jarfil

jarfil, 1 year ago

That would be a great project indeed… just a heads up:

I was part of a group exploring to do something similar a couple decades ago. The main problem we found, was dealing with those first two points: by the time we figured out all the places a single “state” (this wasn’t in the US) stored all their legislation, they had already changed some of them. We realized that it would take either: collaboration from the government in terms of standardizing how they store things… or a constant game of chasing around the changes they made. At the time, we concluded it wasn’t practical to do it for free, and indeed some paid services have emerged offering something similar, but they’re not open.

My suggestion: if you managed to find a way for governments to make legislation accessible in a standardized way, that would be a HUGE success. Ideally, have it written into constitution, and/or use the constitution to beat government bodies into compliance.

Also a warning: the messy state of things, seems to be a sort of “job security” for some lawyer firms and companies offering the consolidation services, so taking that away may not be easy.

jarfil, 1 year ago

X/X11 is a client-server protocol from the age of 10Mbps networks, intended for a bunch of “dumb terminals” connected to a mainframe that runs the apps, with several “optimizations” that over time have become useless cruft.

Wayland is a local machine display system, intended for computers capable of running apps on the same machine as the display (aka: about everything for the past 30 years).

Nowadays, it makes more sense to have a Wayland system (with some RDP app if needed), than an X11 system with a bunch of hacks and cruft that only makes everything slower and harder to maintain. An X11 server app acting as a “dumb terminal”, can still be run on a Wayland system to display X11 client apps if needed.

jarfil, 1 year ago

I’ve posted some mean answers in the past, so I may share some insights:

• Someone had a bad day. Maybe a client berated them, maybe they had a falling out with a family member, maybe they stepped into a dog poop on a rainy day and their umbrella got blown out before a passerby burned their hand with a lit cigarette (too specific? yeah, well…)
• Someone decided to self-medicate (booze and weed seem to be popular choices)
• Someone forgot to take their meds (high blood pressure can do it, the flu will do it, insomnia or psych meds will do it more)
• Someone got a series of the aforementioned.

Generally: people post mean answers when their sense of empathy is either inexistent, or beaten into oblivion.

Once there are enough people in a place, the chance of encountering at least one person in one of those situations, quickly grows to 100%. If the place doesn’t actively discourage that kind of behavior because “engagement”… then you get the likes of Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and similar.

jarfil, 1 year ago

If I saw someone on a Beehaw community acting that way, I call it out.

That’s one of the reasons I support Beehaw potentially leaving Lemmy to do its own thing.

I’d rather Beehaw didn’t leave Lemmy, and instead “calling that kind of behavior out” got more popular on Lemmy instances… at least on the ones federated with Beehaw. But we’ll see.

jarfil, 1 year ago

Not sure if it’s still holding true, but from my travels around France a couple decades ago, I got the distinct impression that there were like “two Frances”: Paris, and the rest.

From all the news about civil unrest and stuff, it would seem like Paris has got even more of a separate vibe in that time.

jarfil, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

It’s propaganda, but maybe not for the reason you think.

Zionism actually wants Jews from all over the world to flee to Israel (and populate the land, and get more “settlers”, and more army reservists “in training”, and so on).

jarfil, 1 year ago

what happens if snatch a drone carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars?

Run.

If the owner finds you… like if they have a camera recording and the GPS location… you might get some free bullets on top of it.

Spain has some relatively strict gun control. That doesn’t mean someone controlling the smuggling of millions of € in drugs, can’t pay a few grand for some of his “acquaintances” to fly all the way over, get his property back “by whatever means”, and fly back the next day.

jarfil, 1 year ago

I think the worry is less about growth, and more about dying out. Too much external input can drown out the local conversation, but also too little external input can put too much pressure on the members to generate content, leading to burnout and also killing conversations.

It’s a precarious balance between “so much that it gets out of control” and “so little that there is nothing left out”.

jarfil, 1 year ago

This is horrible and should be documented… but let’s be realistic: nobody will be held accountable as long as Iran has Oil and Nukes… and by the time it runs out of those, the people responsible will likely be long dead.

All we can do is hope for Cold Fusion to become a reality, so all the Oil based dictatorships would collapse.

jarfil, 1 year ago

“I didn’t want to win just one fight, but also all future fights” - Ender the Genocide

(great books, decent movie, too bad some are using it as a manual)

jarfil, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

You mean “TikTok inc”, with headquarters in Los Angeles, USA?

YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram, also have plenty of stuff from Gaza, TikTok is just the more popular short video network of the moment.

jarfil, 1 year ago

The dirty truth is, Hamas is made of civilians, just not the starving babies ones.

It’s made of guys like a father who one day got a phone call from the IDF telling him to surrender or get killed, so he decided to publish a video holding an AK, laughing and telling Israel to go and try. Next week he was dead, along with several members of his family.

