Once your acceptance of the situation becomes clear, it’s difficult for your opponents to impact you in any meaningful way...
"Once your acceptance of the situation becomes clear, it’s difficult for your opponents to impact you in any meaningful way."
- https://qoto.org/@TheOldGuy/112480514375872551
[ I will say, in the modern sense saying too much can be a problem and weakness (to those that are attacking) but in general if you accept your own position then from distance it can be less used against you or bluff's need calling first instead of scare tactics ]
Libreboot has added a lot of new mainboards recently. See news post, published today: https://libreboot.org/news/ports202402.html
The 9020 is also listed there, which I started selling preinstalled (Haswell desktop): https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-9020/
Riku's recently HP EliteBook 8560w port and Nicholas Chin's additional Dell Latitude ports are also covered.
We're on a spree, adding new mainboards in time for the next release.
Libreboot is free/opensource boot firmware, replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI on select machines.
"Follow Creators, Not Platforms." - Grayjay.app
Grayjay.app is basically an aggregator app for video platforms!
The reason for this app and post goes around YouTube kicking people off (for ages now but maybe increasingly more public as backlash and videos about it) for 0 reason and at best just a general email sent "according to our terms and conditions" etc if you're lucky and almost never any specifics what you did.
Anyway I think they reserve right without reasons, which isn't great when you lost your channel and videos!!
So this post is why Google YouTube it's my favourite avatar at the moment!
And putting my teachers hat on today 🎓 as #FreeSchool 👨🏫 then I bring you as the next generation teachers, a big answer to the problem about commercial platforms is when it come sto getting kick-off the site unexpectedly off a platform (right now everyone is likely getting kicked off or subject to the random opn YouTube - especially if videos are "too good" in some way or they just basically don't show your comments or video, demote it / shadow ban it etc...).
If you follow Louis Rossman (fighttorepair.org) you'll know what I mean.
So I recommend you check some of his videos using a YouTube filter, like specifically this video and link below about:
Louis Rossman's video:
"Youtube's Legal Team sent me a letter!":
https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=7ZSPf7YnGfE&t=04m00s
(notes below are from 4mins)
A list of YouTube problems as below
█ Banned and deleted without notice / willy nilly
█ Not fair enforcement across all of YouTube
█ They don't tell you the rules that you broke, just you're gone sometimes
█ A lot of content is allowed over others that even become more popular and seemingly allowed to break the rules!
█ Comments are deleted or never show up even from authors commenting saying nothing bad... on their own video!
(comments without curses, no links inside, nothing just comments doesn't work on YouTube or is hit and miss)
█ YouTube AI maybe deletes illogically. Lots of AI type new stuff maybe not fully tested / trying to save money on hiring emplyees...
Overall, it seems the better or real you are the more likely of you getting cancelled!
So this is a solution from YouTube kicking people off silently or without reason:
Grayjay.app so people can "Follow Creators, Not Platforms."
Grayjay.app enables you to create and watch video content in your own terms, fully retaining ownership and having control over what you watch. Your content on your terms.
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SIDE NOTE / DIFFERENT TOPIC
1. The Graduation Cap used in this post is the 🎓 emoji which is known strangely as a "mortar board"!
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Libre is a better term than Free... (Libre is a matter of liberty, not price...)
"Free" has about 10+ meanings just to give a bit of quick scope and more deeper dive below...
"Free" has almost too many meanings possible, so makes it less useful / too general as a multi-used word and increases chances of misinterpretation with it's broadness and commonality.
One meaning of "free" may include freedom but that is also ambiguous since humans on some level are bound or tied to many things in life so it's hard to know which is inferred.
Saying "Free Software" help but could also mean Free Price more than "Liberty to do as you wish with the software".
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SMALL TANGENT - RESUMES AFTER
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CAN WE REALLY BE MORE FREE IF YOU AND I WANTED?
In many ways humans are never truly free but this is just for those that might argue free or liberty doesn't exist but it certainly does since you or I individually or groups of people can limit or diminish freedoms / liberty ourselves physically or through software with conditional forces.
