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  • Kazeta: the new Linux-based physical media OS (my article!)

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  • Thanks for sharing!

    Commentary on your writing: I was a bit surprised by the writing style of your article at first. Then I realized: Kazeta is an art-piece and you are writing a "the arts" article on it. I think that this was the correct choice for the topic, but I found it hard to appreciate because coming from a link in the "Linux Gaming" community I was expecting a gaming or tech article instead. That would have had stats like how fast games load from "off" to "playing", some example builds and prices for making an ideal Kazeta, a review of how hard it was to make your own SD, etc.

    I think the mental space I'd put this in is like a Rolling Stone interview where you're writing lyrically about Alkazar and his work while weaving in paragraph quotes from him.

  • Oopsie Doodle

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  • Come on. Obama's continuation of presidential power-creep is not what enables Trump. Trump getting elected, taking over the Supreme Court, getting elected again, having all the billionaires lick his ass, etc is what enables him.

    If you wanna lay it on Obama, blame him for not taking the right wing seriously enough and going after them at the local level where they had been building strength for the past 50+ years. Or for not betraying all his moderate-conservative supporters to implement some seriously progressive policy.

  • Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

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  • OK, cool. That definitely helps things.

    I think where we're disagreeing is that I think in a capitalist society the promise of money will inevitably corrupt the government (because it's made of people). Maybe it can be avoided if the government performs additional regulatory action to stop anyone from getting too wealthy, but that sounds like beyond the limits that you want to set for government.

  • Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

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  • Without force

    Whoah, whoah. Why'd you rule that out?

    Your business plan: quality goods at reasonable prices. My business plan: hire some goons to kill you and take your stuff.

    Historically, this has a lot of precedence.

  • Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

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  • In an unfettered marketplace, what stops a dominant player from introducing fetters?

  • Thank you Tim Apple, who by the way is looking a little pudgy

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  • I think it's OK to still hate. Kissing ass while smirking because you're soooo smart is still kissing ass. And Apple was part of putting Trump into office.

  • Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

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  • When I read your message, I get the impression that you think of "The Government" as this independent actor. I see it as a system that is primarily controlled by wealthy people. Either directly or through their funding advertisements (including astroturfing/bot-farms) to promote what they want.

    So the larger companies do get government assistance... because they are the government. And this isn't some kind of weird coincidence. It's fundamental to capitalism's operation. You can't have a system that's based on capital and then have it be unbiased towards entities who have vastly more capital!

  • Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

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  • Their "real" job was some standard cog-in-the-machine engineering work, which is why they got laid off. Just another number.

    Most open-source work happens outside of corporate planning and so it's invisible to the company. When the reality is, it would absolutely be worth it to Intel to pay a 40/w salary just to maintain this little bit of code. The value is there, but the humans running the company would never be able to get over the hurdle of "he's not working very hard so he doesn't deserve the money."

  • Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

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  • socialized capitalism

    I think I understand your complaint, but I'd say "free market" rather than "capitalism". But regardless of what we call it, it doesn't actually exist unless you have a more powerful external system regulating it.

    Start with a truly free-market capitalist system. One company manages to temporarily pull ahead (through luck and skill). The rational thing for the company to do isn't "make better products" (that's hard) but "destroy competing companies" (much easier). And the end-product would be that the company becomes a government so it can force consumers to pay.

    So I'd argue that socialized capitalism (which I'm picturing as a socialist system that permits certain specific free markets and handles the fallout of business failures) is what you actually want.

  • Britain is Losing its Free Speech, and America Could be Next

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  • I think the US will be fine as long as we don't repeatedly elect some kind of cabal of pedophile authoritarians.

  • If You Needed to Pass an Exam to Vote

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  • I don't have a problem with rich people choosing not to vote.

  • If You Needed to Pass an Exam to Vote

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  • Continue to allow blank-ballot to be a legal vote (as it is today). Nobody has to vote if they don't want, and now if you're trying to do a protest-abstain it actually gets noticed.

  • Some of y'all are not ready to hear this...

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  • Giving a shit is more work than not giving a shit. But voting for a candidate doesn't mean you like them and it doesn't bind you to supporting them. I can post "Harris is a cop fuck cops >:-(" after I voted for her.

    IMO the key is: how long does it take you to vote, and if you don't vote what are you doing with that time that is more valuable and progressive?

    If someone told me, "I didn't vote last election because I was campaigning 18 hours a day for native land rights and there was no way to get mail or reach a polling place" OK. I'm not blaming that person. They're working way the fuck harder than I am to make the world better. If someone told me, "I didn't vote last election because I barely survive on my three jobs and the GOP has made my polling place a 6 hour line that I have to drive to. I can't even afford the gas to get there." Yeah, that makes sense.

    But I never hear that from online progressives. I hear, "oh I didn't vote because both parties suck." "I didn't vote because they didn't support

    <progressive issue>

    ." "I didn't vote because there's no point." These are all shitty answers. Better answer is: "I did vote for the Democratic candidate and I'll always vote for the most progressive candidate available." That's the minimum effort.

  • Some of y'all are not ready to hear this...

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  • This exactly. It's nonsense to say that the party can't change because it has changed.

  • Me Living In the US

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  • If you were part of the billionaire class, you'd be paying less. Sucker.

  • 2 Men wearing 'ICE' vests rob motorist at gunpoint in Milton

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  • ++this.

    If you're already driving around with a mask and a gun kidnapping people, why not get some extra money on the side with robbery?

  • Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain.

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  • I once did some programming on the Cybiko, a device from 2000 that could form a wireless mesh network with peers. The idea was that you could have a shopping mall full of teens and they'd be able to chat with each other from one end to the other by routing through the mesh. It was a neat device!

  • Me when people are cheering on Iran, a country that literally executes gay people

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  • Iran's not shooting missiles in defense of Palestine, just in retaliation for Israel shooting at them.

    But there's certainly a level of "oh, is blowing up an apartment building a bad thing? Then WTF have you doing???"

  • ChatGPT Mostly Source Wikipedia; Google AI Overviews Mostly Source Reddit

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  • This is good advice for all tertiary sources such as encyclopedias, which are designed to introduce readers to a topic, not to be the final point of reference. Wikipedia, like other encyclopedias, provides overviews of a topic and indicates sources of more extensive information.

    The whole paragraph is kinda FUD except for this. Normal research practice is to (get ready for a shock) do research and not just copy a high-level summary of what other people have done. If your professors were saying, "don't cite encyclopedias, which includes Wikipedia" then that's fine. But my experience was that Wikipedia was specifically called out as being especially unreliable and that's just nonsense.

    I personally use ChatGPT like I would Wikipedia

    Eesh. The value of a tertiary source is that it cites the secondary sources (which cite the primary). If you strip that out, how's it different from "some guy told me..."? I think your professors did a bad job of teaching you about how to read sources. Maybe because they didn't know themselves. :-(

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