xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

>host a website where people can get real live videos of people(including children) dying in the most gruesome ways

>still think you have the moral highground over someone who makes drawings

Love bombing the Fedi to celebrate being under half my peak bodyweight.

First time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop! I’m not surprised… and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead.

#Meta #MetaGlasses #AR #privacy #surveillance #Vermont

Yesterday, one of the younger electricians was telling me about the beauty of the new alarm systems he installs. While acknowledging the quality of my current one, he said, "It uses a SIM card and calls you. The new ones are 4G or Wi-Fi and use the cloud, so notifications go straight to your smartphone, it's not calling anymore."

I asked him, "And what if the cloud stops working? Why should I have to depend on the company’s cloud to receive alerts from my alarm? My alarm is 10 years old and works perfectly. Can you say with certainty that the company’s cloud will still be effective 10 years from now?"

He looked puzzled for a moment, then admitted he had never thought about it.

The real problem is that people do not realize what this means until things actually happen.

#OwnYourData

finally, Dieselpunk gayming

Modified the C-Island netmap a little to mark future points of interest.

When I think about all the top 10 games lists, most of them are focused either on the cultural impact or on the story/sold units.

But does that really define gaming? When I think of gaming as a separate art form, it is defined mostly by emerging gameplay and the depth of functions used to provide your experience.

So, that would make the list look something like:
Factorio
X4: Foundations
.
.

So, what games can you think of, that provide a true deep gaming experience? And is there a good word, that would describe this kind of games? Because I really think, that I am mising the vocabulary to even talk about this topic.

“In Iraq, it took more than three years to reach that high. In Vietnam, it took six years.”

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/antiwar/poll-shows-majority-of-americans-disapproval-of-trumps-iran-war-lower-than-iraq-and-vietnam

#TheFreeThoughtProject

no you cannot have a natural human conversation you MUST stay on topic at all times REEEE

_MAJOR BREAKING NEWS! FEDERAL APPEALS COURT ATTACKS MACHINE GUN BAN!_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_z9DXsv2rI

"sySTemD is Not That BAD, iDK why PEople Don'T Like IT"

"systemd is basically a microsoft product" - yes, indeed ~

https://web.archive.org/web/20260320044311/https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/41205


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3erhbwqIAM&pp=ygUNYnJ5YW4gbHVuZHVrZQ%3D%3D

#linux #opensource #programming #selfhosting

lennart is actively working on a project to enforce age verification on every SystemD-based system even harder, not just through a silly little pull request, but through a corporate entity that verifies the age of the user "operating the system"

@sister_sam I'm not sure that's the point of 'open source' software, but I would phrase the point of free software as being to put the control of peoples machines and devices back into the hands of the end-user.

I think the problem is not that it's not an effective tool against the state apparatus too, but rather that the state still posses a lot of power and is a threat to those who dare operate a system beyond their clutches, develop an app they can't control, etc.

Will they be able to stop cryptocurrencies or privacy friendly cryptocurrencies despite having arrested a handful of developers (Samourai Wallet), threatened exchanges (which in turn have stopped offering privacy coins like Monero), etc? No. I don't think so. However they're certainly going in that direction with hardware mandates that force manufacturing to occur in the United States, mandated lock downs on devices (anything with a modern wifi 5Ghz chip can't be 100% free), etc. And now they're trying to lock down phones, tablets, and computers through laws like that through age attestation and age verification. The UK has already started going after VPN providers because there are 'workarounds' to age verification. Well, there are workarounds if you can install an operating system you control too! That's next. These people are just so stupid they don't realize this quite yet. Once they fail at stopping 'kids' from accessing social media (60% of kids in Australia I believe are STILL able to access social media, proving how ineffective bans are) they will invariably start going after any other means that result in it being possible to bypass their stupid law to 'protect the children'.

@yew@movsw.0x0.st I don't think we need foundation where objective criteria and philosophy about software are replaced on vibes, guilt by association and Drew Devault's shitty blog.

The most radical view in today's political system is to reject both major parties.

_Why ‘Starving the Beast’ Feeds It Instead_

FTA: I once believed, like Milton Friedman, that among the most effective tools for reining in excessive government growth is to “starve the beast” – that is, to keep tax revenues as low as possible. Starved of tax revenues, big government would have no choice but to shrink into smaller government, one that can survive on appropriately small sums of revenue.

I no longer believe that this theory of “starving the beast” is correct. It’s now obvious to me that as long as the government can finance its current expenditures with borrowed funds, a policy of refusing to allow taxes to be raised in order to meet expenditures doesn’t starve the beast; that policy engorges the beast.

The reason the government is engorged when tax revenues are kept below expenditures is that, as a result of this policy, much of current government spending is paid for by future taxpayers-citizens. The debt that the government issues to fund current expenditures comes due in the future, when many of today’s taxpayers-citizens will either be in lower tax brackets or their graves. The burden of repaying this debt falls on many people who aren’t even born when the debt-financed expenditures are made. The bottom line is that deficit financing allows today’s taxpayers-citizens to get goodies from the government and then shove the bill for these goodies onto tomorrow’s taxpayers-citizens.

Because deficit financing allows today’s taxpayers-citizens to spend other people’s money – and because no person spends other people’s money as carefully as that person spends his or her own money – the demand for government ‘services’ today is higher than it would be if today’s taxpayers-citizens were obliged to pay for all the government they demand. Just as, say, people in New York and California will demand more government services if those services will be paid for largely by people in Florida and Texas, people in 2026 will demand more government services if those services will be paid for largely by people in 2056.

Unsurprisingly, there is empirical evidence showing that attempts to starve the beast result in increased government spending.

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/why-starving-the-beast-feeds-it-instead/