China’s factory activity unexpectedly contracts in November, missing estimates, private survey shows
China's factory activity unexpectedly contracts in November, missing estimates, private survey shows
The RatingDog China General Manufacturing PMI, conducted by S&P Global, dropped to 49.9 in November, missing analysts' expectations of 50.5 in a Reuters poll.Anniek Bao (CNBC)
Lightning detected on Mars by Nasa rover, scientists believe
Scientists believe they have recorded electrical activity in the Martian atmosphere for the first time, suggesting the planet is capable of lightning.
Lead author of the research Dr Baptiste Chide told news agency Reuters: "These discharges represent a major discovery, with direct implications for Martian atmospheric chemistry, climate, habitability and the future of robotic and human exploration."
Lightning detected on Mars by Nasa rover, scientists believe
Researchers heard electric crackles on 28 hours of recordings made over two Martian years.Fiona Nimoni (BBC News)
Article is good, but here's the original Nature article, as BBC News doesn't link to it.
Here's the link to the mentioned Reuters article.
Detection of triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars - Nature
The SuperCam microphone aboard the Perseverance rover captured 55 triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars over two Martian years, providing implications for examining the planet’s surface chemistry, habitability and human exploration.Nature
Best way to browse and share files between hoarders?
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Yeah, forwarding a port to a server with SFTP allows you both to have two-way links. Have done this with some of my friends as well.
Sneakernet via a HDD is also damn helpful for initial bulk transfers.
Flash drive in person.
They take what they want, you do the same. Boom both are better off.
You could set up a tunnel between the two.. a job that rsyncs a folder to the other server automatically when something is added.
Just a thought.
Surprised no one just said Samba or NFS over a tunnel (Tailscale, WireGuard, etc).
Or by “sharing” do you mean keeping files synced between the two for replication?
We use Tailscale to share between accounts.
But for large transfers I use an encrypted HDD.
GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps
Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copypartyGitHub
Yeah this right here looks exactly what I was looking for.
Been transferring files for sometime over a Wireguard connection, but it’s a bit of a pain to use so I’ve been looking for something better.
Appreciate the tip @mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com
croc is not bad:
GitHub - schollz/croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :package:
Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package: - GitHub - schollz/croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :package:GitHub
Define share?
Keep all files in sync between two points?
Enable ad-hoc access to all files, or a subset?
If you want a quick and easy way to share the odd file you could set up a syncthing shared folder and COPY things in to it that you want to share. When the other side MOVES them out of the shared folder they will be removed from the shared folder on your side.
The advantage of this is security. No access is given to your system. If your friends box is compromised you dont have an nfs mount or ssh key on their machine. The worst that can be done to you is copies in the shared folder are removed or malicious files are placed in the shared folder but they wont be able to execute.
You also dont need to open any ports for syncthing , it will use relays if it cant make a direct connection.
Meta acquires AI device startup Limitless
Meta acquires AI device startup Limitless | TechCrunch
Limitless said it shares Meta's vision of bringing personal superintelligence to everyone.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Ex-British officer tells inquiry military committed war crimes in Afghanistan
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/54104530
A former senior British officer has told a public inquiry that British special forces in Afghanistan appeared to commit war crimes by executing suspects and despite widespread knowledge in the chain of command nothing was done.
Ex-British officer tells inquiry that military committed war crimes in Afghanistan
The inquiry's aim is to ascertain whether there was credible information of extrajudicial killings. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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Indonesians pick up the pieces after floods ravage Sumatra; death toll hits 442
Indonesians pick up the pieces after floods ravage Sumatra; death toll hits 502
For some Aceh residents, this has reignited the trauma of the 2004 tsunami that killed more than 170,000 people in the province alone.CNA (Channel NewsAsia)
I will never understand how we as a society moved from normal life to scrolling TikTok while driving
Thousands march in Croatia against far-right revival and WWII revisionism
Several thousand people rallied in Croatia's capital on Sunday in an anti-fascist march protesting the rise of World War II revisionism and far-right views in the country.
Thousands march in Croatia against far-right surge and WWII revisionism
Several thousand people rallied in Croatia’s capital on Sunday, denouncing the rise of far-right nationalism and attempts to glorify the Nazi-allied Ustasha regime established during World War II. Similar marches took place in Rijeka, Pula and Zadar.FRANCE 24
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Because the slogan would be "Our Party In the middle of our street"
And whilst they have plenty of madness, they're too left to be in the middle of anything 😁
I'm glad the Greens stepped into the space to pickup the sincere left wing voters just as all this kicked off.
Asking the Self-Hosting Community to Take a Brief Three-Question Survey
Edit 2: Wow! You all have been amazing! I'm taking the survey down now because I already have more than enough responses. Thanks again!
This survey is for a Statistics course I'm taking in college and asks about your earliest computer usage and how much time you currently spend on a device. I appreciate your reading this post and will be grateful for your responses. Thank you!
Edit to add that the survey is 100% anonymous.
Computer Use Survey for College Statistics Project
Thank you for taking this quick three-question survey.s.surveyplanet.com
damn that looks like gordo and the boys made in the kill room
(halt and catch fire)
CopyParty is kind of a great file server
Imagine if you could set up an entire file server in two steps, on any device. Just download a 1Mb file, and then run it.
I know folks have mentioned it here before, but I've been running CopyParty for a month or so, and I'm extremely impressed. After setting up multiple Docker services on my home server, I almost couldn't believe how simple this was to set up and use. I had to install Python, but after that, it's just two steps. Download the file, and then run it.
It's not exactly the prettiest interface in the world, but it will turn any device that can run Python into a complete file server. The web interface will run on basically any device you can think of. It's not fancy, but it's pretty intuitive once you learn how to use it, and extremely responsive.
I've seen some discussion recently about different file servers and file syncing like Syncthing, NextCloud, etc. I'm not sure if many people know about CopyParty and use it.
It has a lot of customizable features, and can operate on all sorts of configurations. I have it set up as a remote drive on my phone and office computer. I use the web interface to preview audio files and text files. I use it to manage downloads into the designated folders I need to put them in.
It is at least as fast as any other upload or download service I've used on my home server. Usually it's even faster. It can quickly search files, including the contents of files, and automatically detect duplicates.
If I knew self-hosting could be this easy, I probably would have started even sooner. I might have even started testing on an unused cell phone I have lying around.
There are a couple gaps that have prevented me from diving all in. There's no file versioning built in. So if a file is corrupted or overridden by mistake, it can't be rolled back using copyparty. There are no dedicated apps, so things like built-in file search and indexing depend on the capabilities of the OS (you can always access the indexed search through the web interface, but that's not always the most convenient). Some of the features, like the blazing fast upload, are only available through the browser.
Like any software, it's not perfect, but it is extremely impressive and very good at what it does. Which is a lot.
GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps
Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copypartyGitHub
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I fucking love copyparty. It starts simple enough but then the millions of options and configs let you twist it into exactly what you need.
As someone that runs a server OS that doesn't support docker, it is very refreshing to see a single binary project. It has a focus on being administrator friendly thats really fallen out of fashion these days.
Had to choose a file server setup recently. Ended up with Filebrowser Quantum.
Copyparty is awesome, but it seems happiest on bare metal instead of Docker. The Docker setup and documentation, especially when adding reverse proxies and authentication (like Authentik) is just not there yet.
I’m looking forward to giving it another look in a year.
All config with docker is the same, so basically every service is kind of maintained and especially backuped the same.
Plus, config is just files. If the server is dead, copy volumes and compose files to new machines, two commands, all services up again. No difference in how to deploy some services.
hfs v2 (the old banger of an exe) is no longer being maintained and has some known unfixed vulnerabilities, however there is now a rewrite (hfs v3) which is shaping up really nicely.
should also mention that copyparty is also available as a windows exe which will run without python or any other dependencies
Copyparty was mentioned here just the other day, and I started using it this weekend. There were comments about security risks though, based on being a small project with a LOT of integrations. Not sure how safe I feel.
Docker path mapping is needed to let Copyparty show the files I want to access. I run my containers on a server next to my NAS that hosts my files; that's a little complicated.
There were comments about security risks though, based on being a small project with a LOT of integrations.
time will show, but the only thing i actively regret adding was the support for discord embeds (the "og" option); opengraph is an awfully designed concept and, unrelatedly, it has been a source of a handful of bugs in how it was implemented in copyparty (that one's on me). Keeping that disabled avoids a lot of edgecases, most of which are decreed by the opengraph spec.
That said, there's no features keeping me up at night; i think for the most part things are fine -- just don't enable the smb server 😁
The best and recommended way to connect to copyparty (either from windows, linux, or macos) is with WebDAV -- this will give you much higher performance. WebDAV is also a MUCH safer choice when connecting over the internet, since it is just https after all. Meanwhile, exposing SMB to the internet is generally a recipe for, well... nasty surprises 😀
There are also very copyparty-specific reasons to not use the SMB-server, and these are explained in the readme. That's also why the SMB-server is not possible to enable in any of the official copyparty distributions without manually obtaining the necessary dependencies for that (impacket).
I checked my setup, and webDAV is indeed what I am using. Good that they made it impossible to accidentally use an unsafe method.
Thank you for the explanation!
All i know about it is that its made by the person who uploader fukkiretta(kasane teto song) to yt.
At least for now i don't see ane reasons to abandon the good old sftp
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I hope if that happens that ICE rounds them all up. They might remember that the USA will take their resources with composition.
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If you look what happened since 2013 when he took over. He is a dictator though. Trump is actually following his playbook, but in a lighter since. Some examples.....
Electoral Fraud and Illegitimate Power
Maduro's grip on power relies fundamentally on electoral manipulation. In the July 28, 2024 presidential election, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE)—controlled by Maduro loyalists—declared he won with 51.2% of the vote despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The opposition collected 83.5% of voting tally sheets showing their candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, actually won with approximately 67% of votes compared to Maduro's 30%. The CNE refused to release disaggregated results or conduct post-election audits, and its website remains inactive. International observers, including the Carter Center and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, documented widespread fraud throughout the electoral process. The government disqualified opposition candidate María Corina Machado, obstructed voter registration for millions, imposed restrictions on opposition poll watchers, and used state resources during campaigns. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concluded it cannot recognize Maduro's re-election as democratically legitimate due to the "severe disruption to Venezuela's constitutional order".
Following the contested 2024 election, Maduro launched "Operation Tun Tun" (Operación Tun Tun), a brutal crackdown described by experts as "state terrorism". Authorities conducted door-to-door raids to detain anyone with suspected opposition ties, creating what human rights groups call a "climate of terror" intended to terrify Venezuelans into submission.According to official figures, over 2,000 people were arrested in the first month after the election, including at least 129 children. As of July 2025, 853 political prisoners remain behind bars. These detentions are characterized by systematic torture, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention without warrants. Victims reported beatings, electric shocks, suffocation, and confinement in dark, overcrowded cells. Amnesty International documented that at least 198 children have been subjected to unfair detention, torture, and abuse, with four months passing before many saw their families.A 2024 UN fact-finding mission report concluded there are "reasonable grounds to believe that the crime of persecution on political grounds has been committed". Between 2015 and 2017 alone, Venezuelan security forces carried out 8,292 extrajudicial executions, with 22% of all homicides in one year committed by state forces. The UN mission has documented that Venezuela's intelligence agencies have used sexual and gender-based violence to torture detainees since at least 2014.
You're proving OP correct by responding with orgs like Directorio Legislativo:
Directorio Legislativo is a civil society organization based in Argentina and the United States that has been working for more than fifteen years to strengthen democratic institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.Geographical area in which it works: DL has offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina and in
Washington DC, USA. We are a regional organization with projects both in Argentina and
other Latin American countries. We capture and share regulatory news and information from
the governments and legislatures 19 countries (Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela)
Directorio Legislativo
directoriolegislativo.org/en/w…
María Baron Global Executive DirectorReagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow
ned.org/fellowships/reagan-fas…
countercurrents.org/2022/05/th…
In 1991, one of the founders of NED, Allen Weinstein, stated that much of NED’s work involves doing what the CIA used to do. Some, in fact, refer to NED as the “second CIA.”
Just have to scratch the surface a little bit to see the imperialist connection here. I'd implore you to not just take the surface-level info from NGOs without understanding the interests they serve.
Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows - NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY
The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program provides support annually for a dozen or so democracy activists, practitioners, scholars and journalists from…NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY
Yeah so American Imperial fronts like OAS and Directorio Legislativo and US Imperial non profits, got it
Yeah obviously the elections were not fair, that is not what I disagree upon, just that the main US backed opposition candidate Machado will sell off Venezuela to the US empire and be quite a lot worse than Maduro.
Calling Maduro a dictator that needs to be overthrown directly benefits the US in the current tense climate, something needs to be done but Machado is certainly not the way out, just even deeper into the ground.
These agree with you? Funny because they came from my OG post. Are you saying you agree Maduro is a dictator now? Lol. Regardless, you can have a position against Trump going into the country ( I do) but still realize that the dude is dogshit for the country.
directoriolegislativo.org/en/m…
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latinoamerica21.com/en/venezue…
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The problem is thinking you can have fair elections under extreme duress from sanctions. The whole purpose of those sanctions is to destroy as much as possible the democratic aspect, as the US itself admits.
From the official Office of the Historian US Gvt website, a key document regarding the logic behind the embargo in Cuba:
The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). [...]Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate.
Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause.
The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship.
If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.
The entire point of the blockade in Cuba, and by extension Venezuela, is that the people DO support their government, and the ONLY way to make them waver in their support is to make them literally starve.
Maduro is a popularly supported leftist president that was elected democratically. Machado is a fascist that directly asked the US Empire to invade, she's supported by the wealthy compradors in Venezuela while Maduro is supported by the working classes. The odds appear to be pretty damn high that Machado would have lost against Maduro, because in general she's a deeply unpopular fascist.
Under Maduro, Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication. I'm not sure on what basis you distrust him so much, Venezuela is building socialism under Maduro from the bottom-up, and Maduro is doing his part from the top.
It's incredibly unsurprising that the US Empire is manufacturing consent to invade Venezuela, and overturn their anti-imperialist president. Outside election monitors back up the results, and indicate that the Venezuelan electoral system is far more advanced than the US. I'd trust evidence more if it came from Cuba or Nicaragua than the heart of the empire. This is on top of your vague claims of Maduro being a "monstrous dictator."
Edit: Lmao the cryptofash on MeanwhileOnGrad got upset at this
The Maduro government’s first two years
April 19 marked two years since Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the same date on which Venezuela gained independence from Spain in 1810en.granma.cu
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They're valid sources and work well. Your sources are overwhelmingly from the US Empire and NGOs they set up or otherwise have strong connections to, like Directorio Legislativo:
Directorio Legislativo is a civil society organization based in Argentina and the United States that has been working for more than fifteen years to strengthen democratic institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.Geographical area in which it works: DL has offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina and in
Washington DC, USA. We are a regional organization with projects both in Argentina and
other Latin American countries. We capture and share regulatory news and information from
the governments and legislatures 19 countries (Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela)
Popular polling does support Maduro. I wouldn't trust those that claimed the US 2020 election was fraudulent, yet these same people are also saying Maduro was fraudulent.
It’s interesting that I agree with you, here. A major difference I see between Venezuela and the USSR is that the USSR generally tried to assimilate, arrest or murder the resistant capitalist classes (ie dekulakization), while Venezuela seems to be generally exiling or marginalizing them.
It’s my understanding that Venezuela has kept its political assassinations and imprisonments low and targeted, which was not the case in the USSR.
Agree wholeheartedly.
It should be obvious to far more people that this country should get to decide it’s own destiny. We have no idea what a Chavismo…or even Castro Cuba would have looked like unmolested. It should also be obvious that what’s feared most in the west is the success of those systems.
The thing that absolutely floors me is that Trump had a Bay of Pigs…and nobody (in the mainstream) talks about it.
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Netanyahu congratulated Machado on her Nobel win and commended her efforts to promote democracy and peace.
Machado has previously pledged to move Venezuela’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem if her movement comes to power, aligning her with other Latin American leaders who have taken pro-Israel stances, including Argentina’s President Javier Milei and former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
I feel like a lot of people are missing the obvious conclusion that everyone involved here is awful.
Maduro? Brutal dictator.
His domestic opposition? Violent fascists.
His international opposition? Absolute war criminals.
It's really sad. My primary opinion is that the US needs to leave Venezuela the fuck alone. If you want democracy in Venezuela, you can't get it through sanctioning the population into starvation if they don't vote the way Chevron tells them to. Did Maduro steal an election? Yes! But his opposition at home and abroad isn't mad that it wasn't fair: they're mad because they think it's bullshit for him to steal it after they stole it first!
Get the fuck out and let them actually decide what they want. The US is the clearly the greatest villain in a story with no obvious good guys.
The problem is that all of the "evidence" for Maduro cheating comes from the same people that said the US 2020 election was rigged, and are using it as ammo for regime change. Machado and the like are fascists that are trying to topple a democratically elected socialist, just like Pinochet with Allende.
Under Maduro, Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication. I'm not sure on what basis you distrust him so much, Venezuela is building socialism under Maduro from the bottom-up, and Maduro is doing his part from the top.
Maduro is no dictator just like Allende wasn't.
The Maduro government’s first two years
April 19 marked two years since Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the same date on which Venezuela gained independence from Spain in 1810en.granma.cu
Troll, bot, russian, terrorist
Liberal ideology is very good at coming up with thought-terminating epithets that allow the user to avoid thinking about what other people have to say. After all, a religious devotion to avoiding non-sanctioned narratives is the only way it can protect itself. It sure as hell can't compete in the "marketplace of ideas".
Yes. Under Maduro, Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication. I'm not sure on what basis you distrust him so much, Venezuela is building socialism under Maduro from the bottom-up, and Maduro is doing his part from the top.
Edit: Lmao, you made a post on the cryptofash circlejerk about this, calling it "open fascism" to support a socialist leader against imperialist aggression. Do your buddies know that you defend slur usage, or is that something they agree with?
The Maduro government’s first two years
April 19 marked two years since Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the same date on which Venezuela gained independence from Spain in 1810en.granma.cu
Slurs are socially constructed; opposing its use affirms its existence. I'm saying there's no point in opposing it because that's not how you get actual social change! The slur use exists insofar as oppression exists. The slur CAN'T exist without oppression. What you're promoting is literal idealism that Engels critiqued.there's a large difference between marginalized groups disempowering the word and non-marginalized groups perpetuating its power.
There is something deeply racist about the idea that the only thing a white person can do by choosing to disregard a social construct is perpetuate oppression—and further that there be no nuance on the matter.
Maduro cheating comes from the same people that said the US 2020 election was rigged
Do you have a source for that? Because from what I can tell, the exact opposite is true, and the sources for these two claims are generally opposed to each other.
