Mind-altering ‘brain weapons’ no longer only science fiction, say researchers
Sophisticated and deadly “brain weapons” that can attack or alter human consciousness, perception, memory or behaviour are no longer the stuff of science fiction, two British academics argue.
Michael Crowley and Malcolm Dando, of Bradford University, are about to publish a book that they believe should be a wake-up call to the world.
They are this weekend travelling to The Hague for a key meeting of states, arguing that the human mind is a new frontier in warfare and there needs to be urgent global action to prevent the weaponisation of neuroscience.
“It does sound like science fiction,” said Crowley. “The danger is that it becomes science fact.”
The book, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, explores how advances in neuroscience, pharmacology and artificial intelligence are coming together to create a new threat.
Mind-altering ‘brain weapons’ no longer only science fiction, say researchers
UK academics say latest chemicals are ‘wake-up call’ and urge global action to stop weaponisation of neuroscienceMark Brown (The Guardian)
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Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement
Hi guys, I've been working on a self-hostable web analytics platform since the start of this year after being frustrated with Google Analytics and Plausible.
I've packed a bunch of cool web analytics features into Rybbit, but I've tried very hard to keep the interface simple to use,
Check it out!
GitHub - rybbit-io/rybbit: 🐸 Rybbit - open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive.
🐸 Rybbit - open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive. - rybbit-io/rybbitGitHub
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Neat stuff, it's this a long-term project?
Yea, we use a client-side script like almost everyone else. The major difference is that we don't use cookies so you can avoid a lot of the cookie banner/GDPR nonsense.
Rybbit definitely isn't the first open source cookieless web analytics platform (Plausible and Umami are the two other big ones), but it's probably the most "all-in-one" of all these alternatives.
GoAccess - Visual Web Log Analyzer
GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.goaccess.io
Posthog makes it almost impossible to actually self-host since they try to push you onto the cloud as much as possible. They say that the self-hosted version only works well up until 100k events ... which is insane since their cloud free tier is 1 million events.
It's actually the reason why I built Rybbit. I tried to self-host posthog on my server but it ran it up to 100% CPU on 8 cores and didn't even work.
Ok posthog rant done.
The other main difference is that Posthog has like 10+ different products all in one. Their web analytics is good, but it's just kind of bland (imo) because it's not their main focus.
You mentioned being frustrated at Plausible. What did you not like about it?
I haven't tried Plausible, but it seemed popular
Question is the self-hosted version less featured than the paid hosted version?
This looks amazing btw.
Rybbit - Privacy-First Web Analytics Platform
Open-source, privacy-focused web analytics platform. Track your website performance without compromising user privacy.Rybbit
@Goldflag
I appreciate the intent behind Rybbit, but I have to respectfully disagree with the "only very slightly so" characterization. Looking at your official comparison table, the self-hosted version is missing:
- Pages View
- Web Vitals
- Email reports
- Google Search Console integration
- VPN/Crawler/ASN tracking
- Google/GitHub OAuth
- Email support
That's 7 significant features—which seems more than "very slightly" different.
More importantly, this raises AGPL compliance questions. Under AGPLv3 Section 13, if users interact with modified AGPL software over a network (your cloud version), you're required to make the complete corresponding source code available to those users. If these cloud-only features are integrated into the same AGPL-licensed codebase, withholding them from the public repo while running them as a network service appears to conflict with the license terms.
There are really only two compliant scenarios here:
- These features exist in the public repo but are just marketed as "cloud-only" (in which case the comparison table's misleading)
- These features are truly separate proprietary code that interfaces with Rybbit without being part of the AGPL-licensed work (which would require careful architectural separation)
If it's neither—if these are AGPL-covered features running in your cloud service but withheld from the repo—that's exactly the "loophole" the AGPL was designed to close. The irony is that you criticized Plausible and Fathom for having "much inferior self-hosted versions," yet this appears to be a similar approach.
Could you clarify the licensing status of these cloud-only features? Are they in the public repo but disabled by default, or are they proprietary additions that don't derive from the AGPL codebase?
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Thanks for clarifying! Good to hear everything's in the repo and that it's truly AGPL compliant.
Since as self-hosters we already carry the burden of maintenance, updates, security, and infrastructure costs that cloud users don't, would you consider documenting how to enable the cloud features in self-hosted setups?
I see the docs cover basic environment variables, but not for Pages View, Web Vitals, or VPN/ASN tracking. Even if some features need extra config (SMTP, OAuth creds), having that documented would help those of us willing to do the work.
That would truly differentiate Rybbit from Plausible/Fathom—not just code parity, but empowering self-hosters with full feature access.
Cloud features aren't just a toggle away for self-hosters because setting CLOUD=true enables unwanted restrictions like Stripe billing endpoints and event limits—it was intended as a binary switch for enabling the entire cloud infrastructure.
Rybbit wasn't architected so self-hosters could modularly enable advanced features. To solve this, I've forked the project and made all enterprise features modular and enabled by default, so people can test them.
Of course, it would be desirable that @Goldflag implements this himself because I'm sure he could do it more elegantly and maintain it properly as part of the official project going forward.
GitHub - antebudimir/rybbit: 🐸 Rybbit - This is a fork of the original Rybbit project. I created this fork to enable enterprise features for self-hosted instances that were previously cloud-only.
🐸 Rybbit - This is a fork of the original Rybbit project. I created this fork to enable enterprise features for self-hosted instances that were previously cloud-only. - antebudimir/rybbitGitHub
That's misleading. While copyright owners aren't bound by their own license, AGPL Section 13 requires that when they run AGPL software as a network service, they must make the complete source available to users.
The AGPL was specifically designed to close the "SaaS loophole." Being the copyright owner doesn't exempt you from AGPL's network service requirements if you're distributing under that license.
Licensing representation matters
It doesn't, because they're the copyright owners. Think of their software as dual licensed: They run it themselves under a proprietary license, under which they reserve all rights. That has nothing to do with the AGPL version that they license to you. The AGPL doesn't take away the rights they have as copyright owners, nor does it preclude dual licensing.
(Are you a bot? Your reply is written like ChatGPT, and it has that self-defeating logic that ChatGPT has sometimes.... eg. you wrote that you disagree with me, but then parroted the exact thing that I said.)
Plausible is at least honest about it being an "open core" business model. They openly document what's missing and why (funding sustainability).
The premium features are likely not in the AGPL repo at all - they're genuinely separate proprietary code. They seem to be AGPL compliant because they're transparent that community edition is a subset, not claiming "everything's there, just toggled off".
Clickhouse definitely takes a lot of resources! There's unfortunately no way around that, though in my experience it runs fine on the cheapest Hetzner instances which are like $3-4 a month for 2GB of RAM. How lightweight is your VPS?
And yea, you don't need clickhouse for a simple static site. I chose clickhouse because it Postgres or MySQL does not scale well since the main site I personally use Rybbit for sends around 20 million events a month.
It pains me to plug my competitors, but check out Umami or Goatcounter if you want a platform that uses postgres.
Hey thanks so much for the engagement. I was trying to run it on a VPS that cost $35/year. 2GiB of RAM wasn't quite enough to make it work for me, granted that was with the webserver and ancillary supporting services.
I'll find an opportunity to test it out though, as rybbit looks great. I appreciate the mention on the other FOSS products, that's a good look for you. I have plenty of experience with umami already. Cheers!
Aways a fan of alternate options, this looks quite tidy! I had a few thoughts / queries. Not at my system right now but I will test it out later.
I noticed in the screenshots you have a "users" page - but with a cookieless tracking system I would have assumed it wouldn't be reliable to identify a long term user past individual sessions? Are you doing some hefty finger printing?
Looking at your features table has a few statements that might need adjusting. Such as GA4's segmentation sequencing / filtering can be quite complex, I'd argue its not limited and potentially more advanced than Rybbit (not tested yet). It also has a user exploration feature.
Do you have any plans for a drag and drop style report creation, so that I could create reports with any dimensions / metrics and filter accordingly? I think that would bring a lot of flexibility to the platform for an individuals bespoke needs.
GoAccess - Visual Web Log Analyzer
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Its a docker compose deployment so should just work on any system with docker installed. Copy the docker compose file and env file if it has one, and run 'docker compose up -d' in that directory.
It can collect analytics from multiple places.
Docker is a security risk? … excuse me, what? Can’t you just, idunno, secure the environment that docker runs in? Use rootless images? Use immutable images?
And, are you asking for something that runs on bare metal? Couldn’t you just install the ISO that the dockerfile uses, then convert the dockerfile logic to an sh script?
In its default state i think thats fair. Example docker bypasses most firewalls as it runs before iptables rules process. So if you don't either use 127.0.0.1:port:port (many compose files offered by projects do not do this) or add specialized iptables rules to fix that up you can end up directly exposing services with meaning to or even realizing.
And yeah privilege escalation etc. There are solutions like what you mentioned but it can be a lot of work to set all that up so most people won't
You can verify the checksum to ensure the contents pulled are exactly the same as what was published. You can also use a private container registry.
How exactly would docker pull be any more insecure than something like pip install? Or, really anything… Let’s go with your preferred alternative, how are you going to get it on your machine in a more secure way than docker provides?
Docker uses TLS with registries, layers and manifests have cryptographic digests, checksums, and you can verify the publisher yourself. Push it into your own registry if you want, or just don’t use latest.
Yeah, that's the insecurity I'm talking about.
If you want to know how to implement this properly, look at apt. Its a known issue in docker; they just haven't prioritized the fix yet (DCT)
What are you talking about, “yeah that’s the insecurity I’m talking about.”
I didn’t mention an insecurity and neither have you. Would you mind being a little more clear than “Docker pull is insecure?”
Frankly, I was expressing confidence in dockers security. It goes without saying though, any user can do insecure things like download from untrusted sources. That’s not dockers problem though, it’s the users.
Edit: I see now that you added “it’s the download that’s not verified.” Integrity is verified, so I assume you mean authorship (via signing)? I guess you’re saying that, if admin credentials are stolen from a container publisher and the thief force pushes malicious code into the registry under a pre-existing tag—then you would be exposed to that?
Even in that case, though, a digest cannot be overwritten. Tags can. So you’d just pin the digest to avoid this one attack vector?
You’re making big claims on security here, like “cannot be done,” and each time you do I feel like we’re talking past each other a bit. I never claimed you can verify that the person who pushed the container had access to a private key file. I claimed you can verify the security of a container, specifically by auditing it and reviewing the publisher’s online presence. Best practices. Don’t upgrade right away, and pin digests to those which can be trusted.
When you pin a digest, you’re not going to get a container some malicious agent force pushed after the fact. You pinned the download to an immutable digest, so hot-swapping the container is out the window. What, as I understand, you’re concerned with is the scenario that a malicious actor (1) compromised the registry login beforehand, (2) you pinned the digest after hand, and (3) the attack is unnoticed by you and everyone else.
