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There are two modes for an engine light. Constantly lit means there is some code, many of them not serious and just maintenance. Blinking means pull over and stop the engine to avoid (more) severe damage. So I think you're fine here, none of these are blinking.
Correction: there are four modes for an engine light. On, blinking, burned out, or tape over it.
Both NY Senators, Schumer and Gillibrand, voted to keep arming Israel so that the genocide can continue.
Despite a vast majority of Democratic voters being against this, they voted to keep arming Israel.
Schumer and Gillibrand want to lose their next elections. They're begging for it. They represent themselves and the corporations that profit from killing children. They do not represent New York residents.
Reading Marx is like unearthing the Necronomicon in a university library, a forbidden text that lays bare capitalism's inner workings.
But the true horror lies in realizing you're surrounded by people who treat exploitation as 'just how things work.' Suddenly the world reveals itself as a self-sustaining asylum, where the so-called 'rational' diligently reproduce the madness of the system.
I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life.
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Oh sure, you can tinker in the margins, and you should! Get a repairable laptop, like the Framework, which is the greatest computer I've ever owned, and run Linux on it (I use Ubuntu, which is easy to install). You'll spend two weeks looking around the UI for the thing you need to click on and then you'll stop noticing it altogether, forever:
Access the internet via RSS, and avoid all the algorithmic twiddling and surveillance that subjects you and yours to the depredations of the worst people on earth and their feral algorithms:
Give preference to high-security, private, open messaging tools like Signal. Open an account on a federated social media service, like Mastodon, and make it a first-class home for your online social life:
Do all this! Do more! You'll make your life somewhat better, and in some cases, *much* better. But you're not going to fight enshittification this way. Enshittification is not the result of people making bad choices: it's the result of bad *policies* that produce bad *systems*.
Enshittification makes for a neat *descriptive* account, talking about how platforms go bad:
> Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.
But the most important part of enshittification is its *causal* hypothesis: the answer it proposes to *why* this degradation is happening *everywhere*, right *now*:
Here's why you're getting enshittified: we deliberately decided to stop enforcing competition laws. As a result, companies formed monopolies and cartels. This means that they don't have to worry about losing your business or labor to a competitor, because they don't compete.
It means that they can handily capture their regulators, because they can easily agree on a set of policy priorities and use the billions they've amassed by not competing to capture their regulators. They can hold a whip hand over their formerly powerful tech workers, mass-firing them and terrorizing them out of any Tron-inspired conceits about "fighting for the user." Finally, they can use IP law to shut down anyone who makes technology that *disenshittifies* their offerings.
You can take care to avoid enshittification, you can even make a fetish out of it, but without addressing these *systemic* failings, your individual actions will only get you so far. Sure, use privacy-enhancing tools like Signal to communicate with other people, but if the only way to get your kid to their little league game is to join the carpool group on Facebook, you're going to *hemorrhage* data about *everything* you do to Meta.
Likewise, you can use privacy-preserving adblockers in your browser, but the instant you've got to do business with a monopoly that requires you to use their app, you will be totally helpless before them, because anti-circumvention law felonizes modifying an app so it preserves your privacy. An app is just a webpage skinned with the right kind of IP law to make it a jailable offense to install an ad-blocker:
When all your friends are going to a festival, are you really going to opt out because the event requires you to use the Ticketmaster app (because Ticketmaster has a monopoly over event ticketing)? If so, you're not gonna have a lot of friends, which is a pretty shitty way to live.
If you turn your personal campaign to live an enshittification-free life into a set of rigid practices that isolate you from your community, you will be miserable - and *you will undermine your ability to address the systemic roots of enshittification*.
That's because systemic problems have *systemic* solutions. They are addressed through mass movements, impact litigation, political action, street uprisings, mutual aid, and other forms of solidarity and community.
The monsters who benefit from the status quo don't want you to know this. They want to brainwash you with Margaret Thatcher's mantra, "There is no such thing as society." They want you to think that you are a pathetic, atomized individual. They want you to die in a heatwave while gasping out your profound regret for not recycling more diligently and taking more care with your "carbon footprint."
