Void Abyss @voidabyss@qoto.org

If you want to be a pro at #Linux, run it as your daily operating system. Break stuff and figure out how to fix it. Run your own web server from home and figure out how to get around your ISP blocking random ports. Run it on your main laptop as your daily driver. Get on IRC or support forums for the distribution and try to help others who need help getting starting. Certs are great, but there's no substitute for hands on experience.

Microsoft has addressed a known issue behind unsupported computers being offered Windows 11 22H2 upgrades and being unable to complete the installation process.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fixes-bug-offering-windows-11-upgrades-to-unsupported-pcs/

Postmodern Jukebox has done it again:

https://youtu.be/OBmlCZTF4Xs

#Music

I support the current thing

Wokisme explained https://t.wtyl.live/videos/watch/0f8f22ff-f1c1-4ca1-8974-784178b31717

Martijn BAARDA - How ancient Roman bridges were built... https://t.wtyl.live/videos/watch/a7493c1e-bd13-462e-8030-032e432586f1

@freemo @rbreich I'll push back on this one, if only because I don't want to look at my dynamic programming assignment 😂

I agree wealth inequality itself isn't the problem; however, I don't think the market is good at assigning value judgements to things, which leads to a whole bunch of really screwed up stuff, and the subsequent conflation of benefiting from capitalism with worshiping mammon.

For example: the CCP has been torturing religious and ethnic minorities for decades, mass surveilling their people, murdering political dissidents, and *MOST IMPORTANTLY TO INVESTORS* preventing individuals or corporations from withdrawing assets from the country "illegally". Yet, our investors, companies, etc. speculate that China is "the next big thing" and lose their asses while enriching a hostile country. People continue investing in Nestle and Tesla despite the provable child labor in their supply chains, (and of course the rest of the atrocities Nestle got away with). Why? Because making an extra 2% ROI is all that matters.

Meanwhile, private equity firms in the US buy up failing companies for pennies on the dollar, try to squeeze *every* *last* *drop* of capital out of them, and cause lasting damage in the process (see the environmental damage caused by rail issues across the US, alongside the mess of our hospitals, many of which are owned by private equity). Their M.O. is to run things so lean, and to cut so many corners, that the business fails anyway, but at least they didn't let any of that money go to the worke- I mean-down the drain.

The impacts of our modern values in relation to money go on and on, because nearly everyone has a price but not a spine: they'll sell out their employees and the business they built up to get rich, and leave the people they employ in the hands of a board who never sees them, and frankly doesn't care about them at all. For most, it's not about loyalty, purpose, effecting change in the world, and eking out a living (even a good one!) in the process; it's solely about the number of 0s on the check. It's so bad to the point that peoples lives and finances are ruined for "shareholder value", while disregarding the people who actually generated value for the company and the economy.

Finally, the reasons that the poor "cannot create wealth" is that often it is taken from them while the wealthy are given kickbacks in an almost perverse way: banks charge more fees for lower account balances, accessing credit with lower APY is more difficult, etc. Of course much of this boils down to financial literacy, but when a single car accident can bankrupt a family due to exorbitant healthcare coverage, adversarial insurance companies can screw anyone who can't sue them (by not paying out), etc, it's easy to see that there are not enough legal protections for the impoverished when the penalties for victimizing them are a pittance or even nonexistent.

So while I can agree that money *itself* isn't the problem, the modern "idolatry" of it is such a perverting influence that people conflate the two, because frankly it's difficult not to.

INSIDE RUSSIA'S MILITARY OPERATION
(banned from youtube)

https://www.bitchute.com/video/gtKfEbFYj6pP/

#war #russia #ukraine

BROTHER NATHANAEL PULLS NO PUNCHES | VICTORIA NULAND

Brother Nathanael is a converted Jew, now Orthodox monk.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/yrgFFcGCcIlh/

#war #russia #ukraine

While it’s nice to see the NY Times finally admit masks are worthless, it’s false to say the mandates “did nothing.” They harmed kids, eroded public trust, and psychologically damaged millions of people to the point where they’re still afraid to breathe in public.
The best line in the piece: "'Do something' is not science, and it shouldn't have been public policy."
https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1628378362358931458

As someone living in socialized healthcare, and who has lived with socialized healthcare in about a dozen countries, just a reminder:

**Socialized Healthcare is a broken and backwards system**

inb4: No I am not promoting the american healthcare system. It may fix or address the parts that are broken in socialized healthcare, but it has its own problems... There are solutions (though no one talks about it) that doesnt resemble either of these failed systems.

Problems I have repeatidly faced both here and in other socialized health care countries:

* Abusive wait times leading to unnecessary suffering and in my case surgery that wouldnt have been needed if I had prompter care.

* Lack of access to many prescriptions - (I have had at least a dozen medicines I couldnt get because the cost would be too much of a burden to a socialized system).

* Monopolies making unfair and abusive rules to line their pockets at the expense of patients (A good example of this is melatonin being a prescription in Israel due to a pharmecutical monopoly).

* Lack of privacy / anonymity - Since everything is registered through centralized systems (usually) there is no way for you to hide or keep private your medical records. In the USA I would pay cash for prescriptions I dont want on record, not really an option in socialized systems.

#healthcare

December 2022

There's no turning back

Outside BBC Headquarters. Feb, 2023

Burzynski Cancer Is Serious Business: Part II https://t.wtyl.live/videos/watch/dbfe4c5d-93fb-4cc9-baa0-861b8b37e9aa

he is right, BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard

Shouting in the Datacenter https://t.wtyl.live/videos/watch/9a21d33a-3483-4563-ae91-d50abd73729e

Media Blackout as U.S. Chemical Disaster Rages On: Animals and Fish Dying

https://youtu.be/oV3K0JOJowE