I actually think by today’s meeting Trump finally destroyed any hopes in Europe to rely on American support.
Effectively US pulled out of NATO, informally. Can’t count on them to help defend Democracy, Freedom, and Rules-based International Order.
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oh-kay phew. some final cleanup, and then it's time to launch the alpha of this torrent tracker designed for rapid-response data rescue where a bunch of people each scrape chunks of a big thing and then recombine it later, where nobody can store the whole thing in one place because it's too big. then early next week we'll have the system for claiming and handling in-process scrapes. then we start fucking around with the fun stuff. has there ever been a torrent tracker that speaks activitypub to distribute uploads around between instances? because this one is gonna.
#HackThePlanet #MemoryHoleThis #YouCantKillAnIdea #ServersDieSwarmsSurvive #BittorrentIsStillSoGood #OverpoweredP2PProtocolEvenThoughIts20YearsOld
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I quite enjoyed this article as it spells out in a more general level how future looks like based on what's currently happening "in the US". Also hint how to prepare at the end, as we can't possibly know which eventualities arrive first.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
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The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the GuardianDavid Smith (The Guardian)
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Doctorow on Piketty: r > g, or how wealth usually concentrates, how it didn't in the previous century, and how we're steady back to normal from that exceptional period. And how and whether a 1-2% wealth tax would suffice to fix it.
Thomas Piketty's 2013 unexpected bestseller (a 750 page economics book translated from French!) *Capital in the 21st Century*, offers a very convincing explanation of our political decay, and it continues to serve this purpose as the decay undergoes alarming acceleration:memex.craphound.com/2014/06/24…
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2025/02/18/pik…
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You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all.
We don't want to be on any list.
And now the US Gov and Musk are trying to get access to all data they have about every person and put them into a big fat DB and run AI over it.
I am afraid what they will do with that.
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@burningTyger Well, the underlying truth is that the holocaust was fundamentally enabled by what we call "IT people" today.
And for some reason, nobody in IT got that memo and happily collects (meta) data without thinking about the possible dire consequences.
You can't lose data you don't have.
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What would you do if money stress wasn’t crushing you? Would you start a new project? Go back to school? Take care of your health?
UBI isn’t about giving you riches - it’s about giving you choices. And you deserve choices. ❤️
#UBI #UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #Choices #SocialJustice #SocialChange #policies #TheCalling
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Pasilan Veturitalleilla vapaana viihtyisä pöytäpaikka hiljaisen työn tekijälle 1.3. alkaen, vuokra 120e/kk. Tilassa työskentelee kääntäjiä, valokuvaajia (erillinen studio) ja muita luovien alojen...www.facebook.com
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Danish citizens have launched an online petition, signed by 200,000 people, to purchase California. The petition notes that purchasing the Golden State would provide Danes with more sunshine, dominance in the tech industry, limitless avocado toast, and easy access to Disneyland. In return, California would get the rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.
Can they buy Wisconsin, please? I'd take that offer! 😆
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Keep hope alive.
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Tänään ei vielä uusia kuvia, niin tässä muistoja vuosilta 2020-2021 joita jouduin kaivelemaan talon 3D-mallia varten, jonka taas tarvitsen sähköpiirustuksiin...
Ennen ja jälkeen -kuvat; arvaa kumpi.
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(I used to share a thumb rule about switching workplaces that change is for the better. Unfortunately that's just a general idea and not always true. Even less so for switching the cultures and languages that surround you. That's always risky. However, for some, the risk of staying in place is currently increasing. Hope for the best and prepare for what clearly seems to be rapidly unfolding.)
Share. Connect. Support.
-= We hoped we never had to do this but here we are and we now have to do this. =-American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country.
We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out.
So we made a wiki.
We are collecting information on possible exit routes into various countries. We focus on work, study and self employment visas as they are available at the moment.
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I'm Hungarian. Complaining is our national sport. So allow me.
I was born behind the iron curtain. In 1989 it seemed that we were going to be free and it really looked like freedom was forward and repression was backward and the world moved ever forward and eventually all of us would be free.
And now I get to see, from the inside, the West sliding backwards into fascism.
You don't know where you are going, but I do. It's painful to watch you harming yourselves like this.
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Tänään, kuten eilenkin, taivastelemme sitä ihanuutta, kun tavan tietotyöläisen kone alkaa huudella että kohta maksaa maltaita Windows 10:llä työnteko, ja pitää hankkia uus kone jotta pyhä Microsoft ei lähetä tulta ja tulikiveä yllemme maallisesta taivaastaan. Ihanasti valmiiksi asennettuna saadaan uudessa koneessa uusi käyttöjärjestelmä. Joka sitten kompastuu omiin jalkoihinsa, estä töiden keskeisimmän TV-käännösohjelman toimimisen, ja pakottaa etsimään minkä kommervenkkien taa täysi uudelleenasennus on tänä vuonna piilotettu.
On se Linux vaan vaikea.
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Hi to people who like to burden ourselves with technology at home, and love to discuss it online with me. This is your chance.
Hopes aka Constraints
1. Local backup disk share
I'm hoping to share a disk or two at home for a family of 5, each with 0.5-5 TB of data on their personal computers. Primary use would be personal computer backup, but I'd hope to gather family media history there as well.
