Benvenuto nel Poliverso

Utopia is a blatant lie, isn't it?

Here's a link to another post where I expressed my thoughts if you're interested -- lemmy.world/post/36592343

#memes

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer • 1 mese fa • •

I read your link. Again, the idea of a utopia, a perfect society free from any problems whatsoever, heaven on Earth, is just as fictional as its opposite. Dystopia, a perfect hell on Earth free from any hope whatsoever, where a New World Order forces digital transactions and herds you like sheep, is just as fictional. Both are good settings for fiction, as you point out, but real life is more complicated and realistic than that.

The ruling class, the capitalists, don't do evil things for the sake of power or control. They do it for profits. Everything is subservient to that end. The genocide committed in Palestine is to keep Israel as a settler-colonial project to secure the US Empire's interests in the region. The fact that you get paid less than you create while a tiny owning class plunders the real fruits of your labor is for profit. The idea of a "New World Order" as you say using control of digital currency and a new third world war just to gain... power? Control? Works against those interests.

Reality doesn't work on such Marvel logic. Again, I am going to recommend reading theory. Here's an intro Marxist-Leninist reading guide I made, that I've linked before. A better world is possible, and it is neither easy nor impossible, it's merely difficult and real. We must roll up our sleeves and get to work so that we can plant the seeds of the trees our successors rest in the shade of!

Cowbee [he/they]

2024-11-12 13:19:57

Read Theory, Darn it! An Introductory Reading List for Marxism-Leninism

"Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement."
Vladimir Lenin, What is to be Done? | Audiobook
It's time to read theory, comrades! As Lenin says, "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle." Reading theory helps us identify the core contradictions within modern society, analyze their trajectories, and gives us the tools to break free. Marxism-Leninism is broken into 3 major components, as noted by Lenin in his pamphlet The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism: | Audiobook
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Critique of Capitalism along the lines of Marx's Law of Value
Advocacy for Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
As such, I created the following list to take you from no knowledge whatsoever of Leftist theory, and leave you with a strong understanding of the critical fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism in an order that builds up as you read. Let's get started!
Section I: Getting Started
What the heck is Communism, anyways? For that matter, what is fascism?
Friedrich Engels' Principles of Communism | Audiobook
The FAQ of Communism, written by the Luigi of the Marx & Engels duo. Quick to read, and easy to reference, this is the perfect start to your journey.
Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds | Audiobook
Breaks down fascism and its mortal enemy, Communism, as well as their antagonistic relationship. Understanding what fascism is, where and when it rises, why it does so, and how to banish it forever is critical. Parenti also helps debunk common anti-Communist myths, from both the "left" and the right, in a quick-witted writing style. This is also an excellent time to watch the famous speech.
Section II: Historical and Dialectical Materialism
Ugh, philosophy? Really? YES!
Georges Politzer's Elementary Principles of Philosophy | Audiobook
By far my favorite primer on Marxist philosophy. By understanding Dialectical and Historical Materialism first, you make it easier to understand the rest of Marxism-Leninism. Don't be intimidated!
Friedrich Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific | Audiobook
Further reading on Dialectical and Historical Materialism, but crucially introduces the why of Scientific Socialism, explaining how Capitalism itself prepares the conditions for public ownership and planning by centralizing itself into monopolist syndicates. This is also where Engels talks about the failures of previous "Utopian" Socialists.
Section III: Political Economy
That's right, it's time for the Law of Value and a deep-dive into Imperialism. If we are to defeat Capitalism, we must learn it's mechanisms, tendencies, contradictions, and laws.
Karl Marx's Wage Labor and Capital | Audiobook as well as Wages, Price and Profit | Audiobook
Best taken as a pair, these essays simplify the most important parts of the Law of Value. Marx is targetting those not trained in economics here, but you might want to keep a pen and some paper to follow along if you are a visual person.
Vladimir Lenin's Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism | Audiobook
Absolutely crucial and the most important work for understanding the modern era and its primary contradictions. Marxist-Leninists understand that Imperialism is the greatest contradiction in the modern era, which cascades downward into all manner of related contradictions. Knowing what dying Capitalism looks like, and how it behaves, means we can kill it.
Section IV: Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
Can we defeat Capitalism at the ballot box? What about just defeating fascism? What about the role of the state?
Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution | Audiobook
If Marxists believed reforming Capitalist society was possible, we would be the first in line for it. Sadly, it isn't possible, which Luxemburg proves in this monumental writing.
Vladimir Lenin's The State and Revolution | Audiobook
Excellent refutation of revisionists and Social Democrats who think the State can be reformed, without needing to be replaced with one that is run by the workers, in their own interests.
Section V: Intersectionality and Solidarity
The revolution will not be fought by atomized individuals, but by an intersectional, international working class movement. Intersectionality is critical, because it allows different marginalized groups to work together in collective interest, unifying into a broad movement.
Vikky Storm and Eme Flores' The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto | (No Audiobook yet)
Critical reading on understanding misogyny, transphobia, enbyphobia, pluralphobia, and homophobia, as well as how to move beyond the base subject of "gender." Uses the foundations built up in the previous works to analyze gender theory from a Historical Materialist perspective.
Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth | Audiobook
De-colonialism is essential to Marxism. Without having a strong, de-colonial, internationalist stance, we have no path to victory nor a path to justice. Fanon analyzes Colonialism's dehumanizing effects, and lays out how to form a de-colonial movement, as well as its necessity.
Leslie Feinberg's Lavender & Red | Audiobook
Solidarity and intersectionality are the key to any social movement. When different social groups fight for liberation together along intersectional lines, the movements are emboldened and empowered ever-further.
Section VI: Putting it into Practice!
It's not enough to endlessly read, you must put theory to practice. That is how you can improve yourself and the movements you support. Touch grass!
Mao Tse-Tung's On Practice and On Contradiction | Audiobook
Mao wrote simply and directly, targeting peasant soldiers during the Revolutionary War in China. This pair of essays equip the reader with the ability to apply the analytical tools of Dialectical Materialism to their every day practice, and better understand problems.
Congratulations, you completed your introductory reading course!
With your new understanding and knowledge of Marxism-Leninism, here is a mini What is to be Done? of your own to follow, and take with you as practical advice.
Get organized. Join a Leftist org, find solidarity with fellow comrades, and protect each other. The Dems will not save you, it is up to us to protect ourselves. The Party for Socialism and Liberation and Freedom Road Socialist Organization both organize year round, every year, because the battle for progress is a constant struggle, not a single election. See if there is a chapter near you, or start one! Or, see if there's an org you like more near you and join it.
Read theory. Don't think that you are done now! Just because you have the basics, doesn't mean you know more than you do. If you have not investigated a subject, don't speak on it! Don't speak nonsense, but listen!
Aggressively combat white supremacy, misogyny, queerphobia, and other attacks on marginalized communities. Cede no ground, let nobody be forgotten or left behind. There is strength in numbers, when one marginalized group is targeted, many more are sure to follow.
Be industrious, and self-sufficient. Take up gardening, home repair, tinkering. It is through practice that you elevate your problem-solving capabilities. Not only will you improve your skill at one subject, but your general problem-solving muscles get strengthened as well.
Learn self-defense. Get armed, if practical. Be ready to protect yourself and others. Liberals will not save us, we must save each other.
Be persistent. If you feel like a single water droplet against a mountain, think of canyons and valleys. Oh, how our efforts pile up! With consistency, every rock, boulder, even mountain, can be drilled through with nothing but steady and persistent water droplets.
"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent."
Mao Tse-Tung

Revolution. Socialism. Liberation. - Freedom Road Socialist Organization | FRSO
Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a national organization of revolutionaries fighting for socialism in the United States. Our home is in the working class.
^{admin (Freedom Road Socialist Organization | FRSO)}

like this

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

SugarCatDestroyer

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

To be honest, I'm not in the best financial situation right now and I just don't have the strength to explain everything in more detail. And I know that in reality everything can go a little differently and here you need to constantly follow important news in order to make more detailed forecasts.

For example, there is a global energy crisis in the world right now, and there is a solution to it, but it is not beneficial to certain people, so I prefer to expect the worst. I'm not sure I'll find any evidence, but you can try it yourself and maybe you'll find something, so to speak, you'll have to look between the lines.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer • 1 mese fa • •

Energy is a problem, yes, but it's one where solar is now becoming the cheapest form of energy, and nuclear energy is advancing rapidly. Countries like the PRC have made it a clear and important goal to resolve. Countries like the US Empire that desire oil use for their own profits are still forced to cave to this trend, electric cars are becoming more prevalent and solar is expanding.

I don't expect you to explain everything in detail, but I do think you've dug yourself into conspiracy theory doomerism and that's taking up a lot of your mental energy and attitude.

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

SugarCatDestroyer

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

In fact, I learned about the energy crisis and how serious it is from a scientist who said that he has been trying to solve this problem for several decades and not alone, because the solution to the problem exists, but there are people at the top who are afraid of losing power.

Believe it or not I have too little evidence.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer • 1 mese fa • •

Yes, this is a problem faced by climate scientists within capitalism. It's different in socialist systems.

like this

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer

eldavi

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer • 1 mese fa • •

Believe it or not I have too little evidence.

i'm convinced that this is my doomscrolling is so prevalent in our society since we're kept ignorant of our options.

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

latenightnoir

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

I agree with you on everything except one aspect: money is power and control in this system. Abstract authority is meaningless and most of those who seem to have only this are pieces to be moved when appropriate, but the moving is done with money. That's where the real power is nowadays.

As it were, money can't buy happiness, but it sure can make it a lot easier to compensate for the sadness.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to latenightnoir

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to latenightnoir • 1 mese fa • •

Yes, correct, money is power in capitalism. However, power is only sought as a means to aquire more money. Power that undermines ones own profits, such as what OP describes in their other post (that they linked), is not realistic and teeters more into conspiracy theory territory.

like this

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

frightful_hobgoblin

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

In non-monetary historical societies, the rulers still sought power.

in reply to frightful_hobgoblin

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to frightful_hobgoblin • 1 mese fa • •

They still sought power to obtain more material posessions and luxury goods. Power is a tool, not an end.

