Fuck Nationalists, White Supremacists, Nazis, Fascists, The Patriarchy, Maga, Racists, Transphobes, Terfs, Homophobes, the Police.
Buy a house in a safe neighborhood for myself. Establish at least one housing complex for the homeless with medical, psychiatric, and general care staff as close as possible to said safe neighborhood. Repeat until all that is left is enough to keep said complexes staffed and operational for at least 5 years.
Keep at least $1,000,000 to invest into the stock market in various ETFs, REITs, and LEAP Option calls. All profits go back to maintaining and establishing more housing complexes for the homeless.
All my free time would be spent figuring out how to end the homelessness crisis. If ever accomplished, focus my efforts on the public education system, and praying I somehow have the willpower to avoid corruption.
I thought codeberg was just a really well maintained and customized gitea instance...?
I'm not a physician or physical therapist, but have been an amateur athlete in a variety of individual sports and have done some coaching of youth sports. All of this advice is based off of personal experience and observing what has worked for others. Every body and mind is different, and ultimately whatever feels physically and mentally best for you is what you should go with.
That said, I've had service jobs where I've had to move around quickly and lift moderate to somewhat heavy things. I've also worked jobs where I'm standing in more or less one position the entire 8 hour shift. I'm currently working a job where I sit all day in front of a computer. The all around fitness routine that has worked for me in each of these has ended up being hatha yoga. It's become for me a maintenance routine, and so that's what I recommend. If that's not for you, then perhaps some light spinning on an indoor bicycle would help with circulation.
Does having someone/something to lose make you weaker or stronger?
To clarify the question somewhat, what I mean is: does having loved ones and/or a cause you're willing to die for give you strength? Or, does it instead expose a vulnerability to be exploited?
This post was originally much longer, but I've cut it down to keep it a bit more open ended. I know that the phrasing is somewhat misleading. In a way, you never really possess someone or a community or even something to lose, they're just people or things or causes for which you care deeply, and that care opens up the possibility for emotional pain that can be exploited. At the same time having those cares can give you a reason to live, a cause to fight for, a person for whom you are there to ride or die for.
I suppose the question I ultimately want to ask is, which ends up playing out more in your life experience? Someone exploiting your love/care as a weakness? Or that love/care motivating you to defend them to the bitter end?
I know this is likely to be a "it depends" answer, but if you have some further insights, I'd be greatly appreciative. Thanks in advance.
I'm part of the problem, and probably won't change.
Oh wow, this brings me back. I haven't made paper since middle school. And I haven't worked with a dip pen since college. It's a lot of fun.
The work looks well done. You have a very observant eye. Glad to see you're enjoying your tools and environment! 🙂
I'm new to C and Rust, but from what I can gather, C and C++ are not memory safe by default because they require the programmer to manually allocate memory onto the heap as needed and then free said memory, and then remember not to use said freed memory again. There is a lot of "ceremony" around this and it's easy to make mistakes, which result in memory leaks, use after free errors, undefined behavior, security bugs, etc.
Most high level languages (Python, JavaScript, Java, Golang, etc.) use a garbage collector (also known by the acronym, GC), which very essentially looks for when memory can be freed within your program and performs this allocation/deallocation ceremony for you. There are, however, disadvantages to running a garbage collector. Running a garbage collector costs allocation of memory itself, and it is not inherently efficient (depending on how the garbage collector itself was implemented).
Rust's solution to this utilizes techniques built around the concept of memory ownership, which is enforced using what is known as the Borrow Checker. In essence, Rust prevents memory leaks by ensuring that a variable (i.e. a reference to a value stored in memory) cannot be utilized in multiple different scopes of the program, but rather must be either copied (a new variable with the same value stored in a different space of memory), or the variable must be passed directly to the new scope, afterwards which it cannot be utilized outside of the scope it was passed to (hence the term of it being "borrowed".)
Im not sure, but I believe this is why Rust is more efficient than a garbage collected language because the techniques used in garbage collection can be computationally and resource intensive. These techniques include tracing, reference counting, and escape analysis.
This is as opposed to Rust's memory management model, which prevents memory leaks by explicit memory allocation of mutable variables which prevents the presence of dangling pointers being left within the codebase.