Maduro’s grip on power relies fundamentally on electoral manipulation.
All the "Maduro cheated to win the election" stuff comes from the same people insisting Biden cheated to win in 2020 and Obama cheated in 2008.
Following the contested 2024 election, Maduro launched “Operation Tun Tun” (Operación Tun Tun), a brutal crackdown described by experts as “state terrorism”.
Were these experts affiliated with Elliot Abrams?
described by experts as “state terrorism”.
“Experts” from the imperial core.
creating what human rights groups call a “climate of terror
Imperial core human rights groups. “Always the same map” human rights groups. Citations Needed podcast: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex
intended to terrify Venezuelans into submission.
Which Venezuelans? The poor or the wealthy? The working class or the capitalist class?
Citations Needed: Episode 08: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex
We discuss the cynical use of "human rights" to advance US interests with guest Glenn Greenwald. The conceit that the U.S.citationsneeded.libsyn.com
It's disappointing that for years the up/downvote rhetoric has been for what really adds to the conversation and I find this reply more according to the reality from the PV of someone that is not Venezuelan but has roots and friends there but most importantly that we're not part of the meme, just average people that don't wish for anyone what means to live there as the average or below.
I do remember when I was a child and had the joy of go to Venezuela and to have fun on vacations, now I it's not joy but the feeling of accomplish humanitarian labor and donations to average and poor Venezuelans that at first supported the socialism that Chávez sold them and later Maduro, Cabello and others continue in a nonsense of left political system.
If someone downvote replies citing sources from the Venezuelan diaspora, let me remind you that that diaspora is not 100% from the people of this post meme but real Venezuelans that have left/lost almost everything because of really bad politics and actions of Chávez, Maduro and others that surprise: the last presidential election didn't got official acts published.
Socialists who fight fascists are the real fascists. Only people who call themselves socialists while repeating war department propaganda as the US blows up fishermen every day are the real socialists.
Get a grip lmao
You say while defending Batista-esque dictatorships having nothing to do with socialism.
Ok CIA
Very funny from someone demonizing socialists, complaining of left-wing bias and dismissing sources that support left-wing views, and defended slur usage, even calling me an "idealist" for saying we shouldn't use slurs. You can think yourself a socialist, but your actions are consistently against socialists and socialism.
Slurs are socially constructed; opposing its use affirms its existence. I'm saying there's no point in opposing it because that's not how you get actual social change! The slur use exists insofar as oppression exists. The slur CAN'T exist without oppression. What you're promoting is literal idealism that Engels critiqued.there's a large difference between marginalized groups disempowering the word and non-marginalized groups perpetuating its power.
There is something deeply racist about the idea that the only thing a white person can do by choosing to disregard a social construct is perpetuate oppression—and further that there be no nuance on the matter.
I'm a leftist. And your arguments are troll arguments.
Once again, i don't feed trolls
None of my arguments are troll arguments, you haven't explained what you mean by that. I'm clearly genuine, I wouldn't put nearly this much effort into studying theory and the admittedly light organizing work I do in real life just to troll. You can believe that you're a leftist, but you're extremely bad at being one if you dismiss leftist sources as "too biased" and do things like parrot US Empire talking points on socialist leaders. You help manufacture consent for invasion, with no evidence of your own for your absurd claims likening Maduro to Batista.
Do some self-crit if you genuinely think yourself a leftist. Join an org, read theory, touch grass, stop parroting imperial talking points.
He is an authoritarien and the country went to shit.
Venezuela is not a nice place to live in.
Maduro is a corrupt dictator, trump aswell and the current opposition to maduro most likely will just be an authoritarian and fascist pupped goverment that will act in the USAs interest. So yeah multible things can be true at once, just because a nation is opposed to the american empire does not mean that it is automaticallly good.
Its quite sad to see that some terminally online leftist just automaticly replace siding with the imperialist systems that there born into( USA, EU Australia etc.) And just replace that with other imperial powers like russia and china.
Like why?? How about not bootlicking authoritarians?
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Under Maduro, Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication. I'm not sure on what basis you distrust him so much, Venezuela is building socialism under Maduro from the bottom-up, and Maduro is doing his part from the top.
Venezuela is a developing country, that is developing despite the US Empire's best efforts. It is regularly improving, which is why the working classes support Maduro.
Russia isn't imperialist, it has no colonies nor neocolonies, and a tiny amount of global financial capital. China isn't imperialist either, it's a socialist country wituout any financial domination of the state or economy. There's no mechanisms pushing for imperialism within China, and this manifests in regular south-south trade leading to development of global south countries when trading with China, unlike the unequal exchange of trade with the west where the west charges monopoly prices for tech and places compradors in power to prevent industrial development.
Multiple things are true, correct. This isn't the grand own you think it is, though. You're passively parroting imperialist narratives.
The Maduro government’s first two years
April 19 marked two years since Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the same date on which Venezuela gained independence from Spain in 1810en.granma.cu
Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing”
I’ve become very skeptical of the concept of “brainwashing.” Over the past few months this skepticism has boiled over into open and explicit disagreement with even well-meaning pushers within the Marxist-Leninist corner.redsails.org
Russia isn't imperialist
Why do you think they're invading Ukraine. Sparkles and rainbows?
You’re talking about simple conquest. By that definition any offensive side in a war is imperialist, which is nonsensical as that means nearly every war in human history involved at least one “imperialist” power.
Imperialism is system of establishing and maintaining hegemony over large areas for the benefit of an elite (capital in modern times, patricians in ancient times, etc) within a metropole (probably too simple of a definition but it works). The Romans were an empire not just because they had an emperor and not because they conquered lands, but because they controlled lands from Spain to Syria and wealth flowed from those lands into Rome.
The Marxist definition of imperialism is more specific than just "big country invade small country".
In, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism Lenin lays out five aspects of what makes Imperialism:
- the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life;
- the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy;
- the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;
- the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and
- the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed. Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.
The question of "Is Russia Imperialist" isn't a moral one, it's a technical one. So if Russia were do to something that we all agree is morally reprehensible, that's a separate concern from whether Russia is imperialist.
The technicality revolves around whether Russia has developed an oligarchy of Financial Capital, such that its invasion of Ukraine or other flexes of its influence, perpetuates the export of Russian finance capital around the world.
As it stands now, I don't think that's currently the case, but with Marxism being a dialectal philosophy, I do wonder if this war will accelerate that merging of Bank and industrial capital that Lenin discusses. It's a Bourgeois states, and there's financial capital in there somewhere that absolutely has an interest in forming a Russian imperialism.
So when people say "Russia isn't Imperialist", this is what's being referred to. You can take it or leave it, but it's worth getting into the weeds a bit, so we aren't all talking passed each other
aggression with an expansionist agenda.
especially by a country and especially unprovoked.
Economically or militarily.
D-day wouldn't be included because the goal wasn't expansion. Though I would be very surprised if the usa and Europe hadn't perpetrated many acts that should be included during the full course of the war.
And of course you can get into the argument of cultural imperialism as well
For sure, but there are a few problems with that definition. The first is that it doesn't apply to the Russian intervention in Ukraine that started this conversation, which is neither unprovoked nor being done to expand Russian territory.
The second is that it only includes atate actions meant to take territory in an official capacity, while many imperialist actions have been carried out under the auspices of private companies like Haliburton, Dole, the United Fruit Company, and the Dutch East India Company.
The third is that we already have the term Expansionist, which is perfectly fine and general enough for both capitalist and non-capitalist actions, while Imperialism describes a specific dynamic that arises from specifically capitalist causes.
The second is that it only includes atate actions meant to take territory in an official capacity, while many imperialist actions have been carried out under the auspices of private companies like Haliburton, Dole, the United Fruit Company, and the Dutch East India Company.
For the record, my stated definition does not limit it. When "especially" is used in definitions, it's not stated as a limiter but rather to show it primarily applies to as such.
which is neither unprovoked nor being done to expand Russian territory
This is a fundamental disagreement. Especially in regards to saying it's not to expand their territory as a goal.
One interesting thing I find with lemmy. Is equating ownership existing with capitalism. Presumably because that's how it's portrayed in communist literature.
Then it's not part of the definition? That's like saying the definition of "apple" is "a fruit from a tree, especially a fruit with simple uniform flesh and a thin skin" and then when I say this orange is not an apple you say "I said especially so it doesn't really count"
So your definition is now simply military invasion.
D-day wouldn’t be included because the goal wasn’t expansion.
Wasn't it? They intended to take German territory to expand France, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc.
Marxist does not get to exclusively define what imperialism is
Marxism isn't the only analytical lens out there, no. But the people you're arguing with are working with that definition, which is why I took the time to clarify. Thank you for appreciating my effort post though lol
The general Marxist take is that when Yanukovych was offered an IMF loan that required austerity policies and privatization of safety nets, and a Russian loan that did not come with the same restrictions, he went with the Russian loan and was couped for it, including a western-supported Banderite false-flag shooting. Following the western-supported coup, the areas in the Donbass region seceded, as they supported Yanukovych, are culturally and ethnically Russian, and were unhappy with the Banderites taking over the government under the cover of "democracy." Said Banderites were also legally suppressing the Russian language in the Donbass region.
What ensued was a decade of fighting, 2 failed Minsk agreements that Kiev broke and admitted to never wanting to follow, and massive risk of NATO on Russia's doorstep. The Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics requested Russian assistance, and Russia complied, sparking the next stage of the war.
Russia purely wants the Donbass region and NATO neutrality. They want the Donbass region not out of the kindness of their hearts, nor for plunder or further expansion, but because it's a land bridge straight to Russia, the same route the Nazis took in World War II. NATO was building up because the West uses their millitary to threaten countries into opening up their economies to foreign plunder (like what's happening right now in Venezuela), a tradition employed since NATO was founded, destroyed Yugoslavia and Libya, etc.
This is the common Marxist take, shared largely by PSL's statement and FRSO's statement. Essentially, the war is tragic, should end as quickly as possible, and was provoked by the west.
Resolution Against the U.S./NATO-Provoked War in Ukraine - Freedom Road Socialist Organization | FRSO
This resolution was adopted at Freedom Road Socialist Organization's 9th Congress in spring 2022.andy (Freedom Road Socialist Organization | FRSO)
NATO expansion:
- George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
- Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
- Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
- Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
- Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine
NATO in general:
- The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
- CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
- Noam Chomsky, 2023:
- Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
- Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discreetly Internationalized It - CounterPunch.org
When the United States entered WWII, the future head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, bemoaned that his country was fighting the wrong enemy.Gabriel Rockhill (CounterPunch.org)
NATO is the millitary alliance of the world's imperialist powers. This group of countries uses this alliance to prevent the global south from going against it and liberating themselved from foreign plunder via overwhelming financial domination. The way imperialism tends to work in the modern day is countries like the US, France, Germany, UK, etc expropriate vast wealth from countries in the global south, similar to how capitalists steal value created by the working class.
NATO is as "defensive" as the Iron Dome in Israel. These countries export genocide and terrorism on the third world, expropriate huge sums of wealth, and then "defend" against anyone that pushes back against that.
Yeah man ask Libya and Yugoslavia how defended they feel
Nato is a defensive alliance just like cops are there to help you
Projecting the actual ethnic cleansing done by the Ukranian coup government onto the Russians who stopped it
Many such cases!
Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication
I think this really needs to be stressed. Venezuela is a country building Socialism. Maduro and the PSUV is in power because of a genuinely incredible mass movement of communes, neighborhood committees, and other organs of grassroots democracy. This is qualitatively different from say, any of the Gulf oil monarchies
I highly recommend the books Building The Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela, and Commune or Nothing: Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project, for a look at these aspects of Venezuelan politics, because it's often papered over in discussions about the country.
Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela (Jacobin) - Anna’s Archive
George Ciccariello-Maher [Ciccariello-Maher, George] A Journey Through Venezuela's Experiments In Radical Democracy, After The Age Of Chavez. Since 2011, Verso Booksannas-archive.org
Russia isn't imperialist, it has no colonies nor neocolonies
Yeah, tell that to Crimea, the Donbas, or even Siberia or the puppet states like Belarus, Georgia and Moldova. Russian neo-colonialism is all over Africa.
China isn't imperialist either, it's a socialist country wituout any financial domination of the state or economy.
China is a kinder imperialist, but they are using largely the same playbook that the west used in Africa, including debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty and regulation, and undermining labor movements.
They also have a mix of socialism and capitalism, sometimes getting the best of both, and sometimes the worst. They definitely dominate the state economy through control of banking and the use of capital controls to direct funding to national priorities. The current real estate crisis and "ghost cities" are a pretty obvious example.
Russia isn’t imperialist, it has no colonies nor neocoloniesYeah, tell that to Crimea, the Donbas
Are you kidding me? The people in Crimea and the Donbas wanted to join Russia, to protect them from Ukraine, which had been killing them since 2014.
- Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
- Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: | transcript
- Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
- Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
- Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
- Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
- NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
China is a kinder imperialist, but they are using largely the same playbook that the west used in Africa, including debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty and regulation, and undermining labor movements.
The Atlantic, 2021: The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth
What is China doing to undermine local sovereignty or labor movements in Africa?
The current real estate crisis
What “current” real estate crisis? The Chinese state intentionally popped the real estate bubble over a year ago, making the capitalists eat their losses.
- Reuters: China Evergrande ordered to liquidate in landmark moment for crisis-hit sector
- Bloomberg: China Reiterates Stance That Homes Are Not for Speculation
- CNBC: China’s housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary
>“We will scale up the building and supply of government-subsidized housing and improve the basic systems for commodity housing to meet people’s essential need for a home to live in and their different demands for better housing,” an English-language version of the report said.
Compare that to Obama, who bailed out the private banks at the expense of people with home mortgages, banks that knowingly wrote those bad mortgages. Michael Hudson, 2023: Why the Bank Crisis isn’t Over
The financial sector is the core of Democratic Party support, and the party leadership is loyal to its supporters. As President Obama told the bankers who worried that he might follow through on his campaign promises to write down mortgage debts to realistic market valuations in order to enable exploited junk-mortgage clients to remain in their homes, “I’m the only one between you [the bankers visiting the White House] and the mob with the pitchforks,” that is, his characterization of voters who believed his “hope and change” patter talk.“ghost cities” are a pretty obvious example.
Reuters, 2015: The myth of China’s ghost cities
Wherever you’re getting your information from, it’s dogshit.
Why the Bank Crisis isn't Over - CounterPunch.org
President Biden has done everything that he could to confuse the public as to what is happening. His Monday speech assured voters that the SVB “rescue” was not a bailout. But of course it was a bailout.Michael Hudson (CounterPunch.org)
I see you have your cut and paste propaganda all ready to go there.
The people in Crimea and the Donbas wanted to join Russia, to protect them from Ukraine,
Sounds an awful lot like claiming Iraqis wanted the US to overthrow Sadam and would welcome it with open arms. It worked out about the same too, except for the Russian military embarrassing themselves. Even taken at face value, all you are doing is justifying the imperialism, not showing it doesn't exist.
China is the biggest debt holder nation in the world. Zambia just had to default on loans for infrastructure that largely served Chinese needs, and Kenya and Ethiopia are not far behind. Meanwhile, the DRC is falling into debt paying for infrastructure to ship Copper and Cobalt to Chinese. China has not been as abusive as the west was, but they aren't that much better either. It's still the same tactics.
New Labor Forum: Chinese Investments in Africa: Twenty-First Century Colonialism?
Chinese Investments in Africa: Twenty-First Century Colonialism?
China’s increasing presence in Africa has been the topic of many studies and publications in recent years. How Chinese businesses and investments on the continent impact African labor movements has, however, received little attention.Herbert Jauch (New Labor Forum)
I see you have your cut and paste propaganda all ready to go there.
Oh yeah, famous Chinese propaganda outlet: The Atlantic.
Fuck off; you're just using the word "propaganda" to mean "anything I disagree with. There is nothing that anyone could say to you to disagree that you wouldn't immediately say "that's propaganda and therefore wrong!" to.
It worked out about the same too
Are you stupid? Iraq immediately erupted into long term insurgency, a thing that categorically did not happen in Crimea or Donbas.
Evidence for that? Ukraine government - the same who sold the Ghost of Kiev, Russia collecting Ukrainian children like Pokemon, the Martyrs of Snake Island, the secessionists shelling themselves, Russia shelling itself, russian troops shelling themselves, russian timetravel technology deployed in Bucha and much more.
Is getting your intelligence insulted your kink or something?
including debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty and regulation, and undermining labor movements.
Notice how you have these facts in your brain that you're sure are true but can't actually identify why you think they're true? That's what being propagandized feels like.
Crimea and the people of the Donbass region both voted to join Russia. In fact, the Donetsk and Luhanks People's Republics, the ones being ethnically cleansed by the far-right Banderites in Kiev that have been in power since the 2014 western-backed Euromaidan coup, specifically requested assistance from Russia in 2022. Belarus and Georgia having close economic ties is not the same as imperialism. You also have no evidence of neocolonialism, trade with Russia is closer to south-south trade as it doesn't have a monopoly on the goods it exports like gas and nuclear power plants, and as such African countries are developing more via trade with Russia and China while being underdeveloped by the west.
China is a socialist country. They have markets, but that doesn't mean they have a "mix" of capitalism and socialism. Public ownership is the principle aspect of their economy, and the state is under the control of the working classes. There is no "real estate crisis," housing prices were kept low and no longer able to be used as an investment vehicle. The "ghost cities" are smart urban development, and most are habited after being developed. This kind of thinking ahead is possible because of socialism.
You also have no evidence of "debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty," or "undermining labor movements." China regularly forgives loans, doesn't requore privatization of publicly owned industry or force austerity like the IMF does, and has been doing huge work in developing and building up the global south with more south-south trade.
What's going on here is it's absolutely unacceptable for you to admit that the west is the worst, by far, out of that trio. China is genuinely a progressive state with mass popular support internally and internationally, governed by a communist party. Russia is seeing rising support for socialism internally, and is higher up on the list of candidates for new socialist countried because of it. The west is the indisuputed world empire, helmed by the US, and this empire is projecting hard onto other countries as it exports genocide and plunders the world on its way out.
You also have no evidence of “debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty,” or “undermining labor movements.”
Their evidence is that the TV told them this many times over years, enough times that it’s true.
Tell us what a non-authoritarian leader of Venezuela would look like to you and how they would resist the constant pressure and hostile actions of the US government, because it seems to me that leftist leaders are always denounced as authoritarian by North American and European based NGOs and governments.
The only way to avoid being labelled as authoritarian is to be friendly to the imperial core countries, i.e. being capitalist.
