I wonder if programs like redshift offer any guidance or inspiration on how this might be done. I know setting to below 0% would likely involve dimming the image rather than the backlight.

Or perhaps drivers allow completely switching off the backlight, and one could use software pwm to manually set it lower, although that entails some risk of flickering

Once media (any media) has been digitized and the cost of producing a duplicate is negligible, even in capitalist economists own terms, the price of further copies of the thing should trend towards zero over time. It’s only through extreme greed and state enforcement (which in theory goes against capitalist economics, though we all of course know that to be a lie) that the ability to sell individual digital goods is possible.

In other words, it is more ethical to “pirate” resources that it doesn’t cost anything to produce than it is ethical to prevent people from accessing that media for monetary reasons. If a particular artist feels that someone shouldn’t consume some media they created for some other reason, then I would respect that. But it’s not artists or creators who ever have a problem with that, it’s the production studios that exist to turn art into profit who care, artists themselves tend to be very OK with people accessing their work for free.

Ideally, we would have a system in place (UBI, cultural enrichment programs, etc) which funded art creation directly as a collective effort rather than through individualized personal purchases.

Don’t think you need ai for that tbh

I’m not looking for a politician to take anything seriously. I am looking for we the people to remake this godforsaken place, and that means implementing our goals directly, which includes dismantling every police station and sheriff’s office.

Seriously the police are kidnapping people at random and you still don’t get that the system is broken?

I’m not so unreasonable to assume that no one who is currently wearing a badge and gun can rehabilitate themselves into productive members of society, but the systems that they work as a part of need shut the fuck down.

To begin to analyze this we have to have clear, simple definitions of the left and right. I think it very easily maps on to authoritarianism vs. freedom. You could take “being racist” as a right-wing position and say “but they want to be free to do that”, but freedom only extends until you’re compromising someone else’s freedom, then it’s power. Whether it’s about being racist, controlling trans people or queer people, or whatever it is, the right worships one thing and that is power.

When you do that, by the very nature, it’s more easy to be organized and disciplined. There’s no one to push back on orders from above no matter how dumb because that’s the goal. If we try to strive for their level of organization and discipline, we become like them. We have to stop, every moment, and make sure that what we’re doing is something being consented to by the wider community. That’s just the nature of the fight.

And I don’t think it will ever end. There will always be this tension between permissiveness and discipline. We’ve just been stuck in the disciplined, authoritarian mode, since the authoritarians gained the upper hand by stealing the Americas.

If you’re looking for more reading along these lines I believe Graeber and Wengrow talk about this in The Dawn of Everything. But I’m also drawing from my own experience and understanding.

“No more police” is a pretty simple idea that seems to have slipped by you so idk

Someone else said

nobody should be expected to drop their principles on a whim.

But this is exactly what school is about, training you that you’re nothing but a cog in the machine, teaching you to accept getting beaten down over nothing just because someone higher up the chain from you made a decision and why would he ever consult you in that decision you’re just a lowly student/worker.

OVH has been reliable and boring afaik

Sure is something that you made this post about how “hey wow I’m seeing a lot of racism” and the racists immediately show up and go “well, yeah, why aren’t you racist?”

I think that answers your question 😅

Say that shit to my face and see what happens, racists.

That was the thing that made me think reticulum was worth pursuing actually. It does work over a lot of stuff besides lora. You can mesh WiFi routers or other protocols. The issue is bandwidth ota since so much is dedicated to commercial stuff, but you can route reticulum over that including through i2p for anonymity. Meshtastic very much focuses on lora only, reticulum does not.

Idk if it’s so simple. I’m a part of some community efforts along those lines and inventory management still needs done. Not to say “your dream is impossible”, quite the contrary. Recognize the radical template that the library gives us!

Interesting. The only thing that really surprised me was the time zone thing. Can I hide that somehow?

It’s fine

No, translations is not AI and everybody knows that, including Mozilla. Lumping translations in with the rest of the AI shit completely defeats the purpose of having the “AI off switch”.

How do you orchestrate all those lxc containers and vms?

Focus locally, consider first your own community, first in fact then in metaphor. I mean, focus first on what’s actually going on around you, in person. Not plugged in enough to understand that? There are lots of people who need help. Volunteer with your local food not bombs, outreach group, or food pantry.

Then if you need to consider events outside your community, think about how they would map onto your own community and how people you really know would act and react.

Of course this only works if you’re not a gentrifier or trying to maintain segregation or anything like that. You’ve gotta recognize what you have in common with the guy on the street more than the rich fucks that dominate the news.

ITT: people hating on touchscreens

Also ITT: people pointing out really good reasons to have a touch screen.

The thing stopping me from trying out Linux mobile is autofocus for the camera. I don’t have fairphone 6 money iirc but a solution to that for some of the cheaper devices (e.g. op6) would definitely get me on board trying it. Wish I had the dev hours to commit to it but you know how it is

Why settle? Software is a continually evolving ecosystem and grafting yourself to a certain distribution model or distribution team doesn’t really make sense when you consider that. Some distribution might have the best things for you, today. Tomorrow, another may come along and do it better, or your current distribution may shift to not be to your liking anymore. Be flexible, but don’t change for the sake of change. Change for a good reason.

Too poor to afford the theater but everyone’s talking about the latest movie.