My apologies, a phonological transcription error.

lol, that’s just fake.

Look, of you’re going to quote Wikipedia on Chomsky, at least do some of the required reading:

• Chomsky publicly reviled Bolchevism, yet actively advocated for a “social revolution” using the exact same mechanisms. When questioned in a recorded interview on this point in 1974, he got up and left.
• Speaking of old-world, anticapitalist “social renegade” behaviour, he famously endorsed Mao Tse Tung and Fidel Castro as aspirational figures. Many of the 60s left were led astray by these figures, but Chomsky was one of the stubborn few who refused to recant their support, even after it became apparent that both had been revealed to be as power-hungry as the establishments they claimed to fight.

“When he provided this endorsement of what he called Mao Tse-tung’s “relatively livable” and “just society,” Chomsky was probably unaware he was speaking only five years after the end of the great Chinese famine of 1958–1962, the worst in human history.”

Chomsky also continued to crow about the stellar merits of USSR agricultural output, and when presented with the discovery that they had forged the numbers in an effort to appear more productive, he did not change this support.

• Chomsky defended and rationalized violence as a legitimate means to social change, and by extension, praised authoritarian leaders on their methods and policies.
• He also wasn’t shy about rubbing elbows with the “elite”, so it should come as no big surprise that he had ties to Epstein. The fact that his wife knew of the association and only addressed it once public should tingle your Spidey sense.
• Chomsky’s “Universal Grammar” theory has been largely debunked as armchair psychology.
• Modern times are proving Chompsky was full of shit: https://www.toolify.ai/gpts/the-revolution-in-language-models-debunking-chomskys-theory-143628
• similarly, Chomsky’s “poverty of the stimulus” theory of language development has also been proven to be garbage.

Anecdotally, I studied linguistics in the late 90s and we were specifically prohibited from quoting Chomsky in my syntax, phonology, and semantics courses. That’s how much respect he commanded in the actual academic community. Thirty years ago.

If this is your first recovery from a security incident:

1. Stop panicking.
2. Establish what you know and don’t know
3. Whatever data is not 100% clean, consider compromised.
4. Separate your data from your roommates and don’t worry about theirs
5. From now, assume your own network is hostile.

He had some interesting ideas about language development in the 70s which have mostly been debunked since (by people who actually knew what they were talking about).

Noam Chomspky has always been a blowhard.

but what actually happens is that the amount of memory needed to run programs exceeds the amount of physical RAM, but swap is still available, so the OOM killer doesn’t give a shit.

Stop giving technical advice, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

it I didn’t make me feel compelled to go harm some Windows users or anything like that, but your mileage may vary

I’m happy to let the conversation take its course, but I take exception to this. You damn well know that’s not what I meant.

Except electric cars are hell expensive and linux is free.

That was literally my point. Some people bought electric cars because the could, not because they wanted to effect any social change.

But other FOSS software (like the ActivityPub protocol) can for sure make a very sizeable dent in the amount of doomscrolling in one’s life.

Is activity pub only used on Linux desktop apps? Can’t a Mac or windows user participate in mastodon? Fediverse use and Linux are separate issues.

This false equivalence between Linux itself and the path of our collective salvation from social media, corporate manipulation, etc, etc is a big problem for Linux, because Linux is just a tool.

btrfs is widely praised… and also a product of Facebook. Google has poured Fons of money into FOSS development. Should we shun these tools?

Especially now, with a sizable influx of users to Linux, articles like the one Op posted create a completely false us v them narrative that just isn’t there.

You want to fight the evil social media? Drop them.

Look, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you are treading into virtue signalling territory and your article has the superior tone of those who bought electric cars in the late 2010s to lord it over the rest of us.

Using Linux is not going to stop your doom-scrolling, nor is using Linux by itself telling the big corpos anything at all. Stop conflating using Linux with “sticking it to Facebook”.

Linux is a tool, and it is a tool that allows freedom of its use. That’s it.

You didn’t really include any details about your current VPN setups, your subnets, your routing rules, etc for anyone to give you a useful answer.

1. A tool used by a state employer only wouldn’t need e2ee, since they hold all the servers.
2. The French government has long been trying to make encryption in use by its citizens inspectable by them (the French government)

This is the nature of modern, post ww2 foreign policy.

If you see only absolute adherence to your country’s values as good and non-adherence as bad, you will end up in the terrible position of absolutist states like north Korea and Turkmenistan. In these places, leaders enjoy a good life and the average citizen has very few options beyond just existing miserably.

The world is not black and white and there is no such thing as a perfect trading partner.

Whoah, what the fuck. Do you live in a Joseph Conrad novel??

Not really. Think of FIM like tripwire but for more than just userland files accessible at run level 3.

“tippon” is just a local POSIX mapping to whatever uid assigned that user, typically the first user beyond system users in Linux or Unix is 1000. So using “tippon” instead of uid=1000 won’t make a difference.

I switched to using Radicale a year ago, and I use my android contacts app to add and maintain that info. CardDAV has enough fields for me to add.

Cinnamon, maybe… But KDE plasma? You must be joking. How do you get KDE plasma down to 300 to 500 mb memory use?

There’s a good reason xfce is the de of choice for low-resource systems like raspberry pi.

It does.

I had to isolate part of a frame from a 70s Italian cartoon to make a giant vinyl sticker and it worked amazingly. Cleaned up the image and pulled it right from the background. I was also able to desaturate the colours well too.

Not a ham radio operator

agile frequency hopping with a random key

No kidding.

The US directly made China as economically powerful as it currently is.

Well, hobbyist projects are surely not the only pillar of the open source systems

Your hunch is correct, they are, because the differentiator between open source and walled garden projects is freedom, and freedom will spontaneously generate projects based on an unfulfilled need. A paid market by itself will not.

In my early days of programming (late 80s), I was copying code from books and magazines. Then came windows and mac, and these were far less friendly to devs, and became more and more so.

Most of these tools were born of need and want, not because any infrastructure existed to pay them. Look at the list of apps in frdroid; most are very obviously solving a problem unique to the dev.

And there is one more thing to account for: for all the apps and scripts you see in a public code repo, there are many times more than that living on someone’s HDD that will never see the public eye.

The point you’ve ignored in your article is that this is simply the split free market creates. We’ve had this issue since the invention of transmissible ideas.