FreeSchool=Co-Op+Friendship🔁? @freeschool@qoto.org

Magic People!... We're like magic!...

Bugs and People make the world go round (yes mostly for Humans but also gardening the planet help propagate things...)

Like bugs are part of the planet, people are also part of the planet.

If bugs are "imperfect" then maybe like People this only if you look at them this way - we could look at them more positively and WORK WITH THEM with their positives...

#Imperfection #Perfection #Humanity #Bugs #Nature #Individuality #Sentientism #Capitalism ?

If Russian Sanctions against the Moscow Exchange are any news, it's real #war when Exchanges stop talking to another... financially! As they want to catch all the fish before that and don't mind agreeing even during war - but there are limits it seems.

Just saw this post which is nothing major https://qoto.org/@TheOldGuy/112626772915125552 but says the US mostly shut things down / terminate agreements / imposing sanctions in this time of war - which is ironic as they were warring not long before and shaking hands)

All banks and countries as gangsters and banksters !

Basically financial exchanges are main pipelines to tax it all and control everything through it.

This includes shutting it down, taking it over, regulating it by imposing sanctions in times of war (domestic or foreign crisis or self-made / spontaneous crashes) and stepping up authority to achieve that (since all business is a branch of A Government instance)

#War #Sanctions #Banks
#Russia #China #America #EU

#Games #Algorithms #Question

Has anyone ever seen inside a games algorithm or wondered it's doing inside... ?

#MarioKart ?
#StreetFighter ?
#Pokemon ?
#RPG #Retro #RetroComputing games etc etc

... add your game...

(kinda is a big deal for what's happening and fairness )

Dove of Peace
We perhaps need to fly into the dark / controlled communication space more often....? ❓

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_roulette

1. 📔 "Notable incidents" section is a good read ( famous people who tried it ) 👀

2. I've personally done the "cross road without braking" (blind left and right, down hill, no breaks- admittedly in non-busy area but bus goes that route for example)

3. 🔫 Revolver spun only once at the start... probabilities I hope I understood correctly below from Wikipedia...

"Given a six-shot revolver... the single-pull loss probabilities" for each of the six players in order:

Player1 16.7 %
Player2 20 %
Player3 25 %
Player4 33.3 %
Player5 50 % (1 or 2 pulls left)
Player6 100 % (you get the bullet 100% because the 5 before didn't catch it)

However, in the re-spinning variant, all players only come into the game if and when each of the players before them has caught an empty chamber...

...the all-game loss (non-dead) is approx 16.7%

#Jobs of the #Government is to stress, extract and impact upon people's lives for it's own agenda and benefits...

It's their #war on other people... the same templates is implemented everywhere...

*Everything* funnels back into #war

Everyone needs a war to fight...

Something to participate in, contribute to and live for... BUT

BUT war could also be more of a tough battle of logic, empathy etc - just something more than physical attrition and monetary power. more towards mental health and therapy while still "doing something about everything".

#war #therapy #power #empathy #humanism not just #money

Try another operating system without risk!

Run Linux using 1 USB memory drive!

Forget CD / DVD 💿 unless really old like 20 years - USB is more accessible and reliable... speed difference is minor...

Test without any hard drive - Optionally install after testing along side your Windows (or just reset back into your existing operating system).

Just 1 USB drive setup correctly allows you to test drive almost any Linux system like Ubuntu or Mint simply by downloading the ISO for it.

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How to try Linux? (an alternative to Windows)
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Main steps

1- Download YUMI - a Multiboot USB Creator (currently 2.0.9.4)

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

2- Use YUMI to format USB drive

3- Download Linux Ubuntu or Linux Mint ISO (2 or 3gb file)
- Version 18 Ubuntu seems best / robust for example

4- Use YUMI to add the downloaded Linux ISO to USB
(YUMI allows as many to be added by copying tovia it's menu to USB)

5- Re-Boot + start system from USB drive. Your available Linux version will show in list - run any listed.

6- You're now in and testing the new operating system - That's it!

No install, but shortcut icon from the desktop allows you to optionally install if you want it and have it on a hard drive installed.

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NOTES ABOUT INSTALLING
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ISO's are 1 file containers with the operating system (for Ubuntu or Mint in this case) AND these already include a strong disk manager and fixer called GParted (GNOME Partition Editor) so you don't have to download anything separate if you decide to install to an existing disk, you can manage it here in one go.

GNOME Partition Editor can be seen here also as a separate download:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ - but again it's included in the ISO so it is very handy to re-organise disks AND install.

Even if you don't want to use Linux you can have a USB with disk tools and even other repair ISO (almost anything) on 1 portable USB toolset.

