AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
Just when I thought I couldn't have a lower opinion of flock.
What does it take to become the most successful AI surveillance company in 2025? If you’re anything like Flock, the startup selling automatic license plate readers and facial recognition tech to cops, you don’t really need much AI at all — just an army of sweatshop workers in the global south.
Bombshell new reporting from 404 Media found that Flock, which has its cameras in thousands of US communities, has been outsourcing its AI to gig workers located in the Philippines.
After accessing a cache of exposed data, 404 found documents related to annotating Flock footage, a process sometimes called “AI training.” Workers were tasked with jobs include categorizing vehicles by color, make, and model, transcribing license plates, and labeling various audio clips from car wrecks.
In US towns and cities, Flock cameras maintained by local businesses and municipal agencies form centralized surveillance networks for local police. They constantly scan for car license plates, as well as pedestrians, who are categorized based on their clothing, and possibly by factors like gender and race.
AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
The powerful surveillance startup Flock was caught using workers in the Philippines to collate data on US residents.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
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Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace talk about the parallels between ICE and mass Japanese internment
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What folders do you make in addition to the default ones ?
I realized I always make a source folder under home and then subfolders named after programming languages to organize projects but then I realized I somehow had my own convention for how to store my source code and I have no idea where I got it from
Then I thought. what about other Linux users ?
What sorts of conventions do you have that pertains to folder structure in Linux ?
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Goodbye RMA, hello Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill
It's a short article.
::: spoiler AI Summary (for the lazy)
Govt has finally revealed its replacement for the Resource Management Act (RMA). Instead of one giant law, we’re getting two new ones: a Planning Bill (452 pages – focuses on enabling development and land use) and a Natural Environment Bill (292 pages – focuses on managing environmental impacts and protections). Both are expected to pass by mid-2026, with transitional changes kicking in immediately.
Key points:
- Transition period: Existing RMA consents get a 2-year extension, with a goal of clearing everything by 2031. New applications use a transitional RMA process that starts to mirror the new system.
- Fewer consents: Officials estimate around half of current consents/permits won’t be needed under the new framework. Govt claims a $3.1b GDP boost per year and $13.2b in compliance savings over 30 years.
- New ePlan system: A centralised digital planning/consenting/compliance platform. Regional Policy Statements are scrapped.
- Plans merged: 100+ council plans will be merged into 17 regional plans, with 30-year spatial plans for infrastructure corridors.
- Property rights & relief: Councils will have to provide relief (possibly financial) when heritage/nature protections or other rules significantly restrict what owners can do with their land.
- More national direction: More nationally-set policy and standards, less local variation, supposedly faster plan changes (aiming to cut plan change time from ~7 years to ~2).
- Less micromanagement: Trivial rules like which way your door opens, where it’s located, or where you mount your TV are explicitly out – framed as decisions for homeowners, not councils.
- New Planning Tribunal: A specialist body to act as a “clearing house” for disputes and appeals, aiming for faster resolution.
- Environment enforcement: Centralised enforcement of environmental protections rather than leaving it fragmented.
- Treaty position: Govt says existing Treaty of Waitangi provisions from the RMA are carried over into the new laws.
Chris Bishop is pitching this as a “once-in-a-generation” reset that will unblock housing and infrastructure while still protecting the environment. Critics are likely to see it as a big tilt toward development and private property rights, with a lot riding on how those 744 pages get applied in practice.
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‘Yellow line’ that divides Gaza under Trump plan is ‘new border’ for Israel, says military chief
‘Yellow line’ that divides Gaza under Trump plan is ‘new border’ for Israel, says military chief
Eyal Zamir said Israel would hold on to current positions, giving it control of more than half of the territoryEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
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Israel raids UN compound in Jerusalem; FBI making a list of American “extremists”; Mass rapes by RSF in Sudan
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40050986
Israel kills seven Palestinians in attacks on Saturday. A humanitarian aid coordinator tells Drop Site the ceasefire masks a “catastrophic reality” on the ground in Gaza. Israeli police raid UNRWA compound in Jerusalem. In Doha, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa responds to questions about his militant past; diplomats discuss the International Stabilization Force and reproach Israel for its ceasefire violations; Saudi Arabia is the lone voice in support of disarmament. A secret meeting between Qatar, Israel, and the U.S. The White House wants more economic and diplomatic meetings between Israel and its neighbors. The FBI is making a list of “extremists.” Rep. Adelita Grijalva pepper-sprayed by ICE. Mass rapes and spiking malnutrition reported in Sudan. LIBRE alleges fraud in Honduras and calls for new elections. A major rally in support of Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum draws 600,000 people. Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia renewed. Coup in Benin foiled. U.S. Senate to vote to extend Obamacare subsidies. A vote for the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act is expected in the House this week.
Israel raids UN compound in Jerusalem; FBI making a list of American “extremists”; Mass rapes by RSF in Sudan
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40050986
Israel kills seven Palestinians in attacks on Saturday. A humanitarian aid coordinator tells Drop Site the ceasefire masks a “catastrophic reality” on the ground in Gaza. Israeli police raid UNRWA compound in Jerusalem. In Doha, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa responds to questions about his militant past; diplomats discuss the International Stabilization Force and reproach Israel for its ceasefire violations; Saudi Arabia is the lone voice in support of disarmament. A secret meeting between Qatar, Israel, and the U.S. The White House wants more economic and diplomatic meetings between Israel and its neighbors. The FBI is making a list of “extremists.” Rep. Adelita Grijalva pepper-sprayed by ICE. Mass rapes and spiking malnutrition reported in Sudan. LIBRE alleges fraud in Honduras and calls for new elections. A major rally in support of Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum draws 600,000 people. Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia renewed. Coup in Benin foiled. U.S. Senate to vote to extend Obamacare subsidies. A vote for the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act is expected in the House this week.
