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"far-right" is the "progressive" catch-phrase for anything outside of the desired narrative.

As to what the OmniCause is I'd say educate yourself by doing the work (two more oft-heard phrases uttered by those who are into the OmniCause), e.g. by reading this WSJ article:

The ‘Omnicause’ Is Collapsing - Queers for Palestine? The contradictions are causing a crash at the intersection.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-omnicause-is-collapsing-prot... (https://archive.ph/m5GVm)

...or this one:

omnicause

IPA: US: /ˌɑm.niˈkɔz/; UK: /ˌɒm.niˈkɔːz/ Noun

    Political Neologism (Intersectional Activism): The intersectional relatedness of multiple major political causes and issues, often used to describe the expectation that a "good progressive" must support all such causes simultaneously as a single "package deal". It is frequently used critically to suggest these links are false, exaggerated, or counterproductive.

https://www.dictai.org/w/omnicause

Well, yes, or you make sure you can do that stuff yourself by actually doing it instead of leaving it to an agent. If you have to do it often you can leave some to agents but still do a few yourself so that you keep up to date and also can check whether what the agents do makes sense. You'll still save time, it might not even cost you any real time if you can handle a few cases while the agents take care of the others and you both finish around the same time. The agents may have done 10 times as much work as you did in that time but since you'd otherwise just have been waiting for them to do their thing you're not losing anything while you gain (or keep) experience.

> I'd rather stay in Github and maybe use another service purely as backup.

Swap those two and you're on the right track. I think the best way to use GH is as a mirror for a self-hosted git instance, with or without web frontend. It gives you the reach of GH with the, dare I say it, reliability of self-hosted. It also gives you the chance to keep things off GH which you don't want to be there. Keep the self-hosted instance private for most things, use GH links for public access. When GH is down again you can always give people (temporary) access to your self-hosted instance if the need arrives.

> But installing a program, reading documentation, then configuring the right settings, confirming it is doing what you want it to do, find out that's something wrong, going back to the docs... all of that can be automated.

It certainly can be automated. What you gain in productivity you loose in proficiency and self-reliance since you're depending on others, an artificial 'other' in this case but it is more or less like asking your nerdy friend to install that Linux thing for you. When it breaks you'll have to ask that nerdy friend again, or that agent again in this case. When the agent is unavailable it is just as if the nerdy friend went on holiday leaving you to fend for yourself.

You may be OK with this dependency but it is good to realise it exists. Could you still fix things after having used agents for a few months or years? Probably not, at least not without you needing to read all that documentation, try and test, fail, go back to the documentation and try again until you get it to work.

Yes, I have been to protests. Protests are not illegal in the Netherlands, you can go very far - especially if you protest for the 'right causes' - before you're stopped by the authorities. Protesters want to be seen protesting, that is what they do it for.

What you're describing is not protest but vandalism. The first is allowed, the second is not. That is what I said after all, that this rabble did not 'walk the path'.

It is, bad tactics. They're caught in the 'revolutionary mood' which has set France on fire. Those journos are 'part of the establishment' after all. Well, yes, they are and also they tend to side with activists, two things can be true at the same time. There are exceptions to that rule, maybe they very selectively beat up reporters? Anyway, that's still outside the realm or 'normal protests'.

No, they did not choose that path unless you include beating up reporters to make sure no images of the 'protest' came out as part of that path. All they have done is add 'datacentres' to the OmniCause, this is also made clear by the rabble who they linked up with. Here's a quote from a newspaper article on this break-in, in Dutch:

Journalisten ter plaatse zijn geslagen om te voorkomen dat er beelden werden gemaakt van de actie, die georganiseerd is door Geef Tegengas. deze actiegroep wordt gesteund door klimaatbeweging Fossielvrij, Actiegroep ZO, DeGoedeZaak, Leitmotiv, XR en Scientists for Future.

That translates to *journalists were beaten up to keep images from the action from coming out. The action is organised by 'Geef Tegengas' (loosely translates to 'resist', literally 'give counter-gas') which is supported by 'Klimaatbeweging Fossielvrij', 'Actiegroep ZO', 'DeGoedeZaak' ('the good cause', i.e. the omnicause), Leitmotiv, XR (Extinction Rebellion, high-brow climate hysterics who regularly block motorways in the Netherlands) and 'Scientists for Future'.

Wanna bet they all pranced around with their fruit phones to record their 'rebellion'?

There's plenty of ways in the Netherlands to protest without beating up journos since a large fraction of the press tends to be on activists' side, double so for the public broadcaster NOS. They're just doing it this way because they want to be 'radical' and see themselves as 'revolutionaries' for 'the cause'. They're spoiled brats, the lot of them, playing Che Guevara in the knowledge that the Dutch authorities tend to let them off anyway.

[edit: deleted double post, that's what you get trying to post from a train in Germany where mobile networks should be declared endangered species. Quo Vadis, Wirtschaftswunder?]

