I saw something about this a while back and was waiting for the campaign to launch. It has launched and I just backed the project! This looks like it will be a fun display to tinker with!
He later said, in response to a lawmaker’s question asking whether the Justice Department will “find some way” to indict him, that he believes “they will do everything in their power to do that, because they’ve been ordered to by the president.”
I mean, you definitely should read theory. Summaries are helpful, as are cool ways to explain complex concepts, such as dialectics4kids when it comes to teaching dialectical materialism. However, advanced theory is helpful for accurate analysis and advanced practice. It better informs us on our conditions and our necessary tasks in building a better world. I made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list to help facilitate that process of learning, and to help expand my own knowledge to help my IRL organizing.
When we reject theory, and reject advanced analysis, it's akin to a factory abandoning best practices and doing whatever feels best at the moment. Such a factory would probably work fine at first, but would run into far more hiccups, accidents, slow production, and even fall apart. So too do revolutionary projects need accurate analysis, best practices, and a solid understanding of the forces at play that go beyond simple vibes.
Revolution is like designing a smartphone, you need to analyze social development, its behavior and laws, history and trajectory, just like you need to analyze material science, physics, electrical engineering, chemistry, and more, not to mention logistics, shipping, mining, packing, and more to develop a smartphone.
It's time to read theory, comrades! As Lenin says, "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle." Reading theory helps us identify the core contradictions within modern society, analyze their trajectories, and gives us the tools to break free. Marxism-Leninism is broken into 3 major components, as noted by Lenin in his pamphlet The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism: | Audiobook
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Critique of Capitalism along the lines of Marx's Law of Value
Advocacy for Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
As such, I created the following list to take you from no knowledge whatsoever of Leftist theory, and leave you with a strong understanding of the critical fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism in an order that builds up as you read. Let's get started!
Section I: Getting Started
What the heck is Communism, anyways? For that matter, what is fascism?
Breaks down fascism and its mortal enemy, Communism, as well as their antagonistic relationship. Understanding what fascism is, where and when it rises, why it does so, and how to banish it forever is critical. Parenti also helps debunk common anti-Communist myths, from both the "left" and the right, in a quick-witted writing style. This is also an excellent time to watch the famous speech.
Section II: Historical and Dialectical Materialism
By far my favorite primer on Marxist philosophy. By understanding Dialectical and Historical Materialism first, you make it easier to understand the rest of Marxism-Leninism. Don't be intimidated!
Further reading on Dialectical and Historical Materialism, but crucially introduces the why of Scientific Socialism, explaining how Capitalism itself prepares the conditions for public ownership and planning by centralizing itself into monopolist syndicates. This is also where Engels talks about the failures of previous "Utopian" Socialists.
Section III: Political Economy
That's right, it's time for the Law of Value and a deep-dive into Imperialism. If we are to defeat Capitalism, we must learn it's mechanisms, tendencies, contradictions, and laws.
Best taken as a pair, these essays simplify the most important parts of the Law of Value. Marx is targetting those not trained in economics here, but you might want to keep a pen and some paper to follow along if you are a visual person.
Absolutely crucial and the most important work for understanding the modern era and its primary contradictions. Marxist-Leninists understand that Imperialism is the greatest contradiction in the modern era, which cascades downward into all manner of related contradictions. Knowing what dying Capitalism looks like, and how it behaves, means we can kill it.
Section IV: Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
Can we defeat Capitalism at the ballot box? What about just defeating fascism? What about the role of the state?
If Marxists believed reforming Capitalist society was possible, we would be the first in line for it. Sadly, it isn't possible, which Luxemburg proves in this monumental writing.
Excellent refutation of revisionists and Social Democrats who think the State can be reformed, without needing to be replaced with one that is run by the workers, in their own interests.
Section V: Intersectionality and Solidarity
The revolution will not be fought by atomized individuals, but by an intersectional, international working class movement. Intersectionality is critical, because it allows different marginalized groups to work together in collective interest, unifying into a broad movement.
Critical reading on understanding misogyny, transphobia, enbyphobia, pluralphobia, and homophobia, as well as how to move beyond the base subject of "gender." Uses the foundations built up in the previous works to analyze gender theory from a Historical Materialist perspective.
De-colonialism is essential to Marxism. Without having a strong, de-colonial, internationalist stance, we have no path to victory nor a path to justice. Fanon analyzes Colonialism's dehumanizing effects, and lays out how to form a de-colonial movement, as well as its necessity.
Solidarity and intersectionality are the key to any social movement. When different social groups fight for liberation together along intersectional lines, the movements are emboldened and empowered ever-further.
Section VI: Putting it into Practice!
It's not enough to endlessly read, you must put theory to practice. That is how you can improve yourself and the movements you support. Touch grass!
Mao wrote simply and directly, targeting peasant soldiers during the Revolutionary War in China. This pair of essays equip the reader with the ability to apply the analytical tools of Dialectical Materialism to their every day practice, and better understand problems.
Congratulations, you completed your introductory reading course!
With your new understanding and knowledge of Marxism-Leninism, here is a mini What is to be Done? of your own to follow, and take with you as practical advice.
Get organized. Join a Leftist org, find solidarity with fellow comrades, and protect each other. The Dems will not save you, it is up to us to protect ourselves. The Party for Socialism and Liberation and Freedom Road Socialist Organization both organize year round, every year, because the battle for progress is a constant struggle, not a single election. See if there is a chapter near you, or start one! Or, see if there's an org you like more near you and join it.
Read theory. Don't think that you are done now! Just because you have the basics, doesn't mean you know more than you do. If you have not investigated a subject, don't speak on it! Don't speak nonsense, but listen!
Aggressively combat white supremacy, misogyny, queerphobia, and other attacks on marginalized communities. Cede no ground, let nobody be forgotten or left behind. There is strength in numbers, when one marginalized group is targeted, many more are sure to follow.
Be industrious, and self-sufficient. Take up gardening, home repair, tinkering. It is through practice that you elevate your problem-solving capabilities. Not only will you improve your skill at one subject, but your general problem-solving muscles get strengthened as well.
Learn self-defense. Get armed, if practical. Be ready to protect yourself and others. Liberals will not save us, we must save each other.
Be persistent. If you feel like a single water droplet against a mountain, think of canyons and valleys. Oh, how our efforts pile up! With consistency, every rock, boulder, even mountain, can be drilled through with nothing but steady and persistent water droplets.
"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent."
Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a national organization of revolutionaries fighting for socialism in the United States. Our home is in the working class.
Apparently I've somehow picked up on how to read the phrase "alhamdulillah" in Arabic despite never studying the language. Neat!
I basically recognize "Allah" ﷲ based on the shape of the whole word rather than the individual letters, and I learned to read that word through exposure. In the phrase الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ alhamdulillah I see there's no alif at the start of Allah, though.
I think I learned to read ال al- just through repeat exposure since al- is literally the most common prefix in Arabic — it's even at the start of Allah! — but I also know the letters alif and lam on their own because ا alif is memorable to me as the "simplest letter for the simplest sound", and ل lam is memorable to me because it looks like (and literally is, in a sense) a backwards L.
After recognizing "al-??? lillah" I was already figuring from context that the text probably said "alhamdulillah", but I still tried to confirm this by looking at the remaining letters:
Medial ha ح looked a lot like the initial kha خ in the word khatam (as in خاتم النبيين khatam an-nabiyin, "Seal of the Prophets"), so I figured that the two letters ha/kha had to be variants of each other with similar h-like sounds. Previously, I'd known the letter ha really just from its isolated/final forms ح, just from going down an Arabizi rabbit hole once: ح ha is often written as 7 in Arabizi due to the similarity of the numeral 7 to the isolated shape of the letter ha.
Medial meem ﻤ looked a lot like the final form of the related Hebrew letter mem ם, which also, very coincidentally, looks like the Korean letter ㅁ mieum, which was derived from the shape of the mouth to represent the fact that you say M with your lips. The origin of the Korean letter is completely unrelated to the Arabic and Hebrew letters but still makes them more memorable to me.
Dal د is not a letter I had any real chance of recognizing. It's related to its Hebrew, Latin, Greek and Cyrillic equivalents but is not particularly similar to any of them. But if I got to the point where I could tell that the text said "al-ham?? lillah" then there was really zero chance the unrecognizable last letter could be anything other than dal.
Learning new writing systems is really fun because you get to return to the joy of first learning to read your native language as a little kid. I wonder if I'll manage to learn the entire Arabic script through passive exposure!
