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Laptops on https://minifree.org/ now have 480GB SSDs as the 1st option, instead of 240GB.
480GB SSD prices are lower now, so I'm happy to do this.
The laptops come with coreboot, replacing proprietary UEFI firmware. Debian by default but other distro/BSD available on request.
LinkedIn raises privacy concerns due to large study done on unaware users. It possibly affected some job prospects.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/linkedin-study-consent-1.6625768
Yes indeed, always 2 sides to a story.
Iran’s anti-morality police protests: a different view from the ground - The Grayzone https://thegrayzone.com/2022/10/09/irans-protests-view-ground/
We should be worried, because some folks think a limited nuclear war is possible and winnable. It isn't!!
A nuclear war simulation shows the devastation we could face if one country pulls the trigger
The simulation shows what would happen in the aftermath of a roughly 1,200-warhead nuclear attack on the United States.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/nuclear-war-simulator-shows-world-devastation
It uses SQLite for the db.
microblog.pub - A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog. https://docs.microblog.pub/
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Apparently, krauts are tryna get people to kidnap governors, too: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/german-domestic-intelligence-running-100s-fake-right-wing-extremist-social-media .
> “In order to be really credible, it is not enough to share or like what others say, you also have to make statements yourself. That means that the agents also bully and agitate,” says the report of an agent who claims to have joined the agency to “do something against right-wing extremists.” This involves actively encouraging people in their worldview, but she says it is her job to “feed” the scene.
In older news, the German government funded the guy that dug up the Libsoftiktok dox: https://thepostmillennial.com/german-government-funds-research-project-that-doxxed-libs-of-tik-tok .
And before that, a guy claiming to be an anonymous US military intelligence operative on HN says foreign governments are all over the US parts of the web: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30528382 .
Around fedi, there's Eunomia (a research project to build an anti-disinformation tool, sponsored by the EU) and the EU's got a presence on fedi: http://demo.fedilist.com/instance/social.network.europa.eu .
I wonder what the German government's interest in US citizens' Twitter accounts and 4chan posts is. I think the number of active accounts on fedi is probably higher than the number of active posters on 4chan, but I think the feds don't understand fedi very well. (On the other hand, the EU is here, and individual feds might understand fedi, though I don't know how much latitude they have to pick where they post.) So maybe Germany's got people here.
Do they need to directly, though? A long time back I had pointed out that if you wanted to push things, it's easier to find someone else that's already doing that with some success and kick them some resources. This is what the CIA did when they popularized modern art: they found an art collector that liked modern art and started cutting him checks. ( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html ) So you find someone that's saying the things you want someone to say, then you toss them some cash or some sycophantic adulation or whatever makes them keep doing it. (I had pointed out, a long time back, that this kind of thing doesn't even need a state actor on fedi: Twitter can afford to kick $30k to someone that is breaking the stuff that gets people to leave Twitter for fedi. This is way more cost-effective than doing it yourself.)
So then there's the question, why's Germany taken it upon itself to try to find things it has decided to call "right-wing" (a term so broad and that varies so much by speaker that it could apply to anything) and then to try to eliminate it, regardless of the country? Germany's also pushing this "no anonymity on the internet" agenda, which they have on the books domestically but they really want to make sure it spreads globally.
cia_smug_anime_girls.jpg
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> “In order to be really credible, it is not enough to share or like what others say, you also have to make statements yourself. That means that the agents also bully and agitate,” says the report of an agent who claims to have joined the agency to “do something against right-wing extremists.” This involves actively encouraging people in their worldview, but she says it is her job to “feed” the scene.
In older news, the German government funded the guy that dug up the Libsoftiktok dox: https://thepostmillennial.com/german-government-funds-research-project-that-doxxed-libs-of-tik-tok .
And before that, a guy claiming to be an anonymous US military intelligence operative on HN says foreign governments are all over the US parts of the web: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30528382 .
Around fedi, there's Eunomia (a research project to build an anti-disinformation tool, sponsored by the EU) and the EU's got a presence on fedi: http://demo.fedilist.com/instance/social.network.europa.eu .
I wonder what the German government's interest in US citizens' Twitter accounts and 4chan posts is. I think the number of active accounts on fedi is probably higher than the number of active posters on 4chan, but I think the feds don't understand fedi very well. (On the other hand, the EU is here, and individual feds might understand fedi, though I don't know how much latitude they have to pick where they post.) So maybe Germany's got people here.
