Progressives do want better, but the moderate faction, who don’t post on Lemmy, is much larger and they think genocide is keen. If all the progressives unimously said we won’t vote for a Democrat that supplies Isreal, it might not have even had an effect on her platform, we’d just get Trump. The moderates have more money and REALLY support genocide.

I think the problem with moderates is that they’re not even really aware that the Gaza genocide is happening. Moderate voters are like ostriches, if they’re diligent at ignoring world news none of the bad stuff is really happening or it’s all just alarmism. Never underestimate how astonishingly willfully ignorant American moderates are.

People are extra sensitive about Harris/Israel criticism because of the extensive “don’t vote for genocide!” astroturfing campaigns flooding social media to discourage left voter turnout in swing states. This is going to be a fucking close election and anything that even obliquely discourages left voter engagement is going to get side eye until we’re past the election.

Also, re: Israel:

That’s our Israel foreign policy in a nutshell and we really should do better. Hopefully once the Kissinger fans all die out we will.

Decimation means killing 1/10th of a group or population.

And he doesn’t give a shit. Subscribers don’t matter, control of a well known paper that will push his interests does.

If only they had a safe place to put their money that was protected by law and insured against losses.

You might like Vivaldi, they’re the most innovative chromium derived browser that I’ve used

Pearson is trying really fucking hard to write that out of the public consciousness. I took an econ 101 class about 12y ago for funsies and the section of the course on copyright insisted that “the rights of copyright owners” were absolute with no exemptions.

The DMCA is just the icing on top of the 95-120y “work for hire” copyright duration shit cake.

Until someone forgets the terminator on one end of the network and the token falls out

Compliance with sanctions from the US and EU IIRC

It would have cost you nothing not to post this

I moved my elderly mother to ChromeOS and I no longer have to deal with the IT burden of supporting whatever she installed or broke this week. Move your parents to Linux if you truly enjoy being an on call unpaid helpdesk

I’ve had the idea for a while to use an LLM to gather metadata about books for me as well as generate tag lists for themes, plot, writing style, etc for everything in my ebook library. You could also generate non spoiler plot summaries and produce recommendations for similar books.

I leverage btrfs or ZFS snapshots. I take rolling system level snapshots on a schedule (daily, weekly, monthly and separately before any package upgrades or installs) and user data snapshots every couple of hours. Then I use btrbk to sync those snapshots to an external drive at least once a week. When I have all of my networking gear and home services setup I also sync all of this to storage on my NAS. Any hosts on the network keep rolling snapshots stored on the NAS as well.

Important data also gets shoveled into a B2 bucket and/or Google drive if I need to be able to access it from a phone.

I keep snapshots small by splitting data up into well defined subvolumes, anything that can be reacquired from the cloud (downloads, package caches, steam libraries, movies, music, etc) isn’t included in the backup strategy. If I download something and it’s hard to find or important I move it out of downloads and into a location that is covered by my backups.

Check out netbird and tailscale if you want secure remote access

But think of the opportunity cost here, you’d be wasting a chance to run over a child or a poor person!

Not that I’m aware of

We call those externalities, the taxpayers will handle them if we ignore them long enough that they become a crisis

Meth chess