Price controls eh? I didn’t expect to see them arrive this early in the game. They’re a useful and sometimes necessary tool, but I doubt these knuckleheads would use them appropriately.

So the old playbook that in part gave us Hamas. Surely nothing could go wrong with this plan.

Says here that it was decriminalized in 1997. Marriage, adoption, and many other rights aren’t legal today. And of course there’s discrimination and repression.

For many - probably. For some it may be different depending on some factors like the material base needed for their research, or their own ethnicity. There’s plenty of racism in the EU towards some and the recent resurgence of the right isn’t reassuring.

One doesn’t. At least not while bigotry is still a significant problem. Homosexuality was a crime in Canada till 1969.

There’s some benefits to settling in China but yeah. As the economy grows further and the population tightens it might become much more acceptable.

Can’t escape your material conditions. Doing this while having any significant unemployment would produce such a backlash. Especially if the social development hasn’t achieved the eradication of xenophobia yet.

I’ve been trying Mastodon for as long as Lemmy but it’s not nearly as good due to the “who to follow” problem and the lack of ability to sort a topic by amount of interaction. E.g. can sub to say #Canada but within that, there’s no good way to surface highly faved or replied-to posts. The upcoming Starter Packs should help a lot because you’d be able to follow bunch people who tend to discuss some topic, which means you’d get the more active posts in your feed by means of those people intercting with it. It doesn’t replace the need for sorting algos but it addresses the problem partially. Perhaps it would be good enough. Circles (same concept) worked wonders in Google+.

We’re here.

Yeah, I wouldn’t bother implementing local storage if I could easily roll a local S3 in the docker-compose.yaml.

Yes

Could this be a trap?

Not gonna happen until the bodies are swept under the rug.

Miller is so getting clobbered by the fascist machine as soon as he’s played his role…

Centrists realizing they’re getting swept in with the lefties.

For a moment I thought this time Bibi might be changing direction to play the peacemaker and hostage-returner. I wondee if Hamas would try to outflank him by releasing the hostages anyway so they can then use Israel’s uncooperation against them. That would significantly increase the pressure on Israel externally and internally by killing a main piece of the victim narrative.

Thoughts as someone who’s migrated two gfs and one wife:

• Don’t consider distrohopping. Install something that can be maintained for 10 years through upgrades. If you go with Kubuntu, stay with Kubuntu. If you’re planning on Debian go straight to Debian and do the extra work to make it comfortable.

• Plan the install to be dumbproof and trivial to maintain. E.g. no separate partitions for this or that which could run out of space. If you need separate /boot, oversize it. You don’t want to deal with failed updates due to space.

• Install a Windows VM for all the corner cases you aren’t thinking of at the moment. Share the home dir with Windows under some drive like Z: and teach her to use it. Use built-in hypervisor like virt-manager. It doesn’t have 3D acceleration but it’s problem-free when it comes to upgrades over time since there aren’t kernel module compilations.

• Use web “apps” liberally to fill the gaps where native apps are missing.

• Don’t use external repositories unless absolutely needed. You want updates and upgrades trivial and boring.

You want to show that this system is better than Windows. Any issues and defects would be counted against it even if it was your fuckup. So go boring, trivial and stable.

Perhaps Servo isn’t apolitical enough. 🥹

Remember, technology is political and our major technology-related problems are political, not technological. We wouldn’t be building alternative browsing engines if Chromium was a community-built project, unaffiliated with an ad company.

E: FWIW, this comment suggest the initial political Ladybird snafu may have been remediated.

This is one of those where you can’t tell if it’s a good thing or a bad thing. 🤔