knfrmity

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[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

Yes of course. A portion of wealth, and maybe a community service element could work as well.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm in awe of how selfish and stupid people act in their cars on nearly a daily basis.

That said, harsher penalties only work in the way we want them to when criminal justice is reformed, same with increased controls.

One idea for fines is to set the penalty at a multiple of daily wages, thereby much reducing the load on the poorest among us while also becoming somewhat of a check against rich people doing what they want because the fine means nothing to them. Some countries already do this.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you use Calibre to manage your ebooks (or even if you don't) I can't recommend calibre-web-automated-book-downloader enough.

It bypasses cloudflare checks, waits for the download cue, retries on fail, and integrates seamlessly with the calibre-web-automated ingest feature.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 days ago

It's always the worst ones who live the longest.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Canadian senators are only good for creating expense scandals and are simple political apointees. Just do away with the whole institution.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Let's not pretend that there isn't a faction of the US ruling class that wants this war.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We all probably know Allen Dulles was a Nazi sympathizer.

I often think about that. According to what I remember hearing or reading from Aaron Good, FDR would have charged Dulles with treason after the war. Dulles was literally helping Nazi leadership escape Germany towards the end of the war. Except that of course he died before then, and his nominally socdem VP Henry Wallace had been forced off the ballot for the 1944 election in favour of the more anti-communist and pro-capital Harry Truman. Truman would be convinced to start the CIA and give them the mission to do whatever they want in service of Wall Street, and the Dulleses went into history not as traitors and Nazi collaborators but as accomplished statesmen crucial to the foundations of the empire as we learned to know it since.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Negations are hard. It takes kids until they're about five years old to start to understand the concept of not.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Haven't gotten to the show yet but I really enjoyed the book.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would guess that shipping over a hundred millon devices a year is really difficult for an unknown company.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Oh goodie. Now Anglo LLMs won't just be neoliberal reactionary, but they'll have a nice seasoning of eighteenth century classism, racism, and sexism baked in as well.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

Trolls aren't even trying anymore.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml
 

You will be work and you will be happy, dammit.

Blaming the recession, at least in part, on working people taking sick days is so unaware I can't even put it into words.

I don't even think such surveillance of employees by a company is legal, but no company will get punished.

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TikTok Psyop (www.mintpressnews.com)
 

Not sure if this one has been posted in the last few weeks, but this follows up previous MintPress reporting on the links between western TikTok and the US military-intelligence apparatus. It was probably clear to us from the beginning, but the crusade against TikTok has been an entirely cynical ploy for the empire to gain even more control over the internet.

Previous articles:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/

https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I have been having such a difficult time getting a 2018 Dell Latitude 7930 to run any Linux distro stably. Maybe there is something obvious I am missing or maybe it really is dying hardware that's the root cause of the issue.

The silly thing is I had a stable install of openSUSE Tumbleweed running for a few months but because I made some poor choices on disk partition when I installed it I was eventually backed into a corner where I had to wipe the SSD and install from scratch.

I since then have tried Tumbleweed again as well as Ubuntu, Mint, and finally Manjaro to no avail. The Debian based distros completely freeze at some point, either immediately upon login and loading the desktop or when running apt update. Tumbleweed gets a kernel panic within an hour or so, even though I changed kernel options to a previous known-good config. Now after quite a frustrating time installing Manjaro it freezes within an hour as well and the diagnostic light code indicates a CPU issue.

Strangely enough none of these issues are apparent when running from a LiveUSB, but occur on two different M.2 SATA SSDs with proper installs.

At this point I don't really care which distro I use, as long as it doesn't crash constantly. Does anyone have any suggestions on other things I can try?

Edit: seems to be solved with the kernel options I already mentioned. For whatever reason it didn't work for the Tumbleweed reinstall but Manjaro has run for a couple days without crashing.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics#Crash/freeze_on_low_power_Intel_CPUs

 

Back in October I found a really cool book containing the speeches delivered during a Marxist theoretical conference hosted by the SED in the DDR in 1983. In the meantime I have started to transcribe some of these speeches with the intent of sharing them here and with the international community of working people. There are three speeches up at the moment and I am working on more. There are 140 in the volume so a complete digitization may take some time.

I plan to post my own thoughts on this site, as well as some more materials I have found. I may also consider cross-posts as well where appropriate.

 

I'll be in Berlin for a couple days soon and I'd like to see some DDR stuff while I'm there.

The DDR Museum looks interesting, even if it's just to look at the visual representations of everyday life while ignoring the lib remarks on Stasi oppression and whatnot.

Also happy DDR annexation celebration day. /s

 

I've been back into reading fiction over the last three years or so after a long time away. It's been really nice to slow down and read a book for entertainment rather than always going for a series or movie (when I'm not reading theory of course). For somewhat nostalgic reasons I'm missing some easy reading spy thriller type novels. There's plenty loaded with CIA/MI6 propaganda but I've had a hard time finding anything with similar pacing from outside of the imperial core. Most of the "best translated / English Chinese authors to read" lists are chock full of liberal emigrants and the like, which isn't a perspective I'm terribly interested in while reading for fun. I also enjoy sci fi, but there it seems to be a bit easier to find non western authors.

Does anyone have anything to recommend? Unfortunately it's gotta be available in English or maybe German at the moment.

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