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  • About “fauxpen source”, FUTO, fascists and capitalism

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  • I got told off a while ago when immich got funding when I said that FUTO seems quite fishy and I didn't believe that there were no strings attached with immich. Everyone said "oh they are just a great open source grant org" when I questioned where their money came from.

    I feel a bit vindicated they they are just another tech bro's philanthropic project with a habit of supporting and platforming fascists.

  • Omar Warns Trump Aims to Provoke Enough Agitation in Minnesota So He Can Declare 'Martial Law'

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  • I am interested in learning which american peaceful protests have been successful that were not backed by force in the past 10 years?

    Actually what american protests at all have been successful in the past 10 years at actually accomplishing their goals and not settling for 1% of their goals as a "compromise" for the theater?

    Maybe we can extend it to 30 years or 40 years just for fun?

  • Best - if at all? - European AI coding assistant

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  • I have tried it multiple times for embedded coding and it has never once produced valid code. It is like tutorials giving pseudo-code (but saying it is real code). So vibe-coding seems to not work with it.

    It can produce an idea that you can follow, so it is useful for exploring different methods for solving a problem, but that is its limit for me.

    That said, embedded code generally has quite specific libraries, but even directing it right to the library, right to the file, I was unable to coax it into using functions or APIs that exist.

  • low-tech cellphone recs for someone in the US?

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  • It is worth it to note that SMS should not be used for any personal communication. Literally every message you send is stored by the carrier and handed over to anyone that pays them including LEOs, who in the past have used them to incriminate innocent people, and if you live in america, they will use them to justify shooting you apparently...

    Not to mention anyone in the area can intercept all messages with some cheap equipment.

    Dumb phones are such a draw compared to stupid smart phones, but they don't have any secure messaging (at least the ones I have looked at)

  • All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt

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  • This is the best comment of the thread.

    So many people are nitpicking his post or criticizing the platform that he shares it on (let's me honest, linkedIN has a much wider impact than the fediverse if something "goes corporate viral"). People deserve to be compensated for their work.

    We shouldn't be mad at the devs trying to make a living, even those who have different views about what open source is. We should be banding together against the companies who's entire business model is based on theft and abuse. New anti-AI licenses specifically, techniques to poison AI data baked into every repo, class action lawsuits against companies, etc...

    Once Universal Basic Income gets implemented and you don't need to be paid directly for your work to survive, then we bicker incessantly about the finer points of the real definition of open source.

  • You need to stop using Brave

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  • He is pretty much openly admitting he has right wing views and it is influencing his social media and project policy.

    "Punch Nazis" is literally the only use of the phrase "punch [group]" in modern culture. Redacting specifically Nazi from the statement to make it seem like it is a general statement used, which suggests that is is note broad violent rhetoric, is a very often used dogwhistle by Nazis (and is being used daily by the extreme right wing, at this point satisfying nearly every academic hallmark of fascism, american government).

    It is also relevant to note that during the project startup, someone simply suggested a 10 minute search and replace change to use more neutral language and he responded "your personal politics have no place here" even though that is not necessarily political.

    Again, the only people that get that offended and snappy with something as benign as using a single different pronoun are the people who support taking basic rights away from human beings. I have never met another type person who cares at all.

    The real question is, if a terrible person creates something (potentially) good and let's their own politics create arguments and stir up drama, but just use the guise of "oh it's because I want to be apolitical", is it worth giving money and support to that person. How can you trust someone to always make a "free as in freedom browser" when they literally support (hypothetically) authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and taking rights away in real life? That is the antithesis of the project's mission.

    Also, life is inherently political. There is a group of people literally wanting to kidnap, torture, enslave, kill, and/or remove any rights from another large group of people. Ignoring those problems and welcoming those people with open arms gives them the chance to spread those hateful and violent views, as evidenced by their rapid growth by creating safe spaces for them on the internet.

    It is a sad reality, but throughout much of human history, there has been a large groups of people don't have the luxury to "avoid talking about politics" and "making things political" because they were literally getting enslaved and/or killed by it. And that is happening today still, visibly and publically.

  • Has anybody used Delta Chat?

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  • https://simplex.chat/vouchers/

    I guess in this case it might be an OK block chain usecase, but still, NFTs and crypto is always to be looked at suspiciously at first, with its long long history of rampant scams

  • Fairphone vs Nothing (or any other phone)

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  • We need to have a pinned post about nothing on this community.

    Nothing is a Chinese company with American investors, using the UK marketing office as a tax haven, there is nothing European about it.

    All of the electronics are designed and produced in China, all of the firmware is designed and written in China, most or all of the software is written in China. All of the electronics & technical job postings from then since inception have been for their Chinese office. (Disclaimer, the past year they had 1-2 software engineering jobs posted at their london office, so maybe sometime in the future, they will start writing a bit of the software in europe)

    All of their smart watches and their whole CMF line is ODM'ed (white labeled) by fully Chinese companies, that is why they are all completely generic dime-a-dozen base designs.

    Their CEO has had a history of misleading and/or lying with his other Chinese company he started, and has worked in the Chinese smartphone industry for 15 years in China. Sure he grew up in Sweden, but that is literally the only EU-related affiliation the company has, and he didn't put the headquarters marketing office in Sweden because he is dodging taxation.