Israel raids UN compound in Jerusalem; FBI making a list of American “extremists”; Mass rapes by RSF in Sudan
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40050986
Israel kills seven Palestinians in attacks on Saturday. A humanitarian aid coordinator tells Drop Site the ceasefire masks a “catastrophic reality” on the ground in Gaza. Israeli police raid UNRWA compound in Jerusalem. In Doha, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa responds to questions about his militant past; diplomats discuss the International Stabilization Force and reproach Israel for its ceasefire violations; Saudi Arabia is the lone voice in support of disarmament. A secret meeting between Qatar, Israel, and the U.S. The White House wants more economic and diplomatic meetings between Israel and its neighbors. The FBI is making a list of “extremists.” Rep. Adelita Grijalva pepper-sprayed by ICE. Mass rapes and spiking malnutrition reported in Sudan. LIBRE alleges fraud in Honduras and calls for new elections. A major rally in support of Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum draws 600,000 people. Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia renewed. Coup in Benin foiled. U.S. Senate to vote to extend Obamacare subsidies. A vote for the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act is expected in the House this week.
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Israel raids UN compound in Jerusalem; FBI making a list of American “extremists”; Mass rapes by RSF in Sudan
Israel raids UN compound in Jerusalem; FBI making a list of American “extremists”; Mass rapes by RSF in Sudan
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The company whose ‘AI’ was actually 700 humans in India
This was just too hilarious not to post.
These guys are really on their resistance game, already stealing jobs from AI
The company whose ‘AI’ was actually 700 humans in India
Disaster as Microsoft-backed unicorn implodes.Information Age
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builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers
The company whose ‘AI’ was actually 700 humans in India
Disaster as Microsoft-backed unicorn implodes.Information Age
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It's not true, you can check this article debunking this claim written by Gergely Orosz (Pragmatic Engineer Blog) : blog.pragmaticengineer.com/bui…
The racism against Indians is so normalized, trying to discredit and dehumanize Indians, it's horrendous! Be objective and have some empathy...
Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”
The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
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How this Microsoft-backed billion-dollar London startup made 700 engineers sitting in India pose as AI tool
Tech News : Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by tech giants, has filed for bankruptcy after being exposed for misleading investors about its AITOI Tech Desk (Times Of India)
Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns
When it can be assumed that you are being surveilled while expressing negative opinion about the federal government, it’s probably best to go ahead and make the assumption, particularly during the punitive heights of the second Donald Trump administration. New reporting from the Associated Press this weekend detailed some aspects of not only United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) latest anti-immigrant and deportation campaign in New Orleans, but also some interesting insights into how both the federal and state law enforcement agencies involved have been engaged in online surveillance campaigns to track public sentiment toward that crackdown. The story paints a chilling profile of a United States in which dissent against the regime’s campaign of immigrant-targeted cruelty is being carefully compiled, filed away for the potential of future use against American citizens. Not that any of this should be a surprise for any of us.
We have, after all, been warned over and over that organizations like ICE have been wanting to vastly expand their online operations, using the same vastly expanded budget that recently saw them purchase a new $7.3 million fleet of (Canadian made) armored vehicles. The online expansion of ICE, meanwhile, is not just in the name of locating more groups of undocumented immigrants to target, but also to compile sprawling digital enemies lists, creating databases of those who have expressed anti-ICE sentiment. Earlier this year, The Intercept wrote about surveillance contractors sought by ICE, who would be expected to perform algorithm- and AI-aided deep dives into social media users’ post histories, searching for, among other things, “proclivity for violence,” which could include “empathy with a group which has violent tendencies,” among other things. Hope you haven’t expressed “empathy” at any point for any group with “violent tendencies,” right? How does it feel to know that you’d be at the mercy of a freelance surveillance contractor’s mastery of “social and behavioral sciences” and “psychological profiles,” according to ICE’s statement of objectives?
How much of these draconian operations have already been implemented isn’t entirely clear thanks to the shroud of secrecy surrounding the DHS and ICE, but fresh reporting in October noted that ICE was in the process of seeking an additional 30 full-time surveillance contractors to staff two of its “targeting centers”–and yes, that is apparently the official, deeply dystopian term for these facilities. These facilities, in Williston, VT and Santa Ana, CA, would run 24/7 shifts as surveillance analysts “receive tips and incoming cases, research individuals online, and package the results into dossiers that could be used by field offices to plan arrests.” The obvious question: How long until the same resources are being used to target those critical of ICE, or those organizing to impede ICE crackdown efforts, under the guise of “interference with law enforcement operations”? It should also be noted that even if ICE isn’t directly targeting those individuals yet, the unspoken threat of this kind of online surveillance could be intended to have a chilling effect on anti-ICE criticism.
Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns - Jezebel
New reporting on the federal government's online surveillance indicates they're paying close attention to ICE crackdown reactions.Jim Vorel (Jezebel)
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We keep allowing The Dotard Regime to weaken us and our enemies are picking their moment.
Our country is in danger from enemies domestic and foreign.
Prestiĝa scienca premio al Jesper Jacobsen
La Akademio de Sciencoj de Francio atribuis la Premion Ampère, sponsoritan de la elektrokompanio Électricité de France, al la konata esperantisto Jesper Jacobsen kaj lia longdaŭra kunlaboranto Hubert Saleur. Ekde 2002 ili kune verkis proksimume 65 sciencajn artikolojn kaj kune gvidis 12 doktoriĝantojn. En ampleksa artikolo verkita por Libera Folio Jesper Jacobsen rakontas pri la scienca laboro kiu kondukis al la premio.
