Gotta say, I went out to the primaries yesterday to do the whole elect who to elect later thing, and Abdul was the very first lad I went to. Honestly feels refreshing hearing people speaking about some actual leftist values instead of “hurr durr muh corporate donors.” As far as governor goes though, Jocelyn Benson seems alright and at least spouts leftist rhetoric, yet the datacenter policy is a bit concerning. I can see why she adopted it, but I woulda just wanted a bit more in that regard.

Edit: Wowzers, that was a dang close primary for Abdul too. Not gonna lie, feels good getting someone anti-establishment in place.

I’d say the opposite. Seeing that number over everyone’s head oughta be a good way to prove that law ain’t aligned with morals.

I bet it’s easier than putting socks on a chicken because they’re a very cute duck.

Gustavo Fring, my legend.

Y’know, its a weird quirk I’ve noticed, how little I see actual IDF soldiers on video or photo, despite hearing of them all the time. Like full transparency, this is probably the first time I’ve ever seen one without combat gear on, or at home, or anywhere that isn’t just some candid photo in a former battlefield. Even then, I’ve only seen a handful.

Okay, editing right after posting, it honestly seems this way for pretty much all of Israel. The only actual visual I’ve seen much of in the news are photos of Netanyahu and the one video where Israel gets hit with an Iranian missile. Even looking up info on Israel seems to prompt a distinct lack of visual insight of anything about the country, much less the people within.

Bit of a nuanced take, a trimmed down copy-paste from another comment of mine prior. Tl;Dr: he’s a product of the system that left the system.

Snowden was an individual that worked in the intelligence community in the mid-2000s. In this era, the American populace was so afraid of terrorism they signed away freedoms for national security. In this post 9/11 world, patriotism was a given, almost nationalistically, if you were American. It’s fair to say that a highly nationalistic media and culture can influence the individual to embrace those mentalities more… even if it perverts your true best interest. Snowden likely viewed service to the NSA as patriotic, and in support of his fellow Americans. While he started off supporting it, he soon saw immorality, and decided to resist against them with what I see as an effective measure. I feel that for most whistleblowers, this logic applies. I wanna say “Good job, but still shame on you for taking the job to begin with,” yet this system we’re in can cause us to support things we otherwise wouldn’t like.

Looking to modern issues: The manipulation of individuals, mass surveillance, leveraging of government by powerful. Critisizim of these was always there, but where it was pointed at and pursued sure felt a lot different after Snowden.

Honestly I’d say the ones who ruined it were the cryptobros who only care about seeing number go up. Gave a bad rep to crypto right outta the gate, especially with causing the (first) GPU shortage. Now if you mention crypto to anyone, even with a legitimate interest, they instantly get a bad taste in their mouth.

It is always nice when some service allows payment in Monero though. The default of bitcoin is still prominent, but thankfully most people are realizing it ain’t private at all.

Consumerism and materialism really do hold a grasp on the mind for many. Can recount several people I know personally who make really dang good money, far better than I, but spend it all on so much unnecessary bullcrap that they wind up struggling financially.

We do have some similar things, like Meshtastic for messages, but that’s just texting via radio. As far as calls go, it’s mostly also just radio for now.

Session tried to get a call and text system setup whereby anyone can host a node, similar to a TOR node, but their foundation didn’t reach the funding total. The work is done, but some services are gonna be scaled back a bit. There is definitely a considerable push for systems like that, but they’ll take a bit of time for implementation as it’d otherwise just be another company owned service that’s outside our control.

Honestly, I would really fuck with a comprehensive Linux mobile experience. I know some things exist, but they aren’t yet fully rounded off. I say this now, but know damn well I’d tinker with something I shouldn’t and wind up needing to reinstall the OS like five times.

Word of caution on this, make dang sure you know exactly what you’re doing. Dassault systems has a reputation for tracking pirates down and billing out the ass, and that reputation doesn’t come from nowhere.

Still not saying not to pirate it, but do tread on very light waters.

Doesn’t seem to be AI, just some lazy work. The other images used on their website all seem to be taken from primary sources when applicable, and this one is as well.

So, different mentalities express themselves in different places. For my workplace, talk about AI as an innovation happens more often. In my day-to-day, all the talk is concern about a new datacenter going up in our community. In the internet, people seem largely against AI. I find it to be a symptom of certain environments leveraging a different thought process.

I think it’s pretty fair to say, the internet overall cares deeply for expression and humanity, to which AI has fed off of to train, and now regurgitates in inhuman speech. This affects us all, and makes the overall internet experience worse. Oppositionally, AI has allowed businesses to streamline workflows. No more fluffing up an email with bullshit to “sound professional,” just have an AI do it for you and save the time. And as for local datacenters, no shame if you don’t know what they do to communities, but I don’t think you’d believe a Lemmy comment if it’s your first time hearing of it.

We live in capitalism, nothing doesn’t contribute to the orphan crushing machine, but we can still try.

Pretty sure that is it. A lotta people in response to seeing him decry certain technologies tend to say, “that uncompromising nature on privacy is why GrapheneOS holds up so well.” Which I gotta be real when I say that it really does make me feel more comfortable with GrapheneOS’ development. I can’t keep up with all news on it, I’m not wanting to completely audit all the source code, but having a development team led by someone like that does bring a sense of ease toward my phone.

Not gonna lie chief, this seems like a negative stereotype. Men are just as guilty of this.

I was gonna say, you can tell who’s just a cryptobro vs who actually cares about fiscal freedom based on that. If anyone suggests you use bitcoin, they probablyyyyy aren’t someone to listen to. Zcash and Monero are the only two I’d ever trust as of now.

Honestly, its a massive shame that a technology as good as crypto was completely usurped by groups just looking to profit. They chant “This is true freedom of finance!” while only caring how much USD it’s worth. Like dawg, that’s why nobody takes crypto seriously.

For reference of just how easy this is, most AR-15s that I’ve seen have been units built from individual parts, my own included. That’s kinda the AR-15’s whole schtick, is that it’s super modular and customizable, so much that a lotta people joke that it’s “LEGOs for adults.” It makes good sense, if company A makes a good upper, but Company B makes good triggers, so why not mix and match for the best of both worlds?

No shame if you’re one of these people, but I figured mostly everyone on Lemmy would’ve known about this sorta stuff by now. While many apps are just frontends for services, the presence of an app alone is enough to massively expand trackability of the user. Heck, its profitable enough for companies to force people to use apps that some services are forcing all mobile website visits to redirect straight to an app store.

You’re trying to spell check a farmer. We simply do not care.