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Canada, and the rest of the world, certainly have unique opportunities for those that choose to capitalize on it: https://www.theglobeandmail.
Framework has stopped selling versions of its base laptop model in the US because of tariffs. Says that if it kept selling them in the US it would lose money. Framework is the only company that makes reliably upgradeable, repairable laptops
i have very strong connection to the internet; yt-dlp works fine, but since i can't use it on my iPhone™ im stuck with the website and it struggles - other video sites, including my own streaming services are not affected
the implication here is that YT spends a lot of its engineering power trying to defeat open web standards resulting in unreliable service so it can show the wrong video(s) [e.g. ads] or get me to pay for basic web functionality instead
but im obviously not gonna trust people that work to degrade the service with a monthly stipend
More than $120 million from a few ultra-wealthy families who have spent years working to promote climate change denial has powered the Heritage Foundation and other groups that created the plan to remake American government.
USA (Trumpland) is so far out of their league on this one...I hope they keep playing, though, because they're already being decimated. Remember the sole US TV manufacturer who praised the tariffs in his first term but bankrupted 6 mos later bc they couldn't source parts...?
Well they probably can. They likely are more self sufficient overall, have billions at home and other trading partner countries. They likely aren't as screwed as we are since the US economy is not set up to be remotely self sufficient.
China has 17% of the world population and has been accumulating manufacturing and tech expertise for decades. The US has 4% of the world population and except for the extremely rich guys who gave away US expertise and experience to China, most people in manufacturing and tech feel poorer and more vulnerable than ever.
@Urban_Hermit @ottaross @nonehitwonder Need to stop protesting at some random street corner and surround the offices and homes of our House and Senate rodents.
Yeah, people worry we haven't crossed the 3.5% barrier yet and this may be true, but we did cross the barrier of that point where even the mass media can't try to just pretend nothing happened.
This story was originally published by Barn Raiser. On the day of his inauguration, President Donald Trump claimed his administration would end the “censorship of protected speech.” But actions speak louder than words.
Another one bites the dust! The editorial board of the journal Mathematical Logic Quarterly have resigned en masse, complaining about the publisher, Wiley:
"The managing editors and editors of MLQ believe that the academic editorial process guaranteeing scientific quality control should be entirely in the hands of an editorial team consisting of members of the academic research community that are entirely free from pressure or influence of commercial and profit-oriented interests."
They've started a new journal of mathematical logic that's 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬. This means simply that it's free to publish in and free to read.
Because they're German, they decided to call this new journal Deutsche Vereinigung für Mathematische Logik und für Grundlagenforschung der Exakten Wissenschaften. But they'll forgive you if you call it ZML:
There has been an increasing number of resignations by editors of scholarly journals in recent years. In many cases, the editors have criticised the publisher’s excessive influence, especially when the publisher’s presumed goals clash with those of t…
I encourage everyone to take in a few sources to help understand the deep psychological undercarriage of our modern world:
1) The Century of the Self (documentary), Part 1 - explains how and why propaganda works (BBC, 2002, available on YouTube); later Parts expand on this
2) Blinded By the Right: Confessions of a Right-Wing Hit Man, by David Brock, one of the 'elves' who was well paid to create anti-Clinton propaganda, about his days in those trenches
3) The Republican Noise Machine, also by Brock, about the history and finance of modern GOP propaganda
4) You Are Not So Smart -and- You Are Now Less Dumb, 2 very readable books by journalist David McRaney, about how the mind works, how mental trickery works, who's manipulating you (including yourself) and how, and what you can do about it. (Spoiler: GI Joe is right; knowing really is half the battle.)
There are others, but these can all help you to understand and resist what's going now.
Looking at the news coming out of LA about the wildfires, I am reminded on a tweet I once read: "You will experience climate change as a series of increasingly wild disaster videos, until one day you are the one making the video."
I just found out that Mexico apparently has a minimum wage linked to inflation so the lowest rate workers don't lose an average of 3% of their income each year! Kind of amazing.
Tyranny never sleeps. Its attacks never stop. So too must our resolve be unwavering. Tyranny must be denied every victory in perpetuity, for as long as they are on the offensive, it is our survival as free people that is under assault.
They are fighting to liquidate us for profit. We are fighting for survival.