For example, it could be Mankind's endevour to make Freedom a priority rather than Mass Profits or Prostituting life for money. the focus could be to give / love , but it's more sell / extract.
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RESUMING (AFTER TANGENT)...
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Saying "Free Software" helps but still can be ambiguous or depend on the context and education of the reader... so again relying on chance quite a bit...
Saying "Libre" has the added benefit of:
1 - sounding and said in foreign way and thus being more signifiant in the sentence
- and as uncommon word becomes more likely questioned and less assumed to what it, especially if unaware. (With "free" you can easily assume you know and assign it a meaning incorrectly to what someone says, without the nuance of liberty as the end goal. But saying Libre you can't get away with that)
Libre makes it sound like Libertie in French (English is a mix of French, German and many others!) so makes sense also for those that learned French (100% a mandatory 2nd language in all English secondary / high schools for at least 2 years)
"Free software is a matter of liberty, not price."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software#cite_ref-free-sw_22-1
#Libre vs #Free #Terminology
Mixed #Languages #English #French #German etc !
Credit:
Pic 1 - LibreWolf (Browser)
Pic 2 - LibrePlanet (Video content etc)
Pic 3 - Chip picture from @libreleah
Search Engines > NON-Google/Bing/DDG/Brave...
Example list :
searchmysite.net
The searchmysite.net search engine is a niche search, focussing on the "indieweb" or "small web" or "digital gardens", i.e. non-commercial content, primarily personal and independent websites.
wiby.me
Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest. Building a web more reminiscent of the early internet.
gibiru.com
Uncensored private search engine. They exist to provide access to information outside of big tech's censorship bubble and do so privately.
infotiger.com
Independent, privacy respecting search engine. Building their own index, sitting at around 300 million english websites indexed.
yep.com
New search engine built from scratch. Claims to offer an unbiased, private search experience that rewards and compensates the makers behind the content...
stract.com
Independent and open search. You can apply different optics to narrow down the types of page you're looking for.
mwmbl.org
Mwmbl is a free search engine with a focus on freedom, user experience, and community. Results are provided by their own index and a touch of curation.
plumb.one
Plumb is a new search engine that claims it doesn't monitor or track you while you search. Supported by ads, but is not an ad platform that supports search.
clew.se - by @amin
A super new search engine that is trying to be different than the rest. Starting off with a super small index with plans to grow.
mojeek.com
Mojeek is a growing independent search engine which does not track you.
Source: https://flamedfury.com/links/#search / user @flamed
Here's a collection of search engines that aren't Google, Bing, DDG, or Brave: https://flamedfury.com/links/#search
@mattblaze @Noupside is it finally the right time to say math doesn't care about your feelings? i think it might be!
Hey! Put me on notification (if not already)...
Hey! Put me on notification bell just for a few days and see if you like my stuff if not already and remember you can use me and time that I have !
🔔 🔕 🔔 🔕 🔔 🔕 🔔 🔕 🔔 🔕 🔔 🔕 🔔 🔕🔔 🔕 🔔 🔕 🔔 🔕 🔔
Let me know how I can consume time for you - I have time for
working together. Call me crazy but the Capitalism isn't working... shoot me a message...
⏲️ 🕛 ⌛ ⏲️ 🕛 ⌛ ⏲️ 🕛 ⌛ ⏲️ 🕛 ⌛ ⏲️ 🕛 ⌛ ⏲️ 🕛 ⌛ ⏲️ 🕛 ⌛ ⏲️
- thanks!) 🔔 🔕 🔔 🔕🔔 🔕🔔 🔕🔔 🔕🔔 🔕🔔 🔕🔔 🔕🔔 🔕🔔 🔕🔔
The hive mind 🐝 / collective consciousness might work
🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝
"Paid" or "Professional" can be seen as mixed forces of... + Pay less house rent somehow...
- natural forces (hunger but is also man-made pressure as food is not provided to people unconditionally as basic basis for life and added to that you are forced to dance for your dinner more unnecessarily and in ways you don't like at all for big profits and big boats bought for other people).
