The thing that has struck me the most is the complete lack of opposition. Not of the incessant quibbles online, but real opposition in the streets by everyday people.
Users are never given an option in capitalist-American-spyware & -malware--suspicious 'software'. You either accept unfair terms or... no. There is no option to decline. There's always just an "ok" button. The fact that governments (the supreme body that is supposed to... well, um... govern) have just left this space, completely vacant... is very fucking odd. There are no governing bodies for software or for consumers of software. It's a pure capitalist hellscape of no-choice. One giant monopoly that offers you not convenience, because there's no choice. How can something be convenient when there's no choices? I bring up convenience because it's the term most brought up by users in their complicit use of totalitarian software. It's the same as being dictated to by a communist-thug and mentally deluding yourself that you comply out of an overwhelming sense of it being convenient. You don't get a choice.
The jab at communism isn't out of place, because the cold war rhetoric stays in living memory and were we not told the communist states--even those too shy to admit it, but just brave enough to self-subscribe as socialist--were we not told they had the secret police? They had no consumer choices--only one brand of toothpaste; only one brand of shoe; only one brand of car: all brandishing the state's logo. Yet look around you and it's a global duopoly of America's Apple & Google. You don't get a choice. You have to comply, as any freedom loving capitalist would. You will accept American-spyware. The American-spyware-corps will look after you. You just need to comply, because it's convenient. You don't have a choice.
Yes, use libre mobile-computers, but the need for public governance of technology is now. Countries need to have software sovereignty. It's embarrassing for a non-American state to publish their 'apps' only via American spyware companies. It's ludicrous. To give them an exclusive contract in distribution and to pay Apple or Google to supply, whilst they turn around and tighten the hatch: making it harder for users to install packages that do not originate from their monopolistic 'market places'. It's a joke.
If you're a developer do not publish on American spyware platforms. Do not do it. Do not compromise. Fight these duopolies.
I urge users to become participants and contributors. As Kongar has written, we have access to sophisticated hardware, but we're not deploying it. If mobile-computer operators contributed to a mesh-network we'd be in a position to discard subscriptions for telecommunications access. Before this can happen the expectations of users needs to shift from contributing capital (paying for a mobile plan for instance) to contributing resources: running voluntary software on their machines.
The requirements needed to participate in mesh-networks are not just technical knowledge. If a user deployed a program like Briar they'd notice something rather swiftly: participating in mesh-networks demands more resources than not participating. The most obvious effect of this is that the mobile-computer's battery will drain faster. Carrying a spare battery seems to be common already and that's without participating in a voluntary mesh-network. The users' expectations would need to shift before they could adopt such software.
I'll refrain from commentary on Apple's iOS (though I expect it to be similar), but Google's Android is hostile towards user-software that needs to run constantly in the background. It will terminate those programs, even if the user has granted it 'permission' to run in the background.
Desktop and laptops provide a much more fertile environment in comparison. It is the norm to have long running user-programs. Even commercial operating-systems do not find anything amiss because it is the norm here. For the user in such an environment I do not see any possible objection to running such programs other than an increase in data usage, but even then these programs often allow for deployments that have a fixed quota.
Why then do we not see mass adoption of software like i2p, hyphanet, GNUnet and so forth? I exclude tor because it reinforces the status quo that must be changed. It allows its users to exit the tor-network and access the web. It's a good technical precaution against network surveillance, but the majority of that network's userbase want to exit the network. To contribute to the tor-network is to run an exit-node and that is not financially feasible for the vast majority of internet users. It is not democratic, but exclusionary and elitist. User-contributed nodes that run on the hardware they have, with the data connections they have, will see their nodes deprioritized in routing if not outright dropped. The other projects I've listed do prioritize peer-to-peer communication whilst tor's network has just become a way to access the web anonymously. I2p is technically superior to tor's for in-network communication; it supports tcp and udp. You can torrent within i2p's network. You can not torrent in tor's: you lose udp.
In my eyes the major issue of the current 'web' is the rent-seeking economy that upholds it. Technically we all have the tools to self-host a blog, e-mail, lemmy instance or whatever it is you want to share. We have a glut of cpu-capacity, storage and bandwidth. The hindrance isn't in the property we own, but in the capital expenditure demanded from a perpetual rent-seeking economy that's evolved around the 'web'. Users are behind cgnats and need to rent whitelisted servers. Users aren't allocated a static ipv4 address and need to rent one. Users then need to rent domain names and before Let's Encrypt they had to pay for a SSL certificate that had an expiration date--a perpetual expense. Completely arbitrary, artificial scarcity to create an economic system of rents. It's all absurd.
Software like lemmy isn't revolutionary either. It's retroactive. It wants to shift conditions back to when web-masters had privileges. Privileges that were taken away by the new-style of business that superseded them. If you want to run lemmy you need to pay your dues to the domain registrars and whitelisted server admins. The revolutionary act is to run i2p or gnunet and do whatever the fuck you want, but once you realize Alice and Bob can communicate with one another without paying tolls to DNS registrars or whitelisted server-admins nor subjugate themselves to that third-line--the forum administrators--lemmy becomes superfluous.
