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jabjoe

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  • Murderbot - thoughts

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  • It's an interesting point, and I agree with it politically, but in the books it's made clear secunits look androgynous and non-human.

    Some change between media change is always going to happen. I think Skarsgård is doing as good a job as can be done with his face. I'm making peace with it. Maybe the bigger problem is the dismissiveness of the portrayal of Preservation Alliance society. But we did live in the Corporate Rim!

  • Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp

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  • Big US Corp is in bed with money and power. Right now, that means MAGA and that does mean fascism & Zionists. The tech itself can be ok. Though WhatsApp/Facebook isn't.

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  • Capitalism doesn't have to be anti-collective. Under a working legal system, the "Tragedy of the Commons" can be stopped. No country has pure capitalism. Everywhere regulates it. Yes, some of it falls to regulatory capture, but not all, and that waxes and wanes.

  • WhatsApp is officially getting ads

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  • Same here in UK. So many people think of it like email. A universal communication system. They can't see the problem with it being a single, closed, for profit, provider. Now Meta feels people are locked in, they will be finding out. But they still won't see the problem until it ratcheted to really bad. Like frogs in boiling water.

  • Thoughts on hosting OS on microSD vs M.2 hat + SSD on Raspberry Pi 5 for Plex/Jellyfin/torrenting and maybe cloud?

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  • If you do use an SD card, use an official one rather than a random one. Not all SD card are the same and the official ones have been selected for this use.

    This helps with wear and the power loss issue, which is the biggest issue with them.

    When SD write, they shuffle which block is which to share out the writes. If power is lost in the middle of this shuffle, you get a new type of corruption no file system can handle. This is why you must shutdown anything running from an SD card, not just yank the power.

  • public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird)

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  • I've been using it for over a decade. I use it to auto upload all my family photos from family phones. I use the calendars to organize. I use Notes on my phone all the time and pick them up my laptop. I use Passwords for all my passwords. I use Contacts to sync my contacts from my phone and Thunderbird. Then I nightly remote backup it to a machine I leave at my parent's. It's great.

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  • And those tiny number of edges cases need to be highlighted to show it does indeed happen. With biology, there is rarely ever truely binary. Biology is too mushy.

  • Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy

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  • If the US falls apart, it will be a bloody civil war. The only winner will be competing world powers. Of which, only the EU is really a beacon of light of enlightened values. In no way is that a good outcome for US citizens or the world. What is needed is a concerted effort to evolve the US from where it is. Two parties is not really a functional democracy. Law is bought and sold, and there is massive inequality.

  • Tesla opened Cybertruck trade-ins, and the numbers aren’t pretty

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  • Dysfunctional regulators/legal system. Plenty of non capitalist cultures had that issue too.

  • Tesla opened Cybertruck trade-ins, and the numbers aren’t pretty

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  • How is that legal?

  • Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year

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  • Right to repair, and openness, is absolute must for devices being put into peoples bodies. The fight seams to not even started yet. Most people are completely asleep to issues right now.

  • Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year

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  • Karen Sandler did a great talk on closed source software medical devices many years ago.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qW1h1s_ojpM

    This even more the case if it's your brain! It probably won't work for decades, but we should get house in order long before it does.

  • I wish more would appreciate Mastodon

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  • It also has the network problem now. BlueSky quickly got the numbers because it was easy at the right time. It was perfect for the Xodus. Mastodon missed that window. It can get easier and sexier, but it missed that window and will need another.

  • Microsoft's getting cold feet and is now 'pledging' its new commitment to Europe

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  • Odoo does CRM quite well. It also does project management, but sure yet it's as good at it as OpenProject.

  • Android keyboard

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  • My go to is still Hacker's Keyboard. It's great with Termux and me as good touch keyboard as I've had.

  • Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop

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  • Locked down means a power imbalance. The users are then just serf and will be abused. I want users empowered and the right to repair, repurposed and upgrade. Locked down devices mean short lived disposable devices, built as ewaste, that hoover up user data when used. It's dystopian.

    Let alone where are tomorrow's developers coming from when they are growing up in such nutrient poor environment.

    I rage against this dark serfdom future, but it's on law makers to regulate to keep consumers/user free. So I've monthly donated to OpenRightsGroup for over a decade and always telling people to read some Cory Doctorow.

  • All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025

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  • The only one with a different web browser engine? The only one that is actural competition?

  • UK and EU to defy Trump with ‘free and open trade’ declaration

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  • Oh it may well get worse. FPTP could give them power. Rarely does the power in party have a majority of the population support. Labour need to ditch FPTP for good of the country. But they won't because they could win again, and it's party before country.

  • UK and EU to defy Trump with ‘free and open trade’ declaration

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