Capitalism has not really raised people from extreme poverty. Most probably it has just pushed more and more people into extreme poverty over hundreds of years, in addition to making life miserable in general for so many.

The only time things have gotten better for regular people within capitalism is when workers organize and when people participate in anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist action.

New study on the topic: sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #Socialism #Poverty

This dumb password rule is from Banco Mercantil.

8 to 15 chars. No special chars allowed but requires special chars. Also
requires lowercase, uppercase, and numbers. Consecutive chars are
prohibited. Did I mention the page hangs while you type? That eye icon
tho.

dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/ba…

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid again, today with 9 updated and 1 added apps:

* QRAnalyzer: shows you QR code® details – i.e. the data „hidden“ in the QR code®

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

After a month of changes to libipuz, I finally got the new editing interface working. These changes make it possible to differentiate between broken puzzles and correct-but-unhelpful puzzles, with an API to fix the latter. As a result, I extended the #GNOME #Crosswords Editor to edit barred puzzles.

Note: barred puzzles are basically impossible to set, and I'm in awe of anyone who is able to make a grid work. Maybe someone can make a cool puzzle with this.

Demo video below:

Happy Earth Day!
Since I just finished teaching river channels in my Geomorphology course, I wanted to share an Earth Day photo of an impressive braided stream coming off a glacier (location: Kyrgyzstan; photo credit: Scintillating Beauty).
A braided river, or braided channel, consists of a network of river channels separated by small, often temporary, islands.

Gaslit as a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome - a connective tissue disorder with many symptoms - Cortney Gensemer set out to publish about the disorder in top journals...and then send the results to the doctors who told her she wasn't really sick.

STAT's been doing some great work lately.

#medicine #genetics #ChronicIllness

statnews.com/2022/12/12/ehlers…

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Happy Earth Day! Earth Day is a day to celebrate the beauty of our planet and to remind ourselves of the importance of protecting it.

We carry a number of products that give back to environmental caused and Fahlo bracelets are one of our favorite.

Read More: thebeachmart.com/2023/04/suppo…

#EarthDay #HoldenBeach #NorthCarolina #LocalBusiness #ShopSmall

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U Proton mail mi vadí, že nelze používat emailové klienty třetích stran. Tutanota, je i bezpečnější, než Ptotinmail, ale také musí člověk používat jejich klienta, což mi vadí. Mailbox, Startmail a podobné služby, mají zabezpečení stejné jak Protonmail, ale lze využívat aplikaci jaká ti vyhovuj. Tak můžes používat na Androidu Fairemail. Navíc u Mailboxu, lze zapnout šifrování veškeré pošty pomocí Gnupg klíče.

Florida students say they’re walking out and teaching themselves banned history lessons to protest censorship and anti-LGBTQ laws in education

inquirer.com/education/florida…

#florida #lgbtq

Thanks to @TechConnectify I discovered that there are can openers that will not soak the lid in the sauce nor create that sharp hard to clean rim. And now I have my own! 😎
youtube.com/watch?v=i_mLxyIXpS…

Chromebooks have always been built to planned obsolescence.

"Schools bought millions of Chromebooks in 2020 — and three years later, they’re starting to break" - The Verge

theverge.com/2023/4/21/2369184…

#LAS2023 is taking place this weekend! Join us either in person at Masaryk University in Brno or online at youtube.com/channel/UCjSsbz2TD…. For more information, please visit our website at linuxappsummit.org/.

Got a new thing in the post to play with today, It's a SSD from 2014 with a whopping 8GB of storage.

If that does not sound like a lot, it's because it isnt, but this thing has a hidden trick up it's sleeve... It's actually a RAM disk.

Inside is 8GB of DDR3, and it exposes it over 12G SAS as a block storage device. But you may ask "That's kinda useless, since when you reboot you will lose all the data on the drive? Might as well load the chassis up with more RAM and have a page cache"

Well. This thing also has 8GB of NAND... it just only uses it on power on and power off to restore/checkpoint itself, even during sudden power loss!

