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Latest comic: When Worlds Collide

#economy #food #authoritarianism #comic #cartoon

New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms
L: https://electrek.co/2025/11/02/new-national-law-will-turn-large-parking-lots-into-solar-power-farms/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790867
posted on 2025.11.02 at 10:12:08 (c=0, p=3)

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Group 1: "All these instructions on the internet say I need a computer or sometimes even two; who has that kind of money?"

Group 2: "I have sixteen fully operational laptop computers that I fished out of a dumpster that desperately need a good home, but no one will take them, so they're cluttering up my apartment."

It feels like some problems would be solved if these two groups could talk to each other, but somehow it never seems to work that way : (

#freecycling #consumerism #capitalism

"for the rest of us who don’t have the technical knowledge and time to follow his accomplishments, his advice is to “Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices” and to “Treat them as strangers in your home.” "

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline

Firefox is blocking web pages for bogus security issues -- wish Mozilla would spend more time making its browser work better and less time experimenting with "AI"

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Chooms... I would like to introduce something to you.

Kyberklang ~ my therapy project

By day, I write code for rich people who think “innovation” means adding another LLM makes the world better.

By night, I built Kyberklang: a retro-styled audio player that glows, hums, and actually does something useful... like playing music.

I’m currently building versions for Linux and macOS (no Windows, sorry - or, you know... not sorry).

An alpha test is coming soon - maybe with you?

You can tweak hue, pitch, and balance, drag and drop your own tracks, and feel like you’re operating the soundboard of a cyberpunk fever dream.

It’s not for clients, not for quarterly reports... just for sanity.

Sneak Preview: https://kyberklang.cyber.to

I just used a Samsung mobile phone for the first time in ten years. It’s still an intolerably frustrating experience. Why must a user always be signed into _both_ Google and Samsung accounts simultaneously??!

Project Gutenberg CEO Greg Newby helped put a trove of literature online

by John Last

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-greg-newby-project-gutenberg-ceo-literature-public-domain-hacker/?intcmp=gift_share

You are deeply missed @gbnewby. Thanks for keeping us together!

#ebooks #publicdomain

A Statement from the Anarchist Group in Sudan

Thanks to @TheDugoutPod for bringing it to our attention.

"We, in the Anarchist Group, call on comrades everywhere: the time has come to gather and stand with us against this destructive authoritarian war. We must raise awareness across the world about the mass
extermination being carried out by the Rapid Support Forces militias — supported by the United Arab Emirates - which are turning their guns toward ethnic cleansing and genocide on racial grounds for the sake of vicious imperialist interests seeking to control resources and gold in exchange for blood. The world must not stand by and watch us in silence. Revolutionaries everywhere must know of our sacrifices and our struggle against savage capitalist terror, against the bloody authority, and against systematic ethnic cleansing.

We in the Anarchist Group in Sudan have lost comrades; some of our members were injured and some died; others face the imminent danger of war. Our families suffer from hunger, lack of medicine, and lack of food. We believed in anarchism in a land where authority is everywhere, and we fought to defend ourselves, our idea, and our unity. Today we need you — reach out your hands to us and stand with us so we can resist the authorities and the Janjaweed.
May the revolution endure
- a
poisoned dagger in the hearts of
tyrants.
Ali Abdel Moneim
Spokesperson of the Group"

Monetary donations can be made here:

https://opencollective.com/support-sudanese-comrades

Ross Douthat is one of those tumors with teeth and hair in it. The fact it can write at all was so incredible the NYTimes never bothered reading its essays.

Thankfully, public pressure has once again pushed the EU Council to withdraw its dangerous plan to scan encrypted messages. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/once-again-chat-control-flails-after-strong-public-pressure

Speaker Mike Penis's Food Bank https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/10/31/2351444/-Cartoon-Mike-Johnson-s-food-bank

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We need better accessibility software for vision-impaired people on Linux. My blind friend is stuck using Windoze because apparently whatever Linux has isn't even close to up to par with what MS has on offer. This seems like a massive fail to me. I know it's probably a hard thing to develop, but still...

A visual summary of inequality. Cartoon from last year.

#wealth #poverty #inequality

As Tim Bray aptly puts it, Grokpedia -- copied from Wikipedia and then junked up with right-wing advocacy and LLM slop -- is "the encyclopedia that Elon Musk’s LLM can edit, with sketchy citations and no progressive argument left un-attacked.”

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/28/Grokipedia

MIT Technology Revew: "I get it, I get it—calling AGI a conspiracy isn’t a perfect analogy. It will also piss a lot of people off. But come with me down this rabbit hole and let me show you the light."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1127057/agi-conspiracy-theory-artifcial-general-intelligence/