Dutch travel agencies report a significant drop—around 20%—in bookings to the United States since Donald Trump’s inauguration. The decline mainly affects longer round trips, while short city trips (e.g., New York, Chicago) remain relatively stable.
Travellers cite: - Discomfort with Trump’s policies - Fear of stricter immigration controls, including concerns about being asked to show social‑media accounts - A general negative sentiment toward the U.S. political climate
As a result: - Alternative destinations such as Canada, Asia, Egypt, Australia, and New Zealand are becoming more popular. - Some agencies say the “Trump effect” is pushing travellers toward other long‑haul destinations. - Cheap flights keep short U.S. city trips somewhat stable, but longer tours have dropped sharply.
We definitely noticed the cheap tickets right now. We're working on flying more of our kids out of the US to Europe to emigrate permanently as they finish school. It's a great time to fly out.
What project is this? I have never seen a reaction like that, if anything I've had the opposite, where I said it was a minor inconvenience and the maintainer said "what do you mean 'minor'? This is terrible!"
Questo è il testamento musicale di Warren, morto poco prima della pubblicazione del disco (24 gennaio 1947–7 settembre 2003). Colpito da un male incurabile, il musicista californiano ha voluto a tutti i costi questo album, e se pur stanco, affaticato dalla malattia, ha lavorato duramente con profonda dignità fino alla completa registrazione... Leggi e ascolta...
Questo è il testamento musicale di Warren, morto poco prima della pubblicazione del disco (24 gennaio 1947–7 settembre 2003). Colpito da un male incurabile, il musicista californiano ha voluto a tutti i costi questo album, e se pur stanco, affaticato dalla malattia, ha lavorato duramente con profonda dignità fino alla completa registrazione. Attorniato da un numero incredibile di amici e musicisti, ci ha consegnato uno dei dischi più belli ed ispirati della sua trentennale carriera... silvanobottaro.it/archives/399…
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I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no "two evils" exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.... — W.E.B. Du Bois
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. — Julius Nyerere
I’m sure you could find more stuff if you keep going back. This has been happening forever. Every new generation has to learn this lesson for themselves I guess. But nothing ever changes.
Any suggestion that there's something questionable or unreliable about the American democratic process is a trick by the Republican Party to suppress liberal voter enthusiasm. And if you mention it you are helping the Republicans win. Also Russia.
If you're still in line, stay in line. Our elections are secure. The midterms is winnable if you vote in it. Shut up and do what we tell you or you're an enemy.
The Democrats engage in this exact same behavior. In fact they often either back the Republican efforts to disenfranchise people or fail to provide any counter narrative to dispel the lies which to me is basically tantamount to support. And then when they offer push back it's in the stupidest way that ends up lending some kind of credence to the Republican outlook because there is some need to engage in bipartisanship action with insane people in search of a mythical centrist position that will unite us all.
Let's not pretend this is one side versus the other. Those bought and sold by institutional and corporate power are waging a war on the working class of this nation and much of the rest of the world. It is not left vs right it is owner vs worker.
The reality is our "democratic" institutions are designed to limit the extent to which average people can effectuate change in our society. At every level there are layers of misdirection that are rife with opportunities to dilute the will of the voters and warp it into something that broadly serves the ruling class instead.
People want free healthcare but instead of getting that we end up with some mildly better system that perpetuates the insurance industry being in control of what services a person is allowed to get both through price gouging and denials of service - just as one example. No solutions just Band-Aids to extend the longevity of the powers that be.
America (like most "liberal democracies") doesn't have a democratic process to begin with, so your point is moot. Your reps control your entire country and can do basically whatever the fuck they want for 4 years (in the house/presidency), 6 years (in the senate) or life (for SCOTUS).
In theory, the power of recall or impeachment exists, but you've seen yourself how trying to impeach even someone as corrupt as Trump goes.
Even in cases where there is a semblance of direct democracy (such as state wide propositions), the capitalists own the entire media aparatus (on top of basically every other part of society and nature).
Work hand in hand with the current president for years
Supports regime change on their border causing a civil war for a decade then catching them in a brutal war of attrition in a place that is predominantly Russian speaking culturally Russian people
Sanctions Russia and restricts access to global capital causing significant economic harm and forcing them to go into wartime production
Decides to withhold all their money
Refuses to negotiate in good faith
Russia can't seem to end the conflict, get their money back or gain access to US and European markets and capital
Also Americans:
Russia controls the US president! Russia is doing everything bad to the US!
This isn't a SocDem problem but a Democratic Establishment problem.
The DNC are the absolute shitstains standing in the way of progress while pretending to be progressive. Just remember how they royally fucked Bernie over in 2016 because it was, "Her Turn"™.
That was when many people gave up on Democrats, and rightfully so if it wasn't for Trump running in 2024.
I actually went to caucus to try and sway and put in my two cents for Bernie, and deadass someone in my ‘group’ said we should vote for Hillary because it’s ‘time for a woman president’. And yeah, not wrong, but that’s his entire reasoning. Ridiculous, not well it would be great to have a woman and she’s really experienced or I believe in this part of what she is running. Nope, just the first part.
today I was tasked with breaking rocks with a pickaxe with my feet chained, but you can be damn sure I looked professional and really upstanding while doing it, that's gonna show em
I have a conspiracy theory that the DNC are just conservatives who made the most financial decision of socially supporting the smallest minority they could find for PR.
Musk’s pro-Nazi social media feed ranking broke the US government:
Senior executive 2: Whenever there’s a critical incident, one of the first things that happens is a conference call with everybody — all the executives, most of the field offices dial in. The director rarely speaks, because someone with situational awareness is leading the call. They’ll say: Here’s what happened. Here’s what we know. Here’s what we need. But we get on, and it’s just Kash berating the special agent in charge in Salt Lake. He’s super emotional.
And then it turns surreal. He and Bongino start talking about their Twitter strategy. And Kash is like: I’m gonna tweet this. Salt Lake, you tweet that. Dan, you come in with this. Then I’ll come back with this. They’re literally scripting out their social media, not talking about how we’re going to respond or resources or the situation. He’s screaming that he wants to put stuff out, but it’s not even vetted yet. It’s not even accurate.
National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, issued by the Trump administration in September 2025, relies on logic from the lady and the fly. It frames “domestic terrorism” and “organized political violence” as national security crises. It tells federal agencies to work together to investigate and stop suspected threats, a framework that enlarges the set of things the state can plausibly treat as suspect, including the freedoms of association and belief.
The language in the memorandum affirms legitimate counterterrorism work while leaving room to treat political dissent as out of bounds. But the First Amendment protects protest speech.
Still, if the language of the Trump memo is somewhat abstract, Minneapolis has provided a brutally concrete example.
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The state has two choices when a death occurs that’s politically dangerous to the government.
It can investigate the killing with transparency and center the victim’s rights alongside public accountability as organizing principles. Or it can treat the killing as an opportunity to put the victim on trial in the court of public legitimacy.
The second choice avoids holding government accountable, shifts conversation toward the target’s supposed behavior and character, and expands the blame to include the people who loved and stood with the dead.
When this happens, the government does not have to win in court. It only has to keep the stigma circulating by asserting that a particular speaker undermines respect for elected officials. Indeed, that’s one of the reasons Trump offered for Good’s shooting by the ICE officer: “At a very minimum, that woman was very, very disrespectful to law enforcement,” he told reporters.
The United States has been here before. Around EG: During? World War I, the U.S. Supreme Court issued several free speech decisions in cases mostly remembered as disputes over protest and draft resistance. But their underlying engine was the swallow-a-fly theory. Opposing the war might ruin the nation, so political dissidents had to be stopped, and the court affirmed the government’s right to silence strident speakers.
Renee Good’s death was the consequence, writes a First Amendment scholar, of a kind of politics in which the state survives by making dissenters illegitimate as citizens.
