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currently gmail requires that you send (yes, send) a text to them with a code in order to sign up

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-account-registrat...

One shift in perspective I had was realizing that github is not just a code forge, but a social network.

have you read the submission? have of it is a list of alternatives

sadly even that isn't an option for me. i spent half an hour yesterday trying to create a github account. i couldn't. my @proton.me got rejected. captchas take several painful minutes to complete. and even when I did manage to create an account (at least the page displayed a success mesage), it got disabled the instant I logged in for "TOS violation". i wish i was joking, but i literally cannot create a github account. a few years ago this would have seemed crazy. but here we are.

i'm stuck having to use google (another pain in the ass) for discovering codebases that contain specific snippets. but some repo contents (such as wikis) are not exposed at all to search engines

reminder that any company which has a legal obligation towards you (GDPR requests, refunds, filling a complaint etc) can be contacted directly and forced to do it manually if you cannot use their web interface due to being blocked by Cloudflare & other captchas

they originally announced their intention to open the firmware 4 years ago

https://community.frame.work/t/responded-coreboot-on-the-fra...

i would highlight two non-tech strengths of starlabs as well: they're based in Europe and from personal experience they have really good customer service

100% agreed. it upsets me when i see companies like framework advertising themselves front and centre as Linux-first, yet won't sponsor a coreboot port. starlabs, system76 and novacustom actually walk the walk

there's a famous quote- two things you must not look for: love and death; they will find you when the time comes. so basically just do genuine stuff and it will happen. OP also hints at it when they say it's about doing your hobbies with other people. it's the same with the quest stuff imo. OTOH the PUA-types have the wrong approach because it's the opposite to this. they turn relationships into a goal and look for artificial tricks to make it happen

codeberg serves a poisoned AI page when the detection is triggered

it can also mean governments. their loans also benefit from inflation that is higher than interest rates. this is how us & uk got rid of their debt after WW2. it's a way to steal money slowly from bond investors

> But there are two solutions: reduce spending and/or raise taxes.

there are other solutions, that are more convenient politically than austerity:

- productivity boost

- higher nominal growth through inflation

- financial repression

and in theory there is also the option of defaulting

but no parent actually keeps the government out of it. don't you go to the police when your child is harmed?

agreement on fundamental principles at a global level was the american (liberal) context. stepping outside of it leads to discovering a diverse world that you didn't account for before. as an example, even among iranians there doesn't seem to be enough support for the attack on their regime

as i mentioned elsewhere. i don't disagree that america is in a strong position, relatively to everyone else. and has the means to achieve its interests. even without the superficial image of acting in good faith. but the old messaging ("america's tide is lifting all boats" etc) comes across uncalibrated

i've wondered the same recently and came across this resource:

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Surfing_Posting_Blogging#Stylome...

tl;dr intentionally writing in a different style is very effective and overall the best option

btw one upside to public content being ingested in LLM training data. is that certain writing styles (like using the emdash) become much more common, due to reappearing in generated content. this means that if you continue to write in that style, you will blend in more easily. which makes your own content resist stylometric analysis

and let's not forget the boming of a literal school for girls

> Stop making excuses and defending brutal authoritarian dictatorships.

this style of argument really falls flat in 2026 tho. at least for a global audience. it seems you don't appreciate how much america's image as a champion in good faith of freedom, democracy and prosperity has been shattered. not least because the old neoliberal guard has been busy undermining it (see carney's speech at WEF, where he started by pointing out that not only was the rules based order a lie, but that it is no longer acceptable to pretend otherwise). but now also because US aggression is perceived as directly responsible for the global energy crisis, which is affecting everyone else. america simply doesn't have a high horse to get on anymore

are you implying that the US share in the hostilities is only direct military intervention? because that's not correct. through their alliances, they are additionally responsible for more

people tend to forget the exorbitant privillege of the US. originally this idea applied to USD being the global reserve currency. but it goes so much further. critics of american foreign policy simply lack a sense of proportion. there is so, so much leverage the US has. which they use to do things that wouldn't make sense for any other country. while still coming out on top. i'm glad to see specifics being provided in support of this idea

diffuse attention is the technical name. it's contrasted to focal attention

framework advertises themselves as "laptops you own" and "linux-first". but they're misleading you. they're not actually driven by genuine values, but by marketing. unlike the other big manufacturers of linux-first laptops (novacustom, starlabs, system76) framework couldn't be bothered to open-source their firmware. this is despite demand from their own community [0] and the obvious importance it holds in the broader FOSS community (also the reason why they wouldn't be able to get QubesOS certified [1]). they don't deserve all the airtime they're getting

[0] https://community.frame.work/t/responded-coreboot-on-the-fra...

[1] https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/user/hardware/certified-h...

> Some of the big players in tech may have beliefs that align with some of the tenets of fascism. But the label is so well-worn that it's meaningless.

the article you're responding consists of a very long list of very specific criteria for fascism and how they directly apply to AI

> what they're trying to achieve in this essay.

the closing sections make pretty clear what the intentions (or aspirations) are

towards the end of the article, the section "AI is fascy technology" and the one after seem to address your points, to some extent

+ cloudflare captcha, in my case

yeah, a lot of people pinpoint the moment when it started going downhill at around 2010. re: explosion of mobile devices, i'd say the release of apple's iPhone was a key event

because your host might be compromised

the vulnerability was fixed upstream by mozilla anyway

correct. the ordering persists for as long as the original process continues to run