The question is whether government/people should get $60/barrel revenue before expenses, maybe $40/barrel after expenses, or $10/barrel but pump 5-10x as much, bribed to be loyal to US. Long term, obviously no corruption and high revenue/profit per barrel has its advantages. It's not as though Exxon/Chevron can't get access to Venezuela oil with fair deals, it's that pretending corrupt puppets are the legitimate leaders provides extortion oil costs.
When you understand the hoops the US government is willing to jump through to get cheap foreign oil, you should understand that similar policies are used to deprive Americans of their fair share of resource revenue.
Just and free while being secure: "authoritarian"
Unjust and unfree while being insecure and overrun by bears: Libertarian
Venezuela has had US antagonistic covert ops operating in country since at least 2007. That's almost 2 decades of needing to find the US spies and their allies to prevent sabotage, coups, false flags, etc.
That's just the military aspect. They've also been under worsening sanctions for almost as long, which has been driven by the US strategy to starve the masses so that they revolt. This processes causes increased desperation among the people, which increases crime rates.
All of these things require the use of authority and as they get worse require more invasive and obvious uses of authority. It's hard enough to find spies, it's even harder to find spies and neutaize them without ripping the US off as to how you're finding them, going even further and finding spies without ever being wrong is nigh impossible.
They were absolutely free, compared to the horrible brutality of prior systems and the vast expansions in democratization and social welfare.
As for the USSR, the 1930s famine was tragic, but was the last major famine outside of war time. After collectivization of agriculture, yields were greater and more stable, and the bourgeois kulak system was practically abolished. Adverse weather conditions, crop disease, and kulaks violently resisting collectivization were the causes of the famine, and replacing that system with a more effective one ended famine.
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What are your real-world examples—bourgeois “democracies”? If it’s so easy, why hasn’t it happened?
The pure socialists’ ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.The pure socialists had a vision of a new society that would create and be created by new people, a society so transformed in its fundaments as to leave little opportunity for wrongful acts, corruption, and criminal abuses of state power. There would be no bureaucracy or self-interested coteries, no ruthless conflicts or hurtful decisions. When the reality proves different and more difficult, some on the Left proceed to condemn the real thing and announce that they “feel betrayed” by this or that revolution.
The pure socialists see socialism as an ideal that was tarnished by communist venality, duplicity, and power cravings. The pure socialists oppose the Soviet model but offer little evidence to demonstrate that other paths could have been taken, that other models of socialism — not created from one’s imagination but developed through actual historical experience — could have taken hold and worked better. Was an open, pluralistic, democratic socialism actually possible at this historic juncture? The historical evidence would suggest it was not.
Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency — which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution. Ideally, it would be a fine thing to have only local, self-directed, worker participation, with minimal bureaucracy, police, and military. This probably would be the development of socialism, were socialism ever allowed to develop unhindered by counterrevolutionary subversion and attack.
One might recall how, in 1918-20, fourteen capitalist nations, including the United States, invaded Soviet Russia in a bloody but unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the revolutionary Bolshevik government.
"Bourgeois Democracy": What Do Marxists Mean By This Term?
By Scott Cooper Republished from Left Voice . In 1947, Winston Churchill famously said that “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.Scott Cooper (Hampton Institute)
It's absolutely possible to remain just and free while being secure. Skill issue.
Maybe read it again?
Those being anarchists, not socialists. There have been shitloads of anarchist communes working perfectly, until some external force fucks them up or reclaims the land or whatever.
I asked specifically for socialist ones.
The Russian RSFR, the Paris Commune, The Bavarian soviet Republic, The Rhine Soviet Republic, The Hungarian Socialist Republic, socialist Cuba, socialist Vietnam, socialist Laos...
Turns out you don't knwo what you're talking about! All of them were immediately invaded, their opposition showered in material support and sanctioned to hell and back.
Tell us what a non-authoritarian leader of Venezuela would look like
Presumably they would look not-authoritarian, a description that doesn't fit Maduro at all.
It could well be that, in the face of US policy regarding Venezuela, only an Authoritarian could hold onto the country. That still doesn't make Maduro not an Authoritarian.
it seems to me that leftist leaders are always denounced as authoritarian by North American and European based NGOs and governments.
That's a fair observation but, again, that doesn't mean they are wrong when they say it about Maduro. Maduro is referred to as dictator by Human Rights Watch, the Organization of American States, and other human rights organizations, including some inside Venezuela.
Maduro is a dictator. It's largely the fault of the US that Venezuela has a dictator. If the US succeeds in ousting Maduro, it will almost certainly replace him with an even worse Dictator. All of that can be true with no contradictions.
Presumably they would look not-authoritarian
And what does that even look like? Something like Allende, I'm guessing.
Human Rights Watch
The liberal Zionist western propaganda outlet?
This is a vicious cycle of falling back to dictatorship to avoid imperialism, or some of it.
A) The country opens up and holds free elections, leading to an American puppet winning and the country turning into a vassal state at best, a glorified colony at worst.
B) The country turns into a dictatorship to limit foreign influence and fight back against imperialism, becoming a similarly terrible place to live, but at least without giving anything to the empire. Also note that as time passes, it's quite likely that the dictatorship will forget why it was even created, i.e. it will no longer be about rejecting imperialism.
There are often the only two realistic scenarios for countries targetted by the American Empire. Both are bad and I'm not sure I feel like analyzing which one is slightly less bad for the average person.
Chavez in his first few months/year of being in office would be a good example of a non-authoritarian in that role.
My problem with Maduro and many of those in the post early days of Chavez taking over is that far too many seem to have a tremendous amount of money that they cannot explain how they came across legally. Executives at PVDSA, the state run petroleum company, seem to be extremely vulnerable to this corruption.
You can make the case that dictatorships/authoritarian structures are needed to protect a socialist revolution, which Im not sure I entirely agree with, without supporting the theft of state resources by people in the government.
Its quite sad to see that some terminally online leftist just automaticly replace siding with the imperialist systems that there born into
That's not what we’re doing; that’s what intellectually incurious imperial core labor aristocrats think we’re doing.
How about not bootlicking authoritarians?
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Yes he’s certainly an authoritarian. Authoritarian doesn’t automatically mean bad…there’s such a thing as the concept of a benevolent dictator.
What evidence do you have that “the country went to shit” or “Venezuela is not a nice place to live in” or that he’s a “corrupt dictator”?
This original post, presumably, attempts to scratch slightly beneath the surface of what we hear on the news and suggest that your above statements only apply to a certain “deserving” class.
I don’t actually know a lot about Venezuela, and I’m asking these questions in earnest. I started to ask questions a lot earlier, but certainly looking into Maria Machado (this years Nobel Peace Prize winner) made some alarm bells go off. Could it be that the narrative is controlled by Machado and her neoliberal/right wing ilk, and she actually represents a large minority class of people that was purged/displaced in Venezuela?
I’m still investigating.
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We also get it from Maduro and the rest of the Chavanistas: his party rules by supreme power and decree. The way his party allocates power as a matter of internal affairs, may be another story.
Please, let’s not talk in absolutes. This notion that any and all narratives that you deem negative are part of a grand conspiracy just isn’t true.
I implied in my original reply that I believe Maduro may be benevolent, along the lines of Castro. I don’t really have a problem with dictators…the problem with dictators is they’re usually fascists. That isn’t the case in Venezuela.
his party rules by supreme power and decree.
Again, how do you know this, and why are you so certain that this is a fair characterization? Have you read or listened to Maduro’s speeches or read Chavismo literature? Did you ask working class Venezuelans they consider these “decrees” to be extra-legal are or whether they are popular among them? Or did it come from Five Eyes sources, their telling of events?
the problem with dictators is they’re usually fascists.
In the modern era, dictators dictate with the consent of the bourgeoisie. And yes, that is fascism. In stark contrast, the Maduro government is a thorn in the side of both the indigenous bourgeoisie and the foreign imperialist bourgeoisie.
Yes I have listened to his speeches and read his lefislation…that’s why I’m saying what I’m saying.
You’re citisizing things I didn’t say…I know Maduro is popular there. I don’t know how else to say it: I believe he has the best interests of the working class in mind.
There's a concept true. Just not an example. Technically it's possible for sub atomic particles in deep space to randomly coaless as a Ruben sandwich. But you're far more likely to see the evaporation of a super massive black hole.
Power corrupts. And sometimes there really is no point to arguing which shitty person is slightly less shitty than the other shitty person. The only true answer is not play, and that there shouldn't be such positions of power. Anything else is calvinball.
You'll notice that there are no real arguments that he isn't a authoritarian/dictator. Just justification that certain people identify with him, so it's okay. Or that because one cringe group of privileged people criticize him. All criticism against him is from similar cringe groups of people. The meme in a nutshell. A non sequitur.
Maduro absolutely is an authoritarian. As is Trump. I don't agree with either one of them. But Trump absolutely means to fuck all the way off when it comes to continuing to meddle in South America. Argentina and Venezuela have enough problems of their own. They don't need ours.
What makes Maduro an dictator? He's popularly supported, was democratically elected, and is setting up participatory systems in the economy. I can agree that he's "authoritarian" against capitalists and fascists, but that's absolutely a good use of authority.
Secondly, there's no evidence to the notion that "power corrupts," just correlation. In systems like capitalism, corrupt leaders are pushed upwards because that's profitable, it wasn't the power that corrupted them but a system that selects for corruption.
Tell the cryptofash on MeanwhileOnGrad that they're a hoot, btw.
- They have a “tankie”-punching community, but we’re the brigaders?
- That comm is way more censorious than we’ve ever been. Wrongthink is an instant permaban.
Your position is there has never been a benevolent leader? Power corrupts universally and equally? That’s nuts, quite frankly.
It’s absurd to suggest that Trump and Maduro are equivalent. They’re not equal in a single way, even if you believe they’re both bad.
It isn't groundbreaking to say that people can be corrupt to different degrees. What you failed to do is provide any meaningful explanation for why you believe Maduro to be corrupt, authoritarian, a dictator, etc. We gave ample evidence pointing to his popular support, the robust system of democracy in Venezuela, the rising commune movement and participatory economy, etc, while you called us bad-faith.
To me, it looks like you think yourself above having to back up your claims and as outside of the conversation looking in, rather than actually communicating with us. This is compounded by your commenting both here and on the MWoG threads, a known cryptofash gathering spot. Is this behavior of yours "good faith" in your eyes?
“Calling out Trump” is clearly a rhetorical tactic to distract from your incorrect assessment of Maduro. It should be noted that you’re aligned with Trump when you say that, and it should give you pause.
You don’t seem to remember your own comment. You used the most extreme straw man, adorned with sarcasm, to asses Maduro…there was no reality in your reply.
Meh, the fact that you think you’re talking to liberals is pretty amusing. Why defend an argument when you can attack the messenger, right?
Power corrupts.
A meaningless platitude; as baseless as saying that lightning never strikes the same place twice. Liberals just think it's true because they've created a system where people who were already corrupt gain power.
The only true answer is not play,
Yeah man, people should just "not play" real life. Fuck me, Western liberals really are the most privileged fuckers: all just a game to them.
You’ll notice that there are no real arguments that he isn’t a authoritarian/dictator.
???.
Other than the arguments people are making that he was democratically elected. Those are objectively arguments, regardless of your feelings on them.
Maduro absolutely is an authoritarian
Name one country that is oppositional to the West that you don't "consider" authoritarian.
Venezuela is not a nice place to live in.
Hmm, I wonder why? 🤔
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Report: U.S. Sanctions Have Killed 40,000 in Venezuela Since 2017
More than 40,000 people have died in Venezuela since 2017 as a result of U.S. sanctions. That’s the conclusion of a new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the economist Jeffrey Sachs. The report examines how U.S.Democracy Now!
The country went to shit before Chavez died as a result of many backing away from trade as a result of US demands as well as a slew of bad policy choices that turned them from a food exporting nation to one that imported food which collapsed the economy. Chavez and Maduro instituted price controls which have harmed the agricultural economy significantly which further harmed things.
That being said while their results were bad their intentions were good which is not going to be true of whatever puppet government the USA would install.
The fact is price controls are terrible policy and have never worked because we cannot predict the future needs of the market. Unless we magically get vastly better AI that runs the entire economy it is unlikely price controls will ever work so when Chavez instituted them it lead to a collapse of the agriculture sector leading to hunger issues.
Some of the economic problems were self created because many leftists have zero formal economic backgrounds and thus have trouble separating reasons for factual historical failures of specific leftist policies, like price controls or rent control being extremely problematic historically speaking, vs what is merely capitalist propaganda eg "capitalism is the only system that works" which isn't true historically speaking.
Some of the economic problems were self created because many leftists have zero formal economic backgrounds
That may well be, but at the same time, most economists in the world have a garbage education in neoclassical economics and carry neoliberal brain worms.
The system was created and developed by rich folks to ensure that rich folks continued to accumulate more and more wealth. Economists seem to me to be just working backwards from that point without ever mentioning it.
We had a middle class when taxes on the wealthy were 50-90 percent. Unless we bring that back, the ‘economy’ is bullshit.
Referring to the USA of course.
But Venezuela’s economy collapse was caused mainly by US foreign policy. It may have been exacerbated by Maduro’s or Chavez’s policy, but the US was the cause.
We had a middle class when taxes on the wealthy were 50-90 percent. Unless we bring that back, the ‘economy’ is bullshit.
If you were white and male it was a good deal for one generation. That was an anomalous moment in world history that will never come again. The US was the only major power in the world that didn’t have its productive capacity blown to smithereens in WWII, unions were comparatively strong, and the USSR posed a serious ideological threat to capitalism which caused the bourgeoisie to give (temporary) concessions.
Yes, of course there was systemic racism and women couldn’t even have personal checking accounts without approval from a male….
I’m just saying that unless taxes go up to 90% on folks making over a couple million dollars a year then we’ll never get there again.
I wouldn’t want to “go back” to it. But we do know that the 90% tax on the wealthy is a viable plan to fund the social services and needs of the people. And we also know that it needs to happen.
Edit: I hope it’s clear I was not advocating for something or anything like a return to 1950’s values lol
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Yeah, I have a friend who lives in Venezuela, he and his family can barely afford to eat, and I mean barely. Beans everyday and nothing else for years. I tried to send him some computer parts and it was going to be over 5 grand to send them, so I couldn't afford that, but his pc was genuinely very low end 5 years ago and I know he hasn't been able to upgrade, especially with all the money going to his 9 other family members living in the 1 bedroom apartment.
But whatever lies you have to tell yourself to sleep at night buddy.
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If you want to get banned just start insulting people like the op.
additionally feel free to let your fashy friends know that I'm on payroll for both Putin AND Xi for my sfw online posting activities. I also collect checks from George Soros for in-person work that upsets conservatives.
it's important to have multiple income streams 💅
I've started tagging every single one i see. I should write them all down lol
The insatiable fascist urge to make lists of leftists
I think most people are indeed agreeing that Venezuela is facing financial hardship, but not because of Maduro, but mainly due to the sanctions by western govts.
Venezuela is a small country and the US is a large and influential one. So such sanctions are going to hurt Venezuela.
Can I ask a question to get the idea across?
We have heard news that Palestinians have faced food shortages and there was even famine warning.
Do you see it as a failure of their leadership or that of Israel blocking food and aid to the place, while isolating and attacking them?
If it is the latter, then wouldn't Venezuela be in the same position but relatively more favorable?
I think that is the view that many in the thread have.
Palestine and Venezuela are not even remotely similar, while both have been screwed over by US stupidity, they are so vastly different in circumstance I personally find comparisons to be a little silly.
Venezuela is well known to have screwed up its own economy in previous leadership, while spurred from US sanctions and interference it was ultimately their own actions that caused their economic collapse. Maduro has not helped with these issues and has only helped expand these problems. Though not nearly as problematic as previous leaders.
And while I personally get the hate Venezuela has towards the US, Jesus they are playing with fire. The US is out for blood, and will likely flatten the country just because they can, its going to be quite bad, and very sad.
At the point that US starts flattening Venezuela, killing hundreds a day and planning to rebuild it, then that would be a more fair comparison.
The US Empire isn't committing genocide in Palestine and attacking Venezuela out of "stupidity." The US Empire is rational, and acting in its own self-interest. Israel is a US millitary base in west Asia, and Venezuela is daring to go against US imperialism and try to harness its own production and resources for their benefit. The US Empire's aggression is rational, not simply a matter of stupidity.
Venezuela under Chavez and Maduro has seen dramatic expansions in social welfare, democratization, and poverty alleviation. The opposition wishes to establish itself as a comprador class to sell out their people to the US Empire. Venezuelans have the choice between resisting the system that keeps them perpetually underdeveloped, US imperialism, or resist that and risk millitary confrontation. Venezuela has bravely chosen the latter, and going along with imperialist framing of Venezuelan leaders just cedes legitimacy to the narrative the US Empire is concocting to justify invasion.
Well that was a lot of credulous Lemmy users. I should spend less time debunking imperial talking points and more time selling these people bridges. I’m leaving money on the table.
Some of them even fired up their dusty old alt accounts to vote multiple times.
Two things can be true at the same time. Maduro can be a dictator and the US can exerciser its military power illegally and attempt to intimidate and topple him.
Both can be true at the same time.
Both can be true at the same time.
They can also not be, brainiac. Despite what Redditors may think, vagueposting is not an argument.
As a latino....I am tired of USA citizens whitesplaining me shit.
Guy is a dictator.
Trump should still fuck off from latinoamerica but Maduro is a dictator.
Well that was aggressive. You seem very excited about this subject, maybe you should calm down.
There was nothing “vague” about my statement. Maduro is a dictator and the US is violating international law going after him.
It's not at all a grand statement to say "US bad, but enemy of US also bad." All this does is cede legitimacy to the US Empire against its enemies, manufacturing consent during their aggression. It doesn't matter if you finger wag the US, by legitimizing their claims against their enemies, you legitimize their assault.
This is even further compounded by your lack of explanation of how a democratically elected and popularly supported president is a dictator. This is the same playbook they used against Allende.
Once again both can be true at the same time.
Here are some articles on the subject if you wish to educate yourself. Of course if facts get in the way of your preconceived notions or political objectives you can always ignore them.
theguardian.com/world/article/…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuel…
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Evidence shows Venezuela’s election was stolen – but will Maduro budge?
Analyses indicate Nicolás Maduro lost the presidential election, but country’s leader shows no signs of stepping asideTiago Rogero (The Guardian)
You seem very excited about this subject, maybe you should calm down.
“You are an emotional soyjack and I am a rational chad.”
Redditors, man.
Two comments and not a single coherent argument besides name calling.
I can see redditors live rent free in your head. Is there some kind of trauma they inflicted which you can’t move past?
Well, the friends are right, because he is a dictator.
Which is still better than whatever USA has in store for Venezuela.
And which absolutely doesn't justify slaughtering Venezuelan civilians.
