Literally nothing beats a white linen button-up! Only downside is they can be a bit see thru, but pairing with a lightweight undershirt (cotton tank/crop tops are my favs), you’ll still get 90% of the cooling effect

I’m in the same spot and I don’t have any answers haha. I’m on Fedora too, although I’ve been meaning to switch to another distro for a while now.

I think that there’s a distinction between upstream/downstream, and direct/indirect links between technologies though. The internet comes from military technology, but it’s a really broad system of protocols that itself is a communications technology. I don’t think that it’s possible to moralize the act of connecting to and exchanging data with a server; it’s more relevant what is being connected to and how those connections are being used.

I think you could also make the same argument about Linux, in the sense that many corporations contributing to the kernel (or to packages like systemd) are deeply connected to imperialism and fascism. Is it immoral to use any distro at all?

For me distinction between this line of reasoning and the discussion about Fedora / Red Hat is that Fedora is upstream of RHEL, and users participate in the process of testing and fixing issues with software that’s later used by militaries and corporations. The potential issue with this is that the user is (unknowingly) taking an active role in the production of a commodity used to kill. Even if you never report bugs, share any data, or contribute anything, it feels icky to use the distro (at least for me).

As for the age verification laws, the reality is that larger distros with corporate or non-profit owernship structures will be likely to comply out of obligation, while smaller distros might feel less pressure to comply. It’s the same with the issue of sanctions compliance, where Red Hat and the Linux Foundation had an obligation to restrict contributions from users in sanctioned countries. The issue is almost entirely top-down and in the hands of lobbying corporations like Meta. Legislation like this is made to make it feel like non-compliance means financial ruin, which may be the reality as OSS isn’t exactly profitable. I still think that compliance with it would be wrong, but it’s not like any of these distros directly participated in pushing these bills, and we still have to wait and see what comes of all this so it’s speculation. Either way I’m not super happy about Fedora right now

Red Hat is owned by IBM, which is one of the largest contractors for compute infrastructure and software for the US military. They’ve particularly taken an interest in ‘AI’ systems as automated target acquisition is now seen as a viable tactic following its use by Israel in Gaza.

Like bobo (rudely) said, Red Hat is what keeps the lights on for Fedora, even if its ownership is independent of RHEL. One cannot exist without the other.

On top of the many large multi-billion contracts to the DoD (like $151B for missile tech a few months ago), you can also search direct contracts to individual agencies at fdps.gov (i.e. direct contracts exclusive to the US Army, >$100,000 - you can see that Red Hat actually maintains some of their combat systems).

IBM and Red Hat also have played a significant role in the genocide in Gaza.

deleted by creator

Same, it’s been one of the only easily accessible tools to combat the 24hr news cycle for me. There’s so many ongoing major events that have gotten difficult to find up-to-date reporting on thru search engines (probably because of SEO)

No clue, but you only gotta run it once so if you’re concerned you could run it get the .auz and then go back to a previous restore point, could also throw it in virustotal and check the behavior tab to check that ur copy isn’t dropping weird files in places it shouldnt or anything like that before running on your system

Think most the time people replace the patch exe or the installer with malicious version since that’s low hanging fruit, wouldn’t be too worried over the keygen tbh

Pretty much just gotta have a friend with a good ratio that has spare invites

Theres plenty groups of similar size and good rep in the audio scene too, r2r is the group thats supplying keygens and patches for newer ableton versions, thing is public trackers sometimes have modified version, once it leaves the scene who knows what gets bundled with it

Should add, rutracker is public but you need an account, that’s your best bet if you want it quick and don’t wanna have to ask around for an invite

Rutracker should have clean copies, audionews definitely does. Thing to look for is a signed installer a patched exe and a r2r keygen, if theres anything else in there or the ableton installer comes up as unsigned then its probably unsafe. Most of the time the keygen will come up as a PUP just like any other crack.

Could also try bobdules crack which is a direct download on his site and checks all those boxes (its just a keygen, patcher and link to the official ableton download page), haven’t tested it myself but it seems like his releases are pretty trusted.

There’s so many more comparisons to be drawn between the US and China than most in the west think, the credit system is a great example of that since a lot of people don’t realize how fucked it is in the US.

Just the idea of permanently ascribing a number to how profitable someone is for banks and dictating what opportunities they can get based off that number is horribly dystopian in itself, but people are so accustomed to it and have so many misconceptions to its purpose that there’s not nearly as much criticism over it as there should be.

Another part of it is the rigid west-east dichotomy that’s still brought up so often even as it’s become increasingly irrelevant in the past several decades, I’d recommend anyone who’s interested check out There Never Was a West, it’s a short read but I think it can be pretty eye opening and puts a lot of the modern day rhetoric about international politics into a broader historical perspective.

Really don’t think it was made to be useful or practical in any way, just seems like some dude making shit that looks cool for funsies and trying to fund it, plus i mean its culturally relevant and stuff like that is in tons of media

every dollar prevented from going to cengage or pearson is a win for college students

but their online homework and grading subscriptions that they tie in with textbooks is definitely making it harder, especially the way they pay off schools to push their texts and curriculum on professors in stem fields, it’s awful and puts students in a position where they’re forced to pay for a textbook regardless

Not everything is mirrored yet, so some searches will only lead to external sources

https://annas-archive.org/datasets

the only case i could see it stopping someone is if they just pirate for funsies and have the disposable income to buy anything they want lmao. if you need something and cant afford it then inconveniences and annoyances don’t matter

anecdotal but i ended up switching from ddg and searxng to brave because of how much more relevant and well structured i found their search results to be so i’m not sure i agree with the findings for that column

absolutely hate the company and am skeptical of their practices, but even considering all that their search toes the line of privacy and functionality better than some others, at least in the case of a daily user who needs a service that lies somewhere in the middle of those 2 extremes

I got 2 spools of inland and a couple i got from a generic brand on taobao, I’m pretty sure both are non-standard as well. The last spool I printed off printables had a really nice table with dimensions for a bunch of different filament brands if you’re curious

I’ll probably take the step and make a couple different variations with different diameters, I have a couple different brands and I’m sure they all have slightly different diameters :D

this looks sweet, will probs try this next time i need a new spool, looks way sturdier than the one I’m using currently