There's an effort underway to form a Fediverse Club at Georgia Tech, to bring together students, staff and faculty interested in the Fediverse:
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There's an effort underway to form a Fediverse Club at Georgia Tech, to bring together students, staff and faculty interested in the Fediverse:
The Defense Department is opening an investigation to determine if the tech giant’s use of overseas engineers to maintain sensitive U.S. government computer systems compromised national security.
“The program was designed to comply with contracting rules, but it exposed the department to unacceptable risk,” Hegseth said in a video announcement posted on X. “If you’re thinking America first and common sense, this doesn’t pass either of those tests.”
I’m agreeing with Pete Hegseth? WTF is happening right now?
The US has long since had a practice of outsourcing labor many times over in pursuit of the lowest labor costs and maximum profit.
Getting your girdle in a twist because you found out the guy on Fiverr debugging your middleware has non-White ancestors maybe misses the root of the problem.
??? This is about giving chinese nationals root access to US military IT systems to save money. It's actually terrible opsec and should be a way worse scandal.
This is about giving chinese nationals root access
Not how software development works. I don't have root access to every production system because I can submit pull requests to a Dev instance of the code.
It’s actually terrible opsec
One of the principles of FOSS is that you shouldn't need security through obscurity. Knowing how a system works won't compromise its integrity if the security protocols are sound. Having third parties participate in a project shouldn't compromise the project if the lead developers are doing proper code review and QA. A system that is predicated on being a black box to a hostile government in order to maintain security is rigged for failure.
But, more importantly, the idea that a foreign government can only obtain information on the inner workings of a system when people of that national origin work on the project is severely shortsighted. Do you genuinely believe there aren't significant numbers of domestic American developers of European ancestry who wouldn't happily sell access to a foreign government for the right price? Do you genuinely believe there aren't numbers who could be gulled into exposing the inner workings of their software inadvertently?
Nothing about Hegseth's complaint improves operational security. He's hinging his whole worldview on the notion that every other white person at Microsoft is as much of a nationalist as he pretends to be.
U.S. personnel with security clearances supervise foreign engineers, including those in China
Again, working on a codebase doesn't give you access to the production systems. Neither does being Chinese affect whether you are a reliable third party contractor.
If the workers were supervised and the supervisors were competent, there was no real security risk. Both of those are the big "Ifs" though. And that's why doing layers of outsourcing creates risks regardless of who you're outsourcing to.
The supervisors did not have the expertise to know what the foreign workers were doing, otherwise there would not have had to be 2 workers in the first place. And the foreign workers were not just writing code - they were doing sysadmin. On DoD systems.
I don't know how to make any more clear to you but it's completely obvious to anyone that actually understands these things that this was terrible opsec, and obviously not how any reasonable person would expect a DoD contract to be managed.
Google, Amazon and several other gov contractors have been loosening their hiring guidelines since the Obama era when it was required for anyone working on gov cloud or gov anything needed to be U.S. Citizen, then it was just on U.S. soil to finally has to be monitored or reviewed by someone in U.S. which very quickly devolved to get the work done even if no one in the U.S. is awake. As you can imagine it would be easy for anyone to slip and take advantage of such wide gaps in security.
I’m agreeing with Pete Hegseth? WTF is happening right now?
I mean, listen to your gut instincts, which is that you're being foolish because he is a fool.
If your system demands trust, it's a bad system. If your system has a written set of rules that don't actually cover your requirements, it's a bad system. If the "tests" you imagine post-hoc aren't part of the system, you're just opportunistically trying to shift the blame.
You made a deal, set the parameters, and what... Expected the for profit company to ignore their fiduciary duty to shareholders to maximize profit? What is this, your first fucking day of capitalism, Pete?
His response to this is engineered to shift blame, and he's coming out swinging because ultimately he is to blame. It's barely more than a political catchphrase. He literally invoked "America First".
Technically backwards, those who encouraged and signed off on the deployment of Microsoft products breached security standards. If they did not ensure the contract ensured compliance with all applicable security requirements then they should not have given Microsoft a free pass to pools of money.
The same applies to virtually all fortune 1000 contracts that the Department of Defense has. Let the pain flow.
