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techwooded

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  • Who is a lesser known political figure, past or present, that you admire?

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  • I don't think that schools (at least in America) teach enough about Eugene V. Debs. Despite his failed presidential runs, this guy was one of the most popular politicians of his day. His imprisonment for sedition caused literal riots across the country. His release from prison was attended by over a million people. He founded the Industrial Workers of the World. Some of my favourite quotes of his that stick with me:

    I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, someone else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition.

    While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free

  • What's the latest capitalist accusation of socialism you realized is a confession?

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  • Goodhart's Law:

    When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

  • What's the latest capitalist accusation of socialism you realized is a confession?

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  • Corollary to this is the "I want to be able to choose my doctor" line. If there's only one health insurance provider, then every doctor will have to accept it, ergo you get more choice in your doctor

  • Gasoline costs 50% more in the US than it did before the Iran war

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  • Impossible! Trump has lowered prices 600%! [sarcasm]

  • US will issue commemorative passports with Trump’s picture for America's 250th birthday

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  • Glad I renewed mine early. Now if only I had a work visa from somewhere else to put in it....

  • what's a good protest song for anti-war, anti-ice, and anti-oligarchy?

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  • Why doesn't the United States have universal healthcare by now? (Serious)

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  • The people essentially have been demanding it. As several others have mentioned in this thread, 70-80% of the public supports universal healthcare in some form. For the nitty-gritty, basically 50 years ago and earlier, extremely wealthy people realised that their preferred policies weren't especially popular with the general public. They identified that their main issue was that what they had was money, not people. So they embarked on a decades long quest to give money the same (or greater) political power as individuals, culminating in the Citizen's United Supreme Court case. I bring this up because it essentially means that the People demanding it doesn't matter, because while there may be a couple hundred million people asking for it, there's a couple hundred billion dollars asking to never do it. It's gotten so bad that there's a kind of perverse, Stockholm Syndrome effect starting to happen to. In 2016 there was a big dust-up during the Democratic Primary where the Culinary Union in Las Vegas/Nevada didn't want to endorse Bernie Sanders, the most pro-Union candidate in decades, essentially because medicare-for-all would remove health insurance as a bargaining chip

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    JMP vs iMessage

  • Americans rarely refer to the US as America

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  • I hear almost exclusively people referring to the country as "America". This was actually a very conscious shift at the turn of the 20th century for people in public life to refer to the country as "America" instead of "the US" or "the United States" as we ..... acquired overseas territories and weren't a country only of United States anymore

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  • I'm not some big technical guy, but there is a pretty fundamental difference in how the protocols work. Mastodon uses ActivityPub, Bluesky uses the AT Protocol.

    ActivityPub is like email, it's an exchange protocol. So basically you create a link between two accounts by "following" and that says "whenever A posts something, deliver it in this format to B".

    ATProto is a bit more complex. It's based around the idea of nodes. A node in this sense is basically a pile of letters. If I decide to post something, that letter gets thrown into the pile with some info like user tags, etc. Another user somewhere else who follows me is in essence just telling their client "pull out all the letters that A has thrown into this pile and shown them to me". And then you have a front facing client that displays the result of that filter in a convenient way. On the one hand, this is why topic lists (I think called collections?) are much easier/better in Bluesky because at the end of the day it's just another filter onto the pile, whereas with an ActivityPub based collection would be a bit more complicated.

    In practice what this basically means is that Bluesky is federated in name only. If the Bluesky board decided one day that you couldn't post about cats, but I really wanted to post about cats, I would have to then host the node, the filtering apparatus, and (potentially) the front end. The node hosting specifically is the most technically onerous. If I wanted the Catsky node to federate with the Bluesky node, I would need to set up a tunnel between the two, then posts from Bluesky that the Catsky users would want to see would also be deposited into my node meaning my storage requirements would go up quickly. Conversely, you can run a stable Mastodon instance on a raspberry pi because you only need to be able to store what you want to see, not the entirety of the platform. I personally have only heard of one other successfully hosted node (Blacksky for Black Twitter refugees) and I'm not sure it federates with Bluesky.

    In the end, Bluesky works a lot like OG Twitter, which was just a lump of storage and the actual product was the API, but with a couple ropes dangling out the sides with a sign saying "go ahead, hook up, and federate, we don't mind". This is unsurprising as Bluesky and the ATProto were made in essence by the OG Twitter people

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    Another ICE shooting in Arizona!

