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That seems to not be the case. I grant you, it is not now what it was in its glory, but a company isn't an individual person, it can die and come back in a new form.
Whether that form is good or not is a judgment call, I suppose.
@millihertz There is certainly such a case to be made -- for most of its later history, Commodore was synonymous with mismanagement. Fractic may well be just as bad, but it's a bit early to say. So far, they've made sane, reasonable decisions.
@millihertz Certainly, this new Commodore is not the same exact company as the one from my youth -- but I think a reasonable case can be made for it to be the de facto inheritor of the legacy, and should be permitted time and space to prove whether or not it is worthy of the name.
@mos_8502 it already appears to be doing better at that than any company that's owned the rights since, tbh... true, that's a low bar, but i don't think anyone can reasonably question that the people involved are dedicated to properly reviving Commodore, rather than buying the rights as an underpants-gnome profiteering scheme
@millihertz They've pre-sold almost 3,000 units of the new C64 Ultimate so far. Very not bad. If they can keep the thing in production (a fair sized "if") and it keeps selling (an even bigger "if") then we might see a bit of resurgence in gamedev for the platform, as the majority of users will be on the Ultimate or an equivalent, and that's a lot more power for games to play with.
@millihertz These trends are... encouraging, I would say is the word. Not mind blowing, not disappointing. Steady sales with very little advertising outside our circles.
@mos_8502 The fact that it's steady increase and not just like a single jump when the announcement video was released or some blog posted about it is the most encouraging part I'd say
Tucker Carlson belives people will no longer trust Dan Bongino. He says it will be “pretty hard for Bongino to go back to his podcast audience and be like, ‘I’m telling you the truth’ when they all think he is covering up for Epstein.”
Just two days after we sat down with Francesca Albanese, the Trump Administration placed her under sanctions.They accuse the UN Special Rapporteur of waging ...
The German city of Hamburg witnessed on Sunday a demonstration in solidarity with Gaza, with the participation of the Yemeni and Palestinian communities.
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New from 404 Media: the media's pivot to AI is not real and not going to work.
Media companies are laying off workers and saying they will instead use more AI. This won't work. We have gained a single subscriber from ChatGPT. Yes, one (1). It's not a business model
Russia warns NATO plans to turn Moldova into military foothold
Russia’s intelligence agency has accused NATO of plotting to militarize Moldova as a frontline base against Moscow, warning it risks dragging the country into a broader conflict.
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🚨 URGENT: The state is not just charging anti-ICE activists with terrorism — now they’re straight-up torturing them inside Johnson County Jail.
The Prairieland Defendants — aka the DFW 10 — are being denied basic rights: no public defenders, no medicine, no calls or visits from loved ones, no vegan/vegetarian meals, no gender-appropriate placement. Some are in solitary. Some are in medical cells. All are being punished for standing up against ICE and showing solidarity with migrants.
This is cruel and calculated. They’re trying to break these comrades mentally, physically, and spiritually — before they even see trial.
This Monday, July 14th, we’re raising hell. PHONE ZAP these fuckers. Call or email Judge Boedeker and let them know the world is watching this abuse.
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And don’t stop there. Share the fundraiser, send what you can, and spread the word like your life depends on it — because for some of our people, it literally fucking does.
Socialist realism celebrates the worker as creator with muscles straining, tools in hand, actively building the world. Labor is heroic, collective, and visibly transformative. The aesthetic screams: "WE made this."
On the other hand, solar-punk envisions society after the work is done with comfortable citizens enjoying green tech built by unseen hands. The aesthetic whispers: "Look what grew while no one was laboring.
Socialist realism celebrates the struggle; solar-punk erases it.
@carbonara show me an example of solar-punk aesthetic where any actual building happens, it's always just people living comfortably off stuff somebody else built. It's basically the whole Nordic "socialist" model built on exploitation of the Global South where actual production happens.
Meanwhile, socialist realism already covers the aspects of community building and working together. Collective labour is literally what it celebrates.
@ZDL it's a really superficial vision that fails to paint a holistic picture of what a socialist society would look like, and how the technology underpinning it is produced
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GNU Guix: The Most Important Free Software Distribution You’ve Never Heard Of
In December of 2022, the GNU project announced the release of their package management application, GNU Guix 1.4 and it’s associated system distribution called the Guix System. It was started by lead developer, Ludovic Courtés and made an official GNU package in November of 2012. He has released an official road map.
Guix, a package manager and system distribution of the GNU system, emphasizes software freedom and purity by excluding proprietary software and binary blobs. Released in December 2022, GNU Guix 1.4…
Charges could be dismissed against a registered sex offender after a mental competency evaluation found him unfit to stand trial for attempted kidnapping at an Aurora school
Special Rapporteurs enjoy full diplomatic immunity under international law. Fellow experts suggest US sanctions could be the subject of proceedings before the International Court of Justice.