- man-made forces (again cornered over generations but more-direct sky-high rent increases yearly, more debt-traps, spending for #war or developing it (using 'general' taxes which you think goes to hospitals / teachers / police until doctors go on strike (again - all 3 at the same time about last year ~ nearly 1 year exactly)
SO WHY MENTION THIS?
More obvious I hope the unloved positions that people in power hold (even parents sometimes), which makes the bottoms of all pyramids and pawns need to re-look who they look for love and and peace from the top who clearly are all-in for profit...
And not just say "I don't have time..." or...
"I am defeated"
"I can't admit how much they have cheated me"
"I can't face telling others the truth"
etc...
Not easy but the enshitification is too deep to avoid... clean the shit daily somehow at least and at least look for a way out / prepare without spending for rent etc all the time... share with people your house... couch surfing for summer is easier for example for others... and now free exact same system as original CouchSurfing but now Couchers!
Hopefully #Fediverse #Couch #Surfing would be it's own thing in the future! You can try me :)
It's 8:25 AM Eastern and I'm glad you're alive.
Thanks for being here with me. I know it's been a LOT for a LONG time now. You're not alone. We'll get through this together.
Stupidity [in Christianity included] is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice...
"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer
#Philosopher #Philosophy #Psychology
#stupidity vs. #evil
I've come across explaining to #Christians and #Christianity who seem apathtic, acting 'innocent' / naive and even irresponsible Christians - admitting to near nothing... *though I admit* the options aren't great and near non-existent BUT trying is the main thing even by Christians and so least they / we all could agree and name Banks / a Debt-based system as "not good" rather than keep silent or speak no evil 🙊 just because there is no alternative fist which doesn't make logical sense when solving problem in life! 🤷
IT NEEDS WORK "GODDAMMIT!" TO ACHIEVE CHANGE
(meaning we are probably part of any God so in the swearing that logic in any religion means can't wait for answers always and individuals should do the do towards things- and then maybe God (others) can help....)
Power Struggle (Guns specifically) - "If we want to consider limiting access to guns on American soil lets start with our own national guard and police, not our citizens."
"If we want to consider limiting access to guns on American soil lets start with our own national guard and police, not our citizens."
- @freemo about "May 4th Massacre" (aka Kent State shootings)
SourceL https://qoto.org/@freemo/106177725016376248
(Continued excerpt:)
"The last thing I want to see is an unarmed populace needing to deal with a well-armed police and military force. Lets focus on securing the rights of the citizen, not giving them up"
@masek Unicorns are more closely related to goats than horses, interestingly enough. And they have incredibly high resistance to poisons and venoms. So, naturally, they eat a lot of mushrooms: death cap, destroying angel, amanita, galerina, psilocybe. Yeah, they're pretty high on drugs most of the time. Unicorn urine is an almost safe secondhand hallucinogen, if you don't mind spending a solid week in rainbowland.
The voting cards for the European elections are in! More important than ever, for Ukraine, for nature, for climate, for the energy transition, and for democracy.
On Thursday 6 June, here in the Netherlands.
#elections #europeanparliament #ep2024
Music about Fediverse! > by Martin Hamilton on Fediverse! > @m
Rage Against The Machine Learning = ALBUM ☑️ VERY INTERESTING
https://martinh.bandcamp.com/album/rage-against-the-machine-learning-deluxe-edition
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♥ FAVOURITE TRACKS:
♫ Track #01 ♫ Markov Unchained = https://martinh.bandcamp.com/track/markov-unchained
♫ Track #11 ♫ A Billionaire's Lament = https://martinh.bandcamp.com/track/a-billionaires-lament
► Lyrics included (next to song!!)
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#FediMusic #FediTalent #SolarPunk #ADHD #Hacker #Fediverse #Audio #Music #Lyrics
POLL: Messages via *direct message* also means you get message or text copy if message to your email / gmail?
(Not a great idea by the way to set messages to send/show in email but be honest and I can test this with you.
ADMINS recommend default set as generic message "You have new message", not plain text as default setting.
#Poll for #Fediverse #Messages to #Email
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Previous Poll = 5 people
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1 20% I get email + shows the message text
0 0% I get email + no show of message text
4 80% No Fediverse messages at all sent to my email
0 0% Other / click to see answers so far
Transgender theme in The Matrix film... "Red Pill" ... "Blue Pill" ...
