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I want to know where is the generation of super children? You know the kids who have reaped all of the benefits of child psychology and developmental science.
Where are these improved humans who are achieving above and beyond all those who came before proper parenting theory?
Where are all the great things they have done, and made, to take humanity to the next level?
Because, it seems to me, that all we have to show for it is grown people who throw temper tantrums in public.
How do kids lose their virginity and become gay, I ask rhetorically. Post an article about rabbi's raping small children in accordance with the talmudic law (under 9 and it's no problem).
Google translate: Do not believe any news or statements about "negotiations" or "ceasefire"... until you feel the calm with your own hands and live it without shelling, blood, or fear. Everyone is buying time at the expense of our blood, distracting us with anesthetic needles and statements... while we die with every day that passes.
Google translate: The daily massacres in Gaza are no longer breaking news, but have become a terrifying routine in the life of a besieged people. Children are killed, women are buried under rubble, and the world is silent.
"Rather than refuting any of our reporting, he instead explains that as a result of it, Flock has decided to perform numerous internal audits about how police are using the network that exactly aligns with 404 Media’s reporting"
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L.A. residents are finding creative (and simple) ways to disable disruptive Waymo robotaxis (as I predicted long ago would come to pass with autonomous vehicles).
So why can't these charging lots be somewhere outside the city? Or at the top of a mall's parking structure, which is presumably empty at night? Electric robot taxis are a potentially green alternative to LA's parking nightmare, but they need to not be a nuisance or people are going to mess with them.
@mike805 They are no better a solution than human-driven taxis, which would at least provide work for the drivers and be far better suited to deal with exceptional situations. And not further enrich fascist Big Tech.
Human-driven taxis are never going to replace private cars, unless you bring in a servile class to drive them.
Robot taxis could eventually be the primary mode of transport in cities. You could then have smaller parking lots, and charge people to park.
Robot taxis could either seat four with hard partitions between them so people would feel safe sharing, or they could be half-wide and share the lanes.
They can form convoys when they are all going to the same area, reducing traffic.
@mike805 #Robotaxi is not a solution to a city transit problem. It's a solution to a #crapitalism problem. *ANY* portion of profits diminished by labor is unacceptable to capitalists.
@n_dimension Specifically thinking of LA area here. It is obvious that the people who run this city are not capable of fixing the transit in any reasonable time. Yes there is some, and people who happen to live and work around it use it, but otherwise it's faster to drive despite the traffic.
Robotaxis can be deployed quickly without any infrastructure building. Technologies like that usually win out, whether they are a utopian ideal or not.
@mike805 @n_dimension I've lived in L.A. my whole life, in various sections of the city. I've watched the changes good and bad, increases in traffic, everything. And I'll say this. WE DON'T NEED OR WANT GODDAMNED ROBOTAXIS. Period. Full Stop. And attempts to force them down our throats by Big Tech will be regretted by those increasingly fascist firms. Anyone who knows me knows how painful it is for me to say this.
I've been working on the Net since early ARPANET days at the first ARPANET site at UCLA. I've worked inside Google. I still have many friends at Google -- that is, the ones who haven't already resigned or been fired.
Robotaxis are a means toward total control and surveillance of populations by authorities. Not so much in and of themselves, but as part of the fascist dream of eliminating human drivers entirely.
Things have changed. The factors that used to apply no longer can be taken at face value. If I sound fed up with the direction tech is taking now, you're damned right I am.
The big payout the VC/finance crowd is chasing isn't about taxis or passenger cars, but automation of delivery driving at every level. This is one of the biggest employment sectors in the country & therefore one of the biggest "efficiency" (layoff cost reduction) opportunities in the adjacent possible. I've seen estimates (that finance people seem to believe) that there's around a trillion dollars to be made by capturing and automating that business.
@mrcompletely @mike805 @n_dimension Those estimates like all the estimates surrounding fanciful applications for deliveries by robocar or drone at scale, are likely vastly overstated. The delivery case has an obvious flaw. Not only do you have to be able to drive to a location and find a place to stop and/or park, but get the package out and to the location for final delivery. Humanoid robots? Good luck. Strange little devices trying to navigate dirty stairs and elevators? Good luck again. Demand that people come out to get the packages from the cars at the street? Have fun with that one. It's all almost entirely VC wet dreams at the expense of everyone else.