Users shift responsibility to the server-admins that run the lemmy instances they interact with. In exchange they give them all their content. That content has value. Lemmy is still a value extraction mechanism because everything on the 'web' has devolved into economic rent-seeking. To exist on the web is to participate in that system. It is the 'web' that needs to be ditched. Of the alternatives GNUnet is the design that makes the most sense, though it is still juvenile.
It's rather ironic that some commentators are just not listening, whilst claiming the other's deafness to be detrimental. I'd like to raise awareness that the effectiveness of antidepressants is similar to placebo and exercise--none of them are effective for treating treating chronic depression. Claiming exercise is as effective as antidepressant-drugs isn't the remarkable truth that it's being framed as: they're both terrible antidepressants. We don't have effective treatments that are applicably uniform--people are fundamentally different--don't be so asinine as to dispute this, nor obtuse enough as to state the normative behaviours of healthy populations as being the cure for diseased individuals. B-b-b-but it does help. Thank you; your contributions towards aetiology have been most illustrious.
You write entirely dishonest trite! That 'revolution' was preceded by the Gwangju Uprising, a massacre. The protestors retaliated with violence. It is this history--the threat of violence--that underpins ANY political power. There are no peaceful revolutions. Anyone who attempts to frame something as peaceful to prove that there is such a thing looks at an event myopically and dishonestly.
Read your own fucking articles. There's nothing peaceful about killings and torture. "On June 11, the National Police Agency defended its actions on the previous day, describing rallies as illegal, and as violent "disorderly conduct", and declaring their intention to crack down on further unrest." You: but-b-b-but it was a peaceful protest. You are a liar and a bootlicker.
Personal experience with the Christian-cult: mentally-ill individuals who refuse medical help corralled by narcissistic abusers. Being mentally-ill they make disastrous life-decisions creating hell-on-earth for their progeny. You people are clowns. My disdain for you can not be overstated. Your pastas are narcissists. Stop re-reading the same book that's been repeatedly translated through the eons into different languages--with more edits than any Wikipedia article--hoping you'll find an esoteric cure to soothe your self-loathing. You won't. Leave your cult. Find medical help.
From the outside it appears these people are walking contradictions: they're the most hateful people you'll meet, yet they preach goodness to all men. Once religion was decoupled from the state it became a voluntary institution. The cults of Christianity attract self-loathing individuals who feel they need an external structure to keep them in line. That's why you find so many pedophiles in these cults. They're mentally ill.
Cults should be taxed. Doomsday-cults with a sole focus on expansion (like the cults of Christianity) should be disbanded by force. Healthcare is a human right. States should be providing appropriate care for the mentally-ill. Education is a human right too and cults are a road-block in the state's pursuit of a universal education.
A daily reminder for Australian comrades: Sanitarium is the for profit arm of a doomsday-cult. Do not fund them through the purchase of their products. Do not buy Weet-Bix(TM), Up & Go(TM), etc.. Advocate for cults to be taxed.
From their flock are selected the most deranged for political office. From their financing we get absolute mongrels in politics, like the insipid Scott Morrison: holder of every privilege, but never accountable. Shirking every responsibility placed on him. He would not hold a hose if you were on fire. He'd watch you burn; he'd do everything to not do anything whilst sending thoughts and prayers; he'd then go on a holiday and bill the tax-payer for it and removed that people didn't want to shake his hand.
It's time to put a stop to all these demented cults. Never entertain them. The Catholic cult drains our coffers. Tell them to fuck off.
I've been interested in tracking my own sleep too. I wonder how useful these commercial products are in producing data that is correct. They come from technology companies who primarily want to collect data, as much data as possible. They're not at all interested in providing their users with an honest interpretation of anything. A lot of them probably don't even have the expertise to interpret whatever they've gathered.
I've been involved in sleep studies in the past and none of them involved using a smart-watch or other commercial wearable. They used electrodes (?) that were stuck to my body and fed into a computer. What data was being collected and how to properly interpret that data is beyond me.
Making a DIY device is probably feasible, but again, I wouldn't have a clue on how to interpret the data gathered. I don't think it'd be too complicated though.
Tools built specifically to monitor one signal are probably better than a generalized thing, such as a smartwatch, from a company that produces surveillance equipment for marketing purposes.
I've been incredibly morose recently. I wonder if national-governments have reached a point where they just don't care. Openly commit genocide; let the bombs drop. Climate change is around the corner; we don't care; we'll increasingly
use indiscriminate violence to guarantee our continuation of a thing. Their economy? Of producing rubbish?
The wealth of oil has been completely wasted. In a time where the resources were glutinous national-governments still failed to give their citizens basic dignity. Nothing's improved. There's just more shit everywhere. Plastic everywhere. Cheap electronics: gizmos, gadgets and whatnots. Buy as much rubbish as possible.
The digital world has become supreme whilst the real world rots and decays.
