i have:

• 2 disks at 1 TB each full of my backups, all in the format 2025-05-03 each.
• the disks are encrypted using linux’s cryptsetup luksOpen method.

the password for encryption is a three-word sequence, example “apple broccoli joanna”, and i store a paper on it with the three questions “my favorite food, first vegetables i planted, first girl i liked” or sth

they’re blaming it on the middle men

In a statement to Kotaku, a spokesperson for Valve said that while Mastercard did not communicate with it directly, concerns did come through payment processor and banking intermediaries.

i wonder whether we will have to seize the means of computer chip production as well …

“there’s no ethical consumption”

i used to believe that because consumption typically entailed consuming fossil fuels, which destroys the planet. nowadays, with the revolution of clean, renewable energy, i see no problem anymore. we can consume a lot more than we’re currently doing without really harming the planet once that renewable energy is in place (which, btw, trump is opposed to, because he’s bought by the oil industry)

The disparity in wealth wasn’t any better under Biden.

It’s worse now. A part of that is due to natural developments (worsening job markets due to AI), but a large part is because trump fails to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, thus halting the circulation of money and stifling the economy.

money is like blood in a human, it needs to flow in circles. it cannot only go from bottom to top. there needs to be redistribution from the top to the bottom for the blood to continue to flow. only then can the organism survive.

Nearly eight out of 10 Americans, including 70% of Republicans, fear that Trump’s tariffs will increase the price of everyday goods.

The money that the federal government rises through import tariffs (import taxes) should be redistributed to the people sothat the people can buy american-made products with it.

Ok so i read this article: https://www.heise.de/news/Oesterreich-Nationalrat-beschliesst-Bundestrojaner-10481818.html

including these dense legal texts:

• https://www.heise.de/downloads/18/4/8/7/9/4/8/6/15_24_erlaeu.pdf
• https://www.heise.de/downloads/18/4/8/7/9/4/8/6/15_24_tggue.pdf
• https://www.heise.de/downloads/18/4/8/7/9/4/8/6/15_24_vwfa_nb.pdf

and it seems they want to only allow it in urgent cases where terrorist attacks (“verfassungsgefährdende Aktivitäten”) are suspected. devices can be surveilled for 3 months with a trojan software, then the person has to be notified they were surveilled.

They intend to use keyloggers and screenshots. Apparently, they only want to surveil messenger communications, but not files stored on the device.

If they do find any other dirt on you (evidence of criminal activity), they’re gonna report that to the state prosecutor. I.e., random findings are not intended to be ignored.

Actually maybe we shouldn’t call it “left politics”, just “human politics”, because it’s politics for the human, not for some mega-corps.

i don’t know what buddhism has to do with that? apart from that, buddhism is a great worldview in my experience.

Unionize your workplace instead.

and how does that help? serious question, i have no idea. don’t tell me to “read it up on the internet”. how do unions help when the demand for human workers is decreasing?

under capitalist logic and current law, the company is legally required to maximize profit, at least if it’s publicly traded. it’s because the CEO has a responsibility to the shareholders, and shareholders typically demand maximization of profits.

sticker i made. feel free to use it wherever you’d like.

it would be a lot of work

no, CP is copypasta, the thing you put into your food boxes.

this looks amazing! (from the youtube video. also the controls/features seem to be well thought-through) i’ll give it a shot tomorrow

you have to go there in person to cast a piece of paper with your account name on it, similar to a vote in a ballot. it’s anonymous because the pieces of paper cannot be associated to a physical human, just like voting ballots are anonymous, but it still transports the information that a human registered this account.

Cameras (or human observer) undo any sense of anonymity. A bad actor could link participant with account.

hence the mixing (shuffling) of paper cards before they are being registered. so there’s no one-to-one mapping of humans and account names anymore.

today, yes. it’s a very simplistic worldview to assume that AI won’t becomes less distinguishable from humans when writing applications in the future, and i don’t expect it to hold true

if the group of people registering their account names is big enough, facial recognition doesn’t do much, as it can only link the person to one-of-a-hundred-or-thousand account names.

“crypto parties” often refers to key signing parties, i.e. parties where you exchange cryptographic keys. sorry i should have made that clearer