Manuel Erhardt @erhardt@librem.one

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Sometimes, I think we need to stop blaming just Capitalism, and get more personal. Lots of countries use a Capitalistic system, but still manage to pay workers fair wages, provide free/inexpensive Healthcare, have paid maternity/paternity leave, longer paid vacation, shorter work weeks, ect. We use the word Capitalism like Christians use The Devil, but it's not some dark mysterious force, it is people who are choosing to treat other people like actual garbage, it is people who are making laws, people who are denying rights. The derision with which we speak the name of Elon Musk or Donald Trump, should be universal for rich fuckers who choose profits over people. They shouldn't get to hide behind, Oh, that's just late stage Capitalism. It's a choice for them, and it's a choice for the lobbyists who promote them, and it's a choice for the politicians who put those laws into action.

had to use the internet without ublock origin for like five minutes the other day and was horrified about what an ad-infested shithole it is, i can't believe regular people just live like this, it's like some horrible dystopian parallel universe

Sweden approves Ukrainian use of Swedish weapons against targets in Russia.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/direktrapport-forsamrat-sakerhetslage?inlagg=990d7c8989ff1e981b47a946af9c0d1d

Blinken suggested that Ukraine be allowed to strike Russian territory

The head of the US State Department, Antony Blinken, has suggested that Ukraine should be allowed to launch strikes with US weapons against missile systems and artillery installations on Russian territory.

https://en.nexta.tv/ukraine/2575-blinken-suggested-that-ukraine-be-allowed-to-strike-russian-territory
#news #nexta

We really don’t make enough of the fact that you don’t need JS to make a nice website. Just HTML and CSS

And, whatever most programmers say about HTML and CSS, they absolutely are much more accessible to learn than JS ever has been or will be

I was wondering why hand stencils are so common in early human cave art... then I read one of the comments on the video about the art "This is so cool I'm going to do it in my son's room."

Oh.

Ok I get it now.

TIL American composer Kevin MacLeod allows anyone to use his music for free, as long as he receives credit for the song. This has led to his music being used in thousands of films, millions of videos on YouTube.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_MacLeod
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ctkchr/til_american_composer_kevin_macleod_allows_anyone/

Please don’t ever give me a houseplant I can barely keep myself alive most days

#Switzerland

Having enough electricity in winter is the big challenge for climate neutrality in 2050. This requires gigantic – electricity storage systems or new nuclear power plants, says author Andreas Züttel. It is an explosive result: If Switzerland wants to be climate neutral in 2050, building six to eight #nuclear power plants is the cheapest alternative. That’s how it stands in a study a team led by Andreas Züttel, who researches at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/sechs-kernkraftwerke-studie-der-eth-lausanne-fuehrt-zu-einer-kontroverse-ld.1829743

Weil einige zu meiner Rede beim #Israeltag in #Stuttgart gefragt haben: Es ist wirklich wahr, #Äthiopien reduziert seine #Öl-Importe durch das Aus für Verbrennermotoren drastisch. Ein schneller Umstieg auf erneuerbare #Friedensenergien wäre auch in #Europa🇪🇺 längst möglich.

Ich fahre übrigens seit 7 (sieben!) Jahren glücklich das gleiche, französische #Elektroauto. Derzeit nutzt es mein Sohn, um zu seiner #Bundeswehr-Kaserne ohne ÖPNV-Anschluss zu gelangen. Bizarr, oder? https://www.watson.de/nachhaltigkeit/good-news/689811742-e-mobilitaet-aethiopien-verbietet-verbrenner-autos

As a former librarian I wish a very friendly Fuck You and Die to book publishers. They are the scum of the Earth.

They hate libraries. Did you know that they induce artificial scarcity by making libraries pay for each digital copy of a book? Despite ebooks being infinitely replicable, they make libraries pay for more than one copy at a time. Publishers deliberately force a limit on the supply of digital library books to extort more money out of libraries for popular titles.

In addition, publishers lobbied (in the UK) to make library ebooks only work through their apps on mobile and PC, and not compatible with any Kindle/Kobo/etc so people wouldn’t get a good experience. There is a cartel — made solely of a company called Overdrive. Their app is absolute buggy dogshit. A far cry from the breezy and simple interface of an e-reader.

But it gets worse. Original proposals from the publishers wanted it so that service users could only download ebooks while physically in the library, thus negating the convenience of them!

Despite ebooks being cheaper to produce than a traditional book and infinitely reproducable, Overdrive will sometimes charge more for an ebook than a supplier would charge for the equivalent copy.

Publishers would have lobbied against the invention of public libraries if they could. And take it from me — public libraries are one of the few open spaces left on this planet where one can just exist at without needing to pay for anything.