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USA Bombing Continues...
🛩️"Democracy World Tour" 🛩️

❓ If someone has a version updated past 2015 let me know...
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Privacy Key under see-through mat (pictured)...

Modern version of passwords and keys using see-through mat as a metaphor for how corporate providers can see everything and can use everything against you anytime..

#Privacy #Data #Security
#SAAS #tech #technology
#cybersecurity #Software
#OpenSource #GNU #Linux

Reducing consumption / Get nearer to starvation / Mental Fitness... Honouring Life...

If you can, starve yourself by delay food (choose activity to do and keep yourself busy - this helps to pass time) and doing this more often you can really make the honourable change (accepting things in life) and also achieve less bad things (less killing of animals, plants, energy, less money etc).
And also really enjoy the food after from the delay.

Making the change yourself consciously. Let your shoulders be a bit heavier but honourable.

Let that honour / respect for life keep your mind strong.

When you follow bad people or systems you are just food for them in their eyes. Even with good people in between it's still overall bad / profit only.

Careful of feeding them more than yourself and your soul.

Landlords for example, that people have to get out of else it gets like Berlin in extortionate rent prices for smaller and smaller space.

There's not escaping or hoping it gets better... sometimes you literally have to get out of the city or something that dies with dignity while it still exists (somewhere).

#Capitalism #Greed #City #Rent #Extortion #Starvation

One way to counter this is using STRIKES or withholding / limiting labour given to owners / abusers.

Another is BOYCOTTING to avoid being patron / buying less their services or products.

List of Strike Actions (Refusal to work, perform, stay silent, counter-striking abuse):

█Rent Strike
█Hunger Strike
█Physical Attack / Striking strategic places / Damage / Disarming
█Blockades / Holding Space
█Propaganda / Education
█School Strike (Greta Thunberg)
█Strike Demonstration (for Climate etc)
█Student strike, or getting other groups with you striking
█Legal Action / Delays / Attention making / Public Awareness
█Noise (Car / Truck horns to avoid public ignoring)
█Boycotts - stopping consumption or buying of things altogether
█Sex strike, refusal to engage in sexual activity to challenge a societal dispute... perhaps could be to raise awareness amongst different gender or sexes.
█Capital strike, refusal to invest in an economy

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Popular methods from above explained a bit more:
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█Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others
█Rent strike, when a group of tenants en masse agrees to refuse to pay rent until a specific list of demands is met by the landlord
█Sex strike, refusal to engage in sexual activity to challenge a societal dispute
█Strike action, a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work
█Student strike, occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class

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RECENT HISTORY
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About 1 year ago doctors, police, teachers were all striking in England! [2023 1st/2nd Quarter]

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FINANCIALLY CRAZY PEOPLE EXIST
/ DRIVEN BY GREED
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Some groups of people (usually financially crazy and number orientated) will not choose different until really forced
(they know what they are doing / they choose that way for forcing people to get what they want).

It's quite natural though it has many levels of extreme.

So what to do about it is one of the keys question towards harmony or perhaps accepting one of more of the things listed as reply to people's will against others (and never stopping unless forced or run out of money).

█Picture1: Greta Thunberg sitting outside school for climate change (one of the best picture I've seen or feel) #GretaThunberg

█Picture2: Rent Strike by sub.media (anti-gentrification / changing the rent rules) #Rent #RentStrike

#Political #Action #Strike #Labour
#LaborHistory #Bboycott

"GNU / Linux" not just "Linux"....

- Richard Stallman [video link below to exact part of talk]

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=7ZSPf7YnGfE&t=30m36s

ℹ️ Remember Gnu + Linux are together ! (Antelope + Penguin animals together!)

not just

"GNU / Linux" not just "Linux"....

Gnu <--------------------
Noun: gnu
📖 Large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail

Penguin <---------------
Noun: penguin
📖 Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers

⬇️ Basic History / Video Notes:

GNU system almost completed before 1992, But needed the Kernel.
Linux Torvold re-released it in Feb 1992 as free software. (Kernel was proprietary in 1991 but he re-released it to be free in 1992)

#RMS #Quote #GNU #Linux
#FreeSchool #FOSS

#FreeSoftware For Freedoms not just #OpenSource #Software

"GNU / Linux " not just "Linux"....

not just

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Freedom is about the sharing of time together better (not just software freedoms and computing).

TLDR It's a terrible balance of DIY (saves time and labour) BUT not giving other people things to do.

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More below, with some stories in between thinking out loud about the above....

Machines take our job for sure...
I think the clearest example are hair clippers and doing it yourself.... 💇 and it's not always bad (unless work is just about doing meaningless things for needing more money for less meaningful reasons).

So my example is that there less need for many barbers after buying a machine. Sure a few, but much less money in it... if you're a barber doing it for the money / living wage.

