The rival they mention is bolsonaro’s son, who is now leading the far right since his father was imprisoned and wants to turn Brazil into Trump’s backyard. Despite being just half of Lula’s age, he looks MUCH older than he actually is (seriously, he looks like a tractor passed over his face, made a u-turn and passed again when he tried to get up), and he’s so incompetent that he wouldn’t ever become someone politically relevant if not for his father’s fame (who’s also dumb and incompetent, but his son somehow manages to be even worse).

Yet, the far right propaganda is so massive through social media, religious leaders and influencers, that this vermin is tied with Lula in the polls…

For anyone affected, just download books from annas archive, convert to your format using calibre or any other tool, copy via usb and be happy. You don’t need amazon and I’d argue that you don’t even have to use amazon as well.

We don’t need to let it happen first. We should be already on the streets.

At this point, the shutdown might even be strategic, to make it more difficult for the us to gather leaked information

Oh, that kind of super-resolution has been gaining media attention, but there’s much more beyond the “ai”. There are several mathematical methods, based on inverting a point-spread-function, statistical methods, super-resolution based on extracting subpixel information from a sequence of low resolution images, and several other methods and approaches, including the use of machine learning, but not in the generative way. It’s a very diverse and complex field of research

For people who don’t know, china doesn’t have satellite imagery with the same spatial resolution as the private companies like planet labs (the one recently prohibited to publish imagery from the war region) do , but they have been investing a lot into super-resolution technology to compensate. This is much more interesting than it can look at a first glance.

That’s one thing that I suspect to be making it hard for the fediverse to attract users. Maybe lot of people are just tired of social networks and not in the mood to try a new one, so they end up just drastically reducing their social media usage and are happy with it.

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So people will think the news about it are april 1 jokes. Pure genius

Institutions don’t want to or simply don’t care. Anything else said is just an excuse to give a good-looking response

Judging by the quote, they’re likely going to bluesky. They will say that mastodon has a too restricted reach. It’s like a pattern. Every time I see someone coming with that “there’s no ethical [thing] under capitalism”, instead of promoting the anticapitalist things or the most ethical choices, they use the phrase to justify using another capitalist thing.

reaching milestones always feel like the first time (╥_╥)

Suddenly realizing I use linux for more than 10 years

[despair noises]

Most of the criticism onlyoffice faces is due to their shady handling of open source. Another group forking and developing over it has potential to be great for us, if they’re more open and transparent.

When they close, it will be a huge loss of information in the internet…

The big tech is, indeed, trying to extend their reach to linux and open source in general, but it’s still the best we have, and it still goes against them. The good thing about open source is that it’s resilient and highly adaptable. A few distros have been making experiments with other kernels, and if things go too bad, they might replace linux with anther one and we will persevere. It’s also possible for some group to fork linux and create a parallel community version, like happens with a lot of open source software developed by big tech companies. But you don’t need to worry, because linux remains fine and will probably be for a good while.

Degoogle, my people, degoogle…

Don’t try it all at once. Do it in steps, starting with simple things, like a different search engine, using local docs or foss cloud service, replacing google apps, trying a different email service,etc

Don’t overthink it. There’s nothing perfect. Just try any alternative and stick to it if you like it. But overcome the inertia, try something. The less users they have, the less powerful they will be. And don’t fall for the trap of thinking that it doesn’t matter or doesn’t make a difference, because that’s what benefits them in the end. Remember, the most important thing is to overcome the inertia.

We’re 0 days since last windows update broke functionality

Don’t forget to try bananas

I don’t know how online banking access is around the world, but here in brazil, they made it completely impractical to use from computers by applying artificial restrictions. Some payment institutions doesn’t even support access from computers anymore. Meanwhile, accessing from the phones has been made easier and less restrictive, so basically everyone has to do banking from the phone. It has even become a popular thing to have a separate “banking phone” to use at home, but many people can’t affort that.