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@0xabad1dea Now we're making the same mistake with AI, but on a larger scale.

We need a solarpunk future. We need degrowth. We need to be truly net-zero and circular. We need enough for everyone, whether in the US or Uganda. We need more Main Street businesses, not VC-backed "AI" startups. We need universal healthcare and child care and more third places.

Communism failed but so did capitalism. And both led to authoritarianism, just with different leaders.

@vermaden @justine careful, session removed perfect forward secrecy: https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/12/03/session-messenger-adds-pfs-pqe-and-other-improvements/

@nuintari @jima @pepdmin I worked at MS 365 and can attest their products are garbage. I never used them at home, and kept my Postfix server instead of going to Outlook.

My Postfix server is still online, even now. My business also has one.

Dogfooding my butt.

@MarcinGondek @miyuru i got Netflix to unblock me. There is a special email for ISPs which I used myself.

@ryanc @fasterthanlime @whitequark if you need to lease from not-your-ISP I recommend Cogent. Yes, that Cogent that sells budget bandwidth.

I don't recommend IPXO for various reasons too.

Hey @GrapheneOS, when will Pixel 10 support be ready, even in an alpha state?

I mean, I could use my spare Pixel 9, but still want the status.

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this checks out lmao

neel chauhan boosted:

Soooo... PayPal is banning Asahi Linux users. Hey, can you maybe not do that please?

https://gist.github.com/asahilina/31dd6bf3cde26a51e0fc1414e1abe730

Yes, they ban Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1". Anything else works.

Edit: To be clear they're banning the platform from access, not individual accounts. This won't get your account banned.

Edit 2: Alternate workaround: Spoof a Mac OS / Safari user agent. As you'd expect, "Apple M1" is allowed then.

What's this? An astroturf campaign from Lyft? No thank you!

Introduction 276 is actually a very good bill and should pass.

#nyc #lyft #astroturf

An astroturf email from Lyft telling me to contact my councilman to oppose Introduction 276, which bans wrongful banning for drivers.

@khobochka @pluralistic the dot-com bubble at least left fiber optic backbones still being used today.

AI GPUs are e-waste in comparison. I swear my vintage 2001 Dell PC will work long after all the Nvidia AI GPUs are melted.

neel chauhan boosted:

I know full well writing 10,000 word articles on dead Sun tech from the 2000s is not a particularly profitable use of my time. This isn't going to draw scores of new readers to the @osnews Patreon and Ko-Fi. For profit, I should be making YouTube videos with fast transitions and annoying sound effects to stir up drama based on git discussions or lkml posts with my O face in the thumbnails.

But someone needs to show the world what we lost when Sun died and the industry enshittified. Tech has hit rock bottom, and I want to show everyone that yes, we can build something better.

We only have to look back at what we lost, instead of forward at what's left to destroy.

@JessTheUnstill I spent my childhood and teens in a conservative suburb, but grew more liberal as I went into my 20s.

@mcc @rene_mobile @keepassxc when I tried LLM code years ago when I worked for Microsoft, it was always wrong.

Good thing I no longer work for them.

@gwynnion the problem with Democrats are that they in want to be a center-right party even when going progressive let's them fight trump successfully.

Trump won because Dems are too centrist and not radical enough. If we had Bernie he would've won against Trump. There's a reason why Hillary and Kamala lost, and Biden only won because of COVID.

@robpike you never cleared your cookies? Back then I used internet explorer (I was 8) and then opera for a few years (idk why I chose it over Firefox then).

@nixCraft I'm happy my Intel Ultra 9 285K desktop uses Intel graphics and not a Nvidia GPU.

I don't game, but back in 2011 Nvidia would've been a killer investment. Now it's a shitty one waiting to crash and burn everyone's life savings.

I'm a conservative dividend investor and even I dream of shorting NVDA when it all crashes (the likelihood of this happening is little-to-none however).

@vermaden I haven't daily driven #FreeBSD in over three years, but have no problems with YouTube Firefox on both Fedora and macOS with uBlock Origin.

Tor Browser also usually works fine but sometimes is blocked due to AI bots.

Side note: I'm okay with ads as long as they're not targeted, but rather contextual. Targeted ads are cancerous which is why I block them.

@nixCraft yet my dad doesn't think AI is a bubble and believes Nvidia isn't overvalued. He's wrong. Even his Schwab guy says it will crash on a ZOOM call.

@foone in unrelated news I actually purchased one off eBay.

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