"TURQUIE – Hier soir, la police d’Istanbul a arrêté violement dix personnes, dont des enfants et une femme enceinte de 7 mois, pour avoir écouté de la musique kurde. La femme enceinte a perdu son bébé à cause d’un coup de pied reçu au ventre. Ce n’est pas la première fois que les Kurdes sont […] L’article TURQUIE. La kurdophobie tue ! est apparu en premier sur Kurdistan au féminin."
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« Entretien · Il y a un peu plus d’un an, la #Kanaky - #NouvelleCalédonie s’embrasait et se rappelait au bon souvenir de la #France comme étant l’un de ses derniers territoires coloniaux. Auteur de #DécoloniserLaKanakyNouvelleCalédonie, l’anthropologue #BenoîtTrépied rappelle ici les responsabilités de l’État français, qu’elles soient immédiates ou historiques. »
Il y a un peu plus d’un an, la Kanaky-Nouvelle-Calédonie s’embrasait et se rappelait au bon souvenir de la France comme étant l’un de ses derniers territoires coloniaux. Auteur de Décoloniser la (…)
Convinced more than ever that browsers should have auto-detected RSS feeds linked from pages and revealed "subscribe" buttons if the user configures a default RSS reader. Simple protocol, good UX opportunity for everyone, and would heal a lot of URL guessing.
A growing movement is calling on Illinois to divest $100 million in Israel Bonds, and has filed an ethics complaint against Treasurer Michael Frerichs, alleging abuse of authority, corruption, improper use of state time, and misuse of public assets.
On June 14, Trump spent an estimated $40 million on an extravagant military parade in Washington, DC. What was supposed to be a show of strength for US imperialism amounted to measly crowds and squeaky tanks, dwarfed by the millions protesting ICE ra…
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert says Israelis are committing “daily atrocities” in the occupied West Bank, with full knowledge of the government, p...
Pyongyang, July 13 (KCNA) — The chief of the Policy Office of the Ministry of National Defence of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Sunday issued the following press statement titled “The U.S.
Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly …
More than a quarter-century ago, a group of hackers decided that, as a label, "free software" was a liability, and they set out to replace it with a different label, "open source," on the basis that "open source" was easier to understand and using it instead of "free software" would speed up adoption.
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Once you’ve mined the earth and milked the service industries, what is there left to frack? Us, that’s what – with everything from admin charges and estate agent fees to blockbuster premiums and ‘cakeage’
One of the NSA's most powerful tools of mass surveillance makes tracking someone’s Internet usage as easy as entering an email address, and provides no built-in technology to prevent abuse.
My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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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Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly …
I ran a poll on that a couple of months go. Don't know if I worded it well enough, and it's not a huge sample size, but it's there for what it's worth.
Which term do you prefer to use?
#poll #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS
[ ] Free Software
[ ] Open Source Software
[ ] Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
[ ] Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
I like the post. I just wanted to point out the similarity between your last paragraph where you write "we still lack a word to express what we're for." with this paper from Orwell orwellfoundation.com/george-or… . We know what's wrong with the current state, eg anti-this and anti-that, but defining (and Naming) the future state is hard.
There has been dozens of times in development of this program that if I didn't know how to program already, I would have been dead in the water. But the AI did the wrong thing and I would say "why don't you take the session data and convert it to json and base64 it and pass it as a query parameter to the other page" and it works
I don't think I am that smart, I am just saying that no, if you are a know-nothing "founder", AI isn't going to make you a programmer. Just a criminally irresponsible charlatan
#Baltic Nazis are testing #HIMARS for the first time a few kilometers from #StPetersburg Let's hope it's the last, unless they also seek the "Ukrainian fate"
Pentagon reports "#US soldiers are observing and advising the Estonians during the first real HIMARS fires. The independent, operational HIMARS unit is capable of providing lethal, long-range, and accurate fire in support of Estonian and #NATO forces on the battlefield." 🤣 😂 How did the HIMARS do in #Ukraine,? remind me plz
Damn, #TIL that configure my GUI to work with 2K display is very simple [1] — just specify the dimensions of display's active area in the X server configuration and restart X server!
That all, the letters on the screen become visible without tricky GTK/Qt specific environment variables
[1] Not applied to the Firefox / Librewolf — it is completely ignores X settings
I believe it only scales the content this way, if you want its UI to be scaled too, look into ui.textScaleFactor in about:config This var had a different name before, but in versions greater than 100 this one should work. I set it to something like 115 on my MacBook — makes the tab names readable 😄
Check out Sidebery too: addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firef… It's three in one: hierarchically structured tabs, bookmarks and favourites — all in one sidebar! Very customisable too — you can configure every tiny thing about it, down to key bindings. I like it a lot!
Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, […]
A lot of people on the internet are celebrating and cheering on some pretty brutal videos of ICE grabbing Mexicans out of parking lots, out of Walmarts, wherever. It’s understandable. I understand, and my instinct is to celebrate it as well.
Ex-MEP Belinda de Lucy tells the horrifying story of her being attacked on the school run for not wearing Islamic dress. What has happened to London!? Sadiq Khan thinks 'diversity is our strength'...
Ex-MEP Belinda de Lucy tells the horrifying story of her being attacked on the school run for not wearing Islamic dress. What has happened to London!? Sadiq ...
A youth centre in Barcelona already suffered an attack last May and researchers believe that both events can be related. The mayor appeals to cohabitation Read
@HebrideanHecateI was reading some comments from Muslims. Some said it was God's will, but others say that it's the fault of Islamists and that they should respect the country they move to or go home.
@Haleakalacrater @HebrideanHecateI'm not sure which is worse. Either way, it'll be seen as Islamophobia. There have been stories coming out of Spain about certain tensions.
@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain They don’t assimilate, they abuse women, they’re violent, they gang rape girls, they want Sharia law, they want Christians dead - how can people not fear being taken over by islamists?
#BBC bosses pulled our film on Israel attacking Gaza’s medics. Here’s the producers' story of how the corporation repeatedly delayed and ultimately shelved their damning documentary observer.co.uk/news/national/a…
So BBC management never disputed the documentary’s facts—only the reporter’s public acknowledgment of them. Wouldn’t this be like canceling a #Holocaust documentary not because the facts were wrong, but because the reporter’s social media posts showed sympathy for victims? Or does BBC management believe that there are no uninvolved in Gaza deserving sympathy? Was Navai supposed to show more empathy toward the IDF or Israeli suffering after Israel killed more than 50,000 people? The BBC’s adoption of a line the Israeli regime would very much approve of is embarrassing. Or maybe that’s really why the documentary was canceled?
This idea has been in my mind since the very beginning of this adventure, almost two years ago. Over time, several people have suggested it. But until recently, I felt the timing just wasn’t right - for many reasons. Today, I believe it finally is.
So I’m happy to announce a new service: The BSD Cafe Journal - journal.bsd.cafe
At first, I thought I’d use BSSG for it (I even added multi-author support with this in mind), but in the end, it didn’t feel like the right tool for the job.
The idea is to create a multi-author space, with content published on a fairly regular basis. A reference point for news, updates, tutorials, technical articles - a place to inform and connect. Just like people in Italy used to stop by cafes to read the newspaper and chat about the day’s news, the BSD Cafe Journal aims to be a space for reading, sharing, and staying informed - all in the spirit of the BSD Cafe.
What it’s not: It’s not here to replace personal blogs, or excellent newsletters like @vermaden 's. And it’s not an aggregator.
What it is: A place where authors can write original content, share links to posts on their own blogs or elsewhere, publish guides, offer insights, or dive into technical explanations.
The guiding principles are the same as always: positivity, constructive discussion, promoting BSDs and open source in general. No hype (sharing a cool new service is fine, posting non-stop about the latest trend is not), no drama, no politics. The goal is to bring people together, not divide them. To inform, not inflame. Respect, tolerance, and inclusivity are key. Everyone should feel welcome reading the BSD Cafe Journal - never judged, offended, or excluded.
The platform I’ve chosen is WordPress, for several reasons: it’s portable (runs well on all BSDs), has great built-in role management (contributors, authors, etc.), and - last but not least - supports ActivityPub. This means every author will have their own identity in the Fediverse (like: @stefano@journal.bsd.cafe ) and can be followed directly, and it’ll also be possible to follow the whole Journal.
Original and educational content is encouraged, but it’s also perfectly fine to link to existing articles elsewhere. Personally, I’ll link my technical posts from ITNotes whenever I publish them there.
The goal is simple: a news-oriented site, rich in content, ad-free, respectful of privacy - all under the BSD Cafe umbrella.
Content coordination will happen in a dedicated Matrix room for authors. There’ll also be a public room for discussing ideas, giving feedback, and sharing suggestions.
Of course, I can’t do this alone. A journal with no content is just an empty shell. So here’s my call for action: Who’s ready to lend a hand? If you enjoy writing, explaining, sharing your knowledge - the Journal is waiting for you.
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Plans that could see Reform UK cut funding to nurseries in central Lancashire will see job losses, closures and fewer fund
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Whether that form is good or not is a judgment call, I suppose.
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