I’m confused by the goal and the plan. You have to get pre check for your job, but you find it invasive. So you ruin one of the biometric samples they take? Won’t they look at it more carefully? I doubt they will just throw their handd in the air and say fuck it

It’s almost like if you gut the people who know what they are doing you can’t do the things that you want to do

What about using lynx or eww?

Fountain

Not if it’s rubbing someone’s face in it

I wouldn’t say don’t, but be careful if you want to keep your job. I suggest making it inferred and not direct. Example. The day after the election I showed Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. The one with the footage of the plane hitting the World Trade Center. It was VERY on the nose and a few students complained in my evals, but I got away with it because we were starting Universal Gravitation and I showed The Drake Equation first. It was very much a “while we are talking about Carl Sagan…”. There was enough context and plausible deniability you’d have a hard time going after me. And I’m glad I did. A lot of students needed to hear it. Here are the two videos so you can see what I’m talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=145GxsLJokI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GcMszgjCws

How are we supposed to know other than you implying what you think the answer is? (Quasi serious question that in and of itself says something about your vibe)

Protesting is pretext

Ask it was llm it is derived from. Spoiler. It won’t tell you

Andrew

Excuse me. ‘Free Software’ is capitalized. It is a proper noun. Do I need to explain to you the differernce between ‘Free as in Freedom’ and ‘free as in beer’?

An unhealthy attitude for an unhealthy situation. You don’t need thick skin if you dehumanize others. If you work harder, you are typically better at what you do than they are. They are less than you. Contemptable. Useless. Even if politics gives them a leg up, you are necessary, and they are disposable.

Granted this is a maladaptive sociopathic extreme.

Once you download wikipedia, you can edit it and distribute. Other people with their own copies can merge your changes into theirs, or you can push your changes upstream. Even if they need to be signed to accepted. Doesn’t that make Wikipedia more like the Linux Kernel and less like The Encyclopedia Britannica? Sure, for the kernel there is a “main and central” repo, but the whole point of git is that it isn’t centralized. It’s distributed.

In fact, in a loose way, wikipedia meets the criteria of Free Software. You can:

1. Read the source code
2. Modify the source code
3. Distribute the source code
4. Distribute your modifications to the source code

edit: wikipedia is predominately licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)

I have a fairphone 4 with /e/OS. It’s been everything I’ve needed without being spectacular.

A big complaint is the way you get apps. I don’t add apps often, and often I use adb, but the App Lounge is slow af. I predominately use obtanium to get the apk’s directly. It has F-Droid built in, but if that doesn’t work I use F-Droid proper. This splits my apps into 4 separate bins which I absolutely hate.

The camera also sucks. Stabilization, quality of images, low light, images with motion. They are all bad. Luckily for me, I don’t take pictures of people often. This applies to most camera apps. The default camera app has been patched to eliminate some of these problems, but I haven’t applied it. I’ve heard past the fairphone 4, these problems have largely been fixed.

What could be a dealbreaker for some is something I haven’t verified nor use. (If this is important look into it. I don’t want to spread rumors) The voice typing on the default keyboard now has/will have telemetry. Potentially to Google? I understand Murena needs to make money, and it isn’t personally a dealbreaker, but it is opening a door to other privacy violations. Many people in the community see this as unacceptable and once you’ve violated trust, you never get it back. For me, I’ll hang in there until I see a more substantial reason to switch (same as Proton, but leave me alone about that)

Those are all the negatives of the Fairphone 4 and /e/OS I can think of, but there are many other positives that imho outweigh the negatives. And depending on where you are coming from (e.g. google/samsung android or ios), you have to realize that with phones like the fairphone and roms like /e/OS there are large pros, but there are often large cons. Here, I’ll gladly accept those for what I’m getting in return.

LMK if you have other specific concerns. I might have just left them out. There are also ways I better secure my privacy, but you didn’t ask about that 🙃

Agreeish? (M)any one of us can download wikipedia. Does that still make it centralized when it is designed to be distributed that easily? That design choice is baked into the ethos. Centralized vs. Decentralized seems not to be binary.

My understanding is that booby traps, like landmines, harm indiscriminately. i.e. they harm whoever trips them and not a particular target. And they persist until triggered. So in effect you have a time and target independent death lottery.

Will vpns still work? What would the legal ramifications be if you used one?

I would caution against Arch. I don’t think it breaks as often as people suggest, but you may run into a problem like steam not loading when you want to play something with your friends. That gaming session is shot unless you can fix it on the fly. After a few years you will, but you need to balance those kinds of growing pains against doing something you want to do in the moment. Don’t expect it to work the way you expect every time.

They deliberately choose “killed” over “murdered” not because of spin, but becauss “killed” is value neutral, and “murder” requires malice of forethought.

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