It's okay they think Maduro is a dictator. That's not a crazy idea, to be fair, but I believe it's a debatable idea, since parties in democracy may get overwhelming support, to the point, the leader of the State can accumulate enormous power. But I struggle to call it a dictatorship or an authoritarian regime, until they start changing laws so they can benefit from them directly without the stated support of the people by referendum. I honestly believe Maduro would have been out by now if it wasn't for the antagonism of the USA and their pets.
It's easier for me to call Bukele a dictator. He kind of bent the law, exercising his authoritarian faculties, so the authorities could "allow" him to have a license from his presidential duties in order to participate in presidential elections. How can anyone forget another symbolic fact? One time, in 2020, Bukele did enter the Legislative House guarded by soldiers and sat on the chair of the President of this power to make some speech. Dictators accommodate well enough to hegemonies since they will accept anything as long as they remain in power. They don't defend sovereignty, they just defend their position.
In the case of my country, we really can't be called a dictatorship, because reelection was banned by historical lessons. The USA plays a familiar game with us, they call it a narco state, instead. I wonder what's the third option in the CIA manual.
Notice these same people don't come out of the woodwork upon the mere utterance of "El Salvador" or "Bukele" like they do with "Venezuela" and "Maduro" even as Trump is deporting legal citizens to CECOT.
The words "dictatorship" and "authoritarianism" are clue words for followers of western publications to turn off their brains. They want to sort countries, parties, and leaders into neat little "good guys" and "bad guys" bins. These words allow them to do that with minimal effort, circumventing the need to understand the societies involved. Questioning that framing takes research effort and "sympathizing with authoritarians" so they never do it.
Rich people love dictators, as long as it's their chosen dictator.
I once worked with a guy from a wealthy family who had to escape Venezuela after Maduro took power. His family hated him, of course, because they'd become rich under the old system, but now they were in America, and he had to work a real job. He flat out told me that he felt like the best governmental system is when 5% of the population is wealthy, and 95% is dirt poor. Of course, he'd been one of the 5%.
had to escape Venezuela after Maduro took powerthey'd become rich under the old system
.... They didn't flee from Chavez? What's the timeline here?
Yeah, you're probably right, it was probably Chavez. I worked with this guy years ago, I'm not sure of the timeline off the top of my head.
The point is that the rich had it made under the old system, and had to leave when it changed.
I also had some elderly neighbors from Venezuela, and they had relatives that would have loved to visit them, but they were afraid to leave because they were afraid their houses and businesses would be confiscated by the government while they were gone. That happened to one relative when she went to visit family that was living in Paris, so she just stayed in Paris.
their houses and businesses
Of course they worry about wealth redistribution, they’re wealthy. That’s why the capitalist class will do literally anything in their vast power to crush socialism.
China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation | Simon Tisdall
China’s relentless siege of traditionally US-backed Taiwan has moved beyond crude military pressure (although that’s increasing). Its efforts to enforce the island’s economic and diplomatic isolation – and overthrow its pro-western, elected government – are augmented by spying, cyber-sabotage, mass surveillance and idiotic lies, conspiracies and disinformation.
Announcing a $40bn increase in defence spending last week, Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, warned the annexation threat was “intensifying”. In an echo of Ukraine, which faces similar pressures from Russia and is likewise unsure of US support, Lai said the most worrying scenario was that browbeaten Taiwanese would simply give up.
“Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s first preference is to win without a devastating, unpredictable war,” wrote analyst Hal Brands. “His method is encompassing, steadily escalating coercion … This is a classic ‘anaconda strategy’, meant to get progressively tighter until Taiwan yields. Isolation and demoralisation will ultimately produce capitulation, the thinking goes.”
China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation
The US hasn’t just left Ukraine vulnerable; it is also provoking Xi’s intensifying attitude towards what he considers a renegade province, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon TisdallSimon Tisdall (The Guardian)
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Fucking finally, time to take care of the rouge "state" 🇨🇳
Umm.. Lol.
the rouge (or red) state being China 🇨🇳;
Or rogue state 🇹🇼 Taiwan?
Technically, the only rogue and red state is China ofc.
Conntrack question
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Hi, I've had issues for the last days where my services were unreachable via their domains sporadically. They are scattered across 2-3 VMs which are working fine and can be reached by their domain (usually x.my.domain subdomains) via my nginx reverse proxy (running in it's own Debian vm). The services themself were running fine. My monitoring (Node Exporter/Prometheus) notified me that the conntrack limit on the nginx vm was reached in the timeframes where my services weren't reachable, so that seems to be the obvious issue.As for the why, it seems that my domains are known to more spammers/scripters now. The nginx error.log grew by factor 100 from one day to the next. Most of my services are restriced to local IPs, but some like this lemmy instance are open entirely (nginx vm has port 80 and 443 forwarded).
I never heard of conntrack before but tried to read up on it a bit. It keeps track of the vm's connections. The limit seems to be rather low, apparently it depends on the memory of the vm which is also low. I can increase the memory and the limit, but some posts suggest to generally disable it if not stricly needed. The vm is doing nothing but reverse proxying so I'm not sure if I really need it. I usually stick to Debians defauls though. Would appreciate input on this as I don't really see what the conseqences of this would be. Can it really just be disabled?
But that's just making symptons go away and I'd like to stop the attackers even before reaching the vm/nginx. I basically have 2 options.
- The vm has ufw enabled and I can set up fail2ban (should've done that earlier). However, I'm not sure if this helps with the conntrack thing since they need to make a connection before getting f2b'd and that will stay in the list for a bit.
- There's an OPNsense between the router and the nginx vm. I have to figure out how, but I bet there's a possibility to subscribe to known-attacker-IP-lists and auto-block or the like. I'd like some transparency here though and also would want to see which of the blocked IPs actually try to get in.
Would appreciate thoughts or ideas on this!
Increasing ip_conntrack_max safely?
I've see the following in my logs every so often: kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. Currently, I have ip_conntrack_max set to 65536 (default, RHEL5). Keeping memory usage in min...Stack Overflow
Connection tracking might not be totally necessary for a reverse proxy mode, but it's worth discussing what happens if connection tracking is disabled or if the known-connections table runs out of room. For a well-behaved protocol like HTTP(S) that has a fixed inbound port (eg 80 or 443) and uses TCP, tracking a connection means being aware of the TCP connection state, which the destination OS already has to do. But since a reverse proxy terminates a TCP connection, then the effort for connection tracking is minimal.
For a poorly-behaved protocol like FTP -- which receives initial packets in a fixed inbound port but then spawns a separate port for outbound packers -- the effort of connection tracking means setting up the firewall to allow ongoing (ie established) traffic to pass in.
But these are the happy cases. In the event of a network issue that affects an HTTP payload sent from your reverse proxy toward the requesting client, a mid-way router will send back to your machine an ICMP packet describing the problem. If your firewall is not configured to let all ICMP packets through, then the only way in would be if conntrack looks up the connection details from its table and allows the ICMP packet in, as "related" traffic. This is not dissimilar to the FTP case above, but rather than a different port number, it's an entirely different protocol.
And then there's UDP tracking, which is relevant to QUIC. For hosting a service, UDP is connectionless and so for any inbound packet we received on port XYZ, conntrack will permit an outbound packet on port XYZ. But that's redundant since we presumably had to explicitly allow inbound port XYZ to expose the service. But in the opposite case, where we want to access UDP resources on the network, then an outbound packet to port ABC means conntrack will keep an entry to permit an inbound packet on port ABC. If you are doing lots of DNS lookups (typically using UDP), then that alone could swamp the con track table: kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01183
It may behoove you to first look at what's filling conntrack's table, before looking to disable it outright. It may be possible to specifically skip connection tracking for anything already explicitly permitted through the firewall (eg 80/443). Or if the issue is due to numerous DNS resolution requests from trying to look up spam sources IPs, then perhaps either the logs should not do a synchronous DNS lookup, or you can also skip connection tracking for DNS.
Linux connection tracking and DNS
My busy Linux-based nameserver is giving unreasonably slow responses. How do I know if Linux connection tracking is causing the problem I am having?kb.isc.org
There’s an OPNsense between the router and the nginx vm.
Have you tried integrating opensense with Suricata or perhaps Snort as an IDS/IPS? Then use ntopng for observables and traffic analysis. Currently, there are several IP that have been hounding the pFsense firewall. Mostly from China, Romania, and Singapore, but they just get blocked by Suricata.
I have no experience with conntrack tho.
Solar Powered Wifi Camera with Wireguard
Hello --
I know this is not a 100% fit for this community and I apologise - but I don't really know where to ask best. There's some selfhosting involved, so maybe the smart crowd here has some recommendations.
Here goes:
I want to mount a camera at a quite remote location. I have Wifi there that I can use (I pay for it, but its usage is shared, I don't monopolize it). I do not have power there. It's outside, mild in winter, quite warm in summer. I will not get there for months at a time. I want the camera to be private, not open to the world. Ideally I'd like a solar powered wifi camera that can connect to my home via Wireguard (I have that bit going, multiple roaming notebooks and phones connect to home, terminated in an Opnsense router).
I do not need any specific smart features on the camera - PTZ would be nice, but not even fully required.
I can come up with a configuration that involves a Raspberry Pi routing an off the shelf camera via a Wireguard tunnel, or similar, but that doubles the power issues I need to solve. I am not opposed to DIY a solution, but there's the challenge of getting it well packaged in a waterproof way.
Considering I can't really touch the wifi setup (cheap commercial router), I don't really see a way to have a private connection without having some sort of a VPN (I could do others than wireguard in a pinch).
If you'd like to help me chip away at one or the other bit of this problem, I'd be very grateful.
There's a pretty cool write up by KittenLabs about their SolarCamPi project - it's pretty involved as far as DIY projects though, even down to stripping features out of the Raspberry Pi so it would use as little power as possible..
Awhile back I dabbled with a timelapse setup where I had a battery, GoPro and a Raspberry Pi with a 4G hat for remote monitoring - using Tailscale as the VPN - but that was never intended to run 24/7. I just set those up and accepted that they'd run for as long as they ran and then collect them.
Lots of 4G/WiFi solar security cameras around as another sort of 'all in one' solution - typically the main issue is they all want you to use their app. If you can find one with rtsp or ONVIF it's easier to make them work with whatever you want, though again you'd probably need a Raspberry Pi or something inbetween in order to create the VPN/Tailscale/WireGuard connection to keep it secure.
GitHub - gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks: wz camera mods... make your camera better.
wz camera mods... make your camera better. Contribute to gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Works out of the box. Not sure what the need for Wireguard is here.
Argus PT - 5MP Wi-Fi Solar Battery Camera with Pan & Tilt | Reolink Official
Argus PT is a 5MP battery/solar powered IP camera with pan & tilt, dual-band Wi-Fi, high-quality color night vision, AI detection, smart alarms and more.m.reolink.com
It’s not always about hiding only payloads.
Although if you are wireguarding to your home IP you’re still not really hiding the destination.
Probably a direct link to the home network so the camera looks like it’s on the same network.
I’ve thought of and tried this for my VR headset to my home in a similar manner. The VR headset will only stream from my gaming PC if it’s on the same network and so I’d hope to use a VPN to tunnel into my network when not at home to play remotely. I’ve not gotten this to work, but this sounds like a similar hope for OP with a camera.
Grab a regular ethernet connected camera with 12V supply and ONVIF compatible (most PTZ cameras like Amcrest or Vikylon are 12V), and a OpenWRT router like GLiNet's cheapo units in bridge mode. They have a wireguard VPN active already, you just need to get it set up. Then you specify what subnet the inside of that router is so you can get to the camera, and access it via IP.
Put down a car battery, a cheap MPPT charger and a panel or two. The PowMr charge controllers have a couple of USB ports on them to power the router and they're $50.
Yah, that's a PWM charger. You'd likely see up to another third more power stored with an MPPT at temperatures below freezing from my experience running various offgrid livestock pumping systems over the years. I still use old PWM controllers on things like fencers because they're pretty low draw, but I haven't bought a PWM for years now since MPPT prices came down to earth.
Just a suggestion, idk what your particular scenario is but it sounds like you're running out of power pretty quick. And for batteries, I've personally moved to LFP with heaters in insulated boxes for the sheer life expectancy, power density and reliability compared to LA in cold temperatures. But I wouldn't say it's the cheapest way to do things.
Well, I guess whatever camera you get should give you a power requirement and you can work backwards from there as to storage and panel requirement. My off the cuff notion would say you'll need a deep cycle or a group 31 of 100aH to last for a day or two depending on weather and length of day, and lithium batteries will get plating if you try to charge below freezing so they're out.
It's all in the math, then double it because nature hates you.
I would do a outdoor POE camera connected back inside to a WiFi router running OpenWRT. You can then set it up as a WiFi client (base station) and a VPN tunnel.
I would also look into Netbird since it is easier to manage.
Just saw a new outdoor Wyze camera with a motorized head, small solar panel, SD-card, and wifi for around $80. If you figure out the server side, it might be a good hardware foundation.
Other option is a Pi-based camera.The server side would be easier to set up, but you would have to figure out power, enclosure, and weatherproofing.
Edit: this might allow access to the video stream: github.com/mrlt8/docker-wyze-b…
GitHub - mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridge: WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/LL-HLS bridge for Wyze cams in a docker container
WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/LL-HLS bridge for Wyze cams in a docker container - mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridgeGitHub
World News in Brief: Children hit by HIV funding gaps, risks to Pakistan’s courts, minority exclusion | UN News
World News in Brief: Children hit by HIV funding gaps, risks to Pakistan’s courts, minority exclusion
Children and adolescents living with HIV continue to be left behind in access to early diagnosis, life-saving treatment and care, as shrinking funding threatens to reverse decades of progress, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday, ahead o…UN News
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Israeli attack kills two children in Gaza, medics say
An Israeli attack killed two children in Gaza on Saturday, medics and relatives said, in violence that has persisted in the Palestinian enclave despite a fragile ceasefire.The children's uncle said an Israeli drone fired on Fadi and Goma Abu Assi, brothers aged 10 and 12, while they were gathering firewood to help their wheelchair-bound father east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
"They are children...what did they do? They do not have missiles or bombs, they went to gather wood for their father so he can start a fire," Mohamed Abu Assi told Reuters as their funeral took place.At the funeral, the children's father wept over the body of one of the boys whose white shroud had been peeled back to show his face.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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Since the October 10 ceasefire, over 354 Palestinians have been killed in the largely devastated enclave, according to Gazan health authorities. Many of the deaths occur when Israeli forces shoot at Palestinians it accuses of crossing the yellow line set up during the ceasefire to mark territories still under Israel's control in the strip.On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces said their troops "identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, carried out suspicious activities and approached the troops in southern Gaza, posing an immediate threat," adding that the troops "eliminated the suspects to remove the threat."
Gaza: Israeli fire kills 2 Palestinian boys
Palestinian sources say two brothers were killed in Gaza by Israeli drone fire. In the occupied West Bank, meanwhile, attacks by Israeli settlers injured 10 Palestinians.Kalika Mehta (Deutsche Welle)
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DEP-18: A proposal for Git-based collaboration in Debian
DEP-18: A proposal for Git-based collaboration in Debian
I am a huge fan of Git, as I have witnessed how it has made software development so much more productive compared to the pre-2010s era. I wish all Debian source code were in Git to reap the full benefits.Otto Kekäläinen (Optimized by Otto)
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This is so stupid, Vietnam was trying to avoid dependency on China, and was actually seeking closer ties with USA.
Only the stupidity of Trump has allowed China to increase influence globally, when the world actually trust China less than ever, Trump has managed to make the world still trust China more than USA.
Trump couldn't have done a better job for Putin and/or China if he was 100% controlled by either of them.
America’s oldest ally in Asia is drawing closer to China
Thailand increasingly depends on its bigger neighbour for trade and security
https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/11/27/americas-oldest-ally-in-asia-is-drawing-closer-to-china
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Wow. Try inventing a partition line like Yosemite Sam and saying "I dares ya ta cross this line" and when the Korean people tried to push the racist American colonizers out of their country. Try forced them to lives in caves because of the amount of napalm they dropped. Try bombed every single building to the point where bombers were sent out and and there was nothing left to destroy.
There was no North/South division before the US created it, and they created it because they wanted to nuke China.
The US was taking over the occupation of Korea from the Japanese. The USSR wanted the Koreans to govern themselves and be self-sufficient enough to not become vassal states of the USA which the USA would use to invade and nuke the USSR.
It's not just a both sides wanted to control Korea thing. That's not accurate
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America has always wanted for its own interests. It's never been to actually help another country.
Except now the America First group is in charge and has exposed the eugenics and racism inherent in our system. Who wants to be part of that?
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I can think of another one.
What if religion was separated from government, and all people were treated equally under secular law, as is the case in every advanced country where even non-cis-males are allowed to read freely and have a complex pluralistic civilization ?
IOW what if all the Sky Daddy people fucked off with their cosplay and let the adults manage things?
No. Not disengagement; quite the opposite. De-radicalization and modernization.
The way Germany stopped worshiping Hitler and the mythical Great Germanic Past. The way Japan stopped worshiping Hirohito and the mythical Great Japanese Past.
Both were quasi religious states, depending on a population steeped in a culture of credulity coupled with unchallengeable authority.
Related but not identical: North Korea, Iran, Putin's Russia, MAGA
Germany and Japan were subject to complete and total American led nation building. Douglas MacArthur basically wrote the Japanese constitution and modeled it on America.
Who do you plan to appoint as leader of this new project of yours?
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Yeah that's the real serious problem here
There is no Force Majure. America that was, is no more.
Learn to swim?
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What an uninformed, specious thing to say. I almost suspect trolling
Are you seriously suggesting Bibi's Likud, or its partners Shas and Mafdal are ... secular ?!?
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I think a key distinction is that the religious rhetoric is often precisely that — rhetoric. Specifically, it's rhetoric aimed at an international audience, because conflating Judaism with the Israeli state is essential to how Israel frames itself and its genocide. It allows them to denounce all criticism of zionism as antisemitism, even if those critiques are coming from Jewish antizionists. Meanwhile, Israel's actions have been helping drive an increase in actual antisemitism, which is also useful for Israel, because it helps them to justify the existence of Israel as necessary for Jewish safety.
That might seem like splitting hairs, but it's important if we want to understand what's happening. Many of the most vehement pro-genocide voices in Israel are secular Jews, as is a decent proportion of Jews in Israel. Judaism is more than just a religion, but an ethnoreligious group, and that distinction is important because Israel cares more about the "ethno-" part of that than the religious part (because like I say, there are many people who identify as secular Jews).