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

frightful_hobgoblin

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

Why does someone with €20 billion strive to get €30 billion? Will that get them nicer food or a softer bed?

in reply to frightful_hobgoblin

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to frightful_hobgoblin • 1 mese fa • •

Because capitalism is a control system that selects for those that are most profitable. If you don't grow, you die.

like this

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

frightful_hobgoblin

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

You're making a distinction between

Seeking power for profit
Seeking profit for power

How would we empirically tell which is happening?

in reply to frightful_hobgoblin

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to frightful_hobgoblin • 1 mese fa • •

By determining how the base mode of production prioritizes them. It doesn't matter what an individual prefers, ie we could say Musk as an individual seeks power, but in doing so has to satisfy the laws of capitalism and achieve higher and higher profits to maintain it. Musk isn't primary, the system he has to abide by is. Capitalists aren't the masters of capitalism, as Roderic Day says they are the high priests of capital that best abide its laws, ie the pursuit of profit.

like this

in reply to frightful_hobgoblin

Deceptichum

in reply to frightful_hobgoblin • 1 mese fa • •

Didn't you know all that capis want is a big number? They're basically harmless little redditors trying to get a high karma score that's all.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to Deceptichum

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Deceptichum • 1 mese fa • •

No, they aren't "harmless" either. It isn't about "getting a high score." Capitalism is based on profits and selects for those that are most profitable, there's no such thing as an "ethical capitalism" because even if a capitalist decided individually to stop pursuing profits above all else, others would overtake them and the "ethical" capitalist would go under.

like this

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

Deceptichum

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

Of course there's no ethical capitalist, nor are capitalists arithmomaniacs obsessed with gaining money the sake of gaining money. Money is an expression of power, money itself is not the goal it's the power.

in reply to Deceptichum

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Deceptichum • 1 mese fa • •

Capitalism is a material, existing system that does not care about power. All it cares about is whoever best achieves profits in the system. As there is a tendency for the rate of profit to fall, absolute profits must be raised by rapid and continuous expansion. Power is merely a tool for that purpose, a capitalist that doesn't manipulate the state to its own ends, etc fails to outcompete. In capitalism, even if the action is abhorant, if it's profitable, it will be done.

By putting notions of power above profit, you utterly confuse the driving aspect of economies based on circulation of commodities and reproduction on an expanded scale, ie capitalism. It doesn't matter if the capitalists has everything they want as an individual, if they choose to stop pursuing profits, they sink and new capitalists that are willing to continue will take their place, because capitalists are a class, and not just a group of individuals alone.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

like this

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

latenightnoir

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

Said it yourself, "power [is a] means to acquire more money." And the way society has been structured means we, the workers and consumers, are the product - we are the money (arguably always have been).

As such, it honestly makes sense to establish more and more layers of control, not only as a means of reinforcing and securing their positions (it's harder to fight against Fascism if you can't even call it Fascism, for instance), but also to wrangle the cattle, as it were.

I mean, if you'd be making your money off of rearing cows, you wouldn't want them rebelling in any way. Complicates the road to profit.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to latenightnoir

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to latenightnoir • 1 mese fa • •

Control can help facilitate making more money, but not always. Slavery was horribly inefficient for industrial work, for example, so the industrialists in the Statesian north went to war with the slaver agriculturalists in the south to expand the supply of wage laborers. Wage laborers are under less direct control, but are more willing to do complicated work, as they don't have an assured existence.

Power is the means to the end, the end being profit. It isn't the other way around.

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

latenightnoir

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

Well, what I was saying is that power is intrinsic to money, any way you cut it. Whether it be through using power to acquire money, or using money as a power in itself - money can make anything move, if that's not power, then what is?

As for the aspect of control, yes, those outdated methods were ineffective, but they've had plenty of time to perfect their expression of control since then. I mean, if the people in power owning the means of distributing information and facilitating communication between people isn't control, then what is?

in reply to latenightnoir

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to latenightnoir • 1 mese fa • •

Money can be used to control, but control isn't an end, it's a means to facilitate further money. Capitalism isn't driven by control or power, it's driven by capital circulation and money.

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

latenightnoir

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

I understand and agree with that, but that's exactly my point, that control is a means to an end, but control needs to be sustained and perfected over time, and it is also necessary when a handful of psychotic apes are making their profits off of other 8.2 billion psychotic apes.

Yes, the ultimate goal is money. Yes, control is a means to an end. But you also have to take into consideration the way we've structured things to work so far, how we've built society, basically. It's layers upon layers of influence and control, even down to basic human interactions most of the time. I'm not saying non-transactional interactions are impossible, but in a transactional system, transactional interactions are favoured. And, yes, the system itself is transactional because it is focused and built around the central and supreme value (in its conception, not objectively, to note) - money.

We have built a system of control centered around money, is my point. Because that was the most effective way to ensure stability of profit. And it is much easier and much stabler to ensure the (upward) flow of money if one controls/influences/manipulates those who actually generate the money.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to latenightnoir

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to latenightnoir • 1 mese fa • •

I don't disagree, my problem was with people suggesting control was the end, not profit. Control is a tool purely to help gain more profit, it isn't the goal.

As a side-note, I do think it's worth understanding that there are socialist countries where control is flipped, political power is dominated by the working class against capitalists. We know socialism works, we know capitalism is dying.

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

latenightnoir

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

Oh, nonono! Control is just the most effective and mass-deployed tool, not the end! Completely agree with that aspect!

And agreed as well in that the pyramid of control should be flipped, with the people who actually generate value (i.e. the workers) at the top! It would make sense not only from an equity standpoint, but in terms of expertise as well! I find practical experience with a process is an absolute must for anyone who is tasked with managing said process, if we desire efficient (and actually useful...) management!

The workers should be dictating how things work, because they're the ones actually working the things. That sounds a lot more confusing than it is in my head=))

in reply to latenightnoir

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to latenightnoir • 1 mese fa • •

Glad we could agree! Really, one of the bright sides of capitalism's later stages is that it already prepares the way for socialism. Capitalism cannot help but centralize, developing the tools and processes needed for production at huge scales, but this same development also makes it much easier to plan production and move beyond production for profit. As capital concentrates in fewer and fewer hands, the working class grows, and is already trained to run production ourselves. The longer this goes on, the more we outnumber capitalists.

Countries like the PRC, Cuba, etc have already shown that socialism works very well for satisfying the needs of people, and presents a way out. As imperialism is falling with the US Empire, so is the biggest obstacle to socialism globally. There's good reason to be hopeful for the future, it will just take organizing and serious dedication to building a better world.

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

Deceptichum

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

The ruling class, the capitalists, don’t do evil things for the sake of power or control.

Yes they do, that is literally the only reason. Once you reach their wealth, you are not sated with merely making more money.

Money is relatively meaningless to a multi-billionaire, power and control isn't, it's why they fantasize about holding the keys to the food storage room in their bunker and not about running their own printing press to make Bison dollars.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to Deceptichum

SugarCatDestroyer

in reply to Deceptichum • 1 mese fa • •

Damn, "They need power for the sake of even more power because there is nothing higher" This sounds extremely relevant.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer • 1 mese fa • •

It isn't, actually. Capitalism only cares about power to the extent that it facilitates profits, capitalism doesn't systemically place "power" as principle.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

like this

in reply to Deceptichum

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Deceptichum • 1 mese fa • •

No, this is wrong. Capitalism is a control system that selects for those capitalists that obtain the most profits. It isn't about pursuit of power at the top, if you cease seeking profits you are overtaken by other capitalists. There's no desire for power for power's sake, power is a tool and its purpose is higher profits, not the other way around. Capitalism is driven by profit, not power.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

like this

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

Deceptichum

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

False.

Money is not the end goal it is a tool, it is a physical embodiment of power. Money for money's sake does literally nothing, it's why billionaires start hiring lobbyists, buying media stations, starting charities, etc to push their views and influence onto society.

in reply to Deceptichum

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Deceptichum • 1 mese fa • •

Capitalists only seek influence to better facilitate higher profits. You've got it flipped, money isn't pursued for power, power is pursued for money, as capitalism is a control system that selects for the most profitable and discards the rest.

like this

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

frightful_hobgoblin

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

The ruling class, the capitalists, don’t do evil things for the sake of power or control. They do it for profits

Are those very different things? Wealth certainly grants power and control, no?

Having said that, I agree with the spirit of your comment.

in reply to frightful_hobgoblin

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to frightful_hobgoblin • 1 mese fa • •

They are different. Capitalism only cares about profits, morals don't come into the picture, nor does power or control except to the extent that they facilitate profits.

like this

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

Well said. The key point is that our goal must be to deliver tangible improvements to people's everyday material conditions. Chasing some abstract, Platonic ideal of a perfect society is a pointless exercise. It's also unrealistic to expect any human society to become a Utopia.

Instead, we should focus on maximizing personal agency. That means accomplishing concrete things like reducing work hours, guaranteeing access to basic necessities, and providing public spaces like parks, libraries, and sports centers.

The goal isn't to have some nebulous "freedoms" promoted in the West. It's about ensuring that our collective labour and resources are directed toward raising the standard of living for everyone. And that process can only begin with the collective ownership of the means of production.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 1 mese fa • •

Absolutely. It's also important to recognize the objective laws governing how capitalism works, where it's headed, and why. If we just stumble blindly in the dark, hoping to chance at building something better, then we can't get anywhere. Doomerism is often very counter-productive, and removes our agency.

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 mese fa • •

Exactly, human societies are dynamic systems and we have to analyze them as such. We have to look at the selection pressures the rules of the system create, and interpret human behavior within the context of these rules. When we see that the rules create perverse incentives, we have the power to change the social contract.

Understanding how and why the system works is one of the best antidotes to doomerism, hence why we incessantly tell people to read theory. Once you understand why things work a certain way, and the mechanics that drive the evolution of the system then it no longer feels like a force of nature. It's a machine that we've constructed, and it operates because we collectively allow it to.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 1 mese fa • •

Correct, which is why Marxism-Leninism is such a useful tool for not only understanding the world, but changing it, and is why socialist countries like China are doing so well right now despite outside hostility.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer

bacon_pdp

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer • 1 mese fa • •

It is more complicated unfortunately. Effectively every Utopia is someone else’s dystopian nightmare.

For all the people who love the white picket fence fantasy there are even more that see it as a hellscape.

