Do not try to evaluate my intentions on the good/evil axis, use the law/chaos axis.

Hier in Victoria BC war ich gestern in zwei total netten Buchläden mit u.a. antiquarischem Angebot. (Russell Books, Fort Street, sowie das hier ziemlich bekannte Munro's). Beim Bücherregale auf mich wirken lassen musste ich unweigerlich auch an Diskussionen im Fediverse über das destruktive Scannen einzelner Bücher denken. Ich glaube, was viele Menschen in Antiquariaten sehen (bitte korrigiert mich, wenn ich hier falsch liegen sollte): "Wow, so viele Bücher! Wahre Schätze!" Oder so ähnlich? 1/n

Regarding the recent Debian GR, I think it is entirely reasonable to look for an alternative distro (or even alternative OS).

Yes, they will all be tainted one way or another, because the kernel, and plenty of third party software are tainted.

However, it does matter how much that taint enroaches. While slop might be hard or impossible to avoid completely, reducing exposure is still a worthwhile goal.

So go on, explore other options. "But they're all tainted" is just "AI is inevitable" in a different suit. Never give up, never surrender.

@TheBreadmonkey I remember watching Mary Hart on Entertainment Tonight mentioning that Tammy Wynette had a song with a band called the KLF and playing the video. I thought ‘ that’s amazing’ and bought the extended play CD.

Good times and make mine a 99.

@pallenberg arschauslecker und Feiglinge.

Good Mood

@parismarx @Gargron let me guess: trumpists just use google maps, anything else just does not exist to them.

Solar power proved the only major energy source that performed better than normal during Europe’s summer of extremes, experts have found: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/solar-delivers-europe-heat-drought #Solarpunk #SolarpunkSunday

Before semiconductor RAM, most computers used magnetic core memory. This is the 128 KB core stack from the computer on Spacelab, the Space Shuttle's experimental laboratory. Let's take a closer look...

Red Squirrel.

BOING!

#redsquirrel #highlands #photography

Policie zabránila pokusu o útok na pochod slávistických fanoušků na derby. Asi 20 mužů zřejmě chtělo u Metronomu útočit dlažebními kostkami, uvedli policisté.

Meanwhile on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lake_Ontario

Seriously, where do we go from here? Debian is the basis for so many other distros, too. I don't know how you'd make a new, reliable distro given how many other components have gone slop, right down to the kernel itself.

If we stopped emitting GHGs today, there would still be ~425ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere, plus other GHGs. Nature draws that down slowly; it will take decades to get down to 1990 levels. We can reforest and do carbon capture, but it will still take time. And all that time, Earth will still get warmer.

now that the client-server web is clearly failing in extremely predictable ways, can we finally take the idea of a #p2p web seriously? maybe?

@macfranc @giorgiosarto @amministratore Faccio mea culpa sulla confusione perché effettivamente non ci capisco nulla di tutti questi Devol, Diggita, Fedimedia, Fedilug etc. Ma comunque resta il fatto che tu moderi sia Mastodon.uno e allo stesso tempo sei amministratore di Poliversity e Poliverso.

E poi ok, non sarai dei Devol, ma per esempio sei parte di Fedimedia insieme ai Devol; e i Devol da quanto viene detto sul loro sito amministrano M1 (di cui sei moderatore, quindi il legame con i Devol c'è eccome). Non so, ma tutti questi gruppi e istanze sembrano tutti collegati tra loro, come fossero facce della stessa medaglia.

Google has now renamed Lake Ontario for US users. They don’t even show the real name in brackets.

I used a VPN to compare: Apple hasn’t renamed it (at least not yet), nor has Dutch service Here WeGo or OpenStreetMap.

Yet another reason to ditch Google, and US tech more broadly.

#tech #lakeontario #canada #cdnpoli #tariffs #digitalsovereignty