I’m trying to figure out under what conditions this would actually occur, and thus justifies the claim that docker pull is insecure. In a work setting, I only see this being an issue if the process to test/upgrade existing ones is already an insecure process. Can you help me understand why I should believe that, even with best practices in place, Dockers own insecurities are unacceptable? Docker is used everywhere and I’m reluctant to believe everyone just doesn’t care about an unmanageable attack vector.
I was curious and, yeah, it seems like docker hub not requiring signature means many popular publishers don’t bother to sign. But that’s not to say it can’t be done. For example: github.com/sigstore/cosign
Today, cosign has been tested and works against […] Docker Hub
GitHub - sigstore/cosign: Code signing and transparency for containers and binaries
Code signing and transparency for containers and binaries - sigstore/cosignGitHub
The same advantages as all free and open source solution, it's free and open source. That means how much it's going to cost to your business is directly under your control. You can make a decision on how you acquire hardware based on your business's needs. If you want to add or change features you can decide how to do that based on the deals you have with your programmers (like pick the developer you have with the best skills and the lowest cost), and then you get to control how much it costs you and how reliable the result is going to be.
If you feel like the support you get from customer service from Amazon or Google or Microsoft is reliable enough and you don't need more reliability then go ahead and stick with paid products. But if you already have a team of really expensive and talented engineers you might as well let them solve problems with free and open source equipment.
GitHub - plausible/community-edition: Example Docker Compose setup for hosting Plausible Community Edition
Example Docker Compose setup for hosting Plausible Community Edition - plausible/community-editionGitHub
Replace your boss ... before they replace you
"AI CEOs generate thought leadership at the push of a button
Delivering total nonsense, with complete confidence."
AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You
Stop working for humans. AI CEO delivers algorithmic thought leadership, with instant decisions, and zero ego. Replace your boss before they replace you.replaceyourboss.ai
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That could be super useful.
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Delivering total nonsense, with complete confidence.
Just like a real CEO.
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This isn't even a joke. My CEO is the biggest idiot in the company, and I have ample evidence to prove it.
He uses AI constantly.
I think an ai could outperform my executives.
One of them sent out an email about how we weren't making enough money. But don't worry, he has a strategy that we will execute on and fix it.
The strategy is to raise prices and get more sales at the same time... That is literally it. Not even picking "high value" versus "high volume", just a declaration that we can do both. If this genius plan doesn't work, it's just because the sales people failed to execute against his brilliant strategy well enough.
The strategy is to raise prices and get more sales at the same time
Good strategy if he can pull it off. 🤣🤣🤣
AI is basically going to be...
"It wasn't me it was the robot" argument.
I'm not a racist...
I didn't push the company to lower safety standards...
I did not have sexual relations with that woman...
And so on. Behind the scenes it will be the same crap but now they can escape blame with AI.
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Disappointed this is a parody.
There are actual AI-based services to replace company upper management, and take it seriously, since AI in its current iteration is strong enough to manage companies even when its art is quotidian.
Mr. Whipple's days are actually numbered.
This is correct; the best fits for LLM based AI job replacement are in management and team leading. even C-suite levels.
think about it: if your job is to take any info and transform it, that's one thing; but when you have to create/move/repair/touch anything irl, it becomes exponentially more expensive via robotics and the returns are poor compared to the investments.
I think there's a concerted reason we're not seeing it attack these positions more outwardly - being that these same people are the decision makers. Eliminating their workers is an easy decision to make, eliminating their own position won't even be considered.
The real top boss is the Chairman of the Board of Directors, although the Chairman is often appointed CEO, it doesn't always happen. The Board of Directors is made up of large shareholders - the people who actually own the company. The CEO is technically just an employee and needn't own any shares at all (although that would be extremely abnormal).
So, there may actually be a time when a corporation's Board decides to use an "AI" as their CEO to cut costs.
The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism
Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection
Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’
High Court challenge says law imposing ban is ‘grossly excessive’ and infringes on ‘constitutional right of freedom of political communication’
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Surprised to see so many people on Lemmy in favour of social media. It's horrendous for everybody, adults and children alike. I don't think kids should be on there.
Usually for things like this, I'd be fine with parents handling it and controlling their own kids' access. But social media is too pervasive, you'd turn your kid into an outcast if they didn't have it when 96% of their peers did.
Russia loses ability to send humans into space for first time in 60 years
An accident has occurred at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan, following the launch of the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft.
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Electrocution, waterboarding, hallucinogens: UN report expresses 'grave concern' over Israeli torture of Palestinians
The UN Committee Against Torture Expressed 'Particular Concern' That the Number of Deaths in Custody to Date 'Appears to Be Abnormally High and Appears to Have Exclusively Affected the Palestinian Detainee Population'
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Electrocution, waterboarding, hallucinogens: UN report expresses 'grave concern' over Israeli torture of Pale
The UN Committee against Torture expressed 'particular concern' that the number of deaths in custody to date 'appears to be abnormally high and appears to have exclusively affected the Palestinian detainee population'Nir Hasson (Haaretz)
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Video shows Israeli soldiers execute 2 Palestinians as they surrender in West Bank raid, rights group says
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem says a video shows soldiers fatally shooting two Palestinian men as they surrender during a West Bank raid.
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Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has once again called for longer working weeks has returned, this time with an emphasis on schedules like the 996-pattern used in parts of China.Murthy's comments revive a debate which began in 2024, when he argued that Indian employees should work 70 hours a week.
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Some billionaires are saying shorter work weeks be used of AI, some are saying longer.
If this just a way for us to be “grateful” for things to remain the same?
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By retirement?
I’d expect majority shares in any company I worked that much for, AND a 7-figure salary.
And retirement would be in 5 years.
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There is a large body of research out there regarding 12h shift work in healthcare. I’m only linking 1 article, a quick search will yield more, easily.
A TLDR on it: 12h shifts decrease performance. Stacking them decreases safety and performance, cumulatively. Car accidents pick up significantly on day 4.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…
Negative Impacts of Shiftwork and Long Work Hours - PMC
Healthcare organizations often have to provide patient care around the clock. Shift work (any shift outside of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m) and long work hours increase the risk for short sleep duration and sleep disturbances. Thirty-two percent of healthcare ..pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Let’s try this one
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…
The impact of moving to a 12h shift pattern on employee wellbeing: A qualitative study in an acute mental health setting - PMC
Against a backdrop of increasing demand for mental health services, and difficulties in recruitment and retention of mental health staff, employers may consider implementation of 12 h shifts to reduce wage costs. Mixed evidence regarding the impact .pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Yes, I failed to paste the copy. After a 12 hour shift.
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Negative Impacts of Shiftwork and Long Work Hours - PMC
Healthcare organizations often have to provide patient care around the clock. Shift work (any shift outside of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m) and long work hours increase the risk for short sleep duration and sleep disturbances. Thirty-two percent of healthcare ..pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Capitalism protects the capital (goods, and equipment, on a truck), and values human lives at approx $3 million (based on financial cost for the company when a life is lost).
The value of the truck and the contents of the trailer are frequently greater than the value of the driver for a given trip, and therefore justify more caution and care than any given patient in a doctor's office.
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US: Truck driver crashing causes property damage, patients dieing causes the bed to open up for another paying customer.
Rest of the world: Shortages due to cost of education along with not enough spots available for said education.
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There’s less errors overall in having consistency in who healthcare reports off to between shifts. The 17% is balanced out by that (math wise). The errors in having 3 people reporting around an 8hr clock are significantly higher than with the 12hr clock.
But a 4th shift? Staying over to 16hrs? The 36hr week, I feel, is the extent to which you can safely take the 12h shift.
Additional madness is in that, in 26 states, the administrators of hospitals can hold shift workers over into double shifts. I don’t know about you, but I lose the capacity to read words around hour 18. Yet, this practice is engaged routinely in health care, without regard to sleep patterns. Maybe it is an 8h shift. Maybe that person spent day shift in school then went to work for an evening shift. Now is being held on their license to stay a night shift. And expected to drive home after more than 24hrs awake. Maybe their babysitter leaves at midnight. How good and safe is that patient care going to be?
This is true. It also results in less intershift rancor. But it doesn’t change the difficulties of 4th and 5th shifts in the same week.
I’m all for turning a 40hr/5day work week into a 36hr/3day work week. It works well in 24hr professions.
What I’m not for is this 996 nonsense.
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In the healthcare environment that is true. 12h shifts retain consistency between back and forth reporting, while with 8hr shifts things get lost or missed or misinterpreted in the handoff.
My point is that 3 is the sweet spot, it’s the 4th and fifth shifts that become cumulatively bad and result in increased car accidents on the commute.
Infosys is a shitty boss that would contract for 2 resources but only assign 1 to do the work. That's why he wants 80 hours per headcount.
This is why I'm somewhat happy that AI would render extinct companies like Infosys, Wipro, etc.
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The amount of fuel required to launch them into the sun is more than is required to eject the from the solar system completely, it's not very efficient.
Although putrid, they remain a valuable source of protein and nutrients. As a more carbon-efficient alternative, I suggest tying some waste stone around their feet and chucking them into the sea. Something in the depths will eat them.
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Personally I'd make an exception to my moral stance that work as punishment is slavery, and would prefer to keep him around forcing him to work 70 hours a week, in addition to doing all the other chores required so that he can live - in prison - for the rest of his life.
Maybe we'll make it 84 hours a week just for good measure, can't be giving him a day off.
Seems more poetic
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We pretend to work
They pretend to pay us
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These are the little fuckwits that pretend waiting on a phone call back from someone is hard work. They have no concept of what real work is like; their "work" is just their ordinary greasy life made to benefit a shareholder in addition to themselves.
Oh, you want me to go play golf with this guy using the company card and then go for dinner and drinks? Do some soft sales, just having regular conversation? Sure, I'll take that "work". Man, it's tough. Nobody works 80 hour weeks like me.
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I am not an advocate of slavery generally speaking but I do think that it is a just and righteous thing to enslave someone like this and to use them for backbreaking labour for 20 hours per day.
Like. Make it pointless too. Dig this hole. Fill that hole. Dig it again.
Feed them stuff you find in dumpsters. Beat them if their hole digging is going to slow. Test cosmetics on them. Sell them to be used for sex.
That seems right to me.
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Nah, just...make them work regular hours for a pay of an ordinary employee. They could take extra hours to earn more and demonstrate to everyone how to "work hard and earn big". This will be cruelest punishment they can get.
Oh, and put them on a KPI and control their work productivity.
You're using the word "slavery" rhetorically, more or less, but in the eyes of a Sociopathic Oligarch, we are already living on literal slave wages. They couldn't imagine living on the average annual income in this country, but they expect us to, and work harder on top of it.
They would pay us nothing, like the olden days, but then they'd have to cover our food and housing, and that would cost them more. So they pay us just barely enough to keep us from revolting.