President Donald Trump officially launches his so-called “Board of Peace,” as his son-in-law Jared Kushner presents a “master plan.” Head of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza Ali Shaath says Rafah border crossing will open for two-way traffic next week. UN warns Gaza food situation remains perilous, documents Gaza’s water crisis and discusses the block of repairs, while UN estimates say Gaza’s population has fallen by more than 10%. The World Health Organization evacuates patients from Gaza, warns thousands are still stranded. Veteran cameraman and CBS News contributor among journalists killed in Gaza airstrike. ICE memo authorizes home entries without judge’s warrant. A Minnesota school district says ICE detained four students, including a 5-year-old. The Trump Administration eyes Cuba after Venezuela ouster. An appeals court lifts limits on ICE actions against Minnesota protesters. DHS launches immigration enforcement operation in Maine. NATO chief avoids public comment on the U.S.’s Greenland threats. Syrian Army reports post-ceasefire deaths in SDF attacks, with reports of a drone strike in Northeast Syria. U.S. begins moving IS prisoners from Syria to Iraq. Famine and new displacement grip South Kordofan. The UN warns fighting is cutting off aid across Sudan. RSF attacks kill Over 100 Civilians in North Darfur. Intel flags expanded UAE Support for Sudan’s RSF, as Saudi red lines emerge. Israel strikes Syria–Lebanon crossings and Hezbollah targets despite ceasefire. Car bomb targets Saudi-Backed militia leader near Aden. Boko Haram attack kills soldiers in Northeast Nigeria. Nigerian Army rescues 62 hostages in northwest offensive.
Trump officially launches "Board of Peace"; Rafah crossing said to reopen next week; ICE memo authorizes home entries without judge’s warrant
President Donald Trump officially launches his so-called “Board of Peace,” as his son-in-law Jared Kushner presents a “master plan.” Head of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza Ali Shaath says Rafah border crossing will open for two-way traffic next week. UN warns Gaza food situation remains perilous, documents Gaza’s water crisis and discusses the block of repairs, while UN estimates say Gaza’s population has fallen by more than 10%. The World Health Organization evacuates patients from Gaza, warns thousands are still stranded. Veteran cameraman and CBS News contributor among journalists killed in Gaza airstrike. ICE memo authorizes home entries without judge’s warrant. A Minnesota school district says ICE detained four students, including a 5-year-old. The Trump Administration eyes Cuba after Venezuela ouster. An appeals court lifts limits on ICE actions against Minnesota protesters. DHS launches immigration enforcement operation in Maine. NATO chief avoids public comment on the U.S.’s Greenland threats. Syrian Army reports post-ceasefire deaths in SDF attacks, with reports of a drone strike in Northeast Syria. U.S. begins moving IS prisoners from Syria to Iraq. Famine and new displacement grip South Kordofan. The UN warns fighting is cutting off aid across Sudan. RSF attacks kill Over 100 Civilians in North Darfur. Intel flags expanded UAE Support for Sudan’s RSF, as Saudi red lines emerge. Israel strikes Syria–Lebanon crossings and Hezbollah targets despite ceasefire. Car bomb targets Saudi-Backed militia leader near Aden. Boko Haram attack kills soldiers in Northeast Nigeria. Nigerian Army rescues 62 hostages in northwest offensive.
So browsers have started to roll out GPC, or basically browser-based consent. This was explicitly designed to deal with intrusive cookie banners. I've now noticed several websites with the same intrusive banners recognizing that you opted out but begging you to opt back in anyway. These banners are so big as to obscure the majority of the content on the site.
Easy, don't use products from companies which say user consent, but mean obligation, are the same which say "We value your privacy", but mean "to sell it to others for our incommings".
These aren't tech companies, they're just ad-driven publications
But yeah I remember the Do Not Track signal ironically being used to track you. And I remember Microsoft make it completely useless because they turned it on by default.
This, also site permissions (at least in Vivaldi), extensions like I don't need Cookies or its filterlists in the adblocker. (eg. secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-coo…), all other filtering with Portmaster, the middle finger for Big Brother corps.
Portmaster is a free and open-source application that puts you back in charge over all your computer's network connections. Increase your privacy and security. Get peace of mind.
Labor unions are calling on people to skip work and hit the streets to demonstrate against the swarm of federal agents in Minneapolis
Labor unions in the Twin Cities are urging people not to work or shop on Friday and instead gather to protest President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign, a sign of the organized resistance sprouting up as immigration agents continue to carry out raids and confront demonstrators in Minnesota.
Labor groups hope a one-day economic blackout will increase protest turnout and send a message to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that the agency isn’t welcome in the Minneapolis area.
Maliit (GitHub - maliit/keyboard: Maliit Keyboard, a free software virtual keyboard for Linux) is what has the most integration with plasma, but for my system it’s broken, so your milage may vary.
Feeding homeless people is also a form of praxis. Even if you aren't arming for the revolution, you are still contributing to fighting against capitalism.
Not to be pedantic, but assuming you are purchasing that food isn't it still contributing to capitalism? Therefore, also grow your own food and share with those in need
Edit: I'm not saying this in a defeatist manner, but simply that if the point is to reduce contributing to capitalism, buying someone a McDonald's meal still contributes.
I feel like that falls under "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good".
We could take this further. Where are you getting the seeds? Was a purchase from a capitalist source anywhere in the chain of the history of the plant's ancestors? Are these distant offspring of monsanto seeds? Does that make it worse, or better if you didn't pay for yor your own seeds but sourced them a different way?
You suck dude, and have very clearly never grown your own food or provided for yourself. Get out more, that kind of ideological "purity" doesn't hold up to sunlight well
I see how this comes across as me arguing "if you can't beat capitalism, it's not worth trying." But I'm really just saying do both. Help your unhoused, and also try to do so in a way that does not contribute to capitalism.
You should really relax though, this personal attack is not very solarpunk of you.
There's also more than just growing your own and sharing it. We've got a community garden, underground farmer's market, and crop-share programs in my area, and those are also great options.
Tell me more about this underground farmer's market? I haven't heard of this concept. I'm working on reviving the community garden in my area, and unfortunately crop-sharing farms have all fallen apart near me.
Haha, it's just an ad hoc thing that gets set up in the park every summer. No licenses, no permits, no advertising, just garden fresh veg in ziplock baggies in exchange for cash.
The real farmer's market is a half hour drive away, and this is just a nice little cottage industry for people who don't sell enough to justify booth fees and paperwork at the real one, but want to make some money back on their home garden.
Food not bombs prioritizes food that wouldn't be sold like day old baked goods and produce that's still fine to eat, but is no longer fresh enough that people will buy it.
The difference is that capitalism is more than just an economic system, it is a form of class domination. Its a whole set of social relations that reinforce dominance. Voting with your dollars is not a viable strategy for opposing capitalism, there is no individual consumer decision that can make a dent.
A good example is Boycott/Divest/Sanction. That's like voting with your dollars right? And it is objectively an effective tactic against apartheid regimes, themselves driven by capitalist incentives, the same way that slavery was in the US. But BDS isnt an action taken by an individual, or rather, it isnt only that. It is a movement of people organizing with each other to take collective action to resist injustice. Capitalists and their political proxies fucking love Israel, who cares who is exploited or murdered in the name of economic development? Same in South Africa. And these campaigns infuriate the capitalist and political classes, they literally imprison people for showing support for Palestine. If it was one guy, or a few people scattered who decided they just weren't gonna buy goods from Israeli companies, nobody would care. But they're organized against the capitalists as a class, they educate people, convince them, and are effective.
Capitalism organizes people too, it organizes us to sell our labor to someone who uses it to make themselves rich. When we organize on the basis of our own enrichment or self defense, against the interests of the wealthy, that's where the cops show up and the president starts calling the most harmless and caring people "domestic terrorists."
When capitalism seems like just some economic system, then it doesn't feel as repressive. We can go whole days without spending money. But capitalism is more than markets. Its practically impossible to avoid enriching capitalism as an individual. But spending a little money to organize and help people is resistance to the system as a social system rather than an economic one.
Mutual aid can draw criticism on this basis too, like there are plenty of left criticisms of mutual aid. But by my reckoning, wherever people are helping each other rather than competing for a slightly higher wage, there is a pocket of anti capitalism. The capitalists have total control over the all production and markets. In order to free ourselves from it on a mass scale, we have to be principled and practical, and we have to do what it takes to get enough people to unite and take action. If that means giving someone money or doing mutual aid as a tactic, then that can be part of an anticapitalist strategy.
