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  • How I got KeePassXC & Librewolf Flatpaks talking (Linux)

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  • Nice. This is the knock against flatpaks. Anytime you need applications to work together and figuring out how to do so

  • GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal

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  • I'll hold off on a new phone to watch for this. Android could be great without Google's nonsense. An OS that has high end hardware support and continues to work on convergence with desktop Linux both by the communities development and Google's

  • Will the US Attack Venezuela?

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  • The US portion of the Vietnam war killed ~3 million Vietnamese, Lao, and Cambodian people. US bombings in Cambodia during the war lead to the fall of the neutral Cambodian government and the rise of the Khmer Rouge. Immediately before the US portion of the Vietnam war, the French killed hundreds of thousands more. Immediately before that was fighting against Japan and France during WW2. Immediately before that, fighting France for freedom. The Vietnam war was incredibly long and killed millions and set Cambodia towards a genocidal regime.

    For Venezuela to be worse, millions would have to killed. Hundreds of thousands killed in neighboring countries. Chemical warfare employed that would lead to birth defects for decades to come. A neighboring country be bombed to civil war where a genocidal dictator rises power and commits a genocide. Venezuela then be successfully sanctioned to an extreme level of poverty for nearly 20+ years

    The sanctioning power is already falling apart and non-US centric trade routes are a lot more mature than the 50-90s. The US military runs with extremely expensive equipment compared to the 60s/70s. Slow to build. War in Venezuela means it can't sustain a war in Europe, the west Pacific, or the Middle East. Russia-Ukraine, Iraq and Afghanistan, Ethiopia-Tigray civil war, Sudan civil war. Got to add up numerous wars to compare to just the US portion of the Vietnam war

    Also the US lost like 60,000 people in Vietnami believe France lost a similar amount as the US in the post-WW2 portion of the war

    Going back to the Korean war, that too was far more brutal than people bother to learn

    The Internet and the large Latin American population in the US may also lead to far more unrest in the US compared to Vietnam war American unrest. Venezuelan immigrants are substantial in the US compared to Viet people in the US during the Vietnam war

    The brutality of Vietnam and Korea is like taking the European portion of WW2 and putting them in single countries. Carpet bombing, fire bombing, massacre after massacre. There's been nothing comparable since. The wars in Africa have had way less difference in killing equipment between the factions compared to Vietnam and Korea and strategy has shifted from destroying everything to being more economical with military equipment. Recall that the US had major factions pushing to use nukes in both Korea and Vietnam. I doubt that'll be the case for Venezuela

    European and by extension American, Australian, South African, etc colonialism were far more genocidal than people get taught. By the 50s it was a lot less genocidal and look how that went. The previous centuries, elimination and replacement of local populations weren't unpopular ideas, just impractical and not understood how to yet

  • Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble

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  • If you have a stable job with good pay or good upward mobility in the company potential and don't have periods of unemployment, if it has a 401k, you're 401k is being invested while the market is down. When unemployment is high, the Federal Reserve sets the federal funds rate much lower to try and stimulate the economy. That results in lower rates for consumer loans. So people that have stable jobs that pay well enough can take out loans and/or refinance their current loans to do better than they were.

    When the market recovers, you've had years of experience that you can now use for job hopping at more senior level roles when the job market recovers. Also a lot of late career people end up consulting for companies large and small with inexperienced staff. Those that didn't fare well in a career during a market downturn, it's either stagnation or hardship after hardship

    It doesn't necessarily have to be office/lab work. I know people that grinded the past decade+ in restaurants until an owner would trust them to manage a restaurant including all the supplies and payroll and then trust them enough to partner on a another restaurant and then that be their ticket to financial security. Some in their 30s, some 40s, some 50s. It's a grind but at least they didn't end up drug addicts and alcoholics like so many others

  • Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble

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  • The s&p 500 tanks a ton and banks call on loans from these AI hyped companies using the price of the stocks as collateral (previously expected to rise). Credit crunch and now companies tighten the belts even further so higher unemployment again. Federal funds rate gets slashed and those that can manage steady good work during the recovery years will be fine. Everyone else will be struggle busing as usual

  • Why Signal over Jabber/XMPP?

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  • Signal is really simple and has a sizable userbase now. I've worked with people in non-tech companies and they'll have signal installed because theres someone in management that cares for security to a degree and does official nonofficial team communication with signal

    Element/Matrix I think has a chance. The newest Element X app looks a lot better on the phone and on desktop. It's progressing to good user experience

  • Will the US Attack Venezuela?

