I wasn’t completely convinced by that since I build it from source and the binary blobs match their checksums. Months between releases isn’t out of the ordinary for some projects too…

Regardless, what is an alternative that works the same way?

You can’t make a usb bootable without root access iirc. If you already have a bootable usb like ventoy then you can load any goofy thing you want into it without root access and it’ll work.

No.

I haven’t held my nose for a democrat for going on fourteen years and I’m not going to start now.

I’m politically active far beyond voting and have spoken face to face with several representatives. They don’t care or listen.

No amount of voting reform will fix the fundamentally unjust American political system.

I have been doing the work and will continue to do so. Voting for PSL in this election is part of that work.

If you’re reading this, don’t fall for the “oh if only we had star or ranked choice” fiddlefarting around the edges garbage. We live in under a fundamentally unjust political system and especially when both major parties are advocating in support of genocide there is no reasonable argument for performing the calculus required to declare one the lesser evil.

Walk away from omelas.

If you’re getting convinced by anti-green rhetoric, I don’t blame you. The greens are pretty bad.

You can always vote for the party for socialism and liberation instead. They’re running de la Cruz on a platform of Palestinian statehood and an end to arms shipments to israel.

I will generally not recommend people vote for or support the greens because they represent a directionless triangulation with no vision.

I’ve had the opportunity to vote green in every national election they’ve been in and even chosen them a few times and they’ve always let me down.

If this bothers you then vote for some candidate and party other than Harris and the dems.

I like PSL.

Yeah, there’s nothing political about free software! Why should we have to read about people’s liberatory ideas in the linux community?

It’s absurd I tell you!

534 to go!

.world really is the Reddit of lemmy smdh my damn head.

Good to know we agree that the jcos and congress should be summarily executed.

A gallon throughout the course of a day will not harm an adult.

The joint chiefs operate in an advisory role to the executive and are outside the chain of command.

But let’s assume for a second that what you say is true:

If the highest military leaders in the country were following the orders of one person, and those orders came directly from them, would they somehow be innocent of the wholesale slaughter they perpetrated because they were following orders?

Congress hasnt declared war since 1942.

To boil down the relationship between the joint chiefs and the chief executive down to “they follow his orders” is more than a little naive. It’s not a good resource but even Wikipedia has a more nuanced take than that.

Are you trying to say that it’s not the joint chiefs who are responsible for American crimes, but congress?

It certainly is culpable, but I’m surprised to find someone who would say a body of civilian government officials bear more responsibility for war crimes than the military leaders who directly oversee them.

But I’m with you. Congress should be put to death too.

I’m not clear on the point you’re trying to make.

Are you trying to suggest that the joint chiefs are just blown hither and thither by tragically flawed intelligence and tempted to sin by donations from the corporate arm of the military industrial complex or that presidents before 2001 aren’t responsible for the actions of the us military?

That explains why it stops whenever a good president is in office.

Do you genuinely think all the generals are free of blame? Perhaps that all the orders came fully formed from the forehead of the chief executive and they were just following them?

the jcos is Americas military leadership at the highest level.

who do you think is responsible for ordering and overseeing the last century of imperial violence and bloodshed?

even a stopped clock…

see if he’ll extend it to the rest of em.

Ur-fascism is about semiotics, not history.

There’s a bunch of great stuff in there, but you gotta read the twenty pages before and after any quote to get what’s being said and why.

Mullvad was always the most straightforward privacy centric vpn with a very long and uneventful history.

They used to offer port forwarding on top of all that. People use port forwarding to do torrents, run internet facing services from home, and share csam.

The authorities could never go through mullvad to get the identities of csam users because of mullvads infrastructure (according to them it’s not stored so it’s impossible for a raid to turn up identifying data).

The authorities switched tactics and convinced a bunch of websites, dns services and other stuff to block mullvads public facing IPs. For a while there in march or so you couldn’t browse shit from a mullvad ip.

The goal was to force csam people on to other services that are softer targets for law enforcement.

It worked. Mullvad dropped port forwarding and all the torrenters, selfhosters and csam traders left.

Mullvad has been working to be a better vpn provider ever since because the raids themselves scare users off, the dropped services lost them some users and the awareness of international law enforcement cooperation scared some users off using vpn services in fourteen eyes countries (mullvad is in Sweden).

At the time all this went down I only had mullvad but now I use another vpn for port forwarding and mullvad for everything that doesn’t need that.

Just use cash.