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https://distrosea.com/ this is amazing for previewing linux OS flavours right in your browser, no need for a USB stick or installation! Linux Mint, Zorin, Ubuntu and Fedora are the winners for me in terms of being normie friendly.
I've put together lists of alternatives on this site: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/
That does all sound much more equitable. But don't you just end up with a different 1% controlling everything, as per every communist state in the past? And isn't that because not everyone is a worker - you have to have the admin layer at the top, who are deciding what is 'best for society', and they can (and due to human nature usually do) most decide what is best for themselves.
What you describe sounds MUCH better for the majority of people - but I worry about the unaccountability of the ruling admin layer.
Does communism/socialism have rules for mitigating that (which haven't been followed by communist states, but could be)?
see, this is the problem - I've avoided thinking about politics forever, and now I'm not sure about the main concepts 😂
I've always equated high taxes with socialism - so long as those taxes go towards services and redistribution of wealth.
OK - so what *is *socialism? (the main tenets)
very interesting points!
I've just started a non-profit (to try to reduce/undermine surveillance capitalism) - and we'll probably build software along the way. That is entrepreneurship, but not profit focused. However, we would need to be funded and paid to make it work.
How should I frame this in your way of thinking?
ah... bugger. That's the link I used. I'll see if I can find another from the person who posted it.
SimpleX group chat about privacy
I thought people here might like to join this if you want to see what other privacy folk are talking about. I think it originated on Nostr.
How can we avoid fingerprinting?
I've been worried about this since Google switched to it in Feb this year.
Apparently the short answer is "you can't". Which is terrifying. Surely some clever peeps out there can find a way round it (for normies)?
e.g. there's this https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/ - is that being looked at by the people developing the protocol?
Development of the ActivityPub protocol - data portability and persistent ID
I'm trying to find out where the development is at right now for ActivityPub, specifically about data (posts) portability, and persistent IDs.
For the former I think that's fairly self-explanatory, I'm just trying to get a flavour of if it's a priority, who's working on it, what the anticipated timeline is etc. It's a clear advantage that ATproto has, so are we trying to close the gap?
By the latter I mean is there work happening to work towards us being able to have one ID that can be used to log in to any fediverse network (as per nostr)? This approach makes so much sense to me - is it even possible?
The link here to W3.org doesn't seem that up to date - but I'm not that knowledgable so may have misinterpreted that site. So I'm looking for education on this subject 😊
For Hitler and Nazi Germany it certainly was a way to prepare for expansionist wars: https://www.richardjevans.com/lectures/autarky-fantasy-reality/
I was just in Denmark recently and it seems like that's what they have: a capitalist society but regulated by very socialist policies like (really) high taxes. Makes sense to me - I'm probably just not using the right terminology.
They're all 'one-party states' aren't they?
Opposite of democracy... so whether they work well economically is irrelevant, since you're relying on the party not to become totalitarian. 😬
Naomi Klein's book 'Doppelganger' is good on this topic...
Socialism yes. I've always thought that capitalism regulated with socialist policies is the way forward. That way you can still encourage entrepreneurs to get going.
But we're still left with the r > g problem (money attracts more money).
Communism is the extreme end of socialism isn't it? And I've always thought that extremes never work. Extremism is a circle...
I'm open to being educated on this though....
Serious question: has communism ever been proved to work at scale? (not communist regimes, the communist ideology)
Copying some HTML and CSS code into the llm and saying "change it to make it do xxxxxxx"
Separate navbar file
Anyone know if you can have a separate HTML file for the navbar and link to it from all the page files?
Updating the navbar in each page to ensure consistency is a pain!
Probably could be more slick, but working fine for my everyday needs.
The touch screen didn't work immediately, I had to search up for a command line solution to that. But most won't face that if they flash onto other (non-Surface) hardware.
I'm reading this on a Microsoft Surface that I flashed with Linux Mint. Quite satisfying!
Message to Microsoft:🖕
I was juuuust about to recommend Mega on my 'alts to big tech' part of my website, then I found this out... nope.
Grant funding for helping people get away from big tech
Hi there fediverse people!
I'm starting a non-profit to help people get away from big tech and use alternatives. Besides providing info via a website we'll put on events, and we're also planning to start a certification service so companies can prove they don't support the surveillance business model.
Does anyone know of any grant funding, either UK or EU, that might help with this?
Koch is now suing Ass for doing dumb tariff stuff
- Billionaire Koch votes for dangerous narcissistic clown with terrible business sense
- Clown is elected so Billionaire Koch gets clown using terrible business sense to wreck global economy
- As a result, billionaire Koch loses a butt ton of money in the stock market
Could not upvote on another instance
I've joined Lemmy.ml. Someone sent me a link to a video posted on Feddit.nl - I thought I could log in and upvote/comment using my Lemmy.ml credentials. Wrong!
Why is this? Sorry for my ignorance, I'm relatively new to the fediverse. But I thought that they were all federated so you can interact with all instances??!