Sometimes companies have really clear mission statements!
For instance, look at this beauty from the Ukrainian company firepoint (https://firepoint.technology/en/about-us/).
Let us wish them the best of luck with their mission!
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@meltedcheese@c.im @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @Jonricha@hoosier.social Read again my man. Yes, I do not doubt that physicists strive to find analogies and metaphors, but the probem is that many people are starting to believe that the map is the territory, and that is a serious error.
If physicists cannot communicate without making it seem that they have discovered parallel universes ,then perhaps they shouldn't communicate at all until better ways of explaining are found?
Right now, this is basically destroying science.
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@meltedcheese@c.im @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @Jonricha@hoosier.social The cure is after all very easy. Demand empirical proof, like science has always done. If this test is consistently applied, before "enobling" theories with the stamp of science, then a lot of these problems will vanish.
Today, billions are poured into nonsense since there is no empirical grounding.
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@thecasualcritic@writing.exchange @jon@social.vivaldi.net What is the problem with it?
I press my menu button, I type "wr" (the beginning of the word write) press enter, and then I write in something which looks 99% like microsoft word before they messed up the GUI with the strange "bar".
If people think this is too much, and if people refuse because the icons are not in the exact same position as in O365, again, people will _never move_ and they show they do not care after all.
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@r1w1s1 This is the way. But why nvi instead of vim or neovim?
It is interesting as a teacher, when teaching people with only ipad or windows experience. After my linux class, about 10%-20% of the class come to me and say they had no idea that it was possible to become so fast at accomplishing things on the computer. The terminal opened their eyes to a completely new way of using computers. They go on to become great technologists.
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@kibcol1049@mstdn.social @Jonricha@hoosier.social @meltedcheese@c.im Add to that the problem that modern science often leaves empirical evidence behind, in favour of "model wanking".
This is especially common in "climate science" and in theoretical physics, giving us such nonsense as multiple worlds and dimensions which some people seem to take a literal truth.
And don't even get me started on the environmentalists, the biggest sinners of them all.
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@jon@social.vivaldi.net The problem here is assuming that people care. I often bring this up to both people around me and to journalists, and except for when Trump was ranting the most about blocking europe from US cloud services (at which point I did manage to get an article published) _no one cares_.
I think people in general are not smart, and they hate change. I've given up completely on democracy and the capabilities for independent thought, when it comes to the common man.
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@jeffcliff@shitposter.world Ahh... a little dry, that is usually a good quality indicator. ;)
Age verification and surveillance coming full force, to europe.
Good summary of the situation here:
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@jeffcliff@shitposter.world It is fascinating how long discussions can last in the field of philosophy. But that tends to happen in a field, where you have no immediate error correction in the form of empirical evidence.
Then, from time to time, the latest and greatest findings in science seep through, alter the course of the discussion in philosophy, and it then tries to integrate the new findinds.
The interplay between quantum physics and philosophy is a very interesting example for instance.
There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’
https://www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness/
Interesting article on the philosophy of mind!
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @alex_p_roe@mastodon.world Aha! another convergence. We're on a roll tonight! ;)
Could you please forward to Starmer? ;)
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @alex_p_roe@mastodon.world Aha! A sweet convergence across the ideological spectrum for term limits!
But shouldn't we strive for politicians who are not ruled by envy? What they feel like, when compared with the captains of industry, and old wealthy family, should certainly not, in my opinion be used to set their salaries.
After all, in my business, if an employee would say they want a higher salary because they will envious of another, I'd laugh them out of the room.
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@carolen@noauthority.social This is the truth! The modern socialist political class have destroyed so much. Sadly europe will never be the same again.
The best we can do is to start small communities and villages that exclude moslems, but on a nation level, I think there's not much that can be done.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Well, maybe I have to have a closer look. Last time the UK did not seem that attractive compared with some of the low-tax EU countries and/or micronations.