Condemnation as Israel raids UNRWA HQ in East Jerusalem, removes UN flag
Condemnation as Israel raids UNRWA HQ in East Jerusalem, removes UN flag
The agency’s commissioner-general condemns raid as a direct violation of international law.Caolán Magee (Al Jazeera)
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Réunissons-nous autour d'un verre lors de notre permanence ! Que vous soyez une Chtitedev convaincue ou simple curieuse, que vous restiez deux heures ou 5 minutes, nous serons heureuses de discuter de manière informelle avec vous. Et pour celles qui ont une petite faim, le lieu a un grand choix de stands de nourriture ! Les organisatrices resteront jusque 20h30 (et plus si affinité ;) )
Rendez-vous au Kitchen Market dans la Galerie des tanneurs, 27 rue des tanneurs 59800 Lille
Nous serons à proximité du bar et de la girafe (entrée principale)
Pas besoin de s’inscrire. Venez quand vous voulez 😉
Accès PMR : Oui.
Toilettes payantes.
La denatalità in Italia
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Il sondaggio: gli italiani non fanno più figli perché hanno paura del futuro
La rilevazione dell'Istituto Noto per il Sole 24 Ore: la società non valorizza la genitorialitàAlba Romano (Open)
Senator says ICE ‘attack dog’ caused ‘horrific’ injuries to unresisting man as he was detained
“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify,” Murray said in a statement. “Another agent, accompanied by a dog, was hiding nearby and released the dog on Wilmer shortly after he stepped outside.”
Murray said Toledo-Martinez, who was brought to the US at age 15 and is undocumented, was not resisting arrest or attempting to flee when the dog attacked. He is being held at the Northwest ICE processing center, Murray said. She said Toledo-Martinez was detained in front of his wife and two young children, who are all US citizens – and she called for his immediate release.
“Following the attack, Wilmer was left shaking and dizzy, and at one point his vision went black, yet he was denied medical care for hours,” Murray said.
Senator says ICE ‘attack dog’ caused ‘horrific’ injuries to unresisting man as he was detained
Patty Murray of Washington state said ICE agents lied to Wilmer Toledo-Martinez to lure him outside before dog attacked himAdam Gabbatt (The Guardian)
Supreme Court to hear case that could vastly expand presidential powers
Proving that history does repeat itself, in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to fire an FTC commissioner over ideological disagreements. In that case, called Humphrey's Executor, the court unanimously held that while the president has the power to remove purely executive officers for any reason, that unlimited power does not extend to agencies like the FTC, whose duties "are neither political nor executive, but predominantly quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative."
Following that 1935 decision, Congress went on to create many more multimember, independent agencies whose members likewise can only be removed for cause. Since January, Trump has also removed Democratic members from some of those agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Supreme Court to hear case that could vastly expand presidential powers
The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about President Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner. At stake is a 90-year precedent limiting the president's power over independent agencies.Alyssa Kapasi (KUOW Public Radio)
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Britain will beef up anti-corruption force amid national security fears
The U.K. government announced more funding for a police force investigating corruption.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/politico.eu/…
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The "Kahanist Plan": Inside the Zionist Far-Right
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Ukraine | New Worries at Chernobyl After IAEA Finds Radiation Shield Has 'Lost Primary Safety Functions'
Chernobyl's protective shield compromised by drone strike, IAEA warns. Urgent repairs needed to restore nuclear safety at the site.
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New Worries at Chernobyl After IAEA Finds Radiation Shield Has 'Lost Primary Safety Functions'
"Timely and comprehensive restoration remains essential to prevent further degradation and ensure long-term nuclear safety," said IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
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'One Battle After Another' leads Golden Globe nominations with nine nods
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” scored a leading nine nominations to the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on Monday, adding to the Oscar favorite’s momentum in the run-up to awards season. Norwegian family drama "Sentimental Value" claimed eight nods on a year that saw international films rival Hollywood productions.
Israel | Ben-Gvir's fascist lynch-mob wears noose lapel pins
Israel's fascist Otzma Yehudit party sinks to a new low, wearing 'noose' lapel pins in support of the death penalty against Palestinians
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Donald Trump's Border Patrol weapons spending skyrockets
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-chemical-less-lethal-weapons-pepper-spray-dhs-ice-cbp-11150372
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rima lo scontro a colpi di bastoni, poi lo scontro verbale in ospedale tra i parenti dei giovani coinvolti. È successo a Merano, dove i carabinieri della stazione di Postal hanno denunciato 6 persone
I militari sono intervenuti nei pressi del poligono per la segnalazione di una lite; sul posto hanno trovato i due giovani che si stavano ancora colpendo con bastoni in plastica e ferro, entrambi con vistose ferite sanguinanti. Disarmati e bloccati, i due sono stati trasportati all'ospedale Tappeiner di Merano. Per entrambi è scattata la denuncia per lesioni personali aggravate e porto abusivo di armi
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Merano: loro si prendono a bastonate, la rissa la continuano i parenti in ospedale
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Loro si prendono a bastonate, la rissa la continuano i parenti in ospedale
Le indagini dei carabinieri hanno permesso di scoprire i motivi della faida sfociata in ferite sanguinanti. E che erano presenti altre quattro persone, fuggite...Redazione Cronaca (TrentoToday)
Tarquinia, tomba dei Pigmei: inaugurazione del nuovo sistema di accesso l’11 dicembre, ore 11
L’Associazione Amici delle Tombe di Tarquinia, in collaborazione con la Soprintendenza per la provincia di Viterbo e per l’Etruria meridionale, in occasione delle iniziative per la valorizzazione della Necropoli etrusca di Tarquinia, ha organizzato per giovedì 11 dicembre prossimo, l’inaugurazione del nuovo sistema di accesso alla straordinaria Tomba dei Pigmei, realizzato grazie al generoso contributo della Socia Federica Wiel Marin e, fino ad oggi, difficilmente accessibile a causa del lungo e ripido dromos.
