[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

I haven't read either yet, as I haven't had much time, but as a methodological side note I just want to say I really enjoy this "tribune" style of usage of the forum. Having well thought out polemics is part of the development of a correct line.

I'll try to read them both carefully later, but right now I just want to compliment the effort put forward by both users.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What is the source for this image? After the fake mangionifesto and how easy it is to fake something on a GPT nowadays I'd rather be safe than sorry in even trusting this is real, even if planted.

But at any rate, this is not a manifesto. He's not calling for anything and does not explain his actions. Only muddles and makes everything more confusing. So he tried to blow up a bit of pavement and a wall with a Tesla to raise awareness of stealth unmanned aircraft? Makes no sense at all.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

I personally don't think heated arguments or edgyness are good excuses for statements such as this one. I'm not well versed in Syrian or Middle-Eastern modern history myself, but I'm at least well aware that AANES as a state(-ish) entity was formed for the precise reason of combating genocidal forces in both ISIS and Turkey.

To advocate for the destruction of that in the current state of things can (and will, by the broader public) be read, not as ultra-leftism or idealistic anti-imperialism, but as cover for the very likely genocidal acts of the current victors of the war. Specially considering that a majority of the users here are from the Global North or otherwise very distant from the topics of discussion.

IMO we should hold ourselves to higher standards than that, or else we start looking like Reddit Trotskyists and raddle anarchists wishing death and destruction on any third world statelet because they don't align with our own much broader geopolitical interests.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Not sure how foreign media is reporting on this, but this seems like a huge event. One of the biggest non-aligned nations (both in population, size and economy), under their most conciliatory president, is cutting ties with Israel.

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When you Big Man your history so hard that the entire war economy of multiple republics was being run by a single dude.

stalin chad

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Some background: due to the whole "autistic recluse hermit" thing I've got going on since very young, I've always been the sort to search for info in books or the internet instead of other irl humans. So I don't even have personal experience to draw from on how that changed for myself.

I'm currently mentoring some young (adult) programmers and preparing some coursework for them, and I've always been confused by how much difficulty beginners have with "just" searching for solutions to their problems online. (I put "just" in quotes there because I realise that it's actually difficult for them.)

This leads to a lot of situations where they'll ask me things and I'll literally just send them one of the top 5 duckduckgo results that I find on a quick search, which is usually exactly what they need. Besides creating learning bottleneck (i.e. if I am otherwise busy they could be left waiting too long), I worry that they won't develop the independence to find the solutions themselves in the future.

But I definitely don't want to tell them to "Just ~~Google~~ DDG it" or RTFM. Not because I don't think they actually should, just because I think they might take that as some sort of insult or think that I'm not interested in helping (when in fact I'm always more than happy to help even with trivial stuff like this).

I recognise that one part of the problem is that they're not all comfortable with their English, and native language search results are usually not very good. But I reckon there's more to it that I'm just failing to understand, and if I don't even properly understand the problem, I won't be able to come up with a proper solution. I don't think this is a local issue, so I believe others here might have encountered this in the wild too and understand it better than me.

What am I missing here?

Edit: Great comments all around, I'll ponder all the suggestions and insights here and see what I can do. Thanks comrades!

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Technically not a speech, but still an interesting listen. It's very accessible and doesn't get too technical.

A series of lectures by cybernetics researcher and Cybersyn developer Stafford Beer establishing the basis for cybernetics, in what looks a lot like a dialectical method. They make up around 3 hours of lectures, so you can listen to them as an audiobook with some capable app like Voice.

Transcripts here, with annotations and sketched diagrams: https://monoskop.org/images/e/e3/Beer_Stafford_Designing_Freedom.pdf

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The realization that led us to develop PeerTube is that no one can rival YouTube or Twitch. You would need Google’s money, Amazon servers’ farms... Above all, you would need the greed to exploit millions of creators and videomakers, groom them into formatting their content to your needs, and feed them the crumbs of the wealth you gain by farming their audience into data livestock.

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Como isso virou um assunto grande e imagino que muitos estejam buscando informações pra combater os "Especialistas de Venezuela", esse debate parece uma boa introdução no assunto de uma perspectiva de esquerda pra quem precisar.

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Cold Take did a deep dive on this lawsuit too. He's quite a lib, but presents a lot of data:

https://youtu.be/0msZu8psH38

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I dislike clickbait titles, so I changed it.

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I've been struggling to come up with words to describe my frustrations with the definition of free software and how it ignores some of the nastiest behaviours of corporations.

Stuff like EEE, repositories that are technically free but owned by a corporation and too big to fork (chromium), and other hazier real life conditions. Could there be a "free software but dialectical" definition that would be more useful?

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Technically they already do have something the US citizens desperately lack, healthcare services. They're the country with the most doctors per capita in the world, and regularly strikes deals with other poor countries for health and medical personnel aid. It just so happens that the US ruling class is more than happy to let their citizens die or go bankrupt through healthcare.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Brazilian leftists at home: 🔥🇧🇷🔥

Brazilian leftists when they remember estadunidenses don't even have public healthcare: É PENTA!

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Cuba better start a refugee program, plenty of Unitedstadians want it out already.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Another difference is that he also commands the leadership of the party and gets elected, while Bernie is just happy to kneel to the Democrats and do the occasional speech to his fans. They're not that similar in practice and I do have a bit of critical support for the PT, but that doesn't mean I endorse them, or electoralism for that matter. They're a bourgeois social-democratic party with all the liberalisms you can expect, but at least they aren't actively telling their followers to kill communists, and voting costs nothing. (you actually pay a fine equivalent to 1 dollar if you don't vote lmao)

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Oh good, the Spring Counteroffensive has started just in time for checks watch August.

It's actually 9D chess, they were referring to Spring in the southern hemisphere which begins in September. It was all a ploy to confuse the Russians with a bunch of dead Ukrainian personnel and wasted tech.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

All of those were Putin, didn't you know? He personally delivered the depleted uranium as the True President of the USSA.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

communism good; capitalism bad; is that iffy?

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