Thanks to everyone who has boosted my open letter calling on entities that engage with the #blind community to come to Mastodon.
At the time of writing this post, we have around 330 signatures. That’s far fewer than those who have kindly boosted the petition here and just a tiny fraction of the blind community who has made the move to Mastodon.
If you’re concerned about missing out on engagement with organisations of the blind, some assistive tech companies, companies with #accessibility accounts and more, please add your name to the letter. It is going to have more impact the more signatures it gets.
Want to do more? Contact an organisation you want to see here, respectfully asking why they’ve not made it here yet and pointing out the benefits.
Also on the #LivingBlindfully podcast, we’ll have a section mentioning those entities that have responded to the call and made the move here.
Thank you.
bit.ly/BlindMastodon

The BC Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal of my anti-SLAPP application. Proctorio’s lawsuit, which has already taken a massive toll on me and my family, will continue to do so for the time being. It isn’t over, as I had hoped.

My statement: linkletter.opened.ca/stand-aga…

Kerim Safa - Factory of Nothing #pixelart #gif

"Factory of Nothing" is a manually-crafted digital animation that depicts an imaginary automated manufacturing system that does not produce anything.

[Source: kerimsafa.com/pixels/factory-o…]

The BC Court of Appeals ruled against @Linkletter.

Covered by @pluralistic here pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/lin…

“For starters, it finds that publishing a link can be a "performance" of a copyrighted work, which meant that when Linkletter linked to the world-viewable Youtube files that Proctorio had posted, he infringed on copyright.”

This is incredibly bad and continues Canada’s record of not really understanding the Internet.

Help Sustain AzuraCast!

tl;dr: Times are tough. Please help support AzuraCast's continued development if you can, and please boost: donate.azuracast.com/

Hi everyone! I'm Buster Neece, creator and lead maintainer of AzuraCast. It's hard to believe I've been working on this labor of love for over seven years now. In that time, I've seen this project go from a small hobby endeavor to a sincere contender in the web radio space up alongside its commercial counterparts. It's been amazing to see!

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In those seven years, though, the basic cost of living where I am has skyrocketed. I can't keep up now, and I'm worried about the future.

When you support AzuraCast, you're not just supporting new features, you're funding the time I spend on bug fixes, security patches, accessibility, and constantly adapting AzuraCast to a changing and updating software ecosystem around it. It's a LOT more work than it looks like. Just see for yourself: github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast…

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Help Sustain AzuraCast!

I work very hard on AzuraCast because I believe in it. I keep it open-source because those principles matter to me, and I build software that is meant to be used by everyone, regardless of income or disability.

Unlike other services that charge a monthly fee, though, we don't have a predictable revenue stream. That makes even things like rent and groceries difficult. It's been even harder now, and that's why I need the community's help now more than ever.

Thank you. 💖

64 bits of coremem. This is probably the pitch I'll use if I make a big plane. It's surprisingly quick to lace the write lines once you learn a few tricks, so much so that I'm less inclined to design a jig to do it. (The sense line however is likely going to suck so I have this board set up for four sense lines if necessary.) 32ga wire as I've determined that the required current is less than 300mA.

Coming up live at 01:00 UTC (9:00 PM Eastern, 6:00 Pacific in the Americas): an hour of Smooth Jazz, Chillout, and Easy Listening music on Smooth and Easy with Kelly Sapergia. More information about the show is at ksapergia.net/smooth. Tune in at theglobalvoice.info and click on the Listen Live link, or put the following URL in your favorite media player: theglobalvoice.info:8000/broad… #TGVRadio #audio

Elon Musk removes Twitter’s ‘government-funded media’ labels after outlets flee the platform

theverge.com/2023/4/21/2369244…

Was the SpaceX Starship’s launch a failure or a success?

Ars Technica says "For those who know a bit more about the launch industry and the iterative design methodology, getting the Super Heavy rocket and Starship upper stage off the launch pad was a huge success." The company's development process is messier, but it's also much faster, says author Eric Berger.

arstechnica.com/science/2023/0…

#Space #SpaceX #NASA

I really enjoyed this - youtube.com/watch?v=DhUFLepewg… - an explanation of Yunchan Lim’s gold-medal performance of Rachmaninoff's 3rd Concerto, here in full: youtube.com/watch?v=DPJL488cfR…

I love this class of "let's dig into and understand the reasons experts are falling all over themselves about how great this [whatever] is" video, presentations that get deep into the details of what really experienced people are seeing, when they're seeing greatness. It makes a class of appreciation very accessible.

Falsche Behauptungen: So unseriös machen einige Kinderrechtsorganisationen für die #Chatkontrolle mobil
netzpolitik.org/2023/falsche-b…