IriYan @ joborun @lemmy.world

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With the democratic party moving as far to the right as it had, there was little room for the rep.party to move to, other than where it is now.

This is the US political system's reaction to the popular uprising of the Trump years, the transition of Occupy-xyz to BLM ... It is like America of the 30s reacting and ending in the AmeriKKKa of the 50s.

One thing that the American left has way overlooked is the power over 80% of the population that Sunday morning propaganda and indoctrination has. Zombies like Biden can be drawn out of the alter closets and dropped as saviors of a crisis.

The health of the democratic tendencies of the US was evaluated by the revolution the Snowden revelations created. Since there was none, consider the corpse cold and stiff.

If I told you there are people with MS degrees (that is MS not MA) who believe now the earth is flat, what would your reactions be? I ask because there are many who believe formal education in science serves as immunization to stupidity. It doesn't!

and from which trees many fascists will hang

Speck was pushed and provided by Google to linux, they added the content to the kernel having your naive belief, it was later found containing a backdoor to ALL systems, and Google raised their hands up and said it was passed to us by NSA. Is this what happened? Or did I dream all this up?

Facebook provided 0 FOSS, not a bit, suddenly they make an algorithm they "bought" including the author, and make it foss, to build it it needs google software, like a bush fire more than half of distributions adopt it and all data provided as comparative to xz are false, based on poor use of xz to make zstd appear better, while still admitting zstd can never attain the level of compression, but it is fast (ONLY when xz is run on a single thread while zstd is multithread by default). They claim xz sums are different when run on 1 cpu or many, still not true.

Just wait for that bomb to explode, the guy who wrote the code for zstd doesn't seem possible to have enough knowledge to write it, he appears as a front for something.

Things that smell like shit don't have to be actually tasted to be called shit.

Have you audited any of it? Would you like to try gcc or systemd for that matter? By the time you go through 1% of it the code has changed already. How many times in the past years has tremendous security breaches been caused by FOSS and was discovered months after it was in effect, and some of this by coincidence, or corporate teams that review code.

This is the classic reaction that is so empty of content, I am sorry, but systemd can't keep hiding behind the excuse of being better than sysvinit. Ever since daemontools (decades ago) those who defend systemd keep talking about sysvinit. Out of daemontools many forks or inspired systems were developed. Runit reached the end of development 8 years ago, 0 bugs, 100% of goals met, still works with every distro and kernel flawlessly. s6 makes runit look archaic, and unable to do what s6 can.

Yet systemd's defense is "it is better than sysvinit, or BSD scripts".

For proper critique of systemd see the skarnet.org site under the specific thread. As far as I know there is no rational counter argument to what is presented there. If you have such I am sure the authors of skarnet.org would publish it, it is how s6 got better and better.

lynx elinks links :)

I find console text only browsers more effective than iceweasel, when pages break with iw you get no text, at least with links/elinks/lynx you get the text.

That's not a good reason to hate it, there are others (like the chrome engine underneath it all). You don't want ads, you want them blocked, block them, you let them play you get money for it, crypto money. It sounds like a good proposal. If all browsers did this advertising would get really expensive and ineffective, not a bad thing.

That took a dive as well in the last edition, unless you have systemd running many features like the top menu fails. Revert back to previous edition and your profile is ruined and you need to start from 0. A clever way mozilla has forced users to abandon their settings and be forced to go with their defaults. By the time you figure out what to disable again ... it is bye bye!

All librewolf community are large systemd only distros, it was all OK with them to stick it to non-systemd users. IBM pays good, and money is sweet! FOSS ... my w

I hate to burst your bubble but when it comes to 6-7digits of cash at stake what does "trustworthy" even mean? You mean between millions and his word to you he will choose his word? His previously stated values and principles?

The guy who made waterfox seemed pretty nice, friendly, committed to the cause, then sold the project to a data-miner, and so did the honest people who made startpage, the trustworthy privacy minded search engine? Now they see waterfox is independent again and not part of the big multi-natinal data miner.

Mozilla once again made a sudden change that breaks your previous profile or other functionality and if you dare roll back the upgrade your profile has been ruined in transition, so you are forced to start from scratch reconfiguring, setting up you std tabs, bookmarks, history .. Same stuff with TB, addons/plugins disabled, new "features" added, whether you trust them or not, added dependencies .. you roll back you lose.

