Can I recommend some David Graeber in these trying times?

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24663287W/The_Dawn_of_Everything?edition=key%3A%2Fbooks%2FOL32732512M

You can’t really EEE an open source project.

I see you’re younger than some of us. That’s okay.

EEE was explicitly coined by M$ in the 90s and early 2000s, targeted at open source software.

Embrace the (opensource) standard. Become the gold standard of it.

Extend it with proprietary additions. Leverage them to make your competition inferior, and patent lock them out of the functionality needed for 20 years.

Extinguish the rest of the field - no longer support anything outside your special slop. Congratulations, you used free software to build a proprietary walled garden that competes with it.

Someone needs to read “The Counterrevolution of 1776”.

We were not the men those fetishized “founding daddies” wrote about. No women, no racial minorities, no poors.

You must own this many plantations to qualify to be “created equal”, from the very beginning of the US. This was obscured successfully for some time, but we are seeing it naked again.

The US declared independence over “taxes without representation”, but only offered representation to the most violently wealthy among former British Nobility, the founders of this Epstein Class. Race was invented by these British-Inheritors to divide and conquer the working class, and it still works today.

The US declared independence over the British Monarchy saying “do not colonize West of the Appalachians, free people already live there.”

And the moment there were whispers in London about abolishing Slavery Empire-wide? Yeah, the US declared Independence.

“But it says ‘all men are created equal!’” you might say. That’s right. From the beginning of the United States, you aren’t fully a man to the state unless you’re in the Epstein Class. Lee Atwater’s Southern Strategy makes this clear 200 years later - you are a demographic to be “managed” to death. Even if you are the favored “white”, your destitution and death are acceptable collateral damage, because you aren’t “a man” to generations of the Epstein Class.

Quit pretending “America” is a thing we must “save”. It was all Genocide of the Natives, all Slavery, all Class-based oppression from the beginning. The Racist Violence is a feature, not a bug. The hatred of the poor is on purpose - and unless youre wealthy from the evil, you’re one of us poors too.

So, how do I make this read a PDF file on my device?

If you think porn sites give you viruses, wait until you see the ads on church websites. Especially those that look like they’re from 2003.

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As a US resident:

If China wants my data while the US treats them as a hostile entity? That’s WORLDS better than US companies having my data, and handing it over to the NSA without a warrant.

apt-get is now deprecated on Debian and Ubuntu. But otherwise, no notes.

If you’re expecting the EU to save your privacy? That’s gonna be a problem, based on old news:

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/european-intelligence-agencies-prepare-to-surveil-car-metadata/

For something as closed-loop as a keyboard? Shut up and take my money, I need portable keyboard that doesn’t set my arm nerves on fire.

For anything touching the internet? Kill -9 it with fire. All the fire. Declare a butlerian jihad against this, Chile didn’t go far enough.

Edit after reading more: oh shit, its all hype.

Alright, how about for those of us noncriminals you listed 3 categories for?

Inconvenience is fine, so long as its doable.

Mostly the US. But if it ships to the US market from overseas, expect it there too.

nobody really needs that level of privacy unless they’re journalists, whistleblowers, activists, or criminals.

Aside from services with limited, capped capacity, we all benefit from those services having a broader userbase. Quit gatekeeping the good shit that needs to be shared.

Time to make a patch out of existing kernel code.

Can’t tell if this “Andy” Character is a narcissist, a fed, or both. Because if neither? That blog post would be legally actionable.

I don’t mind AI-generated code, so long as its human audited to prevent slop bullshit from going awry. I dunno if I trust Andy like that after seeing this behavior.

Imagine… Or just read how that went in 1794.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion

It would be interesting if Hasan Piker showed up instead.

Maybe next year.

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I think that’s the point of the article - for many in the cult, the spell is broken. Gas prices were enough to end his career, even if being a Naked Fascist wasn’t.

What’s actually terrible? Guilty Trump voters love Leftist politics when we speak plain fucking English instead of Hundred-Year-Old Marx-textbook-speech.

Remember when Bernie went to a town hall on Fox News? I promise, you can do that too. Just don’t be a raging asshole in the moment, maybe start by going off on how disingenuous Liberals are for about 5 minutes, and explain that “no socialist thinks that word means what you’ve been told it means.”

It isn’t as hard as we make it. The Right Wing, to some extent, ALWAYS wins hardest by pretending to be us. Its time to have some hard, adult conversations with our coworkers, neighbors, family, etc.