Thats actually an interesting read! Thanks. Its way better with his complicated speech, accent and long winded arguments.
And yes, he goes through a long time and I think he has a point. But i think a lot of folks know hum by now and if the european left invited him thats also not the worst sign.
Everything that is not 100% since week two is blood money.
Can you be more specific? I know he isnt either but it would help me at least understand you better.
He's very hard to understand and is hard to follow since he keeps repeating himself, throwing claims around, not backing them up properly. Maybe I'm asking too much here but maybe i should wait for the tldr
I mean yeah, in terms of shower thoughts, it kinda works but its highly inaccurate. PostmarketOS would be mostly open source with some closed source optional components, or aosp. But stock android which is what everyone means when they say android is a shitfest same as ios.
Both need to go.
Sehr schön. Wenn wir jetzt in den KVs noch bestimmte Herrschaftsstrukturen brechen könnten würde es vielleicht auch so bleiben.
That sounds awesome.
The capitalfascists are trying everyrhing they can to destabilize any attempt at anything free. I'm not saying piefed is that but the amount of recent tries to cancel the lemmy devs and now lemmy itself does reek like capfash.
@dessalines@lemmy.ml do you guys know that a couple of these attempts are being made? Please update us if more stuff like this pops up.
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31121462
> OC below by @HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org > > >What called my attention is that assessments of AI are becoming polarized and somewhat a matter of belief. > > > >Some people firmly believe LLMs are helpful. But programming is a logical task and LLMs can't think - only generate statistically plausible patterns. > > > >The author of the article explains that this creates the same psychological hazards like astrology or tarot cards, psychological traps that have been exploited by psychics for centuries - and even very intelligent people can fall prey to these. > > > >Finally what should cause alarm is that on top that LLMs can't think, but people behave as if they do, there is no objective scientifically sound examination whether AI models can create any working software faster. Given that there are multi-billion dollar investments, and there was more than enough time to carry through controlled experiments, this should raise loud alarm bells.
Every dollar that goes towards russia from the EU is paid in innocent lives on both sides. Ist blood money.
We should protest the eu for not outright banning any and all trade with russia at the beginning of the ukraine war. After a million people are dead, we should put an end to this war, no matter how.
Can we please use something that allows you to actually listen to the song?
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/66447947
> Full text to bypass paywall: > > A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to internal CBP documents obtained by 404 Media. The data includes passenger names, their full flight itineraries, and financial details. > > CBP, a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), says it needs this data to support state and local police to track people of interest’s air travel across the country, in a purchase that has alarmed civil liberties experts. > > The documents reveal for the first time in detail why at least one part of DHS purchased such information, and comes after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detailed its own purchase of the data. The documents also show for the first time that the data broker, called the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), tells government agencies not to mention where it sourced the flight data from. > > “The big airlines—through a shady data broker that they own called ARC—are selling the government bulk access to Americans' sensitive information, revealing where they fly and the credit card they used,” Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement. > > ARC is owned and operated by at least eight major U.S. airlines, other publicly released documents show. The company’s board of directors include representatives from Delta, Southwest, United, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, JetBlue, and European airlines Lufthansa and Air France, and Canada’s Air Canada. More than 240 airlines depend on ARC for ticket settlement services. > > Do you work at ARC or an agency that uses ARC data? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co. > > ARC’s other lines of business include being the conduit between airlines and travel agencies, finding travel trends in data with other firms like Expedia, and fraud prevention, according to material on ARC’s YouTube channel and website. The sale of U.S. flyers’ travel information to the government is part of ARC’s Travel Intelligence Program (TIP). > > A Statement of Work included in the newly obtained documents, which describes why an agency is buying a particular tool or capability, says CBP needs access to ARC’s TIP product “to support federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to identify persons of interest’s U.S. domestic air travel ticketing information.” 