be possible from the command line if you somehow get access to it. Don't know at which point you are stuck!)
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in reply to Schnur • • •I have Qubes installed right now on my Framework Laptop and I do recall there's a boot option to boot Qubes with the latest kernel during the install. Hmmm.
Only other thing I'm concerned about is all my other drives are Luks encrypted. I do have the keys saved for all the drives in my credential vault and have copied my /etc/fstab just in case.
And fortunately my $HOME isn't on my boot device so I hopefully won't lose any data (crosses fingers).
Schnur
in reply to George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ • • •Can you boot into rescuing the current Qubes installation? Maybe with the USB-Stick?
Then follow this: github.com/Qubes-Community/Con…
(Basically tells you to download the driver from the nvidia site, installing some library and then installing the driver. The hardest part is probably moving your driver installation file to dom0.)
Contents/docs/configuration/install-nvidia-driver.md at master · Qubes-Community/Contents
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in reply to Schnur • • •I don't have it installed yet.
It's installed on my laptop (and working fine).
I'm debating installing it on my main workstation.
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