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Disaster

@ Disaster @sh.itjust.works

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    Chinese ‘kill switches’ found in US solar farms. Ed Miliband under pressure to pause green energy blitz after hidden components discovered.

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  • Are there any interesting teardowns of a compromised inverter out there (that isn't some horribly annoying talking head on youtube) ?

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    Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier."

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  • who fucking cares?

  • A newly welcomed Afrikaner ‘refugee’ tweeted Jews are ‘dangerous and untrustworthy’

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  • What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide?

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  • I disagree with you. Protests accomplish a great deal, and send an undeniable message when that message is appropriately scoped and targeted.

    Protests show popular support for an issue in ways that are impossible to minimize or ignore, and they are effective in moving the needle on issues. Have a few tens of thousands of people take to the streets sends an undeniable message. Even getting a hundred people to chant something in a town square sends an undeniable message. Just because the outcome isn't immediately visible doesn't mean that nothing was accomplished.

    NEVER go to a protest armed, that defeats the purpose. Why make a situation worse by making everyone surrounding the protest regardless of whether they're uniform, or just someone getting to and from lunch fearful for their lives? That's very bad advice. Additionally, gearing up almost automatically makes for a bad look. Half of what a protest aims to accomplish is to show the other side of an issue "We are here, we aren't something you should be afraid of, we are people like you" - how is that aim going to be achieved by masking up like a bunch of cosplaying militarized goons? You don't want that. I don't want that. Believe it or not, I doubt half of the people co-opted into ICE want that. And part of the message has to be "We don't need this in our lives"

    Just take a look at the campus protests regarding the Palestinian Genocide. First off the students were made out to be violent, which as it turns out is largely untrue, then a bunch of pro-israel actual crazies showed up and started assaulting them (and random people) on the street. Not a good look, even with media minimization. By simply being there, and refusing to give up, they have raised awareness on the issue despite the personal cost. Those people have taken a great personal risk to do something about a situation they find ethically intolerable. I think that deserves respect, at the very least.

    Be loud, focused and get your point across, but be respectful. I've seen police step in to stop potentially/violent counterprotestors on many occasions, believe it or not they do actually try to be neutral even in the face of provocation - so don't offer that kind of fear to anyone sharing the local environment whilst making your point. There's so little respectful middle ground remaining that it is critical to preserve it, because this is now a wasting asset.

    This situation is now tilting towards the question of how much the lack of protest and visible popular opposition emboldens a group of self-serving individuals, before the cumulative risk becomes worse than the risk of protesting and possibly getting hurt. Constant, nonviolent protest in even the face of state violence is how to win this, and sure, that puts the protestors at risk. Risk is part of this equation, it's coming for us - for many it's already here - and can no longer be ignored.

    I get that it's hard work. Sometimes it feels like nothing is accomplished, and it's not shocking and awe inspiring...but Hard Work is what's required to correct this trajectory. We spend so much time and effort making entertainment about one special person or one special moment that we've given ourselves a social impediment vs. truly understanding the kinds of efforts, risks and suffering it took to get to a more equitable society in the first place.

  • What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide?

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    Be aware of local political groups in your areas that share values that align with yours. Generally, have a practice of being involved. Work out how your state and local elections and party machines operate, run for empty positions or support good candidates who will do the job, and not sell out to the local moneybags.

    Attend protests. Sure, it might look like a bunch of people standing outside getting rained on with soggy cardboard signs, but protest works. It shows others that even though you may be afraid, you're still standing up for what you believe is right. Support protests you agree with - order them some pizzas or something.

    There's no longer a choice about what to do - become an activist, or become complicit.

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  • Public Money, Public Code.

    Unfortunately, there are a great many directors and senior level administrators who aren't up to the challenge of managing competent technical teams or projects, hence they prefer to go the easy route and just pay someone else for the headache.

  • A note about the security of your Steam account

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  • There is also the cost of power and computer hardware to factor in, which probably raises the barrier to entry, but you're right. Once you have all the equipment or have it anyway for other purposes, it's very cheap.

  • Denmark is considering lifting 40-year-old nuclear power ban, minister says

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  • This is because everything about nuclear energy is long-term. You can't build a nuclear power plant with snap of the fingers, and if things go sour in your country whilst it's operating, you now have a massive environmental and public health liability to deal with.

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns Trump Admin If They ‘Lay a Finger’ on Members of Congress ‘We Are Going To Have a Problem’

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  • After watching that video, there already is a problem. Assaulting an elected official is a felony and the ICE officer that did this needs to be up on charges.

  • VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

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  • At this point, why would anyone do business with broadcom at all?

  • Trump plans to sign an executive order requiring commercial truck drivers to speak English.

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  • Mahmoud Khalil can be expelled for his beliefs alone, US government argues

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  • not with that attitude!

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  • Then they'll ban far left politicians from running.

    Then they'll ban anyone they don't like.

    And eventually, they'll ban everyone who isn't them.

    Right wing lunatics are repulsive in almost every sense, but this isn't the way you beat them. When you put the machinery in place to do something like this, it will inevitably be abused in the opposite direction in future.

  • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance

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  • Nuclear energy is a terrible idea in both a physically (climate change) and socially destabilizing world.

    Even Gen4 proliferation-resistant reactors still represent a lethal threat in the event of a release of fissionable materials into the local environment. Building a nuclear reactor without a cast-iron guarantee that there will be a supply of engineering staff, components, materials and clear strong regulation to keep it running safely is a surefire path to disaster.

    Whilst the technology and physics behind it are well understood, we have shown time and again in a few short decades of utilizing this technology that we lack the responsibility in our administrative structures to properly manage the risks.

    It would take just one full-on reactor meltdown or disaster to poison an entire continent. We have consistently demonstrated that we cannot responsibly assume that risk, which is why there is opposition to nuclear power.

    If you want to avoid bad things from happening, do not deploy a dangerous technology and instead focus on what we can do. Renewables are more than capable of providing for our energy needs, and the big kicker here is that they can do so without putting the literal power "off" switch in the hands of the grid or plant operator.

  • ‘There has to be a turn around’: Sanders on Democrats’ next steps amid Trump blitzkrieg

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  • All in time for the democrats to run another empty (pant)suit in 2028. Rinse. Repeat.

  • AOC condemns Chuck Schumer for caving to Republicans on funding bill

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  • schumer has been a sack of shit for about as long as I can remember.

  • German spy chief hopes US will 'soon be at our side again' – DW – 03/10/2025

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  • I hear there are places in Berlin that charge a small amount of money give you a towel for such fantasies.

  • What's something that's seen as Obsolete, but isn't?

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  • Me.

  • Europe bets on RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform

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  • Give me something like Talos2 with a full OSS firmware and a performant CPU... and hell, a half-competitive open source graphics core too. It doesn't need to be peak performance, it needs to be good enough.

    I've been trying to work with SBC's for a while for video decoding platforms and just wound up getting stuck on x86 because the ARM situation with weirdo custom kernels for anything useful is just... annoying.