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Moral thou be without systemd.
@mhoye #systemd #RedHat #distrohopping #Gentoo #Devuan #Artix #OpenRC #initsystem
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@eff "might"? Save yourselves the long explanation when "duh" suffices. It's been unethical to be on there for nearly half a decade. Saying sorry would be more apt.
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There should be a word for the peculiar discomfort of running a Linux distro while already knowing the one you're going to switch to, but can't yet due to having to make sure everything is backed up.
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🖖 Common sense becomes common again!
“This is not a recommendation or a preference, it is a mandate. Germany’s decision to anchor ODF at the heart of its national sovereign stack confirms what we have argued for years: open, vendor-neutral document formats are not a niche concern for some technology specialists and FOSS advocates.
They are a fundamental infrastructure for democratic, interoperable and sovereign public administrations.” ―https://itsfoss.com/news/germany-digital-stack-mandate/ -
To those who still have a dedicated #Microsoft #Windows machine solely for configuring niche peripherals, no more need for moral anxiety, they get detected using a Windoze virtual machine with QEMU/KVM (requires at least a system with partial TPM 2.0 support): https://www.arscyni.cc/file/software.html#windoze:~:text=Microslop%20Windoze%20virtual%20machine
It takes slightly more attention to set it up than Oracle VirtualBox, but it runs ten times faster.
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I received the raise I asked for. From 48 hours a week off to 72.
Time and youth can't be earned.
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In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell: https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/1/ #HustleCulture #PartTimeWork #TaxTheRich #AntiWork #TangPing #BertrandRussell #Antisthenes #BuckminsterFuller -
@ben I knew I remembered this #flamethrower #bagpipe #unicycle
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“Kunnen we alstublieft stoppen met het promoten van verkwisting van grondstoffen en afhankelijkheid van een Amerikaans en onethisch belastingontwijkend bedrijf zoals Microsoft? De meeste van deze computers zijn nog perfect bruikbaar met Linux.”
@Kletskous #Linux #Microsoft #Windoze #Windows10 #Monopoly #Enshittification
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor is currently pulling nearly every album from major streaming platforms.
Discovered them yesterday, binged their discography within a day; magnificent, mesmerizing, transformative.
“widely recognized as redefining what protest music can be, where longform instrumental chamber rock compositions of immense feeling and power serve as soundtracks to late capitalist alienation and resistance.”
The ethical uprising is unfolding. #GYBE
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eF6hNLp8IQ
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CW: Shouting into the wind about irresponsible dog owners.
All dog owners I've encountered say theirs are kind, including those whose dogs bit me; "Oh that was weird, he doesn't usually do that." Oh you don't say, I guess it's alright then. Surely a child will be able to defend themself just as well—irresponsible schmuck.
Unless one has trained their dog like a sheep-herding Border Collie, use a leash. Better yet, don't get a pet.
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“Changing from Word to LibreOffice has saved us 28 million euros.” —Camillo Sileo, Italian army general
Of all the Internets I've consumed today this frame satisfied the most.
Video source: https://beehaw.org/post/20968299 #LibreOffice #FOSS #Windoze
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PewDiePie's Linux 🐧 video. It's good, ánd it's funny. So much so that I'm jealous.
With this potential critical mass combined with the gaming community it's all downhill for Windoze from here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0
#Linux #PewDiePie #LinuxGaming #Microsoft #Windoze #Windows #ethics
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One wonders if EMAS* ever audited their own use of Microsoft software and consequentially Microsoft's significant deleterious impact on society by monopoly, planned obsolescence, massive tax evasion, et cetera.
Moral of the story: use Linux, LibreOffice, etc.
* Eco-Management and Audit Scheme; "Evaluate, report, and improve the environmental performance of your organisation"
#EMAS #EuropeanCommission #Microsoft #Windoze #monopoly #greed #PlannedObsolescence #BuyEuropean #Linux #LibreOffice
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CW: Vent
Microsoft is superior in delivering inferior products.
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An overview of why crypto"currencies" are unethical greed-incentivizing pyramid schemes: https://www.arscyni.cc/file/crypto_cult_science.html
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CW: Politics
Judging from the books I've read on people who became power-mad and/or unhinged, e.g., Stalin, Howard Hughes, they generally become their own undoing.
I'm fairly confident history will rhyme with Trump and Musk, but the problem is how many victims will they leave in their wake of putrid glut and treason towards humanity.
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Almost without fail, every service that touches creeptocurrencies goes into a decline.
Don't expect Proton to make virtuous ethical choices anytime soon, especially now that Trump joined the cult. Once the greed bug has bitten, making a profit supersedes delivering a good product as the primary objective.
https://www.arscyni.cc/file/crypto_cult_science.html
https://fosstodon.org/@stardust/112404108681755769
@Xavier @protonprivacy #CryptoCultScience #PyramidScheme #Ponzi #MLM #Proton
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Crypto Cult Science
“Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely. Disregarding all of bitcoin's shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won't change the world for the better.” —https://www.arscyni.cc/file/crypto_cult_science.html#CryptoCultScience #bitcoin #greed #PyramidScheme #CryptoCurrency
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If one chats/mails with a person using Windows, despite using secure private protocols, every message will be stored by Microsoft's Windows Recall. Either I'm missing something but this feature seems like the most grotesque breach in online privacy/security.
What are ways to avoid this except for using obfuscated text?
https://slrpnk.net/post/14479704, #privacy #Linux #WindowsRecall #Windoze #Surveillance #AI
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“Some light comedy”
https://lemmy.world/post/19380335 #PhysicsMemes #ScienceMemes
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@LoboTom Brilliant, never saw it from this perspective before.
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Am I overreacting by being pissed off that my bank (#KBC_group) will start charging a monthly €2 fee for a basic savings account? I mean, they're already filthy rich by investing our money. Isn't it in extraordinary bad taste for them to demand money on top?
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Added #Bitwarden #AvesGallery #SimpleScreenRecorder #FlorisBoard #NeoStore to:
#uBlockOrigin #lichess #AutoKey #XScreenSaver #Anki #ArchLinux #Manjaro #KDE #xfce #LyX #InputRemapper #Strawberry #Soulseek #hBlock #Qalculate #CodeSpellChecker #LibreOffice #Geany #Betterbird #TransOver #EnhancerForYT #btop++ #Calibre #Shotcut #Remmina #Transmission #K9Mail #RedMoon #Markor #Livio #Musicolet #LittleFileExplorer #microG #AntennaPod #personalDNSfilter #PanoScrobbler #VivaldiBrowser #Bunnytrack
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Is it okay to live with my parents at age n?
“If you're regularly asking “should I move out?”, chances are your life will improve significantly after doing so. I've convinced myself for years that it wasn't worth it, but living alone has been nothing but nourishing.”
https://cynicusrex.com/file/moveout.html #selfsufficiency #neet #tangping #parents