L’appuntamento è alle ore 11 al parcheggio della Tomba dei Tori.
L’ingresso sarà contingentato e gratuito, senza obbligo di prenotazione.
Alla fine è previsto anche un brindisi per festeggiare l’evento: un importante intervento volto a garantire una maggiore fruibilità e accessibilità di un sito così prestigioso.
Tarquinia, tomba dei Pigmei: inaugurazione del nuovo sistema di accesso l’11 dicembre, ore 11 - Occhioviterbese
L’Associazione Amici delle Tombe di Tarquinia, in collaborazione con la Soprintendenza per la provincia di Viterbo e per l’Etruria meridionale, in occasione delle iniziative per la valorizzazione della Necropoli etrusca di Tarquinia, ha organizzato p…Occhioviterbese
There is a large amount of Anarchist larpers on Lemmy I can't name them all.
edit: Guess not, I have them blocked so I have no idea what they're posting or if they're an Anarchist. I think they crashed out on my instances music comm
Pietramelara (CE) – Stadio e misteri: al Leonardo i tifosi ospiti sistemati in “gabbia per polli”. E i lavori di adeguamento?
Pietramelara – Stadio e misteri: al Leonardo i tifosi ospiti sistemati in “gabbia per polli”. E i lavori di adeguamento?
Pietramelara – “… Il problema è che si annuncia in pompa magna l'apertura di uno "stadio" ristrutturato e invece ospitate i tifosi ospiti in un recinto per galline... Almeno fateci vedere la partita.La redazione (PaeseNews quotidiano di Terra di Lavoro online)
Gondolieri sub raccolgono 18 quintali di rifiuti a Venezia
Gondolieri sub raccolgono 18 quintali di rifiuti a Venezia - Notizie - Ansa.it
Record assoluto per i Gondolieri Sub, che questa mattina a Venezia hanno riportato alla luce 18 quintali di rifiuti, ripulendo i fondali del rio di Santa Marta-Santa Maria Maggiore.. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Mike Johnson strips military IVF coverage from defense bill – report
A massive defense policy bill, revealed by US lawmakers on Sunday, does not include a provision that would have provided broad healthcare coverage for in vitro fertilization (IVF) for active-duty members of the military, despite Donald Trump’s pledge to strengthen access to the procedure.
Both the House and Senate previously approved the provision, which was added to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as an amendment earlier this year. But Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House and a diehard anti-abortion Republican, worked behind the scenes to strip the provision from the new version of the NDAA, MS NOW reported last week.
Mike Johnson strips military IVF coverage from defense bill – report
House speaker worked behind the scenes to strip provision after it was added as an amendment earlier this yearCarter Sherman (The Guardian)
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PalestinaHackathon 10 januari Göteborg
10 januari 2026 kl 11-18, Norra Hamngatan 14 Göteborg
Välkommen på en heldag där vi avslöjar kopplingar mellan svenska aktörer och folkmordet i Palestina. Det finns uppgifter för dig som vill koda, skriva, gräva fram info eller designa. Vi kommer att analysera data, researcha, designa visualiseringar och andra uppgifter som du kan hitta på. Tillsammans tar vi fram underlag för artiklar, material till kampanjer eller publicerar saker direkt.
Det kommer finnas lite öl och pizza, ta gärna med din överblivna glögg eller nåt annat du vill bjuda på.
Vi som ordnar det här är journalist och IT-konsult. Senaste halvåret har vi samlat på oss dokument och data om svenska kopplingar till Israel som vi inte riktigt hinner gå igenom själva. Och vi tror att vi tillsammans kan få fram ännu mer genom att söka i datamängder, begära ut fler handlingar och visualisera data. Både du som har koll på det här och du som vill lära dig mer är välkommen.
Maila anmälan eller frågor senast 7 januari till
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Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
Greek farmers rise up and the KKE stands by their side
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1232…
Photo: Eurokinissi The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has taken a clear, decisive position in support of the escalating struggle of poor farmers across the country.
With a series of on-site visits to the roadblocks in Larissa, Karditsa, Trikala, Tirnavos and other areas, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, conveyed the Party’s full solidarity and its commitment to stand at the side of those fighting for their survival.
During his meetings with farmers, Koutsoumbas underlined that the government bears full responsibility for the explosive situation in the countryside. It refuses to address the just demands of small farmers because it is structurally committed to the interests of big capital—large agricultural businesses, exporters, energy monopolies, shipowners, and all those who profit from the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. As he stressed, the government subsidises industrial groups and big exporters, guarantees tax exemptions to shipowners, supports companies in renewable energy sources, and even allows them to charge exorbitant prices, while farmers are forced to pay out of pocket for their essentials.
In this framework, even the most elementary measures for farmers—such as reducing production costs, securing fair prices, or establishing real protective mechanisms—are dismissed as “fiscal impossibilities,” while billions are channelled to capitalist groups. The recent example of forcing livestock breeders to destroy their animals instead of ensuring vaccinations demonstrates, once more, that state policy sacrifices small producers for the benefit of monopoly interests.
