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cecilkorik

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  • Online Mentions Of Canadians’ IDF Service Are Disappearing

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  • The Internet never forgets, but it is easily distracted.

  • Paramilitary massacres unfolding in Sudan’s Darfur, videos show

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  • If the rest of the world can do it with impunity, why not Sudan paramilitaries? Equal access to genocide for everyone!

    Sigh. Humanity is really being tested right now. And I think we're failing the test.

  • US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says

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  • First they came for the illegal immigrants and I did not speak out because I was not an illegal immigrant... welcome to the poem, you're living in it and just like the poem, eventually there will be no one to speak out for you.

  • Supercharger pulley

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  • Sounds like fun, good luck!

  • Why do some people fork repos but make no changes to them?

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  • So while you're working on your PR, where do you push your commits? If you don't fork, you can't push them to Github. You don't have access to the repo you're making a PR for. That's exactly why people fork.

    Of course you could just NOT push any commits, but then your commits only exist locally on your development machine, and if you have a hardware failure you've lost them, defeating the point of a distributed version control system. Or you could push them to another computer you have access to, but Github lets you push to your own free account for free, so most people would rather just do that. Which they do. By creating a fork.

    Maybe it's okay if you're only creating a small PR with a single commit or two. But for more extensive development, anyone reasonable is going to create a fork so they have somewhere to store their work until it's ready. Once/If the PR is merged, the fork is abandoned as it's no longer needed. But that's why they exist.

  • Why do some people fork repos but make no changes to them?

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  • I'd recommend Forgejo rather than Gitea for a new install these days. It's a Gitea fork that was soft-forked (still compatible) until recently but is now moving to a hard fork model and has significantly more development momentum and a bigger community behind it. Still basically the same thing for most purposes, but I think Forgejo's approach to actions/runners makes way more sense and they've started adding features like ActivityPub federation that I think will put them in a good position in the future.

  • Jet engine shortages threaten AI data center expansion as wait times stretch into 2030

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  • They'll just use diesel generators instead and if they run out of those they'll probably start dragging old coal locomotives out of museums too and rigging those up to turn a generator, fuck the environment the AI must grow!

  • Labour leaders vow ‘unprecedented response’ as Alberta uses notwithstanding clause

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  • The rest of Canada has your back. At least the people do. I can't speak for our governments.

  • OpenAI Establishes For-Profit Company In Restructuring Change Involving Microsoft

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  • More Financial Engineering to try to obscure the fact that they're all caught in a rapidly expanding bubble that they've lost any hope of controlling.

  • Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates

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  • Instead of just centralizing everything with Google, let's ALSO centralize all of that through Cloudflare too. If we centralize enough stuff onto enough different monolithic platforms it counts as decentralized, right? /s

  • CIRB Rules Against Canada Post Union’s Back-To-Work Challenge

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  • All these attacks on collective bargaining power are already bringing public pressure to the boiling point, maybe they're hoping we'll forget how many different species of wildcats live in Canada. Make it make sense, or we'll start to meow.

  • What are the most popular conspiracy theories?

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  • I think the only reason this is a conspiracy is because it claims there are shadowy, secret people coordinating their activities and running the world behind the scenes and only the conspiracy theorists will ever be clever enough to figure exactly out who they are.

    In reality the political elites and billionaires are already doing exactly that very obviously and in plain sight with zero subtlety, making a public performance out of national relations while regularly meeting and being perfectly cordial and strategizing and horse-trading together behind doors, living a life of wealth and privilege, establishing themselves as minor celebrities and making sure people are always talking about them, and apparently hanging out on tropical islands with child-molesters. We know this is generally factual for very many of them, unless you think all the Wikileaks wires and Epstein files stuff is somehow faked. Unless you just haven't read them. It's pretty fucking clear what's going on in my opinion. No need for a conspiracy to be able to see what's going on in the circles of power. It's not much of a secret anymore.