The google chrome-engine is so intrusive in the way it runs, degoogled or not, it is hell to have on a system. Maybe inside a vm without anything else other than specific browser session may be ?ok? for fluff work, nothing private I hope.

The naivity of people to accept and sometimes welcom large corporations producing FOSS is what got us to this mess, and I don't mean users, but devs, distro managers, .. if it is legally FOSS it is OK, even if it is a huge trojan horse manufactured by corporations to penetrate an other wise safe and secure system. FOSS - no corporate involvement - may be it, but will it boot? LinFound. gets millions and millions to have board seats to influence kernel, and it seems to be dancing with their wishes.

I saw this bike in Daytona before it had reached showrooms, I can't recall if it was Lawson or someone famous, basically they opened the box, slopped some tires on, removed lights, and took it racing. It was as if all other bikes were 500s and this 900 was just lapping them. Very intimidating to someone who had just gotten a year old gpz750 and thought was hot. This bike felt like it leaped back from the future.

SHOEI also had just released a special Porsche designed helmet with kevlar/glass hybrid in red/gray ninja which I believe Kawasaki offered as the original Ninja helmet. White/blue came years later. This bike surpassed in life both the gpz1000rx and zx10r top-gun, and in some markets it was sold new deep into the 90s. Years later there was a shaft-driven version in 1000 called concourse in the us, GTR everywhere else. That was a great touring bike, maybe the best I''ve ever ridden. These days when you say GTR all people know is the 1400 plastic boat.

There was something about that era of bikes that made them feel more real and that you were riding them, instead of feeling fake, fragile, and riding on their own now. You get on a SS bike these days and it just seems to turn just with the thought of it, and no matter what you do the bike turns the same exact way on the same turn all the time. None of this "am I going to make it past the apex or am I going to eat dirt" kind of excitement. :)

Back on its day this bike became quickly famous for its handling, probably a decade ahead of its time, and the smaller alternative to GSXR750 (600 came much later).

It was also known for a design fault in the engine case where it would run dry of oil and mess up cranks and gear boxes, something the 750 and 1000 engines didn't have. It was almost bad enough for a recall, I am not sure if it was ever.

This brief moment of development to have 16" front wheels came at a time when forks were still perceived as glorified noodles, and the 16" was calling for a much more rigid fork to compensate for the light steering effect. By the time better forks appeared (45-50mm up.si.do) the sportsbike industry shifted to 17" wheels, more manageable by common mortals, quicker than 18. MotoGP bikes appeared larger on photos than they actually were because of their special 16.5" wheels, few people knew this. When a motogp bike stood next to a sup.sport production bike. it looked like a minibike, and the GP riders were mostly mini-size as well.

The VFR series bikes at the time was what Honda offered as sport bikes, not touring bikes as later vfr. This was before the CBR-rr frenzy. The line went 500, 750, then there were VF1000 and VF1000R. The last was a limited production supersport of the time, and people either loved it or hated. There was so much hi-tech that went to the vf1000r at the time it appealed more to engineers than sportbike riders. This bike had HRC written all over it, and was nothing like the rest of the VFs. Although riding it didn't impress people as much as the tech. it carried.

Sorry for the long history lesson "kids" :)

There were G bikes that had shaft drive in late 70s early 80s that found their own special market, but this was like a recent retro revival of those gsxxxG bikes, early 90s I think. The motor's fins reveal the oil cooled head and top cylinder Suzuki of late 80s GSXR, later found on GSF Bandit bikes when GSXR turned to water cooling. The tanny seems like a modified chain system being on the left.

This must have been Suzuki's answer to the BMW K success, if there was any, but it was BMW's last effort to maintain the moto-industry as the R bike had fizzled and caused great losses. BMW K bikes would have only dreamed to have the power characteristics of the Suzuki motor. Great era and a great cross between air cooling and water-cooling.

Sweet bike if you could learn to tolerate the gyro effect of the shaft drive and the weight. I don't know if this model sold much if any in US or may have been a gray import from a returning soldier from Euro tour.

Brakes seem very 90s too, even world class racers would have wished to have such in the 80s.

I also find it surprising clean in design for Suzuki who was notorious of designing Japanese dragons with wheels. :)

Far too many have been disillusioned and confused by propaganda and baseless mythology in this greater area of thought. If we don't make it a priority to clear up the smoke and fog around our "area" we will tolerate and remanufacture this pathology, speaking of the revolution as an "event".

