Now would be a great time for smaller hosting providers like Hetzner to offer managed services with Zulip, RocketChat, and IRC servers...
Wouldn't it be spiffy if we saw an explosion of open-source managed services to replace proprietary ones Discord, Slack, Instagram, etc.?
System administration isn't for everyone. It's a non-starter to expect everybody to manage their own open-source services. *Especially* when people are trying to disentangle themselves from multiple proprietary things at once.
Run your own blog and web site? Sure. File backup? OK. Chat server... and photo hosting ... music and video streaming... and everything else? That starts to add up and become overwhelming for most people pretty quickly.
There's an opportunity for lots of small businesses, jobs, improving open source, and setting people free of proprietary services all at once here. If we all take it. Self-hosting doesn't *have* to mean literally running services yourself, if there are reasonable alternatives. (e.g., Fastmail, Hetzner Storage Share.)
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New Hampshire’s Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte Vetoes Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill Yet Again
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Kelly Ayotte has said that the legislation would be “overly broad and impractical to enforce.”
Discrediting / debunking the transphobic "bathroom predator" myth
persagen.org/docs/transgender_…
#Christofascism #transgenocide
🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #TLM #BTLM
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As someone who lost a position in radio to automation about 35 years ago, trying to play nice with tech designed to replace you is stupid. I was stupid. My colleagues were stupid.
You have a chance to not tell this story in 35 years. Take it.
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as I told a room full of of half drunk radio executives at the Gavin convention in San Francisco back in 2001, the biggest threat to their businesses was not piracy (Napster, Internet tech) but cultural irrelevance.
I was right.
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@dangrsmind Meanwhile, any one of the many thousands of people who picked up the phone could tell you about their value to the community.
All of us, even someone small potatoes like myself, talked our share of P1s out of suicide on the request line. I can recall two. As a part-timer.
Corporate media didn't care, and played in everyone's faces after 1996.
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Hootsuite: Cancel your contract with ICE
Join me in signing this petition to Hootsuite's CEO calling on them to: Cancel their contract with ICE. Sign here: https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/hootsuite-cancel-your-contract-with-iceLeadnow.ca
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I'm a bit creeped out, y'all.
I got a letter from our bank that my youngest's savings account was in inactive status and was going to the unclaimed property department if I didn't reply.
We've been in limbo with his SSA claim for over 2 years so there's been no activity on his account for that reason.
I called customer service to reactivate the account. They had to do some verification questions that the computer had the answers to. One of them was "what organization, if any, have you had contact with"? And a list of stores and hotels and Occupy Oakland.
How does the bank know I'm associated with Occupy Oakland? How did it get on the account verification computer? It struck me as so surreal and unexpected I'm having trouble processing it, tbh.
#Banking #Finance #USPol #USPolitics #Privacy
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Trump-appointed judge rejects DOJ attempt to access Michigan voter rolls (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)
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Trump-appointed judge rejects DOJ attempt to access Michigan voter rolls
By Jen Rice / Democracy Docket. View the full context on memeorandum.memeorandum
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They say if everyone on the Epstein files was prosecuted, the system would collapse.
Well...
Bring that motherfucker down..
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Naw man, everyone who voted MAGA did it because they wanted to put the boot to somebody. And Trump, like Hitler, has a preternatural ability to get hateful people to assume he REALLY CARES about the one specific group they want wiped out, and the rest is just politics.
Which is why, you have "conservative" Catholics and Muslims with brown skin voting for the ethnostate because all they heard was "end trans people and drive the queers into hiding." Everyone hears the part they want.
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Each time a new privacy-invasive
feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely.
If each time a new privacy-invasive
feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued.
Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters.
It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest.
A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights.
The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse.
If we do not refuse,
if we do not fight for our privacy rights,
we will lose them all.
#Privacy #MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #FacialRecognition #HumanRights #DigitalRights
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It's also an action of protection of society.
Eventually, some form of fascism will be in force, regardless of society. The less surveillance there is, the better chances the society has for ridding itself of the fascism and returning to safe tracks.
We as a society "have nothing to hide" right now, but in the future we will, some day.
Who supports surveillance is an enemy of the organized society.