From my little experience working with both C and Rust, as well as languages like JS/TS and Python, is that Rust cuts the difference between the low level languages like C and the GC languages like Python in that you don't have to manually allocate and deallocate memory every time you need to use the heap, but you need to keep track of which scope owns which memory at any given time, otherwise the compiler (and hopefully long before that, your linter) will complain at you and prevent you from even compiling a binary in the first place.
Lastly, a point of interest. C++ has an optional borrow checker of sorts in its use of RAII.
Hope this helps sort things out a bit. Really there aren't many memory safe languages that use the ownership model. All GC languages are memory safe (assuming the GC is implemented well), but the computational cost of that memory safety is higher than with Rust.
In short, Rust's Ownership model makes Rust one of the few memory safe languages that is nearly as efficient as manually memory allocated languages like C, while still memory safe like with GC languages.
I'd say they should just simultaneously increase the pay and bill 20%. Don't make me do math. Give all increases to the server. Problem solved.
Other than fascism, what else is he into? Lean in that direction. Make it apparent that you are all a loving family, and he is a part of that as long as he remains willing to put in the work/maintenance that love requires.
Shortsighted take. The concept of legacy is bullshit. The long term effects you have on the world have more to do with reinforcing or negating societal patterns of behavior. Do you encourage or discourage kindness? Do you encouraged or discourage violence? That's really all that matters.
Those who receive kindness, violence, etc. are likely to perpetuate it, but could fight that societal reinforcement and potentially change the course of their lives and the way they influence others around them.
All the different flavors of culture and traditions are simply wrappers over these patterns and are destined to die or change so dramatically that they would be unrecognizable to the practitioners of said culture from the past.
Your true legacy, the one that is likely to span many generations, isn't the traditions or artifices of a culture and people long dead, it is the positive and negative behaviors you reinforced through you demonstrating these behaviors during your life.
Did you build and help community? Did you uplift and protect the most vulnerable amongst you? Did you work towards a world better for the next generation and not just for your children? Ultimately this is the closest people have to an actual legacy.
One day you and everyone you ever know will die, and the best you can hope for is that you perpetuated kindness amongst those that will take the mantle of humanity forward.
Legacy is still bullshit though. The reasons for doing right by another person is the goal, not the way towards the goal.
Just looked around their blog/website. Lots of great stuff here. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for that breakdown. I'm a big fan of Firefox, but have been aware of there being issues with Mozilla for some time now (albeit from the periphery). I figured when these cases came against Google, that even though I generally supported the breakup of the monopoly, I knew that a story like this one would eventually land.
If Mozilla is indeed burning money instead of putting the majority of it towards Firefox and, to a lesser extent, Thunderbird, then yeah, they're going to need to reassess their budget and where to allocate their assets as without big moneybags Google forking over the funds, it'd be within their best interests to really invest hard into making their browser better.
Thanks again.
Just out of curiosity, where does the 20% estimate come from?
It would explain all the Lizard People acting as mediums for the Dinosaur Ghosts running the world.
How likely is it that the Trump administration will attempt to deanonymize online antifascists and leftists and imprison them?
Pretty much the title. I certainly believe Trump, Maga, the Military, and the Police will, sooner or later, probably sooner, get around to at least attempting to deanonymize and round up online antifascists and leftists and imprison them. How organized and effective that attempt is I am less sure of.
To be very transparent, this is something I'm pretty sure I'd be on the hook for. I have a long log of anti trump, antifascist, left sentiments, and am 75% sure I'll be disappeared at some point in the next 4 years as I have no plans of shutting up. The only reason I'm not 100% sure is because of how expensive it would be. But hey, maybe it's less expensive than potentially losing power? So I don't know.
Never? Not likely? Maybe? Very? Extremely? Definitely?
Thoughts?
I'll be boring and say I'd party like it's 2025 and Donald Trump has just died before taking the oath for President of the United States. Interpret that as you will.
Cthulu? Is your age upon us?
If she was in it for honest love, then I'd be more accepting of what you're describing. I'm less put off by the age gap and more put off by the marrying for money part. This happens all the time, and it's one of the many reasons I hate capitalism and consumerism, as it ultimately makes the choice to marry for money a "reasonable choice".