The KKE places this entire confrontation within a broader class context. The struggle of the poor farmers concerns not only those who work the land in Thessaly or Macedonia; it affects workers, employees, and the popular strata across the country. High food prices—driven not by farmers but by wholesalers, middlemen, and state taxation—burden working-class households daily. The same political forces that crush farmers are those that attack labour rights, public services, wages, and social provisions.
For this reason, the KKE calls on the working class to actively support the farmers’ mobilisations. It denounces efforts by the government and the mass media to divide workers and farmers or to present the struggling rural poor as an obstacle to society. Such divisive tactics, alongside the deployment of riot police, chemicals, and arrests, aim to wear down the movement. The KKE demands the lifting of all repressive measures, the release of all detained demonstrators, and the immediate withdrawal of police forces from the roadblocks.
In his interventions, Koutsoumbas also linked the farmers’ struggle with Greece’s deeper political commitments to NATO and EU militarism. He pointed to the transformation of regions like Thessaly—especially Larissa—into strategic hubs for U.S. military drones and operations extending from the Balkans and Black Sea to the Middle East and the Red Sea. While the government spends more than €30 billion on armaments for NATO missions, it claims a lack of resources for essential support to farmers and workers. The KKE exposes this contradiction as proof that the state serves imperialist designs rather than the needs of the people.
Against this backdrop, the Party promotes a clear political perspective: no sustainable solution for poor farmers can be found within the current framework of capitalist development, EU policies, and market competition. Partial adjustments or temporary subsidies cannot reverse the relentless concentration of land and production in the hands of agribusiness. The KKE argues that the only real alternative is a radical shift—a people’s economy based on social ownership, central planning, and cooperatives of small producers integrated into a unified plan for food production, infrastructure, and supply. Such a system can guarantee low-cost inputs, stable and fair prices, rational use of resources, and the elimination of parasitic intermediaries.
The Party thus calls for escalation of the people’s struggle, not only to defend the urgent demands of the farmers but to build the political and social alliance capable of confronting monopoly power, breaking with the EU and NATO, and paving the way for workers’ and people’s power.
The KKE’s presence at the roadblocks, its intervention in Parliament, and its continuous activity across unions, associations, and popular organisations highlight a consistent line: the battle of the poor farmers is a battle of the entire working people. The Party urges both workers and farmers to strengthen their unity, reject any attempt at division, and continue the fight with confidence, determination, and a clear orientation toward the real solution—popular power and a socialist reconstruction of agriculture and the economy as a whole.
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3D printing 1939
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Obamacare Users Face Higher Deductibles, Higher Premiums | People who have insurance under the Affordable Care Act are being asked to pay more for plans that will cover less of their care.
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asknostr.site - Questions show up across multiple nostr apps. Questions and answers can't be fully removed, people can't be permanently banned.
This is a frontend for the asknostr hashtag on nostr, a more decentralized fediverse alternative.
More questions are needed, if you can help. You can sign up instantly with no email address or anything, but it's hard for the user base to grow, because the questions are usually too focused on a small (honestly cultish) number of topics. I find that odd when anyone can ask anything.
The website has content filters to remove spam and stuff from its own display, but the nostr protocol is open source, and you can self host your own backups of removed posts and display them on your own website without losing any data. I also haven't heard of anyone getting a "ban" where all their past posts are filtered at once / they have to stop posting.
As someone who constantly gets banned from places like asklemmy for being a radical communist or whatever, it's especially important to me that there are no bans here, because it means I don't have to worry about admins repeatedly wiping out time I invest in helping people with answers to their questions.
Note: asknostr.site is still early in development and kinda buggy. Remember you can also post to it through the asknostr hashtag from other nostr apps if you want.
#asknostr - Q&A site powered by Nostr
This website is a Q&A community on top of Nostr. The purpose of the site is showcase the power of a decentralized social network protocol and allow easy content discovery.Asknostr.site
BrikoX doesn't like this.
- I'm not fiatjaf, my nostr will be better than fiatjaf's
- Idk where fiatjaf said that. Where?
- Not being banned is the foundational aspect for me
mbirth 🇬🇧
in reply to underscores • • •My home folders on any OS have a
Developmentfolder (which conveniently sits right next toDocumentsandDownloads) and in that folder, I’ve also got subfolders per programming language that have the respective projects in them.The other folder I usually have is
SyncThingwith whatever synced folders are relevant for that machine.astronaut_sloth
in reply to mbirth 🇬🇧 • • •Programming. On my main desktop, I also have anISOsfolder to hold my OS ISOs for VMs and old CD-ROM game ISOs.anon_8675309
in reply to mbirth 🇬🇧 • • •SolarPunker
in reply to mbirth 🇬🇧 • • •AnarchistArtificer
in reply to mbirth 🇬🇧 • • •TurboWafflz
in reply to underscores • • •TropicalDingdong
in reply to underscores • • •Frosty
in reply to underscores • • •I have repos for things I’ve cloned from codeberg or other repositories.
There’s also Nextcloud for files I’ve synced from there.
