The difference between those in Minneapolis protesting against ICE with guns and those in Tehran against the government-backed forces with guns was
the eyes of the world were watching
Consider, if the USA had turned the internet off for a few weeks ....
Am I being entirely fanciful?
I propose we put a 100% on American software and SaaS.
Your Adobe cloud ? 100% tariff. Your Copilot 365 ? 100% tariff. Your Windows license ? 100% tariff. Your Apple Studio license or subscription ? 100% tariff.
And so on.
But there is an easier way. @pluralistic has the gist of it.
Repeal the portion of Harper's C-11 where DRM override Canadian rights. Make repairing things legal. Also cancel the copyright extension.
Put back the DST (but the banker would never dare to do so) to encompass these "rental services" mentionned above. Tax Uber, Lyft and other "gig economy". You should be able to reconcile that from the tax information and send them the bill.
Sadly all of these require courage.
@pluralistic Easier, more effective, and better targeted, honestly.
You know what happens if you tarrif our stuf? Your people hurt.
You know what happens if you drop DRM protections and our IP law? One of your people makes a knockoff version of our stuff, and OUR companies hurt.
The thing about saying on the Fediverse what our politicians should do is that we know they won't even hear it as we are not the CSAM generator and nazi bar they cherish so much.
Someone might know of a way to do this, perhaps it already exists or I might need to have it coded.
I am looking for a tool for practicing my poems. I want something where I can set say...a 2 minute timer and get a warning 10 seconds before the timer ends. Any apps/programs I can do this with already? Please repost for reach.
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Trump threatens 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods if Canada 'makes a deal with China'
cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tar…
Please. Put these tariffs on auto parts for US cars. On wood product and lumber. On dirty oil. How about on electricity.
RE: mastodon.social/@randahl/11594…
I want to pitch in on what @randahl said in the attached post.
During my youth I was raised on a diet of U.S. culture: the Ponderosa Ranch felt as familiar as the bridge of the USS Enterprise.The good night to John boy was often also the signal for me that I had to go to bed now. From the moment I earned my own money, I started spending as many vacations in the United States as my budget allowed.
Most of the books I have read and I am reading have been written by U.S. authors. Most of the movies and TV series I see were made by Hollywood companies. A significant part of my verbal and written output is in a language different from my mother tongue.
Today I would say that my command of the English language, my knowledge of U.S. history and culture easily surpasses that of the current commander in chief.
But other than with Randahl, the cracks in the relationship started to show much earlier. When I came to the U.S. in October 2001, it felt like a different country. I no longer felt welcome and therefore no longer came visiting.
A friend of mine, who was working in the U.S. at that time and who was on his way to earning a U.S. citizenship was told by a border agent: "Shut up little shit, I can do with you whatever I want." His sin was to point out the regulations my friend knew much better than that agent. He terminated his job at the next occasion.
There were many such moments and every time, another fatigue fracture in my relationship to the United States appeared.
Trump is for me just the nail in the coffin. It is very big and tough nail, because he was elected a second time. Everyone knew what kind of man they elected. And they chose to do so nonetheless. I cannot and will not forget that.
I see the protests, I hear the voices of dissent but I also see the big passive masses, that accept what is happening. It is the same kind of silence my ancestors emitted when Hitler started his run.
Yes, I still have a lot of friends and other people in the U.S. I feel attached to and care a lot about. But for the country as a hole, I no longer give a damn fuck.
In my job "Pacta sunt servanda" is a very important phrase. I cannot do my work without trust.
I am convinced that the current U.S. will not abide any contract, any agreement, any promise if the big orange baby doesn't see a personal advantage in it. And I cannot have a relationship with someone I do not respect and trust.
It's as simple as that.
I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
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Oh great, it had been a few weeks since the latest threats
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Trump threatens 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods if Canada 'makes a deal with China'
"China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life," Trump said.
@hub the US gov't + the Big Three automakers are already doing a great job of wrecking themselves too, even before any additional tariffs. this writeup talks about how Ford & GM could end up producing only pickups and SUVs for the US market, while the rest of the world moves on
I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
💔
If you think Hollywood has always been the bastion of free speech, defending, I have a bridge to sell you.
Notably read about the "Hayes Code" established by a Republican Chairman of the now MPA.
Or the Hollywood "blacklist" (that's how it was called) banning suspected communist writer, directors, actors, from being hired. "Cancelling" was already happening.
When Replicans complain about cancelling, remember it always points back to them.
Dass unsere Politiker immer noch munter auf der CSAM- und NCII-Plattform X unterwegs sind, lässt mich vermuten, dass CSAM als Begründung für die Chatkontrolle eventuell nur vorgeschoben war.
Talk about a stupid self-inflicted rhetorical problem during a national weather emergency....
Homeland Security authorities were reportedly telling the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday not to use the word "ice" in its public messaging as a monster storm was expected to hit the United States.Nicole Charky-Chami (Raw Story)
The environmental movement must also be a labor movement.
The labor movement must also be an environmental movement.
There is no other way to stop the dual exploitation of workers and the planet that now threatens the survival of society itself.
Yet another reminder that when it comes to data privacy, Microsoft cannot be trusted -- and, worse, its management is an eager ally of the fascists who run our government.
techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/micr…
The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
JEDEM KRÜPPEL SEINEN KNÜPPEL.
Ja, auch heute, 45 Jahre nach dem Start des Jahres der Behinderer. Vielleicht mehr als je zuvor.
Wir als Behindertenbewegung müssen wieder radikaler werden. Lauter. Unverschämter.
Wir alle müssten jeden Ableismus stärker kontern und jedes hohle Versprechen klar benennen, wie es z.B. das einzelne Heldy das letztes Jahr beim Global Disability Summit in Berlin während der Rede des damaligen Bundeskanzlers tat.