@mike805 @n_dimension oh I know. I'm not saying I believe it'll actually work. I'm saying it's plausible that this is what Elon, Andreesen et al believe and that it's one of their goals. Like most Elon schemes it ignores a lot of steps in the critical path. It's worth talking about bc of the damage the attempt could cause along the way. The likelihood of it working is perhaps greater than the Mars plan, that's about all I can say for it 😁
@mrcompletely @n_dimension These things exist in Hollywood, I've seem them. They are a box on wheels. It stops, you get a message, you go out and unlock with your phone and grab your food. Generation 1 is going to be exactly that. You go fetch from the curb.
Walking robots that can drop a package on the porch will be generation 2.
As for Tesla, they were basically a carbon credit laundering scheme. They managed to make Teslas a status symbol for a while, until they weren't.
@mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension Never gonna scale. These are all essentially big demos to try gather more investments. If the physical layout is exactly right you can have those silly little boxes trundle along, but most areas (especially residential) aren't like that. Nor can they deal with a typical load of, say, Amazon boxes. And what of people who don't have or routinely use smartphones? More of them than you probably think and the number is increasing. But this is academic. Most of this stuff is billionaire fever dreams, and as someone who at one time studied urban geography and planning, you can rest assured this stuff will remain niche for the foreseeable future.
@mrcompletely @n_dimension Okay how's this for a plausible alternative. It looks like an Amazon truck, but the side looks like an Amazon Locker. I.e. it has a bunch of pockets that can individually unlock. That rolls up to wherever you are, you get a notice, and you go get your stuff. Has the advantage that your package can come to you at work if you want it to.
There is a solution here, just as there was for sea transport, but it requires a full rethink of how things currently work.
@mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension So the truck just sits there waiting for you because you happen to be taking a shower. Or it waits there for you to come down from upstairs apartment when the elevator is busy. Or it waits there for you because you had no way to know it was there because you don't have a smartphone sitting there turned on all the time. Or it waits there for you ... most people aren't going to want to have to go out to the street and carry packages back up to their house or apartment. Many CAN'T. Sorry, except in limited circumstances, this doesn't work.
@mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension And of course, I didn't mention the most obvious case, when you're simply not home at the time of delivery. Obviously there are some areas where leaving packages in such situations can be problematic, but there are many areas where it's not a problem. Also, many people use systems that electronically allow delivery persons to leave packages inside the house or garage. Others use lock boxes on their porch. The whole point of deliveries in the general case is that they're not dependent on your being immediately available at the time of delivery. That's important both for the person receiving the delivery and for the delivery service that doesn't want undelivered packages piling up on their trucks.
@mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension@infosec.exchange The whole thing is edge cases. Finding a solution that works for say the 80% (if it even is that high) obvious cases is nice and all, but the tech industry has a habit of forgetting the other 20%, or expecting them to just adapt to whatever scheme they've cooked up. Reality doesn't work like that. There will always be edge cases and they tend to be people far removed from the techbro world, like the elderly who often can't easily adapt.
@mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension delivery lock boxes would probably become a thing. I’ve contemplated building my own, but there’s a small market for premade ones (heavy steel, pretty wooden huts) that can be purchased. Amazon did it for awhile (still do? Dunno) where you could install an amazon lock or garage door opener, and they would leave the package inside your domicile (no thanks!) solving the trapped child or “surprise” left for you half of the problem. There’s always a fix.
@mrcompletely @n_dimension There are already too many large boxy vehicles driving around, and stopping in the street. The California Vehicle Code actually permits that. Delivery drivers can stop in places where the ordinary citizen would be towed immediately. So UPS, Fedex, DHL, Amazon, etc. doesn't scale either.
It was once predicted that everyone would be either a telephone operator or a telegram messenger the way things were going. Communication was automated. Transport needs to be.
@mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension They’ve already demo’ed several hybrid “almost walking” bots. Legs with wheels can work perfectly well for porch package delivery. A company also showed a “taxi” which essentially was an extendable cargo box that could extend up and out for level boarding from your front door. That one looks less plausible (cantilevered weight, compressible soils) but when does reality get in the way of a solution searching for a problem?
@trouble @mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension And none of them can possibly compare with a human who just sprints up stone steps covered with branches and leaves with several boxes in their arms, avoids debris in their way, and is back in their truck 10 seconds later. The thing about robodrive vehicles is that when anything unusual happens they just STOP or pull over to the side to wait for some human in a control center to get around to them and figure out what to do. A human driver is infinitely more flexible in dealing with exception conditions. But as I said earlier, the pushback is going to be enormous, and since these vehicles are helpless if they can't reach their control centers, jamming (which can be done with a $50 device -- probably less) is going to become a very popular methodology used by individuals and groups doing the pushing.
