Getting into academia in Brazil is arguably way easier than in the USA or other Global North countries (for foreigners) because our public universities are free and the competition is not too tight. We have a national test for computer science master’s programmes, kinda like ENEM. Here.

But academia is its own particular brand of hell no matter which country you’re in, so if you’re thinking about it first try and get through most of the course with good grades (for selection programmes) and consider doing a Master’s before getting set on a doctorate programme.

If you do an undergraduate, a master’s and a doctoral degree back to back, assuming nothing goes wrong, you’ll be stuck in academia for at least 10 years of your life, and that’s not an easy decision to make.

There are possibly also undergraduate research assistant positions in your college, so you could check those out to see if the research lifestyle is right for you.

Since you’re young, if you focus your interests on areas that are commercially interesting for open source projects (like the aforementioned Pine, or low-level systems that corporations depend on but can’t be bothered to develop), it’s possible you could end up working in the area. But along the way you’ll have to work on lots of non-free software jobs in order to survive, but also just to learn how to become a better professional.

This is just the way it is right now. It’s not a moral failure to engage with capitalism while living under it.

BTW, I’d advise you not to post too much identifying information on internet forums. You never know what kind of person might find it, and once it’s on the web it can be really hard to erase it.

There’s a lot of work to be had doing maintenance and training in FOSS software rather than developing. It’s not as glamorous, but it’s of equal if not greater importance, since those using FOSS often need it due to low budgets (and therefore can’t always expect highly trained employees).

But the bad news is that your bio says you’re Brazilian, and the FOSS scene has been really bad in Brazil since Temer. Government has cut a lot of investment in developing national open source software, and even critical government bodies like the Receita Federal (IRS-equivalent for english-speakers) are now back to being fully reliant on windows licenses.

I’ve even heard that national banks want to migrate their ATM systems and networks to Microsoft systems, and they use shitty software like Teams for “”“security reasons”“”.

We’re in a bad state, but if you want to work on FOSS, you should try to think small. Social Assistance centres, small firms, maybe even research, that sort of thing.

But in the end, free software is free infrastructure, so don’t be surprised when you see big techs funding what’s supposed to be their antithesis if it marginally reduces their internal costs.

Perfection!

Free Hawaii

Free Puerto Rico

Free Falklands

Is this a bit? It reads like sarcasm, but the post history doesn’t match.

No, there’ll not be any deportation, but I guess Yankees will have their own gusanos.

Red Nation (indigenous socialist podcast) talks a lot about the landback movement, and they have one episode specifically on it that I haven’t listened to yet. Here.

The best people to look at on how decolonisation and landback will look like is usually those very same nations’ activists. And some references on how it could work out in practice are China’s autonomous regions and some southern countries like Bolivia (heck, maybe even Ireland).

Sadly no country in America is a perfect reference on this, but the demands tend to point in similar directions. Things like autonomous government, language recognition and restoration, banning racist practices, access to basic life-sustaining services within their own borders.

Superhero comics are weird.

I also like this one:

Edit: this is Iron Musk’s token black friend, not Captain Napalm’s.

Are you done putting words in my mouth? What a weird one you are.

This carrot and stick approach is the Democrats’ speciality, block the strike through legislation while also confusing the narrative and giving breadcrumbs for a small portion of the workers to sap the momentum and put worker against worker.

If you want so hard to know what should’ve happened (you don’t really, you’ve already made up your mind about me), first off it should be up to the rail workers, but if I were one of them I’d recommend the strike go on despite any laws. The purpose of an union is to represent the will of all workers, not just the uplifted few or their politician buddies.

No, I’d rather a general strike brought the entire USA industry to a halt and the government/corporate classes to their knees, until the workers got every single one of their long overdue demands. Way to miss the mark.

Not a single time. There was this exact one mass shooting in another far away state when I was a kid and I remember how irrationally on edge everybody was for a couple weeks, so I can’t even imagine what it would be to have those happening regularly like that. I understand training kids to do it if you already have a school shooting problem, but those are really rare over here.

I’ve even heard from colleagues from gang-controlled regions that, in the case of a shoot out, they usually purposefully avoid having those near schools to avoid collateral child deaths.

If you read your own link, you’ll see that this is only for a couple rail companies, and not a guaranteed right in the future. It’s cool that they got something, but this is not a big win by any chance.

Also 4 sick leave days is frankly too little for a critical infrastructure and transportation industry in the country that had 1 million die of covid.

