You are arguing something entirely made up. Varoufakis is a marxist and not in any way an apologists for classical capitalists.

Na, the “dude” (Varoufakis, a well known leftist economist) is just using “capitalist” in a stricter classical definition. The observation he is making is correct in so far as there is a shift in the prevalent economic model and classic capitalists are not the ones in charge anymore.

This is not thinking things through… and yes there might be better ways to regulate this, but without cheaper & smaller electric vehicles most people will continue driving their old even less safe and more polluting ICE cars.

This is depressing. Profoundly depressing. i look at the statistics board for my reverse-proxy and i never see less than 96.7% of requests classified as bots at any given moment. The web is filled with crap, bots that pretend to be real people to flood you. All of that because i want to have my little corner of the internet where i put my silly little code for other people to see.

From the conclusion, and I feel exactly the same looking at my server logs.

This kind of video content is apparently not popular here 😅

But from the server logs it doesn’t seem like many people use RSS.

I don’t think many people use RSS as is, but it is surprisingly common for someone to run a bot that takes an RSS feed and post it in a chat channel or so. This obviously hides the actual usage numbers a bit.

I am not overly surprised by this. The humanitarian response funding has been absolutely gutted this year, and not only by Trump (for example German gov. funding is down by 50% since 2022).

Thus organisations are struggleing to keep the lights on in the many emergency responses they already previously committed to, and have also not yet structurally adjusted, so there is an administrative overhang that further swallows what little funding remains.

And without NGO pushing for it, the shallow self of what journalism has become is totally oblivious to such relatively slow moving disasters. But it also becomes a self-reinforcing death spiral with no media coverage there is little non-government donations, thus further reducing the funds available.

If would need to be patched in on Linux kernel level, which is annoying to say the least.

If someone is offering a public wifi, there is a reasonable expectation that other people sitting in the same cafe for example can’t listen in on what you are doing on your device. As older wifi encyption standards are easily compromised, this requires enforcing a semi-recent wifi-standard. You can of course make your own judgement in your own home, but in a public space it is different.

As for SSL certificates… this isn’t only a captive portal issue. If your device has such outdated root certificates that you run into issues already at the captive portal, you will have also issues with each and every website that uses https. Root certificates are only cycled out of use for good reasons, such as them becoming compromised, so by using an super old root certificate on your device you are wide open to MITM attacks on supposedly secure connections.

Because there exists only one place in the world and that is called US of A? 🙄

Saudi Arabia is still the biggest oil exporter in the world (as of 2024). If you drive an internal combustion car anywhere, chances are high that you paid the Sheiks at least some money for doing so.

When devs switch their development PCs to ARM, you will also start seeing ARM native versions. It is the same with Linux and Proton.

Given that they did have a beta for Steam on x86 Chromebooks, and Google seems hellbend to replace ChromeOS with an modified version of Android (“AluminiumOS”) these days, it seems likely that Valve will also consider a release for that. I wouldn’t expect them to make an official release for phones though.

After finishing to read the interview it does indeed sound different, but it is odd that this isn’t open-source somewhere like Proton and Fex always were.

I guess that is a streamlined version of Waydroid?

Don’t look online, ask friends and family if someone has an old laptop you can get for free. Very likely someone does, especially if you are ok with a bad battery and/or a broken screen.

A RPi3 can work, but it being ARM based will cause various headaches when learning compared to something x86.

As illustrated here:

Badly implemented captive portals are an issue, yes. But enforcing certain security standards on public wifi so that random people can not see everything you are doing online is good.

And I would advise against going online with a device so old and unmaintained that it has issues with its SSL root certificate.

2015 is now a decade ago 🤷

I have bad news for you if you drive a non-electric car 😏

Typically a video-chat server does no transcoding so this isn’t a major issue. But for hosting a Peertube or Owncast server it would.