@mike805 @n_dimension imo this is the reason Tesla became an increasingly crappy wrapper around a self driving tech company. Not for the passenger cars (not that great a feature), not for robotaxis (prob not great margins really) but building up the tech to jump from those vehicles to delivery trucks. Now under Trump they'll be able to make that leap no matter how crap the driving automation is, unless it has some kind of disaster (very possible)
@mrcompletely @n_dimension Around here, Amazon vehicles seem to be immune to traffic laws. They just stop in the middle of the road and deliver stuff. And they are gas powered. USPS vehicles are also very un-green.
If delivery could be automated end to end, that would eliminate a whole lot of car trips, and all the vehicles could be electric. You could UBI anyone whose job is eliminated and still come out ahead.
Hollywood has little electric robo delivery vehicles on the sidewalks.
@n_dimension So what is a solution to a city transit problem? Even cities with conventional mass transit have a lot of traffic. Robotaxis solve the end to end problem without having 90% of the cars idle and hogging space at any given time.
Yes you will still want a metro to take people from residential areas to work and back. Robotaxis are a better solution than private cars for everything else.
Robot buses would be useful for taking people to concerts and the like.
@mike805 What is the solution to a city transit problem?
Plentiful and affordable city public transportation.
I have lived in 4 large European cities and many smaller cities. The best (Vienna, Stockholm) are such that unless you have a special need (heavy delivery business, travel out of town), public transport is not just adequate. It's SUPERIOR to owning a car. I lived in Vienna for 6 months and in that time I have never once regretted not having a car, even travelling to the outer suburbs.
An old friend of mine lives in a Dutch small city where there are no cars. It's all bikes. You can still own a car, but it's parked at the outer rim.
Remember that the US reliance on cars is 👉ARTIFICIAL👈 It's a result of a concentrated effort by the oil industry to actively DESTROY Municipal transport. They bought many trams, light rail and rail systems only to shut them down.
@mike805 An efficient public transport system (buses, trams, where feasible underground rail) and a safe bike & walking infrastructure are the solution to city traffic. As has been proven in many cities. As is essentially self-evident, because anything that relies on cars requires too much space & energy to move a single person. @lauren
@lipow @mike805 In some cities for some people. In decentralized very large cities such as L.A. it has remained problematic, and many people are not physically able to deal with public transit, biking, or walking any distance, even assuming they're not carrying packages as well. Public transit in L.A. has always been a problem since the beginnings of the suburbs that quickly outgrew the original rail and streetcar networks, and only relatively high density areas are being considered for expanded public transit these days. The city is just so large and so decentralized that mass transit will always be of limited value here.
@mike805 Replacing a system that lets people drive where they like with an automated system that the government can completely control in every aspect, even taking you to destinations that you didn't plan? Robocars as the primary means of transportation are a wet dream of fascism.
Cities with public transit and limited parking are already inherently totalitarian. I'm really glad I didn't live in one when COVID hit, because there would have been no way to avoid every day exposure to it. No, an N95 will not guarantee your safety if you are in a bus or subway car full of sick people. Better than nothing but not safe.
You want freedom? Live outside the city! Yes you need a car. You can still go in to visit.
@mike805 A great number of people are not in a position to simply choose to live outside a city, unless perhaps you're planning to subsidize them. And many people are not physically able to ride bikes of any kind.
One of Australian Prime Ministers said that country living is a "lifestyle choice" unfortunately, he said it about first nation people living in literal stone age camps in the middle of the desert...
...it's not as if he was a racist and a bigot...he nominated himself as...
@katharina_buholzer @mike805 @n_dimension There is nothing that can be done with robocars that can't be done far more economically, safely, and flexibly with human driven vehicles in the context of urban and suburban transit.
@katharina_buholzer @mike805 @n_dimension I've often thought that I5 was an obvious target for something like that. But you need some humans along, or the theft potential goes through the roof.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension L.A. Metro area was about 14 million almost 2 years ago. Agreed that the exact definition of that area is not precise. In any case, mass transit is of limited use here and never will get beyond that, given a range of factors. I used to study urban planning, and little has changed in this respect for decades in terms of solutions that would serve more than a tiny percentage of the population. The billions spent on the subway were a spectacular waste of money. Even for the few people relatively that ride it, it's not even safe.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension By the way, how do you carry all those bags of groceries home on mass transit? Especially if you're older. Or infirm. Or ...