I understand that "marriage is a business contract" has been a more true statement than "marriage is a love pact" for most of human history. But that doesn't make it right. Marrying for love, IMHO is the only reason to feel good about a marriage, because ultimately that's the only actually good thing about marriage. The rest of it is theater and performance.
She's an adult, she can make all the mistakes she wants, and in our fucked up capitalist society, what your daughter is doing is considered not a mistake, but a reasonable financial decision. And that is what sickens me.
It's one of those "hate the game, not the player," situations, sadly. Cuz you can stop a single player, the game on the other hand...
Bring back your Advocacy division. Lower the pay for your CEO. Secure funding from other entities so that you are no longer dependent on Google. Focus more on implementing better security measures on Linux and Android, specifically within the domain of sandboxing your open processes. Keep about:config and manifest v2 options available.
Fair enough. To be clear, I am saying I would not like any of these aspects of humankind, not that they are necessarily in any way equivalent. Nor am I trying to necessarily relate them to each other. On their own, I dislike them.
Lol. Wow. I honestly don't know how I could have made that many mistakes. My apologies, I am quite sleep deprived. But you can think I'm an AI if you'd like. People confuse my propensity towards overly verbose replies as being AI. Or, yknow, just don't like it. I edit a lot because I make a lot of typos and catch them later. Thanks for pointing that out. Edited and done.
How Trump Rigged an FBI Investigation for Brett Kavanaugh
Mia, Sophie and Robert relive the horror of the Kavanaugh hearings and discover how Trump made the FBI conduct a fake "investigation" to clear him. Sources: https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/KavanaughReport_final.pdf https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-...
Mia, Sophie and Robert relive the horror of the Kavanaugh hearings and discover how Trump made the FBI conduct a fake "investigation" to clear him.
Part Two: The History of American Masculinity Grifters
Robert and Miles talk about the mid-century crisis in American masculinity and then catch up to the modern era, and Gamergate. https://www.sandboxx.us/news/alpha-male-boot-camps-are-a-joke/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/what-are-man-warrior-camps/ https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/fashion/01...
Robert and Miles talk about the mid-century crisis in American masculinity and then catch up to the modern era, and Gamergate.
Some More News: Non-Presidential Races That Will Impact The Next Four Years
Hi. The presidential election is the top story, but there are plenty of Senate and House races that could determine the balance of power in Washington and have a huge impact on the next four years, regardless of who wins the White House. Hosted by Cody Johnston Executive Producer - Katy Stoll Direc...
Hi. The presidential election is the top story, but there are plenty of Senate and House races that could determine the balance of power in Washington and have a huge impact on the next four years, regardless of who wins the White House.
Part One: The History of American Masculinity Grifters
Robert sits down with Miles Gray to give a history of American Masculinity Grifters, and the media-created fears of a 'crisis' in masculinity. (2 Part Series)
Robert sits down with Miles Gray to give a history of American Masculinity Grifters, and the media-created fears of a 'crisis' in masculinity.
Why OpenAI Is A Terrible Business
As of last week, OpenAI is now worth $157 billion - yet below the hood is a far darker story. In this episode, Ed Zitron explains the cold, hard truth - that OpenAI is a terrible business that burns billions of dollars, and its failure to scale its cloud business tells a dark tale about the wider ge...
As of last week, OpenAI is now worth $157 billion - yet below the hood is a far darker story. In this episode, Ed Zitron explains the cold, hard truth - that OpenAI is a terrible business that burns billions of dollars, and its failure to scale its cloud business tells a dark tale about the wider generative AI industry.
Gaza Is a Laboratory for Future Warfare
A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.
Paris Marx is joined by Spencer Ackerman to discuss the past year of Israel's actions in Palestine and the innovations in war technology being used to carry out what the ICJ has deemed a "plausible" genocide in Gaza.
Gaza Is a Laboratory for Future Warfare
A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.
Paris Marx is joined by Spencer Ackerman to discuss the past year of Israel's actions in Palestine and the innovations in war technology being used to carry out what the ICJ has deemed a "plausible" genocide in Gaza.
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In this video on Technology and Teleology, Video Essayist, Sophie From Mars, weaves a compelling argument that the Tech industry as a whole relies on an intrinsic teleological relationship with the products they produce. She further elucidates that this relationship has been utilized by Capitalists to consolidate power and isolate individuals from each other and their relationship with our own ecosystems, resulting in powerlessness, loneliness, and ecological devastation.