#Try #Linux #Mint #Ubuntu #OS
Side by side with #Windows
#YUMI + #LinuxMint has #Gparted etc

Here's my own animated creation using stock graphic of a cassette + animating it.

As a "cheers" to Atari, and homage to what I kind of kinda literally 'LOOP'ed into... (I had nothing better to play with... and then PC came along an well whadda know still using that too!)

Atari name comes from the Japanese term atari, used while playing the ancient board game Go.
(bet you didn't know that!)

And that it was an American company with Japanese sounding name ?

The word atari means "to hit a target" in Japanese and is associated with good fortune; in Go, it indicates a situation where a player will be able to capture one or more stones of the opponent in the next move.

😃 The company fizzled and perhaps Amiga was better but what a storm all that time was!

💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣
Which of the pictures on the Wiki page do you most recognise?

(Wiki Pictures on the right show the evolution of Atari stuff)

now GOTO 80! 👾 #FreeSchool
💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣

#Atari #Retro #51 #Anniversary #Computing #Graphics #Retro #XLE #AtariST #Games #Animation #Anim

Do you want to create another world from this one TOGETHER?

How strongly do you want to try new ways towards a new world?

(get in contact to try #sharing something more)

"I think it's better to support protocols, not platforms.

Go #ActivityPub, #PeerTube and other #Foss #OpenSource alternatives 😎 "

- Bloodaxe quote @bloodaxe https://fosstodon.org/@bloodaxe/112586416905188988

Ad-free / no tracking Youtube!

YouTube without the tracking and adverts using Invidious !

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com

Ad-free / no tracking Youtube worldwide !

https://redirect.invidious.io/

Use alternatives that filter the adverts and bad code. Also

#Invidious = #OpenSource filters

Invidious #software = #protect #fediverse from #youtube #google #tracking #adverts #mining

Companies are not caring.
AND THEY TRACKING US.

#Data #Tracking #BigTech
#Monopoly #Money #Power

(Text from picture says:)

"WE CARE... ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY
(MEANS FEED US YOUR DATA!)"

2 WebSites sharing me with 200+ companies

44 PARTNERS HERE
+ 183 PARTNERS THERE
FUCK ME, IS EVERYONE
FUCKING ME FOR MY DATA?
AND MY WHOLE LIFE BEING "OPEN SOURCED"?

#Data #Tracking #Snooping #Spying #Browsers WebSites
#BigTech "Partners" #OpenSource #Browsing #Shopping #Information #Mining #AI #Feeding Our #Habits #Communication

COOKIE MONSTERS from the WEBSITES and BROWSERS!

BEST COOKIE ADD-ON / EXTN ?

♥ ☼ Human Intelligence ☼
+ Emotional Intelligence = 🐝 Hive Mind > 🐝🐝🐝

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hive_mind /// #FreeSchool ☼

Towards Collective Consciousness & Collective Intelligence ☼

#HumanIntelligence #Humanism #Sentientism 🐝🐝🐝
rather than leaning on #BigTech #AI #Capitalism #Tech #Love

A process by which a major change can be accepted as normal and acceptable if it happens gradually through small, often unnoticeable, increments of change.

The change could otherwise be regarded as remarkable and objectionable if it took hold suddenly or in a short time span.

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Metaphors related to creeping normality:

Boiling frog
Camel's nose
Lingchi
"First they came ..."
Habituation
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Moving the goalposts
Normalisation of deviance
Overton window
Principiis obsta (et respice finem) - 'resist the beginnings (and consider the end)'
Salami tactics
Shifting baseline
Slippery slope
Technological change as a social process
Tyranny of small decisions
Conformity
Peer pressure
Spiral of silence

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How to play "Grandma's Footsteps"

- 1 person is 'grandma' standing with their back to the rest. Everyone else starts trying to creep up on grandma, freezing when she turns around suddenly.

Or push prices up gradually and suddenly for food, rent, housing, inflation etc!

#Life #Games #Future #Finance #Banks #BigTech #Computing #Android #USA #China #Google

Using YouTube directly (without tracking filter) doesn't help free, libre software movements, including Mastodon I believe.

We could all use https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/ instead for better links (ad-free / no tracking on Youtube):

https://redirect.invidious.io/

#floss #opensource #software #foss #mastodon #fediverse #youtube #google

Using YouTube directly (without tracking filter?)

"Overton window" is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time - also known as the window of discourse.

Picture is my edited horizontal 'window' version of the vertical Wikipedia version (that didn't make as much sense to me vertically in the original).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

#OvertonWindow / #WindowOfDiscourse #Wikipedia