I just hope that something like GNU Taler (which keeps buyers' privacy and forces sellers to report their earnings properly) becomes the norm, as opposed to the proprietary plastic card transactions we have now. I myself am guilty of switching to that system because cash is just insanely inconvenient, but I also recognize it's pretty bad.
balsoft
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The most effective policies are often not fancy ones. For example, if you want to fix worker exploitation, you do not establish socialism in a couple countries, but you try to improve labor laws in a few most exploited places.
Communism will not happen. But if you want to reduce the amount of exploitation the most, then you want to try to get capitalists to exploit workers a bit less. Not a few people to join a socialist party.
This is not the way to fix anything. It's a temporary band-aid on a problem (industrialized mass murder on a scale which makes all other human atrocities combined seem insignificant), that will only get worse with time if not kept in check.
I agree with you that individual veganism is not the (full) solution. And I even agree with you that reducing meat consumption is a good (albeit small) stepping stone towards the solution (kinda like getting someone left-of-center elected, or divesting from Israel financially). However, the full solution is banning animal agriculture entirely.
The numbers suggest that 2025 could be a turning point for Linux on desktop computers
Ah yes, the year of the Linux desktop
(in all seriousness, this is looking really good, my main hope from all this is that hardware manufacturers step up their FOSS drivers game)
Yeah this looks exactly like a train ride in a corridor coach. Actually it's probably similar to a flight on a golden-age-of-aviation airline too. Crazy what can be done with economies of scale applied to transportation, eh?
Why would I use this over Helix? (this is not a rethorical question, I really am interested in the benefits)
This is probably because "This app depends entirely on a certain instance of a network service" (cdn.comaps.app), and you have that hidden in your settings. So basically it has the download URL for maps hard-coded.
The ssh key to access the private git repo is on the same yubikey as the decryption key (they are technically different GPG slots but I don't need to care about that, just plug the key in, type in the pin, and it all works automagically)
The process then still is: check out that Git repository, except there’s another step: copy over your private key so that you can decrypt your secrets.
I store my secrets in a separate private git repo and automatically decrypt them with my hardware key (https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/modules/secrets.nix) so for me it's literally just plug in my yubikey and nixos-install github:balsoft/nixos-config#hostname
Oh yeah, AI in its current form can fuck right off.
Nah, it's colonial settlers living in a place where they shouldn't, and then capitalists plastering everything with heat-absorbing asphalt because it's more profitable to force people into car-centric hellholes. If you are unfortunate enough to live in a place like that, prepare a backup power source, because it's not feasible to build a power grid which never has blackouts.
Of course, it would be nice to have a government that would provide everyone in such regions with backup electricity sources, but that ain't happening with capitalists in power, and recommending that grandma should lead a communist uprising is not that helpful
you’re going to have to either die when power shuts down or drop everything and move.
That's not my opinion, that's a sad fact of life. If you can't move, get a backup electricity supply. Blackouts happen.
Many Android phones still have a bit of that tinkering ability to them (you kinda have access to the file system, and you can root them/flash custom android distros), but it's quickly diminishing because (1) OEMs are locking the bootloaders, (2) it's getting harder and harder to get hardware working without proprietary OEM hacks, (3) bank apps and other proprietary garbage that's becoming a necessity in modern times refuses to run on an unlocked phone.