I have a weird take whenever stuff like this comes up but its in my humble opinion that world governments shouldn't rely on corporate developed software or even maybe hardware.
This is definitely hindsight is always 20/20 sort of thinking but governments should have long ago realized that trusting the likes of Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. would leave them reliant on their innovations and also subject to their whims, mistakes, and more.
Basically I'm saying World governments all need their own internal OS developed and maintained internally by an official subdivision of said governments, and maybe even a separate branch developing internally utilized hardware.
Never gonna happen, and I'm sure there are issues with this solution, but its a hypothetical I think about whenever something tech related and the government comes up in the news, which is pretty much every day now.
No, and I'm sure the various OS's that have been made by Governments have their (sometimes severe) flaws. But it is a potential solution to government reliance on corporate technologies nevertheless.
And also community profits. But I don't see it happen because politicians are dumb. In my country (EU) they still use X and Facebook only to communicate on social media. Microsoft is also heavily embedded in all pores.
This is definitely hindsight is always 20/20 sort of thinking but governments should have long ago realized that trusting the likes of Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. would leave them reliant on their innovations and also subject to their whims, mistakes, and more.
Well, I would suppose that a government, if it really want, have more than one way to solve this problem, it is not a small business that can't fight back. And it can fight back in more ways than just "I will switch vendor"
Basically I’m saying World governments all need their own internal OS developed and maintained internally by an official subdivision of said governments, and maybe even a separate branch developing internally utilized hardware.
Yes, but it would be a nightmare to communicate even with your allies if everyone has a different OS running on differen hardware since at some point you will need to communicate with someone.
in which U.S. personnel with security clearances supervise foreign engineers, including those in China.
From the security clearance perspective there really isn't any difference between China based engineers, Chinese spies, and Joe America accessing classified code without being cleared by the DoD.
If an individual did this "escort" scheme, they would be arrested.
I have been held at gunpoint by a giggling marine because I was escorted through a door I shouldn’t have been.
I had the necessary clearance and access but I wasn’t read in or scheduled and despite it not being my fault I was still held until I was cleared to not be.
Someone should warn them that the use of Fox News puppets to lead government departments is not only a breach of trust, but also makes the country more vulnerable.
Wrong. This is operational security warfare. China, Russia, and every adversary should be holding the same attitude towards us if they're worth their salt at protecting their internal national assets.
It doesn't matter that its Chinese people by blood, its Team-U vs Team-C.
Now, the shitbags crying about this probably are doing it from ill-intentioned positions and are most definitely racist, but while their broad intentions are evil, this is one of those cliché "broken clock right twice a day" moments.
The plant will generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year—enough to help run a nearby desalination facility and supply around 220 homes. That equals the output of two soccer fields of solar panels, but osmotic power keeps running day and night, in any weather.
This seems like a terrible use, since these plants work by mixing fresh water with seawater (or in this case the brine leftover from desalination). I guess the catch is they can use treated wastewater instead of potable water.
This method gains very little net energy compared to other renewables.
“While energy is released when the salt water is mixed with fresh water, a lot of energy is lost in pumping the two streams into the power plant and from the frictional loss across the membranes. This means that the net energy that can be gained is small,” said Kentish.
Because osmotic power has enormous potential in the sense that millions of cubic meters of fresh water is running into oceans all over the world every minute. If we're able to get even a low-efficiency method of using the salinity gradient to generate power working then every place a river meets the sea is essentially an unlimited (albeit low-yield) power source.
This is tech that doesn't rely on elevation (like hydropower) or weather conditions (like wind/solar) it's stable and in principle possible to set up at pretty much any river outlet, which is great!
Oh absolutely. As with all other infrastructure, there is a cost to be paid. However, when you look at an average to small river, even routing 10 % of the water via an osmosis plant before passing it to the sea is an absolutely massive volume. There's also the point that you don't want to build these things in large, meandering, flat river deltas. You want a large salinity gradient, which means relatively small, fast-running fresh water meeting the ocean more "suddenly" than what you get in a classical river delta is the optimal source here.
Returning to this thread long after everyone has moved on.
How do you get enough net energy out of mixing brine from desalination with fresh water to use to separate saltwater into brine and fresh water? Especially when the energy producing method is already known to have poor efficiency?
