Aren’t votes meant to be anonymous to avoid retribution?

Isn’t the public ledger identifying information to be used by authoritarian violence on every single voter in that case?

Huh, I have come across their posts on random big communities multiple times and I don’t remember ever seeing porn or anything even nsfw (besides text, but that is debatable if text deserves an NSFW tag)

First page of results on ecosia searching “buy github stars and forks”

https://medium.com/@vanshagrawal561/i-bought-fake-github-stars-so-you-dont-have-to-88f12c8eccb6

https://fansgurus.com/blog/buy-github-stars-best-providers-2026

https://www.socialplug.io/services/buy-github-stars

https://www.followdeh.com/en/github/stars

https://www.socialplug.io/services/buy-github-forks

https://niubistar.com/buy-github-stars

https://www.githubstar.com/en-US/pricing

https://www.avola.uk/github-stars-forks-promotion.html

Some of it might be practical.

E.g. selling knit plushies or hats so people in your community get food quality items and at the same time you get more funding for your hobby and don’t have 100 hats lying around.

But yeah. I dream of an alternate reality where I could just go borrow a community oscilloscope when needed for a project since I don’t have the €450 right now to put to that. (My projects require at least 100 MHz 4 channel and might as well spend the extra 50 for a good Siglent with 10x more memory depth)

You can buy github stars and forks nowadays.

It is literally a cloudflare tunnel/ tailscale type thing but contained in the app. The only real difference is that it is bundled in the app, so less setup and in exchange, Plex itself is free to harvest all of your data.

I am far and away not an AI enthusiast but I don’t understand specifically the copyright issue with respect to “trained on x data”

Because we humans who contribute to FOSS are also generally trained on proprietary data (gaining experience with non-foss systems at companies).

I get the “who owns it” argument since the person didn’t create it.

Fuck LLMs for drying up groundwater and stealing electricity from families though.

It seems as though codeberg and github were deleted or made private and their website is just a “go away” webp now so I can’t search through the blocklist

Also, accounts. Long promised for community or lowest tier then integrated only in the expensive tier of photoprism IIRC, which made me switch because that only then works for individuals.

Except for database versions in 2.7.5->3.0.0

But one docker compose change and it migrated seamlessly.

There are very different rules. Like worlds different.

Comparing just Belgium and the Netherlands right next to each other. The Netherlands is quite doable if you find a job. Some automatic work visas and then residence based on that depending on origin country

In Belgium literally no company in the country outside of IMEC and Deloitte will go through the extremely long visa sponsorship program (only digitalized in 2022 IIRC). It is pretty much only possible if you have family or a partner that already lives there. Even people studying there for 3-8 years have a few months to find a job or they are kicked out (in a bad job market compared to other countries also).

Well to be fair, the US declaration of independence is quite explicit about the right to revolution being one of the inalienable rights. They spent I think around 20 written lines talking about it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

Of course, it doesn’t mean their causes were just or their intentions were good or even that they were much more than an angry mob, but America was literally founded on the idea that a corrupt government should be overthrown by force. What is bad, how it is bad, blah blah blah depends on where you sit and if you value human life or human hierarchy.

Considering you need large parts from custom CNC aluminum, likely in the 5k range I would guess.

Edit: I was wrong. I went the the website and they sell complete kits for a like 1300. I think that is with 3D printed parts and not much aluminum.

The only 2 tasks that have been worth automating for me on my phone is time-based volume/vibration switching and VPN turn-on and off when I am on home internet or away.

No need to steal people’s water to do it.

Yes, but 90% of ISP supplied modems around the world are modem + router + WiFi access point with a unified firmware.

You also can’t take the antennas off of those and they are required in order to receive internet.

Yes you can use your own router (I have a Unifi cloud gateway ultra myself and one access point in the middle of the house), but that doesn’t mean that disabling the WiFi on the ISP web-software bullshit actually disables the WiFi and doesn’t just hide the SSID and make it un-connectable and still use it for this kind of thing and identifying nearby devices.

It also doesn’t mean that all the routers themselves like my Unifi aren’t using the access points to do the exact same thing (or will in the future). The only way you can actually control that is with openwrt or similar.

Do you think every country has its own router hardware manufacturer and commodity chip manufacturer? 😂

The 2 giants that make 95% of consumer routers around the world and the few companies that design the chips for them are both in heavy surveillance states.

That is just the normally enshittifcation process. Many enshittified companies started as genuinely innovative or decent companies. I mean, they went into ads quite early on and tacking, but other than that…

They definitely haven’t unenshittified.

Hell, I find the easiest workflow for me is literally on one computer:

• scan with skanpage
• save
• drag/upload via web UI to paperless server

Then you automatically have a 2 location backup (and 3 with 1 off site if you have a backup server implemented) and it is very simple for family to pick up.

VPNs are to protect you against your ISP, that is about it. I guess sailing the high seas also since fingerprinting doesn’t apply as much. Also getting around authoritarian government blocks.

It is a small piece of the puzzle.

Wanted to setup opencloud but it doesn’t work without 3-4 additional containers and CNAMEs on the domain.

I simply wanted to spin it up locally and test it out, but it doesn’t accept any admin credentials whatsoever and wiping every file to completely restart leads to the same behavior.

If the simplest bit of startup flow local first time login doesn’t work, then why would the rest and why would I trust it? Also it isn’t a certificate error with not setting up SSL or something because I also tried it on my domain with all the correct certificates and got the exact same behavior. It doesn’t even allow you to try a different admin password when it claims that the last is wrong. You get one try and otherwise have to wipe the entire volume.

There are issues on github for it and workarounds with very YMMV results, for me none of it worked.