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension I voted for the L.A. <-> S.F. train project. One of the votes I most regret in my life. Horrific mismanagement. I'm actually glad Trump is trying to cut off federal money for it. An utter waste the way it was handled.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension I'm old enough to just barely remember a bit of the streetcar system in L.A. (not the original one, but the one that looked like electric buses with tires on overhead power or buses on overhead power on rails. Just barely. But even then the system was collapsing as the suburbs had already grown way out into the Valley.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension Let's call that, uh, unlikely, given that there barely is enough funding for major street repairs, you can forget about sidewalk repairs, and the budget situation from the fires has only made it much worse.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension Well for most people that wouldn't be paid by insurance here, and lots of people who don't quality as "infirm" still wouldn't be able to manage the packages themselves or pay for delivery.
The Interstate system was initiated by Pres. Eisenhower, sold as a system that could be used for military transport. In that post-WWII era, that argument won the day -- and the resources needed to do it properly.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension As a federal project designated military they were able to bypass a lot of red tape, and there was massive (historic) use of eminent domain to get the land.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension There are some chunks of abandoned tracks still visible out here in the Valley in various places. The active tracks for current trains are toward the north end of the Valley. I think it was torn down relatively recently, but until then there was a hardware store in my area where to the side you could still see tracks and one of the doors (not in use) was original door used to access those tracks when that building was a working railroad station.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension At Pico and Sepulveda (yes, the song Dr. D. made famous!) there was for many years a diagonal track that crossed the intersection, and occasionally there'd be a boxcar off on a siding there. When I was a kid there was an active line just down the block from a house we rented, and I'd go down there to watch the freight trains rumble by. I think the tracks are gone now, but the right-of-way is still there and filled with plants and stuff I think much of the way down so it's obvious where the line was.
Judge rules Anthropic can use copyrighted books to train AI - The Washington Post archive.ph/ceOzS
"Anthropic didn’t break the law when it trained its chatbot with copyrighted books, a judge said, but it must go to trial for allegedly using pirated books."
There is a US and European backed Israeli genocide in Gaza. The US and Israel are waging an illegal war on Iran. Republicans are using dead women as incubators for the state. Transgender people are being systematically erased in the so called "liberal democracies".
But tell me again about how NATO and the Western countries are "civilized" and "pro LGBT".
The lie of "Western civilization" died in the Congo. It died in Nuremberg. And it died again in Gaza. It has experienced many deaths, overall. It is a zombie idea that will never go away, because the hubris and ignorance of the collective West will never end.
Western civilization as a concept is so throughly disproven that I cannot take it seriously at all.
Slavery, colonial extraction, and genocide are the foundational aspects of western geopolitics and economics as we know them. These things are barbaric to the strongest possible degree.
America and Israel are not enlightened cities in the uncivilized jungle. They are colonial outposts that are built on top of the skulls of millions of slaughtered people.
Africa, Palestine, and the indigenous peoples of North America were civilized. Many of these civilizations, in fact, had enormous complex systems of social organization and thousands of years of collective mathematical and scientific knowledge.
The Europeans came in, burned their archives, destroyed their architecture, and turned their people into slaves.
They successfully did to these peoples what the Nazis sought to do to the Ashkenazi Jews, Roma, and Slavic peoples.
The Nazis wanted to eradicate the works of non-"Aryan" artists, scientists, and mathematicians. They sought to destroy nearly all traces of Judaism from Europe. And they wanted to turn the Soviet republics into a giant resource mine.
A) No they won't. It's expensive as shit to uproot your entire operation, rehire, retrain, and reorganize entire production lines from the ground up, not to mention a gigantic pain in the ass.
B) Even if they do, that will leave a hole in the economy which can be filled by small business and entrepreneurs.
C) Even if it doesn't, trickle down economics is a filthy lie sold to you to keep you complacent. You can do better than a below minimum wage gig economy sidehustle. Demand better from employers.
AIUI, Americans keep paying certain taxes even after they migrated. That could be a solution to copy, and otherwise: please pay at the border when migrating.