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“European adults are not magically better communicators. But many were given earlier language to talk about boundaries without turning it into a fight. That reduces resentment. It also reduces the quiet coercion that happens in many couples where one partner endures discomfort because they feel guilty..”
♂️#menshealth #sexuality #marriage #husbands #husbandry #masculinity #testosterone #aging #healthcare #Men #dating @menshealth gamintraveler.com/2026/02/08/t…
The Sex Education European Adults Got That Americans Never Did
Many Americans missed an entire operating system: the idea that sex education is public health, not morality. That it’s a skills class, not a scare tactic.Ruben Arribas (Gamintraveler)
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RE: mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/…
The #Fediverse, and #Mastodon in particular, showcases what social media can be when designed for democratic dialogue rather than profit.
It’s open source, so its rules and algorithms are transparent and accountable.
No single company owns it, so no billionaire can unilaterally shape speech.
It’s also interoperable, meaning people can move freely instead of being trapped in walled gardens.
Because it doesn't depend on outrage for ad revenue, it fosters healthier, more civil conversations.
I’ve been asked on TV hits and interviews lately to explain why decentralized social media is better, especially re: Mastodon.How would you explain the benefits of a platform like Mastodon and the fediverse to someone in just a few sentences? How would you make the argument that platforms like Mastodon allow for more free expression than big tech controlled apps?
Would love to hear people’s thoughts! Trying to make my arguments most effective
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RE: systemli.social/@AIB/116028732…
"Well, my child? A detention center for deportees, Dad in handcuffs, a flight to an unknown country? Don't worry, all of this is exciting and colorful, and your worries and feelings are completely normal. But of course, they won't change anything." This is roughly how the border control agency Frontex explains their impending deportation to children in a brochure…
The children's book "My Guide to Returning" from the border protection agency.
This cynical work, even by Frontex standards, is approximately 170 pages long and attempts to convince young people that they will be torn from their surroundings, their school, and their friends, and transported to a country they did not choose.”
https://
AntifaInfoBlatt (@AIB@systemli.social)
Attached: 1 image Frontex-Comic: Paradebeispiel der Demütigung Die kunterbunte Frontex-Abschiebebroschüre für Kinder und Jugendliche. ➔ https://antifainfoblatt.AntifaInfoBlatt (Systemli)
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If that was a real country like Ireland or France, the riots would start in the morning and the government would be finished by Monday.
Fact.
I noticed I can't access archive.ph through my VPN exits in the EU; but I can from Egypt exits
Country wide webs
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Re: LRT
People misunderstand that the conservative movement does not occupy the same political-philosophical space the rest of us do, where democracy, science, and human rights are important.
As right-wingers will happily tell you, the project is to abolish modern civilization and reinstate the rule of monarchs, warlords, and wealthy land-owning aristocrats. The goal is for massive numbers of people to die and for the rest of us to become slaves.
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The frontmen who run for office are loathe to tell you this because it sounds like supervillain shit.
Trump occasionally says the quiet part out loud when he talks about not having elections anymore and stuff.
But everyone backing them and working on their campaigns and all the think tanks and social media influencer guys know that repealing the 20th and 21st centuries is the entire point.
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Even if they wanted to, the media couldn't properly convey the contents of the Epstein e-mails without calling for a revolution, basically.
Because rich and powerful people all over the world are openly talking about overthrowing modern society with devastating consequences.
It's useless to say they don't really believe it because it's literally what they say when they think they're alone and in private.
There are a lot of people still going "Yeah but that guy only did *legitimate* business with Epstein, not like the others..."
And then it comes out that Epstein's "legitimate business" was destroying civilization and humanity in service to rich would-be warlords.
Everything he did was evil in service to greater evil. Everyone he ever did business with was willingly in on it.
Maybe "freaking out" is the thing to do right now. I don't see a "back to normal" even as an option here. It would be such an obvious lie. And that's another thing: This is what Democrats would probably try to go for should they re-take control. And it would be really bad too, because it would prevent all healing and just heat up the charge for the next attempt at open fascism.