DonutsRMeh
in reply to underscores • • •www-gem
in reply to underscores • • •Your organization will vary with your usage. If you're looking for something suitable for work, I would highly recommend the PARA approach.
fortelabs.com/blog/para/
I've tweaked it to my needs. Combined with fzf, it makes my workflow so smooth and efficient.
www-gem.codeberg.page/sys_stay…
The PARA Method: The Simple System for Organizing Your Digital Life in Seconds
Tiago Forte (Forte Labs)thejml
in reply to www-gem • • •www-gem
in reply to thejml • • •skankhunt42
in reply to underscores • • •/home/username/username/and I sym link important dirs (like Downloads) to my new home. I strongly dislike all the dot files and dirs cluttering up my home dir.RiderExMachina
in reply to skankhunt42 • • •underscores
in reply to RiderExMachina • • •pemptago
in reply to underscores • • •xdg-user-dirs-update --set DESKTOP "drop"to update the XDG directory and I delete "Desketop". So og commenter has the option of updating their userdirs to be nested in their username if they wanted to avoid symlinking. Here's the relevant arch wiki page and xdg freedesktop page.XDG user directories - ArchWiki
wiki.archlinux.orgAnarchistArtificer
in reply to pemptago • • •I don't use Arch, but I am eternally grateful for their excellent documentation.
I am also grateful to you for your comment, because this is a good idea
RiderExMachina
in reply to underscores • • •Reading back, my comment sounds snarky, but I was genuinely trying to be helpful.
Like what pemptago was describing, instead of symlinking your directories to /home/username/username, you could simply update that file and achieve the same effect, but in a more “official” way that may prove more robust.
Grey Cat
in reply to underscores • • •skankhunt42
in reply to RiderExMachina • • •BCsven
in reply to underscores • • •hushable
in reply to BCsven • • •~/Syncfolder with a symlink to all my Syncthing shares, which I have quite a lot of. Helps me find them quickly and reminds me that everything in there us pulled or pushed somewhere else.Grey Cat
in reply to BCsven • • •BCsven
in reply to Grey Cat • • •If you want it that way, but then I'd have a mix of synced folder and regular folders inside Documents.
I like to keep if completely separate, for backing up user documents via dejadup differently than the synced stuff.
phaedrus
in reply to underscores • • •I do a similar thing for code stuffs, generally always make a
~/Gitand~/Godotso I always have a spot for things.I also delete most of the auto-created ones if I'm using a DE that does that, because I have my own organization going on with various external/network drives. Only one I have always kept is
~/Downloads.TrickDacy
in reply to phaedrus • • •<sub>convention everyone is using and why is it sometimes</sub>?phaedrus
in reply to TrickDacy • • •I'm not sure exactly what you're asking about. Do you mean the directory names?
In unix,
~expands to the user's home directory path and/just separates each level in the path.TrickDacy
in reply to phaedrus • • •~. Which btw I'm familiar with 😀 Thanks for the response!phaedrus
in reply to TrickDacy • • •Ohhh, very odd. I've been noticing a lot of inconsistencies between Lemmy and PieFed like this, and now an app is something else entirely. Seems the fediverse is not unified on markdown support!
Apologies if I came off as condescending, not my intention.
TrickDacy
in reply to phaedrus • • •morto
in reply to underscores • • •chaoticnumber
in reply to underscores • • •A gits dir and a dir called "wd". Short for working dir.
Its a dumpfest of scripts, tomls, yamls, directories galore. The gits dir is where I keep my cmdb, that one is organized. wd is like a playground where I allow myself not to give a shit
monovergent
in reply to underscores • • •~/.drafts, in which my text editor taskbar shortcut script creates filesYYMMDD_text_N. I passionately believe in eliminating the chore of manually naming my spur-of-the-moment notes and text files.~/progsor~/binwhere loose programs not provided by my package manager reside.If there's a secondary drive,
/media/disk1as the mount point infstab.kutsyk_alexander
in reply to underscores • • •testfolder where I clone various git repisitories, compile programs from source or test some small scripts.PenguinCoder
in reply to underscores • • •Conventions I have are:
* Downloads folder is ephemeral, don't store/keep things in there I might want
* ~/scripts - personal scripts and one offs
* ~/Documents/projects/[subdir] - any tech project I may be working on, gets homed here
* /tmp - always mount it
noexecI also start off allocating ~ 50GB to
/(root) volumegroup. Wine and proton have been taking up nearly the full space though, may need to expand it on my desktop soon.QuarterSwede
in reply to underscores • • •Dave
in reply to underscores • • •Multiple people in this topic say they organise in directories for different programming languages, something I have never considered and I find it to be an odd way of organising for some reason I can't explain.
Where do you put a project with a Javascript frontend and a Python backend?
underscores
in reply to Dave • • •Dave
in reply to underscores • • •Why group it into language instead of say a 'web' directory or 'android'/'mobile'?
I'm just curious, I am more of a 'throw everything in one directory and home I remember what I'm looking for' sort of organiser.
vandsjov
in reply to Dave • • •Grey Cat
in reply to Dave • • •Honestly it's a pretty good way of compartmentalizing projects in your mind.
You usually remember pretty well what language your wrote a project in.
And if you want to find a project again you just have to look in that language's directory.
Second advantage is that if there's a language you only fucked around a little for fun, it doesn't clutter the directories of your most used languages.
Dave
in reply to Grey Cat • • •underscores
in reply to Dave • • •Starfighter
in reply to Dave • • •somecommandcould becargo cleanif you're in the Rust directory for example.Quibblekrust
in reply to Dave • • •ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
in reply to underscores • • •I generally follow the same pattern as you.
