It is no surprise that Google searches for VPNs in Florida have skyrocketed. But as more states and countries pass age verification laws, it is crucial to recognize the broader implications these measures have on privacy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/vpns-are-not-solution-age-verification-laws
We are a small independent bookshop in Chemnitz, Germany and were told that we have to do social media. We decided that if we had to do social media, then our first account would be with Mastodon. :) Hello Mastodon!
#books #EuropeanCapitalOfCulture #ecoc #chemnitz #booklove #ctheunseen #Bookstodon
I wish the interactions with the Chinese on RedNote would lead to both Americans and Chinese to realize that both countries are corrupt and are actually in bed with one another and that the fake rivalry is only used to benefit secret societies that control the world for their gain.
But of course it will always be one-sided.
Fediblock is gay and retarded. Rejecting tools like block and mute and trying to impose large scale censorship on random people does not achieve the goal it pretends to seek. It is merely a vain statement that wants to incite a mob to join an insane effort to make lots of people disappear so a very personal kind of ideal engineered around mind rape can pretend to triumph. Fediblock is the tool of impotent mass murderers. Fediblock is to genocide what fantasy football is to football.
Eric S Raymond, one of the co-founders of the open-source movement, made a tweet a few days ago saying that you can still be a right-libertarian (including a full-blown ancap) while also being against the mass hiring of H1B immigrants. He noticed how bad it was getting back when he was in his 20s and 30s, and it is even worse today. He actually emphasizes with the young tech graduates, despite being a boomer. He also states that there is more to right-libertarianism than just the monetary aspect.
I generally agree with him on this. Honestly, I would argue that conservatives (especially neocons) are bigger corporate boot-lickers than right-libertarians ever claim to be. They are the ones who defend companies that benefit from the state (especially the military industrial complex), don't care that their politicians have been bought out by billionaires, and defend policies that hurt smaller businesses like "intellectual property" laws. I also hear them worship the GDP more than right-libertarians (including ancaps) who really just care more about personal and economic freedom more than anything.
Of course, the argument comes, "how do you deal with the problem without state intervention?" And I wish ESR would elaborate on this. I think the important thing to note is that even if a company decided that they would probably get more respect (and by proxy, customers) by advertising that they don't hire H1Bs or immigrants in general, they can't. They CAN refuse to hire H1Bs, but they legally cannot make discriminatory claims in job postings like saying "US Citizens Only". This is what makes boycotts and finding companies that don't prefer 80% H1B workers difficult in this situation. So yeah, the state makes it hard to support companies that actually want to hire (White) American workers.
It looks like Drew DeVault came out of hiding and announced his intention to start a sit-in during Jack Dorsey's event at FOSDEM. Sure Dorsey most likely doesn't have our best interests in the FOSS community, but I don't know why he simply doesn't just advocate boycotting the event or the entire convention. You guys were already suggesting that with an event by the president of the OpenMandriva Association after Bryan Lunduke promoted him.
But I rather have these guys do the sit-in if it means that they will forget about the OpenMandriva drama and leave the foundation's president alone.
https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html
For more details on how a carry-lookahead adder works, see my blog post: https://www.righto.com/2025/01/pentium-carry-lookahead-reverse-engineered.html