The Japanese stock market crash of 1987 only recovered in 2020. That’s over 30 years.

If that happened in the US, the average american who invested in the stock market and is relying on a 401k to retire would be screwed.

Best I can do is link to the relevant part, since it’s fairly complex and it’d take me quite a bit to summarize it to where it’d be useful information beyond what I already mentioned with the AI poisoning method.

No, that’s the Teamsters you’re thinking of, more specifically, Sean O’Brian, who did attempt to cozy up to Trump and the republican party. The membership of the Teamsters itself has a significant amount of MAGA members as well, and they often endorse republican politicians.

the UAW’s leadership is far more class conscious in comparison, and endorsed Kamala in the election (the Teamsters chose not to endorse anyone to not piss off their MAGA members).

Saying that, virtually all US Unions are pretty wimpy, and seem to loathe the idea of actually striking or making big moves to save themselves compared to European unions. The IWW is the sole exception, but unfortunately they don’t have the numbers compared to the big unions.

Yes it is, as are Ring Cameras.

The most serious proposal for a general strike date is backed by the UAW for May 1st 2028, but that was planned before Trump won the election.

https://may1.uaw.org/

Fun fact: Flock cameras are susceptible to Lidar damage!

Benn Jordan also came up with a great way to prevent flock cameras from reliably reading license plates using the same methods that artists are using to poison their images for AI.

Yeah, I wasn’t a fan of that either. Still works if you block it, but as you say, it really shouldn’t be requesting that at all.

I notice they have a general inquiry email in their contact section, maybe they’d be willing to take on your suggestion?

I think that sounds like a damn solid plan, personally. Not sure if the GrapheneOS devs would go for it. The lead dev (who I think stepped down, so may not be a factor now) had some strongly negative opinions towards a Linux phone due to all of its security holes compared to Android, but like… It’s not as if those things couldn’t be addressed like you describe. It would just take time.

A user here emailed slate asking if there would be any tracking, and they responded that it would not, as it wouldn’t have the hardware to make that possible.

We’ll see if they actually follow through on that.

If you’re using that currently, do you notice that on a fresh reboot, if you sit at the desktop and just wiggle the mouse for a while, or keep creating selection boxes with your mouse, KDE will freeze for a random amount of time?

There’s still time for a general strike. The country would be brought to its knees if suddenly deprived of profit and labor. That tactic was extremely effective in Chile in 2019, and had they not fallen for the trick of liberal reform, they would’ve had a successful revolution on their hands with virtually no bloodshed.

If you aren’t in a union (or even if you are, it’s worth dual-carding), please consider joining the IWW to unionize your workplace (bonus: you’ll get higher wages, better benefits, and more time off if you succeed!) to strengthen a general strike if we manage to enact one.

• 🌍 US/Global: IWW (Français) - (Español)

And for our international friends, you should join one as well, as fascism is gaining momentum globally. If your country isn’t listed below, just contact the IWW directly in the link above.

• 🇦🇷 Argentina: FORA
• 🇦🇺 Australia: ASF-IWA
• 🇧🇷 Brazil: FOB
• 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: ARS, CITUB
• 🇩🇪 Germany: FAU
• 🇬🇷 Greece: ESE
• 🇮🇹 Italy: USI
• 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 Netherlands & Belgium: Vriji Bond
• 🇪🇸 Spain: CNT
• 🇸🇪 Sweden: SAC
• 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: UVW

Also @[email protected]

I was so surprised how weirdly cast male V was, he always sounded like someone doing a kinda cringy 1930’s mobster impression.

Switched to female V, and it was night and day.

Mr.Do! Is quite fun.

H.E.R.O. can become addicting if you don’t mind initially learning its tricks through trial and error (the harder path is always the correct one). It can get pretty flow-state when you get a handle on it.

The early Space Quest games from Sierra are fun if you don’t mind using a text parser. As is Quest for Glory.

Finally, a Mind Forever Voyaging by Infocom still holds up supremely well if you don’t mind pure text adventures. The short story included in the manual alone is worth the read.

Edit: oh, and Street Rod is still a very fun american graffiti inspired racing game.

Yikes. I loved that framework trailblazed repairable laptops, but those responses are pretty bad.

Edit: it’s so much worse now. That thread is flooded with bad faith far-right assholes, who in another thread admitted to trying to silence dissent by reporting comments to get the treads locked, and one called for framework to ban discussion of this issue entirely.

Mobian is Debian designed for phones. PostmarketOS is another project doing the same thing, but with an alpine Linux base.

CEO’s are almost universally out of touch with reality, and usually chase trends thinking it will help them get higher profits and garner more investment. AI is just the newest bandwagon for them to mindlessly jump on.

It’s also pretty awesome that nowadays 4, 5, or even 10 year old computers are still totally viable to use for most use-cases, which would’ve been unheard of back in the 80’s and 90’s when hardware had such giant leaps in speed every few years. I’m loving that we finally have some longevity with hardware, and that Linux is able to actually extract that longevity from the hardware in spite of Microsoft’s efforts to cut it short.

What profit incentive is there for bots that don’t interact?

I always figured they trigger ad views, which financially benefit Reddit itself.

Neocities encourages static 90’s style webpages.

Geany is a great, lightweight FOSS editor that totally respects your privacy, and supports all if the languages you mentioned, plus many more.