This seems like this is just terrible at converting treated wastewater into drinking water. Must have something to do with government subsidies instead.
In my part of the EU this year, we had very very many days of negative sale prices and having to curtail wind parks because just solar and wind were making up more than demand during the day. Afaik we only curtailed at night one time.
Source: wrote curtailment algorithms for wind turbines
Do you go to bed at sunset? Do you turn off your heat at sunset in the winter? Maybe you do, but most people don't.
Also, most people with an electric car and a garage to park it can just use a cheap Level 1 charger to trickle charge it whenever it's in the garage and always have plenty of range for their commute and errands. This means all of those cars are charging. .... at night while the owner sleeps.
It sounds like they're not quite using fresh water, but waste water. I presume it's been treated, but even if it's not 100% back to potable, if this also helps solve the problem of what to do with the brine after desalination, I think it's a win all around.
(salty water + unpotable fresh water) → (salty water + potable fresh water + energy)
...with a few steps in between. Even if most of the power is used in running the plant, you end up with potable fresh water and no brine being dumped into the ocean, which is a net win.
Aside from obvious confusion of running a water desalination plant by salinating water, there's one more concern: outside of such installations, don't we have quite a limited supply of fresh water? Sure, saltwater is everywhere, but fresh water is relatively scarce.
Another thought: what if we would instead use concentrated brine from desalination plant and seawater? Yes, power will be lower, but this way we don't use fresh water that we, erm, try to produce.
Desalinating water gives you potable fresh water, whereas the fresh water being used might require treatment before being potable? Or it's unreliable supply. IDK, few possible reasons, I'm just speculating
"Treated" means the solids and goo that may have been a problem has been removed. It is mostly water, a lot a fecal bacteries, and diverse dissolved chemical that wasn't removed.
I think the article author is completely confused and doesn't understand what's happening. There are hints of what's happening in this paragraph.
Fresh water—or treated wastewater—is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater, made even saltier by concentrating leftover brine from a desalination process. The difference in saltiness pulls the fresh water across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side. That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity.
I don't think any fresh water is being used. I think what's actually happening is...
Very salty wastewater (from the desalinization plant) is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater. The difference in saltiness pulls the wastewater across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side (or maybe the other way around). That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity. The waste then is just water that's saltier than sea water, but less salty than what came from the desalinization plant.
According to Japanese sources Mainichi, it is indeed treated waste water one one side and desalination brine on the other. Both the waste water and brine are meant to be dumped anyway, and it's also harmful to sea life to dump brine directly. Treated waste water isn't saline, so is perfect for diluting the brine. Might as well get some free power out of it.
Lots of places treat their wastewater and then discharge it. For example, where I live, wastewater, that is to say, sewage which has had solids filtered out, is still rather pooey and pissy but not salty, gets treated (I don't know how) and is then injected into natural underground aquifers where it eventually percolates out to bores or springs where it's collected and used for irrigation, contributes to natural springs, or possibly even winds up in a drinking water catchment.
All wastewater, regardless what happens to it, has to be treated before release. If it's still 99.9% fresh, then why not use it to create osmotic pressure before dumping it.
It really depends. Osmosis is a chemical process, so if the source of the radiation would be filtered, then it would remove the radioactive component. If the water is made with radioactive isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen, it would just flow through.
But the desalination process is powered by the energy manufacturing, the water is not shared between them. I was more thinking about the safety and capability of the energy manufacturing, as fallout makes other systems much more difficult.
Well, yes, dumping irradiated water into the ocean was always an option. So long as the power-generating components aren't the same as the desalination components, you're good as far as the potable water is concerned. This isn't much of a solution for the irradiated water, though, any more than just dumping it into the ocean was in the first place.
In July 2021, a sudden drop in Tor usage in Turkmenistan called our attention. Tor would come to understand that this marked the beginning of a new era of censorship and restriction in this post-Soviet country. But let's rewind...
Over the years, the Tor Project has called for action to run more bridges, Snowflake proxies, while we've investigated and adapted our anti-censorship strategies, and shared information about online censorship in Turkmenistan.
