knfrmity

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[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 days ago

Alberta not beating the accusations. I'm so glad I got out.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I tried something like this before. Started with a curl command or script which would follow every internal link in a page to recursively download the websjte. That was annoying cause there can be a lot of extra elements you don't really need. Then I tried ArchiveBox which was a bit op for my purposes but may work well here.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 days ago

Just at the precise moment when the German government and health insurance industry want to sell off our patient data to the highest bidder and use AI to somehow reduce healthcare costs and improve care.

 

I must have missed the part where living costs excluding housing dropped 15-20% over the last two decades.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 days ago

As if there was ever a time when the US central bank was independent from the state apparatus and not an integral part of it.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 days ago

I just grabbed a 9060XT open box deal without thinking about driver support, I'm using Mint 22.1 as well. YMMV but I can't get any kernel besides 6.8 to boot, not even the Mint supported 6.11 HWE. Video output works but the drivers don't load and even scrolling down a webpage gives me screen tearing. I did get a more recent Mesa version with the kisak ppa but it hasn't helped. Can't even go above 60Hz refresh rate.

I tried Ubuntu 25.04 on a LiveUSB and it's basically plug and play and might have even automatically switched to the 144Hz monitor refresh rate.

I don't have a whole lot of time for getting a new distro set up right now. I will wait until Mint 22.2 (coming soon? with a newer kernel hopefully) and see how that goes.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

And yet it took until 2020 for any MSM to report that all of Crypto AG's equipment was backdoored and that it was indeed a CIA cutout the whole time. That information was available since at least 1993 when the West German intelligence sold its share to the CIA and the Swiss government as well as some reporters caught wind of it.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

As usual, the "damage reduction candidate" is going about doing damage because they're tactful and effective. Whereas the "dangerous candidate" probably wouldn't have gotten half of their agenda done because they're too busy bloviating.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 week ago

Literally speaking, liberal. But nobody except a communist would get it.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I don't think that section of Capital is discussing the rate of profit, but rather the labour value of a given product. The labour value falls as productivity increases, but since capitalist market prices are abstracted from labour value this has at least initially little effect on exchange value and thus surplus value.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 week ago

So many of the old people in my life are miserable because they don't have hobbies, or at the very least didn't keep doing them once it got a bit difficult.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 week ago

This is maybe a bit too conspiratorial for my liking, but I heard this take:

RFK Jr. has said something about how everyone will have a wearable medical device soon. Him and others also want lists of people with certain medical diagnoses.

Florida has recently immunized doctors from wrongful death/malpractice leading to death lawsuits.

The research institution doing a lot of stuff for Neuralink is very close to this new concentration camp.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

To astronomists and cosmologists they are, anything heavier than helium is a metal.

 

You will be work and you will be happy, dammit.

Blaming the recession, at least in part, on working people taking sick days is so unaware I can't even put it into words.

I don't even think such surveillance of employees by a company is legal, but no company will get punished.

 

Not sure if this one has been posted in the last few weeks, but this follows up previous MintPress reporting on the links between western TikTok and the US military-intelligence apparatus. It was probably clear to us from the beginning, but the crusade against TikTok has been an entirely cynical ploy for the empire to gain even more control over the internet.

Previous articles:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/

https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/

 

German politicians have been discussing making applying for citizenship easier for a couple years now. Today the Bundestag (Parliament) approved the draft legislation, with two surprising new additions.

In applying for citizenship a person will now not only have to say they agree to and respect the German constitution (standard practice for gaining citizenship anywhere), an applicant will also have to agree to a statement "on Germany's special historical responsibility for the unjust Nazi rule and its consequences, especially for the protection of Jewish life." It's reasonable enough if taken literally, but we all know what this means in practice: Zionism is the law of the land. There could be an additional statement regarding the "illegalty of wars of aggression" required as well. If a person is found to have lied during the application or even behaves against such statements in the future, their newly gained German citizenship could be revoked.

To be fair, all of this is based on press reports and I haven't seen the law directly yet, so it may only be half as bad. But things are going in a really worrying direction.

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I have been having such a difficult time getting a 2018 Dell Latitude 7930 to run any Linux distro stably. Maybe there is something obvious I am missing or maybe it really is dying hardware that's the root cause of the issue.