For every positive thing that exists there is a negative thing on the other side of it. And yes the degree of positive and negative can have different weights.

in reply to bacon_pdp

SugarCatDestroyer

in reply to bacon_pdp • 1 mese fa • •

Hmm, you reason well and are quite right. The so-called utopia is a comfortable cage, in essence, people live there like animals in a zoo, but at least they are safe.

Damn, for some reason I remembered a passage from novel: Imagine how people used to live with their families in houses, it's so disgusting that it makes you shudder.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer

Zerush

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer • 1 mese fa • •

More realistic when you hope the end of the end of the dystopia in which we already live. As Karl Valentin said "In the past anything was better, even the future"

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer

kibiz0r

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer • 1 mese fa • •

People have thought for thousands of years that they were living in the time of a great final battle against eternal tyranny — and that they were destined to fail.

There’s a strange comfort in being certain of doom. It makes the world simple and understandable. Predictable, and therefore less jarring. Doom is invulnerable to good news — in fact, good news is always bad news in the framework of doom, because it means delaying the inevitable and inviting false hope.

But the real story of the last several thousand years is that the world is complex. People are more complex than we could’ve understood even a hundred years ago. And the universe may be even stranger than we possibly can imagine.

I’m not telling you to be certain of a positive outcome. I’m just telling you to let go of certainty.

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer • 1 mese fa • •

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer

MithranArkanere

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer • 1 mese fa • •

No utopia can exist without achieving post-escarcity.

AtomHeartMagazine via Attualità, Geopolitica e Satira

1 mese fa • •

AtomHeartMagazine
1 mese fa • •

Treni a rischio il 2 e 3 ottobre: sciopero nazionale di 24 ore. Orari e fasce di garanzia

Nuovi disagi in arrivo per chi viaggia in treno. Giovedì 2 ottobre dalle ore 21:00 fino a venerdì 3 ottobre alle ore 20:59 è stato indetto uno sciopero nazionale di 24 ore che interesserà il trasporto ferroviario e, a cascata, anche i collegamenti su gomma.

L’agitazione, proclamata dal sindacato S.I. Cobas, coinvolgerà il Gruppo FS, Trenitalia, Trenord e Trenitalia Tper, con possibili cancellazioni, variazioni e ritardi.

TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Treni a rischio il 2 e 3 ottobre: sciopero nazionale di 24 ore. Orari e fasce di garanzia

Sciopero treni 2 e 3 ottobre 2025: orari, treni garantiti e fasce di garanzia

Sciopero treni 2 e 3 ottobre 2025: disagi in tutta Italia. Orari, treni garantiti e fasce di garanzia per Trenitalia, Trenord e Tper.

^{Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)}

#attualità

poVoq via Solarpunk technology

1 mese fa • •

poVoq
1 mese fa • •

Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing

If you’re mounting solar panels, everybody knows the drill, right? Point them south, angled according to latitude. It’s easy. In a video which demonstrates that [Everyday Dave] is truly…

^Hackaday

#technology

geneva_convenience via UK Politics

1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience
1 mese fa • •

U.K. Jewish institutions say they back two-states – so why aren't they commending Starmer?

Virtually every British Jewish community representative organization claims to support a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians.

There is also cross-party consensus in the British parliament that this is the most viable solution. Yesterday, the British government finally took a step towards making this policy a reality by recognizing a Palestinian state, with clear conditions that ensure Israel's security, including the disarmament of Hamas and working to free the hostages the group still holds in Gaza.

So, on paper, the U.K.'s announcement should be welcomed by all those who claim to support a two-state solution, including the mainstream British Jewish community. And yet instead, it's been met at worst with criticism and condemnations, and at best with silence, perhaps out of fear of being ostracized.

Surely, this Israeli government, one that threatens to occupy and remove Palestinians from Gaza, and one that has already killed tens of thousands and starved hundreds of thousands, isn't reflective of our community and its values. So where is our British Jewish leadership, coming forward to commend Prime Minister Starmer for taking the step we all know is right?

British Jewish institutions say they back a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine – so why aren't they

On paper, the U.K.'s recognition of Palestine should be welcomed by all those who claim to support a two-state solution, including almost every major British Jewish organization.

^{Danielle Bett (Haaretz)}

#uk_politics

geneva_convenience via Progressive Politics

1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience
1 mese fa • •

Israel wants to train ChatGPT to be more pro-Israel

The government of Israel has hired a new conservative-aligned firm, Clock Tower X LLC, to create media for Gen Z audiences in a contract worth $6 million.

Clock Tower will even deploy “websites and content to deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations.” In other words, Clock Tower will create new websites to influence how AI GPT models such as ChatGPT, which are trained on vast amounts of data from every corner of the internet, frame topics and respond to them — all on behalf of Israel.

At least 80 percent of content Clock Tower produces will be “tailored to Gen Z audiences across platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, podcasts, and other relevant digital and broadcast outlets” with a minimum goal of 50 million impressions per month.

Israel wants to train ChatGPT to be more pro-Israel

In a new $6M contract, US firm ‘Clock Tower X’ will generate and deploy content across platforms, help game algorithms, plus manage AI ‘frameworks’ to make them more friendly to the cause

^{Nick Cleveland-Stout (Responsible Statecraft)}

#progressivepolitics

geneva_convenience via Fuck AI

1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience
1 mese fa • •

Israel wants to train ChatGPT to be more pro-Israel

The government of Israel has hired a new conservative-aligned firm, Clock Tower X LLC, to create media for Gen Z audiences in a contract worth $6 million.

Israel wants to train ChatGPT to be more pro-Israel

In a new $6M contract, US firm ‘Clock Tower X’ will generate and deploy content across platforms, help game algorithms, plus manage AI ‘frameworks’ to make them more friendly to the cause

^{Nick Cleveland-Stout (Responsible Statecraft)}

#fuck_ai

in reply to geneva_convenience

Mwa

in reply to geneva_convenience • 1 mese fa • •

Afaik Wasn't it pro-isr*el before this?
Or atleast somewhat

in reply to Mwa

geneva_convenience

in reply to Mwa • 1 mese fa • •

Yes massively. And still is. But the articles are turning against Israel. It needs more propaganda sites to quote.

geneva_convenience via World News

1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience
1 mese fa • •

Here’s the full text of Trump’s 20-point plan to end Israel’s war on Gaza

Gaza will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza. This committee will be made up of qualified Palestinians and international experts, with oversight and supervision by a new international transitional body, the “Board of Peace,” which will be headed and chaired by President Donald J Trump, with other members and heads of State to be announced, including Former Prime Minister Tony Blair. This body will set the framework and handle the funding for the redevelopment of Gaza until such time as the Palestinian Authority has completed its reform program, as outlined in various proposals, including President Trump’s peace plan in 2020 and the Saudi-French proposal, and can securely and effectively take back control of Gaza. This body will call on best international standards to create modern and efficient governance that serves the people of Gaza and is conducive to attracting investment.

...

Hamas and other factions agree to not have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or in any form. All military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, including tunnels and weapon production facilities, will be destroyed and not rebuilt. There will be a process of demilitarisation of Gaza under the supervision of independent monitors, which will include placing weapons permanently beyond use through an agreed process of decommissioning, and supported by an internationally funded buy-back and reintegration program all verified by the independent monitors. New Gaza will be fully committed to building a prosperous economy and to peaceful coexistence with their neighbours.

Here’s the full text of Trump’s 20-point plan to end Israel’s war on Gaza

The White House says its proposal would end the war on Gaza immediately if both sides accept.

^{Elis Gjevori (Al Jazeera)}

#Worldnews

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

like this

in reply to geneva_convenience

PolandIsAStateOfMind

in reply to geneva_convenience • 1 mese fa • •

Those terms are just basically call for unconditional surrender.

Also:

transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee
Donald J Trump
Tony Blair

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to geneva_convenience

modulus

in reply to geneva_convenience • 1 mese fa • •

Is it me or this plan is just unhinged? Not just politically bad, or imbalanced, or whatever. But actually fantastical, not meant for implementation. In fact I can't think of anyone who'd accept it, not the zionists either. It seems headline-driven policy. It's just intended to make noise.

At least Oslo was shitty but conceivably workable for some values of workable.

This is talking about tariffs and SEZs in the middle of rubble.

geneva_convenience via World News

1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience
1 mese fa • •

Gen Z protesters rally across Morocco demanding health, education reforms

Youth-led demonstrators clashed with police over the weekend in some of Morocco’s largest anti-government protests in years, denouncing what they called the government’s misplaced priorities.

Hundreds of young Moroccans took to the streets of at least 11 cities across the North African nation, denouncing corruption and blasting the government for pouring money into international sporting events while neglecting health and education.

They drew a direct link between the country’s struggling health care system and its investments in the lead-up to the 2030 FIFA World Cup, shouting slogans including, “Stadiums are here, but where are the hospitals?”

Gen Z protesters rally across Morocco demanding health, education reforms

Police say nearly 200 people have been arrested as the north African nation is rocked by biggest protests in years.

^{Caolán Magee (Al Jazeera)}

#World

Alphane Moon via Technology

1 mese fa • •

Alphane Moon
1 mese fa • •

OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone

A new report from Wired says OpenAI plans to launch a TikTok alternative that only allows AI-generated videos. It will use Sora 2 and allow users to upload their likeness to use in videos.

^{Anil Ganti (Notebookcheck)}

#technology

Alphane Moon via Technology

1 mese fa • •

Alphane Moon
1 mese fa • •

OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/36675743

Alphane Moon

2025-09-30 07:39:55

OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone

OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone
A new report from Wired says OpenAI plans to launch a TikTok alternative that only allows AI-generated videos. It will use Sora 2 and allow users to upload their likeness to use in videos.
^{Anil Ganti (Notebookcheck)}

#technology

like this

in reply to Alphane Moon

kingthrillgore

in reply to Alphane Moon • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 4 settimane fa) • •

A machine to create slop to feed slop

blinfabian via Privacy

1 mese fa • •

blinfabian
1 mese fa • •

what's a good phone?

Hey there! i currently have a Samsung Galaxy A55 and i want to try one of the privacy focused phones. But idk which is the best i could try.

My findings:
- Fairphone with /e/OS, but ive heard /e/OS is apparantly not that secure.
- Google Pixel with GrapheneOS, but with this one I still need to buy from Google.
- Linux phones, but I'm concerend they dont support all the apps i want to use.

that being said, can you use MicroG instead of Google Services for ALL apps? or does it only work for things like Revanced?

edit:

i also use a Samsung smartwatch with Google Wallet so would this still be possible with an alternate OS?

