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hypna

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  • They wanted to make Free Software illegal and have all computers approved by the government.

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  • Apple, Microsoft, and Google account for roughly 95% of all human user systems.

  • The Internet's Top Tech Publications Lost 58% of Their Google Traffic Since 2024

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  • Did any of these outfits actually produce quality tech journalism? In my mind CNET and the like were all marketing pieces about the next smart TV. I do use Tom's Hardware when I'm shopping for PC parts because they seem to do a good job with their benchmarking. The all-time great hard tech news site was Anandtech, and that's been gone for years.

  • muh-terial conditions

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  • Oh shit you got me talking political theory. Here we go...

    One thing I've observed when people discuss anarchist theory or practice is that it is frequently imbued with a radical absolutism that isn't applied to other political theories. It's common to see people asking how the world could work without any rules, or punishments, or coercion? You almost never encounter honest questions of a similar type for, say, socialism, e.g. how will I ever get anything done if I need the state to plan everything I do? Or the capitalist case, how would the world work if everything is someone else's property? No serious socialist believes the state should plan everything. No serious capitalist believes that all things should be private property for profit. No serious anarchist believes that the world can be free of all regulation.

    So why is this? I have a two part theory. When the socialist revolutions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were unfolding, the socialist camp split between authoritarian and anarchist socialists. In the end the authoritarians (communists) won that conflict and expelled the anarchists. This left the world with two camps, the communists, championed by the Soviet Union, and the capitalists, championed by the United States. Both camps considered anarchists villainous enemies, and both camps spent the next 50+ years producing voluminous propaganda extolling their own virtues, and denigrating their enemies. This meant that anarchists were being dunked on by two super powers for most of the 20th century without anyone of even remotely similar influence to respond. As a result basically everyone's understanding of anarchism is a caricature produced by anarchism's opponents.

    The second part of this theory is the fact that there really are a lot of self-described anarchists who adhere to this cartoon version of anarchism! I find this harder to explain. Perhaps it is that anarchism as an active political force was effectively destroyed during this period, and today's anarchists are in some significant part the people who were exposed to the cartoon anarchism propaganda, and thought, hey I like that. It could be that political anarchism has no influence and thus no responsibility to achieve anything, so why not indulge in ideological purity contests. I don't really know.

    This bums me out, because I think practical anarchist theory has a lot to like. Not a theory that says I may do whatever I want whenever I want, and anything which impinges on that is oppression. Rather one that says that imbalanced power relations are necessary and sufficient for exploitation and oppression, and so we should build political structures that distribute power as broadly as possible. That we should minimize hierarchy and coercion to enable people to spontaneously organize to solve problems.

    And when spontaneous organization isn't sufficient for the problem, an anarchism that has the practical humility to apply different techniques. Utopia is a direction, not a destination.

  • Persona, Discords "Age Verification" Service, creates a profile of you, sends it to the US Feds and deems you suspicious based on your appearance, exposed by Hackers

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  • Has anyone been able to find the list of persons included in the source? Vmfunc's blog says that a list was published but later taken down.

    EDIT: wayback machine of course

  • PIKEMEN, FORWARD!

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  • Swiss pikemen would become the last word in European warfare for some 200 years

    Ahem... Marignano, Biccoca, Pavia

    #team_landsknecht

  • Can you touch type?

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  • Yes with one quirk. I don't use the right shift, just the left. Not sure why I've ended up this way, or if it's a common variation.

    EDIT: looked it up. It's very common

  • AZAPAC, the new PAC opposing Israeli domination of U.S policies

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  • Britain’s High Court says government acted illegally in outlawing protest group Palestine Action

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  • a very small number of its actions have amounted to terrorist action

    Really? Most I found on their Wiki was beating up some guards during their break-ins. Assault? Sure. But terrorism?

    https://www.cps.gov.uk/types-crime/terrorism

    Oh. Disrupting a computer for a political purpose is terrorism in the UK. Hacktivists and bus bombers, basically the same thing.

  • This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ?

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  • Revoking drivers licenses would probably be more appropriate than seizing vehicles. The upside to that is revoking licenses, I'd wager, is a whole lot cheaper than installing and monitoring speed trackers.

