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[–] sith@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Maybe I'm naive, but that number does not seem reasonable. It basically says that 5% of German GDP is lost because of cyber crime. Are the writers infosec consultants maybe?

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago

Makes sense. Considering the low quality of the software that comes out of ASRock and alike, I'm surprised anything works at all.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Is there any point in doing that? All these guys are openly racist, anti-democracy and anti-america. Enemies of the state by definition (a state which is almost entierly under their control by now). We're way beyond calling out on racism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, usually not. Unfortunately.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago
[–] sith@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 months ago

Try ripgrep instead of grep. Unless you go for index etc.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whining about having to pay income taxes by themselves. Could also be that many are self employed.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I don't think it's enforced by law. Only federal tax. Maybe different in different states? Anyway, Americans are always whining about it, so I figured it was national/federal.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In theory, it's not the most economically efficient. We want people to work, and taxing labor decreases the incentive to work. However, there isn't any viable alternative given the current circumstances. Labor creates all value in society and you can't easily hide labor off shore (though I guess that's what happened with globalization and China).

One should understand that income tax should be a tax on the consumption of labor (just as a tariff is a tax paid by the importer/consumer). Right-wing politicians have made the employee pay the income tax (to decrease acceptance of the system), but it should always be the employer that pays the tax.

If we start to call income tax "labor VAT" or something similar, that will probably solve a lot of misunderstandings.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Making the employer pay the tax before the money reach the employee solves quite a lot. I understand that's not the practice in the US.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you guys think about AnySoftKeyboard? Could it be a "sleeping agent"?

Country of origin is Israel according to: https://alternativeto.net/software/anysoftkeyboard/about/

(I know this doesn't mean anything, but still..)

The main developer seems to live in New York: https://evendanan.net/

He's probably a good guy. Just got a little suspicious (or curious) when I saw the Israeli flag on AlternativeTo.

[–] sith@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

Because the political and economical situation is extreme.

 

Most listed posts show a score of 100 or 96. If I select a post the correct number is shown. I don't see this behavior in the web client. I'm on lemmy.zip. Jeroba version 0.0.77-gplay.

 

I see plenty of links to Euronews in this community. Just want to remind you all that Euronews is linked to the Hungarian government and Viktor Orbán. Consider that before you post something.

 

If one wants to try a full size DeepSeek R1 model that is hosted within the EU, what provider do you recommended?

It's a big plus if privacy is good. And I'm not interested in big tech solutions.

 

Last couple of months has been dramatic and there is a huge demand for ethical and safe social media. Even mainstream conservatives start to look for alternatives when US oligarchs wage hybrid warfare against their nation.

And there are so many low hanging fruits right now. Like Facebook event and marketplace replacements on the fediverse. Or just a Facebook alternative that isn't Frendica. Or maybe a commercial fork of Frendica.

I'm not involved in any development of fediverse software, so I'm asking here. Do you experience more interest from venture capital?

Also, I assume EU will pour big money into social media alternatives, starting 2025.

Note: I'm not interested in a discussion regarding if VC is good or bad for the fediverse. That's a good topic for another post though.

 

I plan to end my Facebook account before January 19. I like the format and would like something similar in the Fediverse. Also, I need a good Facebook alternative I can show people when trying to convince them to leave Facebook.

So what is the best Facebook alternative as of 2025? Frendica, Diaspora or Pleroma? Or something new and promising?

 

Can one still claim that the USA is a liberal democracy? Where do you draw the line?

 

fjärrinlägg från: https://lemmy.zip/post/28653528

I got my Emacs setup fully functional and now I'm doing a little bit of hacking on my config files. (Because that's what you do on Christmas eve, when the children has fallen asleep.)

However, even though I use Geiser and fancy rainbow parentheses (plus extra Christmas bling), I run into these stupid invalid specifier errors. And the compiler output is neither pretty nor helpful. It basically gives me a large chunk of unformatted code and says there's an invalid specifier somewhere.

Questions:

Is it possible to make Guile do a pretty print on the error output?

Is it possible to make Guile error messages more precise about the problem?

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