Here's a list of the 10 richest people in 2019: Jeff Bezos ($131B), Bill Gates ($96.5B), Warren Buffett ($82.5B), Bernard Arnault ($76B), Carlos Slim Helú ($64B), Amancio Ortega ($62.7B), Larry Ellison ($62.5B), Mark Zuckerberg ($62.3B), Michael Bloomberg ($55.5B), Larry Page ($50.8B)
Here's a list of the 10 richest people today: Elon Musk ($480B), Larry Page ($270B), Jeff Bezos ($255B), Sergey Brin ($250B), Larry Ellison ($245B), Mark Zuckerberg ($230B), Bernard Arnault ($190B), Jensen Huang ($120B), Warren Buffett ($115B), Steve Ballmer ($110B)
So, during covid the rich made so much fuckin money, and they made it so fast that they can't go back. Line must go up, and at a greater rate of profit than before. Yet after covid, the fed raised interest rates to suppress wages. They said the cause was inflation, they always say that increased wages increase demand, which lowers supply, which causes prices to increase. But even in the midst of the war in Ukraine, which was used to explain away inflation, independent economists confirmed that at the time, around to 50% of price increases were arbitrary and not connected to higher costs. epi.org/blog/profits-and-price…
So if the government and the banks can then decide to raise interest rates in order to suppress our wages, as they did after covid, while the richest people have multiplied their own wealth astronomically, all during a period where the working class is under attack in order to increase the unemployed reserve surplus population, then how exactly, in your opinion or analysis is capitalism something other than a system that takes your wages and gives them to the wealthiest people on the planet?
Recall a guy named Jeffrey Epstein who was close personal friends with the people above, and what they got up to. That is who you are defending, pedophiles, rapists, and psychopaths. Do you think it will help you quadruple your income in the next 5 years? If so, I would love to talk to you about some beachfront property I think you'll be interested in.
I'm not calling you a pedo defender, just making a point that capitalism is a system that fucks us and rewards them for fucking us. So which side are you on?
Most cities often have a group that renders mutual aid directly to those most in need, and they would love your help. Food Not Bombs is the most well known, and they have an index you can search to find one local to your area.
If you don't have one in your area, you and some friends could start your own Food Not Bombs chapter instead! Alternatively, a local church who is already assisting the homeless can be a good place to find an established group, even if you're not religious.
For people in need while on your way to work or the grocery store, assembling Care Packages can allow you to immediately render useful aid. The contents of a care package will be determined by your area and the needs of the people you're looking to give them to. Chatting with a person in need and asking them what would be most helpful to them is one of the best ways to narrow down the essentials, and avoid things that won't actually be of much use.
But there are generally a few universal things that will always be appreciated.
::: spoiler 🔻 General Care Package Contents 🔻 1. Socks! - This is often the most requested aid, as they prevent blisters, and wear quickly due to constant use and frequent walking. Used socks are fine as long as they're washed and clean. For colder or wet climates, wool socks are vastly preferred, as they have anti-bacterial properties, and still provides warmth even when wet. 2. Hygiene supplies - Things like a bar of soap (with sealable bag to store it when wet), deodorant, babywipes, a washcloth, toothbrush and paste, rinseless body wipes, comb. 3. Menstrual hygiene supplies. 4. Over-the-counter Medical supplies - Painkillers, bandages, antibiotic ointment, rubbing alcohol. 5. Calorie-dense non-perishable food - This often takes the form of canned foods (ensure they have a pull tab!), protein bars, or dehydrated fruits. Try to avoid hard or crunchy food, as it's possible the person you're trying to help may have active dental issues that may not allow them to chew those types of foods. Softer foods are preferred. 6. Electrolyte drinks or drink packets - Especially needed in hotter climates where electrolyes will be constantly lost through sweat, and can be life threatening if not replaced. Ones with sugar tend to have more calories, but may not be usable by those with diabetes, so it may be a good idea to have some with alternative sweeteners as well. 7. Money - Cash can drastically increase the quality of life of someone without access to an income, and allow them to obtain the things they need most when they need it. Any amount you can afford is useful. 8. Backpacks - If they don't already have one, a backpack is generally much appreciated to help carry around the supplies in your care package. You can often find them used at thrift stores. 9. Petfood - Catfood is preferable to dogfood, as catfood can be eaten by either dogs or cats, while the same can sometimes not be true for dogfood. People with a pet companion will be quite grateful. 10. Resealable Waterproof bag - Something like a large ziplock so that they have a waterproof place to protect their supplies.
Lastly, if you have access to a printer, try to include a page of resources such as a list of local mutual aid groups where they can obtain more help in the future, along with their address and times that they operate. On the opposite side, a map of your area and any local public transit routes and timetables would also likely be useful.
The single most useful thing you can contribute is your self, your time and energy. There's a powerful, universal need to know and be known, and in the process of meeting it you'll get a direct sense of what material needs you can best help meet yourself. I helped with paperwork/minor repairs to get three different crews set up in abandoned beaters I saw walking around last year. You don't have to be homeless to walk into the warming shelter and just start participating. Cannot recommend it enough, especially if you're feeling isolated or getting too much screen time. You are wanted, you are needed, and you can be someone's hero.
Through a multi-year investigation, we find that the Jordanian security apparatus has deployed forensic extraction products manufactured by Cellebrite against civil society devices.
I've been an AI realist from the start. What can the models actually do? What are the limitations? Ultimately, I think there is a place in the market for them - for people who understand the limitations of them and know when they're spewing BS.
I am not shocked at all that OpenAI (and Microsoft being one of it's largest shareholders) is burning cash and suddenly is realizing it may not be able to make good on it's promises. AI reality vs AI hype. Us actual tech people have known since the beginning this was all hype, now finance people are starting to notice (about time).
Microsoft has gone all-in with its plans to turn the Windows PC into an AI-powered 'agentic OS.' But at least one PC maker says consumers aren't buying the Copilot hype.
The GNU project was started in 1983 and in 2025 you can finally use a pure GNU operating system. Not that you'd want to but that is some serious perseverance.
Some time ago (one or two years, i am not sure) i had the Hurd running on an old Thinkpad and used it as a daily driver for a couple of months. It...worked. Most of the times.
The thing is: Its a really interesting system that - in a different timeline - would have made up a GREAT operating system if it would have come forward and evolved a lot faster. Even without the lack of a ~~browser~~ the bloated VM we nowadays call a browser (you can absolutely run Dillo on it) it just hurts a bit too much to use it for more than resarch / hobbyist / hacking purposes.
Could you elaborate? What made it hurt? Was it just unstable? Hurd's a microkernel, and while þat's no guarantee of good design or code quality, I'd hope it would be more reliable. Wasn't it?
In short: The stability is really a problem - at least it was at the time when i tried it out. I don't know how often something that i worked with just, well, stopped working and the message 'Computer bought the farm' appeared. Sometimes a crashing X session dragged the whole system with it into the abyss freezing the whole system and requiering a reset... followed by a lengthy fsck session. And it was slow. I mean, granted, the Thinkpad R60 i used it on isn't a supercomputer by todays standards, but compared to a Linux system or even OpenBSD it was really, really slow.
I have a high pain tolerance regarding software, i really have... but i had to give up on it after a while.
But now, with this new release... well, i think i will give it another go.
I just rediscovered that i indeed made a little writeup of my first days with the Hurd in my Gopherhole back then, perhaps it gives a bit of the taste what it was when i tried it. Beware, wall of text after the spoiler:
::: spoiler My Phlog post about the Hurd
Oh it HURDs...
I think i have some undiagnosed masochistic tendencies, because i am constantly drawn to ever more esorteric and fringe operating systems and software that will make my life a little bit harder.
The HURD is something that got my attention a long, long time ago, as being this "mysterious next-gen OS that will change everything". Well, it was the late 90s / early 00s, the CD was still king and dialup was really expensive (at least here in germany). I was already messing around with linux and most of the time i compensated my utter lack of knowledge with determination and pure madness.
It was some holiday back in the very early 00s when i managed to get it installed on my (i think) pentium 133, after spending way too long on our very slow dialup line to download the necessary files from some GNU mirror (and learning later that i burned through a whole lot Deutsche Mark after my parents received the telephone bill)
Well, my adventure back then ended in an booting system but without any recognized keyboard, and without really knowing what i am doing (and in need of that PC for my apprenticeship at that time) i threw the towel after some really long nights without getting anywhere. Beaten and defeated i reinstalled Windows and (i think) Debian Linux again and went on to mess with other things. But somehow (like with some other failed projects) it left a scar that sometimes itches.
Now, fast forward about 20 years, its a very slow day at the office, i have nothing really pressing to do and... right out of the blue a GNU is sneaking into my thoughts. I fired up a browser, skimmed the web about news regarding my white whale and found out (somewhat to my surprise) that Hurd is still in active development (even if its going forward at an glacial pace). So, after having messed around with some fairly exotic systems and (thinking to have) much more experience than my teenage self i thought it is on time to take a ride on this bovine again.