The news that DOGE crapped on the use of tape in modern day infrastructure had me blow the dust off my Storage Admin hat and blog about where tape still is used. I checked, this is the first 'storage' tagged post on my blog since 2013!
When I moved hard into AWS-land, I stopped doing a lot of storage things. What I did was more investigating performance of systems I didn't otherwise control, and a whole lot of teaching of filesystem fundamentals (what's an inode type stuff) to engineers who hadn't had to think of such things.
The last time I looked (which was a long time ago), the media cost was lower for tapes but the acquisition cost of the tape drives was much higher, so it only paid off if you had enough tapes per drive. We didn't, so we wound up going to hard drives for our backups.
@cks That's my understanding as well. For the use-cases I had in the 2005-2011 era, cheap SATA drives were cheaper per archived GB than LTO. That's part of why most real-world deploys keep multiple LTO generations around, to amortize the acquisition costs across longer periods of time. It also makes "copy this to that" operations between LTO generations viable without a disk pass.
Tape is viable for compliance reasons, or if you have legit requirements for many-year offline storage.
New York CNN — US stocks were extremely volatile Monday — tumbling, surging and then bouncing around in every direction, as traders searched for any sign
Many Americans worry freedom of speech is fading, while others feel empowered to say what they want. NPR's Morning Edition explores this dynamic in a new series, "The State of the First Amendment."
BREAKING: The UK government's attempt to hold the Apple encryption case entirely in secret has been REJECTED.
ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship made a submission to the court arguing for open justice.
In a win for privacy rights, the court agrees.
It said it didn't accept “that the revelation of the bare details of the case would be damaging to the public interest or prejudicial to national security”.
The court responsible for hearing Apple’s challenge against the UK Government demanding that it breaks encryption has rejected the Home Office’s bid to have the case heard in secret.
“With the stock market plunged into chaos by U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, Canadians have decided to simply wait out America’s forthcoming economic collapse and then buy the nation on the cheap.”
Ein Pinguin steht auf einem Felsen am Meer und hält einen Zeigefinger in der Hand, als ob er eine Vorlesung hält. Er zeigt auf ein Bild auf einem kleineren Leinwandgestell, das eine Möwe in Flugposition und ein Cybertruck darstellt. Drei Möwen stehen auf dem Felsen und schauen auf das Bild. Der Hintergrund zeigt das Meer und die Felsen.
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This pure, naked evil is what we're fighting against. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is all of us. We are all just one step away from an administrative error that eviscerates our rights and lands us who knows where?
Can the USA agree that next time Trump is on trial for something, it's fair to "mistakenly" toss him in jail and lose track of which one or for how long? Perhaps even which country?
Trump’s trade war energy is back — this time aimed at Europe. But here’s the thing: the EU isn’t China. It’s already a digital, industrial, and diplomatic
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
A transgender college student declared “I am here to break the law” before entering a women’s restroom at the Florida State Capitol and being led out in handcuffs by police.
these clowns seem to believe that trump and company weren't lying. that they were actually basing their tariffs on tariffs of other countries - as opposed to what they actually did, which was
oh my gods. oh my _fucking_ gods.
remember this if you want evidence how fucking thick these "smartest guys in the room" conservatives are. we are talking old-growth sequoias. we are talking entire plateaus of basalt columns.
IT'S NOT AN ERROR, YOU CLOWNS, IT'S JUST FUCKING LYING HOLY HELL
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![screenshot of a post by Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart:
This is the 11th worst 3-day performance of all time. 10th and 12th place were both during The Great Depression (via @M_McDonough)
[a table titled 'S&P 500: 25 Worst 3-Day Percent Changes in History', listing various historical events with their respective percentage changes, dates, and rankings. The entry for '04/07/2025: Trump Tariffs' is highlighted with a 3-day change of -13.56%]](https://f.kawa-kun.com/photo/preview/640/2626561 "screenshot of a post by Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart:
This is the 11th worst 3-day performance of all time. 10th and 12th place were both during The Great Depression (via @M_McDonough)
[a table titled 'S&P 500: 25 Worst 3-Day Percent Changes in History', listing various historical events with their respective percentage changes, dates, and rankings. The entry for '04/07/2025: Trump Tariffs' is highlighted with a 3-day change of -13.56%]")
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The class war is always the poor versus smarter people
Gas the poor
Neil E. Hodges doesn't like this.