Modern censorship circumvention systems are generally built around the concept of "collateral damage", where a censor cannot block access without blocking the entire internet or popular online services. However, in Turkmenistan, the censors' behavior has been strikingly different. They have openly blocked vast parts of the internet without concern for the collateral consequences, sparking curiosity: why do Turkmenistan's censors seem unbothered by the collateral damage their actions cause?
There is a huge decision facing Michigan voters in an already huge 2026 election: whether to vote to convene a constitutional convention (also known as a “Con-Con”) to rewrite the state’s entire constitution. The implications are enormous.
Verizon has confirmed to customers in stores and online that its network is having an issue on Saturday. Many people have been unable to connect and make or receive calls for hours, while DownDetector’s tracker peaked in the afternoon at around 3:30PM ET with more than 20,000 reports. Some customers report their service has continued to function throughout the day, so it’s unclear what the cause is exactly.
Downdetector’s outage map showed hotspots in many cities, and Verizon didn’t specifically list affected areas. On X, the @VerizonSupport account confirmed the issue in response to customers’ questions, but didn’t have additional details on restoration or how widespread it is
The rabid amount of Linux fanboyism on Lemmy is quite off putting in general. Any conversation about Microsoft gets brigaded with “Just use Linux!” even if the conversation has nothing to do with it. It makes it a pain to have any decent discourse about things.
Think people who got on lemmy originally lean techy (and thus more likely to use linux and be passionate about it), and people who joined after the IPO thing have more diverse reasons for abandoning reddit.
I am a professional designer with two decades of experience and I gotta admit, you're smoking crack if you think GIMP (the project that is almost entirely held back by its stupid name) is superior to Photoshop.
It might be able to get the job done for small tasks, but it is not a serious tool for serious people. I'm sorry. I'm as pro-FLOSS as anyone can get, and even I recognize that right now there's just no competition in the design department. Affinity is Mac-only, and comes with its own problematic aspects.
Except it really isn't, unfortunately. As someone who fucking hates adobe and Photoshop, GIMP falls far short. Photoshop is made to work as part of a toolkit, and GIMP isn't interested in any form of compatibility. Take, for example, an issue that's been around (and in the bug tracker) since the release of 2.10. Something about the way GIMP handles colors means that most programs can't use alpha channels output by GIMP correctly, and see it as having much higher contrast than it's meant to. The stance seems to be that this is intended behavior. However, this is clearly not the case, as even when only using GIMP, re-importing the image shows that, even though the contrast is correct, data was still lost.
Show me an OSS alternative to Excel that actually does tables, one of the most used, basic functions in excel.
I use tables every day for things like:I have a list of movies, sort them by producer. Or by production date. Or main actor. All these require a a single click on a column, something Open Office devs refuse to ever implement.
I use Linux every day for my servers, but not as my desktop. There's too much stuff like this that I don't have time for.
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agree 100% on gimp. It took me about a year to get used to it and now I have a free license for photoshop at work, but I still prefer gimp 2.8 on my work computer with windows. At home I use Gimp on linux all day nearly every day and do texture editing for games all of the time. Very productive tool.
I think its mostly sunk cost and "i dont want to invest time to learn new things" that keeps people on windows.
Work is a separate thing. My work laptop runs windows, a matter I dont have a say in. But for personal use cases? I feel there are exceptionally few that are more than "i have to change the programs I use and learn how new ones work". And if that's too major a barrier for someone to overcome, good for them. The least they can do is say "I dont want to use Linux because its too much effort".
To a lot of people it's difficult. Vendor lock-in, support, cartels (the old kind) and familiarity are very important factors in choosing what you're going to use to compute things.
We should embrace the new ones and build things that they are going to use.
There are legitimate reasons not to use Linux, but the user interface is not one of them, Linux can be way friendlier UI-wise than windows, see Desktops like cinnamon.
The only issue I have with my Index is that linux somehow prioritizes it over my main monitor when booting so i have to plug it in after booting and then all works fine.
Yeah, linux can be almost anything you want it to be. It'll run faster and look and feel just the same as windows, if not better. The only bad thing, and I say this as someone who's still on windows and will switch soon^tm^, is that there's a lot of work that comes with that.
