xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

The “China” threat is the ultimate rhetorical get-out-of-jail-free card, but if we build a digital panopticon on public land in order to out-compete an authoritarian surveillance state, have we defeated authoritarianism, or just become it?

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/solutions/dear-america-we-do-not-beat-china-in-the-ai-race-if-we-become-china-in-the-ai-race

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NEW PODCAST! 🎙🛂🇳🇱

Dutch journalist and podcaster Rico Brouwer discusses the fallout of COVID-19 and his successful legal battle against the Dutch state to protect the rights of independent journalists to film court cases, framing it as a victory against government overreach. He talks EU, WW3, and also comments on the Great Reset project to strip us of our assets, citing examples in Holland of unrealized capital gains proposals. Given his background in IT, he touches on the loss of individual agency in a cloud-based digital economy. Finally, he pays tribute to the late John C. Dvorak, reflecting on the changing landscape of independent media and the proliferation of influence operations within the podcasting space. https://geopoliticsandempire.com/2026/08/04/rico-covid-dutch-freedom-eu

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Alright, Fire Emblem Direct in 36 mins

https://videofrens.club/r/e3

Videos meanwhile

Argued with a dumbass that thinks that the future of the world is globalization in the sense of old massive empires forming instead of the obvious balkanization that is likely to happen (In context to Québec separating, because that has a chance to actually bring change instead of voting in the fucking federal elections)

>tf2 will be 20 years old next year

Reminder

TempleOS - "Our mission is to be a modern Commodore 64."

I consider Terry Davis a part of "retro" era internet now. He always reminded me of a master mechanic/electrician who actually wanted to train you in the trades, (a dying breed).

He explained things straight up, but with the intention that you learned something because he wanted to see you succeed.

(btw being a Terry Davis video, yes please be advised of profanity )

Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

https://linuxiac.com/linux-desktop-market-share-surpasses-10-in-north-america/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49146122

#HackerNews #Linux #Desktop #Market #Share #Surpasses #10% #in #North #America

linux #desktop #market #share #north #america #open #source #technology #growth

@xianc78 @PurpCat Evercade is not a bad idea but I have yet to see any of this shit locally. Evercade would be the perfect thing for carts to appear in random stores but they just don't

France now has "automated, real-time piracy blocking".

"The system allows for instant blockades during live sports broadcasts, with oversight checks from regulator ARCOM being applied afterward rather than before. "

I can't wait to see the internet totally and utterly collapse. These censorship fanatics will finally get what they deserve.

Meanwhile umm the "problem" will almost certainly go on. It's not like the internet is necessary for piracy. It's merely the most convenient conduit for it at the moment, but even that is unlikely to continue indefinitely. That is to say it's not that the censors will win, but that other methods already exist that are far superior.

In even more totalitarian states likes North Korea, Cuba, and elsewhere they're already utilizing a far more convenient system for piracy.

In Cuba they pass around content using hard drives and there are data brokers. Once a week someone comes by and copies the data you want for a small fee. This might sound less convenient, but instant access beats streaming. For someone in a wealthier country that same system doesn't require a weekly visit either.

There is a well known historical saying amongst the nerds:

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway" - Andrew Tanenbaum in 1981.

This saying highlights that SneakerNet (physically transporting storage media) can offer higher effective data transfer rates than network connections for large datasets.

In spite of rising storage costs in recent months the price per terabyte for data is nothing by comparison to the number of films, tv shows, music, and other media that can be stored.

Every major hollywood film fits onto a single modern hard drive. This is even more true of music.

new chodeberg hot take: free software source repos can and should be more distributed so it's fine to disallow content on technicalities, in fact llm projects could likely benefit from a dedicated platform. the crypto thing, in turn, is counterproductive: casting crypto projects into their own bubble where they're less likely to be beholden to common decency will only encourage the technology to be abused further

"I think this 2021 G20 Rome summit photo epitomizes the hypocrisy and capriciousness of global leadership during the authoritarian Covid insanity.

All of the "leaders" are unmasked, all of the "first-responders" are masked. Never forget." - Rudy Havenstein

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/seatbelt-checkpoint-planned-southeastern-shreveport-010916264.html

RPG In A Box has a gofundme going to help with development costs and they've only made just over $1,000. The guy has been working on this engine for over a decade and it has progressed so much and it's such a neat thing with so many features. It's kind of sad to see all of that effort go mostly unnoticed.