    So long as the person with the speeding problem is paying for that I guess it's acceptable. But then we have yet another example of people without much money getting a raw deal. Means testing? Everything gets complicated when it gets to the implementation details.

  • We Used To Build Things. What Happened?

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  • Not much in this article really. Starts out with claiming that progressives didn't like pollution, and thus became anti science. Doesn't elaborate. Drops the thread entirely, and continues with a couple different arguments.

    First that subsidizing demand with constrained supply just increases prices. Fair enough. Second argument is that there are too many veto points in the building/producing pipeline. Probably also fair.

    But that's really the whole Abundance argument, and the article alludes to that book repeatedly. I can't tell if this was supposed to be its own original argument, or just a description of the Abundance arguments. I bet there are better synopses of the Abundance arguments than this article though.

  • Whats something new thats actually good?

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  • Are we talking about the Donut Labs battery, or is someone alse promising to bring solid state batteries to market this year? My gut says Donut Labs is like 1/8 odds of coming through.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • Thermaltake Riing fan controller needs special python software. It worked fine from RPM in Fedora 42, but it hasn't been updated for Fedora 43 yet. Tried installing with pip, and creating a systemd service, but it didn't work immediately, and haven't had time to fuss with it again. Probably just going to get new fans I can control through mobo.

    Was using default Fedora gnome, but it started getting into hibernation loops. Swapped to KDE, but I'm not sure I cleaned up the gnome install perfectly.

  • Tea and Study: "I want to drink tea and know things" 🫖📖

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  • What about coffee?

  • ‘At Least 12,000’ and ‘Possibly’ 20,000 Iranian Protesters Have Been Murdered According to Bombshell Report

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  • Tool - Lateralus

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  • US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines

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  • Maybe they're betting that the telcos have more money for their legal departments than the FCC does. I wonder though if it's true that a jury can award damages in excess of the requested amount in the case of regulatory fines the same way juries can when deciding civil suits for damages. Maybe.

  • 👽 rule

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  • This is what the internet was made for

  • US-based multinational companies will be exempt from global tax deal

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  • The way I've heard these minimum tax agreements described usually is where all the signatories agree to collect the same minimum corporate tax rate. The article says 15%. The US already has a 21% corp tax rate, setting aside tax incentives.

    So what does it mean in this case to say that US corps are exempt? Does this mean that a US corp homed in the Caymans will pay a different rate than a French company in the Caymans? Or that the US is refusing to collect a minimum 15% after tax incentives?

    I'm sure it's spelled out in the text of the treaty, but maybe someone here has already done the digging.

  • US offers Ukraine 15-year security guarantee as part of peace plan, Zelenskyy says

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  • Ukraine has been nuked? Or perhaps that's read as "used" as a threat. In any case, the point was that the previous agreements did not provide any defense guarantees.

    And what is article 4 in relation to the UN security council? There have been several security council meetings on Ukraine.

  • Music @lemmy.world
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    Rooster's Song

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    Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark - Gwenifer Raymond

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    Parole de Navarre - The Dale Cooper Quartet

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    Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired

    www.npr.org /2025/10/11/nx-s1-5550366/charlie-kirk-social-media-firings
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    KFF Health Tracking Poll: Public Weighs Political Consequences of Health Policy Legislation | KFF

    www.kff.org /affordable-care-act/kff-health-tracking-poll-public-weighs-political-consequences-of-health-policy-legislation/
  • Anarchism and Social Ecology @slrpnk.net
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    Catherine Malabou, "Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy" (Polity Books, 2023) - New Books Network

    newbooksnetwork.com /stop-thief-2
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    New Books Network

    newbooksnetwork.com /about-the-nbn
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    US Wants Ukraine to Hold Elections Following Ceasefire, Says Trump Envoy

    www.reuters.com /world/us-wants-ukraine-hold-elections-following-ceasefire-says-trump-envoy-2025-02-01/
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    CIA shifts assessment on Covid origins, saying lab leak likely caused outbreak

    www.nbcnews.com /news/amp/rcna189284