Debian Hurd seemed to me the most viable option, so i went right on, downloaded three DVD images of 2021 vintage while absolutely missing the very-not-missable news about an 2023 version until after i had already downloaded the images and burned them to three disks. Well... one can always update later, right?
So, i grabbed my "spare" Thinkpad T60 out of the cabinet, looked at the HDD to make sure i had nothing there that i needed and started the installation... nothing too exotic there, its debian based after all...
After some time the installation was finished, i rebooted into the new system and... FOXTROTT UNIFORM CHARLY KILO!!! ... the keyboard wasn't working. WHY??? It did work in the installer???
After reading through some sites on the net (and yes, i understand the hardware support is slim, there are only a handfull of developers left etc, etc...) and not wanting to repeat my first encounter with the hurd i thought to myself:
Why not try it on the R60? So, i took the HD from the T60, put it into the R60, started the installation again, just to be sure, then the dreaded moment of the reboot came... AND I HAD A WORKING KEYBOARD. YESSS!
So, now i started exploring this system i had waited about 20 years to get running, the GNU and debian sites give a nice overview what does work in which ways, and after all, its not THAT different from your standard GNU/Linux system.
An interesting concept is that of the "translators", just to give an short example:
It creates the folder "ftp" wherein you will find the content of ftp.gnu.org. Granted, for anyone who has worked with Plan 9 or has used FUSE this is not THAT of a revelation, but it is nice... making it possible to layer translators (e.g. for accessing an iso on the ftp server) makes it even a bit nicer.
Now i still had only the three DVDs as package sources, so, thinking that it would be the most safe-ish option to first upgrading everything to the 2023 release i followed an article on the debian pages and added the following to my sources.lst (after commenting out the DVDs):
After that i ran an apt update, installed the debian-archive-ports-keyring package, upgraded everything, initiated a reboot while praying to the mighty GNU that it will come up again.
It did. Everything worked fine.
So, now on the 2023 release, i thought that it would be nice not being stuck on this
And, again, i initiated an update followed by an upgrade.
Aaaand it broke the install. "I am idiot. Shoot me" to quote an romanian friend of mine. Well, back to square one then... now, knowing that it is possible to get a working install, i downloaded the 2023 netinstall ISO and started all over again.
The install from the netinstall media did go as planned until i reached the point where it wanted me to select an debian mirror, started to scan its content... and froze.
Ok, its unstable software, something like that may happen. I rebooted, started the installation again and it did freeze again.
Well... at this point i reached my frustration zenit, it was already late so i somewhat rage-quitted for the day.
Ok, the next evening i was back at it again. THIS time the installer was able to scan the mirror and finish the installation. After the reboot it booted up normally... only to freeze during boot. Okay, its still unfinished software... hard-reset and another try. Just... something during this failed boot attempt seemed to have messed up the ext2 filesystem that bad that fsck could not repair it on its own.
That was the last buckling of that bovine that threw me off again. I needed a break, junior needed attention, and just-too-many things at home needed my attention as an handyman.
Addendum
Another day, new luck... lets try it again. I thought to myself: Well, you got a functional installed system out of the 2021 version, so try it again with this approach. And following my steps above up until after the upgrade to the 2023 version and... everything still works!
Now setting up X and an desktop environment was just a piece of cake after that. Is this GNU now tamed? I don't think so, but at least i got the reins of the bovine and now its really time to explore this ecosystem.
Redox is also micro-kernel based POSIX compatible operating system (UNIX compatible). So quite like the GNU project and HURD in that sense.
Redox is younger, 10 years old instead of 30, and more “modern” (eg. written in Rust). It can be seen as a GNU competitor as it does not rely on the GNU C library or utilities.
I took this in the spirit that there isn't a single MIT license, so you're correct, but more gooder would've been to mention the specific variant that was in use by the project
First, there has been massive amounts of MIT code in important parts of the Linux ecosystem for decades. Xorg, Wayland, and Mesa for starters. The sky has not fallen. I am not exactly panicking.
But let’s address your specific example.
Let start by pointing out that Redis was BSD, not MIT. But let’s assume your cautionary tale applies.
A truly gigantic corporation, Amazon, was making all the money off Redis without giving anything back to the company that actually wrote the code (Redis). So, Redis tried to change the license to make that more difficult. The license they chose is the strictest free software license the FSF offers—the AGPL.
Pop quiz: what part of the above are we “the community” outraged about? The clearly predatory Amazon stuff? Or the defensive action by the company writing all the code? That’s right, we are mad at the company that gave us all the code for free and that still licenses it AGPL.
But even beyond that, what was lost again? Because the implication is that BSD (or MIT) somehow allows companies to “take” free software from us. This is false.
What happened with Redis is that the original code remained 100% available. And it remained part of a 100% free software project. It remains 100% BSD licensed to this day. You can use it, you can study it, you can improve it, you can share it, and you can even sell it commercially! It offers you at least FIVE freedoms.
Not a single line of code was lost from the project. Yes, the project had to change its name (Redis owns the name Redis). Yes, Redis stopped contributing to the project. Is that not their right?
It is that last bit that seems to drive us mad. We yell about corporations taking our code. But all the examples of bad behaviour we give boil down to them choosing to give us less of theirs.
If “the community” is the one writing the code, nobody can take it from us. And even if big evil companies are writing the code, the only code that they can deny us is code they write in the future.
I find it hard to be either outraged or even particularly afraid of that.
Anyway, I do not want to talk you out of your license preferences. I have no beef with that. But I do wish there was less FUD slinging at projects that choose to license their hard work as MIT.
Except they didn't relicence to AGPL initially, they switched to dual licensing under the RSALv2 (a proprietary licence) and SSPLv1 (a non open source, non-free licence). So essentially they made it proprietary, that's what everyone was annoyed about. If they went straight to AGPL I'm sure there would've been some people who were annoyed, but most developers would understand why and I doubt there would have been the valkey fork.
I realize I oversimplified a complex set of moves and “shared source” is its own can of worms. My post was already too long.
But my core point is that the code (as Valkey) remained available and remains available under the same free software license that it has always been available under.
The only consequence of what Redis did was that they stopped giving away their “new” code to service providers like Amazon. Even Amazon can continue to use what was there before. And the community can continue to collaborate on the same code base that they were collaborating on before. The licence Redis chooses for its “new” code is largely irrelevant.
We talk about permissive licenses like they represent some massive risk. I just do not see it that way. And they have many advantages including often attracting more corporate participation (more free code for me).
I am a very happy user of Clang/LLVM. It is the product of collaboration between Google, Apple, Sony, Microsoft, academia, and other nerds. I am very happy we have licenses that encourage companies to create quality software for me to use.
I am sure Redis chose BSD to begin with in case they ever had to make a move like they did. If the only option was GPL, they may never have released it as Open Source to begin with. Again, I am glad they did.
The difference with llvm is that nobody is selling a hosted llvm as a service, nobody is making money off llvm without contributing back (directly, I know a bunch of companies use llvm to make a product that makes money).
Redis clearly thinks that using the BSD licence was a mistake. I agree with you, using BSD attracted more people/companies to use it than if they had chosen AGPL, that's the trade-off you make when choosing a copyleft licence.
I think I agree with you on a lot of this, let me know if this is a fair summary of your argument:
Permissive and copyleft licences both have advantages and disadvantages, if a project chooses a permissive licence then that's their choice, and if they later decide to re-license then the project will probably get forked and carry on under the original licence, so as a user you can just switch to the fork and the only thing that will is the name of the package you install.
That seems pretty reasonable to me, let me know if I made any mistakes summarising your point.
The caveat I would add to that is that the project shouldn't complain about freeloaders if they choose a licence that explicitly allows freeloading. They chose a permissive licence for its advantages but they won't accept the consequences that come with that decision.
I'm super excited for Redox, but unless you're a Rust developer it's a bit limited. Few programming languages oþer þan Rust are available for it.
Eventually, I hope it'll have tiling window managers and Go, V, and Zig ports; Helix (an editor written in Rust), tmux, and zsh. At þe moment, no-one of þese have been ported, and þat's kind of a bare minimum.
Didn't debian already offer a hurd image many years ago? I could be wrong but i thought i heard (or hurd hah) someone mention it in a video recently. I think it was on old guix video from dt (i decided to try and write a guix config so i was watching some guix content).
So what's the difference between this kernel and the Linux kernel? Are they both intended to be interface-equivalent (even if they aren't in the same place on the implementation side)? Any fundamentally different design policies?