A friend of mine who's all about linux is always fixing something about his installation. Though from what I know, he's using Arch, which apparently is less stable/needs more work to get going (something about bleeding edge).
Only reason why I haven't changed yet is because of VR and adobe programs. As soon as VR is a bit more seamless and I get replacements for adobe I'm off of windows.
WiVRn from quest app store, wivrn desktop app. I also needed xrizer nightly for secondary gun mode to work in half life alyx. Can't guarantee much else though since I only really play beat saber.
Yeah same for me with my rift cv1 the current driver altough better than before is still pretty bad in comparison to windows like 50fps at best and with other drivers it gets 28 fps.
What Linux are you using? I wanted to do the switch soon to either zorin or buzzite, but I would also like to keep using my valve index. Reading this here makes me reluctant to complete the switch.
I am using opensuse but it is hard to build monado or openhmd with it necause some packages you need to get from fedora because they dont exist or have a version tag with _SUSE which makes it not see that the package is there. I would recommend something more mainstream: Arch, fedora, debian and etc. But bazzite should work I think I succeefully ran my rift on it for a little bit.
If you truly believe a Mac is locked down more than North Korea you need to do some research. And I pray you never find out how locked down North Korea is first hand.
I didn't say that I did. Please don't put words into my mouth.
There’s a million billion reasons to knock MacOS, but saying it’s too locked down in a thread about Linux is wild. They’re both Unix based OSes. They’re siblings. If you’re comfortable enough with a command line to terminal your way through managing Linux then you’re capable enough to terminal your way through MacOS and get it to do anything you could get Linux to do.
And I hope you're not dumb enough to stay on 10 after end of support. The 0-day fallout for the Nintendo 3DS was pretty big, people had been sitting on exploits for months waiting for the final EOL patch to drop. For a higher-value target like Windows 10? It's gonna be terrifying. Get "Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024" from the mass grave if Windows is the only OS that works for you - it has lower hardware requirements and significantly less crapware. But don't stay on 10 past EOL.
Microsoft owns GitHub, which hosts mass graves. If they wanted people to stop using Windows and Office for free, they could make that happen by flipping a few switches. Given a choice between "pirating" Microsoft products and using an alternative, Microsoft wants you to use their stuff for free. Anything but give Linux any oxygen.
It's Microsoft's own activation mechanism, not some backdoor crack. The point is they know full well it exists and are doing nothing to curb it, because they don't want FOSS picking up steam. Microsoft doesn't make their money off consumers. They make their money off enterprises that don't view Linux environments as feasible because all their workers have ever known is Windows.
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Ah. The fuck key. That's the one that most had it's rounds imo. Good memories. Even though I had a legit windows for free back then thanks to my student account.
Doesn't windows eventually shut down every hour when you don't activate it? Or is that just their shitty development VM that does that so I have to reinstall it every 30 days?
i think the only things these days for 'unactivated windows' (home, pro editions) is inability to 'customize the desktop' (change wallpaper, theme...) and occasional activation nags.
it doesn't quit working or shutdown (iirc enterprise or server trials do that after they expire, though) or quit getting updates or anything like that.
I highly doubt they can't stop it and slightly suspect they don't want to. You can install any version of Windows (even enterprise), use MASgrave, wipe the whole thing, reinstall it, and it'll pass online activation as genuine. There's just no way that's an accident.
I recently downloaded this file from Audioz (I didn't run the exe, just extracted the rar.) Check out the comments, many people have run it through sandbox environments like any.run or hybrid analysis and gotten iffy results:
This is a popular upload on Audioz and is also listed directly on Team VR's website, so what gives? I thought Team VR was considered safe. Maybe someone experienced needs to look at their stuff a little more closely?
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Alt text: Meme caption: "When you forget to bring your reusable bags to the grocery store", below is an image of Dexter from Dexter's laboratory weeping as he strokes a picture of the earth, saying "I have failed you!"
That is way worse than just getting single use if you are just collecting them and not actually using them. Reusable are a net positive only if you actually reuse them hundreds of times.
I'm sure the millionaires and the billionaires are telling themselves the same thing while sitting in their pritave jet en route to the 'grocery' store.
