It’s cool to do non-violence if that’s your jam and non-violent resistance is definitely one tool in the toolkit but having people willing and able to do violence against an oppressor has been a pretty big part of the success of every “non-violent” movement in history.
Elites downplay the effectiveness of violent resistance throughout history because they know violence is actually effective as a form of resistance.
When I was a child and learning about the Suffragettes in secondary school, their use of violence was touched upon but it was drummed into us that their use of violence was actually very bad and the important thing was their peaceful protesting.
The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel’s 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction.
An attack by a state military warship on a vessel on the High Seas is an attack on the flag state of the vessel attacked.
The possession of vessels and the abduction of crews at sea can be pursued as a crime in domestic jurisdictions and is not just a crime under international law.
Craig Murray, former head of the maritime section at the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Not sure y'all, I'm slowly losing my mind over Windows. This is what I've become. The reviewer who 20 years ago was there writing about Longhorn, has lost his marbles. Yup. This is how it ends, folks. I lose my mind and sanity over Microsoft Windows, forever tortured by what I've lost since then. Lost all hope, forever wandering the hallowed halls of the world, asking, "has this build fixed Explorer yet?" And so the day of me primary-booting Linux draws nearer. I'm becoming unhinged.
As I believed myself to be insane in the membranes already, I raw dogged Linux blindfolded (apart from a tiny gap) when Win 7 lost support. So far, not looked back.
ahaha love this little dialog. Go suck it Microsoft. "Page not available dialog Page not available The page you are trying to access has no supported features and is not available." (Core isolation settings) I ripped out the entire Security center and control panel. If someone can get me the Security Center from Windows XP back onto my Windows 10, I'll reconsider it, for now all that cruft is junk to me. I don't want a hyperviser runnning just so it can isolate it into its own namespace. Nope. Not taking the performance hit of that.
Your conclusion, "The real reason not to use GenAI", seems at odds with your statement "I’m not a hater." Shouldn't your reasons for not using GenAI lead you to advocate that we don't even use it for coding, even in the areas where it'll probably work? I guess Those reasons for not using GenAI sound to me like reasons to fight the prediction and try to make it not come true.
I know things are tough for most people, so don't worry if you can't chip in right now.
A good friend of mine could use your support.
@SilverEagle has been developing free and open source software for a heck of a long time. If you've ever used Internet Radio before, there's a damn good chance you've used AzuraCast.
They have a Ko-Fi goal of $2500. If any of you can chip in even $3 to help them, it is difficult to overstate the immense burden you'll be alleviating.
A self-hosted web radio management suite, including turnkey installer tools for the full radio software stack and a modern, easy-to-use web app to manage your stations. - AzuraCast/AzuraCast
There’s a TV ad from Philadelphia* tourism where Canadian citizens who live and work there are imploring their fellow Canadians to visit the city. It is so tone deaf to the moment.
*I saw it a couple days ago and may be misremembering the city. If you can confirm which city it actually is before I take the time to look it up, feel free to dunk and boycott.
ETA: I remembered correctly! Maybe don't go to Philadelphia, fellow Canadians.
“We’re going to keep being creative about our outreach to the Canadian audience,” said Caren.
I mean, howsabout being creative about Stopping The Fascist Regime in Your Country! It's your border agency causing problems for Canadian travellers. It's your president making threatening noises about Canadian sovereignty. Sort your shit out, mates. Stop acting like Canadians just arbitrarily decided to stop visiting the States.
Visit California predicts 170,000 fewer visitors to the state this year – with Los Angeles and Yosemite national park hit hard. Will the Trump slump continue to deepen?
When his mic was silenced, Li was about to ask why the government pays $460 million to private schools, while public schools are deprived. A good question, although asking it can get you spanked. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... via @ calgaryherald #Cdnpoli #Ableg
If possible, use "direct labeling" in your data visualizations and charts. This means positioning the labels directly beside or adjacent to the data points. This is better than color coding your charts, as your information would likely be lost to someone who can’t see color.
We've just recorded and posted the latest episode of #StroongeCast for youtube members. It will be out at the usual time of 10:00 UK tomorrow morning. If you want to support us that way because you like the content, then you can do so at: youtube.com/user/TheOnjLouis?s…
Hi, how are you doing? Thanks for visiting my channel, firstly.
A bit about me then.
I'm Andre Louis (AKA Onj), a visually impaired musician from London.
What will you find here?
Videos on this channel fall into a few categories.