They would need to openly go against their right-wing buddies, attack them even. And I really can't even imagine them doing that. They don't even use the limited power they have rn properly. There would have to be *a lot* of structural change within the party to make that happen.
It would also lull the conservative governments of other countries around the world into a false sense of security, just to have us fall on our collective asses again once the next madman takes the wheel, after the Dems don't manage to magically fix everything within 4 years. This cycle has to break first.
But on the other hand, more people getting killed and endangered really doesn't seem to be the answer here either. So ofc it would be good short-term if the regime lost power. It is a truly fucked-up situation, this whole thing, with only few (and unlikely) win states.
@orangelantern A national freakout would be healthy and probably productive but I don't see that happening until a lot more people have seen their friends and family members shot in the face by regime forces.
Biden was probably the last chance for a back to normal period and then only if they took major steps to stop these people. They didn't. They enabled them. They supported them. So where does that leave us? Nowhere good.
@orangelantern And THIS was already happening depending on who you are. It was just quieter then compared to Trump.
But that quiet is all most of these people care about. So they don't have to deal with it or hear about it.
Because every time the Democrats win, they shut down any attempt to change things, causing even greater apathy and disillusionment, guaranteeing THIS will happen again, only worse.
I agree with you on this. Would this have prevented this situation right now? Yes. For a time. And then it would have hit anyway, just with much more force. The only way to prevent this would have been an actual left-wing candidate, presenting a strong and workable counter-point to the lies and violence of the right. Someone willing to fight on the field this battle is actually taking place, not trying to pose as a member of the attacking force. And Harris certainly wasn’t this, just as Biden wasn’t.
I am scared shitless watching our “moderate” conservatives stretching this rubber band to its limits as well. 
But in your case, the boiler was already running past capacity, needles punching against the limit and the thing giving off shrill whistles and death rattles. And the Dems were like “ehh, it’s just being dramatic, it can take a few more hours running at full throttle.”
@orangelantern Yeah, Biden was supposed to be the "buck stops here" moment.
He campaigned on stopping Trump and then blew it off and swung hard right trying to capture his support. He fed these fucking trolls and Harris did the same. Were we supposed to reward betrayal? Because that's what it was. What's the point of defeating Trump if you do the same things he did?
@orangelantern Democrats have been fairly explicit that you can eat shit under them or "enjoy the camps" under the other guy.
There is no meaningful alternative.
Which headline do you expect to see sooner?
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- Google acquires Motorola (50%, 7 votes)
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I hope that Jeff Bezos' sleepless nights are haunted by the ghost of the Washington Past. It took him barely more than a decade to squeeze the life from a once-great newspaper.
If you're complicit in killing democracy, it doesn't matter whether the death occurs in darkness or in light.
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"Federal officials have maintained that the agent acted in self-defense, while state and local officials have disputed that account of the fatal moment, which was filmed from several angles." The New York Times reporter presumably looked at the shooting of Renee Good from all those angles, but is unable to tell you whether she needed to be killed or not.
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At NYT, Pretending You Don’t Know Makes You a Real Reporter
Even when you have examples of people being shot down on video by federal agents, the paper has to pretend there's a valid case for justifying murder.FAIR
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Until #democrats accept that they have to oppose elites, #republicans will be able to enjoy the political space of anti-elite, while being elite. The only way through this is out. Half measures don’t work any more because the logic is broken, hypocritical, 180. There is no “more reasonable”. #uspol #trump #fascism
JD Vance tears into America’s ‘incestuous elites’ after Epstein files release
Multiple high-profile figures including President Donald Trump, Bill Gates and Elon Musk have been mentioned in the filesMaira Butt (The Independent)
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Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.
"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.
The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.
To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."
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Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike
Participants in the resistance to ICE in the Twin Cities reflect on the lessons of the strikes of January 23 and January 30, looking for ways to expand and strengthen the movement.CrimethInc.
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This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.
He records them and shares it with the world.
What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?
Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.
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PEERTUBE option: kinowolnosc.pl/w/p/av2NQ5ug2M7…
Kindergarten teacher wants kindergartener deported
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I won’t watch the video for my own MH today, but some “regular” people have such capacity for evil, and even more when they can be anonymous.