404 Media obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. > > ! > > A screenshot of the Statement of Work. Image: 404 Media. > > The new documents obtained by 404 Media also show ARC asking CBP to “not publicly identify vendor, or its employees, individually or collectively, as the source of the Reports unless the Customer is compelled to do so by a valid court order or subpoena and gives ARC immediate notice of same.” > > The Statement of Work says that TIP can show a person’s paid intent to travel and tickets purchased through travel agencies in the U.S. and its territories. The data from the Travel Intelligence Program (TIP) will provide “visibility on a subject’s or person of interest’s domestic air travel ticketing information as well as tickets acquired through travel agencies in the U.S. and its territories,” the documents say. They add this data will be “crucial” in both administrative and criminal cases. > > A DHS Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) available online says that TIP data is updated daily with the previous day’s ticket sales, and contains more than one billion records spanning 39 months of past and future travel. The document says TIP can be searched by name, credit card, or airline, but ARC contains data from ARC-accredited travel agencies, such as Expedia, and not flights booked directly with an airline. “\[I\]f the passenger buys a ticket directly from the airline, then the search done by ICE will not show up in an ARC report,” that PIA says. The PIA notes the data impacts both U.S. and non-U.S. persons, meaning it does include information on U.S. citizens. > > “While obtaining domestic airline data—like many other transaction and purchase records—generally doesn't require a warrant, there's still supposed to go through a legal process that ensures independent oversight and limits data collection to records that will support an investigation,” Jake Laperruque, deputy director of the Center for Democracy & Technology's Security and Surveillance Project, told 404 Media in an email. “As with many other types of sensitive and revealing data, the government seems intent on using data brokers to buy their way around important guardrails and limits.” > > CBP’s contract with ARC started in June 2024 and may extend to 2029, according to the documents. The CBP contract 404 Media obtained documents for was an $11,025 transaction. Last Tuesday, a public procurement database added a $6,847.50 update to that contract, which said it was exercising “Option Year 1,” meaning it was extending the contract. The documents are redacted but briefly mention CBP’s OPR, or Office of Professional Responsibility, which in part investigates corruption by CBP employees. > > “CBP is committed to protecting individuals’ privacy during the execution of its mission to protect the American people, safeguard our borders, and enhance the nation’s economic prosperity. CBP follows a robust privacy policy as we protect the homeland through the air, land and maritime environments against illegal entry, illicit activity or other threats to national sovereignty and economic security,” a CBP spokesperson said in a statement. CBP added that the data is only used when an OPR investigation is open and the agency needs to locate someone related to that investigation. The agency said the data can act as a good starting point to identify a relevant flight record before then getting more information through legal processes. > > On May 1, ICE published details about its own ARC data purchase. In response, on May 2, 404 Media filed FOIA requests with ICE and a range of other agencies that 404 Media found had bought ARC’s services, including CBP, the Secret Service, SEC, DEA, the Air Force, U.S. Marshals Service, TSA, and ATF. 404 Media found these by searching U.S. procurement databases. Around a week later, The Lever covered the ICE contract. > > ! > > A screenshot of the Statement of Work. Image: 404 Media. > > Airlines contacted by 404 Media declined to comment, didn’t respond, or deferred to either ARC or DHS instead. ARC declined to comment. The company previously told The Lever that TIP “was established after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to provide certain data to law enforcement… for the purpose of national security matters” and criminal investigations. > > “ARC has refused to answer oversight questions from Congress, so I have already contacted the major airlines that own ARC—like Delta, American Airlines and United—to find out why they gave the green light to sell their customers' data to the government,” Wyden’s statement added. > > U.S. law enforcement agencies have repeatedly turned to private companies to buy data rather than obtain it through legal processes such as search warrants or subpoenas. That includes location data harvested from smartphones, utility data, and internet backbone data. > > “Overall it strikes me as yet another alarming example of how the ‘Big Data Surveillance Complex’ is becoming the digital age version of the Military-Industrial Complex,” Laperruque says, referring to the purchase of airline data. > > “It's clear the Data Broker Loophole is pushing the government back towards a pernicious ‘collect it all’ mentality, gobbling up as much sensitive data as it can about all Americans by default. A decade ago the public rejected that approach, and Congress passed surveillance reform legislation that banned domestic bulk collection. Clearly it's time for Congress to step in again, and stop the Data Broker Loophole from being used to circumvent that ban,” he added. > > According to ARC’s website, the company only introduced multifactor authentication on May 15.
And thats the attitude that keeps us from getting anywhere.
My goals are simple. Nobody starves, nobody goes homeless. Down the line i also dont want animals to be eaten either but thats absolutely nowhere as easy to get a majority on than the other two.
I think you and i differ somewhere on the breakline between social anarchists and individualist anarchists but not sure.
Lemmy is the tolerance paradox in action.
If you want societaly disenfranchised people to have a voice, you need to silence those who can use their voice to silence them.