~/Codewith programming language based sub folders. But there's also a~/Code/Workand~/Code/Orgswhich is for code that has a certain purpose. Generally the by-language subfolders are for projects I cloned, not authored. There is a fair amount of symlinking also.Also
/datafor long term storage drives. Directories under~/Audioand~/Videowill usually symlink to there.lilith267
in reply to underscores • • •mystic-macaroni
in reply to underscores • • •SolarPunker
in reply to underscores • • •Pika
in reply to underscores • • •Ricaz
in reply to Pika • • •bot?Pika
in reply to Ricaz • • •RedSnt 👓♂️🧩 🧠 🖥️
in reply to Pika • • •~/.local/optfolder makes so much sense. I'm currently just using a~/.optfolder, same purpose.Pika
in reply to RedSnt 👓♂️🧩 🧠 🖥️ • • •beerclue
in reply to underscores • • •~/work/code/project-name-1,~/work/code/project-name-2or~/priv/code/project-name-3, but not by language... I only separate work and private repositories.golden_zealot
in reply to underscores • • •~I usually make~/Applicationfor flatpaks/appimages etc,~/Scriptfor any kind of script I write in bash, python, or whatever else,~/Audiofor audio/music production stuff, and~/Gamesfor emulators and such.~/Documentsis reserved for actual documents containing text data usually.hushable
in reply to underscores • • •From back when I used to freelance as a photo and video editor.
~/Mediawhich was a mount point for my second hard drive with all the personal and paid customer's I was working on, it was a mix of Music, Photos and Videos that I was creating, but not consuming if that makes sense.Just a remnant from back when I had a small SSD with my OS and a second larger mechanical drive for everything else
IsoKiero
in reply to underscores • • •vandsjov
in reply to IsoKiero • • •justlemmyin
in reply to underscores • • •Björn
in reply to justlemmyin • • •~/Porn.☂️-
in reply to Björn • • •Strit
in reply to underscores • • •I usually create
~/git/{github,gitlab,codeberg,AUR,etc}where I clone the git stuff I need.The rest is usually handled by my nextcloud that creates the ~/Nextcloud folder.
Matt
in reply to underscores • • •IanTwenty
in reply to Matt • • •This dir structure for git projects is the best one I think, especially if managing multiple identities/git configurations. Git has a 'includeif' to change your setup depending on which dir you are currently in:
git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_i…
Git - git-config Documentation
git-scm.comtyler
in reply to underscores • • •~/dev~/dev/oss~/dev/work~/dev/personalobscure0602
in reply to underscores • • •pineapple
in reply to underscores • • •oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]
in reply to underscores • • •A projects folder, usually. All the other folders at the root of $HOME are created by some application or another (XDG folder creator, applications that don't respect XDG).
I make a YouTube subfolder to be downloaded YouTube videos in, and subfolders for podcasts, but those aren't at the root of $HOME.
mesa
in reply to underscores • • •Ricaz
in reply to underscores • • •FauxLiving
in reply to Ricaz • • •Random Dent
in reply to FauxLiving • • •TriangleSpecialist
in reply to Ricaz • • •Ricaz
in reply to TriangleSpecialist • • •Dafuq are you doing in other people's homes?
Sysadmins are all creeps, confirmed
TriangleSpecialist
in reply to Ricaz • • •Breaking pots. Don't mind me.
EDIT: holdup, who are you calling a sysadmin? I administer my system, sure, but that's about as far as I'm willing to go, thank you.
Victor
in reply to TriangleSpecialist • • •Are those the Triforce triangles perhaps?
TriangleSpecialist
in reply to Victor • • •It might be?...
Oops, I meant to say: "hayaaa"
Victor
in reply to TriangleSpecialist • • •Random Dent
in reply to Ricaz • • •Evil_Shrubbery
in reply to Ricaz • • •There are 15 year olds using Lemmy??
/s (my documents folder is the same, but older ... much a lot too many very older :|)
communism
in reply to Ricaz • • •Infrapink
in reply to underscores • • •I
rsyncmy home folder across installs. These are my standard extra folders.~/Books, with subfolders by topic.~/Comics, with subfolders by publisher, then by title, possibly with an intermediate folder for author or franchise.~/Programming, with subfolders by language, then project.MyNameIsRichard
in reply to underscores • • •~/Projects - for my coding projects
~/Qt - which holds the Qt framework
~/Torrents - For torrents that I share
Cysio
in reply to underscores • • •utopiah
in reply to underscores • • •~/Prototypesfor ... my prototypes, typically either starting from an empty directory or cloning a repository and adapting it for my needs. I have this directory on nearly all my devices, desktop of course but also NAS, server, phone, standalone XR headset, etc.~/Appsin addition to~/bin, typically binaries but all AppImagestreep
in reply to underscores • • •~/diy for my collection of knitting, crochet and sewing patterns and other assorted diy stuff
~/work duh.
~/tools for my collection of more or less useful small scripts
~/sync for my syncthing folders
~/data symlink to my data partition (most of the others are also symlinks to their location on data)
I don't really have a convention for programming projects yet. They used to land inside of ~/diy or in ~/tools or just random folders on data. I've got a ~/code folder now, but its contents are a mess.
VoxAliorum
in reply to treep • • •InFerNo
in reply to underscores • • •Projectsfor all kinds of projectsaur_buildsfor the package I use from the AUR. No hand holding here, I build and install my AUR packages artisanally.like this
Mechanize likes this.
Victor
in reply to InFerNo • • •mko
in reply to underscores • • •- Anything under ~/Projects that isn’t just a throwaway will be a git repo.
