Taha Ahmed @solarchemist@qoto.org

If you’re looking for an alternative to GitHub, see @Codeberg

(And if you want to self host it, see @forgejo)

All my current projects are on Codeberg (e.g, see Kitten at https://codeberg.org/kitten/app) and have been since it came to light that Microsoft was training its shitty AI on our code, licenses and copyright be damned.

#GitHub #Microsoft #AI #CoPilot #codeberg #forgejo #alternatives #git

Raise hell until they have to listen to you. Disrupt business as usual until you’re no longer complicit in genocide. Change the system so you’re no longer ruled by the whims of billionaires nor locked into a perpetual cycle of binary decisions between terrible and even worse for the rest of your existence or until even that semblance of a choice is taken away from you entirely. (2/3)

The "border crisis" is a manufactured emergency. Yes, people are fleeing to the US and Europe from wars, oppressive regimes, and disaster zones—and both capitalism in general and US foreign policy in particular contribute to creating those. But the same billionaires and politicians who are wringing their hands about undocumented immigration are also bewailing declining birth rates, fearing that those will diminish their access to cheap labor.

Over 12 million people in the US are undocumented. Calls for tighter border controls are chiefly about increasing the pressure on these vulnerable workers in order to exploit them more aggressively. What's at stake is how much violence they face, not whether the economy can do without them.

Capitalists have no intention of paying a cent more for labor. The function of political posturing about the "border crisis" is to distract us from capitalist profiteering and to create a rationale for more state violence targeting everyone, not just the undocumented.

The solution to our problems is not xenophobia. It is solidarity and resistance. If we do not stand up for the humanity of those who are excluded and oppressed today, we will find ourselves on the wrong side of the walls of tomorrow.

For more on how borders function:

https://crimethinc.com/borders

I wanted to write a short piece on using #RSS feeds vs sending newsletters out to my audience. It came out somewhat different than what I expected, but I am still happy with the result: https://preslav.me/2024/01/26/thank-you-for-unsubscribing-rss-vs-newsletters/

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#RSS #blogging #newsletter

eu: usb-c should be the universal charger for electronic devices, no matter the manufacturer.

people: nice.

eu: you should also get replacement parts for your devices for a long time and at a reasonable cost.

people: cool! keep 'em coming!

eu: and we want to scan all of your private messages.

people:

Meanwhile, the EU has voted to kill the Internet as we know it and possibly aid in creating an even bigger surveillance machine in the process.

Civil disobedience is the way forward on this one. We redouble our efforts to create decentralised alternatives and if they’re deemed illegal by this myopic legislation, so be it. Fuck ’em. We go to jail if we need to.

If you had any illusions that the battle for personhood and human rights would be easier in our age, think again.

#article13

Just discovered the system monitoring tool glances and it's pretty great. I was using htop before but being able to see network, disk space and IO in one place is nice.

https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

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