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- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 4 days ago:
Yes.
Also, Ubuntu is on the governing board for Debian, as a major stakeholder in their upstream distribution. They use the same tools to distribute software.
3rd party repos like PPAs are Sometimes (though not always) compatible with both.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 week ago:
Its how most Distros get started. Ubuntu is just tweaked Debian, with more than a decade of tweaks (and amazon spyware) piled up.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 week ago:
I’m 100% in favor of this. Erode that trademark!
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a Leninist by any means. But on a mass scale, the need to grow for a Capitalist economy? Manifests itself in ways Lenin described as “Capitalist Imperialism”. If you only reach one chapter, the author says that’s Ch7, which becomes a short essay.
Lenin Argues against Carl Kautsky’s assertion that such a prospect looks like grabbing Land. Lenin argues that Capitalism needs no such political arm directly, only ownership of the economy by a foreign body. Eventually investment capital runs out of fertile ground at home and must find new markets to control.
As Russia’s economy stagnated, and the room for investment dried up, much of Putin’s moves were to open other countries to Russian Finance Capital. When that failed, taking new land became the fallback for having new oil and shipping investments. Not just land, but resources as Kautsky discussed.
And here Doctorow breaks down how that looks for single firms in monopoly or oligopoly, specifically in the tech sector, and its drive to constantly " invent new markets". A perfect compliment.
That’s what these data centers are - Empire. They will swallow your ability to compute. Moderate it. Control it. Direct it towards only their ends. Because at the end game, the most value extraction comes from not simply selling you a product, but selling you as a product to other businesses. Enshittification will continue until you can out-bid the corpos for your data sovereignty.
The need for control? Emerges organically from the consequences of noncompliance. In both the puppet-state in response to its international industrial overlords, or its alternative in direct management by a foreign state. The money must flow, the growth must happen, or the party is over for much broader than their own dinner table.
The growth must happen, or the very laws of a market crush the entire society down to well below this peak. No more growth stocks in growth industries, just cutthroat competition from the same corpos that keep out upstarts… Until some shock ruins somebody’s bag, and we get a chance at something interesting like the tech sector used to be.
- Comment on Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security 3 weeks ago:
Accurate? Certainly. Politically Feasible? That’s another story.
- Comment on Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, read too quickly after work and completely misunderstood.
- Comment on Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again 4 weeks ago:
RAM isn’t really expensive at all right now either
Uh… You’ve missed some news. www.dimmprice.com
You uh missed some news www.npr.org/2025/12/…/ai-chips-memory-prices-ram
- Comment on Linux Slicer 4 weeks ago:
Orca on Archlinux user here. Its perfect.
What kind of hack-trash distro are you hearing about problems from?
- Comment on A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (39C3) 5 weeks ago:
Step 1 - raise awareness. Step 2 - gather active participants Step 3 - collectively do legal things that make life harder for anyone with the power to enact this, yet does not. Step 4 - repeat Step 3, making it clear why this is happening. Step 5 - make memes of the affair to further drive engagement. Step 5.1 (potentially American/Russian/etc Exclusive) - get declared a terrorist for doing perfectly legal things Step 6 - keep going anyway, in spite of what consequences can be brought. Step 7 -
profitbuild incremental victories to bolster the movement. - Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 5 weeks ago:
points to ads in the start menu and surveillance in the OS
- Comment on OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company 1 month ago:
When the time comes for you to use AI, if ever? You’ll be better prepared for it. Keep up the good work!
- Comment on now run it through GPT! 2 months ago:
You guys are gonna end western civilization this way. I guess that’s fine?
- Comment on Velma can't math. 3 months ago:
Why so… Negative? /s
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 3 months ago:
It means load Letter size paper. The printer is out of paper.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 3 months ago:
I love the idea!
I absolutely despise it when it is locked down from the user, owned by the corporation that produced it, and operating as an arm of the surveillance state.
Those monstrosities are not allowed in my home until I can remove the spyware operating system.
- Comment on Cryptologist DJB Alleges NSA is Pushing an End to Backup Algorithms for Post-Quantum Cryptography 3 months ago:
Nice username. I remember when they got away with using that name (minus the numbers) for the handshake to WPA3, and were deeply suspicion-inducing about whether the mathematician who authored that was on the NSA payroll or not.
- Comment on Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
Valid and real. Good luck.
- Comment on Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
Is your country taking American Refugees yet?
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 3 months ago:
But where is Palantir on this? Because they’re connected to actually all of them.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 3 months ago:
You know how the US government has 3 branches that are supposed to check and balance each other? We should teach that Corporations, Government, and Individuals/Unions operate similarly.
Corporate terms of service check individuals against abusing others. So do government laws.
Government is supposed to check corporations from abusing their customers. And customer boycotts moderate corporate behavior.
And corporations… Apparently moderate the flow of information to individuals so the companies always manufacture consent. And lobby for their own advantage.
If nothing else, by describing how it is, we can have a real conversation about how fucked/okay all of this is, and examine what parts of this framework are actually functioning.
And in that, we can explore where Unions fit - as 3rd party bosses steeped in corruption, or as genuine representatives of their people. And explore how to rebound in just the one context, because we are good citizens.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 4 months ago:
Easy to say when you have choices in where to shop. Lack of transportation and odd work schedules destroy that Real Quick. As does rural life, or life in an urban food desert.
There is more to poverty than lack of money - there is also lack of time for serious food preparation. And idk if you’ve looked at vegan processed food lately but uh…
No one can survive on crock pot beans alone.
Once again, 100 companies are responsible for how much of the emissions?
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 4 months ago:
Most serious vegans understand something about the differential in agency that comes with even relative poverty. The books that sort of founded the movement take this into account.
And there is a LOT of relative poverty in places you don’t normally expect, especially with housing costs as they are around most of the Capitalist world.