Phoenixz

This won’t end with wage increases

This will end in investment in metal detectors and pay downs and shit like that to ensure employees won’t be able to come in with lighters anymore

And?

So is there a true open source chat program that requires no account (so full anonymity) and has good encryption for privacy?

And what will they do about it?

But keep defending Israel, keep saying that the attack on Iran is fine!

Meh, go ride a bike everyone, finally we have a chance to show how awesome cities can be when designed for bikes instead of cars

Evil people can be good looking

Ironically, they ARE linked to Iran now, whether they like it or not

Waluigi?

I’m too scared to look it up

What’s up with the AI slop image for this post?

Also, Mozilla is destroying Firefox by themselves, they don’t need help from m$

And yet another public service for us all goes away, while the rich become richer

their service provider was Rogers

Well that right there is your problem

Rogers is -by far and far- the worst provider bthst has ever existed. If you host something there, it’s on you.

The company I work at still has a lot hosted there and it’s laughably bad

3 ovh servers with a total cost of 700 dollars gives me 10 times the amount of hardware (ram, storage) at about 10 times the speed (100MB/s write speeds at Rogers, 1600MB/s on Rogers AFTER the encryption layer, so absolute speeds are probably still twice higher than that) for 10 times less the cost (Rogers does 7000/month)

The Rogers team once upgraded a 5 server farm from Windows 2012 to 2019 and took 1 year and 4 months to complete this

Random half hour downtimes are a weekly tradition, especially about a year ago

Sometimes they just accidentally disconnect servers to the point where the filesystems get so corrupted that it’s irrecoverable. Multiple times

Rogers happily overcharges almost double for months, hoping you won’t notice

And most of our servers are still there. Don’t ask why I don’t know, it’s dumb

Yes and have something that is compatible with Europe, please!

Extremist attitudes never made sense to me

Well that is kind of my point.

This comic basically is saying that you’re a bad person if you don’t agree with them, the “you’re with me or against me” extremist attitude that is the exact same on the other side of the isle.

This comic sucks

Well they are paving the way, but on PC’s… I’m talking about mobile phones and android :)

Yes, that actually is possible. You could have the government fund news and journalism directly, but that indeed would invite the government to curate the news. If you have an independent non profit in the middle that has as core mission to fund ALL news and journalism, as long as it is independent and unbiased, then it becomes much harder for the government to control details of the news.

The org, in its turn, can then dictate that all news outlets that receive funding must be factual and unbiased.

I believe it has as I have used it and I have never used anything that was not KDE

What I meant is that I have a list of about 7000 songs on spotify that I have built over the years, I would like to have THAT list of music. If I go to a self hosted option, that is great, but without the media, worthless… I can download all the music that I want, but that will be a ginormous amount for a tiny amount of songs that I actually like. I’m already hosting a huge movie library, but I fear I might need hundreds of TB more storage to save all the music that I want :)

I guess I’m looking for a “download only these songs/albums/bands from this spotify list” type thing

Linux has emergency modes for booting as well. The old ways would work with run levels, and the newer ways (through systemd) I honestly don’t know. However, a bootable USB is usually the best solution because it won’t boot a drive with a possibly damaged filesystem that needs repairs before accessing it, that sort of stuff. There is a reason why it is a separate storage device to boot from.

I’m just saying that if you take an experimental or very hard to master OS for your day to day work, or storing your family photo albums, then yeah, you’re playing with fire, because the OS can trip you up in many ways. Linux is great, but potentially unforgiving when you make mistakes. Ubuntu Linux is at the point where normal users need to work hard to mess stuff up, but if you go for gentoo or something else experimental or DIY, then yeah, you better be prepared to take the consequences when things go down south

wealth caps

world wide…

Yeah, it will be hard for the rich to accept that, but its better and easier than switching to a completely different system like communism.

Just continue with everything the same, with a whole bunch of tax brackets, but after 10 million dollar networth is reached, 100% of your income goes to taxes until you’re below the threshold again.

This is a fairly simple rule to implement with huge consequences. Nobody can become a billionaire anymore. Nobody can hoard wealth, wealth will spread to the poor now as well, feeding a middle class that was starved, to become the biggest group

Governments now get a huge income stream that they can use for free education, free housing, free healthcare, universal basic income.

Since nobody can become insanely rich anymore, you will have less people push for the get rich quick schemes. Companies will cheat way less because why? It won’t get you any extra income if you hit the limit already, so why would you? Nobody is insanely rich, so nobody is insanely powerful either, so no more trumps, no more musks. Greed will actually stop if you put a hard limit on how much you can be worth.

Prices of goods would go down to normal again. Can’t own a 100M dollar home if your max worth is 10M. A family of 2 could potentially own a 20M home, but they would have no money left for anything else, like food. Art will once again be priced normally and most art can return to the museums for everyone to enjoy.

Big-ass billion dollar company? Well, that requires at least 100 share holders, but they would not be able to own anything besides that company because again, hard caps. Company shares rise? Great! Now some of your shares will go to the government because hard caps. You don’t want to lose money just because the shares go down, so you will likely share your shares over multiple companies. So you’ll end up with more smaller companies with many many more owners and shareholders. No more single venture capital company that can buy up companies to then shred them out.

I could go on for a while, but you get the picture.

I would say that 10M is much, still, I would even go for a cap on 5M.