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Wingless wrote

I don't get how you get from this sophisticated computer stuff to racist bullshit. I don't even know who the offendingly mixed-race person is you blame for all this. But whoever it is, it ain't the one who designed the server to be utterly dominated by remote-control hackers - that was a design choice made by some "computer entrepreneur", by which I mean a corporate seat filler who gets most of his money from three letter agencies in thinly disguised packages. Is there anybody in the computer industry whose business model is significantly different from an old-time Kapo's?

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Wingless wrote

This seems vastly too optimistic. China has shown how quickly governments go from forcing people onto VPNs to banning those VPNs. Microsoft so far as I understand is already well on the path to banning arbitrary code, such as the code you need for your alternative networks. People hosting nodes for the alternative networks have always been at risk of being targeted and convicted for "distributing child porn" coming encrypted through any peer-to-peer network that doesn't spy on people. And they can still go full-on Russia and jail anybody for any reason and none.

With hundreds of animal species breeding Covid variants, with runaway carbon emissions from a burning Arctic fueling ever-faster global warming, with nuclear war coming at a moment's notice, we all know we're looking down the barrel of the end of the world. What we can do is to adjust our attitude - to stop seeing it as something to fear, but something to give us hope; not an error, but the will of God. We can start thinking about how long we're going to try to hold out and when we're going to stand aside and let the end come. Who knows - maybe something else will do better.

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DaDonaldisGayola2000 wrote

A lot less than good indoor weed, there is a large amount of Inventory on the market, a lot of people switched to growing both weed and shrooms during Covid, likely as a matter of self preservation. However, the money is addictive. In Denver we are seeing prices as low as 5K for 5lbd, or singles for 1200

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Rambler wrote

It's been a very long time, but back in my day they always were similar to weed prices.

And that's a very regional thing that will vary greatly.

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smartypants OP wrote (edited )

Its worse, and you are right, as always, because on ConPro hours ago a NEW Feb 2022 WebP zero day unpatched on 60% of all Apple users showed up :

https://consumeproduct.win/p/142BTB1ZSP/fuck-around-and-find-out-shitbul/c/

So the new owners of scored.co (formerly .win) are now exhibiting their funding links more and their glowie tendencies on ConPro links march 21 2022.

This is all so tiring.

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/webkit-vulnerability-cve-2022-22620/43650/

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awdrifter wrote (edited )

I listen to the Unmade Podcast. It started as a podcast about podcast ideas that will never be made into an actual podcast. But now it has branched into other stuff like travel and souvenir spoon collection.

https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=7phLmFbZS_c&list=PLY2OYgTm-83My-n2ST9TdGim2MPKTvoNh

As for more tech related podcast, Cortex is pretty good if you're into Apple product and related stuff (iOS apps etc).

https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=cxbA5ot-VL4

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neilalexander OP wrote

dendrite-demo-yggdrasil is a standalone Matrix homeserver that uses Yggdrasil for the federation between servers. It has an embedded Yggdrasil node — the server name is based on the node’s public key. You can use any Matrix client to register accounts and to log in.

I built this a while ago for the P2P Matrix experiments but it still works and is quite fun.

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ghast OP wrote

With any kind of demonstration, I think the main target audience is the public. It can make a difference when people see a large group protesting against the mandates since people are social and being part of a large movement is psychologically appealing. It helps people who are still holding out against mandates to not be demoralized. It can influence the people in the middle who are just complying without really being on board. And it's a networking opportunity for people who want to resist in other ways.

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ghast OP wrote

It's not a bad idea. I've gone cold turkey from politics and news for months at a time when I feel like it's taking up too much time.

But I do enjoy trying to understand what's happening, why it's happening, and what happens next. Since I enjoy it, I don't consider it a complete waste of time.

As for taking action, I think it's important that I do take action, but it's not clear what actions can make a real difference. I think understanding what is going on can help with figuring out which actions are effective and coming up with new ideas.

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ghast wrote

This will really be accelerated if people who are being censored tell people "subscribe to my rss feed" instead of "give me your email address and I'll email you". The main convenient thing about sites like reddit, facebook, etc. is that you can see a lot of different content you want to see in a convenient format while staying on one website. Lots of people don't even really know about RSS, but if there's a comeback, that will make it easier for people to follow updates on multiple personal blogs and websites.

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