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No wonder forums have all but died. Jannies are much more damaging to a forum than to a social network service.
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Line in the video: "you agreed to that when you bought the car"

Be careful what you enable with your spending.

We vote with our dollars nearly every day. If we don't like these kinds of things, people in general have to stop supporting it with money.

Some people don't care... but in order for positive change to happen just enough people have to care to do something about it and stop funding practices like this.

RT: https://noauthority.social/users/Dan_Ramos/statuses/116809900388428460
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Despite recent troubles I finally hit a massive milestone of over 300lbs down
💪 #WeightLoss

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#RVX (AKA #RevancedExtended, the spiritual successor to #YouTubeVanced) has had a nasty bug on my phone where it buffers a lot until you've been watching a video for more than a minute, and it buffers about every minute or two when you're watching a livestream. Is there a fix for this problem?

#YouTube #FOSS

No. The real difference is that the mathematician has an actual job and provides meaningful work, while the poet just gets high and writes a bunch of word salad.

Fuck poetry.

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This Year Of 2026 proves once again that Politics especially American Politics is Gang Culture And Gangbangin'. It also proves that Joinin' A Political Side is Like Joinin' A Gang Set.

The Liberals Are The Crips, The Conservatives Are The Bloods/Pirus And The Centrists And Libertarians Are The Hoover Criminals (Hoovers).

America ain't The Greatest County Ever And Not The Worst County either. In fact America ain't A County And Never Was A Country at all. It's One Big Hood/One Big Ghetto. It always has been that way since 1776.

And that Politicians, Presidents, Governors, Mayors, etc from Both The Democratic Party And Republican Party are The Pimps And The Drug Dealers. Especially Borrack Obama And Donald Trump.

And the Folks that keep votin' for And trustin' Both Parties are The Drug Addicts, Prostitutes, And Simps.

And that's just The Cold Hard Brutal Truth.

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"ignoramus" > neocon traitor.

Levin, Cruz, Shapiro - and the rest. the worst of the worst. They all would've been up for the tar and feather treatment back in 1774.
https://bird.makeup/users/marklevinshow/statuses/2069558157488124315

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"US Bill Would Mandate AI Chip Location Tracking to Thwart China and Other Adversaries "

These sorts of laws are fucking retarded. There is no way you can control what a third party does with a product after you've sent them the product. You can have them sign whatever agreement you so desire, but enforcement is another matter.

This technology is likely something that can be gotten around through one means or another, but really what it is likely aimed at is tracking you and I. It's not going to prevent China from importing a mass produced product that is shipped around the world to random people.

The solution to the security problem is pretty obvious. Develop better military tech. It's not to restrict a mass produced consumer product.

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chi

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"Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field"

It's about time... now we just need to integrate all these fork(s) into a working functional stable distribution.

I'm not really sure this particular fork will have any impact what-so-ever, but I 100% agree we shouldn't be rewarding or cooperating with totalitarian states or politicians that want to or otherwise are taking away our freedoms and liberty.

Like other things evil doers want this should never have made it into GNU/Linux-land or free software more generally.

The fact someone had to folk systemd is more telling about what GNU/Linux has become. It's no longer a system built around, for, and by freedom-minded folks.

If we want freedom we need to continue work for and push for it.

There are numerous distributions it's NOT cool to be using because of distro maintainers widespread enablement of bad shit (and yea, I am giving some amount of slack, maybe even too much, to distros that are mostly doing what is in the users best interest, even if far from perfect, ie including some non-free firmwares for hardware, but not including snaps).

From systemd to snaps to the inclusion of Widevine (needed for things like Netflix or so I'd presume, and other commercial streaming services, though not your standard YouTube, but YouTube 'premium' content)- to mainline Linux kernels.

There are some things that if removed won't have that dramatic of an impact on most users.

The trick is figuring out the right balance.

There is a solution to every non-free problem just about for instance hardware wise- most folks don't need any of the non-free stuff if redirected. Other non-hardware stuff we *could* solve even if it requires some risk and breaking certain immoral laws.

linuxiac.com/someone-forked-sy

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@davidrevoy Just ask them to contribute to the DIGImend drivers, licensing under the GPLv2-or-later instead then; https://digimend.github.io/

If only the DIGImend developers didn't degenerately use github…

libwacom was only for wacom tablets - its kind of odd that non-wacom tablets would be supported by such driver.
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Do you see local AI (like Ollama, which I personally use) as the only acceptable way to use AI, or do you still reject AI in all forms? 🔐

💬 Reply with your reasoning (copyright, creativity, content quality, etc).
🔁 Boosts appreciated to broaden the discussion.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Privacy #FOSS #OpenSource #LocalAI #Ollama #Tech #TechNews #BigTech #MachineLearning #ChatGPT

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