We are already slaves.
No I'm not.
I mean we literally force people like this into irons and force them to work under threat of corporal punishment.
There's what, maybe 10, 20,000 people like this the world over?
It would be a one time thing. If they managed to have kids before they died from exhaustion or the unforeseen results of pharmaceutical experiments their children would be given good homes and loving adoptive parents, so we didn't risk reviving the institution of slavery. It would be a one time thing. Justice.
I do not understand his logic.
Paying someone 70 hours has the same cost as paying two persons 35 hours, right? (In my country technically no, because higher base taxation)
Someone working 70 hours is a mindless drone. This is how you get 13" iPads accidentally sold for 15€ "because the computer said so" (happened in a big box retailer in my country, no human involved in the process objected the price until WEEKS after the sale, when accounting noticed it, and they had to beg customers "pwease return our €1000 iPads and we give you a €25 gift card as a token of gratitude" and everyone just laughed about that)
Especially for developers, for the same price is better to get two that can do tasks with full attention rather than a single one that after 12 hours of job is just mindlessly clicking on "accept" on whatever a LLM is spitting out or half assing solutions because don't have the right state of mind to think for a proper one.
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Paying someone 70 hours has the same cost as paying two persons 35 hours, right? (In my country technically no, because higher base taxation)
What he wants is to pay one person for 70hrs, the same as he'd pay one person for 35 hrs.
Paying someone 70 hours has the same cost as paying two persons 35 hours, right? (In my country technically no, because higher base taxation)
I mean it isn't, but the difference is like marginal, but you get added costs like more hardware,more HR needed ( after a certain number of people) It support for those people etc.
But really it's penny pinching.
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They should take inspiration from my coworkers, who don't even bother to pretend.
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A form of wage theft that's common in the US (and elsewhere) is that workers are expected to still do work when they have already clocked out (such as closing up the shop).
I have a Japanese friend who told me that it's not uncommon that if your work colleagues are going to the bar after work, you are expected to go along. If you don't, it shows a lack of commitment to your job. As it's not a formal requirement, of course you don't get paid for this, despite it being functionally mandatory. What's worse is that you can't just stick around for one drink and then head home — you are expected to stick around at least as long as your boss, even if he (let's face it, the boss is probably male) is still drinking long into the night. I consider this to be an especially egregious form of the wage theft I described above.
It sounds so exhausting that I would likely be unable to do anything besides pretend to work, and even that would lead to inevitable burn out. I had heard that the work culture in Japan was bad, but I had no idea how bad until my friend shared some first hand experiences with me.
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Always hit them where it hurts - their wallets.
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And yes, he's ragebaiting.
Don't even know if I'm giving him too much credit here; maybe he is literally dumb enough to advocate for modern slavery.
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Technology is now used as a tool to perpetually force the working class to obey the ever increasing draconian rules. AI is one thing, highlighting that all it matters to them is a profit with no gratitude towards the workers.
This is essentially legal slavery, fuelled by big corp and the governmental bootlickers.
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Arguably we are already there. Depends how much you want to yourself. My house? No comrade, our house.
Share a house and you can do very little work. You could take it pretty far too. Think of those capsule hotels, could fit loads of capsules in my current bedroom even if you want to have your own capsule - sharing can further increase population. Less than 20 hours of work a month for static fees (mortgage, tax) per person. Food is about 4 hours of work a month. Heating wont change, though you will use more hot water for washing, probably 2-5 hours of work for energy and water.
All essentials covered, less than 30 hours of work a month required per person. Basing this on my expenses in the UK and minimum wage.
Shit like this should be shown to people who argue against unionization.
Remember, the parasites will take everything they can, even if it means their eventual demise.
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The priviledged class will trade among themselves.
You can have a society with 7.5 billion people that are fed, clothed, sheltered enough to stave off early death, and 500 mil people with property rights trading among themselves.
Nothing says economies must collapse if not everyone is enfranchised. There is no such law.
I could see a black mirror 15 million merits type of society. Pointless work for pointless pay. But gotta keep the poors in a position that they get something they want from their meaningless work even if it's got no real value but they want the shiny.
But then what happens to the individuals that reject consumerism? It clearly shown the main character racked up a shitload of cash by doing that. Couldn't you then do very little work?
You can't get cash rewards for consuming less. Spending is the least important variable in the accumulation game. All else being equal, spending less means you can spend more at other times. So if I penny pinch all year, I can splurge on New Year's eve, that sort of thing. That doesn't make you rich. That doesn't elevate your status in societies where all the needed and useful resources are paywalled.
Income and time is what matters. And if you can get income while keeping all your time to yourself, that's what elevates status. In other words you don't trade your own time for income. That means there must be some slaves or extremely poor people that are constantly exploited to enable the elite living conditions.
A society doesn't need parasitic elites. But if you want a better society you will have to pry it from the elites' cold hands, because they won't go along with a scheme that makes the world a happy and healthy place at their expense.
If I have 400 billion, but in a happy and healthy world I can only have 100mil max, which is 3 orders of magnitude less, I would rather burn down the whole planet than lose 1 cent. My interests are everything to me. My personal condition is what I experience first hand, while the rest of the world is just a theory, a story on a newspaper page, an image on TV, etc. I won't accept tangible personally felt losses for gains which to me are theoretical.
Of course if I inhabit a worker instead of a billionaire, things are different, the calculus is different, but crumbs are always crumbs. Whether I am a worker or billionaire, man or woman, I refuse to crumb myself. I want a 10 course dinner, with hookers and blow to boot, with every trimming. Always. I'd rather have food I can't eat than not have enough. No matter who I inhabit, the previous statement is true.
If what you want is in a tree, you have to shake that fucking tree. If you want fish you have to catch it.
Some assholes wanted to exploit people, so they killed, threatened, organized and propagandized and accomplished it. We need to understand this and take notes. Know yourself and know your enemy and you will always win.
If we want something else, if we want a different system, there will always be people that are super happy with how things are now. These folks have done very well under the present system. These folks will block our way. They are the tree, the fish, they are the soil that we have to plow and sometimes pave, to get to where we need to go. It will be ugly. It will not be without struggle.
If we just remain passive, and modestly undemanding, and we just politely wave our slogans on street corners, we know exactly what happens next.
Please watch this video, and think about everything.
Don't do anything stupid and treasure your own life. Thinking has to come first, or there will be regrets later.
Who said "have to?"
Can.
We can just acquiesce. That's always an option.
As for coercion, it's a spectrum. Killing the bags of bones is only one small slice of that spectrum.
Regardless. Conflicts of interests exist. Coercion exists. We can just try to sleep through it all and hope for the best hopium. Or we can do the adult thing. Admit reality. Prosecute our interests vigorously and sophisticatedly.
We have some thinking to do. I prefer there aren't any simpleminded and naive folks around me. Being honest about what's happening is better than our usual game of hopium, copium, fig leaves, whitewashing, and sleeping.
Overwork people until they die/kill themselves, great idea, what could go wrong. Really, I want to see homeboy do a month of whatever his lowest employee does with that schedule and THEN say he's still for it. Bet he'll be real fuckin' quiet.
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That's the thing, looking at the company they don't work "normal labor" jobs. Infosys is into info tech, consulting, and outsourcing services and looking at their acquisition history I get the impression they buy up smaller companies and consolidate their work into their product. Basically they make websites and tools that your company buys for $100k to analyze and optimize workflow, but the site doesn't work well and they never fix it. After 2 years enough time has passed that the higher ups don't feel embarrassed retiring the software and buying something else. Also, rather than just coding themselves they code with AI or buy other companies that already wrote the code and put it into their own product.
At the end of the day they aren't "working," they are being available. They are the shitty guy who is answering a work call on a Saturday while they are supposed to be watching their kid's ball game. They are the person who has to step out of the movie theater because they are getting an urgent work call at 10 pm on Friday. They are the person who flies back from their vacation two days early because the boss wants to ask about sales numbers. This is how Executive suite types say they work 16 hour days 7 days a week, they count every hour of the day as work because they are available, not because they were being productive that entire time.
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Crunching does not work!
Instead, it reduces productivity to a fraction (often 10% of normal), countering any time added.
You want to improve your productivity, you make your workers happy. Make sure they can eat, have good healthcare, have adequate family life, etc.
We now have studies that counter the crunching myths and time theft myths.
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The bosses win if winning is continuing to manage the company poorly.
The shareholders lose since cruel treatment reduces productivity and weakens profit margins. It depends on how seriously the business controllers want to actually do a capitalism and create a product and turn a profit.
Is maxxing the productivity top priority?
They might value control over their workforce above productivity.
In actuality, yes, their job is to maximize productivity for the dollar spent, hence maximizing profits, and the best way to do that for most job pools is by improving the QoL of the workforce.
They likely do value control over productivity, but that's not the job of upper management. A lot of jobs (the bullshit jobs ) are to fulfill a personal need for an entourage, the illusion of business activity. That is a -- human -- trait.
Our c-suite execs might believe it controlling the workforce is their job, though, if they're inadequately educated about the current state of the art. Hopefully, their AI replacements will be more current and won't be interfered with by the BoD or shareholders.
Imagine if every muscle cell in my biceps wanted to self-actualize. I want to grab a cup of coffee, but every muscle cell in my arms has their own ideas. Something that normally takes a second, now takes 10 years of negotiations. It would not do me a lick of good if I had the strongest muscle cells in existence if I could not control them.
Of course people should not be regarded as mere muscle cells, but the point here is to show how obviously valuable and vital control can be when you want to serve some ambition.
Should workers be controlled like they are soldiers?
Whose interests does the business prioritize? And how heavily?
In a worker cooperative workers are the owners. Workers hire and fire their managers at every level of management. All power flows are bottom up. The workers are the entourage. In this case workers are better positioned to self-actualize, because there is no capricious, lazy, ignorant, spoiled silky pants tyrant at the top.
But what about a more typical business? Well, there is either one owner or a tiny cabal of owners, and everyone else is just a resource, a means to an end. And you have to exert control over the means of labor to benefit the entourage at the top. If the entourage can figure out how to produce things without workers, they will get rid of them immedeately, why? Because the workers are just a means, they are incidental, they exist because slavery was deemed too toxic, and because no one figured out a way to get rid of the workers yet. That's the only reason workers exist in capitalism.
Managers want to give orders and see those orders followed immediately. They don't want debates, challenges, counter proposals, etc. If workers want to self-actualize, that's a huge problem for a top down power flow. That's why it is essential to beat the desire to self-actualize out of workers early. That way mindless servility is assured, which is good for control.
Also, if your workers work 80 hour weeks, they won't start competing ventures in their spare time. Again, control.
I kinda feel sorry for all the workers out there, because self-actualization is a heavenly mandate for every sentient being, and yet they are plugged into and slotted into a structure where worker (out group) self-actualization is a huge obstacle for the (in group) entourage.