And the tax? It’s often something like 4% on income earned over 1 million dollars (taking MA’s “wealth tax” as an example). It’s not like the government is coming to take their first-born child or something. IIRC, there was no exodus afterwards in MA. They can afford it and they know it.
we can't tax the rich because they are rich enough to split their empire in 1000 parts and impersonate a thousand self-employed peasants, and we don't want to tax those.
I don't really know if under capitalism we can really tax them in any meaningful way...
Another consideration: if they're not Sponsored By Daddy, rich people often become rich by taking big risks and getting lucky. It's not that they are uniquely talented. People already suggested an exit tax for any of them who decide to leave. There will always be risk takers. Of those, there will always be some that are lucky. They will fill the gap and "generate wealth" if that's what the capitalist angst is all about.
"But then they won't create jobs" - look, even assuming they do, which they often don't, either they'll leave but keep their businesses open, preserving those jobs, or they'll shut down, leaving a hole in the market for others to open businesses & hire people.
Rich people are utterly expendable; we can absolutely do without them but they can't do without us. Anything else is a myth created by them & the people who want to be like them.
And it's not even true that they just leave. First there could or should be an exit tax and second there is research that shows rich people leaving is not that common as to matter economically.
@skaphle @pluralistic Actually taxing having large amounts of property, like >10Mio in a country (leads to either falling prices, and/or taxes), and some minimum tax based on citizenship would have noticable impact. But that's why we don't get that
(To be fair, if people spend money here, other people get it, and pay taxes. VAT etc goes towards the Exchequer from what they spend it on, stamp duty if it is houses etc. Taxation is complicated)
In pricing strategy , there is the thought that if you arent turning away at least a few customers as a result of your price, then you are pricing your product too low.
I suspect that the only billionaires that are turned off from America are the corrupt grifters our law system discourages... but even that is changing....
I recall reading about the Michigan wealth tax. I can't seem to find a good source though, but I think it was around 4% and ended up being even more successful than expected. It now finds public education and as a result, more wealthy people are moving to Michigan because of the better schools, so the effect is compounding.
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A regular meeting of the Interstate Working Group on the creation of a unified system of technical support for the railways of the CSTO member states was held in Dushanbe en.odkb-csto.org/news/news_odk…
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
Exactly!! Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot were prolific killers and who gets all the attention? Hitler. Communism has killed more people than any ideology. Watch out for Islam too.
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Interesting to see Maersk's involvement in this situation. Makes you wonder about the complexities behind international shipping. On a lighter note, this reminds me of the strategic decisions you have to make in Pokerogue and Pokerogue Dex . Gotta carefully consider every move, almost like building your own unique Pokerogue Dex to counter unexpected challenges. Hope everyone's finding some balance amidst all the news.
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OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
Hit 14.3 hits/second tonight, the majority of it Friendica traffic. This is the busiest I've ever seen it. The 458% CPU load is a bit misleading, as the CPU usage is calculated on a single core but this is an 18 core 36 thread machine, so that really means 4.58 of those 36 threads is fully occupied.
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What the FBI is suggesting in this article seems more geared at trying to keep Google's control over censorship than it is insuring a lack of malware. And their alleged concern, that this malware enables proxy services on the machine to be used for criminal activities seems weak at best since tor already services that purpose and is widely available. It's a good argument for good ingress and egress firewall rules but not much else.
Georg Restle @georgrestle.bsky.social am 25. Juni 2025 um 12:39: Ein Ex-Gesundheitsminister der #CDU, dem schweres politisches Fehlverhalten nachgewiesen wurde + eine aktuelle CDU-Gesundheitsministerin, die sich schützend vor ihn stellt + eine CDU-Bundestagspräsidentin, die kritische Nachfragen aus dem Parlament blockiert. Die Causa #Spahn ist längst eine Causa CDU
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
NYC will finally get exactly what it deserves -- an Islamo-fascist Commie dictator who will who will whip them, shit on them and break them. They will worship him. Somewhere Bin Ladin is doing a victory dance.
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Account Types We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.
Web Hosting Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.
Remote Desktop Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.
Applications Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.
E-mail Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.
Security[color] Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.
[color=darkblue]Eskimo North has been providing Unix timeshare services since 1985. We have been providing Linux timeshare, shell access, web hosting, e-mail, and Internet services since 1992. Please take a look at our services as they support our free Federated services including Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, and Yacy Search.
