We got most of the tech from the jetsons ppl could envision in the early 1960s (video calls, smartphones, smart watches, smart homes), but still don’t have flying cars, cloud cities, robot maids, and moving sidewalks going everywhere.

Highly recommend reading Domenico Losurdo - Class struggle for more on this.

It gets into how there’s not just a single class struggle, i.e. working class versus bourgeoisie, but many different and related class struggles. Both Marx and Engels held this multivariate view of class struggle too, and it was only later that chauvinists, anti-feminists, and imperialists restricted its meaning to the workplace only.

CIA training? As in the central intelligence agency? They are an intel agency, not military advisors. And neither can do magic (like makeing soviet era leftover equipment to be anything else)

The phoenix program, what’s that?

Also the smaller OS’s (puppy linux, tailOS) that can run entirely in RAM are going to be fast when it comes to anything but disk reads.

Yep, google / youtube should never be trusted, and only seen as a temporary convenience / backup. We should always be in control of our own tools, platforms, and data.

Unfortunately no, that would be hundreds of gigs, and it would also require creating a new one every time I record a new audiobook. Torrents are meant for static / unchanging data, and best when normalized to smaller “finished” content.

While I definitely appreciate the ppl running tankie tube, it’s yet another centralized hosting solution that could taken down at any time.

The torrent links in the link above are already decentralized, many with several seeders, and as proper audiobooks.

See here, but it doesn’t seem likely.

It was always just a backup for the torrents anyway, which are all here: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/audiobooks.html

Same. Cardboard box or round scratching pads are still getting used every day for months. Every other toy, a day or so max.

Operation condor, operation gladio? Never heard of em.

Hitler particles off the charts

Liberals staunchly support unlimited freedom for the capitalist class, including their rule over everything. Its liberalism’s defining feature.

I don’t have the energy to start something and try to rally a bunch of devs, but I would join it.

Reviews in OpenStreetMap, so that google maps can have a real competitor.

Its not FOSS, but I use to use foursquare for years because of how good it was at finding good restaurants / things to do in a new city. Now that its shut down, there’s no real alternative that comes close.

Browsers are bigger than operating systems now. One of the points of gemini is to use a very restricted language and abilities, so that developers can create their own gemini browsers easily.

As it stands now, google exerts enormous control on the web because of how complicated it is to make a browser. Currently mozilla is google’s only competitor in browser engines.

While gemini is a great project, I personally think a better route would be to create a local or server service that converts and saves existing webpages to markdown, and local apps acting as markdown browsers utilizing it.

With that people could write simple browsers, as well as reduce spying and have static content viewable on all form factors.

Everything that’s not static content (like the fediverse) already can have dedicated apps.

There are some really popular FOSS apps for android, that are also on google play. Things like tasks.org , all the fossify apps, termux, joplin, ankidroid, thunderbird / k9, and many more.

These being potentially removed from google play by developers due to a developer strike, would have more of an impact than KeepAndroidOpen’s current top strategy, which is for users to mass email their country’s regulators, which are easily ignored by either politicians or google.

Polling of turtle island indigenous peoples indicate that a good majority still prefer the term Indians. You can read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz All the real indians died off and 20 other myths for the reasons.

I tried to open up an issue (and did a PR) suggesting a developer strike as a tactic (IE open source devs adding their names to a list to promise to remove our apps from google play if developer ID goes through) on the KeepAndroidOpen repo. As a dev whose made many android apps and have them on both f-droid and google play, I thought this would mean something.

The maintainers of that repo have been ignoring me to death since April. I was told by the maintainer that the project was “leaderless”, but in reality it seems they’re very opposed to a developer strike, otherwise my PR would’ve gotten more attention.

Israel : “no”

US : “alrighty then, here’s 10 billion dollars”