The bucket of sand is a good tip, my solution was an empty paint can filled with sand and the lid hammered back on.

Wait until you find out about Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. It’s a very fun game, can recommend.

I assume a lot of the machinery itself does run on some flavor of Linux (or maybe even some real-time operating system like VxWorks) that has been stripped down for embedded use, Windows just wouldn’t run on this kind of hardware. I imagine this desktop is (as you can kind of see in the photo) just a display that sits in an office and serves as an overview of the machines, display warnings, and all that kind of stuff. Though, since it seems to just be a website, I’m not sure why they also wouldn’t use Linux in this scenario either and set it up in a POS (point-of-sale) fashion where all it can do is display that website and nothing else. Maybe they also use them for general office work as well? Who knows.

They’re in the process of moving away from Intel/AMD chips in all government machines now that their domestic alternatives (namely LoongArch) have gotten to a state where they’re good enough for most day to day tasks. I give it some time, but I wouldn’t doubt them requiring a similar move away from these chips in extremely crucial settings like this.

Damn, don’t know much about this guy but I’ve seen a few of his videos and from what I saw he seemed like a cool guy.

Was his death ever confirmed? I saw people saying he died but I never saw like an actual confirmation if it was true or not.

It will happen, it’s inevitable. Capitalism can’t sustain itself forever despite what people think. It may not happen during our lifetime, but it’s still our job to lay the groundwork of a better future so the comrades that come after us can pick up where we left off.

Where will Windows users draw the red line? Please, for the love of Lenin, just install a Linux distribution. It’s not as scary as it seems, I promise. Pick something that has a large user base, things like Fedora, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, literally anything is better than Windows at this point. This is especially important if you’re doing any real life organizing that requires you to do things on your computer, don’t just hand over everything to Microsoft (who will hand over everything to any government that asks) out of convenience.

well well well…

“Homosexuality, just like heterosexuality, represents a variant of sexual behavior. Homosexual people do therefore not stand outside socialist society, and the civil rights are warranted to them exactly as to all other citizens.” ― Supreme Court of East Germany, 1987

Which you will most likely be able to disable with a policy.json just like Librewolf does with Pocket and other Mozilla services. I personally rather just build Firefox from Mozilla’s sources and use my own configuration rather than having to put trust into some third-party to do that for me. Though I understand that is definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, so I guess Librewolf is good enough for the majority of people. Though I’d be weary because a lot of the settings Librewolf enables (namely the things under privacy.resistFingerprinting) break a lot of websites which some people may not want to deal with. In that case, I’d just take Arkenfox’s configuration and remove all that stuff from it and call it a day.

Meh, it’s just Firefox with a config applied out of the box and some new branding. They don’t really patch anything of importance out of Firefox, pretty much all of their patches are just changes for their branding/styling.

You can find the config that comes out of the box here: https://codeberg.org/librewolf/settings/src/branch/master/librewolf.cfg which appears to just be https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/master/user.js with a couple of extra things added like Brave’s query stripping list.

I’m neurodivergent and this shit fucking traumatized me in school, and honestly, not even just the cops in school just cops in general. I really fear the day I’ll have to interact with one of these fucking pigs for whatever reason because I honestly expect to get shot or something because I did something “wrong”.

I’ve said it multiple times but it can’t be said enough… Death to America

Even the reuploads that don’t even contain the music video get age restricted, YouTube working over time as of recently!

Good, the can keep it’s aging technology built on the backs of the military industrial complex, genocide, and occupation for itself while the rest of the world moves forward.

That’s only if a peer-to-peer connection can be made in the first place, which most of the time it can’t because of NAT and other things. The Element client even has a checkbox to prevent you from making peer-to-peer connections forcing you to go through your homeserver’s TURN server or Matrix’s fallback TURN server.

Edit: To clarify the warning under the “Allow fallback call assist server” saying your IP address will be shared, it means it will be shared with matrix.org, not the parties you are calling.

The real snoot drooper

Hell, even the uses Google Forms for initial on boarding where they ask you for things like your full name, phone number, e-mail address, social media handles, and all that jazz. Really big yikes moment, but I understand that hosting an open-source alternative/writing their own solution is a lot of work and they might not have the resources to pull something like that off right now, but still.

I know Discord is super convenient and easy to use, but please don’t use it for organizing purposes, this is a horrible idea for so many reasons. If you’re going to use Discord for this purpose, you may as well just invite the local police officers to your meetings. This goes for Microsoft’s Windows as well, but that’s a whole different conversation and not in the scope of this post.

Piggybacking on what @hello_hello said, I’d bring Matrix to your organizations attention and lobby for it’s adoption. It’s free, open-source, decentralized/federated, and end-to-end encrypted (important!) and has everything you’d want like direct messages, group chats, voice & video calls, and plenty more.

If you really must use Discord, make a throw away e-mail that you only use on Discord, do not attach a phone number to your account, pick a username that you’ve never used on any other platform, don’t talk about anything that could be linked back to you, etc. Assume everything you send/do is being looked at, because it is.