A few decades ago people used to think it would be hard for the fascists to take over the US, that they were a minority that wouldn’t gain popularity or a foothold in the different branches of government.

Obviously, we were wrong. And the rise of the far-right in EU countries shows the same can still happen there.

Having close ties with each other is good, helping each other is awesome, but centralizing power will only make it easier for it to be corrupted by fascism as climate change restricts global resources and the fascists are ready with their tired old scapegoats.

No prob! :)

Were either of those DVD sets pressed by Warner Brothers? Apparently the star trek TOS DVD’s were done by them around 2007, so it could be possible DS9 and TNG could have been as well.

I ask since almost all Warner Brothers DVD’s made between 2006 and 2009 were defective, and extremely prone to disc rot.

Edit: though oddly no star trek titles are on this list of affected titles.

You can compare your discs to known affected discs using this guide.

Was an LLM/AI used in the development of this game at all?

I have a pretty dim view of using LLMs, especially in FLOSS, for practical and ethical reasons.

1. Simply using an AI that’s run on a corporate data centers encourages the construction of yet more data centers, with all of the environmental/climate negatives they bring, as well as local harms they induce on the people living near them, such as increased electricity rates.

2. Using corporate AI directly helps the financial situations of those giant corporations (by boosting usage/user numbers, they are able to attract more investment capital), most of which are ran by right-wing CEO’s who are more than willing to collaborate with and fund fascist governments to ensure that they are not regulated in search of both maximum profits. Some of these companies, such as Nvidia, Palantir and Oracle, genuinely appear to be seeking to use these tools for what would previously be considered crackpot conspiracy theory levels of public control and surveillance.

3. I’m wary of the potential effects of AI usage resulting in declining or stagnating critical thinking based on some preliminary studies (example 1, example 2).

4. I do not think LLM’s can be “just a tool” as many claim.

5. 99% of LLM’s (the ones virtually everyone use) are trained on copyrighted code that is incompatible with GPL licensed projects. LLM’s have a 3 to 10% chance to unknowingly reproduce the copyrighted code perfectly, introducing legal plagiarism into an open-source project, which could easily open up the developers to being sued in the future if companies scanned open source repos for copyright violations.

6. Many courts are ruling that LLM generated code cannot be copyrighted at all, meaning that it also cannot be legally made GPL, losing the protections from corporate exploration the GPL normally grants. https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.html

Could you play some co-op games together that don’t require commitment and grinds? Something like Dome Keeper, We Were Here, or Trine?

Perhaps Freetube?

GamersNexus is some of best investigative reporting available in the tech world, for sure.

I could never really get into the game itself, but always liked the OST :)

AntiX (based on Debian) is the only distro I know of that is developed by vocally anticapitalist leftist devs, even putting “proudly Anti-fascist” on their main page.

They also are one of the few distros to take an anti-LLM stance (though with Debian itself being pro-AI now, it remains to be seen how far they will go to avoid new LLM contributions made to the Debian base).

Deltachat and Jabber/XMPP are good decentralized/federated alternatives to Signal.

The UX changes in the release notes are welcome, but in the grand scheme, pretty minor. I actually find it much better than it was a decade ago, but still prefer Krita’s UI by a significant margin.

Gimp would really benefit from a total UI overhaul, honestly.

Good stuff :)

As others have mentioned, the Flowfold is a good option, in particular their model made from upcycled sail cloth (not all models are).

There’s also Couch Guitar Straps, who make some of their wallets out of upcycled vintage NOS 70’s car upholstery, which is extremely hard wearing, and very thin.

Unfortunately it is :/

If you have a VPN and use a US server you may be able to get around it (maybe Mozilla’s free VPN in Firefox would do the trick?)

Otherwise, there’s always yarr 🏴‍☠️ :)

They put copy protection on SACDs, but that only prevents the higher definition layer from playing, they usually have a second normal redbook audio layer with no DRM that any CD player can read.

Fantastic book. Archive.org has a good audio book version of it for free.

The creator of Babylon 5 has recently begun uploading every episode of the show to YouTube to watch for free, they release a new ep every 3 days

For anyone who wants to give it a try, here’s the season 1 playlist: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGTv90eS-e4I

I can point to sources which show the Anarchists were using the profits of the Catalonia transit system to fund sending any excess vehicles to neighboring impoverished provinces which ran at a loss.

And how the Anarchists organized access to universal healthcare across much of the eastern part of Spain (not just Anarchists controlled Catalonia), including hundreds of impoverished villages who previously had little to no access.

You have made confident assertions that Anarchists in the civil war had no military, barely functioned, contributed nothing to Spain, and spread fear amongst the populace, and continue to assert this despite being provided evidence to the contrary, and in fact seemingly dismiss it without even looking at it.

If you’re not a Marxist-leninist, then I have no idea why you have such an extreme negative view of the Anarchists of Spain to the point where you’re not even willing to look at any evidence that may contradict your vendetta against them.

This will be my last response, as I’m not sure further responses will be productive, unfortunately.

(And that gold the Anarchist were considering robbing to finally get the supplies they needed? The pro-stalinist government, who controlled the gold, ended up just sending it all to the USSR, so they really should’ve robbed it, honestly)