No. I still bring my reusable bag to the store. I never had a car, use a bike or public transit. I 've always been very careful. But it's just very disappointing to see some moderately rich asshole ruin all of my lifetime efforts in a day. Also, the pandemic showed me that most people don't give a fuck and just wanted to go back to "normal" polluting.
In fact, the whole plastic industry convinced people over the years into cleaning and recycling it instead of reducing its use. Also, I'm sure some of you know that lots of reusable bags are just thicker plastic, that they need to be reused a whole lots of times before being "ecological", that some people like to collect them, and that it can ends up being worse than using disposable ones.
We just can't stop the consumption, but somehow, bringing a reusable bag will remove the guilt.
I still feel very guilty and like it's a failure every time I have to use a car, but that's just me because everyone is encouraging me to get one and use them. Just get an electric one. They are heavier and require like tones of batteries to move 1.5 person around, and their reusable bags, but they are "ecological"!
Google's emissions have risen by 50% in a few years, mostly because of AI. So I try to avoid using "AI". But apparently, most people don't have those concerns.
When I see all the ways the people around me pollute, consume and dispose, the reusable bag is low on the list of things I feel guilty about.
Fear not for there is still enough room in my backpack for some essentials. I may have to carry my water bottle in hand, but this is a sacrifice I am willing to make for the greater good.
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This is why I keep boxes from in the back of my truck and just load them up, I hope to find industrial milk crates to replace the cardboard.
Also before folks come at me I drive an 01 Toyota Tacoma which has gas mileage comparable to a particularly inefficient motorcycle. Its the best I can afford.
Last I remember, a cloth bag needs to be used for a minimum of 1000 grocery trips for it to even begin to offset the environmental cost of making it.
Now, I've had mine for 5 years. So I'm making good progress.
But I do miss the plastic ones just because I always used them as garbage bags. The tax on plastic grocery bags are nuts. They cost a buck each. Unless you buy 50 of them for garbage use... then they're all of a sudden dirt cheap and so thin it feels like breathing on them will poke a hole.
So one cloth bag is equal to 1,000 plastic bags? That doesn't seem right. Certainly it can't be taken into effect that garbage created by the 1,000 plastic bags.
Yes I understand the cotton bag will take a lot more than a plastic bag to create. I'm just doubting the Thousand to one number. But again what I'm really really doubting is that they've taken into account the effect of a thousand bags have after they're made. Which is rather the point of switching to the cotton bags in the first place. Or other types of bags by the way they don't all have to be cotton. I've never owned a cotton one. Not sure why that has to be our only example here.
Here is some info from the UN. They take into account a lot of factors beyond carbon output, including acidification of oceans and land use changes. So the 1000 uses is how many uses to be better in all categories. For carbon output, it is around 150 uses.
I guess it depends which categories are more important to you. Plastic is obviously going to be superior in agricultural run-off issues. Cloth is obviously superior in micro plastic emissions. They don't evaluate microplastics though, so it might be skewed in favour of plastic.
More reusable and personal than a factory bag, and you already know how to mend it to keep it going. Uses less raw resources than a plastic bag, as it was going to the trash anyways. It's a great beginner sewing project.
I have this folding/ collapsible crate I keep in my trunk of my car. ( yeah I know car) I love it it holds like 6 bags worth of stuff. Makes 2 trips bringing things in and out of the car into one( no need to do the Heman 10 bags in one hand thing). I always forget bring in the bags I keep in my car but I enjoy using the crate so there is that.
Also I know the crate probably uses same amount of plastic as like a million bags or something. But I have had the crate before the bag thing became an issue and use it for things like camping and day trips. Also I now buy small plastic bags to pick up my dogs shit instead of using the bags I got from the store. Also buy bags for my bathroom now. I wonder how much plastic I have saved by not using plastic bags at the store...
I think it was all a scam to get me to pay for them. Just like the plastic straw. Cool you gave me a paper straw to save the planet or what ever and even charged me for it but then you give me my drink in a FUCKING PLASTIC CUP. WTF. FUCK YOU.
Happened to me today. I just bring everything to my car in the cart, pit ‘em in the trunk and bag ‘em when I get home, to carry inside. It’s not that bad.
