Uncanny as always. What do people use these for? Except for flooding Meta platforms with slop, that is...
Readit Newsunicornporn commented on uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store chromewebstore.google.com... · Posted by u/non-
The adblockers still work on Chrome though.
Pretty sure people are figuring out to switch to uBlock Origin Lite and ads -- including on YouTube -- are still being blocked just fine.
They "work", but not well.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
unicornporn commented on Facebook ban on discussing Linux? distrowatch.com/weekly-mo... · Posted by u/rogerthis
> Was it just a cost reduction
No, it was clearly an attempt to court Trump, unfortunately 'not enough ass kissing, yet' according to the trump team.
Both. Clearly both.
unicornporn commented on How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020) solar.lowtechmagazine.com... · Posted by u/mgd
> the author is quoting prices in Euros, which is pretty much synonymous with "extreme poverty" I mentioned before :)
Care to elaborate?
> Especially ironic this article is from 2020 when M1 was launched and now laptops, both Qualcomm and Apple ones, are leaps and bounds better than before.
Something tells me you haven't quite grasped the blog post or what LOW←TECH MAGAZINE is about. https://permacomputing.net
unicornporn commented on A Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/eadmund
"state" is area where government is able to collect taxes and respected by other governments. Thus "communist state" is not oxymoron.
I don't understand your point.
> A communist society would entail the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state (or nation state).[1]
unicornporn commented on A Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/eadmund
In theory, communism is the opposite - the stated goal of Lenin was a state that would wither away as people moved to voluntary self-government.
In practice, it turns into authoritarianism very different from the idealized goal.
Yes. "A communist state" is an oxymoron. Communism is by definition stateless. Government/governance, sure, but without a state. Rojava would probably be a better example of communism (in practice) than Soviet.
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So how could one design a political system so this behavior doesn't emerge / is not incentivized?