The silly thing is I had a stable install of openSUSE Tumbleweed running for a few months but because I made some poor choices on disk partition when I installed it I was eventually backed into a corner where I had to wipe the SSD and install from scratch.

I since then have tried Tumbleweed again as well as Ubuntu, Mint, and finally Manjaro to no avail. The Debian based distros completely freeze at some point, either immediately upon login and loading the desktop or when running apt update. Tumbleweed gets a kernel panic within an hour or so, even though I changed kernel options to a previous known-good config. Now after quite a frustrating time installing Manjaro it freezes within an hour as well and the diagnostic light code indicates a CPU issue.

Strangely enough none of these issues are apparent when running from a LiveUSB, but occur on two different M.2 SATA SSDs with proper installs.

At this point I don't really care which distro I use, as long as it doesn't crash constantly. Does anyone have any suggestions on other things I can try?

Edit: seems to be solved with the kernel options I already mentioned. For whatever reason it didn't work for the Tumbleweed reinstall but Manjaro has run for a couple days without crashing.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics#Crash/freeze_on_low_power_Intel_CPUs

 

Back in October I found a really cool book containing the speeches delivered during a Marxist theoretical conference hosted by the SED in the DDR in 1983. In the meantime I have started to transcribe some of these speeches with the intent of sharing them here and with the international community of working people. There are three speeches up at the moment and I am working on more. There are 140 in the volume so a complete digitization may take some time.

I plan to post my own thoughts on this site, as well as some more materials I have found. I may also consider cross-posts as well where appropriate.

 

I'll be in Berlin for a couple days soon and I'd like to see some DDR stuff while I'm there.

The DDR Museum looks interesting, even if it's just to look at the visual representations of everyday life while ignoring the lib remarks on Stasi oppression and whatnot.

Also happy DDR annexation celebration day. /s

 

I've been back into reading fiction over the last three years or so after a long time away. It's been really nice to slow down and read a book for entertainment rather than always going for a series or movie (when I'm not reading theory of course). For somewhat nostalgic reasons I'm missing some easy reading spy thriller type novels. There's plenty loaded with CIA/MI6 propaganda but I've had a hard time finding anything with similar pacing from outside of the imperial core. Most of the "best translated / English Chinese authors to read" lists are chock full of liberal emigrants and the like, which isn't a perspective I'm terribly interested in while reading for fun. I also enjoy sci fi, but there it seems to be a bit easier to find non western authors.

Does anyone have anything to recommend? Unfortunately it's gotta be available in English or maybe German at the moment.

 

A preprinted study by James Hansen and collaborators suggests that we've all but locked in 2°C warming by 2050. They go on to calculate a likely equilibrium warming of 10°C considering current GHG levels and known feedback loops.

I know we need to take this as yet another call to action, but at the same time I think so many of us feel absolutely paralyzed by the enormity and incomprehensibility of the situation.

 

This is a bit dated by now, but the recent post about some failed US weapons systems reminded me about this absolute doozy of a Spanish submarine.

Years ago, the S-80 submarine suffered a major engineering setback: It was overweight and at risk of not being able to resurface after submerging. In the latest hitch, first reported on Wednesday by the newspaper El País, it can’t fit into the port of Cartagena at the military base in southeastern Spain where the submarine will be stationed.

The article wraps up with a lame attempt to normalize spending billions on military equipment.

 

If this isn't a dire indictment of the ability of the capitalist mode of production to solve pressing problems, I don't know what is.

Seize property to build wind and solar farms, says JP Morgan chief

In his annual shareholder letter, Mr Dimon said: “Permitting reforms are desperately needed to allow investment to be done in any kind of timely way.

“We may even need to evoke eminent domain – we simply are not getting the adequate investments fast enough for grid, solar, wind and pipeline initiatives.”

 

How should new countries be handled, where the people have clearly chosen that they would like to be their own sovereign nation, with all the rights and responsibilities that comes with?

Besides the people withing the territory agreeing that they're a new sovereign country and establishing the institutions thereof, what should the global community expect?

As things stand currently, it's simply up to the imperial core countries as to whether or not a territory is recognized as a country.

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