[-] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 months ago

NB: also don't beat yourself down if you cannot be contributing financially: there are many ways to contribute to the community by posting, commenting, reporting, moderating, and overall just being active and nice ;) your presence and participation here already means a lot!

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by JoeBidet@lemmy.ml to c/news@lemmy.world

Sculptor Chavis Mármol has never owned a car, but that’s never inhibited his drive. Earlier this month, the 42-year-old Mexico City-based artist (who travels largely by bicycle) dropped a nine-ton replica of an Olmec head onto the roof of a blue Tesla Model 3 in a crushing display posted to Instagram on March 11. Mármol told Hyperallergic that his intention was “to satirize the Tesla brand and its creator.”

https://hyperallergic.com/878913/artist-chavis-marmol-crushes-tesla-with-colossal-olmec-head-sculpture/

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by JoeBidet@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

By Albert Burneko

9:00 AM EDT on September 11, 2024

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars's dead core? No? Well. It's fine. I'm sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever. No? Huh. Well then let's discuss something else equally realistic, like your plan to build a condo complex in Middle Earth.

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[-] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 years ago

a couple of things they got right about uthe future:

  • sitting alone in a bubble
  • depending on over-architectured machines
  • having the illusion to connect to others while only looking at them through something
[-] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago
[-] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In last 5 years for me:

  • a pair of decent (second hand) speakers
  • a cheap (blue switches ftw) mechanical keyboard
  • a standing desk
  • an ergonomic chair

(sorry it's not single item...)

[-] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 63 points 2 years ago

I think it should always add:

"I am sorry*, Dave,* but i cannot .... "

[-] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago

as said before: backup first. the rest afterwards...

[-] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The thing I find hard to convey is that FLOSS software is superior to proprietary software for many reasons, most of which are non-technical: FLOSS software is superior to proprietary software if it isn't spying on you, if it's governance is collective, if it's not build to make you pay for things that should be free, if it lets you decide where your data goes, etc...

we're often missing the point when we attempt at side-by-side comparison of FLOSS and proprietary software.. It's usually one-dimentional, and playing on our opponent's field: these companies racketing their users based on rent-based exploitative business models will always have more resources than independant developpers to improve "UX/UI"... so I think this must not be the only prism through which reading these things.

[-] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 53 points 2 years ago
[-] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago

archive.org has a flourish of ROMsets for old machines!

[-] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 54 points 2 years ago

All culture belongs to everyone, therefore should be accessible to everyone.

The sale of goods only concerns those who can and want to afford it.

Sharing is not theft.

Pirates are cool.

[-] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago

wait. unlimited access to healthcare? isn't it "communism" when you're not a retired killer-machine over there?

[-] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago

Can anyone point to the source code please? They claim it is "privacy friendly", so it cannot be proprietary, right? right? right?

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#FreeAssange!

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A friend of mine has a project that is accross an art project and a political statement, in the form of an experiment:

To exemplify the power of the surveillance capitalists on the very fabric of what we still call "the Internet", they want to configure a computer to block all connections going to all known services belonging to Google, Amazon and Cloudflare (and later potentially extend this to other companies).

(yes, my friend is very much aware that in practice most of the commercial web would become totally unusable. that's partly the point of the demonstration to exemplify this...)

For google, they rely on an old (long) list of domains known to belong to the multiple entities composing the behemoth... an /etc/hosts points all of them to 127.0.0.1. brutal but efficient, until new domains, subdomains etc.. appear.

How would you do it for amazon and its gigantic AWS platform? how would you do it for cloudflare? collect lists of their IPs (and update them over time)? edit firewall lists based on them that would sink all packets?

Anyone knows of any project going in that direction?

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submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by JoeBidet@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

A British judge has ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, where he faces a 175-year sentence. The final decision on Assange’s extradition will now be made by U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel. Amnesty International’s Simon Crowther spoke outside the courthouse prior to today’s ruling.

Simon Crowther: “Julian Assange is being prosecuted for espionage for publishing sensitive material that was classified. And if he is extradited to the U.S. for this, all journalists around the world are going to have to look over their shoulder, because within their own jurisdiction, if they publish something that the U.S. considers to be classified, they will face the risk of being extradited.”

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submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by JoeBidet@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

UK Supreme Court refuses permission to appeal in Assange extradition. The case now moves to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to authorize the extradition.

WikiLeaks editor and publisher Julian Assange is facing a 175 year sentence for publishing truthful information in the public interest.

Julian Assange is being sought by the current US administration for publishing US government documents which exposed war crimes and human rights abuses. The politically motivated charges represent an unprecedented attack on press freedom and the public’s right to know – seeking to criminalise basic journalistic activity.

If convicted Julian Assange faces a sentence of 175 years, likely to be spent in extreme isolation.

The UN working group on arbitrary detention issued a statement saying that “the right of Mr. Assange to personal liberty should be restored”.

Massimo Moratti of Amnesty International has publicly stated on their website that, “Were Julian Assange to be extradited or subjected to any other transfer to the USA, Britain would be in breach of its obligations under international law.

Human Rights Watch published an article saying, “The only thing standing between an Assange prosecution and a major threat to global media freedom is Britain. It is urgent that it defend the principles at risk.”

The NUJ has stated that the “US charges against Assange pose a huge threat, one that could criminalise the critical work of investigative journalists & their ability to protect their sources”.

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