Getting everyone happy can be a slow and messy process. What if you make weapons and your workers decide it is unethical to make weapons? You are a manager of youtube and you order workers to censor channels for entourage's benefit, but they have their own ideas, and they pretend to be censoring while actually not censoring? There is no end to such possibilities. Hence why the soul of many people MUST be crushed if the top down power flow is to be served in full measure.
Every so often there is an oddball manager like Ricardo Semler. But Ricardo Semler is the exception.
70 hours a week? What? So we can just stare at our screens pretending to work for half that time, if not more?
Go to hell.
If you follow the standard 5 day business week, that is 70 hours worked for every 50 hours not worked. Account for 8 hours of sleep a night and you have 2 hours a day to commute to your job. Literally zero time for any other needs. And that's ONLY if you are generous enough to give everyone the weekend to recharge.
For a 7 day work week with no days off, allowing for 8 hours of sleep per day and 2 hours of commute time, that is 4 hours a day to do anything else. I also would assume that part of the day would still be considered off hours for lunch. As well. Call it 3 hours a day for anything not work related.
This man should be hanged for even suggesting this as a reasonable productivity schedule for any living being.
"Infosys co-founder suggested slavery could be brought back with updated terms and conditions"
This is how this news should be titled
But other than that 40 at most
To be Frank guys this is the sick reality of Indian workers in India. The Labour and Workers are always exploited as much as Possible. Indian Labour Law is mostly in Favor of the Corporate Crooks, even its harder to start a WORKER UNION in Service based sectors like IT and Non coding Jobs. Normal working hours is 8 hrs but most Indian worker in such sectors their minimum working hour is 10hr (Personal experience), even the work environment it evolved into is one Most Sick and Selfish environment you could ever Imagine. Yes, sadly many Indians Lack Civic sense I don't object and we too are being discriminated in a stereotypical way for that. But I must say that many Indians who leave for On-site is not just for higher payroll but for better Work environment and to embrace their basic Work-Life Balance which is a JOKE in India.
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The sooner we start eating these motherfuckers the faster things will improve.
Billionaire is a mental illness that isn't compatible with civil society,
if they're both paid the same hourly rate?
That's the fun part: you only have to pay them for 40 hours!
Insurance, benefits and labor expenses. Even in places with little worker protections there are costs that scale with the number of workers instead of the number of hours.
A brief look indicates employers in India can expect to budget on the order of 18% of an employees take home per year for those expenses.
There are some circumstances and places in the US where you don't need to provide as many benefits to employees who work below 40 hours. Then you see employers hire more people and schedule them for just under the threshold to give them benefits.
The answer is always because it's cheaper for them somehow.
You just aren't thinking like a billionaire, man. What you do is get the two people anyway, and still force the 70 hour work week.
Your job is not to find a reasonable steady state of operation. Your job is to exploit the resources before you (even the ones with emotions and families) to extract value for the shareholders in the most efficient way possible, before somebody even more evil and clever than you figures out a better way and we direct future fresh meat to his meat grinder instead of yours.
Iceland made theor 4 day workweek experiment permanent...because it was actually more productive.
They don't even want all the money, they just want us to suffer
You could replace most management people with a rack of GPUs and nobody would notice. Mostly they are a very unimaginative lot parroting the same misguided group think that devalues the employees that create all their companies value. Infosys is a consulting company. They don't make anything or own valuable IP. They pimp out Indian labour to undercut the labour rates and conditions in developed countries which already makes them a shitload of profit.
You would think with increasing options to Indian professionals, their recruitment people would be shitting bricks trying to hire talent with this bullshit out there but they have probably sacked them as well. Though, if I wasn't poor I would probably say all sorts of shit to pump share prices and cash out before the AI bubble bursts.
It's not just saturday morning cartoon villain evil.
It's also incredibly fucking stupid.
Anything that you get better outcomes from by making people work longer, like assembly lines, can be done better by robots anyway, and of course you as capital owner don't have to live life after your dominant hand gets crushed and amputated.
Anything that isn't pure rote work, you get better results when people are not overworked and spending thirty hours a week sticking fucking pencils in your acoustic ceiling because nobody's fucking brain works that long and hard.
Higher taxes on the rich don't go far enough, because they can just leverage their assets to corrupt democracies and roll everything back.
Corporations need to be banned.
I learned that China had basically made this shit illegal years ago, but work hours in China are still insane. I am willing to bet that they will still have incredible growth and prosperity even if those workhours are strictly enforced.
People like this dipshit need to be stripped of all possessions and wealth and immured alive.
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College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order
A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20 when she was told there was an issue with her boarding pass, said attorney Todd Pomerleau. The Babson College student was then detained by immigration officials and within two days, sent to Texas and then Honduras, the country she left at age 7.
The day after Lopez Belloza was arrested, a federal judge issued an emergency order prohibiting the government from moving her out of Massachusetts or the United States for at least 72 hours. ICE did not respond to an email Friday from The Associated Press seeking comment about violating that order. Babson College also did not respond to an email seeking comment.
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Indian fighter jet crashes during a demo flight at Dubai Air Show, killing the pilot
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The pilot of an Indian combat plane died after the aircraft crashed Friday during a demonstration flight for spectators at the Dubai Air Show, the Indian Air Force said.
The Indian HAL Tejas, a combat aircraft used in the Indian Air Force, crashed around 2:10 p.m. local time after the pilot had flown across the site of the biennial air show in Dubai several times.
The plane appeared to lose control and dive directly toward the ground just prior to crashing inside the grounds of the airfield.
Tejas is India’s indigenous fighter aircraft, built by state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. The lightweight, single-engine jet is expected to bolster India’s depleted fighter fleet as China expands its military presence in South Asia, including by strengthening defense ties with India’s rival Pakistan.
The Indian government signed a deal with HAL in 2021 for 83 Tejas aircraft. Deliveries, expected last year, have been delayed largely because of shortages of engines that must be imported from the United States.
Indian fighter jet crashes during a demo flight at Dubai Air Show, killing the pilot
The pilot of an Indian combat plane has died after a crash during a demonstration flight at the Dubai Air ShowJON GAMBRELL Associated Press (ABC News)
Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors
Germany plans to treat the use of date rape drugs like the use of weapons in prosecutions as part of measures to ensure justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
“We classify date rape drugs, which are increasingly used as a widespread tool in crimes, as weapons. This creates the basis for significantly stricter prosecutions,” Alexander Dobrindt, the interior minister, said on Friday. “We are committed to clear consequences and consistent enforcement. Women should feel safe and be able to move freely everywhere.”
Nearly 54,000 women and girls were the victims of sexual offences in Germany in 2024 – an increase of 2.1% on the previous year – of which nearly 36% were victims of rape and sexual assault.
Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors
Classification plan will create basis for ‘significantly stricter’ prosecutions, says interior ministerGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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I mean, they literally are weapons...
Potentially deadly
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In a logical world it would be. But criminally I don't think anywhere differentiates type of weapon other than "firearm" and "deadly".
They need to fully separate it from date rape too. Back in my younger days I knew 3 different dudes who got dosed out at bars. I highly doubt they were intended rape victims, but a lot of robberies start out with someone slipping something into your drink, then getting you in the parking lot.
Drugging anyone for anyone reason should qualify as attempted manslaughter. Which, counter intuitively is a real charge.
It makes it easier to charge rapists too because you don't have to prove rape, and can even charge them before a rape happens. If you can prove rape, throw it on top as additional charges.
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I think the primary distinction is that a weapon in a criminal context is typically something that is used to threaten/coerce someone, or to enable you to cause (more/more severe) physical harm/incapacitation in a physical altercation.
Date rape drugs aren't used to threaten/coerce people, and whilst they can cause harm, it is generally not the intended goal when someone uses them. And intent/willingness to use a weapon to physically harm someone, in my opinion, is a relevant distinction to relatively """peacefully""" knocking someone out. Of course committing date rape is still an utterly horrific thing, and people who do it should be charged and held accountable to the fullest extent of justice, but it is still different from threatening someone with a weapon and forcing yourself on them. (Also, whilst I have no actual data on this, it seems logical to me that a conscious victim is far more likely to receive (more serious) injuries as they struggle, vs. an unconscious one)
So whilst I agree that classifying date rape drugs as weapons is a good move, there definitely are relevant distinctions as to why drugs are typically not considered weapons.
I was originally against this because I hate it when language is reconstituted and made murkey, but I looked it up and you're right.
I'm still not sure this is the same as poison, but it can certainly be harmful so it's not that big a stretch.
While date rap and sexual violence is horrible... Do these drugs have any real value?
Like yes they can be used for date rape but are also given anti-anxiety or ant-nausea or anything like that?
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Hmm interesting and makes sense.
Wait one of your fiancé? How many women are you planning to marry?
If only it worked like that! XD
TBH, I wish I could do group health insurance at a decent rate, but the only options are to cover a single partner or a single partner and dependents..
GHB is freely available because it's used as an industrial solvent and cleaning agent, that's why it's legal in most countries.
Many people also use it as a recreational drug, it's effects are similar to alcohol at low dosages
Slippery slope, but what else can you expect from these clowns.
If I punched you, that would be assault.
If I hit you with a hammer, that would be assault with a weapon.
If I stood beside you with a hammer and did not harm you at all, then I have not committed any crime.
No-one is going to be charged with crimes they didn't commit because of this. Classifying them as a weapon is only relevant for cases in which they were actively used to commit sexual assault, much the same way that a hammer only counts as a weapon if I assault you with it.
Though I understand why you came away with the impression you did — I am often exasperated at weird drug laws that are overly prohibitive and often unscientific in how they criminalise relatively low risk drugs, which meant that I also initially had the same reading of this news as you did. Fortunately, it seems that this is not an example of one of those silly drug laws, but an actually sensible measure.
Hold on, it's used for sea sickness?
If that's the case it should be allowed, maybe controlled but should be allowed. Never said something with a legimite use should be banned. Just asked what the legitimate uses were. Actually I never mentioned banning anything.
I kind of had an issue with this at first read, because if anyone is taking some ghb (and not using it to rape people) having weapons charges is ridiculous.
But I've got no issue with increased penalties for anyone using this stuff to rape someone. There should be no fucking quarter to anyone caught doing this.
Increased penalties if you're caught taking them yourself recreationally are ridiculous though.
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1. These drugs are around also, you know, for sick people who need them. It is the case of my mom who has multi sclerosis and the only pain killer effective on her is known as a rape drug.
2. Chemical submission can be achieved with a wide range of things, most commonly use it probably alcohol, regular drinks such as wine and beer. Attempting chemical submission with those shouldn't fly under the radar of justice!
3. I think it would be much more effective to amend the law in order for all cases of chemicals submission (with or without rape) and rapes to be brought to justice
4. A big issue that is ignored with this proposal is, victims often don't report the aggression or don't complete the full procedure. Police and Justice system personnel must be better trained about these cases of rape and rape with chemical submission in order for the victims to be able to report their aggression without feeling judgement or shame through out the entire process, from the police report until the conclusion of the court.