There are two significantly different paths to radical anti-capitalism, one based on the political/ideological vanguard carrying out the process, the other believes in endless social revolution, the replacement of value(s) and principles in social organization. Leninism and all those that believe that a small group of ideology driven members will cause/start/create the revolution, the state and economy, or just the economy, will be dismantled and replaced, and there will be a next day where "their" choices will be enforced on everyone, they avoid speaking of the authority structure that is created by this actor and the rest of society. And I'd say, what if it backfires, and this so called revolution ends up causing famine, malnutrition, lack of access to drinkable water, energy/heat/transport, and becomes an enormous urban and suburban genocide. Will this ideological leader/vanguard or the ideology they represent, take the responsibility for the disaster? Some will say yes, Marxism-Leninism took the responsibility for the disastrous social experiment that left half of Europe as capitalist as ever before and the other half as a neo-Nazi revival of the 1930s. Luckily there hasn't been an anarchist vanguard to cause such massive harm and misery.

The libertarian proposal to anti-capitalism is vastly different, but can't seem to get the ball rolling as CNT did more than a century ago, and that was a libertarian federation of worker unions, not society or community organized from the ground up under libertarian principles and ideals.

Will sexism/racism/ethnocentrism/patriarchy be diminished the day after some "event" called revolution? Or will it take generations for humanity to recover and become sane again? Is political equality perceived as essential as socialists perceive economic equality (while constructing an endless political inequality and military type of hierarchy)? If not, who is revolting and to whom are they enforcing their revolution on?

We live in a world vastly different than Marx and Kropotkin knew. The workers hardly ever have a consiousness as such, managers in endless levels are visible but the "owners of the means of production" are invisible and generally unknown (financial market fluidity). So we are fighting an invisible enemy of an invisible/imaginary lifestyle. Meanwhile we have laundered the snitches of work, managers, who blackmail us daily, as "working people with false consciousness", just to provide support for the autistic Marxist ideology, remotely different from what Marx wrote, Marxist clergy use the holly book to justify their superiority. Then, outside the workplace, in our daily lives outside work, we have no theory. No theory on the reason a spouse abuses a spouse, or terrorizes her/him, a child, the teacher, the cop, the officer to the soldier, the clergy of the local religious organization, ... but we speak of revolution without addressing how all this would ever change.

Based on the population size, and the size of urban centers, and the fact this is 50% of the total, lack of social organization means suicide. So there is great amounts of work needed to construct (not destroy) community autonomy and organization before ANY revolution can BEGIN, let alone speculate for the next day AFTER. If libertarian social organization prevails it will be up to the community to decide the next day and the day after that, not us to dictate what that should be.

Vanguardism is more authoritarian and hierarchical than representative democracy, it has no place in anti-authoritarian/libertarian thought and action. A true libertarian political organization would be one committed to serve and obey communal organization not to rule and dictate on them. If a political organization can't commit to this they are just a closet Bolsevic attempting to cease power and force their ideation on people, enslaving them rather than freeing them.

although you speak of $ I am not sure this is US or not. A title is either free clear in the name of the owner or had a lien on it and you can only transfer the ownership with a lien release. If the CU accepts for you to take over the balance of the loan, a new lien will have to go on your title for the old one to be released. The difference with a clean title and lien release in your hands is additional lien placement/removal fees charged by mva/dmv.

It doesn't matter whether he owes $11k or $1k on it, a lien is a lien. If it is smaller than the price he gets the balance, if it is higher he has to pay the difference for you to get the bike. When you buy a vehicle new and drive 100yd off the shop with it, it has lost about 20-30% of its value. Except in rare cases of high demand limited models you were lucky to have ordered long before everyone else wanted one. You change your mind and sell it at the spot, with a 100% financing, you end up paying 25-30% off your pocket for the sale. It doesn't seem fair, it is market dictated reality for the past 50years maybe.

For a 3 yold bike, I'd say 50% msrp is about expected.

Instead of fantasizing look up the most successful real life examples. Train/metro stations far apart leading downtown, then suttle buses radially serving those stations. You hop on the suttle bus to the rail station, which speeds and gets you downtown, or interconnects with an urban rail system. This would have worked if towns were designed as workplaces (whether office areas as you have in silicon valley) or industrial areas concentrated geographically. But given the chaos of lack or urban design in the US there is no convenient system to be serving geo-chaotic needs of people living "anywhere" and working anywhere. Basically people are pushed to adopt to chaos by locating work close to a rail/bus line and housing along the same.