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  • Just wanted to pop in to point out that this was Border Patrol, not ICE. Not that it makes it better or anything, just a bit more vanilla than the president's secret police

  • Government Surveillance on Chinese vs US made phones

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  • My advice here then would be to buy a used Pixel from not Google (either through a carrier or a site like Newegg or Backmarket or similar). Google won't get any additional cash, supports keeping waste out of the landfill, and you can use Graphene. For longevity, you can get used Pixel 9s and 9as for not too much so it's still a decently new phone

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • Not sure how to do this

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • I've been trying, but haven't found anything. When I first turned off secure boot, it worked great, but stopped working again once I updated

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • Going great! Loaded up Fedora on my HP laptop which has given it a new lease on life. Only downside is that it won't just boot straight into the OS, otherwise GRUB freezes (not dual booting, secure boot is off), so I have to spam F9 on startup and select linux to boot into, then it works fine.

    Started self-hosting some things on an old desktop I had lying around, and am planning on moving from iPhone to Graphene with my next phone

  • Opera: A Legacy Browser Lost | Why the modern hollow shell of Opera has made it impossible for me to recommend a former favorite.

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  • Sounds like I need you as my IT lol. Tried to convince them to let me use linux when I went remote as well, but I'm stuck with Adware 11

  • Opera: A Legacy Browser Lost | Why the modern hollow shell of Opera has made it impossible for me to recommend a former favorite.

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  • While I use a combination of Waterfox and LibreWolf on my personal computer, unfortunately for work I need to use a Chromium based browser to work with all of the corporate spynet type stuff. I used to use Opera for a decade plus but recently switched to Vivaldi because it feels more like OG Opera instead of an amalgamation of stuff

  • GRUB Freezing on Boot

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  • No idea, but it's still listed as an option when pressing F9

  • Fedora Linux @lemmy.ml
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    GRUB Freezing on Boot

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    Money. Why does THAT work?

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  • I like a lot of what other people have said here (faith backed by a trusted party, representation of debt, etc), but I just want to drive home the point that money has value because we said it has value. Under a system of barter, you end up with people valuing things differently. So we switched to the gold standard, but then that constrained growth. Now we have fiat currency which is based on faith.

    The reason why we chose gold was because it was relatively useless at the time, only good for making things look pretty essentially. It was valuable because it was rare, and since it was rare, a central authority could control the supply because it takes a lot of capital to extract and process. Modern fiat is similar, but the rarity (making it a good substitute for value of other goods and services) comes from the government being the only person who can issue it. It's honestly kind of a weird paradox. It has to be cheap and ubiquitous enough that the supply isn't limited, but rare enough that we accept it as a stand in for value. In an alternate universe, we could have chosen river rocks (not useful for other purposes, so no one would be tempted to take supply out of the system to use for other means, and pretty ubiquitous), but we couldn't effectively control the supply.

  • What is your opinion on Libertarianism?

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  • I think Libertarianism is incompatible with the way that humans operate as a society. Almost all flavors of libertarianism puts an individual's right to live as they choose as long as that doesn't violate the rights of others through force or fraud. Humans like to associate themselves into groups, and in almost any group there will be an imbalance in power, whether that's economic power, physical power (strength), or even something as abstract as eloquence or how outgoing you are. The issue then becomes that someone somewhere has to enforce the right to not be forced into giving up rights. In the classical construction of how libertarians view government, it is very easy to become more powerful than those meant to enforce limits on power. Even in our current political system, you see this when companies will spend more on their anti-trust court cases than the entire FTC spends total in a decade. Libertarianism has no mechanism to keep the enforcer the most powerful party involved

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Alternatives to Murena Mobile

  • Music @beehaw.org
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    Rush Selects Anika Nilles to Play Drums on Their Tour

    www.cbc.ca /music/anika-nilles-drummer-rush-facts-9.6931573
  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
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    Issues with mounting Caddyfile in Docker Compose (Jellyfin)

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Thorium Browser?

    thorium.rocks
  • DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml
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    Alternative to Google Flights

  • Apple @lemmy.ml
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    New iPhone login prompts

  • Apple @lemmy.ml
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    So What Does Everyone Think of the Announcements on 9/13?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Add Lemmy 2FA into 2FAS for iOS

  • Apple @lemmy.ml
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    All HomeKit Accessories Not Responding After Adding HomePods and Deleting Second Home

  • Not the Onion @lemmy.ml
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    Coast Guard Arrests a Man Trying to Run a Giant Hamster Wheel Across the Atlantic

    www.npr.org /2023/09/07/1198252469/coast-guard-hamster-wheel-reza-baluchi-atlantic-ocean
  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
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    Use Cases for Particular Profiles?