I remember about 10 years ago when I was with some neighbors and they were all banging on about immigrants this and immigrants that. I said “I’m an immigrant” and they said, oh, not you. I’m white. I knew exactly what they meant by that, and I knew they couldn’t be trusted.
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Web-based installer for GrapheneOS, a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.GrapheneOS
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I am finding it very interesting that when pushing back on the idea that renewables aren’t the magic bullet everyone has been told that they are, the respondents immediately resort to accusation of Luddite or the dichotomy without proof that the alternative means living in caves and using candles.
This is an expected response. But I think it’s rather funny because I live almost entirely car free.
I don’t need a car to carry out daily activities.
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Renewables alone won't cut it. An electrical car is still a car.
Re-designing cities around public and light electric transportation, regenerative agriculture, eco minded construction...Having what all of us really need, in full, within planetary boundaries, is possible. Scarcity is manufactured.
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The thing to notice about the contest between big oil and big renewable so to speak is that both of their industries are extremely damaging and in order to dig up the copper and aluminum to build out a new grid requires exponential growth in that extraction. These processes have permanent ecological consequences and all of them are bad.
I say big renewable because the chief industry benefiting from the explosive growth in renewables has been international mining.
Neither of these factions care at all about devoting any resources and research to figuring out how to live really comfortably from local environments. They ask us to continue living in the global supply chain in the global economy is destroying the planet you can do nothing else
We should not fall for a false economy of Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin saying pick my side because my side is better.
Given that specific ores are not found everywhere, mining can hardly be local.
Having said that, I fully agree that minimizing consumption is key.
What triggers me the most is that solar energy has the most potential to be decentralized, reducing infrastructure costs (there's also copper in there!) and adding resilience and autonomy, but for some reason solar power plants destroying small ecossystems are allowed to and do exist.
@olivetree @dacig
PV itself is a high-tech product of a long supply chain. The crazy thing that China is chopping down old growth forest in order to burn the wood to manufacture PV is insane to learn about.
PV in one sense can be decentralized because you can generate energy at the point of use, but its manufacture and our dependence on them would be anything but.
The creative and engineering challenge before us is to rethink how we get the things we need and what we need
PV panels are mainly composed of sand, phosporous and a bit of conductors (but it's electricity, you need conductors everywhere), these are easily sourced materials.
So, if you make glass from high-voltage instead of high-temperature (which is possible), their own manufacturing can have minimal impact in the environment and not have supply chain dependency.
Sodium ion batteries are a step in the right direction in that regard as well.
Of course, more research is still needed to fully achieve that, but much more importantly, commercial justification is needed. Why spend more, when you can spend less?
Numbers on excel sheets >> environment, always...
@dacig @gerrymcgovern
@olivetree @dacig
I would recommend reading the PDF because silicon wafers are not made from sand they’re made from quartz dot with rare earth, toxic chemicals, and old growth forest. Generally, the carbon human and ecological footprint of PV is not properly accounted for.
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Why do we burn coal and trees to
make solar panels?
Very interesting and I wish I had found that in my earlier attempts to learn how PV is made.
I just wish they'd expand on the rare earth and toxic elements part, there's no reason for it (or maybe I missed it, I only had time to skim, for now).
And interesting question is now is if a PV can generate more electricity than the one used to produce it. We might just be importing cheap unecological electricity, in the end.
@dacig @gerrymcgovern
@olivetree @dacig
I think PV probably can produce more power than the power used to go into it although the analysis would be very interesting to see what the net power is whether positive or negative. But more central to this or all the other things used to manufacture them.. like all the carbon, a good chunk of which is sourced from trees or is processed coal.
Again, we’re talking about net byproducts of their construction and use.
I am at a point Gerry’s book where he talks about the maintenance I needed for the solar farms. They get dusty and it takes water to keep them clean. So besides exterminating desert life that often lives for centuries or thousands of years, the solar farms being put out in the Mojave, for instance, or draining the water table, which threatens the local population that they’re losing the water they need.
In my long piece I look at this, particularly research on the extended EROI of different energy sources. PV comes out poorly, especially in northern latitudes.
