Notices by Antanicus (antanicus@mastodon.bida.im)

Stop using the "war" rethotic

Most AI startups be like

"(...) one reason that people object to these massive data-collection schemes is that they almost always gather more data than even their creators intend. Street View cars, for example, connected to unsecured Wi-Fi networks as they made their rounds between 2008 and 2010 — and when they did, slurped up “snippets of e-mails, photographs, passwords, chat messages, [and] postings on websites and social networks” (...) the case feels freshly relevant in light of the past month’s news about Clearview AI."

https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/2/7/21126498/google-maps-birthday-privacy-street-view-germany-clearview-ai

"A group of US environmental activists engaged in non-violent civil disobedience targeting the oil industry have been listed in internal Department of Homeland Security documents as “extremists” and some of its members listed alongside white nationalists and mass killers, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal."

Liberals be like

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/13/us-listed-climate-activist-group-extremists

This strikes so close

#PSA

It's true

#PSA

WAIT

Spot fucking on

Fuck the batsuit, just pay your battaxes

Can someone point me to a n00b friendly explanation of how #GNU #GUIX works please?

Boosts welcome!

"Pollution now kills three times as many people worldwide as Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined. (...) Burning fossil fuels, according to a recent paper, is now “the world’s most significant threat to children’s health”

Ban. All. The. Cars.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/07/cars-killing-us-driving-environment-phase-out

“Berkeley is among the first US cities to earmark funding specifically to help local businesses convert to democratic worker ownership,” says Sara Stephens, Staff Attorney at the Law Center. “Berkeley is also the first city to commit to enacting a procurement incentive for worker cooperatives and tailoring its revolving loan fund to explicitly target worker cooperatives and businesses converting to cooperative ownership.”

https://www.theselc.org/berkeley_sets_the_bar_for_municipal_support_of_worker_cooperatives

Keystone pipline: *spills 210.000 gallons of oil*
Petrolheads: ...

Niger delta: *is destroyed by oil extraction*
Petrolheads: ...

Pemex pipeline: *kills 85 in explosion*
Petrolheads: *chirp*

Electric car: *exists*
Petrolheads: "BATTERIES ARE POLLUTING! WHERE WILL YOU TAKE ALL THE ENERGY FROM? ELECTRICITY COMES FROM COAL! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THE DEPLETED BATTERIES? ELECTRIC CARS ARE JUST A HOAX!"

Let's say I want a self-hosted collaboration and communication suite (calendar + document editing + file sharing + chat).

Should I go for Nextcloud, Sandstorm or something else?

Help and boosts very appreciated.
Thanks!

@bhaugen
This is true, yet the cooperative form is still far, far better than any other form of economic organisation as it has democratic values baked in by default. Also, cooperatives are a good way to exploit the capitalist obsession about private property and entrepreneurship in our favor: by posing as "businesses" FOSS projects would be harder to attack as dismantling them would appear as an attack on people doing business, a taboo under capitalism
@strypey

Is there something wrong with LineageOS (with unifiedNLP) and Osmand or is it just my device? The GPS fix is EXASPERATINGLY slow and sometimes never functions.

Boost please.

"Recent research has showed that EV batteries can be charged up to five times faster without significantly impacting the lifetime of the battery. The bottom line is that if EVs can gain nearly a full charge in just 15 minutes"

https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/14/porsche-bmw-fastcharge-450-kw-charger

Gotta gilet 'em all