When you hear news like “Israel bombed a building just as a bunch of refugees took shelter in it”… yes, those were civilians; there also likely were Hamas among them, and at this point it’s anyone’s guess whether it was 10% or 90% of them.

They’re civilians willing to risk their own families, and definitely everyone else’s families too.

jarfil, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Neither. This is one of the “global warming is messing up the Global Ocean Current Belt, which messes up heat transfer on a global scale, weakening and destabilizing the Polar Vortex, which starts failing to keep arctic air restricted to Canada and instead lets it do its thing down to Texas”.

Higher than normal variability of temperatures, is a side effect of global warming. It may look like “meh, it’s just +2C, who cares”, but when you switch from “-10C to +30C” to some “-18C to +42C”, in the form of heat waves followed by torrential rain followed by heat followed by frostbite, suddenly crops start dying.

Then you can extrapolate to “meh, it’s not likely to go past +5C”.

jarfil, 1 year ago

The population is not dumb, people are just trying to make the best out of the situation. Like when they had some reporters go to a village, where women were sewing some clothes:

• Reporter: "Do you like the life in the country?"
• Woman (in subtitles): "We do what we can"
• Guide-translator: “We do the best for our nation!”

If they could, they might revolt, but NK is really well structured to prevent that… and even if they run away to the South, they find themselves in a modern country with no hireable skills.

jarfil, 1 year ago

Wasn’t the plan to send all 2 million Gaza residents to refugee camps on the Sinai, where Israel would have to control and reeducate them for at least a generation?

Now, I’m no expert in genocides…

jarfil, 1 year ago

Not really following what’s going on in Italy, what is the rate of males killed by their ex-girlfriends?

jarfil, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Could you refrain from generalizing and name calling? Your top comment was informative, you could leave it at that.

jarfil, 1 year ago

For all the obvious propaganda on Al Jazeera, they’ve been surprisingly “fair” in their reporting, both in their choice of guest speakers (although they might cut some mid sentence), and in the footage they release, that for a keen observer sometimes contradicts the propaganda.

It’s one of the best “complementary sources” of information about the conflict right now.

Compare it with RT, which is so state controlled, that it has to use exaggeration “ad absurdum” to convey even a hint of dissent (an interesting exercise for the observer to spot out, but quickly tiring).

jarfil, 1 year ago

I’m perfectly capable of thinking that they’re both terrorists and freedom fighters.

It’s not just that they “can” be both, it’s more that they “have to” be both.

“Freedom fighter” is a term reserved for the underdog, the one who can’t use sheer military power to terrorize a whole region (like a couple US Carrier Strike Groups with nukes) or some surrounding countries (like a US funded Israeli military with some nukes of their own). Established democracies and recognized states, can use their “military” to terrorize a whole population by just threatening to bomb the living shit out of the civilians, while “freedom fighters” can only terrorize through surprise attacks and extreme brutality… aka, by being “terrorists”.

Bottom line: all “freedom fighters” need to be “terrorists”, otherwise they’d be called “a military”.

somebody who goes to “freedom fighter” as their first noun for them, that’s kind of a red flag.

That’s a bit harsh, what if they understand the two are synonyms? 🤷

jarfil, 1 year ago

Tons of neo-lib shit takes in this comment section.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

Could you elaborate about which economic takes you’d want to criticize in this comment section, or did you mean to use a different term?

jarfil, 1 year ago

The authors mention the necessity of “creating ideological change” in the Palestinian population through a process of what it likens to “de-Nazification,” requiring Israel to “dictate the school curricula and enforce its use for an entire generation.”

Ah yes, the “de-Nazification” card… right after keeping a whole generation imprisoned under Hamas rule. How convenient. 😒

jarfil, 1 year ago

Only real way to solve the problem is to get rid of Hamas.

Does that include evacuating all Israelis from Gaza, then mass murdering everyone left who could ever dream of joining Hamas?

Because it seems to be what Israel is aiming at, and there are some words for it, like “genocide”.

jarfil, 1 year ago

It’s terrible that some civilians immigrated to Israel for the sole purpose of becoming settlers and pushing Palestinians out.

It’s terrible that some civilians immigrated to Gaza for the sole purpose of having as big a family as possible to use their own children and grandchildren as human shields against Israeli settlers.

It’s terrible that dual-citizenship people on both sides are asking “their” [other] countries to evacuate them, after having spent decades there on purpose.

It’s terrible that Israel is willing to watch millions of civilians starve… that Egypt doesn’t want to let refugees in… and Hamas doesn’t want to let them out.

So far, I see nothing wonderful in all of this.

jarfil, 1 year ago

Imagine if they also masked… and kept doing it even after COVID is “gone” (aka: killing fewer people).

Earlier this week, I had to catch a bus and go to a clinic to get my blood work done. Plenty of coughing and sneezing people in both places, and other than the office workers, I was the only one wearing a mask.