Yes, well, remember the dot-com boom/bust cycle? Lots of people lost a lot of money then but not all of those stocks ended up becoming worthless. Some held on to what they had and made a fortune once the internet-hype was over and the internet-era began. The same could happen with some - but certainly not all - of these 'AI-exposed' stocks. Once the 'AI' hype is over the 'AI era' will probably begin, especially if the dearth of RAM and matrix processing capacity is solved somehow.

> Doesn't matter

That's how you end up with the untold amount of waste and fraud in government everywhere. It does matter where the money ends up because otherwise it will be wasted and/or swindled away.

As said we're not there yet w.r.t. the need for such measures, the interesting photo notwithstanding. There is time enough to prepare for the eventuality that such measures are needed which also gives time to define a price point based on e.g. the revenues and profits achieved by those using LEO for their operations. The same was done for bandwidth auctions - and I have no idea where that money goes - so it can be done again here if and when needed.

Use a meta-search engine like SearXNG [1] and you're searching not only ad-free but also - if you choose your sources right - mostly bias-free as far as that is possible. You'll get the results Google filters out but others show, those which Kagi doesn't want you to see but others show, those which those others don't want you to see but Google or Kagi or fill_in_the_blanks show.

[1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng

No, this is the drive the machine came with from the factory.

To whom would they pay 'rent'? What would be done with the money?

Don't go there, it leads to nothing but more waste, abuse and corruption. If it becomes necessary there can be some form of arbitrage in how LEO is used, we're not there yet though. Maybe something like the auctions for bandwidth for mobile operators but again, where does the money go? If institutionalised it will just turn into another slush fund for whatever interests, many of them corrupt or nonsensical, to drain.

Good to know I'm not the only one annoyed by that superfluous piece of ${whatever} signalling.

No, didn't work for me open OpenWRT x64 running in a container but that is probably 'cause I'm using dropbear instead of openssh-server. That's what OpenWRT uses by default so the impact there will be minimal assuming that most installations don't change to openssh-server - it isn't installed by default.

I have one of those in an ageing late 2009 27" iMac running Linux. It is a Seagate ST2000DX001-1CM1, a 2TB "SSHD" which comes down to having 8 GB of NAND storage bolted on to a conventional 2TB drive. It doesn't need any special driver to do its thing so I wonder what that CoreStorage bit is supposed to be about.

No, a 42 kg backpack. A bit more than 88 pound. With a 10 kg one on front so 52 kg in total. I used it on a 3.5 month expedition from Vancouver via Whitehorse, then paddled the Yukon to Emmonak, then Alakanuk at the Bering Strait, back to Emmonak, then Anchorage, hitchhiked to the start of the Alaska Marine Highway at Skagway, then to Prince Rupert, from there to Vancouver Island, then back to Vancouver.

It was quite the trip. I don't really hold with the 'travel light' motto and mostly use old military gear, normal food instead of the freeze dried stuff, normal (but smallish) pots and pans, etc. On the Yukon trip I also happened to have a solar-powered water- and probably bullet-proof computer with me plus 2 10W solar panels, that was what I had in the 10kg pack on front.

All this ballot-this and ballot-that is so easily solved if only those who oppose showing ID would drop their objections. Here's how it works:

1: show up at polling location, either on voting day or within the early voting period.

2: show ID to poll worker who verifies it and hands over the ballots for the elections in which you have the right to vote

3: fill in the ballots, put them in the envelope(s) and hand these over to a poll worker

4: poll worker checks again whether you have voting rights for the specific elections and drops the envelopes into the correct voting urns

Done. No postal service involved. You can vote at any (early) voting location for national elections, for local ones you'll need to go to a local voting location where the required ballots are available. Early voting can start a few weeks before election day so nearly everyone should have the possibility to set aside half an hour to an hour to do their civic duty.

That leaves those who really can't make it to the polls. For these people there can be a verified postal ballot system, i.e. they get one sent home on request, fill it out and send it back in the required envelopes. Voting by mail always adds risks but since it would only be needed for a small fraction of the voters that risk is manageable. Mail-in votes need to be counted on election day so they need to be in the mail about a week before election day. Why you ask? Because the fraud risk of mail-in ballots makes it all too easy to use them to add enough votes to push a close race towards a specific candidate. Count them early on election day and publish the results, these need to be final results, before the rest of the votes are counted. There's plenty of countries where votes are counted this way, this is not rocket science. I have voting rights in 2 different countries in northern and western Europe, both use something resembling this scheme. Everyone shows his or her ID either to get the ballots or to have them deposited in the voting urns, this has never been contested and the mere thought of voting without ID is so clearly outrageously silly that nobody brings it up. All the arguments against showing ID have been proven to be specious at best, you need ID to do just about anything related to the government so insisting on voting without it only serves to undermine trust in elections.

> There is no security risk from Chinese EVs that requires a full ban.

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to [map] you.

Of course there is a risk to allowing networked automobile sensor packages on your streets if they're feeding a potential adversary live info on everything going on on and around your roads. Denying this isn't virtuous or smart or benevolent, it is at the best naïve.