This definitely reads like you're saying teens are ignoring planetary extinction and just letting it happen, but I think you intended the opposite lmao
Is there even a small kernel of truth backing this up? What 'something else' is there other than laying flat?
Or like, are there any last-ditch options for some chronically-ill middle-aged homebody like me? A transhumanist cult, a real-life equivalent to a Rimworld colony, some like-minded individuals living on a boat who can make it to my local port that need a sweeper or mediocre heat-intolerant stirfry-cook who can't swim? No?
Half-ethical brain preservation testing, put me in a The Matrix? I'd roll the dice, the bar is really low at this point.
There is. Gen Z is the most progressive generation, from stocks to our purchases to our dreams (e.g. living a simple life in a farm) we are creating the hyperstructure required for a new economic base. A friend, who doesn’t even know what solarpunk is and is very startup oriented wanted to created what is basically a small commune with other friends. The dominoes are falling into place. What you can do is find your own role in the future.
Everything everyone has told you about how things work and the fairness of the system is a lie. Good luck dealing with that.
Also, all the adults who you were brought up to look at as the keepers of the world are actively making it worse and/or going insane.
You have no money, no power, no experience, you're outnumbered and under-resourced, and those same screwed up adults have been actively sabotaging your mental acuity and development for more or less your entire lives.
So you'd better get to fixing it! What's wrong with you lazy bums?"
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At least 63,371 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, as 10 more people died of starvation in the enclave, the Health Ministry said on Saturday, Anadolu reports.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Estonia as part of her four-day front-line state tour, aimed at stressing solidarity with border states and supporting the development of Europe's defense industry.
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Germany is bringing back a form of conscription to encourage more young people to become soldiers. But in some European countries, conscription never went away.
Does anyone else find it Odd that the number two community for Lemmy is piracy? It's not exactly a good image is it.... 😏
I mean here we are all privacy advocates fighting for the honest man's right to be private on the internet...and yet it kind of seems to validate the idea that the only people who want privacy have something scandalous to engage in 🥴
Anyone have anything to say for themselves? Or would it be true to say that the only people who want privacy online want to engage in things like pornography or stealing?
Sorry... are you talking about piracy or privacy? They're different things, you start off referring to piracy but most of your post is about privacy 😛
Anyways I've never considered Lemmy as a "privacy" platform so it's not really how or why I ended up here. Most Lemmy instances don't even allow Tor usage, some block VPN usage too, and most require an email to sign up and register. On top of that each Lemmy instance is going to be as private as the instance admin is willing to make it.
I think part of that is because a significant number of /r/Piracy users on Reddit left because db0 was a mod there and advocated for swapping Lemmy during the API blackouts.
I think the subscribers count is fairly inaccurate. According to active users per week, it's number 34. And that'd align with my experience here. Other numbers include lots of nominal members who left Lemmy a long time ago. That mainly shows the Piracy community has had a bad time on Reddit and they were one of the larger coordinated efforts to switch platforms.
Don't like piracy? Then don't participate, your argument doesn't make since you can pirate in certain countries without privacy, it's like saying you shouldn't have a knife in your house because you can murder with it and a cutlery store is odd and paints a bad image because it sells knifes and forks and that can be used for murder piracy and privacy are not mutually exclusive they are just similar because one fights for information freedom and one fights for not being tracked by big adtech, you sound like the chat control supporters (FROM ONWARDS IS MY OPINION) piracy is not stealing you are not stealing any physical the company is not losing any money that they have made they just lose money that they should have made and that is just a metric that does not matter it is the same as if you didn't even buy the game, but you just can play the game the important part is nobody is losing anything.
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Social Security Administration chief data officer Charles Borges described "fear and anxiety over potential illegal actions resulting in the loss of citizen data" in his resignation letter.
In a close election, 1,200 battery plant workers at the BlueOval SK Battery Park in Kentucky voted to join the United Auto Workers this week. The ultimate outcome of the vote will hinge on 41 ballots that the union is challenging.
julian
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This sounds great! It sounds like you are involved in its formation 🙂
Best of luck and let me know if you need any speakers! 😆
Evan Prodromou
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