#privacy

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

like this

don't like this

in reply to blinfabian

pineapple

in reply to blinfabian • 1 mese fa • •

For linux phones can't you use waydroid which gets you support for all android apps? Pls don't quote me on this though.

I guess apps that require Google play services won't work.

in reply to pineapple

RheumatoidArthritis

in reply to pineapple • 2 settimane fa • •

Or apps which require GPS

in reply to blinfabian

anonymous111

in reply to blinfabian • 1 mese fa • •

I wish there was a Pixel with an SD card slot. That is the main reason I'm still, grudgingly, on Samsung.

Alphane Moon via Technology

1 mese fa • •

Alphane Moon
1 mese fa • •

AI answers Microsoft licensing questions, helps you choose

AI upstart aims to do what mere mortals can't: Make sense of Microsoft licensing

Interview: Thankfully, Onyx's model also knows when to defer to a human for advice

^{Richard Speed (The Register)}

#technology

suoko via Scienza e tecnologia

1 mese fa • •

suoko
1 mese fa • •

Colliri anti-presbiopia: quali sono e come funzionano?

La FDA ha approvato colliri innovativi contro la presbiopia a base di aceclidina e pilocarpina. In Europa non sono ancora autorizzati: ecco come funzionano e i risultati degli studi.

^{www.my-personaltrainer.it}

#scienza

Unknown parent

suoko

Unknown parent • 1 mese fa • •

Che tipo di ausilio? Ti aiuta a vedere meglio o semplicemente ti descrive ciò che inquadra?
Io sinceramente non trovo molto naturale un mini schermo a pochi cm dagli occhi, un po' come i visori, un led sparato a quella distanza nell'occhio mi farebbe un po' paura usato a lungo.
Finché usi un visore per poco tempo per una simulazione o un training immersivo ancora ancora...

Unknown parent

suoko

Unknown parent • 1 mese fa • •

Ok, ma io parlavo di presbiopia, non cecità.
Nel tuo caso meglio provare i prossimi occhiali neuralink allora

sabreW4K3 via Palestine

1 mese fa • •

sabreW4K3
1 mese fa • •

UK Labour Party members vote to recognise Gaza genocide at conference

The move adds pressure on the UK government, led by Keir Starmer, which has been slammed over its stance on Gaza war.

^{Caolán Magee (Al Jazeera)}

#Palestine

like this

in reply to sabreW4K3

MrSulu

in reply to sabreW4K3 • 1 mese fa • •

This is bullshit politics. Making an almost meaningless gesture when it's too late. Starmer along with the rest of the current labour party sat by the sidelines ACTIVELY ignoring it, until now. Worse still, they were among the first to criticise their own paid up members as antisemetic, for calling out the genocide in Gaza. In my finest British vernacular, what a bunch of pathetic twats. [Just one persons very dissatisfied and frustrated views]

in reply to sabreW4K3

Arcane2077

in reply to sabreW4K3 • 1 mese fa • •

I wouldn’t be surprised if labour leader and current prime minister believed in the Zionist dogma that Palestine should be recognized in the sense that Israel should always reserve the “right” to restrict power, water and trade, and enact cruel and unusual collective punishment whenever they see fit

Libera Folio

1 mese fa • •

Libera Folio
1 mese fa • •

Unikaj retaj kursoj sur universitata nivelo

La hispana universitato UNED estas la sola eŭropa distanca universitato, kiu proponas kursojn de Esperanto samnivele kiel kursojn de la angla kaj aliaj grandaj naciaj lingvoj. Ekzamenoj okazas ĉeeste, sekvante la Komunan Eŭropan Referenc-Kadron por Lingvoj. Tion ebligas interkonsento inter UNED kaj Hispana Esperanto-Federacio. La kursojn povas partopreni ĉiuj, kiuj pretas pagi la kotizon. Kompreno de la hispana estas nepra en la unua kurso, konsilinda en la dua, nenecesa en la tria.

liberafolio.org/2025/09/30/uni…

Laura Hurtado-UNED Asamblea General estudiantes-48

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

Verda Majorano reshared this.

Günther Unlustig 🍄 via Linux

1 mese fa • •

Günther Unlustig 🍄
1 mese fa • •

Recommendations for audio production software?

I have literally zero experience with creating audio, but I want to try something new for me.

I know most people who are "properly" into music production are just using a Mac, because it just works and where a lot of the software is available.

Thing is, I have zero expectations.
I don't need a lot of features, plug-ins, and whatever. Most stuff will probably just be fine for me.

Heck, I don't even know what I need in the first place to get a full "stack" of audio production software.

For the start, I'd prefer something simple.
Mostly just something where I can arrange a few recorded audio tracks onto each other and maybe edit them a bit.
Something where I can record the tracks with my microphone (and some time later maybe an input device like a piano keyboard, e-guitar, etc.) and listen them at the same time, preferably in the same program.

What are your experiences with making music on Linux?
What software would you recommend?

#linux

like this

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

anamethatisnt

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

For a simpler program look into Tenacity (Audacity fork) and if you want something bigger I know many use Reaper nowadays (available for Linux, Windows and Mac)

tenacity

Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other operating systems

^Codeberg.org

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

Deifyed

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

I've been very happy with Ardour. It's a full digital audio workspace though. Like the other comment mentioned, audacity is a simpler alternative

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

chillpanzee

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

Software wise, ProTools is what nearly everyone in the industry uses. Its been around forever. It enjoys a massive monopoly share of the market. But I don't think it works on Linux. Mac n PC only.

For a cheaper Linux friendly option, consider Fairlight (the audio component of Black magic Resolve).

The name "Fairlight" has also been around forever, but was defunct for a while, and a handful of years ago the fine folks at Blackmagic Design bought the brand and IP integrated into their Resolve software. While Resolve has a free tier that includes Fairlight, some might require the Studio version which is a one time fee of ~US$300 and includes all future updates. I've heard some Pros speak highly of the new Fairlight. Can't vouch for it myself but the mantra of the Blackmagic CEO is "we build the tools we wanted when we were working creatives."

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

Buffalox

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

Ardour is amazing.
ardour.org/

Ardour, free and open-source digital audio workstation | Ardour DAW

Ardour is a free and open-source digital audio workstation for Windows, macOS, and Linux

^ardour.org

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

paequ2

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

I've wanted to try Reaper reaper.fm/ but haven't had time. It's not something simple though.

(There's even a Flatpak for easy install/uninstall flathub.org/en/apps/fm.reaper.…)

Install Reaper on Linux | Flathub

Digital Audio Workstation

^Flathub

in reply to paequ2

Wappen

in reply to paequ2 • 1 mese fa • •

Doubling down on Reaper: I’ve tried other DAWs before, but none of them ever felt as natural to me as Reaper. I wouldn’t recommend the Flatpak version, though—I could never get it to work with plugins, although that might just be me. On Linux, you can simply download the install script from the website, which makes installing and uninstalling Reaper just as easy.

in reply to Wappen

marduk

in reply to Wappen • 1 mese fa • •

I gave in and gave them my money; I like their software.

I'm not an audio pro though so I'm really only comparing it to FL studio and Ableton, neither of which get my money

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

INeedMana

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

For music recorded via microphone, Ardour+Hydrogen

For music created more synthetically LMMS

Jack is the way to go. Save yourself the frustration and use it from the start

in reply to INeedMana

anamethatisnt

in reply to INeedMana • 1 mese fa • •

For music created more synthetically LMMS

Haven't heard of that one before, cheers!
GPLv2, lmms.io/ , github.com/LMMS/lmms

GitHub - LMMS/lmms: Cross-platform music production software

Cross-platform music production software. Contribute to LMMS/lmms development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

in reply to INeedMana

FriendOfDeSoto

in reply to INeedMana • 1 mese fa • •

Seconded! LMMS is a good free DAW to get started.

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

hendrik

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

I'd try some of the Multimedia / Audio Linux distributions. I believe there are some which have everything set up for you and you can just try and explore. Notably Ubuntu Studio, AV Linux

Other than that, LMMS and Ardour, Qtractor, ZRhythm, Rosegarden, MuSE, or Mixxx for DJing... There's generally a lot. DAWs, trackers, sequencers, synthesizers... you can do professional multitrack recording or just mess with your guitar or sample some electronic music...

It's a bit difficult as a beginner, since there are a lot of options and they all have different user interfaces and you might need to learn a few concepts first. And /or read the documentation or watch some Youtube tutorials.

Wikimedia list article

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

Eugenia

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

You essentially have 3 options with open source audio apps (there are some good closed source options too, like the great Reaper, Tracktion Waveform, and BitWig Studio, but I will focus on foss solutions here):

Ardour. This is the premier foss app. In fact, a fork of it is closed source used by a big audio manufacturer. So it's the best tested foss audio software out there. It can do both midi and recording sessions, but it's best for recording stuff. However, the new version, expected by end of this year, will have major midi updates that probably will put it on top of the king of midi in foss:
LMMS. Best for Midi. If you're doing electronic music through and through, this works great. The only downside it has it does not support vst3 plugins (soon enough, this can become an issue, even if you say that you don't care about plugins). You can still get vst3 support by loading them via the Clara plugin (basically, it acts as a plugin for other plugins), but that can be unstable.
QTractor. This one is an odd one out. It's a bit hard to get it going (it requires external synths and some patchwork to connect audio devices), but it is very powerful and I'd say, a more sane UI when editing. It comes with no plugins at all, but it supports all plugin standards for linux. Basically, this one requires more setup, but once you set it up, it gets going easier.

Alternatively, if you're actually interested only in rec. audio editing (basically cutting, pasting etc), simple stuff, there's Audacity.

If you're using Ubuntu or Linux Mint, Zorin, PopOS, install the ubuntustudio package for pipewire (can't remember how it's called you need to search for it). It sets up pipewire audio correctly, so more plugins/apps work out of the box (without it, for example, Bitwig studio doesn't even make a peep...).

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to Eugenia

Tippon

in reply to Eugenia • 1 mese fa • •

f you're using Ubuntu or Linux Mint, Zorin, PopOS, install the ubuntustudio package for pipewire (can't remember how it's called you need to search for it). It sets up pipewire audio correctly, so more plugins/apps work out of the box (without it, for example, Bitwig studio doesn't even make a peep...).