Available Shell Servers
We have a variety of Linux Servers with a variety of Linux Distributions and Desktop Environments. Linux servers in use here are of three basic lines, those derived from RedHat, such as Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux, and those derived from Debian such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Ubuntu is the most current and feature rich. Then there is Manjaro, derived from Arch Linux. Arch is more often broken because it is a real “do it yourself” Linux, an excellent learning platform, a good development platform, not a good production platform.
All of these servers are available if you have a shell account here. You can use them to learn various versions, decide which to install, and as one place you can develop applications for all versions. We install a wide variety of development tools on all of our publicly available servers.
Our servers listen to port 443 in addition to the standard ssh port of 22 to provide a means to connect from behind a firewall that blocks non-web access. You can also utilize Guacamole on our website (login public, password public).
Alma.Eskimo.Com This server is running Alma 8. Alma Linux replaces Scientific Linux after it’s discontinuation. Presently we are running Alma 8 because Alma 9 does not support NIS out of the box although there are ways of hacking it in. It is unfortunate that Redhat chose to piss on the infrastructure so many organizations depend upon. This is why we tend to favor Debian derived flavors. None the less as Redhat derived software goes Alma is pretty solid. Anduinos.Eskimo.Com Anduinos is a Debian derived distribution that defaults to a Gnome Desktop themed to look like Windows 10. At present though this Desktop is not working over network connections, instead Mate and Gnome are presently available. I am working on some others. Debian.Eskimo.Com Debian Bullseye has a rich assortment of software installed, including hundreds of Games, a huge variety of Office Productivity software, many Educational and Scientific applications, a variety of Integrated Development Environments, and many programming languages. All of the documentation available online these applications is also loaded. Fedora.Eskimo.Com Fedora Rawhide can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate desktop. It has the most applications of any of the Redhat derived servers. I install just about everything I can get to work on this machine so it has a huge variety of applications installed. Kali.Eskimo.Com Kali is a special purpose shell server designed for penetration testing. It is primarily here to test our own internal security, and as a result, egress is extremely limited, however upon request, proof of IP space ownership, and permission of the owner and agreement to hold us harmless because it is possible some of these tests may be destructive, we will allow outbound for testing of other sites. Manjaro.Eskimo.Com Manjaro is a good choice for a Linux user who wants to just install and go. There is a pleasant user interface and a good choice of software in the Manjaro repositories. It is a less technical Linux than Ubuntu, you can do most things through graphical interfaces and the default xfce interface is extremely light in terms of memory footprint. Like most modern distros, a variety of Windows systems are available and we have Gnome, Mate, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and LXQT installed. Mint.Eskimo.Com Mint is another recent addition to our shell servers. It is running Mint, although we have the Mate Desktop installed for graphical access. This is necessary because Unity and other compositing Desktops are incompatible with x2go and really work very roughly with VNC. If you like games, this is a good server to use and there are many installed. Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu which in turn is derived from Debian and this server thus follows the structure and layout of Debian and Ubuntu. MxLinux.Eskimo.Com MxLinux is an excellent choice for a computer with limited resources. Before the overhead of a Desktop is considered, MxLinux uses 200MB less RAM out of the box than does Ubuntu. If you’re not a fan of Poettering and Systemd, you’ll like this OS as it still uses a System-V init with Systemd shims to allow packages requiring systemd to function. You can also run systemd and in fact I am doing so because it boots faster. The default Desktop is LXDE which is also small and efficient. But if you like eye candy you can install any Desktop you like and as with other servers I will install all that I can get to work on this OS. PopOS.Eskimo.Com popOS is a modern appearing OS based upon Ubuntu, and not just indirectly, it actually utilizes Ubuntu’s repositories in addition to it’s own. The Desktops presently available on it are Gnome and Mate, though Gnome is a special edition known as Sparkle, and it does not operate properly with X2go. Presently X2go and ssh are the only two access methods. I am working on the others. Rocky8.Eskimo.Com Rocky8 is a RedHat derived operating system very similar to Centos before Centos was absorbed, and ruined, by Redhat. While Centos support, with the exception of Centos9 is going away on June 30th, 2024, and CentOS9 is not usable because of the deletion of NIS by RedRat which is necessary to our organization, Rocky8 will be supported for security updates through May of 2029, thus provides us a means of continuing to offer a Redhat based environment for another five years.
