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futureisfoss

@futureisfoss@fosstodon.org

Hey there, I'm Rokosun 👋
I first came here because of FOSS/privacy. But I also like Science, Movies/Documentaries, Memes or anything fun!

I'm very grateful for all of the awesome people I met here and became friends with 🙂

A gem I found on the fediverse - https://social.trom.tf/profile/trom

My friendica account - https://social.trom.tf/profile/roko

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seachanger, to random
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careerism is one of the four horsemen, I know that much. and it hits in every sector. careerism is the portion of capitalism privileged people decide to propagate with their own free will. it is the financial and social ethos of “not us, me; not you, me and mine”

futureisfoss,
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@seachanger You know it's funny how I was reading about it in a book today, of someone who never had a "career" to speak of and had spend the last 15 years of her life traveling around the world on a shoestring budget, doing various jobs from time to time when she runs out of money - and then quits her job and continues traveling after saving enough money. Maybe you'll like this book - https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/

aral, to Israel
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If you’re tired of hearing about the genocide in Gaza, just imagine how tired the Palestinians are of dying from it.

futureisfoss,
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@aral Reminds me of this article from The Onion - https://www.theonion.com/gazan-refreshed-after-taking-weekend-to-unplug-from-new-1850942572

futureisfoss,
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@rato @aral

WTF man.... 😐 If even a translation software can be this biased imagine how dangerous it is to ask generative AI for factual information.

futureisfoss,
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@aral @rato

They could've handed over that decision making to a magic 8 ball and still got the same result. Also fuck Google, Amazon and every other big tech profiting off of this genocide.

sotolf, to random
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The pipette thing that ublock origin has that lets you just choose an element from a website and just delete it forever is so good :)

futureisfoss,
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@sotolf This is one of the best features of ublock origin IMO. If their blocklist can't block something then you can just block it yourself with a few clicks.

MrLovenstein, to random
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Remember

futureisfoss,
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@MrLovenstein hugs :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

georgi, to random

Can you believe this spider here is 40 MILLION years old?! That is so COOL!

Look at this 40 million years old Baltic Amber.
What is cool about this amber is that it has a complex structure that makes it denser, harder and more resistant to external factors. It also makes possible good preservation of plant and animal inclusions. Insects, spiders and even their webs, frogs, crustaceans, bacteria and amoebae, marine microfossils, wood, flowers and fruit, hair, feathers and other small organisms have been recovered in amber. Even small mammals. Here you can see some extinct insect inclusions, such as spiders, ants, fleas, mosquitos, etc.

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futureisfoss,
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@tio @georgi I first thought Georgi maybe went to a museum and took these pictures, didn't realize you have it at home! That is so cool man! 😍 Thank Agata and her father for letting you take a look 'cause those are some precious scientific collection.

futureisfoss,
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@tio @georgi When you said "Agata's father was a scientist" I thought maybe he retired, sorry to hear he passed away....

Donating amber to museums is the right thing to do, it really is a time machine indeed....

esh, to space

"I took almost a quarter million frames (313 GB) and 3 weeks of processing and stacking to create this phenomenal sharp moon picture."

Just wow 😯🤯

reddit.com/r/space/comments/17…

futureisfoss,
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@esh Ah, my daily reminder that the moon is this gigantic rock orbiting around the earth, the universe is mind blowing! 🤩

futureisfoss,
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@tio @esh Technically speaking it's constantly falling, but never hitting earth - which is even funnier 😄

mira, to random

the scientific method:

  1. fuck around
  2. find out
  3. huh
futureisfoss,
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@mira @4censord

"huh, let me write that down..."

tio, to spain

It is funny, in Spain if you want to legally trade your own services, say you make websites, then you have to become "autonomo" - like self-employed, and pay between 60 to 100 euros a month taxes even if you make no money as self-employed. hahaha. That after you will have to pay a lawyer some 60 more euros a month to deal with the shitload of papers and nonsense.

You know these "taxes" in theory seem like a decent idea: take a bit of money from each citizen, to then put that money into healthcare and other things that will be free for these "citizens".

In practice it is shitshow of corruption and making the rich richer. And a huge pain in the ass for everyone. I would not mind contributing 20% of my "income" to a tribe if I get free healthcare and other benefits, but only if it was made simple and you could see the effect of your contribution.

Spain seems like the capital of papers and nonsense. But the entire world is like that one way of another...

Such a wasted time on the most "unique" planet in the universe. Deal with papers, try to survive, be busy with nothing things... No thank you!

So yeah, in a trade based society is not enough to "trade", you have to do it in a particular way. And if you are poor you are entirely fucked to begin with anyway.

endofrant

futureisfoss,
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@tio Oof man that sounds like a bad deal for poor folks trying to make some money for themselves. If you have a thriving business then you're good, but for poor folks with small self-employment projects this will be a pain to deal with.

thumb, to random
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Kid wanted me to draw a Barbie for her.

futureisfoss,
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@thumb That's pretty good 🙂

tio, to linux

Flatpaks are really outrageous in size...I have tried to use flatpaks for the past months but man o man....hundreds of MB for each package, takes forever to update them even on my 1GB internet connection. The idea is great, but this is such a huge downside that I cannot see how it is going to make the flatpaks easier to use than normal packaging.

Look at this for ungoogled chromium:

Had to download around 4-5 GB....insane!