  • Texas Sues Tylenol Makers, Claiming They Hid Autism Risks

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  • Correct. So many people are only being diagnosed as adults with autism now precisely because they were never diagnosed as children because we didn't even really have it defined at that time and didn't understand the full scope of the condition. It's not that they "became" autistic, it's that our definition and understanding of it evolved to include them retrospectively. Tylenol did not cause this. Understanding did.

  • Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands

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  • If an option exists that nobody should ever choose, why is it an option? In what situation would this option ever make sense?

  • Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified

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  • I'm a relentless idealist too, and I get where you're coming from, but idealism alone isn't a winning strategy. The state of the world right now proves that. Sometimes you have to crawl before you can walk, and walk before you can run. This is important precisely because it is so minor and inconsequential: the stakes and consequences for failure are so low while there is absolutely no legitimate argument against it. Not to put too fine a point on it: People are losing hope in our ability to create any change at all. We need a win. We need to start getting traction, and start making progress somewhere. We need to show people that these battles against corporate interests CAN be won so that they are willing to try to fight more of them in the future, including eventually the bigger ones where there will be real consequences and really serious forces entrenched against any efforts for change.

    This is just a first step, a tiny example of giving the finger to "the man" to prove that we still can, taking back a sliver of power and agency. It is not the last step, it is merely a beginning, an almost invisibly tiny crack in the armor of capitalism and corporate rights in favour of society and people's rights. It's certainly not going to fix the world on its own, but once we've got some cracks in the armor, we can keep working at them to make them bigger and eventually maybe we'll start making real visible progress.

    Don't get me wrong, I'd love to solve the problems of the world overnight with a single petition too, but that's not realistic given the scale of the opposition and resistance we are facing. Late stage capitalism and corpo-fascism are not weak or fragile and they have grown to a scale that is almost inconceivable. We will not beat them in a single blow. We will need to hammer at them for a long, long time before we even start making any serious progress. We have to be prepared for a long, long fight, and relish these small, small victories when we get them. Because every victory is valuable and every one counts. Especially ones where we don't have to fight to the death to achieve them. Small, cheap victories are the best when our resources are so limited. It's going to be a marathon not a sprint. Right now they've got all the money, all the power, all the media, all the organization. A single large decisive battle would almost certainly mean we lose, and lose big. This is guerilla warfare. We will fight on the fringes and fight them where they're weakest not where they're powerful. Eventually the balance of power will shift as long as we keep winning battles, but it isn't going to change anytime soon.

  • Calgary’s bizarre low-turnout, high-turnover election

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  • It's not bizarre at all. There are words that explain exactly what happened: calculated vote suppression and voter disenfranchisement. The election was stolen before it even began, by Bill 20. The result is exactly as intended.

  • Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together

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  • While it's good to thought-experiment this sort of thing out to try to understand the most problematic areas, the reality is that the internet will never "completely" go down it's too heavily distributed and not quite enough of a monoculture for even a perfect storm of worst case scenarios to conspire to bring everything down. Like the article mentions, even if only two computers are still running and networked together that is still technically an island of the "Internet".

    And even if everything somehow did completely go away for a time, of course we could start it up again, worst case we would just start making islands and then reconnecting distant islands to each other one at a time; the same way we restart that other great distributed machine: the power grid; the same way we created the Internet the first time, and actually probably much faster because most of the planning, layout, protocols and physical infrastructure is already well-established. It will just take time and work, it will be a a slow and chaotic process, modern life will grind to a halt at first, those things we rely on like the power grid, utilities, and payment networks will be prioritized but will only gradually start working again bit by bit, and it will never get back to exactly the way it was when it started, but the same sort of things happened after 9/11, in the great east coast blackout in North America, during COVID lockdowns. The world shuts down, the things we do and the way we do those things suddenly changes, becomes uncertain and difficult, non-essential stuff might not even be possible for awhile. But essential stuff mostly still gets done no matter how awkward it is to figure out how to do it. It's not pretty or fun, but we manage, until eventually the problem has gone away and we don't have to manage anymore.

  • Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

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  • He asked ChatGPT.

  • Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

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  • Vive la revolution!