Highly recommend checking out videos from:
They're the only leftist guntubers out there, with high quality and informative content.
Wadjeteye games (who published primordia) mostly publish serious non-comedic point'n'clicks. I highly recommend Gemini Rue by them.
Their thesis is that increasing amounts and intensity of hurricanes compared to past decades due to climate change has overstepped the affected state's ability to recover before the next one hits, limiting services and life-saving infrastructure.
Also @[email protected]
Quite right.
I would highly recommend The Chrysalids by John Wyndham. There's an excellent audio book version available for free on Archive.org.
It's very well written classic sci-fi.
Some others that I thoroughly enjoyed:
I would suggest that it is as complex as you wish to know.
My explanation above is not truly required to effectively use a federated platform, in the same way that most email users don't actually know how precisely email works, and would find an in-depth explanation of it very complex.
All someone needs to know about email is that they must login to their email host provider, and that every user they might send email to has a unique name, and possibly a different host name after the @ symbol.
In the same way, the only thing someone needs to know about this platform, is they must login to the same place they signed up to (their host provider). They can then use it in a similar way to reddit. They might wonder why usernames or communities have different names after the @, but it doesn't actually impede using the platform to not understand.
If anything, that might make it easier to use than email.
The workers were not paid what they generated in value, they were paid just enough to make them do the work reliably without leaving. The excess value they made went into growing the business and employing yet more workers, which increased the value of the business tremendously. At the end, all of that extra value went to Ben & Jerry at the sale, not the workers who made that transfer of wealth possible.
Ben & Jerry did not personally contribute 325 million dollars worth of labor into the company, they decided to take that excess value for themselves.
If hypothetically Ben & Jerry's had been a worker owned coop from the start, if they had decided to sell it in 2000 for 325 million, that money would've been split amongst all of the workers fairly evenly, and all of them would've been made very wealthy from their collective labor, instead of only two people.
The workers are responsible for all of the wealth of the company. It's only fair they become the owners. Without them, Ben & Jerry wouldn't have been able to expand beyond their single ice cream parlor in 1978.
In addition to the link from @[email protected], I'd recommend checking out the [email protected] community, which has some great resources.
Jeff Geerling also did a good introduction to meshtastic.
They should've made the company into a worker owned cooperative, but they prioritized personal profit.
Lemmy is a software that people can host on their computer, and many people doing that form what is essentially a bunch of mini-reddits that can talk to each other to create one big platform.
Piefed is trying to fulfill the same goals as Lemmy, and is even fully compatible with Lemmy, so someone hosting a piefed server on their computer can join in with all the Lemmy servers, and to the Lemmy people, it appears to them like any other Lemmy server.
But underneath everything, the code base is entirely different. The commonality they share, along with mastodon, is they all use ActivityPub, which is the standard that allows them to all communicate and be compatible with each other, just like there's an email standard.
Kbin (now Mbin) is yet another Lemmy compatible software that you can host on your computer, but it also tried to implement features that make it more like mastodon (twitter-like), so it can act both like reddit, with threads and comments and communities around single subjects, or be like mastodon and work with hashtags and following individuals instead of communities, like a microblogging website.
They also use different interfaces, but it's only visible to people who directly use that server; to others who access it from their home server, it'll adopt the look of the software their home server is using.
So as an example, you are using Lemmy since your home server is Lemmy.ml. if you visit a community hosted on a piefed server from within your Lemmy, like [email protected], it'll look like any other Lemmy community.
But if you directly go to that piefed server by going to https://piefed.social/c/fullmoviesonyoutube you'll see it from the piefed interface, since you're accessing that piefed server directly.
All of three of the different federated Reddit-like softwares are intercompatible, so they all make up one big network.
Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events, and to act as town square for the community.
World Car-Free day is September 22nd. At SLRPNK we'd like to draw a little more attention to this holiday, and see it celebrated even more widely and internationally. Like all good holidays, it has its roots in civil disobedience.
In 1961, Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities. She was one of the organizers of demonstrations that saved a popular public park in New York City from being turned into more road for cars. She was inspired by both the Garden City and City Beautiful movements before her, and her book and methods were internationally influential.
The Netherlands had seen the precursor to car-free days as a response to oil price shocks during the Suez Crisis, and anti-car sentiment has festered due to speeding vehicles in narrow city streets. Late one night in 1968, neighbors in Groningen took pickaxes and shovels to sections of their street to create intentional barriers that cars had to slow to navigate around. Despite official resistance, the civil disobedience movement to create "Woonerfs" or "Living Streets" spread, and in 1972 the first official Woonerf was constructed in Delft.
The Dutch lead the way in re-envisioning cities without cars through the 1970s, but the idea became internationally popular. People began organizing yearly car-free days, with the intention to explore other ways of organizing city life without the use of personal motor vehicles. Car-free days and automobile restraint in Urban planning goes hand in hand.
In one famous case in Jakarta, Indonesia, Car-free day is a weekly event. On Sunday mornings, several streets into the city are barred from use by traffic. They become popular paths for pedestrians and cyclists who come to the city for Sunday events. Initially it was planned to occur only 3 times a year in 2007, but as interest and infrastructure around the event grew, it became a weekly event only 5 years later. The streets used for this purpose have become more pedestrian-friendly as their use by pedestrians grew.
The most popular day for yearly Car-free days is September 22nd. In french-speaking countries, it is called "En ville, sans ma voiture" or "In town, without my car" - but the concept is the same. What ever the concept is called in your locality, we would like to boost it here as a Solarpunk holiday. Check out related communities for this event:
Not many updates from the technical department, but the consistent memory leak issue returned in Lemmy 0.19.12 that forces us to regularly restart the backend which always comes with a short 2-3 minute downtime (and if we don't catch it on time it sometimes crashes the database with causes issues with the XMPP auth integration).
There have been some nice improvements on our Movim instance though (OMEMO e2ee and image uploads should be more reliable now, and you can do full-text search in your chats), and we started experimenting with a XMPP server module that added Unified Push distributor support (so that you can use an XMPP app like Conversations to receive privacy preserving push notifications). Movim also added support for small group video calls (incl. screen-sharing), but we need to improve our STUN/TURN setup a bit for the connection establishment to be more reliable.
Last but least, some updates on the planned Piefed migration: The main blocker for re-using the bcrypt hashed passwords from the Lemmy database was resolved in Piefed which opens the path to start doing some testing on how to migrate accounts to the Piefed database. Don't expect immediate progress though, as time is limited to work on this right now. In addition the Hanubeki Lemmy theme we are using is also migrating to Piefed, so we will have a nice continuation of our color schemes.
Now it’s your turn to share whatever you’d like down below; your thoughts, ideas, concerns, hopes, or anything related to the server. If you have a new community you’d like to shine a spotlight, shine away! If you’re a new user wanting to say hi, feel free to post an introduction :)
SLRPNK Community Resources:
Community Wiki - Moderators, you can create your own Wiki here for your communities!
Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)
Etherpad - Collaborative document editor
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