The idea of a UBI as a solution completely ignores the reality of the US: giving more money to the private sector only increases prices with no other benefits.
Apart from Sanders no one is willing to nationalize the health care sector and reduce costs there. Same is true for higher education, food stamps, housing, transportation, power, ISPs and the rest of the commanding heights of the economy.
For the people who are unemployed we already had a system that worked. That was abolished because people with precarious lives make for more docile workers.
What it says pretty much, used Guix to replace a bunch of containers people had set up and needed to be coordinated on the network. The only reason why they were using those was because the other devs were on Windows/Mac and couldn't run the software natively.
The rest was boring details about getting the right version of the jvm running using shepherd instead of systemd, which I liked a lot because it wasn't systemd.
No, I find the current climate of online discourse too vindictive and narrow minded, hence the throwaway accounts.
I've scrubbed as much of my presence from the internet as I could because of that. I'm toying with having something in Freenet or some even more user unfriendly format so I don't have to deal with idiots with a grievance getting me fired.
I work in devops and that replaced a horrible mess of god knows how many containers with a straight forward, boring and reproducible single large instance of Guix SD.
But if you only make sure anyone who talks about Tienanmen square from ever holding job again that is fine, according to the people who keep saying the freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.
I doubt it. Until the living standards of the majority improve we will be stuck in the same spiral we have been for the last 40 years.
What's truly astonishing to a dyed in the wood red leftist like myself is how totalitarian an unreflecting the 'left' side of the debate is. Deplatforming fascists didn't work in Weimar and it has never worked. All it does is give fascists talking points about how oppressed they are and an excuse for violence, which they do a lot better than the leftist groups who in the US are even against something as basic as arming themselves.
To quote Orwell:
> The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.
In my dictionary of corporatese to human "We value diversity" means "We pay between 20-50% of what the market price for your services is".