dillekant

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[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, I think they know that basically the refugees are going to be met with a military (maybe that's why the fear of refugees is brewing), but I think the thing they don't really understand is that those billions actually make all the things they / we use. At some point the 1% societies get to "peak buying power" and nothing will ever cause it to go up, wages be damned.

Also, we need those wages / taxes for the military they're counting on.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 14 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Treating Hydrogen as a fuel is a problem, but it's an OK storage medium. Putting it next to Bromine or whatever is fine. I think people using it for flight or trucking is a good outcome overall, but yeah unfortunately the oil companies basically ruin all the good things.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Where were you for Theranos mate?

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Do you get this uneasy feeling that people know? Like they know they aren't in that 2/3 and that they are kind of racist enough that they sort of want that 2/3 gone? Like people call it "complacency" among the 1% nations but I just got this feeling sometimes.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He was fired

He owns the business. His ownership was liquidated by the other owner without paperwork, and most of the other owners dispute that the ownership was ever diluted. The decision over whether he should have been "fired" are really upto him and the other business owners.

It's also unclear why the other employees, who may or may not have been coerced, were not siding with Kurvitz. I agree it's a mess, but there's a big gap between "feelings" and "actually grossly illegal stuff".

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 22 points 5 days ago (3 children)

There are other videos on the internet about this, but basically PMG have done a terrible job here. One person is accused of serious corporate misconduct, and the others have allegations of being hard to work with, and PMG effectively treats them as equal, not even realising that the reason maybe some people were hard to work with was because of forced labour from the guy also doing the corporate misconduct.

They've just not done a great job overall here.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sure. But they still have to dock. If you tax it in half the countries, they will still have to pay half the time.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

They need diesel to run. Tax the diesel. Right now fossil fuels get subsidies. Just change that.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I really think these companies should try and split the men's and women's preferences for taste tests. There is a strong idea of meat and cheese being tied to manhood, and I have a suspicion that while men might prefer the taste, even in a blind test, they would lie about it to avoid being thought of as a "soy boy". I really do think the new age of fake meats is less about taste, and more about identity.

EDIT: I will say though, for cheese the gap is real. Personally very happy these companies are closing it, because I'd buy it.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

You may not have considered the Intel Arc GPUs. Basically they were bad on Windows and are slowly improving, but unsure about their state on Linux. The cards were quite bad at some point, and well worse than an experience with NVIdia, despite the libre stack.

I would say the "best" depends on goals here. I generally encourage use of AMD over NVidia, but the difference is quite small. If you're already going with CachyOS, then you're well beyond the skill level to be able to navigate the tiny additional complexity of an NVidia card. Just buy the best bang for buck and your use case.

As for Mali, recent kernels and Mesa versions have made significant inroads. I do believe we'll get pretty good support for Mali by the time the Qualcomm ARM Laptops become available for Linux.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

I do think the meat of cottagecore is people knitting and creating stuff, and trying to have a simpler life. Trying to put a philosophy around it is probably not fundamental to that community.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Just going to echo this. It's a tough balancing act to allow a bit of fun and shit posting while also preventing abuse and the mods are doing amazing, and the instance is in great technical health too. Thanks all. Really love being in this online space which is actually pretty tough to achieve.

 

Dankpods moving to Linux confirmed. Shit just got real boys!

 

Waiting for it to be available in walk-in stores at a decent price, but it looks Solarpunk AF.

 

Amazing talk by Prof. Steve Keen. The original Unlearning Economics ;)

 

OK I haven't seen the whole thing yet but I'm at the point of the video where I think she's going to say "Solarpunk" and I'm excite!

 

I know most Solarpunks already know about Andrew Millison from his permaculture work, but his new videos are both awesome and very solarpunk vibes, simple solutions for big problems.

 

I like it, it's a good movie, and I want to make the (maybe hot take argument) that this is solarpunk!

Thoughts?

 

Interesting look into Dune and the Luddites, and how technology can take two forms. Apropos permacomputing I think.

 

Hi guys, I just wanted to call out an inappropriate term I've seen used sometimes: Civil Disobedience. It's not just civil disobedience when you pirate something privately, you need to do it publicly and dare the authorities to do something about it.

So an example here would be to set up a massive leech party and advertise it specifically as civil disobedience. Say all manner of things from all manner of copyright holders would be transmitted, and try and get news coverage. That's civil disobedience.

Just downloading a movie because you want to watch it is not. OK thanks for your time.

 

Whenever I feel sad I just think the words "Rozelle Interchange" and my life gets a little bit better...

 

Is it possible to create something where knowing about the thing constitutes copyright infringement?

 

Inspired by the posts here, I've recently tried to set up a garage electronics workstation, and part of that involves setting up a PC. Inspired by the posts here, I pulled out my old laptop and stuck Debian on it. The good news: Debian runs fine on Mate, and all the hardware which matters works properly. The bad news: The laptop not only screams like a banshee continually (the age and usage have worn out the fan bearings), but it also has a dual core processor with about a quarter (half the cores at half the IPC) the performance of a Pi 4, and half the RAM at 2gb. Wish me luck everyone.

 

Designers from the Netherlands but they are solving problems in a pretty solarpunk way.

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