The insects are silent. They don't exist anymore. What was once so abundant has disappeared--it's been killed. Tracts of motor vehicles pointlessly speeding this way and that. Pointless 'commutes'. Slaughter-lanes. Donk!Oh dear, you killed a bird. The insects don't even make a sound. The car's interior is so divorced from the outside you wouldn't even hear the little splats or crunches anyway. It doesn't matter. They're all dead now. They're never coming back. Yet the cars, trucks & planes continue endlessly. Their new targets are the larger fauna now.
They're larger. They could cause damage to you or your vehicle, so we'll put up signs & create environments to deter these larger creatures--not because they're more important than the birds or insects, but because they could ever so temporarily, ever so insignificantly, hamper the endless, pointless, wasteful zipping around of all this garbage.
It's pointless anyway. Those signs lie. I never see these larger animals anymore. They're all dead. The signs have become story-tellers. Those animals used to be there, but not anymore. They've become myths--rumors. I heard so and so nearly crashed into a XXXXXXX. I'm pretty sure they're all dead now. We can take the signs down now.
Everyone's become a zombie, staring at their telephones. Society has given up. It's obscene. It's absurd.
You glossed over the fact that it came from Israel's intelligence-community. Its design is woeful--that's the protocol, regardless of client or server implementation. The project reeks of a state-backed program to get ahead of the increasing desire for encryption in everyday communications. Yet encryption has always been an after thought within that program. All those bridges to funnel different protocols into the program.
I think the most optimal way of doing this would be a self-made shell script that expresses your preferences. You could then run it from whatever live-environment you choose and the result would be a familiar setup. The /home directory being on a separate partition from the rest is useful for preserving large-quantities of user-data.
I've been impressed with the capacity of microSD cards. The idea of mounting /home to a microSD card and having a materially-portable home has been a novelty I've so far resisted.
I used to think I had aphantasia, but after starting ADHD medications I've found my ability to recall visually has improved. I now can walk-through a place visually, though not at all clearly. My ability of recall has improved in every domain overall. Prior I only had access to abstractions, mainly relationships. Recalling words to describe those relationships could be difficult, even if I knew the word. The recall function would just fail, causing great difficulty communicating verbally.
I would hasten to add that I don't definitely have the condition named ADHD--there is no definitive diagnostic tool and doctors have expressed concerns of autism. I've been subjected to traumatic brain injuries too, with one leaving me temporally blind. This leaves me doubtful of being a natural example of a developed ADHD human (one not intentionally harmed and allowed to develop optimally), but of a human that has received multiple traumatic brain injuries expressing qualities of a ADHD inflicted human.
I'm aware of a condition informally named sledhead: a condition that occurs in bobsled operators (drivers?) that induces depression and often leads to suicide. I have a pet-theory that the vibrations in motor-vehicles do cause minor brain injuries as those found in the more extreme environment of bobsled racing, only differing in scale. I wouldn't be surprised if time-spent inside motor-vehicles--especially poorly maintained ones that exhibit more intense-vibrations--correlates with poorer health outcomes overall.
It would be of interest to me if anyone were aware of research that describes links between mental-imagery, autism, brain-damage, ADHD and stimulants. It's my impression that aphantasia is an expression of a deficiency in the human-brain.
I'm confused. You write as if privacy and convenience are somehow related. They're not. They're completely independent of one another as are rabbits and trains. You're regurgitating corporate-propaganda: software-companies steal your resources (time, money, electricity, bandwidth, data, etc.) and retort they do so for your convenience when confronted. That's a lie. It just so happens it's easier to steal when your software has a monopoly and vendors actively prohibit and deter any alternative software.
You don't get a choice of what software is on your computer when you buy it from the retailer. The fact is you've been conditioned and only know how to use proprietary-software that's become a standard via lobbying and exclusive contracts between software-vendors and OEMs. That has fuck all to do with convenience.
The fact that Google and Apple have a near duopoly over software distribution on mobile-computers (i.e. I want to use my bank's app and that's only distributed via Google's PlayStore(TM) or whatever Apple's thing(TM) is called) is a national-governance issue not a mater of convenience.
Neither Google nor Apple are doing charitable works here. I'll brush over the details to paint a picture: any financial transaction that occurs within an 'app' distributed by those platforms results in a demand from the distributor for a percentage of that sum. How that general thrust affects banking 'apps' I'm not sure and I would hope there's caveats for essential infrastructure like banking. Probably not; regulation is nonexistent for software-companies.
I don't bank with banks that limit their clients to an 'app' distributed solely by Google or Apple. That behaviour has nothing to do with convenience and everything to do with economics, politics, self-determination and self-respect. I consider it abuse to the user to run non-libre software.
Consider environments where the need to monitor time is invariable, yet smartphones are prohibited on grounds of security, safety or for some other reason. It's an industry norm to prohibit smartphones in warehouses, a common place of employment throughout industrialized-nations. I'm sure you could think of others if pressed.