LibreFind nasce con un obiettivo molto chiaro: aiutare gli utenti Android a individuare rapidamente quali applicazioni installate non sono libere e quali alternative open source possono sostituirle. L’app il cui [strong][url=https://github.com/jksalcedo/l
LibreFind nasce con un obiettivo molto chiaro: aiutare gli utenti Android a individuare rapidamente quali applicazioni installate non sono libere e quali alternative open source possono sostituirle. L’app il cui repository è pubblicato su GitHub analizza il dispositivo, confronta i pacchetti con un database ospitato su Firebase Firestore e restituisce un elenco ordinato di software proprietario insieme a suggerimenti FOSS pertinenti. L’idea è semplice ma potente, perché permette di avere una panoramica immediata del livello di libertà del proprio telefono e di intervenire con scelte più consapevoli.
LibreFind è un progetto Android che identifica le app proprietarie installate sul dispositivo e suggerisce alternative FOSS, basandosi su un database gestito tramite Firebase Firestore.
Meta's use of copyrighted books to trains its Llama AI was fair use, a judge ruled.
"This ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta's use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful," he wrote. "It stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one."
The plaintiffs focused their arguments on how Meta's AI models can reproduce exact snippets from their works and how the company's Llama models hurt their ability to license their books to AI companies. These arguments weren't as compelling in Chhabria's eyes -- he called them "clear losers" -- so he sided with Meta.
That's different from the Anthropic ruling, where Judge William Alsup focused on the "exceedingly transformative" nature of the use of the plaintiff's books in the results AI chatbots spit out. Chhabria wrote that while "there is no disputing" that the use of copyrighted material was transformative, the more urgent question was the effect AI systems had on the ecosystem as a whole.
Maybe? Not lawyer, but sound like train might fair use? And generate not?
But that judgement clearly had nothing to do with the use of pirated material, right? It might give a partial pass to the use of copyrighted material for training LLM, but it says nothing about pirating material being legal if it is used for training LLM, which the top comment was alluding to.
Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria ruled on both motions, which at first sight offers a clear win for Meta. The court denied the authors’ motion to hold Meta liable for direct copyright infringement after it obtaining pirated books from shadow libraries via BitTorrent.
Did have piracy part. Just not listed on first website.
Thanks for the source. It also seems like the distribution part is not ruled on yet, so we don't know if they'll get away with pirating stuff just yet.
Yes. Apparently meta try to only leech by modify config. But also say not use facebook server/ip to mask any seed. So not sure if actually seed. Or if matter at all.
Hmmm, that got me thinking: if you selfhost, you make sure you also instal ollama or some LLM you can also self-host. You don't need to use the LLM yourself at all. Then if something goes south, and you're accused of piracy, you can just defend yourself that you used all these materials to train your own LLM. That should get you out of trouble, right?
Again, they haven't made a decision on the distribution part of the training data, which is the one related to piracy. They only ruled that using copyrighted material for training LLM did not satisfy copyright infringement for the specific argument used by the authors against Meta.
Which would you rather, though? That they determine that pirating content is legal when used for training LLM or to continue with the precedent that pirating is illegal?
Tbh, I'd rather they do the latter, because I doubt the former would set any precedent that allows anyone other than billion dollar companies from getting away with piracy.
And I bet Nvidia AI systems get to train on that massive pirate haul of literature, now available to Nvidia without worrying about any messy copyright bullshit.
AMD China and Micro Center have confirmed that the upcoming gaming CPU, the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, will launch on January 28. Previous rumors had suggested this launch date, and now Micro Center has confirmed it. On AMD China's JD storefront, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D is already listed with a preorder option, requiring an 80 Yuan deposit, although the final price has not been disclosed. This 8-core/16-thread processor is powered by the "Zen 5" microarchitecture, enhanced with 3D V-Cache technology, and offers a speed increase over the current 9800X3D. The chip has a base frequency of 4.70 GHz and a maximum boost frequency of 5.60 GHz. Some samples have even been seen running at a 5.75 GHz boost frequency, indicating that enthusiasts might achieve even higher frequencies under regular home conditions. Our late 2024 review crowned the Ryzen 7 9800X3D as the world's best gaming processor. However, we need to determine how much of a difference the extra 400 MHz out-of-the-box overclock will make in gaming tests so we can draw more conclusions. Until third-party reviews arrive, we will have to wait.
Japan will allocate $6 billion to Ukraine for humanitarian and technical support in 2026, according to a statement by Verkhovna Rada Deputy Speaker Olena Kondratyuk on Facebook.
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[h2]Cronache di un admin nel Fediverso, 2021 → oggi[/h2]
Sono nel Fediverso dal 2021.
All’inizio era tutto strano e nuovo, io ero spaesato, tipo esploratore senza bussola in una galassia piena di avatar e federazione.
Sono arrivato nella più grande ist
Cronache di un admin nel Fediverso, 2021 → oggi
Sono nel Fediverso dal 2021.
All’inizio era tutto strano e nuovo, io ero spaesato, tipo esploratore senza bussola in una galassia piena di avatar e federazione.
Sono arrivato nella più grande istanza italiana, lì ho fatto gavetta sul serio, osservavo, studiavo, capivo come ci si muove, mi è servito tantissimo, era un corso accelerato di “vita federata”.
Poi, per una serie di inconvenienti di salute, ho mollato tutto, per poi rientrare in altre due istanze e trovare gestioni diverse, stili diversi, regole diverse, insomma, stesso universo e pianeti completamente differenti.
Tutto bello, a un certo punto ho fatto la scelta inevitabile, farmi la mia istanza, con le mie regole, parlando comunque con tutti, perché il punto non è chiudersi, è federarsi bene.
Nel 2024 nasce snowfan.masto.host, alcuni amici mi seguono, anche lì gavetta da admin, moderazione, manutenzione, ordine nel caos.
Col tempo però mi è iniziato a stare stretto un dettaglio, la parte tecnica era gestita da masto.host, aggiornamenti, backup, variazioni. Per carità, sono bravissimi, ma è come noleggiare un’auto, va benissimo, la guidi, è comoda, però non è tua.
E allora arriva il salto, novembre 2025, nasce snowfan.it.
Questa volta è tutto mio, gestione tecnica mia, non su un semplice VPS ma su una macchina dedicata, un VDS, cioè, non più passeggero, io sono il meccanico, il pilota e quello che tiene l’estintore vicino.
Non è stato facile all’inizio, però avevo molto tempo libero, giocoforza, ho imparato tanto.
Ora gestisco 3 server, 2 VPS e 1 VDS, sopra ci girano Mastodon, Pixelfed, Matrix, SNAC2 e searXNG.
Non mi interessa ingrandirmi, anzi, per me il vero Fediverso è la decentralizzazione più capillare possibile, una miriade di istanze, piccole o medie, non dominabili da un singolo.
Detto questo, eccomi qui, grazie a tutti gli abitanti del Fediverso.
Dal 1º ottobre 2024 è obbligatoria la [strong]patente a punti o a crediti[/strong] per imprese e lavoratori autonomi che operano nei cantieri mobili o temporanei. Sono previste esclusioni per alcuni soggetti.
[strong]Chi deve possedere la patente[/strong
Dal 1º ottobre 2024 è obbligatoria la patente a punti o a crediti per imprese e lavoratori autonomi che operano nei cantieri mobili o temporanei. Sono previste esclusioni per alcuni soggetti. Chi deve possedere la patente: * Tutte le imprese e i lavoratori autonomi che svolgono attività lavorativa nei cantieri temporanei o mobili.
Secondo me l'ennesimo balzello ai danni dei lavoratori autonomi e delle piccole imprese. Infatti:
Non sono obbligati: * Chi effettua solo forniture di materiali o servizi. * Chi svolge prestazioni di natura intellettuale (es. progettazione, consulenza, ingegneri, geometri ...). * Le imprese in possesso di attestazione di qualificazione SOA in classifica pari o superiore alla III (cioè le imprese di una certa dimensione, con un certo fatturato).
E questa è bella. Secondo me una plateale discriminazione. Perché? Un fornitore di materiale non può fornire materiale scadente o difettoso che può essere causa di un cedimento strutturale per aver trascurato il controllo di qualità? Un ingegnere non può sbagliare un calcolo strutturale e provocare il crollo di una costruzione? E chi è lui per essere esentato?