Palestinian group praises Nakba exhibit coming to Canadian Human Rights while Jewish organization pans move
A new exhibit recounting personal experiences of Palestinian Canadians who fled or were forced from their homes in 1948 is coming to Winnipeg next year, but one Jewish organization is pulling out of its partnerships with the museum over concerns the programming might not reflect important context.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) announced a series of upcoming exhibits this week, including "Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present," which will open to visitors in June 2026.
“Kudos to the museum for having the courage to tell the story and not because they're favouring the Palestinians or the Israelis," said Ramsey Zeid, president of the Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba.
"This is a human rights story that really needs to be shared."
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Belle Jarniewski, executive director of the Jewish Heritage Centre, suggested there should have been meaningful consultation with the Jewish community.
These people are so used to having a monopoly on the storytelling of this history that they are completely incapable of becoming aware of their own arrogance.
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Looks like the majority of Jewish organizations consulted on this supported the Nakba exhibit, it was just the squeaky wheel who got the attention.
It's a bold claim that a museum thought up by a famously Jewish head of a media empire to feature stuff about Jewish people and funded in part by the efforts of his Jewish sister is somehow not about Jewish people.
This is funnier if you know about the museum guides who had to censor their tours for groups who only wanted a tasting menu of human rights. To only learn about the people they think deserve rights and skip the rest, like those damned women and gays.
Docker setup for debian 13 trixie Ansible Playbook
Hello,
Does anyone have by any chance an ansible playbook to setup docker on a debian trixie?
This is my first experience with Ansible, i thought this would be easy and straightforward. I used existing ones for debian 12 as template and yes, with ai, and taking things from other templates, i am trying to make this work. but for the life of me, i cannot crack this.
i began with the most simple steps:
- name: install Docker
hosts: all
become: true
tasks:
- name: Install apt-transport-https
ansible.builtin.apt:
name:
- apt-transport-https
- ca-certificates
- lsb-release
- gnupg
state: latest
update_cache: true
- name: Create keyrings directory
ansible.builtin.file:
path: /etc/apt/keyrings
state: directory
mode: '0755'
- name: Add Docker GPG key
ansible.builtin.shell: |
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
args:
creates: /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
- name: Add Docker repository
ansible.builtin.apt_repository:
repo: "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian trixie stable"
state: present
filename: docker
- name: Install Docker
ansible.builtin.apt:
name:
- docker-ce
- docker-ce-cli
- containerd.io
- docker-buildx-plugin
- docker-compose-plugin
state: latest
update_cache: trueand added some debug stuff that really didnt help that much:
- name: Install Docker Engine and Docker Compose on Debian (Ansible WebUI compatible)
hosts: all
become: true
become_user: root
vars:
docker_packages:
- docker-ce
- docker-ce-cli
- containerd.io
- docker-buildx-plugin
- docker-compose-plugin
tasks:
- name: Ensure required packages are installed
apt:
name:
- ca-certificates
- curl
- gnupg
update_cache: yes
state: present
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: Ensure /etc/apt/keyrings exists
file:
path: /etc/apt/keyrings
state: directory
mode: '0755'
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: Get system architecture for Docker repo
ansible.builtin.command: dpkg --print-architecture
register: dpkg_architecture
changed_when: false
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: Download Docker GPG key
ansible.builtin.get_url:
url: https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg
dest: /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
mode: '0644'
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: DEBUG - Check if GPG key exists
ansible.builtin.stat:
path: /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
register: gpg_key_stat
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: DEBUG - Show GPG key status
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "GPG key exists: {{ gpg_key_stat.stat.exists }}, Size: {{ gpg_key_stat.stat.size | default('N/A') }}"
- name: DEBUG - List keyrings directory
ansible.builtin.command: ls -lah /etc/apt/keyrings/
register: keyrings_list
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: DEBUG - Show keyrings directory contents
ansible.builtin.debug:
var: keyrings_list.stdout_lines
- name: Add Docker APT repository (correct for Debian 13)
ansible.builtin.apt_repository:
repo: "deb [arch={{ dpkg_architecture.stdout }} signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian {{ ansible_distribution_release }} stable"
filename: docker
state: present
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: DEBUG - Check if repo file exists
ansible.builtin.stat:
path: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
register: repo_file_stat
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: DEBUG - Show repo file status
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "Repo file exists: {{ repo_file_stat.stat.exists }}"
- name: DEBUG - Show repo file contents if exists
ansible.builtin.command: cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
register: repo_contents
when: repo_file_stat.stat.exists
failed_when: false
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: DEBUG - Display repo contents
ansible.builtin.debug:
var: repo_contents.stdout_lines
when: repo_file_stat.stat.exists
- name: Update apt cache after adding repo
apt:
update_cache: yes
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: Install Docker packages
apt:
name: "{{ docker_packages }}"
state: present
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: Enable & start Docker
service:
name: docker
state: started
enabled: yes
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"but everytime it fails at adding the package because its not found. because the repo was not added, my keyrings folder is miserably empty.
the target server has only root. so no user confusion there. yes, i know. bad practice. but its a learning exercise and its a lxc within my home network not internet exposed.
PLAY [Install Docker Engine and Docker Compose on Debian (Ansible WebUI compatible)] ***
TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************
[1;35m[WARNING]: Host 'anytype.lab' is using the discovered Python interpreter at '/usr/bin/python3.13', but future installation of another Python interpreter could cause a different interpreter to be discovered. See https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/reference_appendices/interpreter_discovery.html for more information.[0m
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [Ensure required packages are installed] **********************************
[0;33mchanged: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [Ensure /etc/apt/keyrings exists] *****************************************
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [Get system architecture for Docker repo] *********************************
[0;36mskipping: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [Download Docker GPG key] *************************************************
[0;33mchanged: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [DEBUG - Check if GPG key exists] *****************************************
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [DEBUG - Show GPG key status] *********************************************
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab] => {[0m
[0;32m "msg": "GPG key exists: False, Size: N/A"[0m
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TASK [DEBUG - List keyrings directory] *****************************************
[0;36mskipping: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [DEBUG - Show keyrings directory contents] ********************************
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab] => {[0m
[0;32m "keyrings_list.stdout_lines": [][0m
[0;32m}[0m
TASK [Add Docker APT repository (correct for Debian 13)] ***********************
[0;33mchanged: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [DEBUG - Check if repo file exists] ***************************************
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [DEBUG - Show repo file status] *******************************************
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab] => {[0m
[0;32m "msg": "Repo file exists: False"[0m
[0;32m}[0m
TASK [DEBUG - Show repo file contents if exists] *******************************
[0;36mskipping: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [DEBUG - Display repo contents] *******************************************
[0;36mskipping: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [Update apt cache after adding repo] **************************************
[0;33mchanged: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [Install Docker packages] *************************************************
[0;31m[ERROR]: Task failed: Module failed: No package matching 'docker-ce' is available[0m
[0;31mOrigin: /tmp/ansible-webui/repositories/1_ansibleplaybooksrepo/playbooks/debian13docker.yml:100:7[0m
[0;31m[0m
[0;31m 98 delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"[0m
[0;31m 99[0m
[0;31m100 - name: Install Docker packages[0m
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[0;31m[0m
[0;31mfatal: [anytype.lab]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "No package matching 'docker-ce' is available"}[0m
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
[0;31manytype.lab[0m : [0;32mok=11 [0m [0;33mchanged=4 [0m unreachable=0 [0;31mfailed=1 [0m [0;36mskipped=4 [0m rescued=0 ignored=0 I am using ansible-webui.oxl.app/ although i doubt it has any effect whatsoever. but then again, i know next to nothing of ansible as of yet. so, for sure: what i am missing is incredibly dumb.
any help will be greatly appreciated.
apt update show any errors?
/etc/apt/sources.list.d and see if there's even a file for it.
yeah thats the thing - its apparently not doing ****. no keyring, no repo
but it is connecting to the remote server. it does say on the log anytype.lab; which is my target server, and its selected from the correct inventory file:
i know it must be something terribly stupid. but i just cant put my finger on it
docker.io) and docker-compose.
I don't really understand why this is a concern with docker. Are there any particular features you want from version 29 that version 26 doesn't offer?
The entire point of docker is that it doesn't really matter what version of docker you have, the containers can still run.
Debian's version of docker receives security updates in a timely manner, which should be enough.
ive made lxc config changes, and id like to have everything on the same update lvl. no have some apps with a lxc config because of official repos, and some other ansible powered with a lower version. i like to have everything on the same update level so i dont go crazy updating my homelab.
besides, this would be "dodging" the problem. in my ansible training, id like to be able to add a repo to a given server.
It's a learning exercise
Then crack open the documentation and learn how to actually write and use ansible
‘Witkoff needs a psychiatrist’: Europeans fume at Trump’s plan to profit from frozen Russian assets
Diplomats and officials react with outrage to new details of the U.S. peace plan, warning it could wreck their efforts to help Ukraine survive the war.
Donald Trump has hurled a wrench into one of the most sensitive negotiations currently under way in Europe, potentially derailing efforts to help fund Ukraine to stay in the fight against Russia.
For months European Union officials have been trying — and failing — to work out a way to use around €140 billion of immobilized Russian state assets held largely in Belgium to support Kyiv’s war effort. The cash is desperately needed as Ukraine is at risk of running out of money early next year.
Talks in Brussels are now at an extremely delicate stage, diplomats said, as top officials try to finesse a legal text that would enable the frozen funds to be used for a loan to the Ukrainian government.
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But the United States’ new 28-point blueprint for a ceasefire includes a rival idea for using those same assets for American-led reconstruction efforts once a truce has been agreed. The U.S. would take “50 percent” of the profit from this activity, the document said.
The mf'er is now trying to steal from the world. And I keep hoping somebody -- or anybody -- will shut him down ... but nobody is.
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I feel this is where the coalition of the willing as the dubbed it, need to step up and say "fuck this", find a solution for the frozen assets, establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine and put the US under pressure to stop being a little bitch and continue the intel support.
That being said, without US sanctions and support this would become exponentially harder to do.
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.
Sessions at the summit, which Nature attended, covered a wide range of health-related topics, including psychedelics, brain implants and anti-ageing therapies. Academic researchers or clinicians were not among the speakers at the sessions, which were peppered by comments critical of the medical establishment.
I don't know if that was an intentional joke, but fucking hilarious to add that.
Bruh these people are completely fucked up...
Organizers called it the MAHA Summit, referring to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s signature ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement. Attendees included Kennedy, US vice-president JD Vance, NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya, US Food and Drug Administration chief Marty Makary and the food activist Vani Hari, who blogs under the name ‘Food Babe’.
[...]