From your comment I think you're referring to wrist-watches. My understanding of the wrist-watches' popularity is that it was a remnant of the war economy. The military needed personnel to keep track of time; pilots in particular needed wrist-watches for navigation. After the war those factories that mass produced for national militaries still existed and found a bludgeoning middle-class market to sell their gluts: the fashion wrist-watch. The population were conditioned to wear them during war and that behaviour carried on after. I think a similar thing happened with belts too.
It's rather amusing to consider that pocket-watches have now made a comeback, only they've changed form and now offer other functions. Nearly everyone has a pocket-watch; it's rectangular rather than circular in shape now. Certainly bigger than they used to be. ;)
I'll pull from Wikipedia's article on Google's reCAPTCHA: "...reCAPTCHA provides little security against bots and is primarily a tool to track user data, and has cost society an estimated 819 million hours of unpaid human labor."
The point I want to emphasize is "unpaid human labor". The article reads as middle-class whinge that pines for when products were whole and finalized. It's not honest. It hides behind cutesy metaphors, because it's not cognizant of the real underlying relationships that would turn it into a critique of capitalism. That software copyright became a vehicle for capitalists to hijack property ownership so that the consumer could never own their computers. They're your computers, but they run their software: you do as the computer tells you to do. Capitalists want more unpaid labor and capital. Pay up piggy. Stop squealing.
Even systemd-less distros need to implement 'fake' systemd components. It's like a cancer. No one's voluntarily using sub-components of systemd without systemd. It is a monolithic thing.
I concur. From a historical-perspective, rooted in colonialism, drug use was prohibited due to the effect it had on labour's compliance, even if the use was an indigenous cultural phenomenon. Rather, it made life more difficult for those charged with its administration.
I think the OP is mistaking the propaganda for reality. People generally aren't thinking about others in any significant way. They just don't want to deal with an inconvenience so brush it aside by falling back on the propagandized version of reality that is given by the government and corporations. It's the safe answer and the institutionally accepted answer. Anything else requires conflict and Deborah just wanted to buy coffee and get to her appointment on time, not debate with unhearing television screens, radios, strangers, law-enforcement-drones or a consortium of suited executives. The homeless man was begging on the street due to drugs and a lack of will-power. More importantly to Deborah, he was in her way and was assaulting her senses and cognition. Let the police lock him away.
Homelessness has been increasing here in Australia due to well-understood mechanisms. Those mechanisms have been operating for decades and intellectuals and observers have made critique before. They continue to do so. The issue only gets worse, because it's by design. It's the political class' blueprint and things are working as they should be.
The council would rather pay to have infrastructure torn up, such as the removal of public benches from public property, because the homeless sleep on them and that is unsightly. The fact that the cost would have tripled to have it installed, removed and (presumably) re-installed once the homeless issue was resolved isn't true, because there is no resolutions to hinder the advance of homelessness.
Drugs are a class issue. The labourer is not to indulge in them. The other classes are free to do so within a limit. The demands of industrial society have influenced what that limit is, but there is a clear distinction between the classes. When a lawyer indulges in cocaine and it's made into a public-spectacle the media report about the immense stress placed on lawyers. When the labourer makes a drug-induced public-spectacle the media report on the moral failings of the labouring class and how they must be better controlled.
None of it is coherent and the ruling class don't care. If you're interested in the intersection of drugs and morality, especially if your background is from a Catholic or Christian cult, I'd snarkily implore you to read their histories and the documented drug use of these cults that underpin Western-democratic morality codes. There's a reason the Bible is like a fever-dream of a druggie, because it is one. The needs of capitalism, of regimented time-controlled labour, now prohibits such use and the priest class pivot to create a narrative of why it is so, even if their documented legacy shows them to be lieing dogs.
Drugs are an inseparable part of the human experience. Have fun; look after each other and listen to your elders' advice. I'd caution that the cultural ceremonies that had implemented recreational drug use have been obliterated from living memory for some social groups and we now find ourselves in societies that mass-produce novel drugs. It's uncharted territory in one sense.
I was unaware of this. As far as I can understand this is a design for admins who manage fleets and virtual machines, so it's not surprising it comes from Lennart and systemd. However, even openbsd has /etc/machine-id. Over in bsd land it seems to come from dbus. Is the file a systemd design or a dbus design? Is it something users should be concerned about... probably, but all of computing is a nightmare. Just another fire to add to the fire pit.
And then China rapidly developed to be the world's leader. Meanwhile the USA continues to burn and Western-democracies crumble, espousing there's no money for any public-programs. Quality of life degrades materially and education degrades. All whilst the media's mouthpieces say socialism does not work, whilst the system of communist thought took two countries, in a hostile environment, from backwaters to parity of the world's capitalist hedgemon.
I unfortunately think it's true that the majority of a citizenry do not understand the social order/the economy that they live in, nor do they have an interest in it.
The thing that has struck me the most is the complete lack of opposition. Not of the incessant quibbles online, but real opposition in the streets by everyday people.