It's somewhat analogous to how Trump performs a particular kind of conservative Christian rhetoric that's more about white nationalism than any Christian ideals. The religious component is important to acknowledge, because many prominent MAGAs aren't doing it performatively in the way that Trump and some others do, but rather their Christian faith is tightly intertwined with their white nationalism. However, to see this purely as a religious issue would lose crucial nuance of the issue.
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People do respond to rhetoric, especially rhetoric that is reinforced by their culture
It is crucially important that the memes people internalize are not based on belief-without-evidence, nor or specially-chosen-people.
Those are toxic memes for a successful modern diverse inclusionary civilization
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Exactly - this is being missed because the propaganda has framed this as a 'Jews vs. Muslims' religious conflict.
It's not. It's an ethnostate built for Zionists, not Jews - as shown by the way the state is treating orthodox Rabbis who are protesting against the occupation.
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It's definitely the excuse they use to justify it.
It's just surprising how many people fall for it, including those critical of it.
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Rename it Sky Daddy Land and let it be run by a council of atheists.
Then the Palestinians and Israelis will have a common enemy and will stop fighting.
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Realistically, I don't see the conflict ending until climate change renders the area an uninhabitable wasteland.
Given how climate change seems to be accelerating, this is probably a few decades.
Pope Leo said on Sunday that the only solution in the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people must include a Palestinian state, reaffirming the Vatican's position.
Title sounded like he was supporting a single state solution with Palestine as the state, but it's the same two state solution that Vatican has supported for some time
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I guess it depends on what you mean by almost done. They've taken 50% of the land in gaza. They've killed 3% of the Gaza strip and .06% of the West Bank. These are massive extinction events by population percentage, but the Palestinians are still very much there. As soon as people give up, the Palestinians are in a much much worse state than they already are.
It won't be as easy for them to push through the other 50% without displacing or killing 2 million people, which is a world of difference from 70,000. I'm not optimistic, but I also don't see a current path for Israel to "finish the genocide" that doesn't simultaneously eliminate a large percentage of their remaining political and economic power in the process. On the other hand fascist counties aren't know to act rational. Either way, this genocide is far from over. Imo, it will last at least another decade, if not much longer, if it's bent on geographic, cultural, and/or population annihilation. I think there is at least some hope that the political winds can change before that happens.
This is liberal Zionist gaslighting. Its like saying the only solution to Apartheid South Africa is for the blacks to have their own bantustan.
The only solution which no one in the mainstream dares to say is to dismantle the genocidal state built on Jewish supremacy.
Two-State Solution has never been viable for the same reason Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan have never been viable outside the sphere of Israeli influence. Any state that isn't aligned with Israel is targeted for a combination of assassinations/bombings and infiltration/regime change.
Why would an "independent" Palestine be any different? A popular government would never be allowed to rule. At best, you'd have an Egyptian style military dictatorship or Jordanian monarchy which rules the public with an iron fist. At worst, you'd have a Libya or Yemen, where the native government is merely a proxy for the Israelis to continue their genocide of the local population.
agree that the only solution is one state for all. basically expand the right of return.
the "two state solution" isn't a solution, but just Israel following basic international law. Which is too high a bar for Israel
Zimbabwe: Chinese firms tighten grip on country’s lithium sector as Environmental Law Organisation urges for more domestic production of high-value, refined lithium products
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/46485447
[...]While Chinese investment has helped revive Zimbabwe’s lithium industry, ZELO [the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Organisation] found widespread concerns over poor labour standards and environmental violations, particularly among medium- and small-scale Chinese operators across the lithium, gold, coal and chrome sectors.
Reported issues included non-compliance with Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regulations, dust pollution, water contamination from mine effluent, low wages, inadequate protective equipment and allegations of worker abuse and discrimination.
The report warns that such malpractices have contributed to the perception that Chinese companies have a poor human rights and environmental record in Zimbabwe. It says this presents reputational risks for the country’s lithium exports at a time when global supply chains increasingly prioritise strong Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards.
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ZELO's latest study, 'Mine to Market for Critical Minerals: Zimbabwe’s Lithium Supply and Value Chain Situational Report', finds that Chinese companies now control most major lithium mining and processing operations in the country.
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Although Australian and British companies also operate in the sector, ZELO says Chinese dominance has created an imbalance that weakens competition and reduces Zimbabwe’s bargaining power.
“This imbalance restricts the Zimbabwe’s ability to derive optimal value from its lithium resources,” the organisation said. “It also exposes Zimbabwe to external risks linked to fluctuations in Chinese global investment or commodity demand.”
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Data from the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) highlights the stark value gap between raw and refined lithium. A tonne of lithium concentrate with 4%–5.5% Li₂O content sells for between US$300 and US$600. By contrast, refined lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate can fetch more than US$26,000 per tonne.
ZELO says this disparity underscores the need for Zimbabwe to prioritise domestic production of high-value, refined lithium products instead of exporting low-value concentrate.
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ZELO recommends increased investment in beneficiation, production of industrial by-products such as sodium sulphate anhydrous and alumina silicate, and stronger local content rules to promote skills transfer and technology adoption. It also calls for tighter enforcement of labour, safety and environmental regulations and strategic partnerships with non-Chinese investors to diversify markets.
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Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s journey from CIA-backed ‘Zero Unit’ to DC shooting suspect
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Quitting Spotify for Navidrome
Listen to music like it’s 2005 : Luke Cyca Dot Calm
Getting off spotify and rediscovering my own music collectionlukecyca.com
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Android or iOS?
On android I found symphonium to be a great app to use with my navidrome server. On iOS, play:sub was the best experience I found
On iOS, ply:sub was the best experience I found
I'll check out ply:sub. Thank you for the recommendation.
If you’re doing a search, it’s play:sub. Here is the link on iOS. apps.apple.com/us/app/play-sub…
Also, it’s a fantastic app and I use it every day.
play:Sub Music Streamer App - App Store
Download play:Sub Music Streamer by Michael Hansen on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like play:Sub Music…App Store
Nope. You can buy an infinite trial via the developers ko-fi!
There's info about it on the symfonium forum.
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Yeah, you will have to send the dev the new trial ID for a re-activation.
That's also why it's costs more, because it's more manual work for him.
It's a chore, but really cool by the dev to offer it as an option for people with de-googled devices.
I plan to switch to Android in the next year, so I’m always interested to hear what clients people like over there too.
Symfonium is great, and in its current state, probably the best Subsonic client for android. (Tempus is good enough for me though.) But best of luck if you ever have a nontrivial issue and ask the dev for help. That's one abrasive mf. (Just take a look here. It's hard to find anyone so full of themselves.)
That said, if it works for your needs, it's a great app. I won't judge anyone for using it, but I'm someone who can't and won't separate the art from its artist. If that applies to you, you've been warned.
The joy of Play Store :)
Using this thread as a compilation of all the nice comments on Play Store 🙂 And also maybe as a reminder to real users that it takes 15 five stars rating to just counter 1 one star rating.Symfonium support
GitHub - eddyizm/tempus: An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.
An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android. - eddyizm/tempusGitHub
DSub2000 | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Android client for Subsonic servers.f-droid.org
Too bad it's unusable if you're like me and have huge playlists that you want to offline for shuffling due to spending long stretches of time without an Internet connection.
When I asked about this limitation, I was told that it was stupid to have such big playlists and needing to offline them because nobody is without Internet for long enough times for it to matter.
Great response from the developers that.
Doesn't finamp provide music player features?
I wish jellyfin would support downloading music out of the box.
My experience with self-hosted apps on my phone are limited. I've never used Plex so I never used it's mobile app.
So thank you for the clarification.
Finamp certainly needs some work but it’s far better than the native Jellyfin application, at least for iOS/iPadOS, I can now listen to music in the background.
Hell the Finamp contributors took my suggestion on a way to sort playlists and actually implemented it so I gotta say much props to them.
[FEATURE REQUEST] Sort by Album, Artist, Release Date, Etc
Type: New feature The ability to quickly Sort your track library & playlists by Song Name, Artist, Album, Release Date, Etc Explanation This unfortunately is not native to Jellyfin and i don't see ...BugZappa (GitHub)
You’re right about that.
I do sometimes miss PlexAmp, but the native Emby application for music on iOS is pretty decent. Just kinda wish it was decoupled from the main app.
Can't crossfade, developers won't add the features the server doesn't support it. I get a random crashes at least once a session. Search sucks because I don't feel like wiring up elastic. Doesn't stream large lists, browse to P? With 5000 artists and 20K tracks? Forever.
The beta is a little smoother but doesn't address any of my issues with it.
Symphonium is 100 times better, never crashes, solves lists/streaming by downloading the lists and handling them locally.
A few years ago, I set up a home-server with music and some pictures on there, and recently I noticed that my storage disk was getting full. Then I saw that the disk only had 16 GB and wondered, where the hell I got that small of a disk from.
So, I go to plug in a bigger disk and can't even find the original disk at first. Turns out my whole storage capacity was one of these bad boys:
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And yeah, I've got about 1800 songs, clocking in at 5.8 GB, so even that tiny storage would easily be enough for a much larger collection.
And I do also have them replicated on my phone, for listening on the go. (Don't even need an SD card in my case.)
Really feeling this, the first paragraph could've written by me and I switched to Navidrome as well some months ago.
Btw, your RSS feed seems to be broken:
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I migrated from Apple Music to Qobuz as part of my dropping of US services.
It’s very much playlist and release based which is great for both curation and discovery. At least I’ve found myself discovering more music from their playlists, which are often curated by musicians.
They do have a “for you” list but for whatever reason only show it on mobile, and it’s not my favourite algorithm.
I disagree.
I don't necessarily know about new music, artists, or genres. I want to get a mixture of stuff I haven't encountered.
Something like 60% of the music I listen to in a given month I had never heard of 12 months prior. I've found so much music that I vibe with by way of generated playlists.
Discovering something new that scratches my music itch is in itself a pleasure for me, and I can go back to it at a later date, like everything else.
This doesn't mean I support Spotify, but it does mean I disagree with your stance.
Quickly and effortlessly get some music playing that can act as a backdrop for your real activity such as working, driving, cooking, hosting friends, etc. Keep it rolling indefinitely.“Discover” new music by statistical means based on your average tastes.
This is the main thing I want out of music software tbh.
I am actually in the process of setting up my own navidrome server on my proxmox host running on my old desktop hardware.
I was initially inspired by the following post and am very excited to get rid of Spotify.
Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes
For years, I relied on Spotify like millions of others. The convenience was undeniable stream anything, anywhere, discover new music through algorithms, and share playlists with friends. But over time, several issues became impossible to ignore: artists getting paid fractions of pennies per stream, fake Artists and ghost Tracks, AI music and impersonation, creepy age verification complicity and the fact that despite paying monthly, I never actually owned anything. So I decided to take back control of my music experience. Here's how I built my own self-hosted music streaming setup that gives me everything Spotify offered and more.
GitHub - jeffvli/feishin: A modern self-hosted music player.
A modern self-hosted music player. Contribute to jeffvli/feishin development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I don’t know why so many people think you have to do one or the other, that you can’t host your own and use spotify.
No matter how much you might hate Spotify from an ideological point of view, you cannot deny its amazing music discovery ability.
I use Spotify as a way to find what to add to my collection, which I then stream using Plexamp when it makes more sense than just using Spotify - which isn’t very often tbh, only really when license issues prevent an album being in my country on Spotify. I can share my plex music library with friends and family though.
VoidAuth Release v1.5.0 - Multi-Factor Authentication 🔒
VoidAuth is Single Sign-On for Your Self-Hosted Universe! 🐈⬛🔒
This release includes Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Support through TOTP Authenticators! There are other features in this release, like a migration from pug to ejs for email notification templates and quality of life improvements like a built-in container healthcheck, navigation between some admin pages, and reducing the character minimum for usernames to just three letters (sorry ted); but MFA is the big one! Users can enable MFA on their accounts to require an Authenticator or Passkey during sign in, and admins can add MFA requirements to groups, OIDC Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains to require users to setup and use MFA in specific scenarios.
Since the last major release functionality has also been added to migrate your database between SQLite and Postgres, check out the docs! Here is the release notes:
Features 🚀
- MFA Support Through TOTP Authenticators and Passkeys
- MFA_REQUIRED Environment Variable and MFA Requirement Option for Groups, Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains
- Email Templates Migrated to EJS, Defaults Templates Are Now Re-Written on Start
- Navigation Between Admin Pages for User and Group
Fixes 🔧
- Change Username and Name Character Requirements (3 Character Minimum)
Chores 🧹
- Added Dockerfile Healthcheck
- Update Dependencies
Docs 📖
- Update OIDC-Guides.md by @Cherryblue in github.com/voidauth/voidauth/p…
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This release includes the first outside contribution to the project as well as the first sponsor! The VoidAuth repository also blew up a bit over the week, going from ~200 to ~600 stars on GitHub. I have no idea why, but seems pretty cool! Thank you to everyone who engages with VoidAuth in any fashion, you are all greatly appreciated 😊
Release v1.5.0 · voidauth/voidauth
What's Changed Features 🚀 MFA Support Through TOTP Authenticators and Passkeys MFA_REQUIRED Environment Variable and MFA Requirement Option for Groups, Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains Email Templat...GitHub
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There is no direct feature comparison between VoidAuth and pocket-id ('comparison is the thief of joy' after all). At least one major difference is that pocket-id does not allow users to sign in with a password since passkey-only accounts are one of their design decisions, and VoidAuth does not support LDAP integration while pocket-id does. My main motivation in creating VoidAuth was to fill gaps in my own user experience while using SSO, previously I ran Authelia+LLDAP (which is still an excellent combo) but found the setup lacking in some common use-cases and devoid of an Admin Interface.
I am glad you like the interface and logo, it is inspired by my own black cat who right at this very moment is yelling for pets 😹
Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty
The oversight body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has shunned US demands for the court to drop its investigation into Israeli war crimes and to amend its founding treaty to prevent the prosecution of nationals from countries that do not recognise the court’s jurisdiction, Middle East Eye can reveal.
In a statement issued on Wednesday after its annual meeting in The Hague earlier this week, the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) vowed to uphold the integrity of the Rome Statute and said it was “gravely concerned” by threats and coercive measures targeting the court.
Diplomats speaking on the sidelines of the event told MEE that the Trump administration had tried to exert further pressure on the ICC in the leadup to the ASP meeting by calling on the court to drop its investigations into war crimes in Palestine and Afghanistan as a condition for lifting sanctions.
The US also called on member states to amend the Rome Statute to prohibit prosecutions of citizens of non-signatory states, a move that would have effectively granted immunity to American and Israeli nationals. An amendment of that nature would also end the Ukraine investigation into alleged war crimes by Russia, a non-member of the ICC.
Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty
The oversight body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has shunned US demands for the court to drop its investigation into Israeli war crimes and to amend its founding treaty to prevent the prosecution of nationals from countries that do not re…Sondos Asem (Middle East Eye)
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U.S. military detains civilian, raising Okinawa police concerns
U.S. military detains civilian, raising Okinawa police concerns | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
OKINAWA, Okinawa Prefecture–A video showing an American civilian being slammed to the ground and detained by U.S. military police outside a local bar has gone viral, raising concerns about infringement of Japanese police authority outside U.S.The Asahi Shimbun
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At least 11 killed in South Africa mass shooting
At least 11 killed in South Africa mass shooting
Gunmen stormed a hostel near Pretoria and opened fire, killing 11 people including a three-year-old.Jessica Rawnsley (BBC News)
illegal drinking establishments, where mass shootings are common?
police shut down 12,000 such premises outlets between April and September this year
Why is licensing bars so difficult, and why is there such "anger" over them? Sounds almost like 1930s US prohibition, where organized crime (police???) are intimidating for protection?
One of the very few businesses excluded from the municipal licence exemption.
Cannot start a watering hole without the municipality's blessings (some money needs to grease the wheels).
But basically led to a lot of underground drinking spots. They were a godsend during COVID lockdowns, any sale of alcohol was prohibited, there was some guy that was killed by the military when they found him drinking a beer in his own yard (which technically was legal).
But yeah some stupid alcohol rules here in SA, not all for example drinking and driving, but most
Fucked up with no one to blame but myself.
I spun up nextcloud to replace onedrive about a year ago. Everything was going well so I chose not to renew my onedrive subscription, this was exactly 6 months ago, I'd assume.
I got an email a few days ago reminding me that they would delete my data. I ignored it because obviously I had moved my data to nextcloud. not gonna trick me Mi¢ro$oft.
But yesterday I decided to have a quick look though and it turns out I didn't copy over everything, and certanly not my 5 years of camera roll backups.
I started a sync of everything last night and woke up in the morning to find that it had stopped at about 10gb out of 80gb. And now onedrive won't connect and if I try to log in to onedrive with that account via the web it just kicks me back to the microsoft portal.
I'm 99.5% sure there is nothing to be done and I'm not an overly sentimental person so if they are lost it won't break me. I have many important photos backed up in immich but just not everything.
But I just needed to ask in case someone knows where to find the M spot I can touch for magic file recovery.
Edit: turns out you can just pay them more money and they still had my stuff. thank you for joining me on the shortest support ticket of all time
Who Killed Hannibal
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You got two options. Both suck.
- Call support. Have fun. I'd rather rip out my eyeballs in this scenario because you're not a paying customer. You will get the shit-tier service, will likely be hung up on, and reexplain the situation to 3+ individuals over the course of 4 hours and ultimately get nothing done.
- Resubscribe. Finish the job. The odds of your accounts db being wiped are kinda slim. Sucks because you do what you explicitly sought to avoid: pay Microsoft.
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Apparently NodeBB has it, there was talk of getting them to work together
Interstellar works for me.
PieFed : Front-end and Apps
[Client apps for PieFed](https://piefed.social/post/1258559)piefed.social
Sudo Clean Up My Workbench
Sudo Clean Up My Workbench
[Engineezy] might have been watching a 3D printer move when inspiration struck: Why not build a robot arm to clean up his workbench? Why not, indeed? Well, all you need is a 17-foot-long X-axis and…Hackaday
Sumatra residents loot for food and water after deadly floods
Some residents of the flood-hit island of Sumatra resorted to looting, seeking food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday.The floods, which hit nearly a week ago, have killed 303 people — with the number expected to rise as more bodies are recovered — and displaced thousands. The deluges triggered landslides, damaged roads, cut off parts of the island, and downed communication lines.
The challenging weather conditons and the lack of heavy equipment also hampered rescue efforts. Aid has been slow to reach the hardest-hit city of Sibolga and the district of Central Tapanuli district in North Sumatra.
Sumatra residents loot for food and water after deadly floods
Authorities report that some residents of flood-hit Sumatra have resorted to looting, seeking food and waterThe Associated Press (ABC News)
Alaskan tribes sue B.C. gov't over mines in far northwest
A group of tribal nations in Alaska has gone to B.C. Supreme Court demanding their voice be heard on major mining projects in the province’s northwest.