I remember never going to the barbers for a hair cut after I bought hair clippers early on in my life for the price of about 4 hair cuts let's say.
And they got a bit cheaper too (lots of crap quality but overall I think maybe 3 clippers in life but I have been cutting my hair most of my life too).

I simply did it myself or my parents did it in the chair 💇
And that was with and without machine (I remember with scrissors ✂️ having a hack at hair and expecting to find someone anywhere to help "just do the back" for me!!) - It was a fun time!

I did think of my Greek barber with guilt after hearing by chance that he died. Didn't help that it was by chance but already community wasn't really there and I was maybe shy or not willing to talk all about holidays or whatever to get entry into more (I think it was all aesthetic and I did even try the political stuff which must have been really taxing to listen to lol!)

At the same time, I didn't know him much and without being cruel I didn't really enjoy or see need for barber (for my type hair cut then) and wanted to save money for something quite overkill for something to grow back so fast so it is a hard balance which I think money ignores from 'how much it costs' rather than SEEING what we need and seeing my Greek neighbour as a man needing to live without these kinds of effect and his skill dying out and in arts in general expecting people to move on perhaps in other dying skillsets...

Better if it wasn't always so heavy in this narrow minded money way of money or doing just 1 thing. Because machines replace man and that could be good but if we base things on the wrong things (like profit and most effective % back to government) then we'll soon lose every skill but the basic industrial line type stuff and the essentials which haven't yet got automated (lorry truck driving, glueing things etc)

People in the village or towns still go but probably less and less or just women / longer haired people maybe for certain things.
My dad was even colouring my mum hair lol.

TLDR It's a terrible balance of DIY (saves time and labour) BUT not giving other people things to do.

All this dying out encourages community to die (if not already).

So it's something I'd like to have an answer for...

Do you have any advices apart from 'get another job' ?

Money as the heavy middle makes decision making worse ... as that is part of the killing of things / a devaluing currency itself etc.
And money / cost perspective ties itself to all other decision making almost. But I want to try a middle way too... why to keep diversity?

A bit of money would even be "ok" IF THE AIM was to *allow* good / basic / sustainable machines to be spread and allow others to do hair cuts as a skill or even as the social glue without money-measurement and the life and death ultimatum of it all (which is again ultimately for taxing us in everything in each "job" / activity every minute of the day). Even in buying items we're paying more %'s for the overall structure which doesn't really go back it, the structure is s overall a profit-cost program where extra goes to managers not us workers/customers!

Often the core problem is putting any money value (bank-money) on any art because that makes it narrow minded but yea "people need to eat" as the formula for getting people to do thigns they don't want a lot (and often artists starve for it especially political ones)

Devaluing what we like to do, devaluing currency (representative of debt issued at time of lending) devalues the life of arts itself...

Asking "how much a person's work is worth" will get us into trouble almost like saying "how much is a person worth" and it's basically priceless or undefined / without attached definition other than "amazing wonderful people"...

If we work within that framing 'somehow' sustaining all life to have it as diverse as possible (maybe) while providing the basics (which all seems impossible) then maybe enjoying things can come back into the frame (not just having intense weekends of 'relaxing')

And considering how we got to this point now and how do things we could increment to more of a balanced value on people first and keep many things the same / less profit orientated and decrement the bad machines too... (maybe all of it is bad?)

Anyway the aim is to less devalue arts and skill and let people live!!!
I know some of the things naturally die out too like my barbers or parents, even the tree a farmer has to pull out occasionally but not all of it in exchange for scarce cash!...

🤷 A hard balance. 🤷

Final word:

Right we're paying more %'s for the overall structure which doesn't really go back us

WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING / give other's in work PROBABLY ON THE FEDIVERSE since there's no money in many things healthy nowadays so maybe we could keep our own values and give/take what we can as often as possible and have more healthy channels of money. 🤷 💰

"As time passes, people who lived through German surveillance states die, replaced by a younger generation with no first-hand experience and the fears that come with it. Besides, tech companies like Google and Meta have encroached on privacy one small step at a time.

Like the famous allegory about a frog being slowly boiled alive, privacy violations don’t seem so upsetting when delivered bit by bit over time."

(That's why it's important to de-google as much as possible, ask me @freeschool for help bit by bit...)

●Text Source:
Germany vs Google: How Street View Won the Privacy Battle in Europe's Most Private Country - PetaPixel

https://petapixel.com/2024/03/08/germany-vs-google-how-street-view-won-the-privacy-battle-in-europes-most-private-country/

●Picture source (with added frog!) from "How to Boil A Frog - The Movie"
http://www.howtoboilafrog.com/
[THE PEOPLE'S VIDEO PROJECT]

#data #germany #google #googlemaps #googlestreetview
#history #infosec #privacy #surveillance

Richard Stallman about the disconnects of achievements and not the philosophy *together*

"...so that they could promote the achievements and have the philosophy hidden and buried."