Users are never given an option in capitalist-American-spyware & -malware--suspicious 'software'. You either accept unfair terms or... no. There is no option to decline. There's always just an "ok" button. The fact that governments (the supreme body that is supposed to... well, um... govern) have just left this space, completely vacant... is very fucking odd. There are no governing bodies for software or for consumers of software. It's a pure capitalist hellscape of no-choice. One giant monopoly that offers you not convenience, because there's no choice. How can something be convenient when there's no choices? I bring up convenience because it's the term most brought up by users in their complicit use of totalitarian software. It's the same as being dictated to by a communist-thug and mentally deluding yourself that you comply out of an overwhelming sense of it being convenient. You don't get a choice.
The jab at communism isn't out of place, because the cold war rhetoric stays in living memory and were we not told the communist states--even those too shy to admit it, but just brave enough to self-subscribe as socialist--were we not told they had the secret police? They had no consumer choices--only one brand of toothpaste; only one brand of shoe; only one brand of car: all brandishing the state's logo. Yet look around you and it's a global duopoly of America's Apple & Google. You don't get a choice. You have to comply, as any freedom loving capitalist would. You will accept American-spyware. The American-spyware-corps will look after you. You just need to comply, because it's convenient. You don't have a choice.
Yes, use libre mobile-computers, but the need for public governance of technology is now. Countries need to have software sovereignty. It's embarrassing for a non-American state to publish their 'apps' only via American spyware companies. It's ludicrous. To give them an exclusive contract in distribution and to pay Apple or Google to supply, whilst they turn around and tighten the hatch: making it harder for users to install packages that do not originate from their monopolistic 'market places'. It's a joke.
If you're a developer do not publish on American spyware platforms. Do not do it. Do not compromise. Fight these duopolies.
I urge users to become participants and contributors. As Kongar has written, we have access to sophisticated hardware, but we're not deploying it. If mobile-computer operators contributed to a mesh-network we'd be in a position to discard subscriptions for telecommunications access. Before this can happen the expectations of users needs to shift from contributing capital (paying for a mobile plan for instance) to contributing resources: running voluntary software on their machines.
The requirements needed to participate in mesh-networks are not just technical knowledge. If a user deployed a program like Briar they'd notice something rather swiftly: participating in mesh-networks demands more resources than not participating. The most obvious effect of this is that the mobile-computer's battery will drain faster. Carrying a spare battery seems to be common already and that's without participating in a voluntary mesh-network. The users' expectations would need to shift before they could adopt such software.
I'll refrain from commentary on Apple's iOS (though I expect it to be similar), but Google's Android is hostile towards user-software that needs to run constantly in the background. It will terminate those programs, even if the user has granted it 'permission' to run in the background.
Desktop and laptops provide a much more fertile environment in comparison. It is the norm to have long running user-programs. Even commercial operating-systems do not find anything amiss because it is the norm here. For the user in such an environment I do not see any possible objection to running such programs other than an increase in data usage, but even then these programs often allow for deployments that have a fixed quota.
Why then do we not see mass adoption of software like i2p, hyphanet, GNUnet and so forth? I exclude tor because it reinforces the status quo that must be changed. It allows its users to exit the tor-network and access the web. It's a good technical precaution against network surveillance, but the majority of that network's userbase want to exit the network. To contribute to the tor-network is to run an exit-node and that is not financially feasible for the vast majority of internet users. It is not democratic, but exclusionary and elitist. User-contributed nodes that run on the hardware they have, with the data connections they have, will see their nodes deprioritized in routing if not outright dropped. The other projects I've listed do prioritize peer-to-peer communication whilst tor's network has just become a way to access the web anonymously. I2p is technically superior to tor's for in-network communication; it supports tcp and udp. You can torrent within i2p's network. You can not torrent in tor's: you lose udp.
In my eyes the major issue of the current 'web' is the rent-seeking economy that upholds it. Technically we all have the tools to self-host a blog, e-mail, lemmy instance or whatever it is you want to share. We have a glut of cpu-capacity, storage and bandwidth. The hindrance isn't in the property we own, but in the capital expenditure demanded from a perpetual rent-seeking economy that's evolved around the 'web'. Users are behind cgnats and need to rent whitelisted servers. Users aren't allocated a static ipv4 address and need to rent one. Users then need to rent domain names and before Let's Encrypt they had to pay for a SSL certificate that had an expiration date--a perpetual expense. Completely arbitrary, artificial scarcity to create an economic system of rents. It's all absurd.
Software like lemmy isn't revolutionary either. It's retroactive. It wants to shift conditions back to when web-masters had privileges. Privileges that were taken away by the new-style of business that superseded them. If you want to run lemmy you need to pay your dues to the domain registrars and whitelisted server admins. The revolutionary act is to run i2p or gnunet and do whatever the fuck you want, but once you realize Alice and Bob can communicate with one another without paying tolls to DNS registrars or whitelisted server-admins nor subjugate themselves to that third-line--the forum administrators--lemmy becomes superfluous.