They claim the British Columbia government has failed to consult them on major mining projects proposed for the region — some of which have been identified for fast-tracking by the provincial and federal governments against the backdrop of the trade war with the United States.
"Our main goal is protect the rivers, protect the salmon, protect the culture,” said Guy Archibald, executive director of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (SEITC).
The commission represents 14 tribes, which include members of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian, whose territory extends across both B.C. and Alaska.
Isn't Alaska part of the US? Why are they fighting this in a Canadian court?
US citizens in Alaska don't get a say in the affairs of another, sovereign nation like Canada.
The commission represents 14 tribes, which include members of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian, whose territory extends across both B.C. and Alaska.
Are they marked on a map? Are they recognized by any other nation (not including by their own)?
If not, then they aren't a nation.
Edit: Just to be clear, Canadian citizens DO have the right to challenge their government. American citizens, however, Don't get a say in the matter. This is between Canada and IT'S citizens, not the citizens of another, entirely separate country.
Sanctions haven’t sidelined Russia’s shadow fleet. So Ukraine has turned to drones
Ukraine says it used sea drones to strike two oil tankers that are part of Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet and were a few dozen kilometres off the coast of Turkey.
The Gambian-flagged ships Kairos and Virat sustained explosions Friday evening after crews told Turkish officials the boats had been struck.
Kairos, which was headed to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, was partially engulfed in flames, and all 25 crew members were evacuated to safety. The crew on board Virat reported it had been hit twice and sustained what appeared to be minor damage. Neither vessel was carrying a shipment of crude at the time.
In a statement, an official with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said the attacks on the two ships were carried out by the SBU and the Ukrainian navy using “sea baby” drones, which can travel long distances and are equipped with reinforced warheads.
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As long as they are not full of oil, which would cause ecological damage, Ukraine is doing us all a service in 'retiring' these boats. These shadow vessels are catastrophies waiting to happen, as they are below standard, non insured, poorly maintained, and falling apart while transporting crude oil and chemicals. They also turn off their transponders, increasing likelyhood of collisions.
When they spill their oil in your countrys waterways, you will have to pay to clean it up. It's not cheap. To Putin that is an externalized cost for his invasions of neighboring countries.
The only way they stop is if it's not economically sound. That happens when the ships start sinking. It's cheaper to sink all the ships than it is to clean up an oil spill.
Help nature, help your wallet, help Ukraine, sink a shadow tanker.
I was thinking this as well, but it seems to me that the risk of a full tanker ship sinking because of poor maintenance is extreme enough to justify taking them out when they're mostly empty.
It's another tough decision that Ukraine is being forced to make. They have my respect.
Server and infrastructure building for me, a dummy
Apologies for the poor grammar, English IS my first language and so I'm rather flagrant with runons.
I'm really not half as tech literate as half the people on the fediverse, but my noia about the state of online cloud hosting and lack of control over my data has led me far out of my depth.
I'm wanting to set up a LibreCMC router and connect it to some type of home server (made of local office E-Waste) for media storage, email hosting, and fucking Minecraft servers or something.
I promise I've tried my best in searching for the problem but often find myself floundering in 3-letter acronyms, and relations between systems I don't understand (like dockers, or the Jellyfin vs Plex argument.)
I don't need an explanation but maybe some orientation on where I am to look for resources on these topics that assume I'm the 6 celled neurobase I am.
Thank you for your help, or your chastising.
Edit: thank you everyone for your replies! I'll hopefully keep you all updated as I work through learning Linux terminals, and destroying terabytes of data in horribly predictable mistakes : )
If you go for openwrt instead of librecmc the amount of guides and docs will skyrocket.
Compatible hardware for openwrt is found here:
toh.openwrt.org/?view=normal
A tip is to sort on the 5.0GHz table so all the devices that support ac and ax (newer wifi standards) are shown first.
They have a lot of good guides here:
openwrt.org/docs/guide-quick-s…
Regarding home server you would want to decide on the host operating system first. Examples are proxmox (hypervisor, controlled mainly through a web ui), a standard linux server with kvm/qemu and docker, openmediavault (NAS operating system) or Windows 11 with HyperV (please don't).
First thing after that is to figure out of to make and restore backups of the system. Knowing that you can restore everything to how it was last night makes tinkering a lot less frustrating. Proxmox has builtin backup systems, with linux I like BORG Backup.
Regarding services you will want to read up on dockers and find a docker management system you like. I run portainer, others swear by dockge and yet some prefer the command line.
Regarding video streaming; If you don't a lifetime license for Plex I would go for Jellyfin. Plex free is continuing to lose, not gain, functions as of now.
Immich is popular for photo storage.
Regarding game servers I think pterodactyl.io/ is popular to make it simpler but you can probably find a plain docker image to host minecraft. If you wanna mod mc I know Pterodactyl makes it simpler to add mods on the server.
OpenWrt Table of Hardware - Device Compatibility Guide
Comprehensive list of devices compatible with OpenWrt firmware. Find the perfect hardware for your open-source networking project.toh.openwrt.org
I had never heard of dockge before, but this sounds like the killer feature for me:
File based structure - Dockge won't kidnap your compose files, they are stored on your drive as usual. You can interact with them using normal docker compose commands
Does that mean I can just point it at my existing docker compose files?
My current layout is a folder for each service/stack , which contains docker-compose.yaml + data-folders etc for the service. docker-compose and related config files are versioned in git.
I have portainer, but rarely use it , and won't let it manage the configuration, because that interfered with versioning the config in git.
Does that mean I can just point it at my existing docker compose files?
You add the compose via the DockGE UI, it then creates the necessary files and folders in /opt/stacks/. Not sure whether it works the other way around: to create the folder, copy the compose file in there, and see if it is recognized.
I've been using it for over a year, works very smooth.
/opt/stacks to borgbase. I imagine it should be possible, but it might depend on how the projects are arranged in git. Monorepo might give trouble, but separate repo's might work.
I tried out Komodo, but gave up on it. I looked at dockge after, but opted not to try it out. I prefer the IaaC setup with my compose in a repo for versioning and rollback. And while I think you can probably combine the two, komodo was getting in the way most of the time. It centered around secrets management and generating those secrets at run time.
That said, I feel like if I expand beyond a single server I may go back to one of these tools
I hope someone else can pitch in with a more indepth instructions, but two things I wanted to mention:
First, forget about hosting your own email from home. Seriously. Even those who do it professionally don't want to deal with that at home. You'll find people on fediverse who do it but I'm sure plenty will give you this same recommendation/warning. It's a huge hassle and it's so easy to get your domain blocked/ending up on a blacklist and way harder to get out of it.
Second, I can personally recommend linuxupskillchallenge.org/ if you are really starting from scratch ( there's a community here: !linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev ). This is how I started and set up my own linux server and started self hosting stuff on it. It's really basic and won't teach you everything you need but it's a great start for setting up your own server. You can do everything with a local server at home that you have set up.
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I run my email server, but not at home. Running it at home is not all all more difficult, but it will only work for internal traffic and inbound from the internet. Residential IPs are simply blacklisted by ISP and as such - nothing will reach external recipients. Still useful, but is limited.
To have your smtp reach everyone globally you need to run it on a business IP. I use Linode, has worked very well since the setup in 2019, although they did get acquired by Akamai, which might become an issue at some point.
Omg thank you so much for providing that first link. I’ve wanted to try Linux and to run a home server, but I am like OP. I’m not as tech illiterate as most, but I also don’t know nearly as much as others here. I know just enough to not fuck up my pc, but I had trouble finding a start from the basics instructions.
The Linux skill challenge looks like exactly what I wanted,
Maybe I can start shedding some light off docker.
When you start setting up a server, you end up having to setup many things. You install various programs and their dependencies. Sometimes those dependencies can conflict with each other, or you mess up your system by manually pasting some command you found on stack exchange. Then you need to manually keep all the software you use up-to-date and pray they don't brick your server and force you to start over. And then when you need to update your OS or move to a new machine, you need to repeat this whole dance again.
Docker is like legos. You want to install jellyfin? There's already a docker imagine for that. You just spin it up with some little configure file and you're done. You want to setup a firewall? You want to setup https access? Automatic updates? There are docker images already made for it.
So you keep on setting up those docker containers and they all run in isolation but can communicate with each other. If you break something, you just restart one or all the containers and you always start fresh. Docker keeps nothing in memory, unless you explicitly want it (e.g. Your jellyfin config will presist in external config files).
Want to move to a new machine? You can just copy over the scripts that run the docker containers and those config files. Software updates? Just update the docker container and it handles all dependencies.
Also, Jellyfin all the way. It's open source and free all the way.
I highly recommend you use Proxmox as the base OS. Proxmox makes it easy to spin up virtual machines, and easy to back up and revert to backups. So you're free to play around and try stupid stuff. If you break something in your VM, just restore a backup.
In addition to virtual machines, Proxmox also does "LXC containers" , which are system level containers. They are basically a very light weight virtual machine, with some caveats like running the same kernel as the host.
Most self-hosting software is released as a docker-image. Docker is application level containers, meaning only the bare minimum to run the application is included. You don't enter a docker container to update packages, instead you pull down a new version of the image from the author.
There are 3 ways to run docker on Proxmox:
* Install docker inside a virtual machine (recommended).
* Install docker inside a LXC Containers (not recommended because of various edge cases)
* Install docker directly on the Proxmox host (not recommended for various reasons).
* (There is ongoing work for running docker images directly in Proxmox, this is in beta/preview since Proxmox 9.1).
The "overhead" of running docker inside a VM on the host is so negligible, you don't need to worry about it.
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I think your best bet is to pick one thing that you can get a good guide for and start from there. If you really want to learn its probably better to start with a Debian or arch setup than proxmox, but that's really going to depend on what you really care about learning.
I know it will be an unpopular opinion but you can use perplexity or Claude to help you find useful sources online if you're striking out on your searching. Most of the time I find they do better with more obscure issues, but those should be rare if you're following a guide
but you can use perplexity or Claude
For things that are not super complicated, Grok is pretty fair but it has it's limitations when you get into complexities. At the very least it gives you something to go on for further reading of a topic you don't necessarily have a firm grip on. I've also found that if you ask a question, finish up with 'explain it for a noob' or 'EILI5'. That seems to get the more accurate, step by step instructions, broken down into bite sized chunks, and doesn't assume you know what to do in between steps.
Using an AI is a great way to get learning materials tailored specifically to you.
But after you've learned from it, before you move on to another topic, you HAVE to verify your understanding against more trustworthy sources that you previously couldn't understand. Ideally with an online course that actually gives you a test.
I got started self-hosting using a small Lenovo Thinkcentre and an HP EliteDesk. Both are available to purchase for around 100 dollars on ebay. I have installed Proxmox on both of them. Proxmox is an operating system built on Debian Linux and is used to host containers and virtual machines. It has a great WebGUI to access the server.
Using Proxmox I have set up a Pelican container for game servers hosting, I run my own personal wiki, I have PiHole, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf and a lot more.
To access your things out of home you can use a VPN to connect to your own network or open ports in your router. I only had to open port 80 and 443 to expose my reverse proxy to the internet and then I use the reverse proxy to route the traffic internally to the correct port and project. I also purchases a domain name and now I can use jellyfin.mydomain.com or wiki.mydomain.com or whatever.mydomain.com to access each project I self-host. It's very convenient!
Trying new projects is super easy and if you want to remove something then just delete the container. No old leftovers will stay on the host system.
There are also community scripts available to make hosting even easier. It will install and configure the containers for you.
community-scripts.github.io/Pr…
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Guidance for Noob? (Synching vs Nextcloud, Immich, Tailscale)
TL;DR:
Unsure if I should just run Syncthing, or do a Nextcloud. Tailscale seems at risk of enshittification, so do I find alternatives or just use it for ease? Is Immich easy enough to set up without Tailscale? Stick with docker or podman for ease? Are externsl drives easy to work with? Should my RAID1 be NTFS or Ext4?
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I recently got my drive bay and Optiplex and have already flashed Proxmox onto it so I could eagerly spin up some local services to see what I wanna stick with. Or at least I tried anyway 😅
Jellyfin in a debian container was quick, painless and seems to work fine. But I was trying to set up Nextcloud and I felt lost, with the many different ways people go about it. When I tried to set up Nextcloud AIO in a Debian VM with docker it forces you to set a domain for your instance, but I only want to do local for now (ease and security until I get the hang of things). Which then runs into the hosting a domain via Tailscale problem. 90% of guides, videos, scripts, etc. seem to only focus/support Tailscale, but they force you to use third-party accounts for logins, and I started this whole thing to distance myself from Big Tech. Is Headscale or NetBird a better idea (when I do decide to remotely access)? Who's more beginner friendly? Similarly, docker or podman?
I do know the difference between Syncthing and Nextcloud, but I wonder which I should stick with. I want to start being better about backing up my phone and laptop, and I know I could use syncthing to share these backups with each other, but I thought it'd be nice to try to replace my minimal Google Drive and Onedrive usage with Nextcloud and just put everything there. I'd still have to backup that data to an external location though if I want to follow the 3-2-1. So should I just do encrypted backups and put them in a cheap provider's cloud, and drop the idea of a selfhosted cloud?
Similarly related to the Nextcloud issue, is Immich another heavily Tailscale dependant service?
Side note: How easy is it to use external drives with these services I've mentioned? I plan to use my drive bay that currently has 2TB (4 drives running in RAID1), so I can only connect to it via cable. Can I have most of my media stored on the drives, or will that not work? Also, I swear I had to keep verifying my login every few mins when accessing my drives on ext4 format? I switched it to NTFS recently but Windows can't read/see the drives at all (does it not like Linux formatting it?)
Future Ideas: Once I get these first few down, any suggestions? I'm feeling the power rush and craze from being free and able to run my own stuff, and I want to prove to my mom how useful it'll be. I want to move away from YT Music, and I've heard Jellyfin + Jellyamp works good, but is there another I should run (Navidrome)? Should I get into the arr services and torrenting (I do have ProtonVPN)?
I tried looking at previous posts but I just wanted a little more personalized advice. I'm extremely greatful for any help and I will make sure to post my beautiful setup later once I get it going after y'alls input. It's really exciting thinking about the possibilities!
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Tailscale is great. You should use it. Most of their code is open-source. Their coordination server is closed-source, however there's a self-hostable open-source reimplemention called Headscale if you want a fully-open-source Tailscale stack.
Tailscale is a peer to peer VPN, meaning there's no central server like with OpenVPN. Systems on the VPN connect directly to each other. You can also use Wireguard in this way if you configure it as a mesh (every device on the VPN has every other device configured as a peer, and for each pair, at least one of them has the port open and forwarded). Tailscale is more reliable for that as it uses several NAT traversal techniques, so you don't need to open the port and it works even if both ends are behind NAT.
Immich doesn't rely on Tailscale; you can use any VPN. ~~They don't recommend exposing it to the public internet at the moment though, which is why you'd use a VPN~~ (edit: as per a reply, this is not the case any more). In general, never expose anything publicly unless it absolutely has to be (like a website that anyone can access). For giving access to friends, you can share a device with them via Tailscale and configure an ACL so they can only access particular services on it.
For the drives, I'd recommend ZFS instead of Ext4 or NTFS. ZFS can detect bitrot and corruption using checksums, which neither Ext4 nor NTFS can do. NTFS isn't recommended unless you're running Windows Server, but you already said you're using Proxmox.
IMO, use Syncthing instead of Nextcloud, unless you'll be using all the other apps that come with Nextcloud (calendar, office tools, chat, etc). Syncthing does one thing and it does it well, which is almost always better than using software that tries doing a large number of things. Consider Seafile too.
For backups, I'd recommend Borgbackup and Borgmatic. Get a cheap storage VPS to store it. You should be able to get a deal for less than $2/TB/month during the current Black Friday sales. Check LowEndTalk for deals. A Hetzner storage box would work great too.
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Tailscale serve might work; I haven't tried it so I don't know what it's capable of.
Usually I'd recommend getting a real domain name and using Let's Encrypt. .com domains are around $10/year but some TLDs are even cheaper. If you don't mind which TLD you use, go to tld-list.com and sort by renewal price.
Edit: I forgot to mention - a server does not need to be publicly exposed to use Let's Encrypt. You can use a DNS challenge instead of a HTTP one.
On the public Immich bit, they have docs on how to setup a reverse proxy correctly. No security warnings.
That sounds like a thumbs up to me?
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Users can deploy a custom reverse proxy that forwards requests to Immich. This way, the reverse proxy can handle TLS termination, load balancing, or other advanced features.docs.immich.app
[Feature] Security Support for Non-VPN Deployment + Notification When This is The Case · immich-app immich · Discussion #13008
I have searched the existing feature requests to make sure this is not a duplicate request. Yes The feature Request I would be very grateful if you all could provide a timeframe for a release that ...GitHub
That pretty much says: safe when stable. (Which it is now) Makes some sense.
Mine is public, so I hope it's safe (ish)
I did this about a year ago, and started with tailscale. But for some bizarre reason, tailscale would cause my entire internet connection to drop. I had the internet provider come out 5 times to fix it, i got a new router twice, they even checked for cable problems between my house and the neighbourhood switch. All to no avail. I would lose internet connection several times a day until i would reboot my router. I then found someone on their forum mention that tailscale was causing problems, so i turned it off. The problems stopped. I found no way to mitigate this.
I ended up running wireguard, which works great for me, but does have a bit of a learning curve. I have rented a tiny cloud server which is the central hub, and all of my services run in podman with their own wireguard config. I run my own dns for the lacal domains. It took me a bit of effort, but is now running very stable.
To answer your first bit:
I went owncloud --> nextcloud --> syncthing + radicale.
Not looked back.
I run everything through a proxy in my home-built pfsense box.
I use wireguard directly instead of tailscale. Not sure what router you're using, but mikrotik support it out of the box. I am sure they are not the only ones. My phone runs on it 24/7 and has access to the rest of my services.
I haven't setup nextcloud, so can't give any advice on that. Immich was insanely easy to setup though.
I like navidrome, but I am not using jellyfin, so I have nothing to compare it with.
Id recommend setting up a domain even if just for local use. No-ip.com is at least working for me right now (i have free throwaway domain set up there and my router is keeping my dynamic ip dns records up to date so i can wireguard into my router/lan even if the ip changes).
You dont need to expose your services but if you ever do want to, it’s so much easier if youve got a working reverse proxy infront already set up plus you can use https via let’s encrypt certifications inside LAN
Setting up (sub)domains in lan forces you to learn to use a reverse proxy like caddy traefik or nginx. Personally to me NPM(nginx proxy manager) was the easiest to use but i use caddy nowadays. For half a year i didnt expose anything but after wanting to share some albums with the extended family i decided to do so via pangolin hardened with crowdsec running on a virtual private server. Pangolin - while not as easy as tailscale is selfhosted and is very well documented and works well. Then internally, i still have my casdy reverse proxy and certs.
