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Data Shedding: Understanding a severe real-time privacy risk

https://peertube.libresolutions.network/w/9nMzvr94JsUJ9diYvynvZL

This explains why using an AdBlocker is more than just keeping annoying advertisements from popping up. There's serious privacy concern.

#privacy #surveillance #adblock #peertube
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/03/the-fall-of-critical-thinking.html

The Covid panic and repression did not happen in a vacuum. A pattern of persecuting people rather than engaging those with dissenting opinions had already been well-established in the educational world and the mainstream mass media, making the oppressive treatment Covid dissenters experienced somewhat predictable. Likewise, there was an obvious, widespread failure to apply critical thinking.

Once upon a time, the educational world had a golden opportunity to improve itself dramatically. The critical thinking movement captured the attention of many in the university world and K-12 education in the 1980s and early 1990s. Richard Paul, a prominent figure in the movement, hosted an annual Conference on Critical Thinking in Sonoma, California, in which I participated several times and learned a lot from people such as Paul and Robert Ennis.

Exposure to the movement’s perspective and methods transformed my approach to teaching students and comprehending ideas and information. Until then I had often been perplexed in dealing with many of my Japanese junior college students, who had a tendency simply to parrot ideas they encountered in the mass media and books, rather than thinking for themselves.

In particular, I was shocked to find some student research papers echoing the anti-Semitic views of a Japanese journalist, who believes that the destruction of Israel is the only solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The students had uncritically accepted his radical opinions as unquestionable truths.

“Critical thinking” is not so much an educational invention as it is a distillation of the intellectual tradition of rational, skeptical inquiry into concepts and claims. Famous for his probing questions about the assertions of those around him, the Greek philosopher Socrates was one prominent embodiment of that approach. Though I had never heard the term critical thinking (which I will abbreviate as “CT”) during my formal education, I immediately recognized what it was.

However, that opportunity to strengthen the role of CT in education has been lost. To a great degree, this promising development has been replaced by fashionable, irrational ideology and indoctrination into trendy causes.

This ship has a HISTORY of power failures and collisions already in its past. This was inevitable with this shit ship.

Text adventure "A Dark Room" is now available on Itch. It was originally released on PC in 2023 but now has a DRM free version for those who prefer that. It has a native Linux version for X86 as well as a version for Raspberry Pi's.

https://amirrajan.itch.io/a-dark-room

Purism Differentiator Series, Part 3: Operating System! Building an Operating System that avoids Big Tech allowed us to build out a new convergent operating system that could work across all our products.

Read Article Here: puri.sm/posts/purism-different

People love to complain about #opensource #foss software as if there is an obligation to satisfy their every need, every whim, every idea.

Instead of complaining:

🧑‍💻 contribute code
💸 donate
📝 write documentation
💪 contribute what you can

Imagine if everyone using open source software contributed something, instead of abusing it or complaining into the social media void...

#Contribute ‼️

3 serious forks of #Redis to watch:

#KeyDB

Mutli-threaded fork of Redis based on Redis 6.
BSD 3 Clause license.
Owned by Snapchat.
github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB

#Redict

Recent fork by @drewdevault based on the last open source version of Redis 7.2.4.
On Codeberg.
LGPL 3.0 license.
codeberg.org/redict/redict

#Valkey

Accepted by Linux Foundation. Started by former Redis contributors & AWS employees.
BSD 3 Clause license.
valkey.io/

Boosts appreciated 🙏

#opensource #oss #foss #gpl

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