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  • To USB, or not to USB

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  • There are tons of ways to exploit a computer via a flash drive like that. Lots of viruses exist that would immediately install themselves upon the drive getting recognized. Famously Iran had a nuclear power plant taken offline by a random flash drive somebody plugged in, but aside from state level threats they can also just steal your financial details and personal info

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    Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Novo General Megathread for the 30th of January to 6th of February 2026

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  • I went to university at 21, I have a friend who started at 24. I have another friend who joined the trades as an electrician at 23. It’s normal and ok to still be figuring it out at that age. Don’t let anybody make it feel otherwise. Do what you’ve gotta do to get by while you put the pieces in place, and try your best to follow either your passion or your interests while forming your path. You’ve got options, you’re young, and life has so much in store for you.

  • Venezuela’s acting president signs oil industry overhaul, easing state control to lure investors

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  • Comprador and capitulator

  • Just saw an uber eats delivery sitting on a porch

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  • I just used one of them for groceries today as my road is under two inches of ice still, so I ordered it to the end of the road after my road and hiked over the damn glacier (real sketchy). But my $40 worth of groceries cost me $75, how the fuck do people do this often? Left me reeling

  • Help with uploading images on Linux Mint & Librewolf

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  • Yay glad that fixed it for you!

  • Help with uploading images on Linux Mint & Librewolf

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  • This comes from Canvas being blocked by default in librewolf. You can either enable it globally in the settings, or enable it per site by clicking the little picture icon in the URL bar and toggling it, then reloading

  • Is it worth even trying with a samsung?

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  • They aren’t running Google software, they’re using GrapheneOS. And the spyware they’re referring to on Samsung phones is very pubic knowledge, just as the data collection and surveillance in stock Pixel software is. But that’s not relevant

  • it's a simple question

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  • That’s good to know, ty for the info. I’m a nvim guy so these reccs are from limited experience, i appreciate your firsthand knowledge

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  • True, or Kate, definitely solid

  • it's a simple question

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  • I’m a NixOS and Sway person, with all my configs and theming set up reproducibly. I have so much confidence to experiment and tweak to my heart’s content when I can roll everything back at any time, or stand up a new system in minutes with the exact same configuration. I’m also mostly CLI based, nvim, ncspot, all of that fun stuff

  • it's a simple question

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  • You could try Notepadqq, which is similar and runs natively on Linux

    Edit: just learned this isn’t actively maintained anymore :/

  • What is you guys opinion on DuckDuckGo AI?

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  • Because of rampant hallucinations, yet people taking them as gospel. Not to mention the energy cost for no real benefit

  • The National Weather Service is currently predicting up to 1.75 inches of ice for large swaths of the southern US

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  • I’m in a highly affected area but luckily we’re more used to snow and ice here. But it’s gonna be a mess regardless. There’s effectively no state support in place, and the mutual aid orgs I work with up here are so small and shoestring that they can really only coordinate some small relief with basic supplies. The shelters aren’t opening up their doors any more than normal, the charities remain stingy. It’s every person for themselves and I hate it

  • Testimony of a Cuban combatant who defended President Maduro

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  • Ballistic plates can protect against multiple rounds depending on the plate and projectile, they’re standard issue body armor

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    Sprawl is financially bankrupting Los Angeles, where more than half the land is devoted to cars

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  • Scandinavian countries are not socialist…

  • Sorry, it's over. I've depicted you as an owljak.

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  • I come from a CS and math background so I apologize for misusing the terminology, it’s more in line with how I’d use it in a CS environment. By determinism I was definitely referring to Laplacian determinism by your definitions.

    I do not understand the diatribe you included about religious cultists tricking me; I’m an atheist myself and these are arguments I’ve come to appreciate from the perspective of my own understanding of the science and physics, and reading the arguments published in the field of modern philosophy. And a lot of my perspective is informed by experience: it’s a separate argument, but I experience the act of decision making every day, and watch others do the same. Free will seems self evident from the perspective of exercising it day to day. But I digress. It was just a strange and rude inclusion that doesn’t actually make any point.

    While we can model stochastic systems as probabilities, these are statistical models and are indeterminate, we know that there is uncertainty in our ability to predict quantum particles’ properties. I’m not a physicist so I can’t make strong claims about hidden variable theories, I’m only familiar with the more basic levels of quantum mechanics; I learned the Copenhagen interpretation, Schrödinger equation, and the uncertainty principle, that level of knowledge. My only understanding of Bell’s theorem is that it disproves local hidden variables. I think the mathematical structure of these laws remains relevant to the debate though, because it negates the logical conclusion of our universe as a mechanical, pre-set system of events, at least by this level of understanding. If non local hidden variable theories pan out as better predictors and prove uncertainty to be irrelevant then I’ll shift my perspective, but I’ve not seen great arguments for pilot waves over the more standard quantum models.

    I’d also like to point out that nomological determinism is not inherently at odds with free will. I think most modern philosophers are compatibilists on some level, having some type of deterministic view of the universe while simultaneously arguing for free will. I believe the perspective I’m coming from would meet this definition too, now that you’ve introduced me to more thorough terminology for what I’m actually arguing.

    This is all well outside of my expertise as I’m not a physicist or a philosopher. I’m just sharing my perspective as a relative layman

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  • It undermines the deterministic argument, I.e.: the universe is deterministic, all things happen strictly one way because of this determinism, therefore free will cannot exist because the chemical reactions that make us up can only occur one way due to the environment. We know the universe is on some level nondeterministic, so while one can argue that there are material consequences of past events, I think it is immaterial to state that means there is only one potential outcome to every situation. So free will is not inherently undermined by a materialistic outlook. This isn’t a fully formed argument in and of itself, just a rebuttal, but there are plenty of philosophers who present more sound logic towards this end.

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  • Materialism doesn’t necessarily imply determinism. On the quantum level we understand that the universe has indeterminate building blocks. So to me the determinist argument against free will isn’t so watertight

    Edit: somebody pointed out that I’m misusing the term determinism. Im specifically referring to Laplacian determinism here

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    Anyone know how to get over heartbreak?

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  • I spent a good portion of last year getting over a long term relationship that ended suddenly and hurtfully. All the cliche advice is the truth, because it works. It’s hard, it takes time. But you need to focus your energy into yourself and your life now. Lean into friends. Go out, be social, do the things you enjoy. Feel your feelings: journal, call a friend and talk, vent, try therapy if you need it. And when you feel secure enough, put yourself out there again. Make sure you know what you truly want in a partner, what’s important to you, what personality traits will click with you. Like another person in this thread said: write down all the things you liked in this girl, remember that you can find those in other people, and even go further from that and add other traits you’d find beautiful or would help you connect to somebody. Don’t rush it though. It’s ok to just hurt for a while, but don’t do it alone, and don’t forget to keep living in the meanwhile.

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    Relationship problems have me fucked up and confused rn