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=7ZSPf7YnGfE&t=47m07s

Source: "For A Free Digital Society" - Richard M. Stallman
[Video link = adverts link by @Invidious software]

#RMS #GNU #Linux #Quote #Video
#FOSS #OpenSource but more specifically #FreeSoftware #Freedom via #GNU #Linux

"GNU / Linux" not just "Linux".... !

#RMS #Quote #Video
#GNU #Linux #FreeSchool #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Save Your Water - Put in Toilet - Conserving / Saving Your water / Re-usage...

I've been using my hand-washing water and pouring it in the toilet.

I don't use soaps often so I can use the water for toilet and even plants.

The idea is reuse of used water (or occasionally not using drinking water) for things that don't need or water is changed enough that it doesn't really matter...

#DIY #Water #Conservation to #Toilet #Reuse #Recycling #GreyWater #Nature #BackToNature for toilet every now and again or for nature / growing things !

Science still doesn't know where the soul comes from.
True ✔️ False? ❌

#QOTO #Questions #Science #Answers #Soul #Sentientism

You are growing less patient in people's ability for communication. Do you a) or b) ...

a) Go to the village and cause inevitable trouble by trying to make more communication and even stirring up the ignorant 'peace'.

b) Leave people at it but know it will bug you that their ignorance is the source of all problems.

c) Leave comment below.

At the same time the ogre called 'America' looms on the horizon and you're not sure whether to sacrifice peace for more wisdom or that even perhaps people are already ready enough, or better left as fodder so at least it isn't you being fed on by the monster(s) that are growing in attack rate...

Choose your destiny.

People need: food, shelter, etc...

BUT ALSO NEED LOVE...

Love is often missed out in this list.

Love or practise of respecting people (their spirit, their being) would also reduce wars or at least balance things using the above listed rather than only food and shelter.

Picture is from
https://diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/10661517

#Israel #genocide #gaza #famine #starvation #Westbank #Palestine #US #EU #war

#Offers #Jobs towards ---> #Fediverse #exchange #FediFinance #finance #money #currency

I promise to give you money if you can help solve sending / receiving it... without BigTech and Banks in between (or with much le$$).

And I'm not sure about Crypto at all but that's a maybe (links welcome).

Ideally (magically) if you show me simple steps from start to finish (or detailed simple steps) then in I will really look at trying to send it to you for your efforts or offer my time (but has to be quite good for rewarding people and fairly future-proof / fool-proof for less scamming).

If you can visit me even better and it would be easier in the way to just give it to you.

DM for more info. And help solve this problem of:

staying alive (with money / currency)
vs.
doing things (for free / needing another job / reaching critically low on money).

#Mastodon Payments - a needed concept...

New payment System for Fediverse people?

If you want to imagine a new world then let's do some "World Building" together and cook something up... via DM if needed.

Tto exchange something (in addition to those who can give freely...) and involve some currency... some people will not see giving love as real... or as credible or permanent enough to putting food on table etc... which is fair... so let's have it all!

I say both and many ways to give + give back + take...

What can you dream up? ☁️

#FediFinance #fediverse #exchange #finance #money #currency

'Standard Normal ' and
'Intersectional Random'

Positions on a chess board used for memory testing and visuospatial abilities but for me here I'm using it visually for "Stepping out the comfort box" which can lead to new communication in a different way to different people - so can get you new friends and "new lines of thinking" which may look odd or feel wrong at first (to the stadard matrix system of value / banking / money etc) but it is about being accepting people more and diversifying...

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Pictures Credits:
https://lichess.org/@/NDpatzer/blog/science-of-chess-spatial-cognition-and-calculation/04J8gbBA

Figure 1 from Waters, Gobet and Leyden (2002) - these are the two versions of their chess memory tests used alongside a standardized shape memory task to examine visuospatial memory in players of varying strength.

#Chess #Matrix #Money #Friends #Finance #Humanism #Sentientism #Communication

#QOTO - Searching of your own messages / toots is currently disabled it seems. Pictured is what I get and message:

"Searching toots by their content is not enabled on this Mastodon server"

No need reply / Doesn't make much difference to my life as it is and seemingly static anyway!

#QOTO #AUDIO #THUMBNAIL #ISSUE for #ATTACHMENTS

Audio attachments now seem to complete upload (go past upload bar hanging) and now reports 422 error at the end:

"422 Error processing thumbnail for uploaded media" (as pictured)

So doesn't attach- And I've tested ogg and mp3, both with and without it's own audio cover art / thumbnail... all fail to attach currently.

I know we're coming back from being 100% but this was an issue before maintenance (but wasn't uploading WITH it's own cover art / thumbnail and needed erasing first and then worked).

So some settings seem different as it kinda worked recently and about 2 months before didn't matter would either way - with a files embedded cover art or without...

Grateful... Gratitude... Thanks... Thank You... Appreciate The Work... Many Thanks @freemo #QOTO #FEDIVERSE

Also uploaded a smaller size picture as I think you can still see the "thanks" even when auto-enlarged! :D