Futurology Today

Yes. Buried in the settings there's an option to disable it

Public health and autism specialists roundly condemn alteration to the ‘vaccine safety’ webpage

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website has been changed to reflect the belief of Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health and human services secretary, that there is a link between vaccines and autism, a view flatly contradicted by experts and scientifically validated studies.

Public health and autism specialists roundly condemned the alteration to the CDC’s “vaccine safety” webpage, after it was changed to read: “The statement ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim.”

Pointedly, it added: “Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.”

This is extremely encouraging to me. I am not affiliated with the project but here is what I've gathered. Run by Mike.

• Nix (with the functional declarative design)
• Cinnamon (DE mostly used by Linux Mint, Mike and I think Cinnamon doesn't get enough respect)
• Two versions, main and "lite".
• zero config auto update is a huge selling point imo
• flatpak is a nice touch

Main:

• "4 core and 4GB of ram" target
• Flatpak integrated and auto-updates
• Zoom flatpak
• Chrome flatpak and Firefox
• Libreoffice flatpak

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    git
    firefox
    libnotify
    gawk
    gnugrep
    sudo
    dconf
    gnome-software
    gnome-calculator
    gnome-calendar
    gnome-screenshot
    flatpak
    xdg-desktop-portal
    xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
    xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
    system-config-printer

Lite:

• "2 core and 2 GB of RAM" target
• no flatpak
• firefox

  zramSwap.memoryPercent = 100;
MemoryHigh = "500M";
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    git
    firefox
    libnotify
    gawk
    sudo
    gnome-calculator
    gnome-calendar
    gnome-screenshot
    system-config-printer
  ];

Github

Installing

boot the special ISO and connect to wifi via the system settings via the start menu (rough edges here). install.

secure boot is not first-class supported in nix but it 'can' be done.

Does the market need this?

It feels like yes. See what do you install on other people's computers?. A zero-support OS that isn't tied into ChromeOS is a tall order. There are a lot of distros that are "semi" friendly but which are strong enough to give to a stranger and never hear from them again?

The pitch is compelling enough that I put it on my small laptop. I used it for about 20 minutes. That laptop is not a project laptop, and if I could just browse and do basic linux stuff and never think about maintaining it again I'd be happy. I can report back (and contribute to nixbook) if it serves my needs. If it passes my tests I may transition the family Win10 PC to nixbook. I'm getting spooked at how many more threats target Windows than Linux.

tweaking

I'm an ultra noob with nix but you should be able to edit this and have it work. Mike has a post about which config file to edit but I can't find it. https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nixos-rebuild

$ # Edit your configuration
$ sudo nano /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
$ # Rebuild your system
$ sudo nixos-rebuild switch

I added silversearcher tldr tilde and seemed to work.

Cool tweet

https://fosstodon.org/@codemonkeymike/115582530036847888

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53472208

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/55526923

Source: https://meow.social/@yellowdog/115132494291526535

I lied, there's no Netflix.
Instead I have a local Jellyfin server with twenty terabytes of pirated media.

...

Before the November 15 demonstration, Sheinbaum publicly stated that obscure interests would finance the events: “We agree with freedom of expression and demonstration if there are young people who have demands, but the question here is who is promoting the demonstration… People should know how this protest was organized so that no one is being used.”

According to the Executive, a network of international right-wing groups, opposition figures, influencers, and bots is coordinating with each other to promote a process of destabilization in Mexico. Among the names that have allegedly spent almost 90 million Mexican pesos (almost USD 4,881,767) to promote the demonstrations are telecommunications entrepreneur Ricardo Salinas Pliego (owner of Azteca Noticias) and the far-right international NGO Atlas Network.

The president pointed out that a large part of the money comes from abroad: “There is evidence that many of the promoters have nothing to do with Generation Z, but rather that this is a political operation financed from abroad.”

Thus, according to the government, as part of the plot to delegitimize the government, the network of opposition figures allegedly orchestrated a media campaign to gradually generate unrest among Mexico’s younger population through the use of hundreds of accounts on Facebook, TikTok, and other social networks. Reports indicate that the social media accounts gradually began to call for a “peaceful demonstration” against the government.

Among the politicians who echoed the call for a demonstration are the mayor of Cuauhtémoc, Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, the opposition movement Marea Rosa, and the country’s former right-wing president, Vicente Fox.

In addition, President Sheinbaum said on November 17 that several international media outlets are trying to spread the idea that acts of repression are taking place in Mexico, which she claims is absolutely false.

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Damn... I guess the next idea is going offline for good

As per fsf only those linux distributions are 100% free:

Dragora
Dyne
Guix
Hyperbola
Parabola
PureOS
Trisquel
Ututo
libreCMC
ProteanOS

Do you agree or no?

I see a lot of people that want to switch from windows to a linux distro or a open os. But from what i see they tend to migrate to another black boxed/closed os.

What is a trully free os that doesnt included any closed code/binary blobs/closed drivers etc.

Just 100% free open code, no traps.

What are the options and what should one go with if they want fully free os that rejects any closed code?

• Protecting an Abuser: Leaders of a Minnesota church didn’t report a parishioner to police though they knew he’d sexually abused girls for years and had been told reporting it was their duty.
• Forgive and Forget: Church leaders held meetings where children were told to forgive the man who sexually abused them and forget the abuse. If they spoke of it, the sin would be theirs.
• Missed Opportunities: Prosecutors had at least one opportunity to intervene but hoped educating church leaders about their duties would encourage them to cooperate with authorities.

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