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So apparently YouTube is going ballistic on Invidious instances (again). Just a reminder that Google Video not only allowed you to download their videos but also had their own desktop video player for watching videos offline, granted it was their own proprietary video format, but still.

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In a major decision on Friday, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that geofence warrants are “categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment.” #privacy #surveillance
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/federal-appeals-court-finds-geofence-warrants-are-categorically-unconstitutional.html
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Germany is among the first European nations to push at the seams of the #AI Act, with a row brewing over the Federal Ministry of the Interior’s plan to allow police use of facial recognition to identify terrorists. #privacy #surveillance
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/draft-bill-allowing-german-police-to-search-web-with-facial-recognition-panned.html
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a smart company would just accept resumes in person at this point. pay some intern minimum wage to sit at a desk and put the resume in the right job opening bin

it solves a bunch of problems
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Anyone remember electing Bill Gates into any kind of decision-making capacity?

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This photo shows the speed in which degraded areas of land can be revived using regenerative cattle grazing.

The landowners rehabilitated this eroded gully that formed in their paddock by fencing cattle IN it, instead of out of it.

This is counterintuitive to how we currently look at land management and regeneration.

The way in which they did this forms the fundamental methods of regenerative agriculture:

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Lunduke has a great article on Mozilla funding (where the money goes):

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5738970/mozilla-firefox-blocks-anti-censorship-and-pro-privacy-extensions-in-russia

Mozilla has also run unhinged articles about the fediverse:

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decentralized-web-hate/

Deko had a rant about how he's no longer donating to Mozilla, and instead donating to fedi projects, although it's no longer public

https://web.archive.org/web/20211029024937/https://friends.deko.cloud/display/d0446be5-145f-eb17-755c-7b6112876931
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@xianc78 it's literally a catch all for everyone the poster disagrees with online

A GitHub account, personal website connected to your real name, and a LinkedIn are basically required to get anywhere in the software industry now and it really sucks.

I get why techbros are hated, but I don't think it's an excuse to write off some new idea as there might be some useful applications for it. Seriously, I see a lot of people talking about why we should never go to the stars because they only perceive it as a techbro's wet dream.

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So apparently, my definition of "techbro" was all wrong. I thought it was referring to right-libertarian-leaning, sometimes rich, tech-nerds who offer "solutions" to the world's problems when they are (at-best) perceived as band-aid solutions. But apparently, it's actually about "toxic masculinity in the industry".

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Let's Make America Great Again

First order of business, take care of your own damn parks. Don't complain to the govt, just fix it yourself.

I'll be coming back with tools in the coming days to fix this.

#maga

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Stopping at the bluff by the river. Can't believe I stayed living in a city for so damn long.

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One sure-fire practical way of insulating ourselves from this unrelenting onslaught is to form tight-knit small land-based active communities. #homesteading #permaculture
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/tight-knit-active-communities-a-definitive-demonstration-of-people-power.html
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Unelected globalists want to rewrite the UN Charter so that it ‘could articulate the rules of a World Parliament‘ for ‘world citizens‘ with binding legislative & enforcement powers that eliminate State sovereignty. #Technocracy
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/globalist-coalition-seeks-revision-to-un-charter-to-create-technocratic-world-government.html
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