Thanks for adding this 🙂

I've just started playing around with Hydrogen, the drum machine, as well as some video editing. I'm in the process of switching to Mint, but hadn't heard of the ubuntustudio package at all.

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

nocteb

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

Checkout Bitwig. It is proprietary, but a professional audio workstation and available for Linux: bitwig.com/de/8-track/

8-Track | Bitwig

8-Track is the lite version of Bitwig Studio. Start producing, performing, and designing sounds like a pro.

^{www.bitwig.com}

in reply to nocteb

Teppichbrand

in reply to nocteb • 1 mese fa • •

Bitwig-fanboy here. This application is insane. Instead of collecting or worse, buying, random VSTs, instruments and samples you can one stop buy Bitwig, download the free packs and have 99% of everything you'll ever need to make music until you die. Plus you can modulate all parameters everywhere, but this already is more advanced stuff. If I had to pick one piece of software to use for the rest of my life, it'd be Bitwig. It's on sale twice a year, watch out fi dis.

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

Jack_Burton

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

I'm a voice actor and musician, and moved to Linux about a month and a half ago with Ubuntu Studio. I went from using Adobe Audition and Cubase to Reaper and Bitwig, and highly recommend both. Reaper is WAY more powerful than I realized. For FOSS you could try Ardour, I've heard good things. Personally I hated it haha, but that may just be because I tried Ardour first after switching to Linux and had the learning curve of both a new OS/audio setup and a new DAW at the same time with a project due day-of.

The biggest issues I had was just getting audio to work properly. I was stuck using ALSA for a few weeks, which worked but only allows one program to use audio at once. I very much recommend looking into using JACK and setting up pipewire.

You can absolutely start just recording via mic and editing from there. If you want to hook up instruments, check out midi controllers. Some plugins are extremely helpful for creating a more polished sound like eq, compressors, limiters, etc. If the space you're recording in doesn't have the best sound treatment, Reaper has a great noise reduction plugin called ReaFIR. It's a little more aggressive than I like but works really well (feel free to ask me how to use it if you're having problems).

My recommendation is to start with Reaper (it's got a free trial that you can keep using beyond the end date) and get your hardware working. After that, record a few tracks, throw them together into your DAW of choice, and play around with them.

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

entropicdrift

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

Audio Engineer here.

You want Reaper. It's a $60 program but you can keep it in trial mode for as long as you want till you've got the money. Reaper has lots of tutorials available on YouTube and can use industry-standard VST plugins, plus it has enough plugins bundled in to get you started.

in reply to entropicdrift

radswid

in reply to entropicdrift • 1 mese fa • •

Audio Engineer here, too.

What he said. Plus: I've been using Ardour for years. Then I tried Reaper, "evaluated" for about 3 months, then decided to pay the ~ 70€. You get a licence for the existing and a future release. It feels much more "natural" to me than Ardour.

in reply to radswid

entropicdrift

in reply to radswid • 1 mese fa • •

Yeah, exactly. I was trained on Pro Tools and Ardour worked OK and made sense to me, but Reaper feels more intuitive to use than either Pro Tools or Ardour.

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

Bluefruit

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

I agree with what others have said about using reaper. It really is a great DAW.

That said, a lot of good vst use stuff like ilok or other crap that makes it impossible or very difficult to use on Linux at least in my experience.

I made a windows box specifically for making music because its just way easier. Making music on Linux sucked for me due to crashing and the plugins I bought before I switched to Linux on my main machine.

Reaper should be fine for you, there are plenty of good Linux compatible VST but if you ever get "serious" about music production, Linux isnt quite there yet IMO. Windows would be my recommendation or if you can afford it, a Mac is good too from what ive heard.

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

Rhonda Sandtits

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

Bitwig

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

tacosomuch

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 4 settimane fa • •

I have been on the same quest. I have used Ableton on mac/windows and I’m eyeing Bitwig. I tried Ardour for a little bit, but never gelled with it. Ardour would probably be fine if I did some effort on learning the interface, but I didnt find it that intuitive.

IMFreedom Releases

1 mese fa • •

IMFreedom Releases
1 mese fa • •

Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 4 (2.93.0) has been released!

We are ecstatic to announce that we have released the fourth experimental version of Pidgin 3.0!!! This is a pre alpha release with an official version number of 2.93.0. We will continue releasing in this fashion until we are ready for 3.0.0 which will be the release we consider ready for end users.

The release can be found on SourceForge and should show up on Flathub Beta shortly.

If you don’t want to use the Flathub Beta method, there are build instructions in the README for building a flatpak locally or installing into a meson devenv. Both methods avoid installing directly to your OS installation which is the preferred method as there is no easy way to uninstall.

About

Just like the previous experimental releases, this is a timed release. It is a snapshot of what we currently have and is something we think other tinkerers and developers may want to start playing with, but again, it is not meant for end users.

Most things are not implemented, the user interface has not been polished at all, and there are so so many bugs. As such we are asking that packagers please do not package this for your users yet as the potential support requests will be too much for us to handle at this time.

There's a number of things that unfortunately went unfinished for this release so you may notice more bugs than previous experimental releases. But like usual, there's still been plenty of progress for everyone to check out!

Looking forward, Experimental 5 is scheduled for 2025-12-31 and will have a version number of 2.94.0.

We have a bunch of tickets entered for Experimental 5, and you can keep an eye on the Burndown Chart for Experimental 5 to stay informed. As always, priorities and possibilities can and will change, so even if something is listed for this release that doesn’t mean it will be in the release until it’s actually completed.

If you would like monthly updates, be sure to check out the #state-of-the-bird posts!

Highlights

We have a bunch of highlights this release, but some are hard to show in text, but we'll do our best!

Developer Migration Guide

We have started the huge task of describing how to migrate code from Purple 2 to Purple 3. That document is available at docs.imfreedom.org/purple3/migrating.html.

This is for migration only. We're still looking at doing some sort of compatibility layer, but we don't want to put a lot of time into that until we're much more confident in the APIs not changing. We are also looking to do an architecture document as well that will explain some of the finer details of the APIs.

Backends

Many of our data sources need to be persisted when the program isn't running. We've done this a number of ways over the years, but in this release we have created a new pattern of using backends to abstract this out.

For example, a user interface can tell Purple.ConversationManager to not persist conversations or to persist them in a SQLite database using Purple.ConversationManagerSeagullBackend. Many more of these will be popping up in the future for the other managers.

Conversation Persistence

As mentioned above Purple now keeps track of your open conversations assuming the conversation manager was told to use a backend that persists data which Pidgin does by default.

This means you no longer have to add a channel to your contact list and tell it to auto join, it will just automatically happen for all conversations (dms, group dms, channel, etc) that were still open when you closed the program which matches the behavior of many modern clients.

New Application Icon

The one and only Hykle Bons has come out of retirement to create a new application icon for Pidgin 3 which you can see below. If you have any comments regarding it, there is a post for that over here.

Color Scheme Preference

You can finally chose to have Pidgin follow the system theme or force it into light or dark mode!

ChangeLog

General:

Update to Ibis 0.14.0 (RR 4043) (Gary Kramlich)
Tell meson about our license (RR 4045) (Gary Kramlich)
Add a test to make sure the flatpak dependencies have been updated (RR 4044) (Gary Kramlich)
Only add the flatpak dependencies test when compiling for linux (RR 4049) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix some Since tags (RR 4059) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
Deprecate ChangeLog.API (RR 4128) (Gary Kramlich)
Port the protocols to the birb string functions (RR 4139) (Gary Kramlich)
Ignore the meson subproject .wraplock file (RR 4145) (Gary Kramlich)
Stop setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in devenv (RR 4170) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)

macOS:

Fix some issues with the macOS native files (RR 4165) (Gary Kramlich)
Hide duplicate menu items (RR 4166) (Gary Kramlich)

libpurple:

