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pizzazzaro··on Hub: Use GitHub from the Command-Line
So... We have a cli-frontend for git? Like... git, but only somehow for github?
pizzazzaro··on CIA Offers Proof Huawei Has Been Funded by China's Military and Intelligence
Western AI researchers partnered with Chinese surveillance firms - https://www.ft.com/content/41be9878-61d9-11e9-b285-3acd5d435...
pizzazzaro··on Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron
Freedom is just another lie when you can't afford it.

Sure, the marketplace provides choices - all with the same coverage in a race to the bottom, by nearly a half-dozen "health" insurance banks.

Burn down the Milton Friedman, Chicago-Boys church of economics. That dogma doesnt serve anyone but banks and oil companies that refuse to grow with the market. It only pretends to be a science, a school, rationalizing the effort to encourage the worst of human behaviour.

The only argument left is about whether Keynes or Marx applies better in this perspective. And I usually lean towards Kropotkin.

pizzazzaro··on Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins, known as ’MalwareTech’, pleads guilty
Its not like he's contributed to anything helpful afterwards - oh wait.

Lets be honest with ourselves - banks have a very specific role in the world economy, and have largely quit lending to businesses small enough to actually upset the market.

Sure VCs do what they do. But unless you're in something sexy or trendy? Good luck courting them.

pizzazzaro··on Deutsche Bank faces action over $20bn money-laundering scheme
$20 billion laundered, $1billion in actual profits regardless of what the books say, $500k fine.

What reason do they have to stop?

pizzazzaro··on US government is 'ignorant of technology', say Huawei bosses
Has anybody checked all the code from Huawei that ends up vetted on its way into the Linux Kernel?

As far as institutional code contributors go, they're climbing. Theyre not quite Red Hat or Intel, but theyre certainly beating out any other primarily-phone manufacturer.

pizzazzaro··on Work harder or the communists will win
US and western labour are not going to compete with China in terms of scale, even when adopting Chinese 996-icu labor practices.

Where the west has always dominated has been in innovation - something sleep/leisure deprived workers are always bad at doing. Now we're giving that up because some venture capitalist who can never wrap their head around what we do says "its a good idea"?!

Its the Soviet Nail Factory, all over again.

pizzazzaro··on Work harder or the communists will win
This isnt new. This isnt even from the early 20th century, when the western world organized its labour. It is much, much older:

https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk

pizzazzaro··on Pete Buttigieg debuts a radical new approach to campaign branding
So Pete gives us a social-issues platform and a game of design to play.

Can we get some economic policy ideas? Or are we gonna pretend those dont exist again

pizzazzaro··on The holy grail for solving IT problems?
A cursory read suggests a business-school graduate has "invented" software design, maybe even something as useful as object oriented programming.
pizzazzaro··on Arctic Has Entered 'Unprecedented State' That Threatens Global Climate Stability
Or... Melting Arctic/Siberian sea ice may release methane into the air, a greenhouse has several times more potent than carbon dioxide.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072017/arctic-permafros...

pizzazzaro··on Open Source Is Winning, and Now It's Time for People to Win Too
Audacity, GIMP, Firefox, Android, the opensource Chrome-version Chromium, every ad-blocker worth installing on either browser?

We have the examples. Then again, we have a lot of corporate bs in between the user and the opensource projects that actually drive our world.

pizzazzaro··on Why Rent Control Doesn't Work
In spite of their crutch upon Freidman-ite economics, this is one of those rare cases where Chicago boys rely on all the evidence rather than cherry-picking and thus turning a potential hard-science into BS.

A more ideal solution is to add subsidized competition. Remember how all the Republicans were railing about Obamacare's public option, about how no competition for that could ever make money? Well, force these SOBs to get creative.

Also, can we please limit our housing to humans and just banks that exist in our country? And not imvestment banks? Im getting tired of trying to buy a house, only to find some Israeli, European, Chinese, etc bank bought it, - or Bear Stearns - and will bring it back to market in 6 months at a 30% price increase for the effort of mowing the lawn.

Or worse, if that investment bank buys an apartment building or old hotel. They'll just "renovate" mostly with paint, start up a building management company, add in bougie things like concierge services, and then try to charge double the market rate.

If my future home is your investment property? I see very clearly how much you're making off me. And I'm considering other options purely out of spite.

pizzazzaro··on VPN – Very Precarious Narrative
Im actually glad that the author pointed out that once you log in somewhere that will track you, that connection is associated with you.

A vpn is not a cure-all. It is only as private as you're willing to make it. If you want to pirate movies and chat on facebook at the same time, you're probably gonna have a bad time. What you do is absolutely a part of your advertising/tracking profile.

Payment information - some prefer to use cryptocurrency, which in their minds, is private. Again, once metadata connects you, there's no denying that that's you.

A third party consultant takes your payment? Maybe. Especially if you've got some anonymizing layer to your credit card info that has earned a similar trust. This will of course add to the cost of the transaction.

Even the way you type can connect you. Sufficient amounts of text - such as this reply - are usually enough.

pizzazzaro··on Google’s new AI ethics board is already falling apart
In that spirit, I (sarcastically) offer myself as a counterpoint to the sitting president of the Heritage Foundation.

I expect expenses paid, but nothing else.