You can also use the nazi bar story to explain why there are no conservatives on lemmy. I know not all conservatives are nazis but there you have the bad apples phenomenon to counter. Just a little mysoginism, sexism, racism, is already too much.
And thats the point. Everyone can have different opinions. I'm no type of anarchist at all. I'm just myself. I do believe in a world where everyone can be free and I'm willing to put effort into it.
I also dont care in general if we get the ussr back. It was the far superior system to today imo. But of course I would much prefer if we could do it from the bottom up like the many communes that exist today and have, historically.
Would you agree that systems of domination are a central but not the only opponent of a worthy life?
I think of lack of education for example, taught helplessness as another.
As a practicing anarchist, I see people use domination to fill a void left by former dominating systems and others being held back by learned helplessness. This can lead to the project failing. I dont see how that makes sense. How do the existing anarchist groups you know do it? The ones i know start with consensus but are willing to change it if necessary.
A free society does not just exist from tomorrow but there is a process. This process involves people who have only ever known slavery.
An internal survey of JPMorgan Chase employees reveals diminished feelings of work-life balance and well-being since the bank instituted a return-to-office policy in March, Barron's reports.
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/21634592
> JPMorgan Chase employees believe their work-life balance and health and well-being declined following the bank’s decision to return to office full-time in March, Barron’s reports. Based on an internal survey released this week of 90% of the workforce, the aforementioned areas scored lowest, alongside opportunities for internal mobility.
Tomato, tomato. These are just capitalist words for a competitive system with just enough leeway to keep you playing. Since it has been failing recently and people are organizing too much, they need their fascist hammer from the capitalist toolbox. Its very obvious once someone abandons the decoration.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5206239
> I saw the End of 10 campaign on other parts of Lemmy and wanted to get involved: > > https://endof10.org/ > > I also do some tech support work on the side helping people at an aged care facility with their devices. I see people using their Windows computers and I just feel they would have such an easier time using Linux. > > I reached out to my local Repair Cafe about End of 10 to help people switch over if they don't want to get a new device. They're happy to talk about so I want to make sure I clearly explain the value of switching to Linux, both to hold on to existing devices and move away from corporate spyware. > > Here are the things I thought I'd bring up when I talk to them: > -Linux is free, but not in the 'you're the product' way > -Linux Mint is made to look and work similar to Windows to make the switch easier > -It works on older hardware and takes less resources, so can often feel like a performance boost to an existing PC > -No tracking or telemetry so what you do on your computer is private > -Linux can cover the general computer use case of using a browser, word processing, image viewing, and maybe some light graphic design > -There are free software equivalents to just about all major software you use on your PC > -The package manager makes it easy to download and maintain software > -You can give Linux a 'free trial' by bootloading into it before installing > -You can dual partition so you can still run windows if you don't want to make the full switch > -Games and Windows software can run on Linux with WINE if necessary > -There's a huge community you can reach out to if you're stuck with anything Linux > > I was thinking of using the analogy that software on Linux is a bit like shopping at Aldi. It doesn't have the major brands but there are free alternatives that do the same thing, and are often better than the paid versions you're used to. > > I'd also bring an old laptop I put Mint on for my kids to play with. It's from 2012 and Windows stopped supporting the wireless drivers. It could connect to the internet with Mint right out of the box so that's one device already saved from e-waste with Linux. > > Is there anything else you'd mention? I know there's deeper technical reasons why Linux is better but I want to keep it high level as I'm not sure of the technical proficiency of the people I'll be talking to.