Serialize conversations and their tags (PIDGIN-17989) (RR 4048) (Gary Kramlich)
Load conversations back in from the database (PIDGIN-17989) (RR 4051) (Gary Kramlich)
Replace PurplePlugin by GPluginPlugin (RR 4063) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
Add Purple.ConversationManager.get_all_for_account (RR 4065) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove a bunch of unused and unnecessary preferences code (RR 4066) (Gary Kramlich)
Delete conversations from the database when the user leaves them (RR 4064) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.ScheduleTask (PIDGIN-18105) (RR 4072) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.Scheduler (PIDGIN-18105) (RR 4073) (Gary Kramlich)
Tell gir to ignore the Purple.Request functions that aren't bindable (RR 4076) (Gary Kramlich)
Delete the purple_gdk_pixbuf api (RR 4075) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove searching from Purple.ProtocolContacts (RR 4078) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove Purple.CircularBuffer (RR 4083) (Gary Kramlich)
Clean up and modernize PurpleImage (RR 4074) (Gary Kramlich)
Replace Purple.Avatar with Purple.Image (RR 4084) (Gary Kramlich)
Add an avatar-for-display property to Purple.ContactInfo (RR 4086) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix some broken logic in Purple.Conversation.send_message_async (RR 4095) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix the birb header path (RR 4097) (Gong Zhile)
Add builtin library dependency for introspection (RR 4098) (Gong Zhile)
Create Purple.Contacts (PIDGIN-18106) (RR 4077) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.ProtocolDirectory (PIDGIN-18108) (RR 4079) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.ConversationMembers.find_first_other (RR 4087) (Gary Kramlich)
Move Purple.Conversation.find_or_add_member to Purple.ConversationMembers (RR 4100) (Gong Zhile)
Convert Purple.Tags to a Gio.ListModel (PIDGIN-18002) (RR 4088) (Gary Kramlich)
Some tweaks for Purple.ConversationMember and Purple.ConversationMember (RR 4102) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix up the account manager (RR 4090) (Gary Kramlich)
Add default handlers to Purple.Account to manage the online state of conversations (RR 4092) (Gary Kramlich)
Add a Purple.ContactInfo:badges property (PIDGIN-18114) (RR 4103) (Gary Kramlich)
Many updates for Purple.ProtocolContacts (PIDGIN-18112 PIDGIN-18115 PIDGIN-18116) (RR 4105) (Gary Kramlich)
Clean up some stuff in Purple.Protocol (RR 4109) (Gary Kramlich)
Check for the MESON_TEST_ITERATION envvar before adding our default plugin paths (PIDGIN-18121) (RR 4115) (Gary Kramlich)
Add vfuncs to Purple.Protocol for setting display names (PIDGIN-18117) (RR 4107) (Gary Kramlich)
A Bunch of cleanups for the credential manager (RR 4116) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix some minor issues in protocol directory (RR 4122) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.Conversation::displayed (RR 4093) (Gary Kramlich)
Add an id property to Purple.Command (PIDGIN-18118) (RR 4106) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove all of the proxy code (RR 4120) (Gary Kramlich)
Move the saved-plugins preference to GSettings (RR 4121) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove the preferences API (RR 4123) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove Purple.AccountManager.foreach (RR 4124) (Gary Kramlich)
Add a unit test for Purple.CommandManager.get_commands_for_conversation (PIDGIN-18119) (RR 4108) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove Purple.ContactInfo:username (RR 4114) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.AccountManagerBackend (RR 4125) (Gary Kramlich)
A bunch of random cleanups for Purple.Ui (RR 4126) (Gary Kramlich)
Rename Attachment:inline to Attachment:is-inline to fix some compiler errors on Windows (RR 4131) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.Account.disconnect_with_new_error (RR 4133) (Gary Kramlich)
Create a Noop AccountManagerBackend (RR 4134) (Gary Kramlich)
Update Purple.AccountManager to use Purple.AccountManagerBackend (RR 4135) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.SchedulerBackend (PIDGIN-18105) (RR 4127) (Gary Kramlich)
Port libpurple to the birb string functions (RR 4140) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove some unused utility functions (RR 4142) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove the network API (RR 4141) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.AccountSetting (RR 4143) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove the private PurpleAccountSetting type (RR 4144) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.AccountSettings (RR 4146) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.Protocol.get_default_account_settings (RR 4147) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.AccountSettingStringList (RR 4153) (Gary Kramlich)
Update the default account settings handler to include user splits (RR 4154) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.Account:disconnected to complement Purple.Account:connected (RR 4157) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix settings initialization in network prefs (RR 4161) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
A first pass at documenting how to migrate from purple 2 (RR 4155) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove the last remnants of GdkPixbuf (RR 4169) (Gary Kramlich)
Add remove all and update methods to Purple.AccountSettings (RR 4159) (Gary Kramlich)
Make sure accounts have names when saving and loading (RR 4171) (Gary Kramlich)
Ignore a libxml deprecation (RR 4177) (Gary Kramlich)
Replace the debug subsystem with macros to the glib counter parts (RR 4178) (Gary Kramlich)
Clean up the plugins API (RR 4179) (Gary Kramlich)
Update libpurple to use Purple.Account:name when referring to accounts (RR 4174) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove the History API (RR 4176) (Gary Kramlich)
A few cleanups in the account api (RR 4182) (Gary Kramlich)
Rename Purple.AccountManager.get_connected to get_connected_accounts and return a Gio.ListModel (PIDGIN-18120) (RR 4183) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
Add implements functions to Purple.ProtocolFileTransfer (RR 4180) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.ConversationManagerBackend (PIDGIN-18128) (RR 4184) (Gary Kramlich)
Update Purple.ConversationManager to use a Purple.ConversationManagerBackend (RR 4185) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.ConversationManagerSeagullBackend (RR 4189) (Gary Kramlich)

Pidgin:

Re-enable links in Pidgin.Message (RR 4047) (Gary Kramlich)
Update Pidgin.DisplayWindow to load existing conversations (RR 4050) (Gary Kramlich)
Move the input box to a GtkSourceView (RR 4071) (Gary Kramlich)
Use the presence message of a contact for the subtitle of DM's (RR 4081) (Gary Kramlich)
Update Pidgin.InfoPane a bit and expose the avatar (RR 4085) (Gary Kramlich)
Don't show the presence icon in messages (RR 4089) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove the toplevel plugins menu (RR 4113) (Gary Kramlich)
Use the account's username in Pidgin.AccountDisplay (RR 4112) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Pidgin.Application:can-join-channel and bind actions to it (PIDGIN-18122) (RR 4110) (Gary Kramlich)
Update pidgin to use the birb string functions (RR 4138) (Gary Kramlich)
Add a Pidgin.Badges widget to contacts in the contact list (RR 4136) (Gary Kramlich)
Import our new application icon from the one and only Hylke Bons (RR 4137) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix parenting of Account Manager window on initial startup (RR 4162) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
Remove the old broadway backed tests (RR 4167) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove pidginprivate.h (RR 4168) (Gary Kramlich)
Add a dark/light color scheme setting (PIDGIN-18085) (RR 4163) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
Add the account name to the account editor (RR 4172) (Gary Kramlich)
Update Pidgin.AccountDisplay to use the Purple.Account:name property (RR 4173) (Gary Kramlich)
Update pidgin to use Purple.Account:name when referring to accounts (RR 4175) (Gary Kramlich)
Don't tell gtk to register the application with the session manager (RR 4187) (Gary Kramlich)

Demo:

Mark messages sent in the demo protocol as delivered (RR 4094) (Gary Kramlich)
Port the demo protocol to ProtocolDirectory (RR 4080) (Gary Kramlich)
Make the demo protocol plugin use the active presence (RR 4091) (Gary Kramlich)
Add an external contact ot the Demo protocol (PIDGIN-18101) (RR 4101) (Gary Kramlich)

IRCv3:

Implement the /me command (RR 4070) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix an issue where the status messages weren't being written (RR 4111) (Gary Kramlich)
Port IRCv3 to the new account settings (RR 4156) (Gary Kramlich)
Only send WHO on our own joins (RR 3986) (Gary Kramlich)

SIP:

Remove sofia as a dependency as we're not going to use it (RR 4046) (Gary Kramlich)
Silence a warning in the sip protocol skeleton (RR 4082) (Gary Kramlich)

KWallet:

Remove moc file generation for kwallet plugin (RR 4186) (Markus Fischer)

Thank You!

Thank you everyone for your continued support of Pidgin, it means a lot to us!

If you’re interested in contributing, you can check out our Contributing Guide to get started.

Also be sure to check out our merch store!

And if you’re feeling generous, you can learn how to donate to the project on our Donation Page.

Discuss this on our forum.

Installation | Flathub Documentation

Please refer to the Flatpak installation instructions for your

^{docs.flathub.org}

#state-of-the-bird

Zarlock via Cultura, Storia, Libri, Arte, Architettura, Scuola, Design, Fumetti e Bookwyrm

1 mese fa • •

Zarlock
1 mese fa • •

Parabola della fede: la traiettoria disegnata dal turibolo sovradimensionato della cattedrale di Compostela

https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=43130

#cultura

MuskyMelon via politics

1 mese fa • •

MuskyMelon
1 mese fa • •

Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection

Hahahaha oh brilliant move.

Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection

Trump official plots “impossible” deal moving Taiwan’s chip supply chain into US.

^{Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)}

#politics

like this

silence7 via Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

1 mese fa • •

silence7
1 mese fa • •

How McKinsey and Climate Change Wrecked Insurance

A secret report shows that Florida underwriters were banking massive profits while stiffing customers. Welcome to insurance in the era of climate collapse.

Archived copies of the article:
* archive.today
* ghostarchive.org

How McKinsey and Climate Change Wrecked Insurance

^{The New Republic}

#climate

in reply to silence7

thesmokingman

in reply to silence7 • 1 mese fa • •

If you haven’t, you should read When McKinsey Comes to Town and The Big Con.

2023 non-fiction book

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

in reply to silence7

VeganPizza69 Ⓥ

in reply to silence7 • 1 mese fa • •

merriam-webster.com/dictionary…

prof·i·teer·ing ˌprä-fə-ˈtir-iŋ
the act or activity of making an unreasonable profit on the sale of essential goods especially during times of emergency

(which is normal and desirable in capitalist free market systems)

Definition of profiteering

Definition of 'profiteering' by Merriam-Webster

^{Merriam-Webster Dictionary}

ardi60 via Technology

1 mese fa • •

ardi60
1 mese fa • •

Brave launches 'Ask Brave' feature to fuse AI with traditional search

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/brave-launches-ask-brave-feature-to-fuse-ai-with-traditional-search/

#technology

silence7 via Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

1 mese fa • •

silence7
1 mese fa • •

Climate Activists Thwarted in U.S. Courts Are Headed to an International Tribunal for Review

Climate Activists Thwarted in U.S. Courts Are Headed to an International Tribunal for Review - Inside Climate News

Plaintiffs who sued the U.S. government in 2015 for promoting fossil fuel policies and failing to protect them from climate change have petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for an investigation and remedies.

^{Inside Climate News}

#climate

silence7 via Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

1 mese fa • •

silence7
1 mese fa • •

Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’ | The highly intelligent cephalopods filled fishing nets and gobbled up crabs and lobsters in Devon and Cornwall this summer.

According to Steve Simpson, a professor of marine biology at the University of Bristol, “climate change is a likely driver” of the population boom. “We are right on the northern limit of the octopus species range, but our waters are getting warmer, so our little island of Great Britain is becoming increasingly favorable for octopus populations,” he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/world/europe/octopus-invasion-england-uk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk8.VnNG.2NEHmV3ee1IW

#climate

in reply to silence7

reddig33

in reply to silence7 • 1 mese fa • •

I hate that “octopi” isn’t correct. It’s so much easier to pronounce than “octopuses”.

in reply to reddig33

Shifty Eyes

in reply to reddig33 • 1 mese fa • •

I prefer Octopodes

Plural of Octopus: Octopi vs. Octopuses vs. Octopodes

Which is correct? We'll get into it.

^{Editors of Merriam-Webster (Merriam-Webster)}

in reply to Shifty Eyes

RaoulDuke

in reply to Shifty Eyes • 1 mese fa • •

Octochodes

in reply to RaoulDuke

kieron115

in reply to RaoulDuke • 1 mese fa • •

Ayy yo

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to reddig33

HowAbt2day

in reply to reddig33 • 1 mese fa • •

8 x 3.14 ?

in reply to reddig33

kieron115

in reply to reddig33 • 1 mese fa • •

Octopods is correct and a little easier to say.

in reply to silence7

laalaa500

in reply to silence7 • 1 mese fa • •

I think this is happening to sharks too. Its not an "invasion", these animals habitats are being destroyed. They are looking for food. We are invading them. Climate change, netting and other mass food gathering methods destroying their reefs and other biomes.

