~yassin @yassin@tilde.zone

Gotta love that Simon quote! While the left keeps rambling about capitalism, none ever really consider modern organisations as the real centers of political power today.

"Suppose that [“a mythical visitor from Mars”] approaches the Earth from space, equipped with a telescope that revels social structures. The firms reveal themselves, say, as solid green areas with faint interior contours marking out divisions and departments. Market transactions show as red lines connecting firms, forming a network in the spaces between them. Within firms (and perhaps even between them) the approaching visitor also sees pale blue lines, the lines of authority connecting bosses with various levels of workers. As our visitors looked more carefully at the scene beneath, it might see one of the green masses divide, as a firm divested itself of one of its divisions. Or it might see one green object gobble up another. At this distance, the departing golden parachutes would probably not be visible.

No matter whether our visitor approached the United States or the Soviet Union, urban China or the European Community, the greater part of the space below it would be within green areas, for almost all of the inhabitants would be employees, hence inside the firm boundaries. Organizations would be the dominant feature of the landscape. A message sent back home, describing the scene, would speak of “large green areas interconnected by red lines.” It would not likely speak of “a network of red lines connecting green spots."

http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny. We have put some flowers to commemorate this revolutionary moment at Gedenkstätte des #Sozialismus in Lichtenberg, Berlin today.

Who is an expert with #borgbackup here?

I have issues importing my backup from my old laptop to the new one, more specifically with permissions. On my old laptop I had UID:GID 1001:1001, while on the new one it is 1000:1000. I would like to mount my backup (borg mount <repo>) and copy some files over, but I access is denied.

Does #borgbackup support any kind of idmap option?

#linuxsupport #followerpower

Unsern täglichen #Rassismus gib uns heute, @CHBeckVerlag

#chbeck

https://nitter.snopyta.org/maliciamercedes/status/1359570255530582025

This article made me think about future archeologists and how they are going to interpret the status quo of humankind and their relationship to the maintenance of the material world.

https://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2020/09/22/people-expect-technology-to-suck/

Hello fediverse, how do you extract RSS feeds with media enclosures from #mixcloud feeds to have them digestible by your standard #podcast catcher/player? Unfortunately, many nice #radio shows publish via #mixcloud and I don't want to touch their app.

#askfediverse #askfedi #selfhosted