Aku kávovar Makita DCM501Z, Li-ion 18V - solo
Aku kávovar na akumulátory 12V CXT, 14,4V a 18V LXT
Možnost použití sypané kávy nebo kávových podů typu Senseo
Velmi jednoduchá obsluha stroje
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i'm re-reading "Homage to Catalonia" and it's good, but i'm struck by how fucking condescending the British are towards the Spanish. Orwell will write stuff like "for once, the Spanish were able to organize something" buddy you're experiencing a country **in the middle of a civil war** maybe your impressions of What The Spanish Are Like are not actually universal cultural traits!
🚨 Die EU-Komission plant mit einer neuen Verordnung ein massives Überwachungsgesetz: Alle Chats sollen durchleuchtet werden. Ob mit Demos, Protestaktionen oder Anrufen an unsere Abgeordneten: Um die Möglichkeit zur privaten Kommunikation zu retten, müssen wir jetzt aktiv werden!
Die Argumente gegen Chatkontrolle: 👉 Schützt Kinder nicht 👉 Totale Überwachung 👉 Bedroht Berufsgeheimnis 👉 Missbrauchspotential 👉 Gefährdet Unschuldige
How big is a 128-bit number? Using the prefix for the largest number we have (2^100), it can hold 268435456 quettabytes. There's no set SI prefix name for the 262144 (something)bytes that it is the equivalent of. 2^110 and 2^120 have no SI prefixes.
Okay, so here are the correct answers to the embedded hacking #2 contest (click for larger pictures): The fact that you get the clues as hexadecimal uppercase ASCII was pretty quickly clear to everybody.
Coreo que acabo de mandar a Exteriores, por intentarlo que no quede:
Asunto: Protección diplomática de activistas españoles y respeto al derecho internacional.
Buenos días:
En vista del notorio incumplimiento del derecho internacional del mar en materia de paso inocente, y del derecho internacional humanitario, con menoscabo de la libertad de navegación y de los derechos y libertades de ciudadanos españoles, por parte del estado de Israel, INSTO al Ministerio de Exteriores:
A cumplir con sus obligaciones, de derecho interno e internacional, brindando protección diplomática y ejerciendo buenos oficios conducentes a la inmediata liberación de los ciudadanos españoles ilegalmente retenidos y secuestrados por Israel, velando por su integridad física y moral; llevando a cabo cuantas acciones sean necesarias para asegurar el respeto de la libertad de navegación y el fin del bloqueo ilegal de Gaza en aguas que no son de jurisdicción Israelí; así como todas cuantas acciones se deduzcan de la obligación erga omnes que atañe a todo estado parte de la convención para la prevención y la sanción del delito de genocidio; y de las obligaciones deducidas de la sentencia del TIJ que determina la ilegalidad de la ocupación de los territorios palestinos.
Dice: El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación, incluyendo la Embajada de España en Israel y los consulados en Jerusalén y en Nicosia, siguen de cerca la situación de la Glo…
Exciting news - a US Patent has finally been granted for our #BrailleDice! By protecting our unique design we can require anyone who manufactures them meet our strict quality control standards, ensuring readable dice every time. Another huge win for #AccessibilityInTabletop 💜
Writing an email using email etiquette makes you sound polite and professional, and it can help you avoid awkward email misunderstandings. In this guide, you’ll learn six essential rules to quickly level up your email writing skills.
Point 1 is really context dependent. Many people’s full names uniquely identify them and / or identify them as members of marginalized groups. Yes, sometimes when you are acting in your professional capacity you may need that full name email. But it is no breach of etiquette to use initials or a family email for situations where you are a customer, community member, etc.
Ironically, I switched to Tuta because of the Opt Out Guide, which makes that point.
Took my ass down to the beach to get a better view. Bright moon and clouds making it not great but can see with the naked eye. Even caught some movement.
Meanwhile, Caitlin Johnstone speaks of the so-called "peace plan" for Gaza, demonstrating how Israel flows millions of dollars to Tik Tok and X influencers to spin the narrative to their genocidal interests.
The #GlobalSumudFlotilla is under threat... 20+ unidentified vessels are on the radar.
Alma ship crew prepares to be boarded in international waters near #Egypt and the territorial waters of #Palestine about 250 nautical miles away from destination.
With at least half a million people still left in Gaza City, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a “final warning” for residents to evacuate, saying those who remain will be regarded as “terrorists or terrorist supporters.”
Israeli #pirates seem to have boarded the Alma in international waters.
As usual, #Israel only shows contempt for international law.
