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We're living in Machiavellian times, my friends!

From the Birdsite Arnaud Bertrand opined, and I agree with his point, to wit:

_Arnaud Bertrand
@RnaudBertrand
Why is the EU so bound on multiplying self-defeating actions?_

_Why is this 🔽 done? Obviously to rally public opinion against China. This will make any cooperation with China toxic in the eyes of the public, leaving the U.S. as the only alternative…_
scmp.com/news/china/article/31

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Another great Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) piece on bogus Christian health insurance and other huge cons with a cool reference to the movie "THE STING" (1973): pluralistic.net/2022/06/07/mor

FYI
Technique significantly boosts the speeds of programs that run in the Unix shell

Researchers have pioneered a technique that can dramatically accelerate certain types of computer programs automatically, while ensuring program results remain accurate.

techxplore.com/news/2022-06-te

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The Handmaid's Tale "special edition looks like any other printed paper-and-ink work, but it is made of nickel wire, stainless steel, aluminum and fire-resistant inks"

cnn.com/style/article/the-hand

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Save time with Awk...

...and give your spreadsheet some vacations after having read that great article by the Free Software Magazine.

freesoftwaremagazine.com/artic

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New Replicant 6.0 0004 release announced. Read it, as well as a status update for #Replicant 11, at u.fsf.org/3m3 | Interested in supporting their work? You may contribute at my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/

For shame my country!

and the Banderites, by Thierry Meyssan

In previous articles, Thierry Meyssan has shown how the Banderites, collaborators of the worst Nazi exactions in Ukraine and Poland, came to power in Kiev, in the young independent Ukraine. He shows here that, for eighty years, Banderite immigrants have been embedded in the Canadian Liberal Party to the point of occupying the number two position in Justin Trudeau’s current (…)

voltairenet.org/article216785.

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Spacebear now provides Write Freely managed hosting:

federation.spacebear.ee/softwa

You can also get Write Freely managed hosting from writefreely.host and cloud68.co/instances/writefree

Write Freely is a minimalist blogging platform which federates with the Fediverse. You can follow Write Freely blogs from Mastodon etc. More info at writefreely.org

#WriteFreely #ManagedHosting #Fediverse

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"I'm a scientist. When I find evidence that my theories are wrong, it is as exciting as if they were correct. Scientific advance in either direction is still an advance." -- Stargate: SG-1

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Just had a very weird conversation with someone discussing an open source voice assistant, I asked about its privacy and they blocked me. This isn't very reassuring.

Be really careful with voice assistants. As far as I know, all of them rely on sending your data to the manufacturer's server.

Open source alone won't protect you. Open source tells you what the software does, but if it does bad stuff you need to act on that information to protect yourself.

#Privacy #VoiceAssistants #FOSS

If I could I'd vote for such a candidate! Refreshing to say the least!

US Congress candidate Geoff Young: Abolish CIA, stop arming Nazis, end drug war

Listen now (42 min) | US Congress candidate Geoff Young, who is running in Kentucky on an anti-war platform, explains why he wants to abolish the CIA and AFRICOM, end the war on drugs, and stop arming Nazis in Ukraine.

multipolarista.substack.com/p/

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If you don't know what is #Awk or how it could help you processing text files, then you NEED that little introduction:
youtu.be/PUYS6MO4p7Y

#Linux #Shell #AWK
#YesIKnowIT

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