Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Robbing From the Poor to Educate the Rich - In an age of staggering income inequality, America’s public schools remains one of the last and best mechanisms for advancing equal opportunity. That is precisely why they are targeted. @thenation https://www.thenation.com/article/society/vouchers-attack-public-education/ #Education

If the nation had followed the path Carter had placed us on rather than caving to Reagan the #ClimateCrisis could have been avoided, the US would be using the metric system and the middle class would very likely still exist.

Mark Zuckerberg is so bankrupt of ideas that he’s really copying Elon Musk’s most terrible social media idea.

I can’t believe he looked at Twitter Blue and thought, “Let’s copy this but make it worse!”

87 years later kids discovers a landline phone for the first time https://www.tiktok.com/@lmhurd1/video/7140091649413319982 Nowadays, the concept of a dial tone is rather ancient for a cellphone-centric world, so I'm not surprised by the kids' reactions. On the contrary, it is adorable.

From: https://techchannel.att.com/showpage/ATT-Archives Introduction to the Dial Telephone - 1936 #history

There is no sin in the story of "The Fall" in Genesis 3.

Literally, the word "sin" doesn't appear in the Bible until the story of Cain and Abel, in the next chapter.

So there's certainly no "Original Sin" in the story. All of that was made up centuries later and read back into it.

#sin #OriginalSin #Genesis #exvangelical

In 1979 Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House roof. In the 80s' Ronald Reagan removed them.
Carter wanted renewables to generate 20% of U.S. energy needs by 2000. When Reagan was elected he scrapped the policy, eliminating tax breaks for renewable technologies in favour of oil and gas. Today the US produces just 7% of its energy from renewables, the majority from hydroelectric schemes.
A massive wasted opportunity which we and future generations will pay for.
#climatechange

A handful of companies own the patents on virtually every seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing biodiversity back to farming. #opensource

https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/

Note how in the first story the “car” caused a fatal accident, where in the second story it was the “driver.”

Putting a police department logo on the side of a car appears make it sentient.

Watching Twitter fail into nothingness is like watching and old friend slowly lose their mental capacites. It hurts, this friend had some problems, but they helped spread the word about artists, independent journalists, mom and pop shops... Now they just sit in their recliner in the dark, wondering why their friends don't call anymore.

The most comically sad thing about this whole Twitter two-factor fiasco is they could have just come out and said they are retiring SMS-based auth for security reasons and it would have been a totally fine decision. Instead they tie it to a tiny incremental revenue opportunity and it once again outs them as total morons.

This week could be a pivotal week for the future of the #Internet. The US Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in #GonzalezVsGoogle. Will they uphold the liability protections of #Section230 for website operators? Or will they change the definitions?

@mmasnick has a great piece summarizing the issues: “Next Week, The Supreme Court Could Destroy Everything Good About The Internet “

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/17/next-week-the-supreme-court-could-destroy-everything-good-about-the-internet/

And also WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/18/gonzalez-google-lawsuit-supreme-court/

tip @Techmeme

Another Tesla driver and fire truck bite the dust. #tesla https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-crashes-into-firetruck-in-fatal-accident-2af6bc60

#ChristianPrivilege #fascism #Authoritarianism #sociopaths #ChristoFascism #AmericanTaliban #RightWingExtremism #ConservativeChristians #transphobia #lgbt

So far #OPNsense works great! I like the „Reporting" page, espescially Unbound DNS.
Also setting up public accessable block lists is painless. I’m using now most of the #NextDNS blocklists locally. Let's see how much is left.

Side note: I read some articles in the OPNSense docs (ex. https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/monit.html).
Often these docs include „we have“, „we thought" etc. Somehow makes it more human. 😍

I would recommend at least having a look into OPNSense, set up a VM and play around 🧪

#homelab

A preview of Gonzalez v. Google SCOTUS case and a look at the Israeli nonprofit Shurat HaDin that is arguing the case against Google at the February 21 hearing (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/18/gonzalez-google-lawsuit-supreme-court/
http://www.techmeme.com/230219/p2#a230219p2

Rockchip RK3566 #SBC with #RaspberryPi 3 form factor, plus an M.2 NVMe SSD socket, eMMC flash, and an RTC with a backup battery. #linux #android #debian #digitalsignage
https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/02/19/urve-board-pi-rk3566-sbc-rtc-emmc-flash-m2-ssd-socket/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/cnxsoft/status/1627192668555186178

In light of #twitter deciding to remove #2fa from non-Blue users, maybe reposting this is appropriate. Sticking around isn’t going to “save” the #birdsite it’s time to move on.

#twittermigration

https://geoffkratz.substack.com/p/resistance-is-pointless