Some Facts / Mentions from the Wachowski "Brothers" now Sisters !
Transgender themes in The Matrix films...
█ Years after the release of The Matrix, both of the Wachowskis came out as transgender women.
The red pill has been compared with red estrogen pills.
█ Morpheus's description of the Matrix creating a sense that something is fundamentally wrong, "like a splinter in your mind", has been compared to gender dysphoria.
█ In the original script, Switch was a woman in the Matrix and a man in the real world, but this idea was removed.
█ In a 2016 GLAAD Media Awards speech, Lilly Wachowski said:
"There's a critical eye being cast back on Lana and I's (sic) work through the lens of our transness. This is a cool thing because it's an excellent reminder that art is never static."
█ In 2020, Lilly said The Matrix was intended as an allegory for gender transition, but that "the corporate world wasn't ready".
She said it was "all about the desire for transformation but it was all coming from a closeted point of view", but that she did not know "how present my transness was in the background of my brain" when the Wachowskis were writing it.
█ In an interview with Variety, Reeves said he did not know the film was an allegory for transgender identity during production.
█ Visual effects (Bullet time scene etc). Manex Visual Effects used a cluster farm running the Unix-like operating system FreeBSD to render many of the film's visual effects.
#Matrix using #Unix #FreeBSD #Film #Visual #Effects #FX
#RedPill #BluePill
#FreeSchool = #Notes #Quotes from #Books #Videos #Talks #Websites all around #DIY Care# and #Caring as our main #Politics / #Politics
#Degrowth / PostGrowth
#WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics
#CaringEconomy / #CareEconomy / #Partnerism
"Free School" is a term for a movement born from the 1960's / 70's using educational living & learning practice towards #Caring & #DIY with all others (all at the same time - not an after-thought or specialism in 1 field or person who is a #compartmentalised person ignoring others in other fields). Caring to involves more things, increasingly aiming towards everything...
Posts are 1-line #Notes and #Quotes that links all other things (it's all relative).
Long comments use CW to shorten post vertically and add a 'show more' button to reveal more text if you want it. Long posts might seem bad but it's giving chance to more connection and understanding.
All things towards #Freedom (life moving from Shorter to Deeper thought).
Freedom doesn't come from short-depth lifestyles / short lines of text / ignoring / #inaction. Not less communication between lovers of similar things. MORE!)
#FreeSchool = Learning Together 🔁
#FreeSchool = Working Together 🔁 (eventually + I do Free work for Freedom.
#FreeSchool = Co-Operating & #DIY Solutions 🔁
See My #FreeSchool (Hashtag) for latest examples anytime. Or keep open and refresh from time to time:
https://qoto.org/web/tags/freeschool
#FreeSchool ➡ Increment Talking + Peacefully solve everything.
TLDR - Inaction = Fascism
Trust comes from "slowly but surely"... Doesn't have to be all-in, but peace doesn't come from one-way short messaging on 'social' Mastodon either - collecting memes and cats only is limited!
Remember we need develop better humans as well as 'develop' code on computers etc.
☮ Peace needs more... even to save all types of cats!
Get in touch - I'm someone that cares for everything because it's all human-related...
Human #chats welcome - I using #Jitsi audio chat which uses JUST browser (ANY PLATFORM + 2minutes to enter !)
(i.e. no-install / no account / no google / instant / privacy-respecting / safe-enough, etc!) Really the best out there - any platform / device! Instant audio chat !
Just ask for a link and prepare a few topics!
#AltText used (when I remember).
FREE WORK - I do free audio and video editing (anything considered - just ask).
Again - Creating Trust needs a bit of trust given "slowly but surely"... not all-in... being relaxed about it... but has to be more - 'working' like a 2nd job towards peace because your job isn't going to do it / it's now allow by State to get there! War increases prices etc ☮
So do "peace" as a side-job like it was your real job in the world, parallel to the Capitalism (Trap) you (we) were born into. We have to accept that and fight out of that and not be comfortable in it.
Heart and Soul all the way.