Le piccole imprese e gli artigiani sempre più vessati dalla politica. Gli altri no. Che vergogna! Da queste leggi, secondo me, emerge tutto il degrado della politica e dei legislatori ai quali affidiamo l'amministrazione del paese.
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Stopped poking my head in communities like !technology@lemmy.world because the frequent bad news posts, followed by rightfully upset comments, was depressing and stressful. And it just felt worse that there was so much outrage, but usually not a comment telling you alternative options or small actions you could take to try to resist the enshittification—rage with no productive outlet besides complaints online. So I'm popping my head back in here because I feel it would be useful to post somewhere that tries to give you those things and has a rule against posting bad news with no action we can take to maybe claw back value for ourselves: !deshittification@thebrainbin.org
If you must talk about enshittification, please include how someone could reverse it; otherwise, post it elsewhere
Overall sidebar:
State of affairs for technology seem bad? But what is being done to change it? And what could be done by you so it changes at least for yourself?
A community to talk about the reversal of enshittification, be it news, actions that could be done, etc.
A person that sees no solution has no reason to keep going.
Hope others here are heartened by it as I was.
Full disclosure: I don't mod this community or otherwise have power in it. I just post sometimes.
Mauro vive una vita ordinaria a Sesto San Giovanni: una famiglia apparentemente unita, un lavoro da tecnico di elettrodomestici, e un’ossessione per i gialli e i social notturni. Quando il lockdown ferma il mondo, Mauro continua a muoversi tra case e cortili, ma la sua mente deraglia. Il confine tra realtà e fantasia si assottiglia, tra desideri repressi e incontri ambigui con tre giovani donne: Emily, Flora e Christelle ― le sue “Tre Grazie”. Nel silenzio irreale di una città spenta, Mauro perde contatto con tutto, anche con sé stesso. Il ritorno del “cronista dell’invisibile”, con un romanzo nero e psicologico che unisce ironia, malinconia e suspense, per raccontare la solitudine urbana, il desiderio che consuma, e la sottile linea tra ciò che siamo e ciò che potremmo diventare.
Prigionieri del nostro destino: la solitudine nell’era post-pandemica di Lorenzo Zucchi
Prigionieri del nostro destino di Lorenzo Zucchi è un romanzo che esplora le cicatrici lasciate dalla pandemia, immergendoci in una Milano silenziosa e abbandonata, dove l’aria di paura, disagio e solitudine si fa palpabile. Zucchi ci racconta come gli anni della pandemia abbiano cambiato non solo il volto delle città, ma anche le dinamiche familiari e i rapporti interpersonali. Un viaggio emotivo che ci porta a riflettere sul vero significato della solitudine e dell’isolamento, temi tanto universali quanto devastanti.
La Solitudine come Tema Centrale
Nel romanzo, i protagonisti sono Antonella, Mauro, i loro figli e Costantin, un amico di Mauro che funge da supporto durante il difficile periodo della pandemia. La solitudine è il filo conduttore che lega le loro storie. Mauro si perde nel suo lavoro monotono, che diventa un rifugio dal caos esterno ma anche dalla sua vita familiare. Si lascia catturare da sogni giovanili e illusioni, mentre la sua famiglia si allontana sempre più. Antonella, dal canto suo, cerca una fuga, ma la sua ricerca di un sogno nuovo non riesce a colmare il vuoto che sente dentro.
La pandemia ha amplificato questa solitudine, ma la verità è che, per molti, essa era già presente. Non sono solo le pareti delle case a separare le persone, ma anche muri invisibili, spesso creati dai ritmi frenetici della vita quotidiana. In questo contesto, la solitudine non è più solo un’esperienza personale, ma un’emozione collettiva, condivisa da tutti, anche dai più piccoli.
La Ferita della Pandemia sui Più Giovani
Un tema particolarmente forte nel libro riguarda gli effetti devastanti della pandemia sui bambini. La privazione dei contatti sociali, la chiusura delle scuole e il distacco da amici e familiari ha avuto un impatto diretto sul loro sviluppo psicologico e relazionale. Zucchi esplora con delicatezza questo aspetto, mostrando come la pandemia abbia messo in crisi la crescita dei più giovani, non solo sul piano educativo, ma anche su quello emotivo. La solitudine, in un periodo in cui l’interazione sociale è stata drasticamente limitata, ha inflitto cicatrici che potrebbero non rimarginarsi facilmente.
Un Ritorno alla Natura
L’autore mi ha raccontato che Prigionieri del nostro destino è nato proprio durante quegli anni di isolamento forzato. Quello che la pandemia ha reso evidente è stata la necessità di rallentare e riscoprire ciò che davvero conta, come il contatto con la natura. Forse, un aspetto positivo di questa triste parentesi è stato il ritorno alla semplicità e alla bellezza dei piccoli gesti quotidiani, come camminare scalzi sull’erba. Zucchi, che cammina spesso a piedi nudi, racconta come questo semplice atto sia stato per lui una fonte di ispirazione, un modo per riconnettersi a una parte più selvaggia e primitiva di sé. Un messaggio potente: dobbiamo avere il coraggio di scoprire la nostra parte selvaggia e di tornare alle radici di ciò che siamo.
Un Romanzo di Profondità Psicologica
Prigionieri del nostro destino non è solo un romanzo sulla pandemia, ma una riflessione profonda sulla solitudine, sull’importanza dei legami umani e sull’impatto che l’isolamento può avere sulla nostra psiche. La scrittura di Zucchi, densa di emozioni e riflessioni, non si ferma alle prime parole, ma va oltre, spingendo il lettore a confrontarsi con il proprio vissuto e con le proprie paure. È un libro che invita a riflettere sulla nostra condizione esistenziale e ci fa capire quanto sia fondamentale non solo vivere accanto agli altri, ma anche vivere con gli altri, creando connessioni autentiche.
Se c’è qualcosa che possiamo imparare da questo romanzo, è che la solitudine, sebbene amplificata dal Covid, è una condizione che molti di noi portano dentro. La pandemia non ha inventato la solitudine, ma l’ha resa più visibile, più tangibile. Prigionieri del nostro destino ci invita a non rimanere prigionieri di questa solitudine, ma a cercare sempre il contatto, il dialogo, l’amore. Perché solo così possiamo davvero essere liberi.
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Well, that's 8 words. Clearly OP couldn't count that high, because one of their hands was occupied by them jerking off to images of Trump's smelly shit encrusted diapers.
Do you mean the supercontinent comprising North America and South America? Seems a like gross blanket generalization.
Do you mean the land held by the government of the United States of America? Not sure what the land ever did to you.
Do you mean the common folk living in this area? That’s like throwing out the a baby with the bath water. Many, unfortunately, can be faulted for allowing som fucked up shit to happen, but without solidarity most only have power to produce very small changes in the world.
Do you mean every person employed by the government of the United States of America? Do you hold the philosophical perspective that one bad apple spoils the whole damn bunch? If you do, this slogan may not be the best way to convey your message.
Do you mean the specific politicians in power who are performing some of the most destructive acts in human history? ’Cause yeah, fuck those guys. I hate what they’re doing, and they need to stop.
The US Empire is a genocidal settler-colony. It isn't a case of a single bad apple, but a system built on genocide and slavery on stolen land plundering the entire global south at the barrel of the world's largest millitary.
All these heinous acts are committed by people. People who go home to their friends and family and community. Fuck everybody who turns a blind eye and accepts them, who thinks respecting "both sides" is neutral or even positive.
Sometimes somebody just tosses a ball in the air and you see what happens. Are you posting content? Do you have funny clever memes you want to use as examples?
Have you ever been to a meme message board with only bangers?
This meme is not that good, but can we take a moment to discuss how USA has taken America as it's name? Being from the continent is weird, one country has gaslighted the rest of the world into thinking they are the owner of America's name.
Imagine South Africa calling themselves just Africa and everyone just agrees, wtf?
Call it super-continent if it illustates better what I mean. There is a clear intention on referring to your country with the name of the totality of the continent. You know the history
Crossposting to get more input (on the actual issues)
Fedi folks, I turn to you for advice with a bit of a problem. I co-admin an ActivityPub-enabled Wordpress site with 15+ years worth of blog posts and a couple of long podcast series. When WP announced their "vision" to become a CMS for "AI", the collective admin reaction was to get the hell off that boat before it turned to algorithmic shit.