Users shift responsibility to the server-admins that run the lemmy instances they interact with. In exchange they give them all their content. That content has value. Lemmy is still a value extraction mechanism because everything on the 'web' has devolved into economic rent-seeking. To exist on the web is to participate in that system. It is the 'web' that needs to be ditched. Of the alternatives GNUnet is the design that makes the most sense, though it is still juvenile.
It's rather ironic that some commentators are just not listening, whilst claiming the other's deafness to be detrimental. I'd like to raise awareness that the effectiveness of antidepressants is similar to placebo and exercise--none of them are effective for treating treating chronic depression. Claiming exercise is as effective as antidepressant-drugs isn't the remarkable truth that it's being framed as: they're both terrible antidepressants. We don't have effective treatments that are applicably uniform--people are fundamentally different--don't be so asinine as to dispute this, nor obtuse enough as to state the normative behaviours of healthy populations as being the cure for diseased individuals. B-b-b-but it does help. Thank you; your contributions towards aetiology have been most illustrious.
Something something... free markets... capitalism--no! Not like that!
You write entirely dishonest trite! That 'revolution' was preceded by the Gwangju Uprising, a massacre. The protestors retaliated with violence. It is this history--the threat of violence--that underpins ANY political power. There are no peaceful revolutions. Anyone who attempts to frame something as peaceful to prove that there is such a thing looks at an event myopically and dishonestly.
Read your own fucking articles. There's nothing peaceful about killings and torture. "On June 11, the National Police Agency defended its actions on the previous day, describing rallies as illegal, and as violent "disorderly conduct", and declaring their intention to crack down on further unrest." You: but-b-b-but it was a peaceful protest. You are a liar and a bootlicker.
Personal experience with the Christian-cult: mentally-ill individuals who refuse medical help corralled by narcissistic abusers. Being mentally-ill they make disastrous life-decisions creating hell-on-earth for their progeny. You people are clowns. My disdain for you can not be overstated. Your pastas are narcissists. Stop re-reading the same book that's been repeatedly translated through the eons into different languages--with more edits than any Wikipedia article--hoping you'll find an esoteric cure to soothe your self-loathing. You won't. Leave your cult. Find medical help.
From the outside it appears these people are walking contradictions: they're the most hateful people you'll meet, yet they preach goodness to all men. Once religion was decoupled from the state it became a voluntary institution. The cults of Christianity attract self-loathing individuals who feel they need an external structure to keep them in line. That's why you find so many pedophiles in these cults. They're mentally ill.
Cults should be taxed. Doomsday-cults with a sole focus on expansion (like the cults of Christianity) should be disbanded by force. Healthcare is a human right. States should be providing appropriate care for the mentally-ill. Education is a human right too and cults are a road-block in the state's pursuit of a universal education.
A daily reminder for Australian comrades: Sanitarium is the for profit arm of a doomsday-cult. Do not fund them through the purchase of their products. Do not buy Weet-Bix(TM), Up & Go(TM), etc.. Advocate for cults to be taxed.
Cults have flourished here. They're dangerous and degenerative to society. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/13/the-family-great-white-brotherhood-australia-melbourne-cult-anne-hamilton-byrne
From their flock are selected the most deranged for political office. From their financing we get absolute mongrels in politics, like the insipid Scott Morrison: holder of every privilege, but never accountable. Shirking every responsibility placed on him. He would not hold a hose if you were on fire. He'd watch you burn; he'd do everything to not do anything whilst sending thoughts and prayers; he'd then go on a holiday and bill the tax-payer for it and removed that people didn't want to shake his hand.
It's time to put a stop to all these demented cults. Never entertain them. The Catholic cult drains our coffers. Tell them to fuck off.
I've been interested in tracking my own sleep too. I wonder how useful these commercial products are in producing data that is correct. They come from technology companies who primarily want to collect data, as much data as possible. They're not at all interested in providing their users with an honest interpretation of anything. A lot of them probably don't even have the expertise to interpret whatever they've gathered.
I've been involved in sleep studies in the past and none of them involved using a smart-watch or other commercial wearable. They used electrodes (?) that were stuck to my body and fed into a computer. What data was being collected and how to properly interpret that data is beyond me.
Making a DIY device is probably feasible, but again, I wouldn't have a clue on how to interpret the data gathered. I don't think it'd be too complicated though.
Tools built specifically to monitor one signal are probably better than a generalized thing, such as a smartwatch, from a company that produces surveillance equipment for marketing purposes.
I've been incredibly morose recently. I wonder if national-governments have reached a point where they just don't care. Openly commit genocide; let the bombs drop. Climate change is around the corner; we don't care; we'll increasingly use indiscriminate violence to guarantee our continuation of a thing. Their economy? Of producing rubbish?
The wealth of oil has been completely wasted. In a time where the resources were glutinous national-governments still failed to give their citizens basic dignity. Nothing's improved. There's just more shit everywhere. Plastic everywhere. Cheap electronics: gizmos, gadgets and whatnots. Buy as much rubbish as possible.