They want you to drive around for hours looking for an independent cardboard seller to make your protest sign with, convinced that it's more important to avoid shopping on Amazon than it is to actually show up at the protest outside the Amazon warehouse. They want you to curse yourself for failing to cycle and take the bus in your city where there are no bike lanes and the buses run every 45 minutes and stop at 8PM.
If you wanted a livable city, you should have made better consumption choices! Perhaps you could dig your own subway, ever think of that, hmmm?
You, me and everyone we know have all been subjected to a 40-year blitz of anti-solidaristic propaganda, aimed at convincing us that we are only allowed to fight the system as individuals. Don't like your health care? Shop around! Don't like your boss? Quit your job!
To make changes, you have to exist in society. Yes, the Democratic Party is a weak and pathetic failed gerontocracy, but the Democratic Socialists, the Sunrise Movement, and other political groups that are independent of the Dems but still drag them into doing something good, sometimes, all deserve your support.
Yes, the union movement squandered the Biden years, refusing to spend its record-setting cash reserves on organizing, despite the millions of workers *begging* to join unions. But workplace democracy remains the only way that we ever have - or ever will - defeat capital, so join a union, form a union, support a union:
Yes, plastic recycling is a scam cooked up by the petrochemical industry and all the plastic you stick in your blue bin either goes to an incinerator or a landfill, but if you don't support (and join up with) real environmental activists, you're going to roast alive:
Yes, Israel is committing a genocide and Brown, Columbia, and other elite universities are capitulating to Trump, whose evangelical base believes that war in Israel will hasten the Second Coming, when all Jews will be cast into eternal damnation. But that doesn't relieve you of your responsibility to act to defend our Palestinian brothers and sisters from the death rained down on them with the weapons our governments send to Israel.
My book on *Enshittification* is coming out in a couple of months, and the early reviews are already coming in, and they are gratifyingly glowing. But there's a trend in these reviews, a caveat that reviewer after reviewer has raised: my book is "short on individual solutions."
You're goddamned right it is. Because this isn't an individual problem, it's a systemic one.
Sure, live the best life you can, making the best choices you can. But don't kid yourself that this is fighting enshittification.
The reason corporations spy on you isn't because you're too cheap to pay for media, so they must resort to surveillance advertising. Whether or not you pay a tech company, they will absolutely spy on you:
The reason they can spy on you is that the US hasn't had a new consumer privacy law since 1988, when the Video Privacy Protection Act banned video store clerks from disclosing which VHS cassettes you took home. This is the last technological threat to our privacy that Congress has addressed. The reason you are spied upon is because there are no systemic consequences for this surveillance:
The reason gig companies misclassify their workers as contractors in order to abuse them, steal their wages, and deny workplace protections is *because they can* - not because workers are insufficiently choosy about their employment.
To fight systemic problems you need to be part of a systemic solution.
For 23 and a half years, I've worked for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the most enshittification-fighting organization in the world:
EFF is a member-supported nonprofit. We rely on donors like you, and squeeze our budget hard. For as long as I've been with EFF, I've heard smears about how we're shills for Big Tech and dependent on them for our funding (hilariously I once heard that EFF's reps to a meeting were transported to it in a stretch limo paid for by Intel - except *I* was the rep at that meeting, and I took the bus). Here's all of our financial disclosures, see for yourself:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a donor-funded, US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our tax ID number is 04-3091431. For an in-depth look, please see our most recent annual report, Form 990, and Donor Policy.
Donating to EFF is one way to fund the systemic rejection of enshittification. But if you want to *join* the fight - if you want to be part of a community that fights back - then you need to know about the Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA):
EFA is a network of independent community groups that EFF helps coordinate and advise. When one group is in trouble, we connect it with other groups that have overcome the same troubles.
When one group scores a victory, held other groups replicate its successes in their towns. Our organizers also help people in communities that *don't* have EFA affiliates start groups and join the network.
I get it: this is harder work than changing your consumption habits. But it's infinitely more rewarding. You're more than a consumer. You can aspire to more dignity than is afforded to an ambulatory wallet:
Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
#Enshittification is enclosure by a new name. Capitalists have always used the structure of capitalism to avoid market competition because capitalism and markets are sometimes at odds.