Link to the fully referenced report at top of this short summary article. degrowthuk.org/2025/08/01/rene…
Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE as pdf or …degrowthUK
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solar water heaters are as simple as having something painted black exposed to the sun through which water passes.
The backcountry experience summer camp I went to as a kid used coils, black plastic to heat water for the showers.
If the system is built out of copper treated to be black it would probably be even crazier.
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@dacig @markhburton @olivetree
But even beyond this, I would like people to entertain the idea of heating water or just heating in general as a byproduct of composting.
There’s a spa out here in California that uses the heat generated by enzymatic breakdown of saw dust instead of hot spring mud. That stuff gets really darn hot.
A Frenchman named Jean Pain devised a system where he heated water via coils of piping running through large heaps of composting tree brash.
For solar and wind it's worth avoiding intermediate use of electricity (and losses, critical mindrals..) where feasible. Solar -> heat, wind - motion.
@markhburton @olivetree @dacig There are questions whether the commonly cited literature on PV EROI is, in reality, massively over pessimistic, e.g.:
research.manchester.ac.uk/en/p…
As I recall, some sources now claim that PV in the UK reaches the energy break-even point after two to three years.
Of course, this still doesn't address the nonrenewable resource aspects of "renewable" energy.
@foxcj @markhburton @olivetree @dacig
I think the chief difficulty I’m having is that there is now so much economic interest in a specific answer because the industrial base now profiting quite nicely from PV and turbines, is no less criminal than big oil.
A case in point hydroelectric is not GHG neutral because reservoirs are significant sources of methane, their construction also liberates, an enormous amount of carbon compounds.
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Landfill Panic vs System Reality: What Wind & Solar Actually Displace - CleanTechnica
Claims about wind and solar filling landfills ignore what they displace. On a per MWh basis, fossil fuels emit orders of magnitude more harmful mass.Michael Barnard (CleanTechnica)
@dacig
Seem to be under the impression that that I don’t know those figures about fossil fuels
I would suggest you understand the extraction and purification part of all the raw materials that go into renewables.
That stone coffin you show for burying expired renewables comes with it is amount in the purification, toxins and even many times more extraction.
Plus this involves scraping away for us plus the topsoil to get out the ore.
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So , you’re not showing renewables comes at the cost of mountains reduced to toxic slurry leeching into ground water or a river of toxic sludge from resource refinement.
In order to transition, which can never be 100% and could never be 100% recycled requires exponentially more mining and refining with exponentially more toxic shit poisoning the living skin of the planet that creates our climate.
Before throwing so much money into yet another planet killing supply chain, it behooves us to look into alternatives that eliminate the need for all this energy and all this mining.
The cheapest cleanest energy is the stuff we never burn and the stuff we never dig up.
One thing I will tell you is that the giant corporations aren’t going to throw anything into it because that pathway that completely separate economic pathway does not profit them
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I also should’ve more directly simply said 100% in agreement with what you say.
The cheapest energy in the greenest energy is the stuff we never dig up and burn. And the chief problem I have is the least expensive effort is to get rid of the need to have cars amongst a lot of other things. That requires a very different outlook than the way big oil and big mining want to go
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Has anyone even tried to crunch any numbers on specific contribution of personal motor cars to climate and nature breakdown ?
That would be rather a significantly large task, but there are papers published about the CO2 contribution of different sectors and the economy, so agriculture, transportation and manufacturing etc
It's difficult to get statistics on the contribution of personal anything, because the ones gathering them always coincidentally accidentally report statistics that combine personal and commercial contributions. Heck, governments will practically turn the police on their own people for asking how much water we are giving to any given data center. There's a reason that public information about the use of public resources and labor is kept more private than the president's underpants.
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Well, I know that civil engineering people study this very topic. City nerd has made a video that refers to these kind of studies, but they are I think generally municipal.
Alberta's gift to Canada isn't just killing everyone with climate change, but also wanting to kill the poor throughout Canada via American-style medical care.