All the services work with the same domain names internally (via the routers dns) and externally. Internally the domain simply points to my severs LAN address. Externally the domain points to my VPS where Pangolin relays my internal domains to the users but adds an extra authentication layer/recerseproxy/access control layer infront. For authentication i use Pocket ID. I can reach nextcloud and access and edit all my documents and other files right there in the browser from any computer which is very convinient.
I also had a lot of difficulty setting up NextCloud. Based on the various reviews and comments, it seems like I may have actually dodged a bullet.
In general, as I've tried different self-hosting solutions, I've found that using a dedicated solution for each purpose has given me better results. I use Radicale for contacts and Calendar, Immich for photos, Jellyfin for media (Navidrome for music is great, but I ended up keeping my music library in Jellyfin because I liked the client apps better).
I'm using OwnCloud for filesync, although I'm also testing CopyParty, which is pretty phenomenal and stupid simple.
Tailscale is GOAT. Some people have speculated that it could be subject to enshitification some day. It's managed by a for-profit company, but everything they do is open source. There are already well-tested forks like HeadScale if you ever have the need to self-host it in the future.
NextCloud seems great if you can get it working and provides a lot of services in one. Some people have said that causes bloat and slowdown, so there are two sides to the coin.
Syncthing is likely not a good option for a file server. It's great if you want to have a shared file or folder on multiple devices, especially if you just want to transfer files quickly and seamlessly. It's fantastic at what it does, but it's not a file server. There are a lot of opportunities for error when using Syncthing.
GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps
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Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
The technology so good that everybody is going to rush to it can only be monetized by …
… advertising.
This is undermining your message, OpenAI.
Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino
Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino
Woman, 36, and her husband, 44, arrested at Barangaroo and charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantageGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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MDB II - 2025.76 - São Paulo não tem isso #podifusão
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I highly recommend journalctl-desktop-notification
Maybe it's well known but I just came across journalctl-desktop-notification and I find it very useful so I thought I'd mention it. It's basically a bash script that monitors systemd's journal and pops up a notification when there are warnings or errors (or anything else you want to make it catch besides the default config).
What makes it so useful for the selfhoster is that it can monitor the journal on hosts your user has ssh access to with key authentication (set up in 2s with 'ssh-copy-id').
So case in point, this just popped up:
My reverse proxy can't renew certs, that's bad. For some reason netdata didn't catch it, and the service didn't trigger a system email that would have been forwarded to my smtp. Uptime kuma would have caught it when I would have had only a few days to fix it, but this caught it immediately, and I have 52 days to figure it out.
So you install that on your daily driver and you get these notifications on your desktop. They only have packages for Arch and Gentoo but the thing is just a batch script and a systemd unit. So to install anywhere you just download the "source", extract it, cd to it, and run 'sudo cp -r usr etc /' which is exactly what the Arch package does (line 22).
Just a nifty little tool I wanted to share in case others haven't heard of it.
Edit: I made .deb and .rpm packages so it's a lot easier to install now 😀
Gray lot requires a newer version of mongo. Mongo now requires a processor with the AVX instruction set; and my aging homelab is one gen before Sandy Bridge.
So basically no graylog for me because I ain’t got money to run that shit anymore let alone upgrade it
Assuming the uptime of your services are in any way important.
I'm not running a business here, I've got no big stakeholders. If something doesn't work, at most me or someone close to me is affected. No one really cares if something is not available for a day.
I spent 0 minutes on monitoring and don't intend to start now 😁
Does your data matter ? There's a data loss prevention risk and security.
If you don't care about those either, then I guess your decision makes sense
What do you need quick? I have a Minecraft server, a wiki for random stuff, a shopping list, a calendar sync, photo hosting, a media server and probably some other shit on there.
I can think of many situations where I'd want those quickly, but need I don't anything.
You don't need something ever. Sometimes you just want something because the alternative is realy bad. I don't need to eat. I want to eat because I don't want to starve.
I want to watch a movie with my partner at the agrees time because otherwise they will be mad. I want to access my digitalized documents to send a letter in time because otherwise I will have to pay late fees.
I want to access my gameserver because that's the one time a week I get to have fun with my friends from my college time.
There are many situations where I'd rather do the thing I want instead of doing maintenance.
Yep and I have less time for all these things when I spend the time setting up monitoring.
Fixing takes the same time either way. But I barely ever have to touch my setup anyway, because usually ot doesn't just break randomly.
Ha ha ha.
I love how lennart's cancer tries to replicate fucking syslog and it's this bad. What a mess the kids worship.
As Epstein files release looms, questions abound on what happens next: ‘Possibilities are endless’
As Epstein files release looms, questions abound on what happens next: ‘Possibilities are endless’
People implicated in the late sex offender’s crimes could face criminal charges or, at the least, social ostracismVictoria Bekiempis (The Guardian)
could easily see it being a bay if pigs fiasco, nobody sane wants to die for trump or the alcoholic he put in charge of the DoW.
get some orders to invade em? send those that do in a poorly supported ad-hoc invasion to cull em, have the media spin all that shit, the dead, the embarrassing US military competency myth, onto trump and co.
Possibilities? ... in the US?
The only possibility I ever see in the US is in knowing that they are going to make everything so much worse for everyone else .
The markets will go up and the rapists will be SLAMMED by the media.
That's all that will happen.
Look, anyone can print out 50 pages of solid black ink. Are we actually going to release them?
Narrator: they would never release the philes’ files.
What happens next?
Nothing. Nothing happens next. If we had a functioning DOJ, maybe something. But we don't have that, so absolutely nothing will happen.
For those that think the files will be heavily redacted, I have a question. Ready?
We just got 20,000 docs that were not redacted in any way. How do you think the full release will be edited?
How to propperly Ansible and selfhost without burning out?
First my specific questions, down below more info:
- how do you use ansible? Is there a good source for roles or playbooks to set up services? I feel like ansible is 30% more headache right now during config.
- how do you deal with motivation loss?
- how do you deal with the overwhelming amount of choices and information and disciplines (networking, storage, VMS, Linux..) that comes with selfhosting?
- how do you find the sweetspot between ease of use, ease of set up, security, redundancy? I feel like I am maybe too pranaoid to loose my data again (dropped a hard drive many years back, I lost all of my projects)
- maybe overall, how do you manage your perfectionism?
Thanks a lot! I hope you have some insights for me.
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Soo I have a motivational push to work on my server every few months for a few weeks or months. I always make progress and I feel like I landed on a good solution by now. Its the third time I redid my setup, everytime I got closet to what feels like the perfect setup for me.
I have a vps for headscale, a home server with proxmox for the rest.
Last push I switched from manually configuring and documenting to ansible.
I like ansible, but its also a pain and not as fast to set up my server as just installing it and fiddeling around manually until it works.
My problem is:
I want to do it right, so my server is robut with enough redundancy to move all my cloud stuff to it.
But I am still kind of a noob and still learning and figuring things out.
My fear is, that if i don't document well or not use ansible, I will be hating my life once my server dies and I have to restore my data and also set um my services again in a few years.
So ansible seems like the only valid choice here, together with proxmox to be as flexible and future proof.
But I am burnt out again and lost Motivation even though I am close to my first goals and running services.
Thank you for reading 😀
It sounds like you're trying to learn but have an "all or nothing" mentality to going about it. Nothing is mastered all of a sudden and expecting mastery out the gate is a recipe for burn out. If you're goal is absolute perfection then you'll never even start.
Go through the online docs and training resources first to gain an understanding of how to assemble playbooks without a direct implementation target attached.
Once you have a sense of what Ansible is and what it can do for you, pick something small to do for yourself. For example, create a playbook that sets up nginx for a single purpose. When there are a 100 different ways to do something, you'll never do it right. You'll do it acceptably, then you'll do it again better and then you'll do it again more flexibly, etc. If you know or pick up Python then you'll start being able to dive into custom modules and plugins.
A toolkit is something you build over time. You build it over time because it's impossible to know what you'll need before you start. If you do end up pulling together a toolkit that you think it appropriate and complete before you start working then you'll have a mess of configurations that are not applicable and mostly inappropriate that you'll end up debugging forever.
Start small. Start where you are.
- how do you use ansible? Is there a good source for roles or playbooks to set up services? I feel like ansible is 30% more headache right now during config.
I write my own playbooks and roles, but often I can just copy paste an existing setup and use it for a new service. For example containers, you can probably write one role once, copy it and modify some variables to set up another container service.
For stuff where there are well maintained community roles (e.g. community.zabbix) just use those and configure with variables.
- how do you deal with motivation loss?
I just don't work on a part I don't want to do atm. It's supposed to mostly be a hobby and as long as my services I care about are running it's fine.
- how do you deal with the overwhelming amount of choices and information and disciplines (networking, storage, VMS, Linux..) that comes with selfhosting?
I'm on my 2.5th setup now, just choose something and see if it works. If not, see how much it bothers you and what parts you want to migrate.
I'm a big fan of VMs, so I'm using XCP-ng. IMO this makes testing and backups very easy, I just take a snapshot and figure stuff out, no big deal if it breaks.
- how do you find the sweetspot between ease of use, ease of set up, security, redundancy? I feel like I am maybe too pranaoid to loose my data again (dropped a hard drive many years back, I lost all of my projects)
You're better than 95% of people just by thinking about this. For backups, identify which data you want to back up and do that. If you don't want to deal with Ansible right now, just set something up manually and automate it later (paste your commands into a readme for reference)
For me, I make sure to backup my Nextcloud data. That included personal photos, files and other hard to replace stuff. Other than that I have daily VM backups to a Hetzner storage box and my NAS. I don't backup my media on Jellyfin, that's just not as important.
VMs also make it easy to replace your host. Just install the hypervisor on a new server and restore VMs to it.
- maybe overall, how do you manage your perfectionism?
I guess I'm not a perfectionist. It took me multiple months and monetary incentive (avoid renting two servers) to migrate from my Debian single host setup to VMs years ago.
Some of my Ansible playbooks are "version 1", where I didn't know what I was doing. I'm on version 3 now. They still work, I even use some of them occasionally, just haven't taken the time to migrate them yet.
Maybe you can take a similar approach with some of your services that aren't that essential and spread out the work more so you can enjoy it when you want to.
My fear is, that if i don't document well or not use ansible, I will be hating my life once my server dies and I have to restore my data and also set um my services again in a few years.
I’ve been there plenty of times, you’re not alone. There are two solutions to that problem, really, and it boils down to the classic pet vs cattle.
- Everything is a pet
Pets mean you care about every server. If it breaks, it's cheaper for you to fix it than redeploy. The overwhelming majority of your setup will be pets. Why? It's simpler. Things don’t break that often, and when they do, it's okay to be low-effort in fixing them.
Write docs for yourself, even if it's just notes on the sequences of commands to run to redeploy things. You will thank yourself when the server finally dies in two years and you have notes on how to bring everything back.
- Everything is a cattle
Cattle means there's no difference between server A and B. Everything is replaceable. Ultimately, whatever you run can run to the same extent in AWS, your basement NAS, or on your desk PC.
Cattle is also a lot of work. You will learn an excruciating amount of things about storage, networking, visualisation, workload scheduling, and such. And it's easy to be demotivated because of how much there is to learn.
So take it easy. Concur that your hobby world is full of pets, but learn how to do the cattle approach at your leisure. You’ll realise that in every practical cattle setup, there are still pets, and that automating yourself from complexity only means you add layers of it somewhere else.
Need to tattoo this on my forearm!
My successful path for homelab stuff is to use kubernetes (k3s locally and digital ocean DOKS for cloud resources) with argocd and gitops. Everything I change is via a git commit+push so I can always rollback, and if this machine dies, once I replace/repair the hardware I can pull all backed up content from object storage, install K3s again, reconfigure the authentication for Argocd, and it will repopulate all the running services.
I am absolutely not saying this is the right path for you as I came into nearly all my modern knowledge through my career, but it is a path
Don't use Ansible and use Nix instead.
Seriously though give yourself time and a solid goals you want to achieve, it'll take time and it'll be worth it as
Nix has issues, personally I'm using an immutable distro. Right now I can go upstairs and yank the power and it'll boot right back up like nothing ever happened.
I want something rock solid, and neither Ansible or NixOS provide that. Here's the article that I took inspiration from: words.filippo.io/frood/
frood, an Alpine initramfs NAS
My NAS is just one big initramfs containing a whole Alpine Linux system. It’s delightful. Here's why and how.words.filippo.io
An immutable distro... like NixOS? Or do you mean your root filesystem is immutable? NixOS can do that too. You could normally mount your nix store as readonly and remount rw during updates if you really care about filesystem immutability, or use some snapshot system if you're paranoid about adding new files to the store corrupting other files already in the store during an update.
The nixpkgs VM creation module, which I've never seen documentation for, has a mode where it generates a kernel, initrd, kernel command line, and erofs image containing a prepopulated /nix directory and that's enough to boot the VM.
Ansible is disappointing as an IAC tool. It's good for doing things, but it's not good for converging systems to a desired state. Too often you end up with playbooks that are not idempotent or rely on something that was done during a previous execution of the playbook or just don't do something that was done by a previous version, and then unless you are constantly recreating your systems you won't notice until it's a problem and you can't get your system back.
I mean my root filesystem is immutable, it runs completely in RAM (squashfs). After trying NixOS and seeing that article I linked about an immutable Alpine NAS I decided to try it for myself. I found it easier to just customize the Arch ISO builder and generate/update images as needed versus following the article exactly, I'm also not familiar with Alpine itself.
Packages aren't pinned in my Arch image and it's not 100% deterministic, but that's fine it's a risk I'm willing to take. So far it's been absolutely rock solid, lean and easy to manage.
Also, I found NixOS annoying because:
1. the language
- the config application (I forget the command) was doing god knows what behind the scenes. My needs aren't that complicated, I'm comfortable with just manually setting things up and locking that in by generating an Arch image. It's way easier.
I love alpine, and I use it where I can. And it has many advantages over other distros and setups. But a declarative, ram-only distro that boots over the network doesn't help manage non-conformant machines.
I still need to manage Debian, old centos boxes, Ubuntu machines, and a couple old-as-time sun machines. Nixos isn't the tool for that job. Ansible has two dependencies: ssh and python, and there are ways around the 2nd one. Ansible works really well here.
Not trying to bash nixos, here, but I'm not sure why so many users on Lemmy compare ansible and nix, they don't really operate in the same spaces.
I just aim for "good enough". Does it work, does it meet my needs? That's good enough, even if it isn't exactly the right way.
Like right now I have a system that needs manual intervention if I shut it down, or it'll come back up non-functional. But it works well enough so I'll just fix that eventually. I like to spend my free time doing more social or productive stuff.
My motivation to use Ansible is fueled by disdain for manual non-scriptable configuration. I've had to use Windows for a couple years lately, and the absence of programmatic access to many things annoyed me to no end.
Now, I get up in the morning and look to the east. I salute the sun and thank the fate for the chance to do proper configuration again. I don't wade through dialogs for hours anymore. I don't lose track of things that I've changed somewhere sometime. I'll learn what the hell the difference between dconf and gsettings is, just to use one of them for all my desktop settings forever. I will have this config for years to come, and I will put more things in it bit by bit.
Now, if Ansible's config language wasn't a naive reinvention of Lisp, that would be great.
My personal selfhosting repo is just about 2 years old with 750 commits now, and probably more than 60 containers running. It's not because of one great effort or design or anything, just setting up a service or two when I find it interesting every few weeks, and trying to make all my setup consistent. Almost everything is deployed as a container run by Podman quadlets, files mounted in /var/opt, config etc copied into place by an ansible script. But not everything, sometimes getting it working was easier without the sensible or I needed to do some funny networking.
TLDR: Coming back again later, and making that easier.
You're doing fine.
After seeing someone at work burnout, I'll offer this advice:
Find what you enjoy doing and do nothing more (today). Itch only 1 scratch at a time.
As an analogy - consider you've moved into a newly built house and have an empty garden. No-one would expect you to create that perfectly first time around. Esp. in 1 weekend. It needs time to grow. Some things will need cutting down, some things will need moving. Animals will crap on it.
I think you're trying to make it perfect, first time around. Perhaps as a fear of doing it "wrong".
There is no wrong, it's all a learning experience, doing things good enough for now and improving / breaking things later.
Ensure you know how to backup your files (3-2-1 rule) and the rest doesn't matter.
I've re-written my ansible scripts a few times, but over months and years as I've learned what works best for my system.
For example, I had 1 complete script for each device. I can wipe the device (get it back on the network) and rebuild with no effort...
... then I realised that most of the scripts had very similar parts to tweak SSH and other settings, so then I learned how to call scripts from within scripts, which also meant using variables (facts) to work out if this is a 32b or 64b RasPi (for example)
That probably took 3 months
But I enjoy sitting in my garden and looking at it...
It's great to give your brain daily workouts on the ins and outs of systems, but if you're feeling burnt out, you're doing that too much, probably, and my guess is, it's coming in at moments when you were trying to solve some other, more interesting/relevant problem.
It comes down to whether you're trying to self-host, or trying to learn Linux at a level where you could get a job doing it. Often it's a bit of both, so don't feel like you need to make that decision right now.
But my advice: whatever you're hosting, use their recommended easy way to host it. In most cases, this means running a container. In most cases, Docker. If you can wrap your head around using docker compose files, your practical problems are reduced by an insane amount, and idiocy at the developer level becomes your only concern. For instance, I used to run Tandoor, but the dev pushed changes into their "stable" docker container that failed to properly migrate my data, and the whole thing cacked. But that wasn't a system problem on my end, it was a case of a dev who was more interested in playing around with data than with providing a stable app.
So, if you take this approach, which I absolutely do recommend, the one thing you need to be sure of is that you have a good backup strategy, and that you backup before you do any pulls of new images. Docker allows you to select old versions so if you don't like changes that get pushed on something, likely you can just rebuild the old version, but the changes might mess with your database migrations, so you need those backups. Other than that, you cannot go wrong with Docker, if you just want the damn thing to work, rather than get daily aggravating lessons in esoteric systems problems which are above your paygrade.
‘We had to swim to safety. I didn’t think we would make it out alive’: the people fleeing climate breakdown – in pictures
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Gaza death toll surpasses 70,000 as Israel keeps up attacks despite truce
Gaza death toll surpasses 70,000 as Israel keeps up attacks despite truce
Israeli drone attack kills two Palestinian children in southern Gaza, medics report, as humanitarian crisis deepens.Al Jazeera
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The Ukrainians Stuck in Russia’s New Gulag
Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be easy to solve the problem of Ukrainian civilians languishing in Russian jails. This is one prisoner’s story.