But... if we broaden the scope to include the channel islands, and caribbean, then you do have a point! But I imagine that the benefits of those low tax areas, accrue in those very same areas, and do not spread to include the UK.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @tompearce49@mastodon.scot This is interesting and potentially a difference between countries. If a private clinic performs badly in sweden, they will be shut down. Not at once, but if done repeatedly, they will.
Maybe this is not so in the UK?
But... as always with the private sector, caveat emptor, and do your research before you buy. If something is too good to be true in medicine, it probably isn't true.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @shortstories@merovingian.club This would actually be _very_ interesting to look into! In the news, non-voters are always dismissed, and never questioned.
I would be very interested in knowing _why_ people do not vote. In some EU countries, the nr of voters is down to 40%-50% of the population, at which point, I do not call it a democracy any longer.
Why is no one looking into this?
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @shortstories@merovingian.club This is the truth! I do not vote, and many people seem to find that incredibly provocative. I tell them that the politicians we have today are the scum of the earth, so why would I want to participate in a system that makes them millionaires based on stolen money (taxes)? _That_, if anything, would be highly unethical!
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@reverend@social.undeadnetwork.de @dansup@mastodon.social @reverend@social.undeadnetwork.de @dansup@mastodon.social Wow, a lot smaller than I thought. This is not even a drop in the ocean.
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@thecasualcritic@writing.exchange @jon@social.vivaldi.net What I do is to use black text och white background, and I only send odp files to customers and business partners. That way, formatting problems are reduced to a minimum.
If I require more formatting, I send pdf files.
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@opensourceopenmind@social.vivaldi.net @jon@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Mozilla has sadly selfdestructed and gone all woke. Their CEO also earns disgusting amoungs at the expense of the programmers.
I suspect that the downfall of FF is due to the high salary, which has turned the organization from software to becoming a prestige job and a place for power accumulation.
Sadly the same goes for the linux foundation. They have become completely preverted by corporations, so it is basically
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@alex_p_roe@mastodon.world @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Ah, the wonders of democracy.
Some steps that could be taken to improve democracy is to only allow votes to people who pay into the system. If you don't pay tax, you cannot vote, and you cannot become a politician.
When it comes to politicians, there can be IQ requirements, requirements for an academic degree, they must pass language tests, they must have worked in the private sector for at least 20 years, we want no life time public leeches.
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@troed@swecyb.com Which open model is currently the best allround one? And will I be able to fit anything meaningful onto a 32 gb ram laptop?
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@matthew@social.retroedge.tech Only negative is they had to build in their own VPN, but at least they are open and honest about it. Could be far worse.
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@alex_p_roe@mastodon.world @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Then the term limit of 1 term, for life, must be imposed. We cannot have people make careers out of being politicians, this harms democracy.
Oh, and the salaries have to come down. It should not be possible to become rich by being a politician, and if salaries are lowered and important class of people, who are only doing it for the money, will hopefully be blocked.
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@troed@swecyb.com Interesting. He has a point though. My interpretation is that if you are doing something illegal, then don't use a commercial VPN provider, since as long as they are companies in any western country, they will be forced, one way or another, to help track you down.
If it's about nonsense crime such as watching porn, criticize immigration, saying the word "negro", then no government will ever bother with you, and they should be reasonably safe.
if I did something super illegal, I would
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @alex_p_roe@mastodon.world But what about salaries coupled to the national average salary? Let's say they can get 2x the national average. If, due to competent economic policies, the economy and salaries expands, the politicians get increased salaries, if the economy contracts, they get lowered salaries. When the people suffer, they suffer, and when the people prosper, they prosper. Sounds very democratic to my ears.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Are you sure? Based on my own research, and you know I am an avid tax planner, the UK is pretty far from a tax haven.
Banking secrecy does not exist these days, and didn't you abolish the tax non-resident status or what ever it was called?
Doesn't income taxes hit, or go beyond 40%? And what about CIT? I pay either 7% or 17%, 7% is almost acceptable, 17%, is borderline criminal.
If gambling is legal, how come Malta and Cyprus attract so many gambling companies and not the UK?