- Anything under ~/Documents/Project/*Repo will be a git repo.
hexagonwin
in reply to underscores • • •Björn
in reply to underscores • • •I usually make
~/Packagesfor various binary packages that I can't add as repos for whatever reason. And~/Packages/srcfor stuff I compile myself.And
~/Gamesfor games.stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]
in reply to underscores • • •Especially for systems remotely managed by ssh:
~/Desktop/stuff/mystuff/junk/funny/
aesopjah
in reply to underscores • • •~/note
~/sync
~/docs (/book etc)
~/imgs
~/util
~/test
~/temp
Caveman
in reply to underscores • • •I just at ~/projects it contains a boat load of stuff including my Neovim and bash stuff.
Guys, use GNU Stow + git for your configs shit's good.
Victor
in reply to Caveman • • •Evil_Shrubbery
in reply to underscores • • •\
~/Stuff
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~/Stuffs
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~/Stuffz
\
~/Shits
SayCyberOnceMore
in reply to Evil_Shrubbery • • •Evil_Shrubbery
in reply to SayCyberOnceMore • • •\
This isn't a game.
stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]
in reply to underscores • • •NutWrench
in reply to underscores • • •~/Transfer
for SyncThing
biocoder.ronin
in reply to underscores • • •I have internal RAID1s that store at least two directories apart from any OS or home dev.
../repos
../misc
Misc contain timestamp fstabs, mdadm.conf, rust/python/apt user-inatalled package names, among other notes and small files.
I also sync my master org directory between my documents snapshots and the repos dir
bitwolf
in reply to underscores • • •~/devfor code~/workfor things I don't want to do, like taxesApparatus
in reply to bitwolf • • •bitwolf
in reply to Apparatus • • •~/codesteeznson
in reply to bitwolf • • •devorlocaldir for code.KaChilde
in reply to underscores • • •~/Homework (porn)
~/aaaaaaa (porn)
~/Stuff (memes, with a porn subfolder)
~/misc (work docs, study docs, forms, some porn)
Holytimes
in reply to KaChilde • • •xor
in reply to Holytimes • • •That Weird Vegan
in reply to KaChilde • • •vortexal
in reply to underscores • • •selokichtli
in reply to underscores • • •Baguette
in reply to underscores • • •Archive
Archive archive
Archive_11_2025
I am not good at organizing
communism
in reply to underscores • • •~/{nextcloud,git,pictures/screenshots,music,docs,videos}In terms of what I manually create. Dot directories normally get automatically created but I guess I'd create a
~/.configif it didn't get created.cevn
in reply to underscores • • •Count Regal Inkwell
in reply to underscores • • •~/Brojetos(anything relating to making stuff, writing, drawing, video creation, programming, etc., professional or personal)~/temp(a non-hidden temp folder with a script that wipes it when the PC shuts down or reboots, used for downloads and such to prevent the "downloads folder is an abomination" problem that plagues any computer after a while of usage)~/AppsGames(appimages, applications compiled from source and not installed to system, personal use scripts, wineprefixes, non-steam games)aaaand
~/OtherAminals(for stuff I want to keep but have no idea where else to place)homura1650
in reply to underscores • • •NauticalNoodle
in reply to underscores • • •Lettuce eat lettuce
in reply to underscores • • •~/Repos (For all the github and other code repositories I work in)
~/Scripts (All my random Bash scripts, sometimes for testing out stuff)
~/Junk (Mostly used for testing programs or small project components that aren't mature enough to have their own repo)
moopet
in reply to underscores • • •~/tmp
~/temp
~/temper
~/tempest
~/misc
/mnt/other (symlinked)
termaxima
in reply to underscores • • •Code goes in the
Developerfolder(I got used to that name on macOS, where it is the "canonical" name for it, because it automatically gets a special icon)
Moondye
in reply to underscores • • •~/repos/ for git repos
~/audio/ for my sound library and recordings
Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ
in reply to underscores • • •I don't, on most machines, which are servers of some sort. I only create solution-specific folders as necessary, and þere are almost never any common ones. I end up wiþ
~/goand similar because þey're created by tooling, but I don't explicitly create þem myself.For my PCs, I've been carrying forward my
${HOME}for over a decade. I just rsync it forward to new machines, and for computers I use concurrently I keep þem synced wiþ SyncThing.Renohren
in reply to underscores • • •Theoriginalthon
in reply to underscores • • •northernlights
in reply to underscores • • •qjkxbmwvz
in reply to northernlights • • •~/tmpman myself.fum
in reply to underscores • • •owsei
in reply to underscores • • •~/codefor code~/dotsfor git-backed nix configs~/.rtfor projects compiled locally ("runtime")~/Screencastfor recordings of my screenI also create a ~/.shrc.bash symlink that points to ~/dots/bash/bashrc that reats ~/dots/bash/*.bash and sources the files
~/.shenv.bash where I keep environment (computer) specific settings
taaz
in reply to underscores • • •~/Projectswhich has everything I ever cloned or started.yes, it's getting kind of painful to backup 😁
Auth
in reply to underscores • • •Public - for everything im seeding and sharing
Apps - for all app images
Games - for all lutris spam and random failed attempts at installing mods.
Chewt
in reply to underscores • • •~/Scripts for any bash or python scripts
~/Gits for any repos I clone
~/Projects for any projects im working on (not organized by programming language, but I do have some dirs called zig, go, etc., for when im learning a new language and want to make some projects for learning purposes)
Most other files go into ~/Documents if they don’t have a home already, or don’t fit into the above directories
sem
in reply to underscores • • •I make an \~/all/ directory as a catchall for things that don't fit elsewhere, since \~ is used by so many automatic softwares and config files, I like having a place that only I'll write to.
I also make \~/bin for general use and \~/all/GitHub/ for software I install from GitHub.