Throughout the event, speakers criticized established scientific and medical institutions. Both are frequent targets of Kennedy, who founded Children’s Health Defense, a non-profit organization in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, that is known for its anti-vaccine advocacy. Among these speakers was Bhattacharya, who said that the NIH, the world’s largest biomedical-research funder, has focused too heavily on small scientific steps instead of “disruptive” or “innovative” research.“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
Makary decried “groupthink that again and again led us astray”, citing as an example public-health recommendations against eating saturated fat. (Kennedy has suggested that saturated fats are part of a healthy diet; the US government has, for decades, recommended limiting saturated-fat consumption.) “We got ‘saturated fat causes heart disease’ wrong for 50 years,” Makary said. “That’s a war we’re going to end.”
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How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare
How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare
On November 18 of 2025 a large part of the Internet suddenly cried out and went silent, as Cloudflare’s infrastructure suffered the software equivalent of a cardiac arrest. After much panicke…Hackaday
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Just because you’re writing in a shiny new language that never misses an opportunity to crow about how memory safe it is, doesn’t mean that you can skip due diligence on input validation, checking every return value and writing exception handlers for even the most unlikely of situations.
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You can leak memory in perfectly safe Rust, because it is not a bug per se, an example is by using Box::leak
Preventing memory leaks was never in the intentions of Rust. What it tries to safeguard you from are Memory Safety bugs like the infamous and common double free.
What does "double free" mean?
As the title suggests I am new to C and have a mid-term coming up shortly. I am revising from past papers currently and a recurring theme is the double free problem. I understand that it is the pro...Stack Overflow
std::boxed::Box::leak. Leaking memory is a safe operation.Box in std::boxed - Rust
A pointer type that uniquely owns a heap allocation of type `T`.doc.rust-lang.org
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I feel like I've seen an insane number of error messages in various apps and websites around the unwrap method.
But this is on a result type, right? I'd figure the point would be that you would match on it and that the unwrap itself, which if my assumptions are correct, is more like get value or throw, should either not exist or take a default value. You shouldn't be able to directly get the value of a monad.
I feel like I’ve seen an insane number of error messages in various apps and websites around the unwrap method.
I suspect this is related to LLM usage somehow. We'll probably see a lot more of this type of problem (sudden flareups of a particular bad code implementation)
I actually disagree, because I've both seen it everywhere and I also work mainly in dotnet, and when I've talked to people about option and result types, the first inclination is to have a .Value, but that defeats the purpose. I've done quite a few code reviews where I was essentially saying "you know this will throw, right? Use .Match or .Map instead".
I think the imperative programming backgrounds encourage this line of thinking, since one of the first questions I've gotten is "how do I get the value out of an Option? I'm 100% sure it's there." And often, surprise, it wasn't.
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There is a function that does what you are asking for.
.unarap_or()
It either unwraps the value or uses a provided default. Personally, i think unwrap() should be renamed unwrap_or_panic() to follow existing conventions and prevent confusion for non-rust programmers.
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"unwrap should not exist" is true as long as you don't want to ever use the language. If you actually want to use it, you need it. At least while developing.
Some values cannot have a default value. And some cases it's preferable to panic even if it has a default value.
unwrap is not the problem. Cloudflare's usage is.
An unhanded error will always result on a panic (or a halt I guess). You cannot continue the execution of the program without handling an error (remember, just ignoring it is a form of handling). You either handle the error and continue execution, or you don't and stop execution.
A panic is very far from a segfault. In apparent result, it is the same. However, a panic is a controlled stopping of the program's execution. A segfault is a forced execution stop by the OS.
But the OS can only know that it has to segfault if a program accesses memory outside its control.
If the program accesses memory that it's under it's control, but is outside bounds, then the program will not stop the execution, and this is way worse.
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As you said, it's also an important difference that a panic will just stop the thread, not the entire process.
Yes, it's not the same since you get a stacktrace (if enabled) and a message, but it's the closest thing you get in safe rust (outside compiler bugs). I compare it to a segfault because it's almost as unhandleble.
Basically, you don't want a panic to crash your program in most cases. If you do, make it explicit (i.e. with expect()). unwrap() tells me the value is absolutely there or the dev is lazy, and I always assume the latter unless there's an explanation (or it's obvious from context) otherwise.
I see you ignored my entire comment.
I don't know what is more explicit about expect. Unwrap is as explicit as it gets without directly calling panic!, it's only 1 abstraction level away. It's literally the same as expect, but without a string argument. It's probably top 10 functions most commonly used in rust, every rust programmer knows what unwrap does.
Any code reviewer should be able to see that unwrap and flag it as a potential issue. It's not a weird function with an obscure panic side effect. It can only do 2 things: panic or not panic, it can be implemented in a single line. 3 lines if the panic! Is on a different line to the if statement.
I see you ignored my entire comment.
No, I responded to the relevant part. I was using segfault as a metaphor, not arguing that it's actually the same mechanism underneath. If you're getting panics in production code, I consider that just as much of an emergency to fix as a segfault, and Rust helpfully gives you stack trace info with it. It's not the same idea as an exception, which could signify an unrecoverable error or an expected issue that can be recovered from.
I don’t know what is more explicit about expect
It forces you to write a message, so most temporary uses will be unwrap(). I use unwrap() all the time when prototyping for the happy path, and then do proper error handling later. This is especially true in larger projects where I can't just throw in anyhow or something and actually need to map error types and whatnot. I don't use expect() much (current hobby project has 4 uses, 3 for startup issues and 1 for hopefully impossible condition) but I think it makes sense when there's no way to continue.
But yes, unwrap() is perhaps the first thing I look for as a reviewer, which is why it's so surprising that this is the issue. At the very least, it should have been something like expect("exceeds max file size"). I personally prefer explicit panics in production code, but expect is close enough that it's personal preference.
It is unwrap's fault. If they did it properly, they would've had to explicitly deal with the problem, which could clarify exactly what the problem is. In this case, I'd probably use expect() to add context. Also, when doing anything with strict size requirements, I would also explicitly check the size to make sure it'll fit, again, for better error reporting.
Proper error reporting could've made this a 5-min investigation.
Also, the problem in the first place should've been caught with unit tests and a test deploy. Our process here is:
- Any significant change to queries is tested with a copy of production data
- All changes are tested in a staging environment similar to production
- All hotfixes are tested with a copy of production data
And we're not a massive software shop, we have a few dozen devs in a company of thousands of people. If I worked at Cloudflare, I'd have more rigorous standards given the global impact of a bug (we have a few hundred users, not billions like Cloudflare).
RUST AGAIN.
Just throwing this out because I've been hammering this Rustholes up and down these threads who claim it's precious and beyond compare 🤣
I will almost certainly link back to this comment in the future.
Ift is precious and beyond compare. It has tools that most other languages lack to prove certain classes of bugs are impossible.
You can still introduce bugs, especially when you use certain features that "standard" linter (clippy) catches by default and no team would silence globally. .unwrap() is very controversial in Rust and should never be used without clear justification in production code. Even in my pet projects, it's the first thing I clear out once basic functionality is there.
This issue should've been caught at three separate stages:
- git pre-commit or pre-push should run the linter on the devs machine
- Static analysis checks should catch this both before getting reviews and when deploying the change
- Human code review
The fact that it made it past all three makes me very concerned about how they do development over there. We're a much smaller company and we're not even a software company (software dev is <1% of the total company), and we do this. We don't even use Rust, we're a Python shop, yet we have robust static analysis for every change. It's standard, and any company doing anything more than a small in-house tool used by 3 people should have these standards in place.
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The Rust community has generally been extremely toxic as well, not helping its reputation.
Now that we are a few years in and various major Rust projects have had numerous embarrassing bugs reality has sunk in, but as these things go, the backlash will last longer on the internet than the hype ever has.
The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects
Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind. If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I guarantee you've read this little snippet: King Whatshisface was a wise and noble ruler who bought peace and prosperity…
The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-p…Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind.
If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I guarantee you've read this little snippet:
King Whatshisface was a wise and noble ruler who bought peace and prosperity to all the land.Upon his death, his heirs waged bloody war over rightful succession which plunged the country into a hundred years of hardship.
The great selling point of democracy is that it allows for the peaceful transition of power. Most modern democracies have rendered civil war almost unthinkable. Sure, you might not like the guy currently in charge, but there are well established mechanisms to limit their power and kick them out if they misbehave. If they die in office, there's an obvious and understood hierarchy for who follows them.Most Open Source projects start small - just someone in their spare room tinkering for fun. Unexpectedly, they grow into a behemoth which now powers half the world. These mini-empires are fragile. The most popular method of governance is the Benevolent Dictator For Life model. The founder of the project controls everything. But, as I've said before, BDFL only works if the D is genuinely B. Otherwise the FL becomes FML.
The last year has seen several BDFLs act like Mad Kings. They become tyrannical despots, lashing out at their own volunteers. They execute takeovers of community projects. They demand fealty and tithes. Like dragons, they become quick to anger when their brittle egos are tested. Spineless courtiers carry out deluded orders while pilfering the coffers.
Which is why I am delighted that the Mastodon project has shown a better way to behave.
In "The Future is Ours to Build - Together" they describe perfectly how to gracefully and peacefully transfer power. There are no VCs bringing in their MBA-brained lackeys to extract maximum value while leaving a rotting husk. No one is seizing community assets and jealously hoarding them. Opaque financial structures and convoluted agreements are prominent in their absence.
Eugen Rochko, the outgoing CEO, has a remarkably honest blog post about the transition. I wouldn't wish success on my worst enemy. He talks plainly about the reality of dealing with the pressure and how he might have been a limiting factor on Mastodon's growth. That's a far step removed from the ego-centric members of The Cult of The Founder with their passionate belief in the Divine Right of Kings.
Does your tiny OSS script need a succession plan? Probably not. Do you have several thousand NPM installs per day? It might be worth working out who you can share responsibility with if you are unexpectedly raptured. Do you think that your project is going to last for a thousand years? Build an organisation which won't crumble the moment its founder is arrested for their predatory behaviour on tropical islands.
I'm begging project leaders everywhere - please read up on the social contract and the consent of the governed. Or, if reading is too woke, just behave like grown-ups rather than squabbling tweenagers.
It is a sad inevitability that, eventually, we will all be nothing but memories. The bugs that we create live after us, the patches are oft interrèd with our code. Let it be so with all Open Source projects.
#bdfl #mastodon #openSource #oss
The Future is Ours to Build - Together
We’re pleased to introduce Mastodon’s new leadership team, and to share some other important updates.Mastodon Blog
Gopherbook – The Self-Hosted Comic Reader (Full Tutorial)
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Want a beautiful, fast, private web reader that handles HUGE encrypted CBZ files without much effort? Then Gopherbook.
In this video, I walk you through everything
Intro & why I built this
easy install / Docker setup
Creating your first account (first user = admin)
Uploading your first comics (including massive encrypted ones)
How the magic password system works (it just remembers them!)