Organizing logistics behemoths like Amazon and Walmart will require the labor movement to figure out how to disrupt the flow of goods across the supply chain rather than simply organizing individual workplaces — and that requires a major rethinking of organizing strategy.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/13883844
The use of employee monitoring applications has grown since the COVID-19 pandemic, but these apps can invade a worker’s privacy.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/13842717
Legal action by a Peruvian farmer has signalled a shift in the global conversation.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31221716
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/38044536
> Protestation
cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/20980927
> When television first started, there were 3 channels and a handful of commercials. After a few decades of more channels and more ads appearing, cable showed up. Now you could pay a subscription to get premium content without ads! > > But after a decade, not only were they putting ads on cable you paid a premium to watch, they were speeding up both the shows and the ads to fit more into breaks that kept getting longer. > > Younger people are just starting to see the cycle is underway again with streaming services, but over the last 10ish years, I've noticed all the various cliques going "why is {our interest} going to shit" as if it were an isolated incident and not happening everywhere. > > The first act of capitalism when it was created was the slave trade. Corporations have always been vehicles the ultra rich use to extract wealth. > > Revenue is how much money a company brings in selling things. Profit is how much of that remains after paying for materials, leases, power, reinvesting into the business, and paying wages. Basically, CEOs are paid 300x more than employees to defer maintenance and suppress wages. > > Economics 101- charge as much as you can, pay as little as possible. Any corporation that makes billions in profit only does so by gouging customers and stiffing workers. > > Real wages are stagnant, pensions aren't a thing, and they're trying to get rid of social security. There's a reason we're told to use things like HSA, 529s, and 401ks: it enriches the already rich. > > There is something called a fiduciary duty to shareholders which basically means publicly traded corporations must act in the best interest of investors. It SOUNDS like a good idea, but it's not really well defined. > > The reality of the situation is BlackRock basically owns the stock market and the Federal Reserve. > > The Federal Reserve is owned and controlled by a group of banks- not the US government. Those banks are publicly traded corporations that own chunks of everything and each other. It's a giant rich guy circle jerk that basically means the recent uniform RTO mandates were probably from Larry Fink himself due to how central commercial real estate is to collateral for things like naked shorting. > > Inflation isn't things costing more; it's the dollar being worth less as more money exists. The reason the rich buy art, watches, and shit is because they benefit from inflation. If you hold on to $5,000 for a decade you have $5,000 that buys less after a decade of inflation. If you buy a painting, jewelry, or whatever, it appreciates overtime being worth more than $5k. > > Federal minimum wage was 7.25 in 2008. Not much, but you could buy 1-3 shares of AMD or 18" of Subway. Today, M2 (a measure of money in the economy) is three times what it was in 2008 and minimum wage is still $7.25 and might get you 6" of sandwich. AMD, on the other hand, currently sits around $120 a share. > > Someone that works to eat will always be falling behind while someone that's not struggling can just load up on wealth that keeps growing. A majority of the country doesn't have money on hand to deal with a $500 emergency while more than half the wealth of the country is owned by a handful of people that make lifetimes of wealth through passive investments alone. > > Unfortunately, it's all very complicated and basically everyone is stupid most of the time with only brief windows of subject specific competence. Reason and rationality is a best case outcome but people act like it's the default. > > Welcome to the meat grinder. None of us matter.
The Commission has fined Delivery Hero and Glovo, two major food delivery companies, a total of €329 million for participating in a cartel in the online food delivery sector.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31048979
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30886747
> Title kind of says it all but it's still baffling. Running an old ass amd fx with 24 gig ram in the other computer. Work laptop is an i7 with 64 gigs of ram and is still slower in daily use. Both have ssd boot drives. > > Granted im comparing desktop and laptop. But a 15 year difference is pretty crazy to me.
Industry committee of the European Parliament shows necessity and benefits of “open-source first” policy but report lacks concrete measures....
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/844502
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/845241
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31247320
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31250679
> "this morning, as I was finishing up work on a video about a new mini Pi cluster, I got a cheerful email from YouTube saying my video on LibreELEC on the Pi 5 was removed because it promoted: > > > Dangerous or Harmful Content > > Content that describes how to get unauthorized or free access to audio or audiovisual content, software, subscription services, or games that usually require payment isn't allowed on YouTube. > > I never described any of that stuff, only how to self-host your own media library. > > This wasn't my first rodeo—in October last year, I got a strike for showing people how to install Jellyfin! > > In that case, I was happy to see my appeal granted within an hour of the strike being placed on the channel. (Nevermind the fact the video had been live for over two years at that point, with nary a problem!) > > So I thought, this case will be similar: > > - The video's been up for over a year, without issue > - The video's had over half a million views > - The video doesn't promote or highlight any tools used to circumvent copyright, get around paid subscriptions, or reproduce any content illegally > > Slam-dunk, right? Well, not according to whomever reviewed my appeal. Apparently self-hosted open source media library management is harmful. > > Who knew open source software could be so subversive?"
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/39511208
A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65914345
Industry committee of the European Parliament shows necessity and benefits of “open-source first” policy but report lacks concrete measures....
geteilt von: https://lemmy.ml/post/31200621
> Industry committee of the European Parliament shows necessity and benefits of “open-source first” policy but report lacks concrete measures.
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