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  • It'd be a forever war. It won't be as terrible as Vietnam since they're a lot further from arms suppliers than Vietnam but Venezuela still has a significant military. They have a varied terrain including jungles and mountain ranges. US has historically antagonized every country in Latin America including now neighboring Colombia and Brazil - Brazil itself having a significant arms industry. You may not have a steady stream of Russian fighter jets to Venezuela, but I'm certain missiles, guns, artillery would all manage to make it to Venezuelan resistance. I wouldn't be surprised if people all the way out from Nicaragua would make their way into Venezuela to fight the US

  • Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees

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  • I thought about getting a Sam's Club membership to look for a Series X as another cheap UHD Blu-ray player. They've got to be gone by now at my local one

  • Ethiopia accuses Eritrea of preparing for war as Red Sea tensions rise

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  • That whole region is impossible to see how it ends up. Ethiopia and Trigray. Ethiopia and Eritrea. Ethiopia and Somolia. Somalia and Puntland and Khatumo. Egypt and Ethiopia. Sudan hanging out in between with their own civil war. Then over time Rwanda is setting themselves up to try and be the Israel and may end up to varying degrees attacking everyone

  • AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month

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  • Streaming sites use them so there's a solid chance you've used it plenty without actively choosing to

  • Ethiopia accuses Eritrea of preparing for war as Red Sea tensions rise

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  • Ethiopia purchases arms from Russia as well. Russia was supportive to Ethiopia in Tigray. Ethiopia has been a solid ally for Russia in the UN since the the war started. Ethiopia has a good relationship with Russia

  • Plight of Roma in EU 'one of the greatest human rights scandals on the continent'

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  • There was one comment where their proof of why Romani people are terrible, violent, incestuous, etc was an article about how bad the reputation of Romanian people are in other countries

    Then one comment included a - did you even know that roma people trace back to India. Something about the people make the country so that's why it's trash heap of the world. It was said in a way where it was like a common understanding for people everywhere to think Indian people are terrible. The Indian comment was so out of no where

    They were getting mad that I was insulting them because I don't know them and their community. Don't see the problem. First they classified millions of Romani people as violent, thieves, incestuous, whatever. Then they went ahead and characterized the nature of over a billion and a half people of South Asian subcontinental heritage by linking what they accuse as the nature of Romani people as being because they trace back a very very very long time ago to present day India and Pakistan

  • Plight of Roma in EU 'one of the greatest human rights scandals on the continent'

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  • It's fine that you think that way of me. I am surprised though that you haven't removed that link about romanians to justify your racism for roma people. It makes you look very stupid. You'd travel to Georgia the country and google sights to see in Georgia, USA

  • Plight of Roma in EU 'one of the greatest human rights scandals on the continent'

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  • You pointed out Roma people have roots back to India like that's some sort of huge gotcha that people understand means terrible people. You're in a racist bubble. Get out of it. In my country people from India have incredibly low crime rates and are usually highly educated. You need to make some friends outside of racist people. You seem to think what you believe in doesn't make you a bad person. I'm concerned for your country if you represent the average person

  • Plight of Roma in EU 'one of the greatest human rights scandals on the continent'

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  • You'd fit in in Israel. You sound like you'd love to be in the IDF. Back in time you'd love to support the British and take the food of Indians as they go through famine because it sounds like today you're happy to cast judgment over 1.4 billion people. You'd fit in with the party in 1941 Germany as well. You'd be happily on the side of genocide across the Americas. You're trash. You're anti-Israel from a distance but share their ideology. You're pure trash

  • Plight of Roma in EU 'one of the greatest human rights scandals on the continent'

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  • I'm certain plenty of them are much better people than you are. You're a terrible person. Your country would be better off if you left

  • Plight of Roma in EU 'one of the greatest human rights scandals on the continent'

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  • A reminder that across europe every country at some point were israel today - not even that long ago

  • Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

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  • Steve Jobs just didn't have the right foresight. PWA's were a solution when the web was supposed to be the future of applications distribution. If he knew native apps were still the future and in app advertising and microtransactions were going to be where all was at, he would never have pushed PWA's. Steve was a salesman first and foremost

  • As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers'

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  • I remember how much games media was hyped on the activision acquisition. It's probably because Kotick and Blizzard execs are a bunch of bastards but that doesn't make MS execs great. Just less shitty. Also had the feeling like games media at the time saw it as strengthening western games studio employment stability. Things have not gone as hoped for in the last few years