Yeh, I’m allergic to wilfully being exploited and squeezed for any and all reasons.

Thanks!

This is a very apropos question these days.

MINISFORUM Mars Series MC560 … I will try to get around to provide a writeup and github. !remindme 1w

I build my own TV stack to replace my NVidia Shield. It’s way better… has a kick ass weather app with radar and wind lines. I can push notifications from any home assist or integrate with any api… integrates with Jellyfin… a photo sharing app I built… youtube is awesome. Super snappy. I gave one to my 80 year old Dad and it’s now his d daily driver. The only thing I cant do is get streaming 4k from Apple and HBOMax due to their drm.

I’m building my own email server. It receives mail, checks it for spam and forgery, stores it securely, lets apps read it, and sends outgoing mail. It handles a lot of domains on one system, with nothing important tied to a single machine, so parts can fail or restart without losing anything. It’s written in Rust… for safety, and I’m using AI heavily to write and test the code. It’s big, mostly because email has decades of standards and quirks, and every mail client has to work with it.

Check out minisforum.

Air fiber, nodes of wifi that dont follow power regulations. This may birth the next internet?

Its amazing to me that donors don’t seem to think about this disgusting dynamic and force equity adjustments.

Love this guy.

Good.

Hrm… Putin wants everyone to think Russia is gonna win no matter what, so the West gives up n pushes Ukraine to surrender… but the numbers say the opposite. This yr Russia has barely gained any ground while losing 40k+ soldiers a month, n Ukraine has actually taken some land back. Russian officers lie to their bosses abt how things r going, Russia can’t recruit enough new troops to replace the ones it loses, n Putin is scared to force ppl into the army b/c Russians r sick of the war. Ukraine is using drones to take out Russian troops b4 they even reach the front… so small Ukrainian units can stop way bigger Russian attacks. Russia is now bombing Ukrainian cities n power plants to break ppl’s will, but that kind of bombing has never made a country quit a war it was holding its own in. Bottom line… as long as the West keeps helping, Ukraine can keep fighting, n the goal should be making the war so costly for Putin that he takes a deal he doesn’t get to dictate.

She is adorbs!!!

• 18 U.S.C. §201 (Bribery) — Paying officials for official acts
• 18 U.S.C. §1951 (Hobbs Act) — Extortion under official authority
• 18 U.S.C. §208 — Conflict of interest, financial
• 18 U.S.C. §203 — Paid representation while employed
• 52 U.S.C. §30121 — Bans foreign political contributions
• 52 U.S.C. §30122 — Bans straw-donor contributions
• Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act — Proposed library donation limits (not passed)
• No Payoffs for Pardons Act — Proposed pardon-bribery clarification (not passed)

I believe there was another Yalta agreement with Trump, Putin and other dudes at the table carving up the world.

https://dboft.com/ That said, any fascists will get the wall.

100% agree. Protect yourself and your loved ones. Build community and figure it out together.

Zeschuk nails it, and it lines up with something Nate Hagens talked about on The Great Simplification: a company doesn’t need a single villain at the top to behave like a psychopath, it just needs to be structured so that extraction beats CRAFT every time. That’s what “none of these people have ever made a game” feels like to me. BioWare was built on people who loved the work and took the time it needed; the PIF/private-equity model wants annual sports titles and predictable margins. Hagens’ talks about traits out-competing values, so the people with the values (Zeschuk) walk away from the crucible and the people with the extraction reflex keep hammering forward. We ALL have this SAME problem people… wtf are we going to do about it is the question.

Thank you!

I created dboft.com (lemmy server) to try to recreate my reddit feed. They were requiring their mobile app… and thats a no go for me. BTW, I didn’t recreate my reddit feed… but I like whatever this community better.