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I’m sympathetic to many parts of the despair you shared. As for naming it as a whole:
Gnosticism? (Belief in a malevolent deity…)
Nihilism?
Fatalism?
Misanthropy?
As you said, though, “there is room for human connection even in a gulag”. Positives can be found in life. Look for the good bits. Play to your strengths. Help others when possible. Maybe look for charities or state agencies that can help you with the job-hunt? Stay healthy.
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Europe@feddit.org•Logitech to ship mice with replaceable batteries in Europe only, following Nintendo
51·2 days agoGreat to see Europe leading the way here. If other jurisdictions pass similarly responsible legislation, then those jurisdictions will gain similar benefits.
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Europe@feddit.org•Germany's Merz demands sweeping EU budget cuts
2·2 days agoThe article has an interesting passage about how Irish aluminium is currently being sold to Russia for weapons, and the EU is (rightly) trying to stop this.
For plain text & Markdown, you don’t even need Collabora. Since 2019, NextCloud has a built-in collaborative text editor.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Ptouch-print compile error: Could not find GD library
1·2 days agoit’s the only way!
TBF I was trying to follow the docs, aber ich spreche kein Deutsch.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Ptouch-print compile error: Could not find GD library
3·3 days agoI overlooked this line from the docs:
Benötigt werden cmake, git, libgd und libusb - bei manchen Distributionen (z.B. Ubuntu) sind die Header-Files in separaten Paketen “libusb-dev” die ggf. noch nachinstalliert werden müssen.
I should have done
sudo apt install libgd-dev libusb-1.0-0-devbefore attempting compilation.
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu, what’s up with this? It doesn’t seem in any way justifiable.
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Technology@lemmy.world•US prosecutors charge Atlanta man after GrapheneOS phone wipes itself during airport search
6·4 days agoIt would be trivially detected by widely distributed standard forensic software including the non-Premium variant of Cellebrite able to run on a laptop.
By “duress profile”, I mean that if user has enabled a “duress profile” feature in Settings, then entering the duress PIN would:
- Erase (the encryption key for) all profiles and storage outside the duress profile; then
- Unlock the duress profile.
So, how would forensic software detect that the unlocked profile is a duress profile?
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Technology@lemmy.world•US prosecutors charge Atlanta man after GrapheneOS phone wipes itself during airport search
112·4 days ago@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social everyone seems to be clamouring for the same thing: add “duress profile” to the roadmap. Keep up the good work.
On 18 Jan 2025, before Proton and Mullvad CEOs came out in support of the far right, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) recommended:
Mullvad (Sweden)Mozilla VPN* (USA/Sweden)Proton VPN (Switzerland)- Tunnelbear (USA/Canada; owned by McAfee in USA)
- IVPN (Gibraltar)
- Windscribe (Canada)
I’ve crossed out the first three, since Mozilla VPN uses Mullvad, and Mullvad’s and Proton’s CEOs support extremists.
Nym is not on the list, so presumably didn’t meet FPF’s requirements.
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TheOnionWasRight@sh.itjust.works•The Onion was right about high-speed busses replacing high-speed rail
1·8 days agoI’m all for extra public transit, but 140mph on a bus (not a guided bus) sounds highly unsafe. 70mph is more realistic.
Kinetic energy rises with the square of velocity, so a 140mph bus would have 4x the KE of a 70mph bus.
- 70mph crash: dangerous but should be survivable for seat-belted passengers.
- 140mph crash: probably fatal to everyone on board and anyone in its path.







‘A “blatantly incompetent chud” and a “Kremlin asset” who plotted to “overthrow the government” on January 6, 2021.’