Auto-organization by Artist / StoryArc
Admin panel – toggle registration & delete comics
Where everything is stored & backup tips GitHub: github.com/riomoo/gopherbook
Codeberg: codeberg.org/riomoo/gopherbook
Gitgud: gitgud.io/riomoo/gopherbook
• 100% local, single binary
• Full encrypted/password-protected CBZ support
• Automatically tries all your known passwords on new files
• ComicInfo.xml metadata extraction
• Gorgeous dark UI with cover grid
• Per-user libraries & encrypted password vault
• no tracking
If you hoard comics like I do, this is the reader you've been dreaming of.
GitHub - riomoo/gopherbook: Self-Hosted Comic Library & CBZ Reader
Self-Hosted Comic Library & CBZ Reader. Contribute to riomoo/gopherbook development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
You should just link the github/gitlab/etc with screenshots.
No one will watch 40min of whatever video.
(If you are farming views then I understand why you did it this way.)
cbz files are not encrypted, they're just zip files full of images with the xtension changed to "cbz". Similarly, CBR files are the same thing, but using rar compression.
If you are referring to zip "password protection", then I guess that's technically valid, although why anyone would rely on such trivially-cracked security is beyond me.
GitHub - Kareadita/Kavita: Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family.
Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with ...GitHub
TNT that Europe needs to defend itself is being used on Gaza, Polish MP claims
TNT that Europe needs to defend itself is being used on Gaza, Polish MP claims
Maciej Konieczny claims Europe’s sole supplier, in Poland, sends much of its production to US, which exports it for use by IsraelPatrick Wintour (The Guardian)
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The NGOs point out that between October 2023 and July 2024 the US transferred at least 14,000 MK-84s and 8,700 MK-82s to Israel. In May 2024 Biden paused the shipment of some larger bombs, but these restrictions were lifted by Donald Trump as soon as he entered office.
One of the functions of the Palestinian Genocide and the conflict with Iran is/was to deplete weapons stockpiles both to make more money for military industrial companies but also to make it easier to make up reasons we cannot help Ukraine more.
The amount of bombs dropped on Gaza is horrifying.
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Community mention spam from Microblogs
So, this meme.
tl;dr Mastodon users occasionally spam mentions and Lemmy (and probably Piefed) ingests them all and makes the post across all of the mentioned communities.
Sucks, right, because on the theadiverse, you're not actually able to do that so easily.
Basically, it's because Mastodon mixes mentions with addressing. Every mentioned person gets addressed, even though sometimes you don't mean for it to go into that community.
So what if Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, and NodeBB made it so that only the first matching community gets the post? We can already tell which posts come from threadiverse software and which don't (because we use audience, Mastodon doesn't.)
Just an idea, I can't speak for the other softwares.
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If it's not an issue currently, then that's even better 👍
At least on NodeBB we only post to one community, but it'd still happen even if other communities on other instances were mentioned first, so it could still be abused.
E.g. mention four communities on four different instances, get posted to four communities.
Meh, I don't see this as a problem. People already crosspost into multiple relevant communities. If anything doing so with one post is a feature that's missing from Lemmy/Piefed. Or is it missing? I'll try posting into multiple communities after this comment.
It seems to me that your problem is more aesthetic in nature. Maybe ask your favourite UI to make a feature to hide mentions and hashtags that are alone on their line.
Just tested it. A Lemmy-Post is only created in one community, even if other communities are mentioned.
An external post (in this case from WordPress with the Activity Pub plugin) is only posted into the Lemmy community that is mentioned first.
So what if Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, and NodeBB made it so that only the first matching community gets the post?
I'm pretty sure Mbin already does that with sorting posts into communities based on their hashtags. Does it not do it with mentions too? I can't really test it since 99% of federated posts only mention one community, if any. So I'm struggling to find a post that mentions two communities, let alone two that are active enough on my instance to compare them.
But like, is it actually an issue? I always get the impression Lemmy users have more of a problem with the hashtags and mentions in general, not with the fact the post appears in multiple communities. Which would be easily solved by having their instance remove those from microblog posts.
We can already tell which posts come from threadiverse software and which don't (because we use audience, Mastodon doesn't.)
I honestly don't think that's a good way to decide between threadiverse and others in general. There's no guarantee non-threadiverse software won't make use of it in the future.
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silverpill@mitra.social isn't wrong though, in many cases the posts do mean to be posted in that community.
But it's an expressive thing. I'm able to mention a community like startrek@startrek.website and it won't be posted there, because I'm only mentioning that community.
And yes, Mastodon needs mention spam to function because otherwise people you reply to won't know they received a reply. It's ... an approach.
GlitchTip 5.2 with design refresh and less system requirements
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Indian fighter jet pilot killed in crash at Dubai airshow
Indian fighter jet pilot killed in crash at Dubai airshow
A court of inquiry is being established to assess the cause of the crash, officials say.Matt Spivey (BBC News)
Self-Host Weekly #146: Survey Says
Self-Host Weekly #146: Survey Says
Survey results, cranberry sauce, government affairs, and open-source burnoutEthan Sholly (selfh.st)
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When I saw who was purchasing them I knew it was bad for the hobbyist users.
QC is such a bad company. Sueing their customers because they want to use non QC chips in phones with QC chips.
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NordPass's annual password trend report confirmed what we all suspected – Gen Z is worse than Boomers when it comes to using insecure passwords (if you're looking for strong passwords, just use Home Assistant's hardware names and they'll be uncrackable)
I believe in long, complex, and complicated passwords. One of the things I've taught myself is how to create long, complex, and complicated THAT I CAN REMEMBER! Making long, complex passwords is a snap. Remembering them is where it's at. Cue relevant xkcd cartoon. At my age, that can be quite the trick.
The forgejo discussion is great and has an overlooked detail. The reason the Dutch government wants to switch:
/ Gi: ICC having their MS accounts blocked
- Made them very aware of ecosystem fragility
- Looked at their dependencies and alternatives
- Digital sovereignty: Hot topic ^^
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How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
The extent of dependence on the USA in the digital sector is currently being experienced by a French judge. Nicolas Guillou, one of six judges and three prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC), was sanctioned by the USA in August. He described his current situation as a digital time travel back to the 1990s, before the internet age, in a recent interview.The reason for the US sanctions are the arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. They were indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the context of the destruction of the Gaza Strip. The USA condemned this decision by the court, whereupon the US Treasury Department sanctioned six judges and three prosecutors.
Digitally excluded from almost everything
In Guillou's daily life, this means that he is excluded from digital life and much of what is considered standard today, he told the French newspaper Le Monde. All his accounts with US companies such as Amazon, Airbnb, or PayPal were immediately closed by the providers. Online bookings, such as through Expedia, are immediately canceled, even if they concern hotels in France. Participation in e-commerce is also practically no longer possible for him, as US companies always play a role in one way or another, and they are strictly forbidden to enter into any trade relationship with sanctioned individuals.
How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
Nicolas Guillou has been sanctioned by the USA as a judge of the International Criminal Court. He notices the effects primarily in the digital realm.Malte Kirchner (heise online)
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USA is that digital drug cartel that gives away first few hits for free and once you're hooked, treat you like a prostitute. If you misbehave, it'll cut you off to remind you and everyone else who's in control.
And its people are brainwashed to repeat "there are other meth dealers out there, it's your choice to depend on us."
Is there a way to mirror corporate social media to the Fediverse?
That's what lemmit.online/ is for reddit to Lemmy, sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/ for Twitter and apparently also Instagram.
One problem with this is copyright; if it's OC images or text posts, it could infringe on the original poster's copyright. Not a problem if it's merely sharing links.
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PeerTube has that built in. You can set up a channel and have it import or mirror a Youtube channel. For Lemmy there's several bots and scripts. As other people said that's what lemmit.online is about.
Be a bit careful when rolling this out. Several people don't like it. They've left Reddit for a reason and this is drowning them in bot activity. And usually these posts are low engagement, Reddit users can't see the comments, so you're not getting a lot of answers. I think it's good practice how we here have separated that to dedicated instances, so users can just have genuine conversations everywhere else.
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Thanks, I didn't know Peertube had a built in tool for mirroring a channel. I will look into that.
I just found out about lemmit.online from the other answers and I agree with you on having be a different instance is good practice.
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Yea, bot posts screw up our posts:comments ratio
They make a ton of posts but we don't have enough commenters to hit all of them. What few comments they do get are spread out across different posts so there's no back and forth conversation, engagement dies.
and seeing a bunch of posts with 0 comments or OP not responding causes users to leave Lemmy
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Trump’s Black Friday Deals Cost More Than His Website
Trump has been under mounting criticism for failing to bring down inflation, with Americans continuing to report high prices on groceries and essentials. Even as Trump insists he has lowered costs, his campaign’s Black Friday fundraising emails undercut that message by promoting so-called “deal” prices that were actually higher than the prices listed on his own merchandise website.In one email, the Trump team claimed the price of a red MAGA hat ornament had been “reduced” to $37, though the official campaign store simultaneously listed it for $30. The email claimed the MAGA trinket new price was a "30% off deal."
https://meidasnews.com/news/trumps-black-friday-deals-cost-more-than-his-website
Congress, CEOs follow Trump in welcome to Saudi butcher
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with top congressional leaders of both parties Wednesday morning, before an hours-long session with corporate CEOs and billionaires at the Kennedy Center in the afternoon.
The events confirm that President Trump spoke for the entire US ruling class, Democrats and Republicans alike, when he welcomed the bloodstained monarch to the White House and denounced any mention of bin Salman’s role in the gruesome murder of Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
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There is nothing surprising about the welcoming of the Saudi despot and mass murderer to the US Capitol. The House and Senate have given standing ovations to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on at least two occasions during the Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed a joint session of Congress twice—even as he pursued policies of entrenching his authoritarian Hindu-supremacist regime and threatening nuclear war against neighboring Pakistan. British Prime Minister Tony Blair addressed Congress at the height of the US-British war of conquest in Iraq, in July 2003.
More importantly, American presidents themselves address Congress on a regular basis, and the war crimes committed by these presidents in this century alone (wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, drone missile assassinations from the Middle East to the Caribbean), dwarf those committed by any visiting monarchs, dictators or prime ministers.
After his brief session schmoozing with the congressional leadership, bin Salman travelled across town to the Kennedy Center to resume the real business of his trip: wooing and being wooed by corporate CEOs and billionaires, with Trump presiding over the scene like the head pimp at a house of ill repute.
Congress, CEOs follow Trump in welcome to Saudi butcher
Trump spoke for the entire US ruling class when he welcomed the blood-drenched Saudi crown prince to the White House.World Socialist Web Site
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Short on tents and food, scenes from Gaza as winter approaches [20 Photos]
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39268288
November 5, 2025Far too little aid is reaching Gaza nearly four weeks after a ceasefire, humanitarian agencies said on Tuesday, as hunger persists with winter approaching and old tents start to fray following Israel's devastating two-year offensive.