The attempt is almost as saying being stubbed in the back everyday at work is normal, what we need is a remedy and patch to fix the wound quickly so you can go back to work and getting stubbed in the back. My reaction is fix the problem of getting stubbed instead of trying to conceive a disinfecting patch.

Low density suburbs are a US thing, where chaotic lack of urban planning allowed people to spread out to cheaper land to build a home while passenger cars and fuel were in abundance and cheap. Compare an urban suburban area in Germany, where the majority of population lives in satelite villages (higher density little towns) served by one or two train stations in proximity to ride to the "city"/workplace of industrial center.

This US peculiarity was formed by policy controlled by the oil and auto industries, and their puppets politicians serving their interests alone, or risk never get re-elected. You can't design a transportation system to match chaos in all other respects. It may be too late to think in terms of efficiency how to cure US pathology. It is deep embedded in US lifestyle.

Rural Europe may not have adequate public transport but by historic evolution, farmers, owners and workers, lived in the center of an agricultural area, small town, small lots, marketplace centered in the middle of the town, and transportation needs were those of going to land and back. There was always a way to do so, animals, carriages, tractors, even buses in some respects. Expanding urban centers and lack of affordable housing had people either move to such towns or find work from such towns to the city, and this created new problems and challenges. Either a box like bed-sheet efficiency in the urban slams, or a decent small house in a village 1hr away.

I can't say there are no problems outside the US, it is just that many problems of the US are only in US and exist because of special industrial interests fully represented by government against ALL interests of public nature. Housing, food, health, energy, transportation, education, are intentionally disorganized and problematic in the US, as commodities regulated by cartels of industrial interests alone. An example of this collision of paradigms is the attempt by the US to parallely form two agreements as market/trade of N.Atlantic and one in Pacific rim. New Zealand, being geographically isolated from the rest of the world, deep South in the vilent south pacific, had created a domestic pharmaceutical industry for every drug it is considered essential. To open up to a free world market and allow it to go bankrupt, the chance to have to depend for imports for pharmaceuticals was by no means in the table for negotiation. The US members pushing for the agreement thought of this reaction as extreme as radical communist reaction to "open market".

Neither of these agreements have gone too far as far as I know or read recently. Various similar problems, the covid pandemic, brought new variables in the table the US had taken for granted that it is "common sense" for the entire planet that an open market should not be intervened or challenged by any government, by any interest group, by any humans! So we can't really talk about US totalitarian neo-liberalism when there is still evidence of resistance and anti-American sentiment in the world. It is too early for humanity to adopt to Hollywood fantasies and AI.

Have you tried custom ROMs?

No, even when I did try years ago, to break into one device to get another system in, just the concept of what it takes to do so upset my stomach. I don't even like secure-boot hoops and EFI and try to get to bios booting everything. I did try it for a while, efi, and hated it some more. Bios - mbr .. and my nearly 10y old PC is faster than I would ever need.

It is amazing what google and MS project as security, both providing dummy terminals to their supercomputer as operating systems. What is security for android if you don't trust google (same manner for MS).

One can take it further, to any hardware we use, since we really don't have open-source free hardware. Maybe pre-Ryzen AMD and possibly core2duo may have been the closest less evil alternatives to what goes around now as 99% of computing.

So, a criminal can sign up, get on an on-demand bus, rob people, and get off

I wrote elsewhere in this thread extensively about what is the problem you try to solve before a proposal can be examined. Here you present such a problem, and it is so US-centric it is pathetic, I doubt very much you are from Canada for example, or even Australia, let alone the rest of the world.

Now, is the criminal a criminal before he gets into the bus/uber-taxi-van or does he become one by the time she/he exits? Anyone can be a possible criminal if you don't really know them, and still get surprised about the ones you do know.

It is amazing how deep social conditioning has gone in the US to create this culture against "sharing anything" and everyone having their own solution (after they pay for it) and having total disregard for those who can't afford an individualistic solution. You can buy education, shelter, food, health service, everything on your own in an open market for labor and commodities. Nobody needs solutions to common problems, only money to buy solutions.

You walk in Europe in any capital city and in touristy areas, and you can pin point those from the US from miles away. Criminals getting on buses, metro, public hospitals, are harder to spot.