She concludes this essay by postulating on how community building activities and discussions as well as revolutionary actions such as protests can break these collective fetters, improve our ecological habitats, and incrementally achieve freedom.
Behind The Bastards: Thomas Kinkade: The Evilest Painter
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I went to the same art school Thomas Kinkade did, and he even came to speak at my school a handful of times while I was there.
Even back then I hated his work so much I knew I would never like the man, so I never went to his talks and tried my best to avoid even looking at his works.
I am so glad to hear that Robert Evans decided to cover Thomas Kinkade on Behind The Bastards. Fuck Thomas Kinkade.
Thank all that is good he's dead. Yet another grave to add to the bucket lists of graves to defile.
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Are there any legal issues recreating YouTube SponsorBlock for Podcasts?
I'm part of a small group of Jr Self Taught Web Developers who were recently brainstorming ideas for a Group Project App we could put together and actually create a user base.
I offered up the suggestion of a podcast application which would have the major feature of being akin to YouTube Sponsor Block, but specifically for podcast episodes.
Essentially, a user contributed database of timestamps for podcast episodes where the mention of cutting to sponsored ads or mentions of sponsorships would be marked so they could be edited out of the episode and then the user could also download said episode where ads are cut out of the final audio file.
My idea was shot down due to fears of possibly infringing on copyright and we ended up with going with another idea. I'm certainly not upset, and am actually excited with the project idea we did choose, but it did get me wondering about whether this idea actually could have legal implications.
I know specifically with YouTube there appears to be a sort of legal loophole that prevents Google from suing projects like invidious, yt-dlp, and YouTube Sponsor Block, but am unaware of the specific details as to how this works.
Thusly, I just wanted to ask if anyone has any insights into whether this project idea would incur any legal infractions from the likes of IheartRadio and other media platforms?
To be clear, I'm not seeking legal advice here, and I'll be taking any responses with a grain of salt, but I just wanted to see if anyone knows anything on this subject and the legal concerns raised.
I very much dislike being advertised to and podcasts are one of the last bastions of media where advertisements still come up regularly and I'd love to make this application for those who are frustrated with how often they have to skip through sponsor mentions.
Thanks in advance.
John Oliver offers to pay Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he resigns from supreme court
The late-night talkshow host John Oliver has offered to pay Clarence Thomas $1m annually – as well as give him a $2m tour bus – if the Republican judge resigns from the US supreme court. Oliver made the proposal on Sunday’s episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight, saying the supreme court justice ...
The late-night talkshow host John Oliver has offered to pay Clarence Thomas $1m annually – as well as give him a $2m tour bus – if the Republican judge resigns from the US supreme court.
Oliver made the proposal on Sunday’s episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight, saying the supreme court justice had 30 days to accept or it would expire.
The British-born, progressive comedian’s offer came after a steady drumbeat of media investigations in the previous several months established that Thomas failed to disclose that political benefactors bought him lavish vacation travel and real estate for his mother. Thomas also failed to disclose – as required – that he allowed school fees for a family member to be paid off and had been provided a loan to buy a luxury motor coach, all after openly complaining about the need to raise supreme court justices’ salaries.
As a result, Thomas’s impartiality came into question after he sided with the contentious ruling that eliminated the federal abortion rights once provided by the Roe v Wade case.
He also recently listened to arguments over whether Donald Trump can be removed from states’ ballots in the presidential election after the former president’s supporters – whom he told to “fight like hell” – staged the January 6 attack at the US Capitol in Washington DC. Thomas resisted pressure to recuse himself from matters pertaining to the Capitol attack, even though his wife, Ginni Thomas, is a conservative political activist who has endorsed false claims from Trump and his supporters that the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden was stolen from him – which in turn fueled January 6.
Oliver alluded to all of those circumstances as he extended his lucrative offer to Thomas, saying: “Lot on your plate right now, from stripping away women’s rights to hearing January 6 cases … and you deserve a break, you know, away from the meanness of Washington. So you can be surrounded by the regular folks whose lives you made demonstrably worse for decades.”
The host suggested that Thomas could upgrade his “favorite mode of travel” by signing a contract requiring him to step down from the supreme court in exchange for $1m annually from Oliver along with the tour bus, which is outfitted with a king-sized bed, a fireplace and four televisions.