I would be a lot less worried if Mark Carney didn't want to tongue-touch Danielle Smith's private parts so badly that he would suicide the country for some oil money. But let's face it, the Liberal Party of Canada wouldn't be sad to see Canada's health care system end either.
albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/alb…
Alberta’s two-tier health care bill is designed to kill public health care – a new report shows how - Alberta Politics
Despite its name, Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025, is not health care legislation. The purpose of the law that was granted Royal Assent on Dec.David Climenhaga (Alberta Politics)
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I'm sure the issue over Greenland is over now, and it won't come up again
Its not like its been a long term plan of the US military
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Welcome to the 19th sorry 20th sorry 21st Century! As long as there are empires, there will be imperial fun and games.
Smash the empires. ✊ (n.b. "smashing" can also take the form of making the authoritarian impulse wither and die by identifying psychopaths and preventing them having a role in governance.)
- Hawkeye Pierce
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Did you ever feel the wish to get blocked immediately?
Dead easy:
Be a new follower and send me a message with "Good morning" and a flower/and or heart emoji.
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Even I got one of these…
A friend told me that there is currently something fishy going on again…
Another friend also told me the same. 💡
By the way, that account that wrote 'Good morning' without a flower, though… got nuked. I didn’t even report it! 🤷
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Despite stupid troll accounts trying to tell you they are.
Trump expands policy banning aid to groups abroad that discuss or provide abortions:
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Y’all! Personal friend of Kristy PuppyKiller #Noem, a completely unqualified #infosec wannabe, who couldn’t pass pen testeing, or a polygraph saying he didn’t want to sell data; the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (#CISA), Madhu #Gottumukkala, uploaded sensitive information to a public version of #ChatGPT, because of course he fucking did.
The info leaked was marked “for official use only.” That designation is used within #DHS to identify information of a sensitive nature that, if shared, could adversely impact a person’s privacy or welfare or impede how federal and other programs essential to the national interest operate.
There’s now a concern that the sensitive info could be used to answer prompts from any of ChatGPT’s 700 million users. Critics have questioned whether Gottumukkala knows what he’s doing.
Gee, ya think?
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
US cyber defense chief accidentally uploaded secret government info to ChatGPT
Congress recently grilled the acting chief on mass layoffs and a failed polygraph.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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in reply to Joe Brockmeier • • •Joe Brockmeier
in reply to Brian "bex" Exelbierd • • •@bexelbie Not sure "hordes" are necessary, really -- Discord has had the "Nitro" thing for a long time to encourage people to pay for the service. If some percentage of people switch to paying for hosted FOSS, that could be a good business.
A long time ago, I worked for a hosting company that specialized in selling shared hosting with cPanel or Plesk, which provided a number of different FOSS services. It was a decent business, I don't see any reason why a number of small companies couldn't thrive offering hosted FOSS software.
Would it be a public-cloud killer or whatever? No. Would it be a decent living for a small business? I think it could. Especially as people get more and more conscious and frustrated with the Metas, Discords, Reddits, and Googles of the world.
Some folks are optimistic about AI, I'm optimistic about self-hosting. 😎
Brian "bex" Exelbierd
in reply to Joe Brockmeier • • •I feel like your conflating users and providers. If I stand up a discord server for a group I might be willing to pay, but my users may not be. And if users continue to default to not paying then fewer people are willing to foot that bill.
Self Hosting requires a desire to run services. I feel like you’re proposing individual SAAS which I think goes back to paying for the average user.
jordan
in reply to Joe Brockmeier • • •@bexelbie You really only need one person in a friend group or interest group who’s nerdy enough to self-host and self-admin. If the barrier is low enough, they’ll make the leap and often bring the whole group with them.
I run a small #RocketChat server for a few friends as a way to stay in touch. Hosting it out of my basement, though, has been more of a grind than I expected, especially at first. Offloading the infrastructure to someone else can be a big win.
James Just James
in reply to Joe Brockmeier • • •If you really want this, you first have to solve the technical problem of automating both the initial deploy of distributed systems _and_ the automated, continued automation.
This is why I'm building github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/
Please help us out =D
GitHub - purpleidea/mgmt: Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management!
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in reply to Joe Brockmeier • • •Tim Chase
in reply to Joe Brockmeier • • •@gnomon
"Bare metal is for everyone, stronger than the law…"
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FREEDOM CALL - "Metal is for Everyone" (Official Video)
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