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@kibcol1049@mstdn.social The only two solutions I can think of are...
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Sink the boats. Once immigrants realize this, they will go to the EU instead of risking this.
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Deduct the money it costs to patrol and handle immigrants from foreign aid, and if that is not enough, play hardball and add the cost to exports to the country or region the immigrant comes from.
A 3 can of course be to lower the cost of handling them. That is, water and bread, no hotels, immediate shipment to rwanda,
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@jon@social.vivaldi.net That is very promising and I wish you the best of luck.
Most of my customers, I have to force into non-Microsoft options, and every single year, there comes a Microsoft homo to their board and spreads FUD, and every single year I have to dismantle the fud.
Then we of course have the problem that Microsoft gives away their products for free to push out small companies, like mine, from the market.
What makes this even more hilarious, is that one of my customers got hit by a crypto
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us become an international tax haven, to implement freedom of surveillance, to become a data haven, legalizing gambling, prostitution, etc. I'm 100% convinced, that the UK would right now be booming.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @shortstories@merovingian.club Hmm, interesting. I'll have to look into this a bit more. It is an interesting question!
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@opensourceopenmind@social.vivaldi.net @jon@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net impossible to do anything with them these days due to red tape and administration. Therefore I always turn down their requests when they ask me.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us This is true, _but_, we must not forget that this is the combination of brexit and socialist market policies. So a socialist country does better in the EU where it can claim tax money from other countries to paper over holes in its own budget.
A socialist country outside the EU, has to live with the results of its bad policy.
I propose to you, that had the UK turned itself into a capitalist paradise, post-brexit, with massive tax cuts, implementing massive bank secrecy laws, to
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@opensourceopenmind@social.vivaldi.net @jon@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Family members is not a problem, because if they want my help, Linux is what they are going to run. =)
Beyond family members, the only ones I have ever met who do run linux are highly skilled technologists, and they are far and few in between.
As for vivaldi, I think it would be great if they could sponsor https://ladybird.org/ to use their browser engine.
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@troed@swecyb.com never trust any commercial VPN provider, but would probably use a combination of hacked accounts, someone elses wifi, and then tor and/or i2p on top.
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@Orkin_Awk@poa.st This is incorrect. If the country is owned, completely and privately, by its white citizens, you can have both, because there would be no un-owned area immigrants could move to.
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@charliebrownau@poa.st Happy white pride! It's great to be white and male! Best wishes to all other white males out there!
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@IGVazquez@social.vivaldi.net @opensourceopenmind@social.vivaldi.net @jon@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Chrome I cannot touch, because it is a control and domination mechanism created by Google.
No one should use it, because using it means contributing to establishing a mono-culture on the internet controlled by corporations.
While waiting for ladybird, I reluctantly use Librewolf, even though it is based on FF.
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@reverend@social.undeadnetwork.de Art? I do not think that art is what is lacking. Look at FB, it is 99% excrement. I think the reason is marketing and money. If mastodon had as much money as FB, and spammed the world with commrecials, and paid Samsung and Apple to be the default app, then the nr of users would increase instantly from millions to hundreds of millions.
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@troed@swecyb.com I think people with very soft skins should stay on mastodon.nu or some other mainstream, heavily moderated instance. That is closer to what you get on Facebook or twitter I guess.
On the other hand, I never had a FB or twitter account, so I don't know. ;)
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@jon@social.vivaldi.net miner causing them 50k in unexpected cloud costs over a weekend. On top of that, they had 3000 old, active, accounts in their AD.
I offer them my environment, where a crypto miner would never be able to do the same... but oh no... it's not microsoft.
At least I am able to force a non-microsoft option on them for 1/3 of the year, that's always something.
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@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us I think medical tourism is the way of the future. I imagine that we'll go to asia for medical treatments that are 2x as modern, and half the price of the heavily regulated socialist medicine we can get in europe.
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@slashdot@mastodon.cloud Truely freedom of speech and freedom of expression seem to be things of the past. Hopefully libertarianism will again awaken, or else humanity is more or less lost.