2. Local services
I need to run at least Home Assistant and Unifi network server. They may live on a separate box, but could live on the NAS given sufficient oomph (seems mainly RAM constrained).
3. Internet services
I also hope to some day open selected services (web apps, maybe ssh/rsync) to the internet now that we have excessively sufficient connection (and relatively safely separable networks) for that.
The internet services (think, say, Friendica) should be able to utilize some of the disk space of the NAS (assuming I don't end up with a full web server with its own disks) but be kept safely out of the disk space for local (family) use. (Preparing for potential 0-days here might provide us with some fascinating design puzzles :))
4. Budget
Looking at the prices of NAS boxes, I don't want to shell out hundreds of euros. I hope to keep this hobby project under 200 euros (not counting later extensions nor maintenance). Prices of the disk drives themselves would not be counted into that budget; they're maintenance (start with what i have, buy more as necessary).
5. Quality
All I would need would be a box that could sustain >1Gbps over both Ethernet and SATA (or USB3) running Linux (or BSD?). Electricity consumption while idle should be minimal.
The solution should be reasonably expected to keep running for years, idling ~6h twice per day.
6. Availability to Finland
I should be able to get the solution in Finland. Any additional taxes should be counted as part of the budget.
I'll provide a bit more background and some potential solutions below.
No recommendations, but just letting you know I follow this.
(I just keep a bunch of older computers warming the house for backups, our heating system is electric with ovens )
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Yritin lisätä tähän ymmyrkäiset silmät -emojin, mutta kommenttiboksi sulkeutuu kun emojia klikkaa tuolta listasta. Aateekoo meinings.
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Nyt alkaa jo kuulostamaan fediverse aika perustavanlaatuisen lupaavalta!
ActivityPub lisäosa WordPress blogissa luo vuorovaikutusta
Ennen kirjoittelin blogiin “oikeita juttuja”, WordPressistä ja sekalaisista nörttijutuista. Olinhan IT-ihminen, kun olin vielä töissä. Nyt ollessani eläköitynyt vaari-ihminen, kirjoittelen harvemmin ja pitkälti vain oman elämän hömpsötyksistä. Sen myötä interaktiot blogikirjoituksiin ovat selvästi vähentyneet. Ei niitä enää jaeta saati sitten että keräisivät kommentointeja. Ei se ole minua haitannut, elämä on muuttunut, rauhallisemmaksi.Nyt kuitenkin “jostain kumman syystä” blogiin on ilmestynyt kommentteja, oikeilta ihmisiltä eikä spämmiroboteilta. No se kumma syy on tietty se, että kytkin WordPress -sivustoni Fediversumiin. Asensin ActivityPub -lisäosan ja simsalabim, sivustostani tuli osa fediä. Aina kun julkaisen artikkelin, putkahtaa se saman tien fediversumiin. Seuraan fedissä omaa blogiprofiiliani ja usein myös sitten itse boostaan sitä julkaistua artikkelia. Jos ja kun ihmiset tykkäävät tai vastaavat kirjoitukseen, ilmestyvät ne blogikirjoitukseen kommenteiksi. Tämähän on tosi kiva ja lämmittää minua suuresti. Vaikka nykyään ikäänkuin kirjoittelen itselleni, niin on kuitenkin mukava, kun huomaa, että joku on sen lukenut ja reagoi siihen. Ihan niin kuin ennen vanhaan blogosfäärissä. Näen myös WordPressin hallintasivuilta kätevästi kaikki kommentit sekä blogini seuraajat ja artikkelin lopussa tykkäykset avatarien kera.
No, ei minulla mitään sen kummempaa markkinointitarvetta omille jutuilleni ole, mutta ajattelen heitä monia, jotka tänne fediin ovat tulleet nyt pakoon X:stä ja Metan palveluista. Moni on vielä työelämässä ja kirjoittavat blogia ja se saattaa olla heille tärkeä bisneksen apuväline. Heille näkisin tuon ActivityPub -lisäosan tuoman näkyvyyshyödyn olevan potentiaalinen.
Tuon ActivityPub -lisäosan asentaminen ja konfigurointi omaan WordPress -sivustoon on helppoa, suosittelen sitä lämpimästi.
Lisäosa löytyy täältä:
fi.wordpress.org/plugins/activ… ja sen saa siis myös suomenkielisenä, sattuneesta syystä, sillä olen ko. lisäosan suomentaja. Tuolla lisäosan selitesivuilla on muuten ihan ok selitys Youtube -videolla Fediversumista, vähän ameriikan tyyliin, mutta ihan asiaa.EDIT:
Julkaisun jälkeen boostasin blogikirjoitusta ja tykkäsinkin. Näin se näkyy WordPress hallintapaneelissa:
Ja tykkäykset näkyvät tässä artikkelin alapuolella. Otsikko Likes on englanniksi, vaikka kaikki lisäosan stringit on 100% käännetty. Tuota sanaa ei ko. lisäosan hallinnoija ole ehkä muistanut tuoda kääntämisen piiriin.#ActivityPub #Blogi #Fediverse #WordPress
ActivityPub
ActivityPub-protokolla on hajautetun sosiaalisen verkostoitumisen protokolla, joka perustuu ActivityStreams 2.0 data formaattiin.WordPress.org Suomi
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Do you know or can you guess which book this excerpt comes from?
Answer in a manner that does not spoil it for others ;)
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