The reporting goes pretty hard:
‘No restrictions’ and a secret ‘wink’: Inside Israel’s deal with Google, Amazon
To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data, a joint investigation reveals.
May this be a reminder to degoogle your phone and boycott amazon. It's not hard, and there are thousands of people on here eager to help. :)
I'd say the Clash were simultaneously highly mainstream and true to the spirit of punk. Dead Kennedys as well, albeit slightly less mainstream.
Honestly I'd say there's a lot of punk bands that enjoyed something close to mainstream success without being sellouts.
I'd say he's imitating the 60s more than the 70s, but he writes some good tunes nevertheless. :)
Yeah. I'm the nerdiest person I know—I'm not gonna try to convince people to use something I struggle to understand myself. Signal is good because it does not feel like a compromise, and the advantages are easy to explain. Matrix I wouldn't even know how to sign up for myself, as much as I would love to see the entire internet run on decentralized technology.
I am sure it's not so difficult and that I could find a good instance and figure it out if I sank some time into it, but that's really not the point here. The point is that me doing that would be worthless as I still couldn't convince anyone else to join, and nobody I am interested in talking to is currently on there. (In other words: this post is not me asking for help to sign up for Matrix)
Yup, Signal is down. The one centralized service I'm still rooting for I guess. Disappointed they're running on AWS.
Seems like a fair bet that Amazon Web Services is having some problems?
I really appreciate that the commercial internet runs on like three service providers. Would love to see it crash and burn.
Is anyone here actually using ReactOS?
I feel like Linux just makes more sense to pretty much everyone, but maybe there are users who depend on very specific Windows-only ecosystem for whom ReactOS makes sense. It's just such a strange little OS.
I write scientific articles with inline R code in Latex (using knitr), so I need syntax highlighting that jumps between two different languages within the document as well as spell checking and advanced (non AI) grammar tools for the text documents. Also I want something that looks kinda minimalistic and neat as a writing interface - there is more writing than coding involved.
I'm sure there's some wizard somewhere who can do everything I need in Emacs, but I'm not terribly sophisticated. I just want something that works. Sadly, as much as I try to avoid anything Microsoft, VS Codium is the only thing I've found that fits my needs in a good way.
First mover problem. You can be both places, whenever you promote your content you can link to both places. That way if Instagram ever breaks for good you are not left with nothing.
MicroG makes most things work, so it's not much compromise in my experience. :)
I use /e/OS which has access to apps from the Play Store, so that I still have my banking apps and stuff. I think streaming apps should work just fine.
...offline support?
Historically death camps tend to start out as mere camps, but then suddenly they are full of people who are deemed unwanted anyway and keeping them alive is expensive and difficult so why bother.
On its current trajectory there's no US camp that shouldn't be expected to turn into a death camp. And as others have pointed out, thousands "missing" from a huge, poorly managed camp in the middle of a swamp is worrying to say the least.
Americans today are like Germans in the 30s, watching the trains roll by.