US Progressives Accuse Trump of Interfering in Honduran Elections
The US Congressional Progressive Caucus on Friday accused President Donald Trump of “flagrantly interfering” in Honduras’ upcoming presidential election after Trump announced his endorsement of right-wing candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura and repeated threats he’s made previously ahead of other electoral contests in which he sought to secure a conservative win.On the social media platform X, Trump warned that only a victory for former Tegucigalpa Mayor Asfura and the National Party in Sunday’s election will allow Honduras and the US to “fight the Narcocommunists, and bring needed aid to the people” of the Central American country.
US Progressives Accuse Trump of Interfering in Honduran Elections
Trump endorsed right-wing presidential candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura and smeared his progressive opponent Rixi Moncada.Julia Conley (Truthout)
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Thank god he won't be in power for our next elections.
He won't be, right, America? *nervous laughter*
He doesn't matter, per se, it's the entire party and anyone that supports it.
And they aren't going anywhere and 93% of the opposing side has no gusto or passion to truly fight back. They think taking the high road will work. They think voter turnout will work. They think bumper stickers and signs will work.
Why Hong Kong’s latest fire is so deadly—and not the city’s first
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/42719582
Web archive linkAt least 128 people have died in one of Hong Kong’s deadliest-ever blazes that broke out Wednesday and devastated a multi-block housing estate.
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But Hong Kong has been the site of many significant fires in the past, which, like the Wang Fuk Court incident, have had various specific causes, but have also often shared some factors that contributed to their deadliness.
...Density
Hong Kong ... is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with 6,900 residents per sq km. Many buildings are built close to each other, especially in Hong Kong Island and neighboring Kowloon, making it easy for fires to spread.
However, the city also owes much of its high population density to the prevalence of subdivided flats—small cut rooms, sometimes resembling animal cages—where residents can cram and reside in for a fraction of the cost of a standard Hong Kong flat.
In April 2024, a fire involving a 60-year-old tenement block in Yau Ma Tei in the Kowloon area left five people dead and dozens injured. In an op-ed at the time about the risks associated with these homes, the South China Morning Post explained that, while a cigarette may have caused the fire, firefighters said subdivided units and “structural alterations” in the building complicated rescue efforts.
Thirteen years earlier, a fire in Mong Kok, also in the Kowloon area, left nine dead, 34 injured, and more than a hundred people homeless. Authorities then pointed out that the danger was exacerbated by the subdivided flats cutting off points of access for the building.
**Economic struggle **
Hong Kong is also among the most expensive places to live globally, and both individuals and businesses in the Chinese enclave often seek cost-cutting shortcuts that, in the case of fires, have proven immensely costly in the end.
Subdivided flats are a response to an expensive housing market, and many residents have foregone safety requirements for the sake of having a place to live.
Fireproofing is also expensive. In the 2024 Yau Ma Tei fire, the building’s owners reportedly encountered difficulties in raising funds to comply with fire safety guidelines, with a district councillor noting that “the increasingly high cost of upgrading fire prevention facilities and equipment, especially in the bidding process, had not helped,” according to SCMP.
Bamboo scaffolding, which has been linked to the latest conflagration’s devastation, is also known as a cheap alternative for construction businesses despite the city’s Development Bureau pushing to “drive a wider adoption of metal scaffolds in public building works progressively,” with a bureau official citing bamboo’s “intrinsic weaknesses such as variation in mechanical properties, deterioration over time and high combustibility, etc, giving rise to safety concerns.”
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Lax enforcement
Politicians in the city have flagged that many of the city’s buildings are rapidly aging and in need of better fireproofing.
But previous fires have shown that compliance with government orders has been poor. In the 2024 Yau Ma Tei fire, the city’s Buildings Department already issued fire safety orders to the owners of the block in question in 2008—including calling for them to replace fire doors and outfit the building with more fire-resistant material. But SCMP reported that despite the department’s follow-up, the order had not been followed ...
Latest government data show that more than 8,600 fire hazard abatement notices have been issued in Hong Kong as of January, following inspections of old, high-risk buildings. More than 300 of these notices involved prosecutions or convictions.
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Why Hong Kong’s Latest Fire Is So Deadly—and Not the City’s First
Dozens have died in one of Hong Kong’s deadliest fires ever, but a number of factors have made the Chinese enclave susceptible to such tragedies.Chad de Guzman (Time)
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I'm so frustrated that this article, and many other sources - including news programs, are not talking about the lack of alarms in the buildings. I agree that the materials and density were terrible and created a catastrophic situation for the structures, but the lack of alarms to alert residents is absolutely ridiculous and is what made this such a huge tragedy for the people who died.
If the buildings' alarms aren't working, then they should be on "fire watch" with 24/7 personnel ready to alert people on every floor where the alarm isn't working. Does that cost too much? Then fix the fucking alarms as a top priority. This is especially true when there are no automatic sprinklers, which sounds like is often the case in Hong Kong.
There are reports that people were getting calls from their friends and relatives and that's how they learned about the fire. People were waking up to the smell of smoke without an alarm going off. WTF. That's so far beyond acceptable, I don't know what else to say.
I travel a lot and I always bring my own smoke and CO detector with me. This is an example of why.
Just read a [BBC article]https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8e5j20g27o():
... Several residents have revealed in interviews that the fire alarm did not sound when the fire broke out. Authorities said on Friday that they had checked the fire alarms in all eight blocks and found that they were not working properly ...
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Update: 8 hours later, no change.
Update: Yep, still nothing.
~~I'll check again after 24 hours to see if Lemmy does anything.~~
Seems like fetching the post listing from Peertube is broken, but you can fetch individual videos by url. Also if you follow a Peertube channel new videos will automatically be federated and show in your feed. If you encounter such problems please open an issue, we cant fix bugs that we are unaware of.
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu…
Parse outbox from Peertube
When fetching a Peertube channel for the first time, it should parse the videos listed in the outbox and import those as well. This is currently failing for some reason, and the search page loads f...Nutomic (GitHub)
Lemmy supports federation with Peertube since a long time.
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull…
Support federation with Peertube by Nutomic · Pull Request #2244 · LemmyNet/lemmy
todo: handle content field in markdown format (we currently expect only html, or markdown being in the source field) treat Video objects as Lemmy post, with a link to the video page (btw, Peertu...GitHub
Peru to declare state of emergency to block Chile border crossings
Peru to declare state of emergency to block Chile border crossings
The announcement comes as undocumented people flee neighbouring Chile in anticipation of an immigration crackdown.Joseph Stepansky (Al Jazeera)
Gatekeeper: The first open-source DDoS protection system. Has anyone tried mass hosting this as a group?
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/31326102
Since it is not designed for individual selfhosters, I'm wondering if any groups are actively attempting to run it together? Idea sounds cool, but I'm wondering about practical execution.
GitHub - AltraMayor/gatekeeper: The first open-source DDoS protection system
The first open-source DDoS protection system. Contribute to AltraMayor/gatekeeper development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Doesn't really make sense for self hosting. Filtering the traffic is pointless if the traffic just completely overwhelms your internet.
Also generally self hosters aren't running bgp with their own asn.
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Imagine a federated system that allows everyone to host this and everyone can vote on a designated target
Ticketmaster is being a dick? Vote! Ticketmaster is now ddossed until it makes hard changes to its policies and brings prices down to like 10% of what it is today
Boeing continues to focus on money only, not safety? Ddos until it changes
The Cheeto is murdering innocent people again? The entire world will ddos everything US until he's removed.
I know this won't ever happen, but I see this as potentially useful in making the world a better place for everyone
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Germany’s far-right AfD sets up youth wing, drawing thousands of demonstrators
Thousands of demonstrators gathered Saturday in the central German city of Giessen for the launch of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party’s new youth organisation. The meeting was delayed as some AfD supporters clashed with police.
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Trump’s $2 Trillion Plan to Cash in on Ukraine ‘Peace’ Leaks
Trump’s $2 Trillion Plan to Cash in on Ukraine ‘Peace’ Leaks
A Wall Street Journal report details how profit is at the center of Trump’s “peace” talks.Adam Downer (The Daily Beast)
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“Russia has so many vast resources, vast expanses of land,” Witkoff, who last week was busted coaching Russians on how to best suck up to the president, told The Wall Street Journal.“If we do all that, and everybody’s prospering and they’re all a part of it, and there’s upside for everybody, that’s going to naturally be a bulwark against future conflicts there. Because everybody’s thriving,” Witkoff said.
For Witkoff, Kushner, and the Russians, the goal is reportedly to revitalize Russia’s $2 trillion economy through joint Russia-U.S. ventures. At the center of the talks is $300 billion in frozen Russian central bank assets that Russia wants to give to U.S. businesses for investment projects and U.S.-led reconstruction of Ukraine.
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so fucking dumb. Russia's economy had become intertwined with Europe's due to energy. everyone was benefiting.
IT DIDN'T FUCKING MATTER!
Russia has made it IMPOSSIBLE to be at peace with them.
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Follow the money.
It's a VERY old and EFFICTIVE police trick to FIND the real CRIMINAL.
Yeah but police follow the money until it gets too hard to pull people in (or someone on the force is protecting them).
So usually they just take your basic B&Es and corner street dealers and shoplifters and leave it at that.
Nobody ever asked why the criminals chose a life of crime.
Nobody goes after the employers that are paying slave wages, training employees how to sign up for welfare, or getting their employees to work off the clock.
The welfare one especially. People get mad at welfare recipients and not the people that put them in that position. Welfare is subsidizing the Walton's more than anything. They could afford to pay their employees a living wage, but why would they when they can pay the minimum and working-class taxpayers can pay for the rest. Dumbass redcaps should be shunning Walmart, not sucking its proverbial dick.
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And another 40 million are shocked because people aren't falling in line for controlled opposition.
We really are a stupid bunch. Rich people keep getting richer off of it ;)
both look fine, I don’t care enough to vote
Voter suppression in the United States
Past that, it is very weird to insist a less-than-perfect turnout in a Blue States was a vote for Trump. And God help you if you had the nerve to vote third party. This was somehow a vote for both Trump and Harris, through the eyes of the opposition parties.
Harris shed over 10M votes relative to Biden, and Democrats still don't want to ask why. It's always a betrayal of the party by the voters. Politicians never seen to have any duty to the people.
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Judging by the news coming out of Ukraine, Russia, and now the US, seems like everyone in government is cashing in on Ukraine.
Won't be long before it's confirmed Zelensky did too.
I must say i don't really support your judgement.
I'm not seeing where the cash comes from tbh. If Zelensky was getting paid he would lay down and surrender, so why isn't he?
Deja vi
We've been exactly here before and nothing happened
This won't happen either. The Cheeto will be buried by the trump/Epstein files soon enough
Upvoting for hope. 👍
Rebellions are built on hope.
Votre médecin sur TikTok est-il réel ? Le nouveau visage effrayant de l’arnaque aux compléments alimentaires
Imaginez la scène , vous faites défiler votre fil d’actualité sur TikTok ou Facebook et vous tombez sur une vidéo d’un médecin respecté. Il porte peut-être une blouse blanche, s’exprime devant un pupitre officiel ou semble donner une interview sérieuse. Il regarde la caméra et vous explique avec autorité que pour soigner vos symptômes de la ménopause, vous devez absolument acheter un nouveau supplément miracle. Vous faites confiance à la blouse blanche, vous faites confiance à l’expert. Pourtant, tout ceci n’est qu’une illusion numérique.
Une enquête récente et alarmante menée par l’organisation de vérification des faits Full Fact a révélé une tendance inquiétante qui envahit nos réseaux sociaux, l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle pour voler l’image et la voix de médecins réels afin de vendre des produits de santé douteux. Ce n’est plus de la science-fiction, c’est une réalité commerciale agressive qui cible les personnes vulnérables en quête de solutions médicales.
La mécanique du mensonge numérique
Le mode opératoire découvert par les enquêteurs est aussi simple qu’efficace. Les fraudeurs récupèrent des vidéos réelles de conférences médicales, d’interviews télévisées ou d’audiences parlementaires disponibles sur Internet. Grâce à des technologies de plus en plus accessibles, ils manipulent ensuite les mouvements des lèvres et clonent la voix de l’intervenant. Le résultat est un « deepfake », ou hypertrucage, où un expert reconnu semble prononcer des mots qu’il n’a jamais dits.
Dans le cas précis révélé par Full Fact, des centaines de vidéos ont été identifiées. Elles mettent en scène des versions clonées de médecins et d’influenceurs dirigeant les spectateurs vers Wellness Nest, une entreprise de suppléments basée aux États-Unis. Ces faux médecins encouragent vivement les femmes traversant la ménopause à se procurer des probiotiques, du shilajit de l’Himalaya ou d’autres extraits de plantes sur le site de l’entreprise. Léo Benedictus, l’enquêteur derrière ces révélations, qualifie cette tactique de sinistre et inquiétante, car elle exploite la crédibilité d’experts ayant une grande audience pour valider des traitements non prouvés.
Le cas surréaliste du Professeur Taylor-Robinson
Pour comprendre l’impact personnel et professionnel de ces arnaques, il faut se pencher sur l’histoire du professeur David Taylor-Robinson, expert en inégalités de santé à l’université de Liverpool. Ce spécialiste, dont le travail se concentre principalement sur la santé des enfants, a eu le choc de découvrir qu’il était devenu, à son insu, le visage d’une campagne marketing pour la ménopause sur TikTok. Au mois d’août, quatorze vidéos manipulées circulaient sur la plateforme, le montrant en train de recommander des produits aux bénéfices non prouvés. L’absurdité de la situation a atteint son paroxysme dans une vidéo où son clone numérique évoquait un prétendu effet secondaire de la ménopause appelé « jambe thermomètre ». Le faux professeur conseillait alors l’achat d’un probiotique naturel contenant du curcuma et de l’actée à grappes noires pour soulager ces symptômes fictifs, ajoutant même des témoignages inventés de collègues féminines.
La réalité derrière ces images est tout autre. Les séquences originales provenaient d’une conférence sur la vaccination donnée en 2017 et d’une audition parlementaire sur la pauvreté infantile en mai dernier. Pire encore, certaines vidéos allaient jusqu’à faire tenir au professeur des propos misogynes et vulgaires. Si ses enfants ont d’abord trouvé la situation hilarante, le professeur Taylor-Robinson a rapidement déchanté face à la difficulté de faire retirer ces contenus. Il décrit un sentiment croissant d’irritation à l’idée que des escrocs profitent de son travail pour propager de la désinformation médicale.
Une modération dépassée par les événements
La réponse des plateformes sociales face à ce fléau soulève de nombreuses questions sur leur capacité à nous protéger. Il a fallu six semaines et de multiples plaintes pour que TikTok retire enfin les vidéos du professeur Taylor-Robinson. La plateforme a affirmé au début que certaines vidéos ne violaient pas ses règles, une réponse jugée absurde par le médecin, étant donné qu’il s’agissait intégralement de faux le mettant en scène sans son consentement.
Ce problème ne se limite pas à un seul médecin. Duncan Selbie, ancien directeur général de Public Health England, a également été ciblé. Huit deepfakes le montrant en train de parler de ménopause ont été découverts sur TikTok, utilisant les mêmes images de l’événement de 2017 que celles de Taylor-Robinson. Selbie a qualifié l’imitation de stupéfiante de réalisme, soulignant que c’est un faux intégral du début à la fin, mais suffisamment convaincant pour tromper un public inattentif. D’autres figures médicales britanniques de premier plan ont également vu leur image détournée sur X, Facebook et YouTube.
La défense de l’industrie et l’appel à la régulation
Face aux accusations, la société Wellness Nest a adopté une ligne de défense classique dans le monde du marketing numérique opaque. L’entreprise a déclaré à Full Fact que ces vidéos étaient totalement indépendantes de leur volonté, affirmant n’avoir jamais utilisé de contenu généré par l’IA. Elle rejette la faute sur des affiliés à travers le monde qu’elle ne peut ni contrôler ni surveiller. C’est une excuse commode qui met en lumière les zones grises du marketing d’affiliation, où des tiers peuvent utiliser des méthodes sans scrupules pour générer des ventes et toucher des commissions, tout en permettant à la marque principale de nier toute responsabilité directe.
Cette situation a provoqué une levée de boucliers politique. Helen Morgan, porte-parole santé des Libéraux-Démocrates au Royaume-Uni, a vivement réagi en soulignant le danger que représente l’IA lorsqu’elle est utilisée pour exploiter les failles du système de santé. Elle pose une question fondamentale, si un individu se faisait passer pour un médecin dans la vie réelle pour vendre des médicaments, il serait poursuivi pénalement. Pourquoi tolérons-nous l’équivalent numérique ? Elle appelle à ce que les deepfakes se faisant passer pour des professionnels de santé soient éradiqués et que ceux qui profitent de la désinformation médicale soient tenus criminellement responsables.
Que pouvons-nous faire ?
TikTok a déclaré avoir supprimé le contenu incriminé et continuer d’investir dans de nouvelles méthodes de détection. Ils admettent cependant que le contenu généré par l’IA est un défi pour l’ensemble de l’industrie. En tant qu’utilisateurs, la vigilance est notre meilleure arme. Si vous voyez un médecin célèbre recommander un produit miracle sur une vidéo aux mouvements de lèvres légèrement décalés ou avec une intonation monotone, méfiez-vous. Vérifiez toujours les sources officielles et rappelez-vous que si un remède semble trop beau pour être vrai, c’est probablement parce qu’il n’existe pas. L’ère de la désinformation médicale assistée par l’IA ne fait que commencer et notre esprit critique est la seule barrière restante.
AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media
Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effectsDenis Campbell (The Guardian)
Thousands of protesters gather as German far-right party sets up new youth organization
cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/42655760
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the western German city of Giessen on Saturday as the far-right Alternative for Germany’s new youth organization was set to kick off its founding convention.Groups of protesters blocked or tried to block roads in and around the city of some 93,000 people in the early morning. Police said they used pepper spray after stones were thrown at officers at one location.
The new youth organization of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is to be set up in a meeting at Giessen’s convention center. Its predecessor, the Young Alternative — a largely autonomous group with relatively loose links to the party — was dissolved at the end of March after AfD decided to formally cut ties with it.
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Very good and very important!
Thank you to everyone who stands up against hatred and for a tolerant, humane society.
finitebanjo
in reply to MicroWave • • •Not really unexpected. A disruption of global trade, namely the pacific, a stricter export ban policy on a lot of minerals, a stricter import ban on some tech, and just a general distrust of the ever more emboldened and aggressive China has left a toll and I expect it to only lean more and more in that direction.
Idk what Xi Jinping was doing in the late 80s and early 90s, but clearly he has forgotten how quickly markets retract when trust is lost. Maybe his psyops algorithm app isn't pushing the weight he expected it to?