1. You’d be surprised how many Yankee “leftists” aren’t aware of basic stuff like the Radio Frees, the current indigenous genocide, school to prison pipeline, or the sanctions against the “authoritarian” AES countries (causing a lot of their real issues), among many others, and are very willing to side with their own meddling against countries that are actually trying something because they might be “not true socialism.” Even if all accusations against Cuba or China (I don’t know that much about Vietnam or DPRK) were correct, they’d still be the lesser evil by a long shot.

2. https://www.voanews.com/a/arab-league-visits-china-s-xinjiang-region-rejects-uyghur-genocide/7131285.html

There were other visits too, but NATO countries are mostly intentionally boycotting the investigation. I’m pretty sure any person who can do tourism in China can go there so long as they don’t break laws. But I remember a recent article where NATO countries were advising against travelling there, for mysterious reasons.

TIL that British people also eat the classic Marmita.

To add to that, if the only red line is GNOME, you can also install something you’re already comfortable such as the latest Ubuntu, then install a different DE. Lightdm is very versatile and allows basically any other DE.

It’s one of the window system on top of which gnome or other desktops run. But I misspoke there, what usually got messed up was the display manager, specifically lightdm.

But if everything is running fine I doubt you’ll have any future issues. Just remember to check nvidia-smi in case of FPS drops to see if the game is using the GPU.

Be wary of GPU drivers. AMD used to work fine, but nvidia can sometimes get wonky and either make booting slower than it should be or just outright break your X server. But overall games work super smoothly nowadays with Proton, and you can even run non-Steam games with it.

And if you’re not acquainted with it, the Arch Wiki is always useful, but specially for arch-based distros like that one.

Oh yeah, but the band itself disbanded very quickly and only Styles remained really famous (I don’t even remember the names of the other ones off the top of my head). He himself is just like Swift in that they’re very popular nowadays because of their great timing with YouTube, catchy songs and very well produced videoclips, though 1D also had that thing where every cishet man decided they were the spawn of the devil and that made their careers very complicated. They’re also still very active and competent, they’re today kind of what Michael Jackson was in the late 90s/early 2000s, but without all the tabloid racism.

I think a lot of it is a “right place at the right time” as she really got going in the early days of YouTube with songs/videoclips that appealed a lot to teenagers, and now those teens are adults who can actually afford to go to concerts. Kinda like One Direction, Justin Bieber or Katy Perry if they hadn’t fallen off of the face of the earth.

I dropped google almost entirely later last year when every search of mine returned with a dozen “Untitled” fake pages with spam text and possibly malware due to some wordpress bug. How can the main product of a trillion dollar company fail so badly at such basic search engine manipulation?

The original google document was so vaguely written that I just assumed the smartasses were pretending they invented SSL certificates. Only now did I get it that it’s for the server to verify the client, not the other way around, and that’s a on a whole new level of absurd. Boy I sure love the idea of having anti-cheat for my browsers. The comments on github are fun to read, at the very least.

That, coupled with Manifest V3 preventing adblockers, is way more reason than one needs to completely forget Google as anything more than the video hosting service for Invidious.

From a github user kescherCode:

I believe that whenever possible, we shall implement this spec into our own websites - but reversed. Whenever the attestation passes, let users not access your site. When it fails or this proposed API is unavailable - let users access your site.

Edit: the mad lad actually started implementing it here.

You definitely can’t do it with a NVME/PCI Express SSD because it gets slotted within the board, but technically I think something is possible with a SATA HDD. I have never seen anything like this and I bet it would have some risks of damaging the HDDs if misused. You’d still be having to open the PC and fumble with cables and I don’t think it’d that much better, since SATA cables are very cheap. If you do get 2 or more SATA HDDs, I think you could just disconnect the power only from the HDD and just switch them that way.

Though what I actually recommend you do in case you want to do something like that is to get a couple of cheap USB drives (possibly even the “portable hdd/ssd” types that go up to 500GB but depends on your intent) and install your other OS’s in those. They are on par in speed with a modern HDD and will be less of a hassle if you want to keep some of them having separate physical access to the rest. They also have the extra benefit of being easy to use in different machines if needed. Just remember to encrypt their root partition in case they have sensitive data since they’re also easier to steal.

P.S. I just remembered I had a lot of trouble when trying to figure out which SSDs are compatible with my board because store sites are not very consistent, and it wouldn’t hurt to warn. Be sure to check the device interface before you buy.