Do they need to directly, though? A long time back I had pointed out that if you wanted to push things, it's easier to find someone else that's already doing that with some success and kick them some resources. This is what the CIA did when they popularized modern art: they found an art collector that liked modern art and started cutting him checks. ( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html ) So you find someone that's saying the things you want someone to say, then you toss them some cash or some sycophantic adulation or whatever makes them keep doing it. (I had pointed out, a long time back, that this kind of thing doesn't even need a state actor on fedi: Twitter can afford to kick $30k to someone that is breaking the stuff that gets people to leave Twitter for fedi. This is way more cost-effective than doing it yourself.)
So then there's the question, why's Germany taken it upon itself to try to find things it has decided to call "right-wing" (a term so broad and that varies so much by speaker that it could apply to anything) and then to try to eliminate it, regardless of the country? Germany's also pushing this "no anonymity on the internet" agenda, which they have on the books domestically but they really want to make sure it spreads globally.
cia_smug_anime_girls.jpg
hn_id_30528382.gif
The latest analysis from Alexander on #Ukraine October 20/22
https://youtu.be/yTgj6afnMEc
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I am today announcing a temporary price reduction, for laptops sold via https://minifree.org/
These are secure machines with free/opensource BIOS/UEFI replacement "osboot", based on coreboot: https://osboot.org/
Debian by default but other distro/BSD available on request.
Statement on the fatal flaws found in a defunct #CIA covert communications system - The Citizen Lab https://citizenlab.ca/2022/09/statement-on-the-fatal-flaws-found-in-a-defunct-cia-covert-communications-system/
An unexpected revival of Firefox OS
The dream of an HTML-based operating system is nothing new, and in fact, something we have seen since the early 2000s. With the Internet exploding in popularity and complexity, it has always been tempting to think of browsers as convenient graphical renderers, and CSS as the ultimate markup language for
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Got my ayaneo air the other day, it looks amazing and it is really fun playing not at my computer.
Of course first thing i did was install linux(holoiso) on it(tho it took me a bit because chimeraos didnt want to install and holoiso had only broken links so i had to build the iso myself)
#HoloISO #gaming #gamingonlinux #handheldcomputer #handheldconsole
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Fedora and openSUSE Are Dropping Support for Some Video Codecs
Fedora and openSUSE are removing H.264, H.265, and VC-1 VA-API video codecs support from Mesa to avoid potential patent issues.
https://linuxiac.com/fedora-and-opensuse-are-dropping-support-for-some-video-codecs/
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What electronics software do you use?
Please share #FreeSoftware you use.
- KiCAD https://www.kicad.org
- SimulIDE https://www.simulide.com
- gEDA http://www.geda-project.org
- Ngspice https://ngspice.sourceforge.io
Boosts are very appreciated.
#Electronics #GNU #Linux #Education
Eight RTX 4090s Can Break Passwords in Under an Hour
Even faster if it's still "password"
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/eight-rtx-4090s-can-break-passwords-in-under-an-hour
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The failure of the #EuropeanParliment to call out the Racism of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs @JosepBorrellF speaks volumes about the EU - It should help people understand why most of the Global South refused to take sides in the #US #NATO Proxy War in Ukraine...
RT @botengam: The words of the European highest diplomat @JosepBorrellF are rooted in colonialism and racism. They are unacceptable. The European Parliament s…
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/wallacemick/status/1582489254181376000
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how install debian on android
* userland (for installation of debian)
* connectbot to access installed debian
on userland through ssh (terminal interface)
* multivnc to access installed debian
on userland using vnc (graphical interface)
* all of the above three are available on fdroid.
** userland https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd
** connectbot https://github.com/connectbot/connectbot
** multivnc https://github.com/bk138/multivnc
* installation of debian
** open userland
** tap distribution —debian
** create "username", "password", "vnc password"
** tap continue
** it will download required assets
** after successful installation, it will
prompt to connect debian using ssh or vnc
** type your "username" & "password"
congratulations.....
jindam, vani
#linux #android #debian #howto #software #knowledgebase #ssh #security #kernel #smartphone #mobile #fdroid #git
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I made a simple Action Maze Chase Game in C for Commodore 64. Inspired by Iceberg Game by @notawizard
#c64 #retrocomputing #retrogaming #programming
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EuroLinux Desktop - brand new desktop Linux distribution made in Poland with 10 years of support
https://en.euro-linux.com/blog/eurolinux-desktop/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://en.euro-linux.com/blog/eurolinux-desktop/
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The arrogance that allowed European countries justify to themselves the Barbarism of Colonialism, has sadly not gone away...
RT @thatdayin1992: Josep Borrell says Europe is a garden and most of the rest of the world is a jungle.
This is what these western so-called leaders think of Asians, Africans, etc. They think we're animals living in a jungle.
What a bunch of disgusting racist colonizers.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/wallacemick/status/1581582877825044480
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