Striking is a revolutionary act and it should be normalized

An action (any action) cannot be normal and revolutionary. These are antitheses.

inflation does this too given that the rich have access to investment vehicles that the poor don’t

This is true with the way that things currently are.

In theory, investing is participating in the economy, and functionally better (for everyone else) than simply keeping money in a static account (or just keeping it under your mattress). In a deflationary economy, everything beyond basic needs grinds to a halt because spending money is disadvantaged. This fucks over the poor who have to spend most of their money on basic needs, while the wealthy sit on their hoards like dragons.

I am… actually not clear on whether you are referring to my comment, or the comment I was responding to.

If you were referring to me, I want to say that I’m not looking down on the potential good, I am criticizing the framing of unionizing as revolutionary. I think talking about it this way is a mistake, the kind that is made by people who want politics to be exciting, who find discussions of good policy to be boring. This kind of framing supports the narrative of the owner class who try to imply that striking workers are unreasonable violent malcontents.

Good policy should be boring. Unionization should be as mundane as arranging direct deposit for your paycheck when you start a job. It should be just another form that you fill out for HR. It should be normal. Employers should expect that their employees will participate in collective bargaining, and should be treated as unreasonable nutjobs if they speak (or take action) against it.

This probably seems like it makes sense when you’re a teenager, but most people with children want a stable society and a reliable income.

Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you’re the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.

What’s scary about this is that we’re basically already at this point with things like Voyager. The only way to solve problems on the probes is to upload new code to them. Some of the folks who fixed the communication problem in 2024 are well beyond retirement age; some of the folks that designed the Voyager probes are dead and gone.

As @tal@lemmy.today pointed out, TCP/IP was standardized in 1982. The knowledge of the people who built the founding protocols of the Internet is fading, and here in 2026 the system built on top has grown so complex that no one really understands all of it. If you thought link rot was bad, just wait, in a decade or so we’re going to see some serious infrastructure rot. The Internet will increasingly have the kind of legacy problems that Windows does, where Microsoft is forced to sustain old bad features because users are dependent on them. We can’t even get rid of TLS 1.0. There are still telnet endpoints exposed to the Internet, in production use.

Considering that they hired Wine devs and basically said “keep doing what you’re already doing” to build Proton… yes.

If I give you my page and tell you to enter your credit card details in, why would you do it?

Because I’m paying for something?

Why do people need to tell everything to the agreeing website?

I don’t know, it’s probably circumstantial.

Probably a lot of the data being shared is from chats, but not necessarily all of it. We know that OpenAI scrapes the Internet at large for training data, which would include data sets of publicly leaked PII (such as the OPM breach). It’s entirely possible that the data OpenAI is sharing about users was not given to them voluntarily by those users, but has simply been aggregated, analyzed and correlated by their AI tools.

If that’s how they learn not to share intimate and personal data with the billionaires, then that’s how they learn.

Let’s not engage in blaming the victims.

There’s no reason to treat the behavior of these corporations as if it were normal and inevitable, like they were a force of nature or something. Put all the blame where it belongs, on the people running these companies.

I don’t like this take, because labor unionization should be seen as a completely normal activity for workers and not a form of revolution.

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The core of the problem is that deflation encourages and enables wealth hoarding. The rich get richer by doing nothing but sitting on the wealth they already have.

Partially true. It’s also an attempt to run away from deflation, which destroys economies. Holding a stable position with no inflation or deflation is not really possible in the real world.

Marriage… Marriage is what brings us together today. Marriage, that blessed arrangement, that dream within a dream. And love, true love, will follow you forever and ever…

Hmm…

1. Discourages voting
2. Username is “GuyFawkesV”

Are you 13?

The Tragedy of systemd - presentation by Benno Rice

What I hope that this talk has provided is a removal of fear and particularly a removal of pity of SystemD and the people who actually use it. […] So, yeah, what I would challenge everyone here is look at SystemD and try and find at least one thing that you like, and then go see if you can implement it. Thank you.

Oh, wait I bet we can write a decent anime plot around this…

See there’s this thing called the Waffle House Index:

The measure is based on Waffle House’s reputation for staying open during extreme weather and for reopening quickly, albeit sometimes with a limited menu, after very severe weather events such as tornadoes or hurricanes. The chain’s disaster preparedness measures include assembling and training “Waffle House jump teams” to facilitate fast reopening after disasters.

Our hero is having a normal day working the griddle, when suddenly a kaiju destroys half the town. The hero works hard to get the restaurant open, making good use of the disaster recovery planning, and helps feed people whose homes have been destroyed, as well as the emergency response workers that come to town.

Their work is noticed, and they are recruited to join the Waffle House Jump Team as a specialist on responding to kaiju incidents. From there it’s like Evangelion, but instead of fighting and killing the monsters, the hero learns about different types through experience and develops (increasingly extreme and improbable) ways to prepare the Waffle House to survive kaiju incidents and reopen quickly, eventually leading to Waffle House creating a mech to defend and repair its locations. (End Season 1)

The reveal of the prototype mech provides the hook for Season 2.

The rise of generative AI is the death of picture or video evidence.

And the written word, as useful information is buried under mountains of generated trash.

No one to date knows what the real consequences of this will be.

Dark Ages II

Call me crazy, but maybe we shouldn’t be allowing people to work on such “advances” if they don’t have the humanities/social sciences background to understand the consequences.

Consequences be damned! We have quarterly earnings reports to worry about!

And it’s on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/

Awesome, thank you!

I mean, OK… Until every bank, government service, health care provider, etc implements this.

What app are you using to log the requests?