I've created four "paradoxes" to describe how market capitalism undermines itself:
1. Property rights limit competition 2. Property rights enforcement invites exploitation 3. Markets reward secrecy but need transparency to function well 4. Market success undermines market competition
@MidniteMikeWrites I'm familiar with enclosure obviously, but Enshittification isn't "enclosure by another name."
It describes the forces that historically prevented enclosure; it describes the policies that led to enclosure, and it specifies a sui generis mechanism, unique to digital tools, for extraction after enclosure.
That’s fair. I said this because the use of property rights to create inescapable sites of extraction is the most salient part of enshittification for me. It’s also an easy (perhaps lazy) shorthand for pointing to how companies abuse political power.
But you’re right. There are specific whys and hows that make naive comparisons to enclosure unable to grapple with modern power. More reason to read your book!
well, never underestimate the power of change in society through change in the neighborhood. If you buy an electric car as the first one around and show them how great it is, you can make a change. It’s a myth that there is no impact on others by what we do and how we do it. My grandmother used to say: „Do good and tell people. This way they will be encouraged to do good, too.
@holgerpatzelt Contrariwise, don't overestimate how much inspiring incremental change will matter if it isn't a bridge to affecting the 100 or so firms that are responsible for the climate emergency, by directly regulating their activities and shutting down most of them.
To join the EFA we ask groups have at least three active members, and have been active for at least three months. If you are just getting started, you are welcome to reach out to current EFA groups or the EFF organizing tem at organizing@eff.org for guidance. We also provide a number of useful EFA toolkits geared towards new organizers
"They can hold a whip hand over their formerly powerful tech workers..."
*puts on tinfoil hat*
The whole "everyone should learn to code" push was never because there were too few tech workers, but because they just wanted to flood an expensive labor market to lower worker power.
It's been a while since I wrote a #blogpost shilling for #FreshRSS so here is a new one about a great feature I recently discovered: User Queries!
https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/using-freshrss-user-queries
#rss #feedreader #blogging
[Tranche de vie, le repas de famille] Les aménagements de la route là, c'est n'importe quoi !
Ah, moi je trouve que c'est bien conçu 😀
Ouais jusqu'à ce qu'il commence à y avoir des accidents avec leurs hauts trucs en bétons.
Mhmh. Ces trucs en béton protègent des gens qui foncent pleine balle ac' leur grosse bagnole. C'est leur voiture qui est cassée au lieu des cycliss morts. Je vois pas où est le problème.
Microsoft's Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake - No way this will be abused Microsoft has upgraded Azure AI Speech so that users can rapid... - go.theregister.com/feed/www.th…
Ubiquiti just released UniFi OS Server in Early Access, allowing you to self-host the complete UniFi network stack on your own hardware. Initially, it will support UniFi Network and Innerspace. Besides UniFi Network and InnerSpace,
What other skills would you add to the list? #practice #skills #provider #protector #men #relationship #listening #curiosity #humility #flexibility #collabor...
This sounds like psychobabble. Her whole video is one big run-on sentence to justify, to herself, why she believes her husband was unfit. Truth is she hates her husbandbecauseshe married him. Women only marry the men they despiseout of fear of being alone or convenience.
Looks absolutely lovely! Make sure to use anti-tick spray (Deet or whatever)--there's TONS of them (not sure where you are but most places) and they have a smorgasbord of nasty infections to offer....ah, nature. That said, indeed, enjoy the beauty and wonder of being! Just not with ticks....heh....lovely pic!
Ugh. Really? Not even an early course of doxycycline? Here in the NE of these Untied States we have Lyme and a host of other interesting infections like Powassan virus (which is likely to kill one). Ah, nature, red in tooth and biting parts...
92-year-old Scottish widow Molly Forbes refused to sell her land to Trump for his golf course. In revenge, he blasted floodlights, ran loud machines nonstop, and cut her water and power. She never gave in — right up until her death at age 96.
@ST20 la première personne à gauche porte des lunettes noires à l'intérieur. Elle est donc aveugle. Descendre les marches serait trop dangereux pour elle. Rien à voir avec de l'idiotie.
