Cat_Daddy [any, any]

it’s awful

Oh! I completely missed your point. Yes, use cash or barter, certainly don’t continue to promote capitalist hegemony.

It doesn’t, and that’s a good point. A lot of supposed “leftists” are really just sitting around waiting for it to happen, without realizing it takes all of us joining an org and doing some shit about the injustice around us.

BUT if/when you have money to spare invest them into creators/art that bring you something. It seems antithetical because they taught us real art should be free from capitalism’s shackles yadda yadda, but art and artists needs money to flourish. Find indie artists and wacky projects and fund them.

This is an excellent point and it bears repeating. Indie artists deserve to eat, and unfortunately we’re currently stuck in a capitalist hell hole. So until that system is demolished, throw them some coin for their work.

Regardless of what conclusion you develop, some things are always morally acceptable to pirate. For example, Metallica.

/s

On a serious note, IP is a made up concept. Pirate away.

In the past, no, there have been remote exploits done through BOINC. But I haven’t been an active participant in over a decade, so I don’t know what their security is like now.

Another vote for IronFox

Development of Linux on mobile will ramp up

I still get a kick out of the potties on the air one

This one is simple: clothes can’t go on while I’m wet. You see, I have to lie here for an hour.

CWOps is what I did, too. Going to sign up for another one, but am thinking about straight key century club this time around. I really enjoyed the company, though. We had a good group of people.

I need to practice Morse again. I did a Morse class a while back, but haven’t practiced since. I’ve been wanting to build a radio, but I’m still looking at circuits. So my key has just been sitting there for like a year.

Edit: and I also got my license during covid. I used the HamStudy app on my phone for the tests. Super easy.

In the past I had been partial to Icelandic hosts because they’re not in the 14 eyes, but they’re still European so there’s that to consider. There’s also likely good hosts in Russia, China, etc. Other than those two countries, it would probably be a good idea to look for hosts based out of the global south, and they’d probably need servers in several countries to provide the traffic balancing large clouds offer. I haven’t looked recently, but I know Panama used to have a lot of hosts. That’s probably a good place to start.

If enough of us do it, absolutely

That’s an awesome step; I cut Amazon out of my life several years ago and haven’t looked back. And I sincerely applaud you for providing this challenge. As for getting rid of AWS, I haven’t found a way. I was actually hoping that’s what you were going to include. I found in my own attempts a few years ago that getting rid of AWS pretty much disables the Internet for you. I haven’t tried again recently, but I assume that it has only gotten worse. Same with Google and Microsoft clouds.

Does your de-amazon challenge include de-aws? If so, that’s going to be tough. You would have to be extremely disciplined. If it’s just about not buying from Amazon, that’s definitely doable.

Hell yes

🖐️ (raises hand)

This

Agreed. The karma system is stupid and pointless.