LiveLM via Linux

1 mese fa • •

LiveLM
1 mese fa • •

Fry's Electronics Linux PC from 2005 - GQ3131 with Linspire

Tech Tangents takes a look at a brand new (cheapo) PC from Fry's Electronics that shipped with a "Windows clone" Linux distro called "Linspire" (previously called "Lindows").

Linux distribution

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

#linux

in reply to LiveLM

eldavi

in reply to LiveLM • 1 mese fa • •

i used to have one of these and it was the first time i went with linux fulltime.

i was an employee of fry's electronics so i got a discount with it as well. lol

EDIT: mine didn't come with speakers, but that keyboard made me feel nostalgic. and speaking of penny pinching: fry's never updated their sales/inventory system past msdos 6.22

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to eldavi

LiveLM

in reply to eldavi • 1 mese fa • •

Did you stick to Linspire? Or did you switch to someone else?

in reply to LiveLM

eldavi

in reply to LiveLM • 1 mese fa • •

I put mandrake on it and used the machine for another 6 years; one of the best buys I ever made.

in reply to LiveLM

hietsu

in reply to LiveLM • 1 mese fa • •

Can’t read ”Linspire” without this starting to play in my head, dammit:

youtu.be/IIYtKHnU4mQ

- YouTube

Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.

^youtu.be

BrikoX via United States | News & Politics

1 mese fa • •

BrikoX
1 mese fa • •

Public and Planet to 'Pay the Price' as Trump Props Up Coal With $625 Million Bailout

Trump's Department of Energy announced it is investing $625 million in the coal industry, sparking backlash from climate advocates.

Public and Planet to 'Pay the Price' as Trump Props Up Coal With $625 Million Bailout

One campaigner called it "nothing more than a wealth transfer from the American people to Trump's billionaire friends sitting atop a failing industry."

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

#USA

BrikoX via United States | News & Politics

1 mese fa • •

BrikoX
1 mese fa • •

Ex-Republican South Carolina House member admits to distributing hundreds of child sex abuse videos

Former Republican South Carolina Rep. RJ May has admitted in court to sending hundreds of videos of children being sexually abused across the country via social media

Ex-Republican South Carolina House member admits to distributing hundreds of child sex abuse videos

^{Jeffrey Collins (The Independent)}

#USA

BrikoX via Technology

1 mese fa • •

BrikoX
1 mese fa • •

Imgur is now geoblocking the UK

This includes the ability to see images embedded into other sites.

Imgur is now geoblocking the UK - RP Repository

^{RP Repository}

#technology

adhocfungus likes this.

in reply to BrikoX

P03 Locke

in reply to BrikoX • 1 mese fa • •

What the hell is this website? Why isn't this a news link?

in reply to P03 Locke

BrikoX

in reply to P03 Locke • 1 mese fa • •

I have no idea, but it was one of a few forums that reported it first before news sites even were aware of it. I posted follow-up here lemmy.zip/post/49951704

BrikoX

2025-09-30 18:44:13

Imgur blocks UK users after regulator threatens fine over child data use

Imgur is one of the world's largest image-sharing communities, originally created in 2009 by Alan Schaaf as a gift to Reddit users. The service grew into a massive platform, boasting over 60 billion memes, GIFs, and images viewed by its 150 million monthly users. Now, it has pulled out of the UK following a warning of potential fines from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). Users in the region trying to access the site are met with the error message: Content not available in your region.

Follow up to: lemmy.zip/post/49898832

the_robot_from_planet_danger [comrade/them] via memes

1 mese fa • •

the_robot_from_planet_danger [comrade/them]
1 mese fa • •

YASD #17

#memes

adhocfungus likes this.

BrikoX via Global News

1 mese fa • •

BrikoX
1 mese fa • •

Despite bomb threats, war fears, and disinformation, Moldovans still show up to reject Russia

In a country haunted by Soviet memory and threatened by Russian influence, ordinary voters chose the path toward Europe.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/kyivindepend…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Despite bomb threats, war fears, and disinformation, Moldovans still show up to reject Russia

CHIȘINĂU, Moldova — Moldova's ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) has secured just over 50% of the vote, or 55 out of 101 parliament seats, keeping the country on a European path.

^{Paula Erizanu (The Kyiv Independent)}

#globalnews

Jediwan via Linux

1 mese fa • •

Jediwan
1 mese fa • •

df showing a full (99%) ssd, but du only showing a fraction of that? UPDATED

I noticed the root drive of my home server (Debian) is at 99% capacity, which was odd to be because I don't store anything on the root ssd. sudo df -h confirms that 99% of my 256gb drive is full. But sudo du -sh * all added up, only comes to about 30gb.

This is a pc that only runs docker containers and one virtual machine for home assistant. And yes I have restarted, Any ideas as to how to find the missing 200+ gigabytes?

EDIT: sudo ncdu allowed me to find a 72gb [long string of characterless]-json.log file in /var/lib/docker/containers and many 1gb+ files in /var/lib/docker/overlay2. I'm not sure what to do with this information (or what's safe to delete) but I'm getting somewhere.

#linux

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

like this

in reply to Jediwan

lucas

in reply to Jediwan • 1 mese fa • •

Where are you running du -sh *? (I.e. what directory, are you definitely scanning the whole file system?) I'm sure it's obvious, but can never hurt to check!

What does du -sh / show? (Generally, the * glob pattern in the shell will not match hidden dot-files, so is it possible they are being excluded?)

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to lucas

Jediwan

in reply to lucas • 1 mese fa • •

EDIT sudo ncdu allowed me to find a 72gb [long string of characterless]-json.log file in /var/lib/docker/containers and many 1gb+ files in /var/lib/docker/overlay2. I'm not sure what to do with this information (or what's safe to delete) but I'm getting somewhere.

~~sudo du -sh / shows a list of three du: cannot access '/run/user/1000/gvfs' Permission denied and du: cannot access No such file or directory and a few cannot read directory invalid argument and at the end it shows 5.4T / which I assume is my root drive combined with what's in mnt.~~

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 mese fa)

in reply to Jediwan

antsu

in reply to Jediwan • 1 mese fa • •

If you're using BTRFS, check if you don't have any stray snapshots.

Fitik via BlendIT BSD Cafe - FreeBSD

1 mese fa • •

Fitik
1 mese fa • •

Insights from the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey | FreeBSD Foundation

Insights from the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey | FreeBSD... #

freebsdfoundation.org/insights…

Insights from the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey | FreeBSD Foundation

The survey also underscored the importance of growing the next generation of contributors. While experienced developers continue to share deep expertise that keeps FreeBSD strong, it’s equally important to welcome fresh perspectives.

^{FreeBSD Foundation}

Fitik likes this.

misk via Technology

1 mese fa • •

misk
1 mese fa • •

California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53

California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53 | TechCrunch

SB 53 requires large AI labs – including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind – to be transparent about safety protocols. It also ensures whistleblower protections for employees at those companies.

^{Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)}

adhocfungus likes this.

in reply to misk

BrikoX

in reply to misk • 1 mese fa • •

This is fluff. SB 243 is the real deal, which he already vetoed once.

The governor is also weighing another bill – SB 243 – that passed both the State Assembly and Senate with bipartisan support this month. The bill would regulate AI companion chatbots, requiring operators to implement safety protocols, and hold them legally accountable if their bots fail to meet those standards.

Ascrod via Technology

1 mese fa • •

Ascrod
1 mese fa • •

F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project

In a blog post, F-Droid staff say that Google's plan to force devs outside Google Play to register with the company threatens to kill alternative app stores like F-Droid.

F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project

F-Droid sees Google’s plans as a threat to FOSS apps.

^{Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)}

#technology

Fitik via Interstellar Configs

1 mese fa • •

Fitik
1 mese fa • •

[Feed] BSD-related users and communities

[Feed] BSD-related users and communities #interstellar, #feed

This feed is a collection of BSD (Kind of like an operation system) related communities and users. No communities from .ml as my instance is defederated from them. It's more of a test feed so it's pretty small.

{"interstellar":"0.10.1","type":"feed","name":"BSD","date":"2025-09-30T01:26:20.571624","payload":{"inputs":[{"name":"openbsd@lemmy.sdf.org","sourceType":"community"},{"name":"bsd@lemmy.sdf.org","sourceType":"community"},{"name":"netbsd@lemmy.sdf.org","sourceType":"community"},{"name":"bsd@programming.dev","sourceType":"community"},{"name":"freebsd@lemmy.world","sourceType":"community"},{"name":"freebsd@blendit.bsd.cafe","sourceType":"community"},{"name":"OpenBSD@fedia.io","sourceType":"community"},{"name":"eurobsdcon@exquisite.tube","sourceType":"community"},{"name":"openbsdnow@bsd.network","sourceType":"user"},{"name":"EuroBSDCon@bsd.network","sourceType":"user"},{"name":"discoverbsd@bsd.network","sourceType":"user"},{"name":"BastilleBSD@bsd.network","sourceType":"user"},{"name":"FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social","sourceType":"user"},{"name":"stefano@bsd.cafe","sourceType":"user"}]},"hash":"PG7QyQzX1x2iZPN5WdjWJQ=="}

#feed #Interstellar

Fitik likes this.

Canaconda via politics

1 mese fa • •

Canaconda
1 mese fa • •

Disney+ Has Lost 1.7 Million Subscribers Since Cancelling Jimmy Kimmel on Behalf of the Chomo in Chief.

#politics

Basic Glitch via politics

1 mese fa • •

Basic Glitch
1 mese fa • •

How the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision Legitimized Stephen Miller

Miller’s role, The Guardian notes, helps account for the shaky legal justification the administration has provided for the attacks: The Trump administration claims the president was using his authority under Article II of the Constitution, based on the notion that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is a foreign terrorist organization. This recalls Miller’s repeated assertions that TdA is “running Venezuela” in his argument for deporting Venezuelan immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act.

The revelation about Miller’s role also recalls reports that he mused about bombing unarmed immigrants in boats as an adviser in the first Trump administration.

Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security official who resigned in Trump’s first term and became a vocal critic of the president, recounted an exchange between Miller and the then-commandant of the Coast Guard—which Miller vehemently denies—in his book Blowback.

How the Supreme Court Gave Cover to Stephen Miller’s Racist Agenda

The high court basically provided conservatives the template for the war on DEI.

^{Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)}

#politics

adhocfungus likes this.

RandAlThor via Technology

1 mese fa • •

RandAlThor
1 mese fa • •

OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system | TechCrunch

This type of frictionless experience has the potential to spark a new movement in how people shop online – one that moves away from search engines like Google and e-commerce platforms like Amazon toward conversational agents with curated recommendati…

^{Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)}

#technology

in reply to RandAlThor

webghost0101

in reply to RandAlThor • 1 mese fa • •

“This type of frictionless experience has the potential to spark a new movement in”

Its like they have never used ai, these things are everything but frictionless.

The whole thing reads like an excuse to train on shopping data, promising to trow a bone to individual sellers so they wont complain as much.

giantpaper likes this.

in reply to webghost0101

lmr0x61

in reply to webghost0101 • 1 mese fa • •

Exactly. You know what is frictionless?

I type in “Amazon.com”(or any of a dozen different shopping platforms) in my browser
I use the site’s search bar to look up the item I want
I see which the suits my needs best out of the results
I click “buy now”

I’m sorry OpenAI, but there’s really no realistically better way to shop for things online.

giantpaper likes this.

in reply to lmr0x61

doctortofu

in reply to lmr0x61 • 1 mese fa • •

Are you using a time machibe to access Amazon in the past? Because for me the experience looks more like this:

I type in "amazon.com" in my browser
I use the search bar and get a bunch of sponsored results that are not what I was searching for at all and all use the same garbage photoshopped photos
I scroll through pages upon pages of irrelevant dropshipped garbage offered by companies like JHUVOY, BRILGOVA and other random letters.
I finally find something that looks like it's not a cheap knockoff
I add it to my shopping cart and click through offers for Amazon prime and offers for dropshipped garbage that I might want to add to my cart.
I proceed to payment

Sigh, I really miss the old internet, I truly do...

giantpaper likes this.

in reply to doctortofu

Kami

in reply to doctortofu • 1 mese fa • •

The package arrives and it's yet another cheap knockoff.

giantpaper likes this.

Xiko do Couto via Política

1 mese fa • •

Xiko do Couto
1 mese fa • •

Jones Manoel x Fernando Haddad: neoliberalismo e privatizações

cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/16975384

- YouTube

Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.

^youtu.be

#Politica

ferramroberto via FediLUG Italia - Gruppo Linux di discussione

1 mese fa • •

ferramroberto
1 mese fa • •

Buon Compleanno LibreOffice

LibreOffice compie 15 anni! Una suite libera, potente e comunitaria che ha rivoluzionato il modo di lavorare con i documenti. #LibreOffice #OpenSource #Linux #DocumentiLiberi #TDF

LibreOffice compie 15 anni

LibreOffice celebra il suo quindicesimo anniversario come simbolo di libertà digitale, collaborazione globale e progresso tecnologico.

^{Ferramosca Roberto (Linux Easy)}

#linux

Auster likes this.

reshared this

ferramroberto via Linux

1 mese fa • •

ferramroberto
1 mese fa • •

Buon Compleanno LibreOffice

LibreOffice compie 15 anni! Una suite libera, potente e comunitaria che ha rivoluzionato il modo di lavorare con i documenti. #LibreOffice #OpenSource #Linux #DocumentiLiberi #TDF

LibreOffice compie 15 anni

LibreOffice celebra il suo quindicesimo anniversario come simbolo di libertà digitale, collaborazione globale e progresso tecnologico.

^{Ferramosca Roberto (Linux Easy)}

#linux

like this

Dop via Privacy

1 mese fa • •

Dop
1 mese fa • •

Thoughts on stremio? And more generally, when should I worry about trackers?

Hi,

I've seen stremio pop up a few times in my feed recently and decided to give a look. It's seems like I could use it with torrentio, but my concern is that the apps comes with a few trackers, amongst which 3 facebook trackers (share, login & analytics).

I don't know much about trackers, how they work, and what I should worry about, so I mostly try to avoid them, but could someone here tell me if I should worry about these facebook trackers (I don't use fb, but since it's pretty much the Devil itself...), and maybe suggest resources on how to get informed on trackers, what they do, and when to worry about it?

Thank you for your help.

Cheers,

#privacy

like this

in reply to DeeBeeDouble

fluxx

in reply to DeeBeeDouble • 1 mese fa • •

Exactly. Which is also why I use it as well 😀

in reply to fluxx

DeeBeeDouble

in reply to fluxx • 1 mese fa • •

🥲

paequ2 via Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

1 mese fa • •

paequ2
1 mese fa • •

Upgrading video quality for non-English content?

I find myself downloading a lot of movies that are dubbed in latino Spanish. I've checked fmhy torrents, but unfortunately, there just isn't a lot of latino Spanish content available on torrents.

(Yes, there is a lot of Spanish Spanish content... but... meehhh...)

However, I have had better luck with fmhy streaming. It's not the best quality, 720p or 1080p if I'm lucky. But it's better than nothing.

I was recently wondering, how does dubbing actually work? Is there a video difference between English and Spanish movies? Or is there just literally an audio track being swapped out?

Could I take an audio track from a 720p stream and add it to a 4K torrented movie file and expect the audio and video to line up?

Non-English

International Piracy Sites

^fmhy.net

#piracy

like this

in reply to paequ2

M.int

in reply to paequ2 • 1 mese fa • •

For content from streaming platforms like Netflix, the audio and video lines up most of the time. The dub might be a bit longer at the end, but that doesn't matter; it's only the credits.

For Blu-ray and DVDs, it's a bigger problem. The audio and video lines don't usually line up: different production company logos of different lengths and maybe minor regional differences. You could probably adjust the audio delay in the video player to get a decent experience.

mpv is good video player where it is easily possible to play the video from one file and the audio from another.

mpv.io

a free, open source, and cross-platform media player

^mpv.io

in reply to paequ2

paf

in reply to paequ2 • 1 mese fa • •

You already had some good advices but something I haven't seen mentioned. If you use Kodi (and probably a couple others media player), you could use some sub plugin like open subtitle (forgot other names) to fetch subtitles on the fly when you will play video. It can be hit or miss at first, but subtitles name are like release name (title, quality, release group). So if you often encounter a release group that do your sub language. Try to download video from same release group, so you will have better chance that audio/sub sync properly.

This apart, +1 for private tracker as already mentioned, you may need some searching to find one but worth it.

spaghettiwestern via politics

1 mese fa • •

spaghettiwestern
1 mese fa • •

Checking your browser before accessing. Just a moment...

But as photos and social media posts surfaced showing Sanford in a camouflage Trump 2020 shirt that read “Make Liberals Cry Again,” and a Trump-Pence sign still visible on his front lawn just months ago, the political implications became harder to ignore.

So far, Republican leaders have said nothing.

GOP Silent as Mormon Church Gunman Identified as ‘Ultra MAGA’ Trump Supporter

As the nation reels from another devastating mass shooting—this time at a Mormon church in suburban Michigan—Republican leaders have remained notably silent following revelations that the gunman was a devoted Trump supporter who once proudly wore the…

^{Staff Writer (The Daily Boulder)}

#politics

PhilipTheBucket via World News

1 mese fa • •

PhilipTheBucket
1 mese fa • •

Hungary bans 12 Ukrainian media outlets

Hungary blocked 12 Ukrainian media outlets in response to Kyiv's earlier ban on several foreign publications over Russian narratives, Hungarian Cabinet Minister Gergely Gulyas said on Sept. 29.

Several Hungarian media outlets were among those temporarily restricted in Ukraine by an order by the State Special Communications Service on Sept. 8

According to Gulyas, Ukraine blocked the Hungarian outlets Origo and Demokrata because they "dared to write critically about the policy of sanctions against Russia, Ukraine's armed support, and portray the EU and NATO as fragmented and ineffective organizations."

Gulyas described the ban on Hungarian outlets in Ukraine as "a completely unjustified attack."

The list of 12 banned Ukrainian media outlets in Hungary includes several popular sources such as Ukrainska Pravda, European Pravda, NV, hromadske and TSN.

"With Ukraine's accession, the EU would only become more fragmented," Gulyas wrote on Facebok.

The news marks the most recent point of tension amid strained relations between Kyiv and Budapest.

Hungary is broadly seen as the most Kremlin-friendly government in the EU and NATO. The country has consistently obstructed aid to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia throughout the full-scale war.

Ukraine applied for EU membership shortly after Russia launched its war in 2022 and was granted candidate status within months.

As an EU member, Hungary has veto power over further progress.

Last week, reconnaissance drones likely belonging to Hungary had violated Ukraine's airspace along the border, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Budapest rejected the allegations.

Hungarian drones breach Ukraine's airspace, Zelensky says

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces recorded drone incursions over border areas and that preliminary assessments suggest the unmanned aircraft were "conducting reconnaissance on the industrial potential of Ukraine's border areas."

^{The Kyiv Independent news desk (The Kyiv Independent)}

⇧

SugarCatDestroyer via Memes

SugarCatDestroyer 1 mese fa • •

Read Theory, Darn it! An Introductory Reading List for Marxism-Leninism

AtomHeartMagazine via Attualità, Geopolitica e Satira

AtomHeartMagazine 1 mese fa • •

poVoq via Solarpunk technology

poVoq 1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience via UK Politics

geneva_convenience 1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience via Progressive Politics

geneva_convenience 1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience via Fuck AI

geneva_convenience 1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience via World News

geneva_convenience 1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience via World News

geneva_convenience 1 mese fa • •

Alphane Moon via Technology

Alphane Moon 1 mese fa • •

Alphane Moon via Technology

Alphane Moon 1 mese fa • •

OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone

blinfabian via Privacy

blinfabian 1 mese fa • •

- community.e.foundation/t/some-…

SugarCatDestroyer
1 mese fa • •

AtomHeartMagazine
1 mese fa • •

poVoq
1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience
1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience
1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience
1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience
1 mese fa • •

geneva_convenience
1 mese fa • •

Alphane Moon
1 mese fa • •

Alphane Moon
1 mese fa • •

blinfabian
1 mese fa • •