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@clarablackink The "lot of extra work" bit - what sort of work are you thinking of here?

@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen ... so then include espeak and distribute a separate build that omits GPLv3 components like espeak for the AOSP drop-in usecase?

In those 10 years, homelessness up 575%.

In 2024, 15,000 people were homeless. 9,000 are families.
Cost? €361,000,000.

€40,111/family/year. €3,343pm

50% are homeless for over 1 year. 20% for over 2 years.

Median home price, €355,000.
Cost? 30 years at 3.0% - €1,496pm

€3,343pm clears that mortgage in 10 years.

We are spending more to keep people on the streets than in homes, with walls made of misery instead of brick. Build homes instead of excuses.

anyways make your fucking interactive GUIs/TUIs actually fucking respond to input instead of dying in the drawing thread trying to run an external process or i'll throw your software hard onto the carpet too

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@Heidentweet @becha Like, there was a time when asking someone to think about their position in society was a matter of "normen en waarden", and completely socially accepted. That time approximately ended when fascists started telling people that it's unreasonable to do this.

@Heidentweet @becha Yeah. They're not wrong that it's important to understand why fascism appeals, but they also don't exactly acknowledge that this frustration of people with being asked to introspect (which is presented here as some innate annoyance) very much originates from that same fascist rhetoric of "you should not let anyone tell you you're wrong about anything".

@joepie91 @becha Warning about the rise of fascism was, of course "het elkaar moreel de maat nemen, de behoefte aan zuiverheid, de oproep om te ‘consuminderen’, de wedloop in het erkennen van de eigen privileges;" ...

@becha "Als het ging om de karakterisering van radicaal-rechtse bewegingen, partijen en hun leiders was het f-woord lange tijd uit den boze, althans in serieuze politieke beschouwingen."

Which rather calls into doubt the actual usefulness and accuracy of that "serious political analysis", given that it completely failed to recognize the rise of fascism...

Pspol, uspol, guns, genocide, armed resistance 

I don't mind armed resistance against genocide. When the alternative is letting your people starve and be bombed or shot, my opposition to weapons wanes.

If you know me, you know I hate guns, but my argument is not for those resisting colonization, ethnic cleansing, or genocide. I just want to make that clear. My argument is against white colonizers owning guns, because they are quite literally the problem we must fight against.

Every colonized people who won their land back used weapons from Vietnam to South Africa. If the alternative is slavery, starvation, and genocide, then defend your people how you see fit.

I don't expect people to die pretty for the camera.

summarized version, re: long ethical reasoning, re: urgent vegan food question 

@soweliniko Summarized:

Would consuming it cause someone else, somewhere, to buy new ones? Then it's *not* ethically justifiable, as you're just shifting demand.

But would it definitely be discarded if you didn't consume it? Then it *would* be ethically justifiable, because the alternative is that an animal suffered for nothing, not even anyone getting nutrition from it.

long ethical reasoning, re: urgent vegan food question 

@soweliniko (With the caveat that I try to eat more and more vegan but it's not entirely viable for me yet...)

I would apply 'dumpsterdiving logic' to this; if you *know* that something will go to waste if not eaten, eg. because you pulled it from a dumpster, then I would consider the ethically 'right' thing to be to eat it, because then you at least get some nutrition from it, given that 'not producing it' is not an option anymore anyway and it won't affect production rate indirectly either (eg. because it is now not available for someone else).

Then situations like this can be judged by how close they are to that one; would someone else have bought it (and therefore not a fresh one) if housemate didn't get it, or is it something they regularly really *do* end up binning? If the latter, I would consider it justifiable.

In this case, it's already in the house, so then the question becomes: will housemate eat it? If yes, then consuming it might cause them to buy *new* ones at the store, so there's indirect new demand; but if not, then the alternative is that it'll definitely be discarded and therefore it's justifiable.

From the StackOverflow blog:

"While many of you have been vocal about being tired about hearing about AI, it’s clear that the folks with the money aren’t getting tired of investing in it. On the podcast, I talk to people every week who are finding a niche for genAI"

Well, I guess StackOverflow is done pretending that they care about anyone but the rich people?

polycule household management 

The most important whiteboard in the house is the crappy, tiny, practically-falling-apart paper-backed one that's stuck to the fridge; the shopping board, where everyone writes down the stuff that they need or that runs out, so that it can be acquired on the next groceries/shopping trip.

(In addition to a weekly stock check list to make sure we're still fully stocked on important stuff and cooking ingredients and such)

Dit stuk uit 2020 is nog immer relevant. Of het nu gaat over zieken, asielzoekers, ouderen, het blijft van toepassing.

(de column is te lang voor een alt-tekst en volgt in de posts hieronder)

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glitch.com closure (2) 

"But don't most tech companies and startups close down with very little notice?"

Yes. Exactly.

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glitch.com closure 

When some company shuts down a hosted service just because they feel it is no longer serving its purpose, they'll give you a long time to move away; a year or more.

When they shut down with less than two months' notice, that means they're bleeding money. Doubly so when they don't actually have a plan defined for the future yet.

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