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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • ‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin

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  • This was pretty clear in 2016, glaringly obvious in 2021, and Trump himself explicitly said being a dictator on day one was a goal in 2024.

    But I'm sure another think piece won't hurt!

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    If Donald Trump Was Assassinated, Would Anyone Really Mind, Beyond The Principle of the Thing?

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  • Do you consider the free software movement to be an anarchist/communist project?

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  • My pleasure! It kind of reminds me of Snow Crash in that it's really fun and adventurous but also made me think deep thoughts.

  • Do you consider the free software movement to be an anarchist/communist project?

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  • Cory Doctorow has a novel "Walkaway" which is basically "what if society but FOSS". It's really good!

    To answer your question, while it has a lot in common with anarchism I don't think anyone benefits from trying to fit it into a predefined political box. It's something new.

  • Advice for Linux media center

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  • Libelec (kodi) is fine if only playing local media but its use for anything else except realdebrid is extremely lacking. On the plus side it will run great on an Rpi5 and if you go that route you can probably even use your TV remote because Libelec has excellent CEC support.

    Jellyfin/Plex is something your TV also probably has an app for, so you wouldn't even need a media center, just a media server.

    Plasma Bigscreen is making slow gains, but in a couple of years will probably be the definitive Linux media center PC.

    Also a bit unconventional, but Bazzite can load directly into Steam's big picture mode. From there you could set shortcuts for Jellyfin or Plex HTPC.

  • Booklore is officially dead

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  • They seem to be working on uh, syncing all the sync features. There have been some updates recently.

  • Booklore is officially dead

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  • My understanding is that it wasn't so much his "choice in tools" it was privacy concerns surrounding that choice.

  • Booklore is officially dead

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  • I think CWA is the one to watch. It's progress has been slower but steady.

  • Booklore is officially dead

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  • Crazy. It had a meteoric rise.

    I guess CWA is the one to use now. In a way I'm glad the space will have only a single major player.

  • Incase you were not aware, there is a new fork of Revanced which is more properly maintained. It's called Morphe.

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  • How is this vs NewPipe?

  • I'm cutting FB and IG entirely, is there a way to see content there without an account?

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  • What you're looking for is called an "Alternative frontend". I'm not aware of a working one for Facebook but it might be worth searching around!

  • Probably want to stop using Booklore...

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  • Damn 99% of the time someone says not to use an open source product it's because of some obscure drama unrelated to the actual program.

    But in this case the dev appears to not just be using AI code (not great but debatable) but using mostly AI code and using AI to reply to bug reports. Not something the average person wants to be running in a live environment.

    I haven't used Booklore but the excitement around it was nudging me there. I think I'll stick with CWAs slower rollout.

  • Probably want to stop using Booklore...

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  • That's not a reason to consider CWA unsafe

  • Why Flatpak Won and Snap and AppImage Didn't. - Cameron Knauff

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  • Oh ok I didn't realize that. I've personally never encountered a situation where I needed a Snap because a Flatpak lacked functionality.

  • Your logging is probably down

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  • John Fetterman says Iran girls’ school strike is just a leftist craze

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  • Thanks for catching that I edited my comment

  • John Fetterman says Iran girls’ school strike is just a leftist craze

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  • New Republic is definitely left leaning but they are typically factual (citation). This is not their typical fare.

  • John Fetterman says Iran girls’ school strike is just a leftist craze

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  • The headline is misquoting him, the full quote is:

    “Well, because we all agree that it’s a tragedy having the school hit, and we all agree now for an investigation,” Fetterman said. “What I don’t agree with the rest of my colleagues in the House is that it’s a war of choice, or it’s dumb, or all the things my colleagues have described, you know, this operation. I think it’s a good thing, and I support that.”

    Still glaringly stupid, but the headline makes it seem like he's in denial it happened. He didn't say the words "leftist" or "craze"

    Edited for accuracy!

  • Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense

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  • Labubus are basically gambling for kids. I'm not sure they're sending the message they want to be, here.