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Ich bin überglücklich, euch diese Veranstaltung ankündigen zu können, die sich speziell an #armutsbetroffene richtet:

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Rechtsextremismus und Armut
Rechtsextremismus wendet sich gegen Armutsbetroffene!

Rechtsextremismus verachtet sogenannte Sozialschmarotzer. Menschen werden nicht als Individuen betrachtet, sondern nur nach ihrem Nutzen für die "Volksgemeinschaft".

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So Google is building a massive AI data centre on Christmas Island, a tiny remote Australian territory with 1,692 people, and it’s exactly the kind of dystopian tech imperialism you’d expect.
They’re militarising a small island community in the name of cloud computing, partnering with the Australian Defence Department to monitor Chinese submarines and enable AI powered warfare systems. The island becomes a pawn in great power conflicts while Google extracts strategic value.
Meanwhile, locals are promised vague economic benefits while their homeland gets turned into a surveillance node with subsea cables linking to US Marine bases. Classic extractive colonialism dressed up as innovation.
The energy demands alone, powered by a local mining company, naturally, are staggering. Big Tech continues doubling our electricity costs for AI toys while communities bear the burden.
Christmas Island is known for red crab migrations, not military infrastructure. But when you’re a trillion dollar corporation, even the most remote ecosystems are just real estate for your empire.

#googleisevil #bigtech #militarisation #digitalcolonialism #aiethics #christmasisland #defendtheislands #environment #aibubble

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Remember kids: "Passive income" is a term used to describe wealth handed out to people by society, through our economic system, without doing any work.

Many people receiving a "passive income" are intergenerationally wealthy, as opposed to the working class and long-term unemployed people who receive social welfare payments.

Because of this, they're referred to as passive income /earners/ not passive income /recipients/. Conversely, we have social welfare /recipients/ not social welfare /earners/.

As a society, we've decided that Joe Heir and Jane Heiress deserve their wealth, even if they've never done a full day's work in their lives. And there are no income tests for this wealth, so they get these handouts even if they don't need them.

Conversely, we've collectively decided that welfare recipients are bludgers. Welfare payments are also vigorously means tested. The burden of proof is entirely on you to claim and prove you deserve these payments.

The one exception to this social welfare rule is when handouts go to the rich, whether that's in the form of subsidies or tax breaks.

Because there's one law for the rich, and another for the poor.

#capitalism #economy #economics #business

Very sad news: OpenTopomap is being retired, basically.

opentopomap.org/about#survival

Many thanks to the people who gave their time over 14 years so that we could use this wonderful gift.

#OSM
#OpenStreetmap
#OpenTopomap

Supplement:

In his message the main developer (?) of Openstreetmap mentions that there may be a successor.

If you think you are able to: Get in touch with him and ask if and how you can help.

visitor.. done finally now let's cook

edit: no no no pause now

So now there’s official quote boosts on Mastodon I want to make it clear that the only valid use for this is “look at this great thing, here’s why I like it” and “I agree, here’s my yes-and”

Quote dunking is absolutely not allowed for anything; anyone doing that goes in the unfollow/block bin. Even if you’re right, you’re just boosting the reach of crap I don’t want to see, and dragging the tone down to those other places. Don’t do it.

Dear websites, please just stop with the AI chat bot rubbish. If I want to search through your published info for something, I'm probably better at it than your chatbot.

And when I close the chat and rate it "1 - Terrible"... Maybe don't respond with "Great! What went well?" Because that just reinforces why I don't want to use your crappy chat bot in the first place.....

I see a lot of reporting about the Louvre theft and that the French people are "relieved" that thieves got caught or that we feel "humiliated" that it happened in the first place.

Absolutely not. Nobody around me cares one bit about it. We care about the public service disappearing, we care about the rampant corruption in the political spheres, we care about the pensions they're trying to steal from us.

We're more than ready to trade stupid jewels for transparent democracy that works.

So I read that the 3 months it took to resolve the licence compliance issue is "unacceptable by Fedora" with strong implications that it should've been done faster and _immediately_. This is a bit sad that someone dug up another thing to criticise on.

Firstly, the fixes were deployed on most part within 1-1.5 month. The public announcement took longer due to various external factors like consulting lawyers. The date to drop EOL runtime and apps which didn't receive the fix is set in January 2026 because we wanted to give people enough time before dropping things left and right beneath their shoes.

Secondly, none of the changes I did was specifically "for Fedora". My motivation was to fix our own runtimes. I saw it as any other issue filed. So it probably doesn't matter to me whether it's acceptable or unacceptable to them. I don't really care.

Lastly, I'm not sure what is the expectation here but since everyone is a volunteer and we don't have an army (we barely have 5 or 6 people) working on this, large scale changes like this are going to take time and people just have to deal with it.

Adrian vovk and I iterated on how the licences should be installed multiple times over almost a month with several fixes and adjustments being done. We wanted to get the automation mostly correct and future-proof... so that we won't need to touch it every few days on a per element basis. That would've been just annoying to deal with.

This work was also exposed as a stable and public API by fdsdk which fdsdk's downstream junctions can depend on. Designing something that downstreams can depend on for the foreseeable future also takes time.

In parallel, at that time fdsdk was preparing for its yearly major release (25.08) that demanded a bunch of attention.

Then just backporting and rebuilding all branches of all the runtimes is going to take time as there is no unlimited supply of runners or infrastructure. Reviving EOL branches also takes significant time and effort.

These changes are huge as it involves rebuilding everything in the project. fdsdk for example takes close to 1200-1400 minutes for each rebuild.

Criticisms like this when the intention was to genuinely solve the issue properly and quickly and collaborate, leaves an odd sour taste.

Two years ago we launched tuta.com 🥳

Here's why it's great:

⚡️️ Only 4 letters
⚡️️ Means "secure"
⚡️️ Brand name allows growth

Check out how the new domain helped Tuta become one of the most popular encrypted email providers! 💗 tuta.com/blog/two-years-tuta

NS has published the price list for 2026.
Interestingly, they charge (like in 2021) different surcharge for the first class during weekday (80 %) and weekends (40 %) in place of flat 70% surcharge.
This means that travelling first class in the weekend will get cheaper next year. That being said, the monthly surcharge for Weekend Vrij 1st class increases from € 10 to € 10,45. I fail to see the logic there.

ns.nl/klantenservice/betalen/t…

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Bekijk de prijzen voor losse treinkaartjes, abonnementen, Dagretour en Fietskaart Dal.

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