Posts by wbpeckham@techhub.social
(DIR) Post #B10ivkhffWLyczNTiC by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2025-12-07T16:28:27Z
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@Linux I want one SO MUCH! Alas, I am in the USA, and that I'd not in their market range. Yet.
(DIR) Post #B14sCZor46Ti0vfuDo by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2025-12-09T16:31:13Z
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@rms did you mean May species as in something special about the month? Or did you mean "many" species?
(DIR) Post #B14z9JSa8Ctq5SeDE8 by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2025-12-09T17:48:36Z
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@davidrevoy @blueluma @peertube I have been following your work and enjoying it very much, starting from before this AI bubble inflated. Anyone who could make such an accusation is simply ignorant. I have to admit, some of your work actually looks too good to be a human construct: but I know better.
(DIR) Post #B16ydIfHwNGWfeFJNw by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2025-12-10T16:52:42Z
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@rms I am unsure how much good this will do when the man in charge, their ultimate boss, thinks that we should just kill everything.
(DIR) Post #B19xR12S8FyI34XUg4 by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2025-12-12T03:23:24Z
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@Linux @Framasoft the one reason I can think of is the uploading item on YouTube. You have the possibility of making some money. If that is your major source of income, that's kind of important, and peertube does not support it. Which in the minds of most people is a good thing, but...
(DIR) Post #B1JEKvpa1oFVnrqHKK by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2025-12-16T14:45:12Z
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@rms in the first place, I have sent that letter using that site. But in the second place, I seriously doubt how effective it could be when the boss ...has the desire for that data to be available to ICE. But in the third place, didn't Elon Musk's team of hackers already steal all of that data? Do the SSA employees have any control over what they do with that data? Because I think that bird has already flown.
(DIR) Post #B1LepCl8dibg7LmRdo by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2025-12-17T18:51:10Z
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@davidrevoy @momo Personally, I treasure every one of them. They do ring so true, but that is part of what makes them amusing. And brilliant.
(DIR) Post #B1NjAo7fhs2uDDnRKK by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2025-12-18T18:49:28Z
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@fsf Retired. fixed and shrinking income under this current economy and due to the depredations of this administration. I have contributed, but on a monthly basis is getting harder and harder.
(DIR) Post #B1TtKqsElVxqbAWHc8 by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2025-12-21T18:11:11Z
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@davidrevoy @creativecommons the only way I have found to deal with those people that gives any satisfaction at all is a scrape trap. Make sure there's a link early on every page, preferably hidden from human view, that links to a looping pseudo-random generator of text and generated images. It must contain several links back into the loop at a new address, so the scraper will scrape total garbage, and then follow the links to scrape additional total garbage forever. If we cannot shoot them and we cannot lock them, we can at least poison the well.
(DIR) Post #B1XymDT88shktiU2ro by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2025-12-23T17:31:32Z
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@rms does Congress still retain the power to make that kind of a decision without passing a law which will be challenged in court? Of course. Virtually none of these data centers are significantly different in any basic way from any other data centers, and none of them, to my knowledge, are being installed on federal property, which means the states are going to object. But even before that, every single congressman who has responsibilities to a state that is going to rake in huge tax dollars, because they are allowing a data center to be built in their state, is going to fight this. It looks to me like an uphill battle, and we won't know whether it'll even get started. If it does get started, the restriction might not go into force for a year or more, and by then the data centers will already be built out. Might there be a better way?
(DIR) Post #B1Y7BfdFMuiX7JrdAG by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2025-12-23T19:05:47Z
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@rms I think that makes good sense, actually. All the ones that reported the true conditions in Gaza got shot or bombed.
(DIR) Post #B22wVKgAaCf9NkTgtk by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2026-01-07T16:02:07Z
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@rms well, for one, they got away with it. Killing journalists and reporters, doctors, ambulance drivers, nurses, and bombing food kitchens are all very bad things, but they got away with it and without any real penalties. From their point of view, why should they stop and why should they hide what they're doing since no one's going to hold them to account?
(DIR) Post #B239ewrzG8jhq2v9uq by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2026-01-07T18:29:32Z
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@rms I am so glad that we had state governors in the USA and our friends north of the border and around the world willing, able and comfortable pointing this out The CDC has been the gold standard for so long, and it feels wrong to mistrust them, but under this administration there really is no choice. The advice this U.S. government is spreading will kill people. In fact, it already has.
(DIR) Post #B23AH09xTZmv2uTJwG by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2026-01-07T18:36:25Z
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@rms I fear that if Trump fully staffs any commissions, it will be with yes men beholden to him with no expertise in that field, or with a history of profiteering in that field. I don't think that would be an improvement.
(DIR) Post #B2EJbvachMhvHQYZcG by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2026-01-13T03:42:51Z
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@rms to be very clear, when you're speaking about Christians in the United States, you have to say which kind, because there are a majority of the Christians in the United States who do not follow the teachings of Christ and mean something by Christian that is entirely different than what the rest of the world means.
(DIR) Post #B2FVCw9qqGgIPWqOiu by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2026-01-13T17:27:31Z
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@rms Good! I hope they win.
(DIR) Post #B2WOBs5IpLjxES897g by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2026-01-21T20:58:57Z
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@rms I did send the letter to my representatives in Congress, however I seem to recall that Elon Musk's minions extracted that data and no one knows what they did with it. That would be all the leak needed and all the cover-up required to constitute the crime.
(DIR) Post #B2ch38VrRRc3efrQWm by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2026-01-24T21:58:35Z
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@rms I think it might give them pause if the representatives were accompanied by officers of the law carrying a judicial bench warrant. It should absolutely not be required, but it might be something those ICE officers would understand.
(DIR) Post #B2jaWU4MkeBwebJQzQ by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2026-01-28T05:48:24Z
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@rms I remember someone posting a multi-step process for disabling those AI summaries in Google. Personally, I just avoid Google.
(DIR) Post #B2n1IVo4mAasDy8QPg by wbpeckham@techhub.social
2026-01-29T21:32:32Z
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@rms I do believe that many of the U.S. citizens in the U.S.A. discovered that some time ago. I use services mostly in the EU and Scandinavia and my phone service is marketed out of Canada. Or I have the option and can afford it. Everything that I use in terms of software, other than Android itself, is free open source software And, amazingly, for the most part, I spend less money this way and get better results. This is a direction I started moving in 1997.