Notices by faraiwe (faraiwe@beige.party)

@nicholas @kaia ...and the anti-vaxxers arrive.

@jonah every douchebag techbro is just a douchebag techbro.

@MelodyWainscott @GottaLaff timely counter and reminder that most of the MAGAty narcissistic psychopaths entirely lack any sense of guilt, or shame.

They only fear transactional retribution, or anger from a mob of enraged victims.

@cwebber it's already controlled by right wing interests.

#BlueSky is a #DTBO , OWNED by vc crypto techbros. Guess where their allegiance falls? Profit.

Those guys ALWAYS align with fascists

@Aleums depends. Do you moisturize and exfoliate, or...

#California #fires #paywall

AHEM

#UnitedHealthCare

@phaedral @Atticus1956 @GottaLaff perspective

Brian Thompson killed more Americans by denying them critical healthcare, AFTER THEY PAID HIM FOR IT, than any terrorist with an WMD ever did.

People clutching pearls at the manner of his death did not raise any of that stink when he used AI to essentially kill (or cut length or quality of life from) hundreds of thousands, for profit.

Thompson was a smiling monster. protecting monsters is an obscenity unto itself.

Maybe "murder is not the answer" but when EVERY AND ANY OTHER ANSWER is denied to people, the Rule of Law has failed, factually.

For fuck's sake a convicted felon ON BAIL is being allowed to enter the White House, when he should be going to the Big House.

Law reflects (or should) the overall Will of People. Law is only as good as People are. Law is just ink on paper, if people are not willing to enforce it. Legal fetishes are not gonna save us, guys.

be 117% sure of one thing: clutching pearls and bothsidism ARE killing democracy, because allowing the other side to use a missile launcher when the spineless dems bring niceties to the fight.

Reminder for the diseased centrists and bothsiders

#BrianThompson of #UnitedHealthCare killed more Americans than any terrorist.

His decision on policies that denied life saving critical care, to preserve his fat paycheck and shareholders winnings killed as much as any WMD could.

Guys, guys.

It's not about who the hero is, or was.

It's about the heroic act of slaying monsters.

FOR NO REASON, WHATSOEVER....

#ClownCarCabinet #TurdReich #GOP #MAGAts #tRump

#Resist #Ohm

@dansup @pixelfed @Gargron the fashy mods, tho. The raging zionism, christofascism and suppression of any and every opinion that might expose those.

Very X. Much Musky. Such Zuck. How Dorsey.

Have you all considered that?

Strong supporter of #pixelfed. Not of m.s.

IMO, eventually, all the inconsistencies, compounded bugs, added bloat from copypasta code, and "ai" slop added to non-FOSS OSes and software will reach a critical point, where nothing commercial will work or perform the functions they were designed to do; but it will still be able to get online, mostly because the boxes that make internet actually work all run on Unix/Linux.

#ai #LLM #garbage #windows #apple #Linux #Unix

Some folks think I am some sort of #Linux worship fiend.

Nothing further from the truth; I simply admire that, in an age of near absolute #enshittification of most commercial software, the whole #FOSS thing seems to prove itself, time and time again, as a process (community created, refined and supported) that generates Things That Work. Because their objective IS to make it work, not generate "value for shareholders" and help CEOs buy their fifth yacht.

I have oodles and buckets of things to pick at, regarding Linux. Monolithic kernel?? Really?? What is this, 1960s? You manage memory HOW? Oh. The list goes on and on, don't get me started.

I was a serious enthusiast of the myriad of alternative OSes, in the Cambrian-like explosion of diversity of the 90s. So much diverse, curious, ingenious, brilliant solutions and notions! #BeOS, #OS2 #QNX (ok, 1980s), #Plan9OS, #ReactOS, to name a few out of so, so many other great Alt OSs of the time...

Compared to those, Linux seemed to actually freeze and stall evolution, sticking to the limitations of the vision by Torvalds (sorry, man, it's true, plenty of admiration for the guy, but dropped the ball on that kernel) at the time of its inception.

However, being the mainstay of FOSS, I use it, champion it, and defend it against ANYTHING commercial.

Until someone truly resurrects BeOS (eeeeh #Haiku ... eh....) lol

There.

/rant

@Lazarou we don't need "ideas". Guillotine invented his device in 1789.

We know how to build and work them, what is lacking is not the engineering or creativity, but the political will.

Even if ideas were somehow lacking, a good old drawn and quartering by mob is always effective, and entertaining.

Billionaires shouldn't exist.

#TurdReich #MAGAt #tRump

@msnbc @morning-joe-msnbc Reminder that leaving #twitter for #bluesky is akin to leaving russia for belarus.

Douchebag techbro billionaire owned socmedia are all the same. Trying the same thing, expecting different results is insanity.

#DTBO

@notroot @RickiTarr don't go gentle into the night.

Resist.

#Ohm

It's becoming ever clearer that the quest for a free #internet will be one of the relevant struggles going forward.

The sheer power of #dezinformatsiya spread by internet, alone, should be enough to establish that. Much like any powerful device/weapon/notion, the internet can be used for good or evil. Leaving it to corporate greed is not working too well, for the rest of us, in case nobody has noticed.

The internet was born de-centralized. Its roots were people's pooled resources, and time, skill and effort of tech inclined volunteers in online communities.

Corporations saw that, decided to entrap less tech inclined majority, and transform popular access to those communities into a product. They steal people's agency. Web2.0. Then Web3.0. Just new names for #enshittification and corporate greed.

De-centralized #FOSS (Free, Open Source Software) networks and their instances, such as the #fediverse, are meant to be a place to bring the internet back to the people, to dismantle the corporate take over of it, to revert back from the idiocy of "web2.0", and refuse the theft of our AGENCY, as online denizens.

This must be the revolution of Web1.0+, if we are to avoid becoming products, only.

The internet must return to its origin as an online community, and not a pool of digital cattle, if technologically advanced/dependent societies - and #democracy itself, even - are to survive

Pro tip.

If you are writing a Unix/Linux bit of soft to make hardware work, try to NOT make Windows-like stuff.

It's ok that you were "born" under Windows, but...

- GitHub is shit, and corporation owned. Their rules for touching, cloning and retrieving files are governed by some piece of shit profit-as-only-standard corp.

- it's a POOR idea to place resulting file under /home . I get it, you grew up seeing every 3rd party, user-installed driver plopped into C:\Manufacturer\Driver\files.x but that is NOT good coding practice, trust you me. There is a reason why system-defined folders where you place resources and the bits of software using them are there.

Still, kudos for writing it, and saving the rest of us the brunt of the prodding device, guessing values, trying, etc.

#Unix #Linux #windows