Ok so they’re not allowed to use Azure OpenAI, but there’s certainly a secret Microsoft department called Thin-Blue-Line ClosedAI which provides support to cops using AI for facial recognition and pre-crime.

Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.

Full disclosure, I’m not a metalhead by any means, and Metallica isn’t always considered pure metal, but this one hits just right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQvLsifMZIE

Forgejo is foss fork. Gitea, while being free and open source as well for the time being, is run by a for-profit corporation now.

“Forge-yo” difficult to say?

Private property.

Varoufakis is just one of many people who have come up with fancy new terms for capitalism and imperialism. It’s not to say that he doesn’t have an important perspective on some things, but coming up with new terms for things defined over a century ago only serves to distract.

Between basically every process being done on paper, and most of the civil servants having no idea what an operating system is, I’m sure this will go great.

It’s kinda standard but Pihole is how I got into the general realm of home labbing.

Private property.

The trend to shutting out China from the west started with Obama’s “Pivot to Asia.” At this point the only point of contention between US ruling elites is whether China or Russia is the primary threat.

Cixin Liu. Not only is the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy (Three Body Problem) epic, his short stories are really fun reads.

Political means more than just parties and institutions of government. Society and economy is inherently political. Who owns what is produced and the tools used to produce it is inherently political. Therefore software development, just like any other type or work or other economic interaction, is political.

Because universal surveillance is more profitable than consumer privacy, and surveilling consumers aligns really well with the interests of the billionaires that control telecommunications.

It’s a call for freedom from oppression and genocide, specifically in the Palestinian context. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Germany has decreed it hate speech.

I don’t usually go for cocktails, but when I do I really like a peaty whiskey sour, or a boilermaker with Guinness or a session IPA and again a peaty whiskey.

I usually feel the worst first thing in the morning. It gets better over the day. Try to sleep and repeat for a few days.

I couldn’t agree more.

VPN server on one, client on another.

A matrix bot on each end would work too but seems unnecessarily complicated.

I like btop. It’s pretty. I just use it for checking resource usage, I rarely have the need to kill a process or anything else one may do with a system monitor.