#linux #flatpak

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futureisfoss,
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@florke64 @tio Why do you think native packages are going away? Especially when flatpaks has all these downsides like taking too much space and not respecting the user's theme or integrating well with the system. Flatpak is there as an option but you don't need to use it if you don't want to, I personally never use it and I'm fine..... 🤷 I'm not sure about Ubuntu tho 'cause I'm on Arch, but I'd be surprised if Debian ever gets rid of native packaging.

futureisfoss,
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@thibaultmol @florke64 @tio I'm not sure about ease of use because most GUI distros have a software center these days for installing native and flatpak apps - so both are easy now. The permission system is interesting and could have some privacy/security improvements, but this containerization can also create issues with theming and such. A friend of mine recently had issues with playing games on Bottles because of flatpak's sandboxing - so in certain situations it can get in your way.

futureisfoss,
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@florke64 @tio Yeah I think the most likely scenario is native packaging and Flatpaks coexisting - which is already the case for most distros now.

Linux_in_a_Bit, (edited ) to random
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:xfce: Almost everybody I see recommending Xfce seems to throw in some disclaimer to the effect of, "It looks kinda ugly by default, but it's really easy to theme."

:thinking: I definitely agree with that; customizing Xfce is fantastic and incredibly simple, however, it shouldn't be something anyone has to do.
Why hasn't the default look of Xfce changed?

:ablobcatattentionreverse: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=75321

futureisfoss,
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@Linux_in_a_Bit

@tio had to put a lot of effort into making XFCE look modern for TROMjaro - https://www.tromjaro.com/

Initially he discarded XFCE because of how oldish it looked out of the box, but then he started customizing it and realized that it's actually pretty good - it feels like a middle ground between Gnome and KDE.

tio, to world

Finally Sasha got her residency approved here in Spain after 4-5 years of us trying, spending money, being stressed. After being rejected once because we did not have enough money as a family - imagine that! That was the actual reason.

But now that I had a "job" they made us wait 7 months from the moment we applied, and 2 complaints later from the lawyer about why they do not approve it, it finally got approved. And the reason was ONLY because I was a "trader" in this bullshit trade society.

How terrible that we treat people like tools. The value is in what and how much you can trade. Does not matter if you are a good human being. Smart? Doesn't matter. Calm and helpful? Nope. Scientifically minded? Nah.

I spent my life doing free things for others, never made a profit, but this has 0 value in this society.

Anyway, fuck you to those who support a world where we are divided into tribes and languages, and treating people like sole traders/marketers and not humans. We have global problems but so many still want to have their own "separate" tribe and care only about that. Fuck your flag, your language, your culture. Fuck nationalism. A primitive disease.

We are all humans with a 4 billion years long history, a mindblowing one. Single cells becoming what we are today. The way we are connected to each other, scientifically, dwarfs any bullshit man-made story about their own tribe. We have lego-brick-like structures we call the DNA that encode all of what we are. And all of what other creatures are, and how we are all connected.

We live on a giant sphere with a thin layer of atmosphere protecting us from the infinite universe out there.

So fuck you if you think your nationalism is so important, and your borders and stupid nonsensical laws.

I had to let this out because it is outrageous how primitive this society is.

Fuck you! :)

futureisfoss,
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@tio I love how you mention the actual scientific history of human beings! Countries and borders are man-made fiction/ideas that we choose to believe in, and they keep changing from time to time - there is a stark difference between that and the actual scientific reality of our world. Science is often a very humbling experience I feel like, think of the famous pale blue dot image and how carl sagan described it......

futureisfoss,
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@tio

BTW, I'm glad to hear @bigworldsmallsasha is finally free to stay there in Spain, that must've been a huge relief after having to go through this much trouble.

futureisfoss, to random
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@bigworldsmallsasha has finally released her new book that she had been working on for the last couple of years! I'm really excited to read her memoir because I know she has had one of the most interesting lives, if you're unfamiliar with Sasha I recommend taking a look at her website - https://bigworldsmallsasha.com

She has been traveling around the world for more than a decade with little to no money and has gained an extensive understanding about our world through these experiences.

futureisfoss, to random
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TROM II: The many ways we are destroying this planet

https://videos.trom.tf/w/w1jW1t8p7LXrAvvaQSubea

We all know that humans are wreaking havoc on the natural ecosystems of our planet, but it's astonishing to see the actual scale of it all. Go ahead and watch the TROM II documentary if you haven't yet, because it's full of such amazing facts about our world.

futureisfoss, (edited ) to random
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When Billionaires Fund Science Education

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU8UR_T8SV4

I will definitely be more skeptical of data sourced from https://ourworldindata.org after watching this video. And I'm honestly a bit concerned about how ubiquitous they are, their data often gets cited by a lot of other publications so it's worrisome to see how skewed they can be.

futureisfoss, to random
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https://lpeproject.org/blog/social-media-authoritarianism-and-the-world-as-it-is/

I was reading this article by @Mer__edith, the president of Signal messenger app. There's a lot of insightful information there so I recommend giving it a read. I'm glad to see someone openly speak out about this and raising concerns about the increasing centralization of power and control in the hands of a few, both in the digital space and in the offline world.

tio, to random

I bought this telescope camera with 1 Bitcoin many years ago:

It was about 60 Euros back then. Now 1 Bitcoin is 60.000 Euros.... Good investment.

futureisfoss,
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@tio Damn, that's a 1000 times increase!

blueberry, to random
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Every time I kill a mosquito, I think about how I’m ever so slowly supporting the evolution of faster, more resilient mosquitos through natural selection

futureisfoss,
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@blueberry I also think about that, lol 😄

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