Wer erzählt uns von den Kindern mit Trisomie 21, die nicht abgetrieben werden? Von den ME/CFS-Patient*innen, deren Krankheit endlich sinnvoll erforscht und geheilt wird? Von den Autist*innen, die in der Gesellschaft ohne zu maskieren existieren können?
Niemand tuts. Und warum? Weil das System uns überhaupt nicht die Gelegenheit dazu gibt.
Als ich das letzte Mal hier von blinden Sterneköchen sprach, sind darunter andere Blinde geslided, die sagten, das wäre unmöglich.
Auch in der digitalen Barrierefreiheitsarbeit höre ich immer wieder „vollständige Barrierefreiheit ist nicht möglich“.
Ja, wenn man das denkt und nicht über den eigenen Tellerrand und die gegebenen systemischen Möglichkeiten hinaus blickt, dann kann das nix werden.
Der Faschismus ist da, und er drängt uns schon jetzt wieder aus der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung.
Wo „letzte Generation Behinderte“? Wo „linke“ Gruppen, die das auf dem Schirm haben?
Alerta, alerta!
Mal ne Frage an Leute, die ihre eigene Website oder Fediverse-Instanz betreiben:
Habt ihr zufällig schon Erfahrungen gesammelt mit Anbieterinnen, die ladungsfähige Adressen vermieten? Für's Impressum? Oder nehmt ihr eure Privatadresse? Oder gar keine? (Falls ihr nicht gerade einem Verein, Unternehmen oder Behörde seid)
Gerne boosten und vielen Dank schonmal!
Privatadresse. Anbieter für ladungsfähige Anschriften sind wirklich sehr teuer (~100 Euro im Monat).
Bei der Impressumspflicht muss der Gesetzgeber dringend nachbessern. Für Einzelunternehmer im Homeoffice ist das komplett unverhältnismäßig.
Auf der anderen Seite bringt mir das als Verbraucher auch überhaupt nichts zu wissen, dass Meta in 1 Mark Zuckerberg Drive, San Francisco, California seinen Sitz hat. Verklagen kann ich die trotzdem nicht.
Nicht unbedingt. Gäbe die Möglichkeit sich bei der Post n Postfach zu besorgen was je nachdem 4-5€ im Monat kostet und man dann als Anschrift angeben kann. Nachteil muss man halt jedes mal dann hinfahren / laufen aber wär ne Möglichkeit die Privatadresse geheim zu halten. ^^
deutschepost.de/de/p/postfach.…
Ihre Post vertrauensvoll aufbewahren und mit der Briefankündigung schon vorher wissen was ins Postfach eingelegt wird. Jetzt ein Postfach in der Nähe finden und gleich online beantragen.www.deutschepost.de
maybe the #gnome project needs a better distinction between what's an official gnome app and what's not
just saw someone get disgusted at the whole gnome project just because someone else made a GNOME-style app for talking to large language models, and a tech news website called it a "GNOME app"
we have: gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Releng/…
Ironically, core GNOME apps have generic names. Plus, you can’t use GNOME branding unless you’re part of the GNOME project. If you target the GNOME environment, though, you are a “GNOME app”, in the same way you have iOS apps, Android apps, Windows apps, etc
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"The blood was only ever a means to an end," the vampire confessed in the interview.
"To what end?" the reporter asked.
"Blood carries vigor, life force, vital energy. That's what we feed on."
"So how do you get it, if not through blood?"
"These days, we make doom scrolling apps to drain it."
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My #FOSDEM schedule (as of now) in case you want to meet.
<Saturday>
09:00 - 11:00 -- Infodesk K
12:00 - 12:25 -- K.1.105 (La Fontaine)
13:10 - 14:15 -- H.1301 (Cornil)
15:30 - 16:50 -- Jansen
<Sunday>
09:00 - 11:50 -- K.1.105 (La Fontaine)
12:55 - 15:05 -- K3.401 Translations
15:45 -17:05 -- AW1.126 Decentralization
I published my slides for the #FOSDEM lightning talk in the #geospatial room:
> Lessons from teaching 100+ beginners to use the OpenStreetMap <
Do you have the same challenges as I do?
Over the last year I have stopped approximately 1070€ of annual subscription costs to US products in our family.
In our company, we're in process of stopping somewhere between 20k€ to 25k€ annuals subscription fees to US products.
I know I'm not the only one, and our company isn't alone doing these changes.
We have a lot of people in Europe. If we all shift a portion of our reccurring monthly costs to European products, it will make a huge difference.
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quote of the day
"Daniel Stenberg, the main developer of one of the most useful cURL tools"
This #login was gladly sponsored by the keyboard emulator #webbrowsers seemingly hate
Yay no need to buy a #keyboard or #mouse use your #rooted android #phone instead.
(But my webbrowser should chill.
Thats one scary #red screen 
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#FDroid
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Thanks @alcea – though we should hand the praise to the dev of the app, or at least share it with them. We just make it easier accessible – but all the work of developing the app in the first place, wasn't ours 😉
To Google: SafeBrowsing could be such a useful tool – but you're undermining the trust in it yourselves by such actions. Especially when even your own scanners disagree. Get a human in the loop, your system is hallucinating 😉
Každý den posíláme soubory přes email, protože “sdílení přes Google Drive je nějak složité”. Kalendář máme v telefonu, ale kolega používá Outlook, tak se domlouváme přes zprávy.oscloud (Oscloud News)
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The perfect alternative to a #Cloudflare #Tunnel and one of THE solutions which helped me to fulfill my #selfhosting projects playing MY rules - #Pangolin! 🧡
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A great journey so far and an unbelievable level of maturity after one year. 🙏
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