  • Has anybody used Delta Chat?

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  • Didn't simplex start with a nrf/crypto scam now?

    Also the problematic right wing political affiliations of the founder.

  • Signal massively downloaded amid rising tensions, number one in Denmark

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  • The software with encryption disabled by default, no security audits, and rampant spam is better?

  • What do we call the career bureaucrats who remained working in Nazi Germany?

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  • Also, "wasn't a good defense in court" is not true at all. The US Nuremberg trials had a <0.2% conviction rate for war criminals, and <1% for "major war criminals" (not even just rank and file like a government employee would be).

    It was apparently an amazing defense that resulted in the lowest conviction rate of almost any crime in history besides "perjury" which is the biggest joke of a law in the US.

  • FBI investigating after ICE officer fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis

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  • That is what they did here.

    They blocked all first responders from bringing her to the hospital and possibly saving her life because a dead person can't sue you.

  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • I downloaded both of them from YouTube and reddit before they get taken down like on bluesky.

    Anyone know where I can reliably post them that they will stay up?

  • Board Votes To Dissolve Corporation For Public Broadcasting After Loss Of Federal Funding

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  • So instead everyone got genocide x2, shortly maybe will be x3 of oil companies pull a Venezuelan banana republic: electric boogaloo, and a significantly worse economy with not only no reforms, but significant change in the opposite direction, siphoning orders of magnitude more money away from the working class than the status quo.

    Plus you get the dissolution of unions and stripping workers of any power they have.

    Plus you get out-in-the-open media centralization to become out and out propaganda machines bought and paid for by corruption and dissolution of the last remnents of independent media.

    Plus you get kidnapping citizens in the streets by faceless, nameless, badgeless enforcers.

    Plus you get government-sponsored lynchings

    Plus you get, nationwide, women getting sick, hurt, and dying because doctors aren't allowed to treat them anymore

    Plus you get multiple very corrupt white collar criminals set completely free with no consequences

    Plus you get the near-total neutering of all health and disease research and public health policies

    Plus you get the complete decimation of US aid to countries in need that was not through on an imperialist military

    Plus you get people dying of hunger and homeless people and immigrants being arrested and used for slave labor.

    Plus you get people who aren't fascists labelled as terrorist groups, arrested, and threatened

    Plus you get persecution of transgender people

    Plus you get pedophile government oligarchs literally out in the open human trafficking instead of behind closed doors.

    Great trade off there. You guys really sent the correct message and voted to make the world a better place.

  • Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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  • On the bright side, this change has been around for 9 months at least because they had already changed it when I was doing IT stuff at my last job and it was impossible to find where to actually download the office suite.

  • European phones - Choose for youself

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  • But in actual reality, a good quality USB dongle (like apple's for example) there is little to no hearable or measurable difference. Hell, over on reddit, someone just did a casual blind test again with a few audiophile friends and they all failed.

    Every blind test done in the past decade has proven this over and over and over again.

    Audio is extremely easy with modern ICs. You can get DAC ICs for 2-3€ that sounds the same as DACs products for 200€. We are reaching terahertz DACs now. Gigahertz DACs are established. <100kHz can be perfectly recreated now cheaply and in a tiny footprint.

    Volume, sure, they won't necessarily drive 600Ohm headphones loud enough, but that is an AMP problem, not a DAC problem.

    (Though this is even more reason that an on-board phone DAC is ridiculously easy and there is no need for removing the headphone jack)

  • European phones - Choose for youself

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  • Yep, also. That is the more "business/financial" term I think.

  • European phones - Choose for youself

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  • Yes. It is a Chinese company with american investors with non-technical jobs in the UK to be able to claim "UK company" for marketing.

    Their electronics are designed only in China, the devices are programmed only in China, their software is developed in China their technical job postings are all in China for years, their CEO ran a previous Chinese owned brand (lying/misleading about the company back then too) and has worked in the Chinese phone industry for 15 years.

    Their CMF line and wearables lines are all ODM'ed through various Chinese companies (for those not aware, OEM is where something is designed by a company and manufactured by another where ODM is where everything is designed by another company and the branded company just gives requirements and some input, I worked previously for an ODM kind of company) and are generic widely-available hardware marked up for brand name recognition.

    Their marketing is in the UK, that's about it.

  • European phones - Choose for youself

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  • Lol a UK company with 0% of their product made in the UK, it is literally just a marketing office.

  • BREAKING: Death toll from US operation in Venezuela has risen to 80, according to New York Times report.

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  • They don't even prosecute foreign war criminals, much less their own. US Nuremberg trails had a <0.2% conviction rate for identified war criminals lol. Less than 1% of "major war criminals".

    Criminal cops are paid instead of convicted.

    There is 0 hope for any justice at all for these people unless the entire US government gets overthrown or something just as drastic.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Embedded

    Can someone sanity check my NOR memory structure for me?

  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    Where to buy Canning Jars?

  • networking @sh.itjust.works
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    It is so confusing in europe having a Cca required rating vs CCA cable makeup.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Immich

    What is the "proper" way to navigate migration from another service (all photos are already on the server)

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Headless server hardware transcoding without X or Wayland?