40 kg is nothing? A feed bag? A lead-acid battery? My backpack? I've put far heavier things in the back of our cars - generators, compactors, engine blocks - without a buckle or a scratch to show for it. That's in European-style station wagons like Skoda Octavia or Volvo V-series.

Have a look at Hister [1], a 'personal web history search engine' which by way of extensions for browsers captures your web history and stores actual page content on your own instance where it can be browsed and searched. It does not store images so if that's what you're mostly interested in it won't work for you. For text is works quite well, maybe sometimes too well since it also stores ephemeral things like HN comment pages unless you tell it not to.

[1] https://github.com/asciimoo/hister/

Back in the day I was part of a 'commission' to produce a 5-yearbook for our student club. It being the digital age and we studying at the premier (and only...) agricultural university in the Netherlands I went and had a look at the possibilities to use university facilities to typeset the book. Those facilities ended up being a PDP-10 running TOPS-20 'cause the VAXen were too important for such work. After some experiments with TECO and RUNOFF I was convinced I'd never get the other members of the commission to work this way. Since my own C-64 was just that, my own machine and already in use for other things I ended up scrounging up an ancient tape-based word processing system consisting of a metal box with a tape drive connected through a thick cable to an IBM Selectric typewriter. While it wasn't the epitome of ergonomics it was more amenable to some of the more digitally impaired members of the commission. That the Selectric's motor burned out just when I was going to produce the master printouts which led me on a hunt for a motor (found one for ~$50) and a complicated repair (re-adjusting the whippletree linkage without documentation but with time pressure from the printers was not my favourite experience). Still, we made it, the book was published, all's well that ends well.

> After a few seconds, popup asking me to allow ads on the site. Ya, sure.

"No, sorry, I can't allow more ads 'cause I'm running out of memory. If you want me to allow ads you'll have to give me more memory first."

Halftime can be time-shifted to make bathroom occupancy more equitable. Apply to the local time office for your personal halftime slot.

You will own nothing and you will be happy. I heard that before, somewhere.

Oh yeah, here it was:

https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/welcome-to-2030-i-ow...

No, it really is in the sense that a lot of technology is developed here. Where things go awry is when someone tries to use that technology to create something and is met by a sheer wall of regulations, taxes, levies, restrictions and demands. This often results in those people jumping over the pond to continue their efforts in the USA. A good example is the development of the first practical electrically driven regional airliner which started off in Göteborg, Sweden: [1] In May 2024, Heart Aerospace announced the establishment of a new research and development hub in Los Angeles focusing on its hybrid-electric propulsion system, and the Forslunds moved there to oversee operations. The company subsequently closed its Swedish operations in 2025 and moved its headquarters to Los Angeles. In interviews with the Forslunds they quote better access to financing, ease of attracting those with the needed knowledge and experience to design and build these aeroplanes, easier access to the required materials and the general attitude towards startup companies. Mind, they're in California, the place where many American companies are fleeing away from due to over-regulation and excessive taxation. Coming from the EU it still seems to win and that is unfortunate.

I think we can do a lot better in this respect but to get there we'll need to scale down the regulatory mammoth which is the EU.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Aerospace

OK, down-voter, I suppose you don't like some of my other comments and thought to 'take revenge' by down-voting anything I posted recently but, honestly, why this one? What exactly triggered you about my memories of reading Jules Verne? Don't you realise using the down-vote button in this way gives away your game? Some of you even tried to flag me yesterday, such a... sad... spectacle.

It should at least have been a woodcut of the AI skyline, just like those in those blue books. We had more or less a full set of those, printed in the late 1800s/early 1900s which I voraciously read as a child. Reading 'The Children of Captain Grant' and seeing those images of Tierra del Fuego or the jungle or any of the other scenes really brought the 'pathos' of the stories alive, as if I were a Victorian setting out to see the wonders of the world. They still do for me, probably 'cause of my early experience with those books.

Here's a site - ignore the warnings about the certificate - showing some of these images: https://jv.gilead.org.il/evans/illustr/

No, it is not euro-centric. The previous US regime also spent like drunks, did you forget about all the stimulus packages which pushed inflation up to almost 10%?

Please stop pressing that down-vote button on anything outside the desired narrative. What nbajka says is true, corruption is universal. It is also true worldwide, not just in Europe. Corruption knows no ideological boundaries. Power corrupts, politics is about power, those in power sometimes abuse it. Yes, right-wing politicians are sometimes as corrupt as left-wing politicians. Yes, left-wing politicians are sometimes as corrupt as right-wing politicians. There's corrupt centrists as well.

You do realise the same is true for moves from the left to the right? The left spends until the coffers are empty, gets voted out by those fed up with the miserable state of the economy, the right takes over and brings things back on track through austerity measures, the economy wakes up but austerity is still demanded due to the size of the mess left by the lefties. Those same lefties point at the blooming economy and complain that only the rich get to profit while we live in austerity, vote for us and everyone gets a free beer and pony. People vote the left in, they start spending like crazy until the cycle repeats. Been there, seen it happen several times.