The digital world has become supreme whilst the real world rots and decays.
The insects are silent. They don't exist anymore. What was once so abundant has disappeared--it's been killed. Tracts of motor vehicles pointlessly speeding this way and that. Pointless 'commutes'. Slaughter-lanes. Donk! Oh dear, you killed a bird. The insects don't even make a sound. The car's interior is so divorced from the outside you wouldn't even hear the little splats or crunches anyway. It doesn't matter. They're all dead now. They're never coming back. Yet the cars, trucks & planes continue endlessly. Their new targets are the larger fauna now.
They're larger. They could cause damage to you or your vehicle, so we'll put up signs & create environments to deter these larger creatures--not because they're more important than the birds or insects, but because they could ever so temporarily, ever so insignificantly, hamper the endless, pointless, wasteful zipping around of all this garbage.
It's pointless anyway. Those signs lie. I never see these larger animals anymore. They're all dead. The signs have become story-tellers. Those animals used to be there, but not anymore. They've become myths--rumors. I heard so and so nearly crashed into a XXXXXXX. I'm pretty sure they're all dead now. We can take the signs down now.
Everyone's become a zombie, staring at their telephones. Society has given up. It's obscene. It's absurd.
You glossed over the fact that it came from Israel's intelligence-community. Its design is woeful--that's the protocol, regardless of client or server implementation. The project reeks of a state-backed program to get ahead of the increasing desire for encryption in everyday communications. Yet encryption has always been an after thought within that program. All those bridges to funnel different protocols into the program.
Well Americans... you have plenty of guns in private hands... you only seem to use them though for shooting blacks, paper-targets and children...
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I think the most optimal way of doing this would be a self-made shell script that expresses your preferences. You could then run it from whatever live-environment you choose and the result would be a familiar setup. The /home directory being on a separate partition from the rest is useful for preserving large-quantities of user-data.
I've been impressed with the capacity of microSD cards. The idea of mounting /home to a microSD card and having a materially-portable home has been a novelty I've so far resisted.
I used to think I had aphantasia, but after starting ADHD medications I've found my ability to recall visually has improved. I now can walk-through a place visually, though not at all clearly. My ability of recall has improved in every domain overall. Prior I only had access to abstractions, mainly relationships. Recalling words to describe those relationships could be difficult, even if I knew the word. The recall function would just fail, causing great difficulty communicating verbally.
I would hasten to add that I don't definitely have the condition named ADHD--there is no definitive diagnostic tool and doctors have expressed concerns of autism. I've been subjected to traumatic brain injuries too, with one leaving me temporally blind. This leaves me doubtful of being a natural example of a developed ADHD human (one not intentionally harmed and allowed to develop optimally), but of a human that has received multiple traumatic brain injuries expressing qualities of a ADHD inflicted human.
I'm aware of a condition informally named sledhead: a condition that occurs in bobsled operators (drivers?) that induces depression and often leads to suicide. I have a pet-theory that the vibrations in motor-vehicles do cause minor brain injuries as those found in the more extreme environment of bobsled racing, only differing in scale. I wouldn't be surprised if time-spent inside motor-vehicles--especially poorly maintained ones that exhibit more intense-vibrations--correlates with poorer health outcomes overall.
It would be of interest to me if anyone were aware of research that describes links between mental-imagery, autism, brain-damage, ADHD and stimulants. It's my impression that aphantasia is an expression of a deficiency in the human-brain.
I'm confused. You write as if privacy and convenience are somehow related. They're not. They're completely independent of one another as are rabbits and trains. You're regurgitating corporate-propaganda: software-companies steal your resources (time, money, electricity, bandwidth, data, etc.) and retort they do so for your convenience when confronted. That's a lie. It just so happens it's easier to steal when your software has a monopoly and vendors actively prohibit and deter any alternative software.
You don't get a choice of what software is on your computer when you buy it from the retailer. The fact is you've been conditioned and only know how to use proprietary-software that's become a standard via lobbying and exclusive contracts between software-vendors and OEMs. That has fuck all to do with convenience.
The fact that Google and Apple have a near duopoly over software distribution on mobile-computers (i.e. I want to use my bank's app and that's only distributed via Google's PlayStore(TM) or whatever Apple's thing(TM) is called) is a national-governance issue not a mater of convenience.
Neither Google nor Apple are doing charitable works here. I'll brush over the details to paint a picture: any financial transaction that occurs within an 'app' distributed by those platforms results in a demand from the distributor for a percentage of that sum. How that general thrust affects banking 'apps' I'm not sure and I would hope there's caveats for essential infrastructure like banking. Probably not; regulation is nonexistent for software-companies.
I don't bank with banks that limit their clients to an 'app' distributed solely by Google or Apple. That behaviour has nothing to do with convenience and everything to do with economics, politics, self-determination and self-respect. I consider it abuse to the user to run non-libre software.
