Great news everyone! I saw code so terrible yesterday that I quit my job on the spot, for realsies. Enjoy what should be the last post about me gazing directly into corporate-hell:
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Edit: they are thankfully still alive. They’re injured from the strike.
Both of my parents were in the Red Cross during the 75-90 civil war and have both said it wasn’t as bad, that they could still cross Israeli lines to help ppl at the time. Israel now just targets first responders as a matter of policy. This is a rogue, criminal regime.
For having been a female MP in the pre-Taliban regime, they are now in hiding from death threats. After months of secret work, the multipartisan Canadian rescue mission is going public, but is not complete #Afghanishtan cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.652…
I just love this woman's writing. "It’s so difficult to love when we’re all pretending to be machines." dinanalasad.substack.com/p/let… Are there actually places where you don't have to pretend to be a machine, though? I thought it was just hard everywhere. And getting harder. Dinan is from Sudan.
No, It s the right one. I was referring to how the man was complying with the first officer by walking out of the hotel, when two more arrived, grabbed, tased, and assaulted him. He then died after vomiting and bleeding from the mouth.
I've signed up here for the 26 steps (one every two weeks) to being an Ethical Rebel! Things many of us on here are already doing. I know my individual stands I take can't change the world by themselves, but we can be part of the community that is moving in a new direction, maybe... ethicalrevolution.co.uk/ So, step 1 (they are alphabetical!) is Abandon Amazon ethicalrevolution.co.uk/amazon… Easy, I have already done this with the help of the behometh itself. A few years ago when I was trying to be a seller as well as a buyer I got mixed up with the multiple accounts, lost passwords, and Amazon's "change password" codes which were supposed to come by phone never did! A blessing in disguise! I decided to just leave it that way. However a family member who is a very ethical person is nevertheless constantly buying from Amazon including when they send me a gift..so the boxes still can show up on my doorstep. #ethicalconsumer #EthicalRevolution
To my admittedly great surprise and pleasure, my neighbour Rana has been able to bring her sister, brother-in-law and one nephew to Canada, but she has many other family members in grave peril, maybe dead. She's desperately trying to raise funds with a GoFundMe and selling foods at the Farmers' Market.
Yesterday, world leaders gathered in the UN headquarters in New York and adopted the Pact for the Future, cementing the shift away from fossil fuels as the fundamental norm for climate action. It was a hard-earned victory. Powerful fossil fuel lobbyism managed to have this paragraph removed from earlier drafts.
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Israel has launched more than 650 attacks on some 1,300 Hezbollah targets across Lebanon over the past 24 hours, killing 492 people and wounding 1,645 others.
Prof Reich, please include sources with assertions like this. Not because I have any doubt that you are telling the truth, of course you are. But if I share that with someone who isn't progressive they are going to ask.
but surely you do not want to suggest that corporations should be treated in the same way as individual human beings, are you? Wherever would you come up with such an idea?
Does anyone have a recommendation for an email service that is privacy oriented and uses green energy? I know there are several, mostly European based, What are your user experiences? #email I would be willing to pay a small fee to support the independence of such a service but my needs are pretty simple.
I use @protonprivacy for a while now (free and paid account) and so far so good. It does worth it and it's quite interesting to support an independent (foundation) service challenging big ones like Gmail, outlook...
Regarding the green side of the force I can't really say honestly. I think it's quite average even if encryting is more energy consuming. It's still better than self-hosted email server but differences must be not notable.
I'm a happy paying fastmail user with a custom domain setup. Switched over some 10+ years ago from self-hosting when it was no longer reasonable to do so on my own.
It's def. not perfect as a non-European company but I thought at least they have a track record of making good decisions, they exist for a long time, and their business model is not ad driven or based on reselling my data.
Also: I asked their support about a detail in their new plans and got a human to respond v quickly.
re. green energy: realistically mail hosting doesn't need much storage or compute compared to everything else we're doing nowadays or even compared to the business activities around the hosting so that was not a concern to me at all.
Disclaimer: I do work in the climate space and understand that this take might be controversial. I just try not to lose myself in details here.
@djh That's fair. Probably most important to avoid use of LLM. Since I'm changing anyway to something more in line with my values I'd favour businesses committed to green energy but it's more of a gesture on my part.
@christof Mailbox looks interesting; you get quite a lot of tools along with email for your few euros: online office tools and video conferencing . Have you used these?
@tillgrallert @christof @seanfobbe Posteo seems like a very values oriented company, committed to the environment in every detail. I want to work there for the organic lunch! Seems to have good user satisfaction too.
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Israeli soldiers raid, order closure of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah [Screengrab/Al Jazeera] and tear down an image of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist shot dead by Israeli forces in May 2022.
Israeli forces kill dozens across Gaza as tanks advance deeper into Rafah | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/i…
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