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You can be involved without voting. I'm not saying you shouldn't vote. I'm saying I personally don't think it matters. James Corbett has often said on his podcast that if you think we can vote our way out of our current situation, he wishes you the best and yes, go vote. Hopefully you're right and he's wrong.

But it's important to be realistic. Just attending protests or being involved locally with city council meetings or school board meetings is arguably way more important than voting. I've helped in local campaigns before. Not in a long time though; it does jade you to the process.

When people stop getting involved, when people lose hope, that is when the Oligarchs and dictators starts to act

Dude they're always acting no matter if you have hope or not. The media flips the majority of the population like a switch.

I used to think that voting didn't matter. I changed

I mean... if it gives you purpose, good? Keep on keeping on. Nothing wrong with a religious belief. Keep proselytizing I guess. Maybe you'll convert me one day. But for now, the risk of jury duty doesn't outweigh the benefit of trivially placing my wish on a piece of paper for one from the list of psychopaths running.

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Basically Fediverse websites shutting down or getting shut down and the userbase getting wiped out as a result. It's like dropping a nuke on an entire country in some cases.
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Guys this is why "censorship resistance" aspect of Nostr actually does matter. Even if it doesn't win for the initial sell, it matters for the long term of it actually working.
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Oh my fucking god Apple added ONE BUTTON to its entire lineup of products and the media think we’re going back to blackberries
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Today the Independent Media Alliance brings you a panel on the rise of the digital ID, and how it is a foundational part of the growing technocratic agenda.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/09/digital-id-the-foundation-for-technocracy.html
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I wrote a short blog post to guide people to resources on how to start fixing Coverity issues and how that can be a great way to contribute to the Linux kernel. 🔍 🖥️ 🐧

It's particularly aimed at newcomers with some experience in C. 🙂

"ONE simple and rewarding way to contribute to the Linux Kernel: Fix Coverity issues"
embeddedor.com/blog/2024/09/28

I hope people find it both inspiring and useful, and...

"[...] Always remember: upstream Linux kernel development is highly social. 😉"

Thanks!

@realcaseyrollins Constant infighting between contributors and forking means fewer people to maintain it, I guess.

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Okay so why did #FSE and #SPC die? Isn’t #pleroma / #akkoma supposed to be so much better than #Mastodon? Why then couldn’t they run at full capacity indefinitely?

I’m not hating on #rebased BTW, #Poast seems to be doing fine from what little I hear. It’s just funny that I heard so many people over there boasting and bragging about how #pleroma and #akkoma are so much better than #Mastodon because they have more features and run lighter, etc. etc. meanwhile those instances are down now while instances like mstdn.social have been running at full throttle for years now with a pretty similarly sized userbase IIRC

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@coolboymew @meso At least Godot being FOSS means that they can never enforce woke shit via EULA. People can make racist shock games with the engine and the Godot team can't do anything about it.

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westerners: the japanese are so healthy becuase they eat clean, unprocessed food

japanese people: deepfried vegetables, deepfried potato mash with meat, deepfried bread with curry filling, bread with noodles and mayonaise

@nicholas @theorytoe He didn't like how those creators were on the front-page of the site because they used no-no words in the title of those videos. He said that he doesn't mind them making those videos but he said that they shouldn't be featured on the front page.

@prettygood @theorytoe I think his reporting on these issues is just from his hard free-speech stance. He tried to steer away from politics from the longest time. It was clear that he wasn't even familiar with the meaning of certain political labels. But as the culture war started affecting the FOSS community he couldn't ignore it anymore.

He has been labeled as a "far-right conspiracy theorist", but even the far-right hates him because he is "Jewish and proud". In fact, at one point (possibly due to the "ad-pocolypse") he made his full podcasts available to Patreon members only while only releasing clips for free on YouTube (I didn't even know that was even allowed). He was called a bunch of antisemitic slurs because of it, so he disabled comments on all of his videos, and I think that event is what kicked off Luke Smith's popularity as he was the polar opposite of Lunduke in many ways (anti-shill, focus on software minimalism instead of gimmicky software, etc)

@theorytoe I used to watched Lunduke back in 2017. He was pretty laid back. He talked about Linux, other FOSS operating systems like Haiku, and retro-computing, including showing off his old BBS. During that time he was mostly apolitical. He openly said that he didn't know what left or right meant. But he had a hard stance on free speech on the Internet and he spoke out when The Daily Stormer was deplatformed by virtually every Internet infrastructure company in the world, despite Lunduke himself being "a very proud Jewish man".

I haven't watched him much since 2018, but it appears that lately, he has been exposing organizations like The Linux Foundation and how they are donating to WEF-adjacent causes as well as FOSS projects using CoCs.

Seeing his name being censored from the Linux Mint forums pissed me off the most. That used to be my go to recommendation for Windows users wanting to switch to Linux (issues with SystemD aside), but I can't recommend it at all anymore because of that.

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