Consider environments where the need to monitor time is invariable, yet smartphones are prohibited on grounds of security, safety or for some other reason. It's an industry norm to prohibit smartphones in warehouses, a common place of employment throughout industrialized-nations. I'm sure you could think of others if pressed.
From your comment I think you're referring to wrist-watches. My understanding of the wrist-watches' popularity is that it was a remnant of the war economy. The military needed personnel to keep track of time; pilots in particular needed wrist-watches for navigation. After the war those factories that mass produced for national militaries still existed and found a bludgeoning middle-class market to sell their gluts: the fashion wrist-watch. The population were conditioned to wear them during war and that behaviour carried on after. I think a similar thing happened with belts too.
It's rather amusing to consider that pocket-watches have now made a comeback, only they've changed form and now offer other functions. Nearly everyone has a pocket-watch; it's rectangular rather than circular in shape now. Certainly bigger than they used to be. ;)
I'll pull from Wikipedia's article on Google's reCAPTCHA: "...reCAPTCHA provides little security against bots and is primarily a tool to track user data, and has cost society an estimated 819 million hours of unpaid human labor." The point I want to emphasize is "unpaid human labor". The article reads as middle-class whinge that pines for when products were whole and finalized. It's not honest. It hides behind cutesy metaphors, because it's not cognizant of the real underlying relationships that would turn it into a critique of capitalism. That software copyright became a vehicle for capitalists to hijack property ownership so that the consumer could never own their computers. They're your computers, but they run their software: you do as the computer tells you to do. Capitalists want more unpaid labor and capital. Pay up piggy. Stop squealing.
Even systemd-less distros need to implement 'fake' systemd components. It's like a cancer. No one's voluntarily using sub-components of systemd without systemd. It is a monolithic thing.
I concur. From a historical-perspective, rooted in colonialism, drug use was prohibited due to the effect it had on labour's compliance, even if the use was an indigenous cultural phenomenon. Rather, it made life more difficult for those charged with its administration.
I think the OP is mistaking the propaganda for reality. People generally aren't thinking about others in any significant way. They just don't want to deal with an inconvenience so brush it aside by falling back on the propagandized version of reality that is given by the government and corporations. It's the safe answer and the institutionally accepted answer. Anything else requires conflict and Deborah just wanted to buy coffee and get to her appointment on time, not debate with unhearing television screens, radios, strangers, law-enforcement-drones or a consortium of suited executives. The homeless man was begging on the street due to drugs and a lack of will-power. More importantly to Deborah, he was in her way and was assaulting her senses and cognition. Let the police lock him away.
Homelessness has been increasing here in Australia due to well-understood mechanisms. Those mechanisms have been operating for decades and intellectuals and observers have made critique before. They continue to do so. The issue only gets worse, because it's by design. It's the political class' blueprint and things are working as they should be.
The council would rather pay to have infrastructure torn up, such as the removal of public benches from public property, because the homeless sleep on them and that is unsightly. The fact that the cost would have tripled to have it installed, removed and (presumably) re-installed once the homeless issue was resolved isn't true, because there is no resolutions to hinder the advance of homelessness.
Drugs are a class issue. The labourer is not to indulge in them. The other classes are free to do so within a limit. The demands of industrial society have influenced what that limit is, but there is a clear distinction between the classes. When a lawyer indulges in cocaine and it's made into a public-spectacle the media report about the immense stress placed on lawyers. When the labourer makes a drug-induced public-spectacle the media report on the moral failings of the labouring class and how they must be better controlled.
None of it is coherent and the ruling class don't care. If you're interested in the intersection of drugs and morality, especially if your background is from a Catholic or Christian cult, I'd snarkily implore you to read their histories and the documented drug use of these cults that underpin Western-democratic morality codes. There's a reason the Bible is like a fever-dream of a druggie, because it is one. The needs of capitalism, of regimented time-controlled labour, now prohibits such use and the priest class pivot to create a narrative of why it is so, even if their documented legacy shows them to be lieing dogs.
Drugs are an inseparable part of the human experience. Have fun; look after each other and listen to your elders' advice. I'd caution that the cultural ceremonies that had implemented recreational drug use have been obliterated from living memory for some social groups and we now find ourselves in societies that mass-produce novel drugs. It's uncharted territory in one sense.
I was unaware of this. As far as I can understand this is a design for admins who manage fleets and virtual machines, so it's not surprising it comes from Lennart and systemd. However, even openbsd has /etc/machine-id. Over in bsd land it seems to come from dbus. Is the file a systemd design or a dbus design? Is it something users should be concerned about... probably, but all of computing is a nightmare. Just another fire to add to the fire pit.
And then China rapidly developed to be the world's leader. Meanwhile the USA continues to burn and Western-democracies crumble, espousing there's no money for any public-programs. Quality of life degrades materially and education degrades. All whilst the media's mouthpieces say socialism does not work, whilst the system of communist thought took two countries, in a hostile environment, from backwaters to parity of the world's capitalist hedgemon.
I unfortunately think it's true that the majority of a citizenry do not understand the social order/the economy that they live in, nor do they have an interest in it.