@cheryanne@aus.social2026-07-22 21:59:15
Smoke & Soul Project
An eight week national BBQ tour across Australia. Dave, together with his wife and two young daughters, will travel with a custom BBQ trailer to partner with local charities and serve free BBQ meals to people in need...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greata…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-07-22 11:37:14
Popular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the
It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the Horn of Africa.
The interplay between authoritarian liberal nationalism, as represented by Abiy Ahmed and his government, and tribal federalism , represented by various tribal factions, reads to me very similarly to the liberalization of Europe (enclosure of the commons, a push to sacrifice ethnic identities for nationalist ones, etc). Like the liberalization of, say, France, it's a lot more complicated than "old thing bad, new thing good."
Liberalism was violent and authoritarian. It often sacrificed leftists. Liberalism's focus on borders and national identity led directly to pogroms and Nazism. Similarly, liberalization of Ethiopia has led to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
People think of "the terror" in France as a leftist thing, but it wasn't. It was a Liberal thing, centrist extremism, carried out against right and left.
I understand that tribal federalism is also not a good system, but I don't have a ton of depth so I'm not going to try to explain it. During the European Liberal revolutionary period of 1848, ethnic minorities would often side with some monarch or emperor against liberalism out of fear of liberal nationalism. It makes sense to support a system that's bad if your other option is a nationalism that erases your identity.
But even in Europe at that time, anarchism offered an alternative but that alternative often also drew from simply a different branch of liberalism that also suppressed culture and identity. Today the world is different. Democratic Confederalism offers a solution to *exactly* this problem, tested for more than a decade in Syria and developing now in Myanmar.
But the cross pollination between Syria and Myanmar in terms of fighters really made the ideological cross pollination possible. I don't think anything like that is happening now in Ethiopia.
Eurocentrism makes it easy to ignore what's happening now, but Addis Ababa is the seat of the African Union Commission. Ethiopia is a major military power in the region, so these developments carry a lot of weight. Especially as the US collapses and the world becomes more multipolar, the development of regional powers like Ethiopia will have a big impact on how that part of the continent develops.
If any folks are more familiar with Ethiopia than I am (which shouldn't be hard since I'm basically not), please correct me or add context if anything is missing or wrong.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-18 08:40:37
In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says "AI tools are great" but the flood of duplicate AI bug reports has made the security list "unmanageable" (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
https://www.
@jae@mastodon.me.uk2026-06-21 02:08:00
It always bugs me how Jack Ryan mansplains turbulence to the flight attendant.
https://clip.cafe/the-hunt-red-october-1990/if-do-try-get-some-sleep/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-22 21:15:45
The reeling market for electric vehicles recently got a boost from a crop of new models,
highlighting how some automakers have not given up on battery-powered cars.
Toyota Motor Corp. tripled its EV business in the U.S. in the second quarter,
thanks in part to the brand’s
BZ Woodland and C-HR,
both of which hit the market in recent weeks.
Subaru Corp. also has two new EVs
— the Trailseeker and Uncharted
— which helped double the company’s EV s…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-07-22 00:18:16
There's plenty of mapping tools that tell you how to get from point A to point B and how long it will take.
But what about for more exploratory mapping? Say, I live/work at point A and want a job/house no more than an hour away by X mode of transit. Is there any way to plot travel time isosurfaces so I can see a polygon of locations an hour or less from home?
Or say I want to go for a 2 hour bike ride, give or take 30 minutes. What are potential destinations leaving from a gi…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2026-06-23 23:58:46
I'm fighting a TTL based double stepper from a Cumana floppy drive; having replaced it's 74LS123 (dual monostable) and 74LS38 (quad OC NAND), it's now continually oscillating and just throws the head to the end of the travels; hmm - from my reverse eng it looks like it loops both the Q and !Q outputs of one back to the !A,B inputs of the other and relies on relative timing to stop the oscillation - which doesn't work on the replacement chips I used.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-07-19 09:51:02
London Heathrow Airport Summer Landside Ambient (2025-07) - Ambient busy big holiday time airport nowhere near any aircraft. #fieldRecording #travel #airport -
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-07-22 12:54:43
The repo troubles aside (latest is not fully back for me), hyprland on FreeBSD turned out to be the Turd show I expected it to be. A quick glance at the forums showed me I'm not the only one. With excellent alternatives like mango available it's time to move on. One final go at it tomorrow.morning.
Btw, the first time I had to weed through large numbers of completely useless AI slop guides. Speaking of a pile of shiite 💩
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-05-18 09:35:39
«Linus Torvalds — Flut KI-gestützter Bug-Reports belastet Linux-Team:
Der Entwickler des Linux-Kernels, Linus Torvalds, hat bei der Vorstellung des vierten Release-Kandidaten von Linux 7.1 ungewöhnlich deutliche Kritik an der zunehmenden Nutzung von KI-Werkzeugen geäußert.»
Auch wenn Linus Torvalds anhand seines Verhaltens häufig kritisiert wird, muss ich ihm recht geben. KI ist nicht "Die Lösung" für alles.
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