Israel is a genocidal project. We tried the experiment and these are the results. Now it must be dismantled if we're ever to separate Judaism and secular Jewish people from the genocidal ethnostate "Israel".
Like the Third Reich, it be must be dismantled and removed from existence. We can build something else, like with Germany, but it can't be this state.
And you just know somehow that asshole nazi, that dying blowhard bag of bigotry, will try to take CREDIT for such a good thing. How do we END this vile malignancy?
‘Sleeping’ cancer cells in the lungs can be roused by #COVID & #flu
The results are “really quite dramatic” “Respiratory-virus infections didn’t just awaken the cells” they also caused them to proliferate, or multiply, “to enormous numbers”
"The Trump administration has begun restoring health-related websites and datasets that it removed in January in order to comply with an order from a federal judge, who said that agencies such as the CDC unlawfully deleted treatment guidelines and other critical data that impaired doctors’ ability to care for patients.
Federal agencies report that they now have restored 67 of the 212 webpages that plaintiffs included in their list..."
A federal judge finds federal agencies violated the law when they deleted “hundreds or even thousands” of pages about treating HIV and other medical conditions.
@bot i've had so many questions, but i haven't been able to talk to you because of a certain evil rabbit
i've been thinking that training to failure and aiming to be sore is not necessary most of the time. with what intensity do you train on an everyday basis?
now in summer frozen blueberries. I tried freezing cherries recently, which was not that good. I like freezing like small 100% juice boxes and eat them like ice cream. I like knock-off kinder cards. I'm not much of a chips-crisps person.
Der Bundesaußenminister reist mit Forderungen nach Israel. Die Verbesserung der humanitären Lage ist nur eine davon. Im Gegensatz zu immer mehr Staaten will Berlin mit einer Anerkennung Palästinas weiter warten.
Über 200 Prominente aus der Kulturbranche fordern in einem offenen Brief die Bundesregierung zum Stopp von Waffenlieferungen an Israel auf. Kanzler Merz wurde innerhalb einer Woche über tausendmal angezeigt.
Study: Climate Change Could Worsen Prolonged Wind Droughts wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/31… More bad news for fragile, weather dependent power generation systems - but send more money. #news #press
Nach dem mutmaßlich durch einen radikalen Siedler verübten Mord an dem palästinensischen Aktivisten Awda Hathaleen, versucht Israel, eine öffentliche Beerdigung zu verhindern. Der Tatverdächtige wird als Held gefeiert.
europesays.com/uk/307155/ ‘Ukraine doesn’t forget its cultural landmarks’: the team risking their lives to rescue statues from the frontline | Ukraine #EU #Europe #Ukraine
A bearded expert and a group of Ukrainian soldiers arrived in the village of Slovianka on a special mission. Their goal did not involve shooting at invading
Totally understand and agree with the sentiment, but would be careful about posting that with only white people in the illustrations; that can muddle the message.
j/k, I'm totally all in with the traditional family and work very hard outside the house to earn enough so my wife can focus on what really matters at home.
So the summer season for tourism is 3/4 over but the NPS ( national park service aka useless waste of tax money bc its a redundant job..we have park rangers and a sheriff) just dropped this sign off. Its supposed to help inform ppl about rafting and part of a tourism program to increase boat and canoe trips...or is it. Every sign is about dying..they wouldn't give the one about bears and camping, i think he caught on to my sarcasm vibe 😉 seriously would this inspire you to raft ?
UK expat Mark Danby, who moved to Spain from Stockport, Greater Manchester, recently decided to treat himself to a large portion of fish and chips - but he
You can always tell when I am being serious and when I’m joking because I will always include “thank you for your attention to this matter” at the end of my post.
A Dem that GETS it. Will Hochul wise-up and listen? If not, she needs to step aside...as well as Futterman, Torres, Schumer, Gillibrand, Goldman and all neoliberal creeps.... "If you listen to Gov. Kathy Hochul, you’d think there’s nothing New York can do to fight back. Consider her response to Republicans slashing Medicaid and SNAP: “No state can backfill the massive cuts.” It’s simply not true that New York can’t afford to protect our most vulnerable citizens."