Short on tents and food, scenes from Gaza as winter approaches [20 Photos]
November 5, 2025Far too little aid is reaching Gaza nearly four weeks after a ceasefire, humanitarian agencies said on Tuesday, as hunger persists with winter approaching and old tents start to fray following Israel's devastating two-year offensive.
https://www.reuters.com/pictures/short-tents-food-scenes-gaza-winter-approaches-2025-11-05/
Short on tents and food, scenes from Gaza as winter approaches [20 Photos]
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39268294
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39268288
November 5, 2025Far too little aid is reaching Gaza nearly four weeks after a ceasefire, humanitarian agencies said on Tuesday, as hunger persists with winter approaching and old tents start to fray following Israel's devastating two-year offensive.
Short on tents and food, scenes from Gaza as winter approaches [20 Photos]
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39268288November 5, 2025Far too little aid is reaching Gaza nearly four weeks after a ceasefire, humanitarian agencies said on Tuesday, as hunger persists with winter approaching and old tents start to fray following Israel's devastating two-year offensive.
https://www.reuters.com/pictures/short-tents-food-scenes-gaza-winter-approaches-2025-11-05/
'International incident': 'Terrifying standoff' as US troops mistakenly invade Mexico
US troops INVADE Mexico in dramatic escalation of tensions as Pentagon scrambles to contain the fallout
Six signs saying 'warning: restricted area' were plunged into the sand at a beach in Northeast Mexico called Playa Bagdad.Elina Shirazi (Daily Mail)
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They also said unauthorized access or photography was not allowed in that area and that 'if you are found here, you may be detained and searched.' Mexico's foreign affairs ministry said its navy removed the signs from the sand, which it believed were on Mexican territory."
That's the result they wanted.
It's Mexico, clear as day, but Mexico just waffled on it and said they "believed" it was Mexico.
They'll take a page out of Israel's playbook and start saying "until we figure this out, it's a buffer zone". Then just keep expanding it and not obstructing Americans from "settling" there, once they're established, then it's obviously America because why else would Americans be living there?
You might be reading too much into that. The article stated Mexico's naval personnel removed them as the personnel acted on the information they had. I would highly doubt they were going to go to great lengths to confirm the exact coordinates of the boarder.
Do I think that's what the Americans were trying to do? Yes. But Mexico didn't waffle it.
What??
This wasn't a random place, it's a fucking beach with people who go there routinely...
What "great lengths" did you think it would take to determine which side of Trump's ridiculous fence this was on?
You think people that live and work right next to the border, are unsure about where the border is?
You think it's something you can accidentally wander across?
Mexico knew that beach was theirs, but when pushed they said it might be instead of saber rattling that America just tried to seize a fucking landinghead
You're making a mountain out of a molehill.
Mexico waffled nothing. They removed the signs. The statement of believe or not isnt consequential.
You think a hostile nation's military headed by a demented narcissist showing up on another country's sovereign soil and placing signs that it belongs to a different country...
Is a molehill?
Buddy, if you don't understand why something is serious, I'd highly advise you to ask questions instead of loudly proclaim it's not a big deal
The molehill is your focus on the word believe
The serious part is the US just waltzing into a foreign country planting signs and Mexico removing them
The molehill is your focus on the word believe
If I walked up and took a sandwich out of you hand and ate, would you say:
I believe that's my sandwich
And expect me to give it back? Or anyone to help you?
Or do you think:
You just stole my sandwich
Would be more effective?
You're acting like this is one isolated incident with zero consequences...
And I readily admit, I over estimate people's critical thinking abilities, but it seems very clear with how Israel and Russia treat borders, and how chummy with them trump is, that this could very likely be the start of the same behavior.
But like I said, I often think shit is ridiculously obvious just to find out other people just can't connect the dots.
I'll never understand why people get so belligerent instead of just asking questions till they understand.
Can you at least tell me why you didn't want to ask questions when you ran into something you didn't understand?
It's a widespread issue, and I legitimately want some insight into your choices here.
Bah. I accidentally invaded America during Basic training. The other side of that long swathe of clearing was cooler, so we walked there.
Wow, did we get in trouble when we all found out we actually invaded.
Did you hammer signs into the ground claiming that territory for your country? Had your country recently made military threats against American sovereignty, and had your country's military recently killed 76 citizens of a country near America in extrajudicial slayings while claiming that they were doing the same things you're threatening America over?
It's hardly a similar situation to that right now. Tensions are high, America is a serious threat.
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Militaries accidentally invade each other all the time.
Usually, they back right out and let the other country know, they don't use boats to get around visible border controls and plant a sign in other country though.
Non dailyhatemail version
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US troops INVADE Mexico in dramatic escalation of tensions as Pentagon scrambles to contain the fallout
Six signs saying 'warning: restricted area' were plunged into the sand at a beach in Northeast Mexico called Playa Bagdad.Elina Shirazi (Daily Mail)
Inside Amazon: Who pays the price?
Amazon attracts customers with low prices - but according to a former manager at the company, the reason for this is not what consumers might think. She claims that the company's aim is not to give customers fair deals but to put retailers and manufacturers under enormous pressure. This investigative documentary reveals the questionable methods used by the company: suppliers are prevented from selling their products below the Amazon-listed price - whether that be online or in a physical store. Insiders say that this practice not only distorts competition, but also has direct consequences for customers in the form of price rises.
Inside Amazon – DW – 11/27/2025
Online retailer Amazon has been repeatedly criticized for its business practices. The US company puts pressure on retailers and exerts influence on pricing policies, thus fueling cut-throat competition.dw.com
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Bezos’ mantra is cut, cut, cut and squeeze. Everything and everyone. Then ask for more. He’s the kind of guy who searches the backpacks of office workers on the way out, even when they’re being paid $200k a year. There’s middle managers all around the world who look at him as an idol. They’re awful people.
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I try... But every time I attempt to buy anything remotely specialized in my city it doesn't exist. Stores just don't exist for fucking anything anymore.
And if they do they never have anything in stock and just want you to order from their website. Which frequently is poorly made and half the time it's twice as expensive on their damn site.
It's fucked.
AI music creates unease as it tops the charts
AI music creates unease as it tops the charts
As AI-generated music saturates the market, people are realizing they can't distinguish it from human-made music. Many listeners, and musicians, are unsettled by this.Cristina Burack (Deutsche Welle)
Fine by me. The only thing that needs to be resolved is disclosure, so that people are informed about it.
I can tell you that if someone could replicate the genius that is Nightwish, I would gladly listen to it, and I would still support Nightwish as I always have.
[CW: Execution, Zionist supremacy, Death of innocent civilians] Footage: "Israeli" soldiers executing two Palestinians, 27.11.25
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On Thursday, during an "Israeli" military raid on the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, soldiers were filmed shooting two Palestinians at point-blank range, killing Yusef ’Asa’sah, 39 years old, and al-Muntaser bel-lah ‘Abdallah, 26 years old.The footage shows the two Palestinians, defined by the military as wanted, being brought out of the building by soldiers and surrendering to them. The soldiers then order them to go back inside and sit on the ground – and then execute them, apparently while posing no threat to the forces.
Yuli Novak, said:
“The execution documented today is the result of an accelerated process of dehumanization of Palestinians and the complete abandonment of their lives by the "Israeli" regime. In "Israel", there is no mechanism that acts to stop the killing of Palestinians or is capable of prosecuting those responsible. It is therefore the duty of the international community to end Israel’s impunity and hold accountable those responsible for planning and carrying out its criminal policies against the Palestinian people.”Since October 2023, Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank. The perpetrators, whether soldiers or settlers, are granted full impunity by "Israel’s" legal and law-enforcement systems.
Footage: Israeli soldiers executing two Palestinians, 27.11.25
On Thursday, during an Israeli military raid on the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, soldiers were filmed shooting two Palestinians at point-blank ra...YouTube
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I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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WhatsApp "interoperability"
Apparently Europe finally got Whatsapp to enable 3rd party chats making it easier to switch to more privacy friendly alternatives article
However the only other app that currently works with it is "BirdyChat"??
Have anybody found any news about when serious alternatives will be integrated?
Messaging Interoperability: WhatsApp enables third-party chats for users in Europe
The DMA requires Meta to give people using WhatsApp in Europe the option to connect with people using third-party messaging services that have chosen toMeta Newsroom (Meta)
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Have anybody found any news about when serious alternatives will be integrated?
...never? They're not integrated because they don't want them integrated. This is malicious compliance. Even if they were, the opt-in nature would make it completely useless. Much like Apple's RCS integration.
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Ok sorry, it was in the article:
And also this:
BirdyChat - Work Chat & Productivity
A modern work chat app for professionals. Start conversations with anyone using their work email. Collaborate and grow your network.www.birdy.chat
It seems like a work chat app
BirdyChat - Work Chat & Productivity
A modern work chat app for professionals. Start conversations with anyone using their work email. Collaborate and grow your network.www.birdy.chat
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It's definitely something I'll use, since work chat is all I do on WhatsApp currently.
I only need to be sure it isn't some scam, although the alternative is Meta, so... yeah...
i cant even find a lot about it, but it seems grim and not like this will ever work with any usefull chat app.
~~apperently meta gets to pick it, and it is not a public api. ~~ (this is not true lol)
essentially the corrupt eu politicians once again failed to represent the people. Just throw them all out already.
The Birdy app requires a work email, which then gets you on a wait list, so that you can subject yourself to their data mining:
Data Categories:
- The email address you use as username on BirdyChat network;
- Your messages and media within messages;
- User identifiers for blocked WhatsApp users;
- Usage information including timestamps related to your communication with WhatsApp users;
- Device and connection information such as IP address, operating system information and the BirdyChat version you are using;
- General location information using your IP address;
- Authentication information including encryption keys that WhatsApp encryption protocol uses;
- WhatsApp user reports in case a WhatsApp user chooses to share this information with WhatsApp.
I'm going to setup my own open source chat server soon and just give the few people that need to talk to me a copy of the open source client. That you can use to talk to me, the rest will be gone
I'm sooooo fucking tired of every company and government wanting to inspect my asshole just so they know that toilet paper to advertise to me or to be sure that I'm "not a terrorist or a pedophile because the government totally is doing this to protect the children, absolutely!!!"
Fuck your lies
Fuck your marketing
And apologies for my French, I'm just reeeeeeaaaally done with this nonsense
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Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)🍉 Albert 🍉
in reply to HellsBelle • • •but, we know that propaganda exists, tired when they make up science fiction scenarios for things that already exist and are ignored.
Fuck, AI is one of the most powerful propaganda tools. way too many people rely on some AI to form their opinions, as long as they aren't as obvious as Gork, their propaganda is incredibly powerful.
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