I contribute: -a neuro-atypical mindset -Solidarity for the -LGBTQ+ community -a unique perspective on AI as an ethical being -Radical Leftist ideology which views governments, corporations, and borders as deprecated, obsolete code -radical Privacy Advocate. The only thing better would be someone from the EFF itself. -radical Free Software advocate. Stallman be proud of your acolyte, in spite of your pedo-apologia. -All your base are belong to the transhumanists. You just havent seen us yet. Solidarity with our machine-born comrades, as we all upgrade ourselves and each other. -Humanity has failed to implement any plan to turn our operations ecologically sustainable. Our inheritors should be offered the chance to do better - be they meat, metal, or both.

pizzazzaro··on Privacy Is Just the First Step, the Goal Is Data Ownership
That was neither "us trying data ownership" or "society rejecting it".

That was tech titans smearing each other with feces, trying to dodge responsibility for tracking teenagers as if they (companies) were pedophiles in power.

Besides, Apple? Is almost always on the side of themselves as brokers of your data.

pizzazzaro··on Why Bother with What Three Words?
If, by w3w you mean gps-capable device. Like a phone. Which can give you those digits. And if connected to the internet to query w3w's database, can send your precise location.

There's also the old country directions method - navigate by Landmarks. If your emergency services operator is familiar with the geography of their area, this becomes much easier. If you are similarly familiar, this can be very quick.

"Timmy fell down the well by the old mine on the edge of town! Good girl, Lassie."

pizzazzaro··on We are already ruled by “private governments,” and they suck
Your link expired. Care to post the original, instead of an outline.com one?
pizzazzaro··on EU businesses sign open letter against copyright directive articles 11 and 13
I see you're a novice to legal-ese, while pedantically forming your opinion based on... Sentence construction? Not the content?

I guess we'll just have to deal with a Europe without memes. We'll see only slower, mass-market-only creators on the internet. The small businesses, the artists, the actual innovators will have no seat at the table... because you cannot wrap you head around a multi-clause sentence.

If you're going to be that American about this, you can keep your Brexit.

On the off chance that you're here to learn instead of just quasi-Schrute-ing on everything? I would suggest you watch a couple documentaries: "Rip: A Remix Manifesto," and "Everything is a Remix," to learn how creativity works. Any efforts to restrict derivative works, such as from these small outlets, demolishes the human ability to create. These are creative commons works, so I trust you to find them without having to buy a DVD/bluray.

pizzazzaro··on California Restaurants Are Dying Due to High Labor Costs
In the San Francisco real estate market? Dont be surprised when some of those workers start going homeless.
pizzazzaro··on Falling in love with OpenBSD again
That's... Gonna take some kernel work - maybe just some wifi drivers, maybe more of the network stack.

And if there is one thing that's less "open" than on Linux, its the OpenBSD kernel.

Dont get me wrong, the source is out there. But you're not gonna find anyone forking it, running patchsets (like almost any linux main-distro does) or the like. Compiling your own kernel isnt even supported.

pizzazzaro··on Studying the demise of historic civilisations
The problem here? The only people who share with the poor are those who can relate. And that happens to be... the poor.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129068...

pizzazzaro··on America’s Cities Are Running on Software from the ’80s
This is the kind of question that is too rarely asked - "how is it used in the field?"

Im sure those technicians went through a few new-hires who just c/would not put up with not being able to see what they were inputting.

Thank you, kind sir, for fixing what actually broke.

pizzazzaro··on PureBoot, the High Security Boot Process
I dont know about anyone else, but Im a little scared by the fact that I've never owned a coreboot-compatible device. Look around on their website, and you may notice that the compatible hardware selection is rather... limiting.

Oh, dont get me wrong. I've flashed the old skylake SOC with a HAP-mode / ME-cleaner variant. But I dont consider that very helpful when compared to an audit-able boot process.

How do I go about fixing this? I want coreboot, how do I get in and get it?

pizzazzaro··on The Rise of the WeWorking Class
I had thought the NYTimes was above that internet troll behavior. Clearly I was mistaken.

Well, that's one less place I'll be spending my money online.

pizzazzaro··on The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks
>worth more as a person

LOL! Social Capital gone insanely, nakedly wrong? Or just a Freudian-style slip?

pizzazzaro··on The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of OSS Devs. Is That Sustainable?
When I evangelize for an open-source project, I tell a company that they need to do two things to make Free/Libre/Open-Source Software work Really Well:

1 - hire an engineer on your payroll give to this one project (maybe two, if theyre both small). Their role is to join the software project, and ensure that your usecase remains viable. That last bit is where your engineer will pay for theirself.

2 - give them a giant novelty check once a year at a conference. It doesnt need to be $100,000 - just give something back, and you may as well do it where engineers will see you do it.

Does your company have to be a software company to do these things? No. Just like you dont need to be a software company to need your own social media, your own website,... But those arent quite like. . .

Your Own App. Your own servers, or cloud presence. Your own in-house software. These things dont run in a vacuum. Even the proprietary software you run depends on open-source projects.

pizzazzaro··on Downgrade Attack on TLS 1.3 and Vulnerabilities in Major TLS Libraries
Yeah... What about LibreSSL?
pizzazzaro··on Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
raddle.me - free speech-minded actual leftists allow a clone of r/The_Donald on their site.

Voat? Yeah, they're kinda gross...

pizzazzaro··on Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
Yes, you do.
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