Oliver joked that Thomas possibly feared that making such a trade might attract negative judgment from one of his top benefactors: the Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow, who was reported to have maintained a private collection of Nazi memorabilia that included a pair of paintings by Adolf Hitler.
But Oliver said: “That’s the beauty of friendship, Clarence. If they’re real friends, they’ll love you no matter what your job is. So I guess this might be the perfect way to find out who your real friends actually are.
“So that’s the offer – $1m a year, Clarence. And a brand new condo on wheels. And all you have to do … is sign the contract and get the fuck off the supreme court,” Oliver remarked. “The clock starts now – 30 days, Clarence. Let’s do this!”
The yearly salary for supreme court justices – whose appointments are for life – is $298,500.
Neither Thomas nor the supreme court immediately commented publicly on Oliver’s offer. Oliver acknowledged he could end up going on “standup tours … for years” to be able to afford paying Thomas’s retirement if the justice accepts the proposal.
The arch-conservative is the longest-serving member of a supreme court dominated 6-3 by rightwingers. Thomas has been there since his 1991 confirmation, which was marked by testimony from Anita Hill, who accused him of sexual harassment while he supervised her in two separate jobs, at the US Department of Education and at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Possible to get away from LinkedIn and Github?
I'm a career transitioner looking to get a higher paying job working as a Web Developer. I've been self teaching for a bit over 3.5 years now and am currently working part time at a very small start up while still working on my own personal projects and slowly researching and studying CS topics.
I have been networking, mainly online and some locally. I also have been trying desperately to get away from mainstream social media platforms (left instagram, left reddit). But I find myself being highly encouraged by those within my network to keep my LinkedIn profile maintained and regularly post as a part of appealing to recruiters. I dislike the LinkedIn platform and what I perceive to be toxic positivity that proliferates on there. I also have reservations on hosting all my code on Github, but that seems to be what everyone defaults to for showcasing their portfolio.
I generally want to use alternatives to FAANG products whenever possible, and even though it's not in the acronym, I include Microsoft in this list. I'd like to move away from using Microsoft products (LinkedIn) and their acquired platforms (Github) without nuking my potential career prospects.
This is more asking about long term advice as I believe as a new developer, this may not be possible (?).
Nevertheless, I'm seeking any advice on how to still advance my career in tech while staying off of these major platforms.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
TLDR; New web developer wants advice on how to continue to advance career without use of major media platforms, specifically LinkedIn, but also Github.
Pretty much in the title. Maybe you wouldn't even use it, but would like to simply see it exist for the sake of having a federated alternative.
For me, it'd be the following:
- Meetup
- Tiktok
I am on the first two, but would prefer a federated alternative. I'm not on Tiktok, but would like to see a federated alternative.
I'll admit these might not be a good idea. But as a thought experiment, I'd be curious about the community weigh in on what you all think this might look like.
What Major Social Media Platforms Would You Like To See Federated Alternatives To That Don't Exist Yet?
Pretty much in the title. Maybe you wouldn't even use it, but would like to simply see it exist for the sake of having a federated alternative.
For me, it'd be the following:
- Meetup
- Tiktok
I am on the first two, but would prefer a federated alternative. I'm not on Tiktok, but would like to see a federated alternative.
I'll admit these might not be a good idea. But as a thought experiment, I'd be curious about the community weigh in on what you all think this might look like.
FUTO Voice Input - Privacy Respecting Speech To Text App
Right To Repair Advocate Louis Rossman recently announced the release of FUTO, a Text To Speech App that respects your privacy.
After having played around with FUTO on my GrapheneOS Pixel, I can honestly say it's nice to have. Using the Openboards Keyboard, I'll admit that the one thing I missed about Gboards was its text to speech capability, but I refused to use it because it logs everything said into it.
IMHO, the team that developed FUTO have created something truly special here, and I'd recommend anyone to at least try it out.
There is a one time $10 payment, but the developers have basically made this more like an opt in donation, as you can just click 'I Already Paid' and utilize the app regardless of whether you paid or not. If you try FUTO out, and like it, maybe throw them a few bucks.
Here is an invidious link of Rossman talking about FUTO and its features.