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is blasting U.S. efforts to provide more weapons to Israel for its war against Hamas in Gaza. This comes as more organizations accuse Israel of carrying out genocide in the Palestinian state.
U.S. labor activist Chris Smalls has been released from jail after being abducted by Israeli forces as part of a Gaza aid ship. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition says Smalls had been assaulted by seven uniformed Israeli soldiers.
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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:52 CentOS 03:19 Why is CentOS still so popular? 05:20 How prevalent is CentOS right now 06:46 The problem with CentOS 7 going end of life 07:55 Stay on CentOS without patches 11:23 Move to another distro: a challenge 14:21 Extended Lifecycle support 18:57 Parting thoughts 19:37 Support the channel
CentOS is short for Community Enterprise Operating System, and it started as one of the first Red hat Enterprise Linux clones: it was built from RHEL sources, and was 100% binary compatible. The distro quickly became one of the most popular distros for servers, even overtaking the good old Debian in 2010, for a little while at least. In 2014, Red Hat announced they would sponsor the CentOS project, probably seeing the advantage in fostering an ecosystem around their own enterprise offering, to convert organizations to RHEL when they needed more support, and to make sure developers had a solid platform to target.
That's when Red Hat gained ownership of all the trademarks, and they basically employed most major CentOS contributors.
Unfortunately, at the end of 2020, Red Hat announced that CentOS would be discontinued, at least in its current "RHEL clone" form, and would now be distributed as CentOS Stream, which isn't really the same kind of distribution: instead of being a rebuild of RHEL, which is what people mostly used CentOS for, it's basically RHEL's upstream, from which the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be built. Stream is also a rolling release, meaning that it's likely not suitable for a lot of people who relied on CentOS.
With that, CentOS 8 was quickly discontinued, in December 2021, leaving CentOS 7 as the only version that is still supported. And CentOS 7 will now be end of life at the end of June 2024, meaning that if you want a full rebuild of RHEL, and CentOS Stream doesn't work for you, you have to find another solution.
And this isn't really like any other enterprise distro going end of life: in most cases, for these, you have a direct upgrade path, like with Ubuntu LTS, or a new RHEL version. In CentOS's case, you don't: you either move to Stream, or you switch to another distro. Or well, there's another option, which we'll discuss in a minute.
CentOS 7 is still a very, very popular distribution on servers. First, a worrying statistic: out of all current CentOS users in early 2024, more than half use CentOS 6 or 8, meaning they're using end of life distros. CentOS 7 is 48.4% of current CentOS users. Now, compared to other distributions, CentOS might not grab the lion's share for servers, but it's still a very prevalent operating system.
Now, the main reasons why organizations would stick to either unmaintained, end of life versions of CentOS, or to CentOS 7 as it is going end of life is very likely because there is no direct upgrade path: if you're on CentOS 8, you can't move to something else from CentOS. If you use CentOS 6, you could upgrade to 7, but migrating to a new distro that goes end of life in 2 months isn't necessarily worth it. And if you're on CentOS7, you can't upgrade to version 8, because it's also end of life.
Meaning that if your workflow or server depends on CentOS as a product, you're pretty much stuck, unless you want to move to another distributions that's also a RHEL clone, like AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux.
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That, combined with greater relief for the UK steel industry and a 5 per cent general gap now opening up in import levels, is an opportunity for the UK. It is
Dr. Wang, founder of Alibaba Cloud, discusses his perspective on the advancements in AI and its impact on various aspects of technology and business.Key poin...
And that's why fertility rates are collapsing : a society centred around a mythical, autonomous individual can't make children.
The early history of feminism is a dialectic between these competing domains of freedom and care, dependency and autonomy. This surely reflects the reality that this divide runs through the centre of every human life, but nowhere more palpably than for mothers.
Rhaedas
in reply to Andromeda • • •There are two modes for an engine light. Constantly lit means there is some code, many of them not serious and just maintenance. Blinking means pull over and stop the engine to avoid (more) severe damage. So I think you're fine here, none of these are blinking.
Correction: there are four modes for an engine light. On, blinking, burned out, or tape over it.
JillyB
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