What we're living in 2024-2025 is the end of the rule of law. The empires have made it clear that they will not be bothered by foreigners or their own citizens. We can let this happening, or we can uphold the rule of law. But who will? European States are too happy selling arms to Israel and buying surveillance technology from the "startup nation".
Alma and Sirius, the second largest vessel, have been boarded by Israeli pirates, 69 miles from #Gaza. Adara was intercepted as well, north of Bir al Abd.
This site shows live updates of the flotilla as they're being attacked by Israeli pirates of the so-called Israeli Destruction Forces of the criminal state of #Israel who is committing genocide and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching #Gaza. This is shameful and spiteful.
Fifteen ships have passed the illegal "Restriction zone 2" set by the Israeli occupation forces, sailing towards #Gaza, as the shameless soldiers of the genocidal State are intercepting humanitarian vessels of the Flotilla...
Across Europe, people are protesting and chanting to push their elite politicians to intervene in favour of the humanitarian aid.
Good morning... The #Mikeno vessel has reached the territorial waters of #Gaza and seems to have stopped merely minutes before it could be visible from the coast...
GPS position comms depend on internet of AIS (digital VHF), but both seem to be disabled...
It's one of two vessels to have reached the "R1" restriction zone imposed by the occupation forces.
za tento skončím v pekle a som stým ok.. môj údel bude si čítať jeho knihy dookola, čo by vlastne nemuselo byť zlé.. občas ma napadne že ho vrátim ale nie hrnček šťastnejší keď sa pije? #ukazhrnicek
I received this email today. tldr; I am not selling my soul. From: Microsoft Subject: Congratulations on your Microsoft MVP award You’ve been accepted to the Microsoft MVP program Daniel Stenberg, We’re pleased to welcome you to the Microsoft Most Va…
I considered if I should try to go for that, but couldn't find a single redeeming thing about it other than the "here's some generic praise".
> Nope, this program was just a flood of Microsoft flogging their own technologies and products. I’m leaving the program again. There was nothing here for me. No Open Source, no protocols, no Internet technologies.
Yeah, that's what I got from it. Basically free Windows and other MS stuff. I don't want it, and I don't care about the price of the thing I'm not interested in.
well, what did you expect? it's Microsoft after all, the most self-centered company on earth. I remember when their new CEO was crowned as their holy monarch he said he'd support OSS more, I'm yet to see that beyond dotnet itself.
I have to say, I'm fairly impressed by Openai's codex, both the CLI agent and their new gpt-5-codex model. Definitely my new agentic AI tool of choice.
It's the opposite of Claude Code in that it's extremely terse where Claude code is verbose. For example, I much prefer Claude's output for commit messages, as Codex will almost always produce one-liners unless very heavily prompted to do otherwise.
@neurrone I'd say much better. With Claude Code, I have to correct it a lot, even with somewhat simple tasks, as it really loves its deeply-nested code and extraneous error handling. Codex has none of these problems, it mirrors how I would write the code much better. Sucks at descriptive commit messages though.
@neurrone FYI, the login process is a bit difficult because of the constantly refreshing ASCII banner. With TDSR, you get around that by disabling cursor tracking. No idea about other screen readers, but there's probably a way.
@NVAccess Hey guys, I'll follow this up with an issue, but wondered if you'd seen this behavior. I use WSL a lot, and it throws lots and lots of text into that window. To nav it correctly, I have to be in obj mode in terminal. For some reason, I can't determine when it happens, speech stops and sometimes I know it's partially crashed but sometimes I get the NVDA start sound only when I hit the NVDAS key. Assuming it's a windows terminal problem, but I sure with it was more stable. Can't remember how to set it in Debug move but I don't think it's actually dropping an error, but on e never knows does one. How do I turn that weirdo option on?
Sounds like an issue worth reporting - thank you! Re turning debug logging on:
1) Press NVDA+control+g to open NVDA's general settings. 2) Tab to "Log Level" 3) Down arrow to "Debug". Ok and save settings (I recommend restarting with add-ons disabled, recreating the issue then grabbing the log - that way it's not cluttered with anything else you were doing etc. And we'll need a log with add-ons disabled just to rule out any interference from add-ons.
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in reply to HeavenlyPossum • • •Elites downplay the effectiveness of violent resistance throughout history because they know violence is actually effective as a form of resistance.
When I was a child and learning about the Suffragettes in secondary school, their use of violence was touched upon but it was drummed into us that their use of violence was actually very bad and the important thing was their peaceful protesting.