Ubuntu.Eskimo.Com Ubuntu can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate Desktop. The native Unity desktop is a compositing desktop which is incompatible with x2go. This machine is equipped with many applications including a huge number of games, a rich assortment of development tools and computer programming languages, a huge assortment of Office productivity software, many scientific, electronic, and educational tools. Zorin.Eskimo.Com Zorin is a Ubuntu derived operating system. It combines the eye candy of some other Ubuntu flavors such as Mint, with the security awareness and up to date nature of Ubuntu providing a really superb server environment. This machine is our best equipped server. It has the full Ubuntu Studio Suite, a very large assortment of development tools, language packs for all supported languages, many games, both Libre and Caligra Office Suites, and much more. X2go is supported on this machine.
Crontab access, batch, and background jobs are allowed on all of our servers. Most have unrestricted outbound access with the exception of kali owing to high abuse potential for tools that exist on it.
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When the sorts of #YouTube videos you tend to watch either don't include in-video host-presented promotions, or the promotions are for companies that are often now out of business.
@💡JAHmind🔑 Any chance you could provide some specifics of what this bill provides for in the way of digital currency, and more importantly does it involve removing existing paper currency?
The #Fediverse is so much more than #Mastodon and to deny that by your words and your actions is to shit on every user and developer trying to make the Fediverse a truly better place.
The claim that Emil Bove told DOJ lawyers they might have to say "fuck you" to court orders rightfully shocked people. The full scope of lawyer Erez Reuveni's claims, however, paints an even more damning picture.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche attacked the claims as "falsehoods," but many of the fired longtime DOJ lawyer's allegations are already backed up by public facts.
Doesn't shock me. I'm more shocked that he and others like him haven't gone out in public and said it. They're still afraid of consequences, and I can't see why they would be.
Details of the "Indestructible Brotherhood-2025" and "Barrier-2025" trainings have been discussed in the Republic of Tajikistan en.odkb-csto.org/news/news_odk…
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
I’ve been noticing this more and more in the modlogs, with it proven via the “creator” option in some instances’ modlogs that the people doing the bans were mods and not admins, and when I first joined Lemmy, one of the things that were held as a universal truth was that this absolutely could not happen.
It might be possible with 3rd party moderation tools. Just using the web interface, you can only do mod actions from a post in your community. Like, I can't ban someone from FoodPorn from a post they made in, say, PoliticalMemes. I don't have any mod options when viewing communities I am not a moderator for on my app (Connect) or the web interface for Lemmy. World or Pawb.Social, but I have seen a few mentions of more robust mod tools in other apps.
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- Iran calls for ‘return to the logic of diplomacy’ - WATCH: More Gaza aid hub killings as GHF called ‘an abomination’ - US didn’t destroy Iran’s nuclear programme: Here’s what new intel says - Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission says Iran’s nuclear capabilities pushed back ‘many years’ - Israel killed at least 627 people in Iran during war
Watching the news lately, it's difficult to believe that today's Republicans enjoy lying so much that they'd lie about national security matters wherein easily provable evidence is widely available.
I thought there would be a stopping point somewhere for them, but there isn't.
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
Instead of being bullied into increasing defense spending to 5% maybe NATO countries could start funding a lot of the stuff that MAGA USA has abandoned in favour of *checks notes* building concentration camps - I’m sorry, I mean deportation facilities.
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#1979 I'm a loner, but I'm never alone Every night I get one step closer to the danger zone Ian McDonald, British rock musician (saxophone, keyboards, guitar) (King Crimson, 1968-69; Foreigner, 1976-80) would be 79 youtu.be/uQoURkhD7b0?si=G6HxFl…
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We've seen 20 months of genocide in #Gaza, and along those 20 months we have seen the international institutions do shit. The highest court in the world, the #ICJ, hasn't done anything to stop it.
Does #Starmer plan on branding everyone who disagree with him a terrorist?
What is the Palestine Action group, and why is the UK banning it? The UK government is seeking to proscribe the pro-Palestinian direct action group under anti-terrorism laws. aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/25/w…
A lot of churches/temples are membership-based. You can probably still attend sermons and the like in most cases if you're not a member, but they won't let you have a wedding, baptize your baby etc. in their temple.
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov took part in the First CSTO International Conference on Cyber Security in Kyrgyzstan en.odkb-csto.org/news/news_odk…
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
I'm practicing cloning pot plants. I started with a grow box and growing hormone powder and then I tried without the grow box and then I tried without the grow box and the hormone powder and all the plants seem to be fine. From my experience cloning pot is a slam dunk!
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It was a delusion of the eternal optimists.
If you want that, your gonna have to work for it.