[NB — I realise this isn't an anti-"AI" community, but that part is only the starting premise of our situation here. I'm not getting into discussions with slop herders in the comments]
We're a loose network of nerds discussing the speculative genres, including sci-fi. We've seen this movie, we know how it's going to play out. Trouble is, we're not coders. We can assemble the proverbial IKEA flatpak kit and give it a lick of CSS paint, but we can't be trusted to build furniture we'd want to sit in ourselves.
The crunch points for alternatives are
the ability to migrate an old, multi-user WP site without breaking too many canonical URLs and feeds,
needing a somewhat familiar backend for most of the non-techie contributors to even post stuff, and
the federation bit, which is why I post this to !fediverse first. I am aware that setting up an essentially new fedi instance at the same address as a previous one is disencouraged. I'll be glad to hear how or if this can be avoided while preserving profile and post URLs...
So last month I mined the Mastodon hive mind for existing alternatives to WP with fediverse capabilities, and got a selection of qualified responses. I nixed WriteFreely and Plume early on, because while they are perfectly good, federated blog software, my impression is they lean toward a text focused minimalist layout that would be hard to deviate from, where our current site has a bit more pizzazz.
Going through the alternatives listed below, maybe that's a superficial reason to throw some good options out with the bath water. Either way, I'm presenting you with the most frequent, feasible, and/or interesting offers. I've done some surface research and weighed pros and cons for our use case, but I hope there are people out there who can add their experience to the eventual decision:
ClassicPress
This should be a shoo-in, right? It's basically Wordpress with some newer parts torn out (specifically the Gutenberg block editor), but most of the core architecture remains. Including many, many plug-ins. Plus, they're said to have sworn off any "AI" nonsense. Migration would be relatively easy, and with a little bit of luck nobody would even know the difference.
A lot of recommendations for Ghost! I believe it was originally another Wordpress fork, but was completely rewritten early on? Either way, a few things turn me off Ghost as an potential alternative:
The insistent "we help you monetize your content" vibe on the project website. That's a personal quibble; our site is just entirely non-commercial for the sake of everybody's well-being. I'm told all of that stuff can be turned off in individual installs, though.
Ghost's ActivityPub implementation is reportedly not making great progress despite enthusiastic early announcements? If that's not a deal breaker,
From what I'm told, Drupal is a step up the CMS learning curve from Wordpress, but since they're projects that have coexisted for a long time, there are established and tried migration methods from one to the other.
I'm not exactly on top of Drupal's ActivityPub implementation, though. But even if that's in a workable shape, Drupal is trying to pitch itself as "the best AI-powered Open Source CMS in the world". Which, to me, is like saying you only put the sharpest razor blades available in kids' Hallowe'en candy.
One user involved in the Backdrop CMS fork from Drupal 7 made convincing arguments for that over later Drupal versions, so here's hoping they drank the right (ie., federated, not algorithmic) Kool Aid.
Hubzilla
Now, this may be the most exciting but also most challenging alternative. Hubzilla is a fairly advanced, and in some ways mold-breaking Fediverse application. From the same developer who made Friendica and (streams), and, if I understand correctly, based on the same core principles.
In contrast to Wordpress and Drupal, Hubzilla declares itself "a CMS which doesn't use LLM / AI". Can't say I don't appreciate that signalling! And of course the whole package revolves around federation. But wait.
The CMS part may be technically correct, but as far as I can tell making Hubzilla present as a plain blog or website requires some advanced stylesheet finagling — and the application only comes with one official, microblog-esque theme. I haven't found any open projects trying to bridge that visual gap, but will appreciate your tips about them if they exist.
For Hubzilla to be a feasible alternative here, we will also need to be able to migrate existing posts, media, users and comments from Wordpress. Preferably in a way that doesn't mess up permalinks too badly. A quick glance at Hubzilla urls indicate that the entire architecture is very different. I assume concepts like "channels" substitute "authors"(?) but I don't know where we are with WP terms like taxonomies.
So there's a challenge, and I'm hoping others have tried (and hopefully succeeded in) that particular migration... or at least have advice to offer.
Bonus: Bonfire
I'm putting this on the table because I expect somebody is going to suggest it in the comments. Like Hubzilla, Bonfire looks really interesting as a Swiss army knife for the Fediverse: You want to make a blog? Take these modules. A community forum? Try these other ones. It's federated first, and it seems to make good headway toward its goals.
But there is no official CMS flavour is still in development; we have no idea about migration possibilities, and honestly? The more mature Hubzilla will be a challenge, I'm fairly certain this is a step further out of our comfort zone. This is totally an "us" problem, not a Bonfire one.
So, thoughts? Specifically practical advice on Hubzilla and/or/versus Backdrop, which I think are the most realistic avenues right now. But there may be alternatives I just didn't see even though they're right in front of me.
I'm ready to have my mind changed on WriteFreely, or to hear about something completely new to me. Mostly though, I'm hoping for replies that consider the massive history of posts and comments that we look to import into the next generation of our site.
So, given WP is willing to sell all its users down the river for some quick "AI" buzz, what fedi-enabled alternatives exist for human-centric websites? therepository.email/wordpress-…
I know of write.as, plume. They're too ascetic to match the brief. ClassicPress could be an option, provided the WP-ActivityPub add-on works with that.
For context, six months ago I bought a renewed Thinkpad X395 for exactly this price and I got: An actually decent CPU and not something as powerful as a Wii, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of actual M.2 SSD, a really nice 1080p Touchscreen, really nice build quality with metal and a nice backlit keyboard. Heck, even when I bought a cheap laptop in May 2020 it was much better than this and it even was brand new for the same price.
I know this CPU very well, for this price you are getting something that has trouble playing a Youtube video in 1080p at 60 FPS and can't even run the latest version of Minecraft at above 10 FPS. Now imagine this combined with Windows 11 and only 4 GB of RAM...
No, this is not because of the current hardware crysis, this is pure greed. But hey, 1 year of Microslop 365 is included!
In 2020 I had a laptop with that same Celeron N4000 but with 8GB of RAM and an M.2 SSD. It wasn't that bad on Linux, maybe this was best case scenario, but still doing anything took forever
No, it's the gigaherts that sell it. Although they advertise the turbo frequency, not the base frequency, so it is not even that fast in reality because the turbo period is very short so that frequency number will not hold up for very long
Ooh, a Celeron N4000. I will see you, and raise you this piece of shit we have at work:
My boss bought this as one of those Black Friday "deals" for about $99 USD. The sticker on the bottom doesn't seem to reveal its manufacturing date but I believe this model was released in 2018. Really, it's just a netbook in all but name.
We use this specifically to drive a walk-around barcode scanner in our warehouse and the software we have to use on it is Windows only. It's tiny and still somehow gets stellar battery life, and it's deliberately so cheap as to be disposable so when the day inevitably comes that it gets smashed, no one will care.
With Win10 IoT on it the thing actually runs tolerably for our intended use case, which is the aforementioned barcode bleeping and nothing else. And at least yours there has a 1080p display; this one is only 1366 x 768 so doing practically anything else on it is excruciating anyway. What amuses me the most about it is that with only 29 gigs of usable storage there literally isn't enough left over to run Windows updates. I have this thing as ruthlessly pared down as I can get without creating a custom Windows installation or something and for the big updates, you have to attach an external USB drive to it.
I can't fathom trying to run Windows 11 on it. Fuck all that noise.
The Celeron N4000 was also the CPU I had in my laptop that I bought in 2020. Everybody says it's a terrible CPU but it's actually not a bad choice for embedded applications or really low cost chromebooks, also considering that it has a TDP of just 6 watts! What I'm not okay with is OEMs putting it in consumer oriented laptops and getting away with these prices
Don't buy consumer laptops, especially not ones that are this cheap. Buy used business laptops; Dell Latitude, Lenovo ThinkPad, even used HP EliteBooks are better are better value than most stuff you get under 1000€ new.
Who is in charge there and are they kowtowing to the United States, doing a bit of both (their own thing and pacifying the United States), or are they resolutely against USA influence?
Yeah, fair, hard to argue that everyone should put in their piece when the governments are still doing business as usual with them. I still think consumer boycotts are a net positive, even if mostly performative, not much else the average person can do, and that's no reason to give up
fr, I dunno what his personal plan is either. I think he probably just doesn't want to give up burger king or whatever and wants to blame politicians for his addiction lol
I love how libs throw around whataboutism as if it was anything other than exposing themselves as having a different set of standards for themselves and others.
At the bare minimum don't express joy every time the US forces some stupid policy in your continent, only showing some modicum of disgust when they threat to kill white people. As something moderately intelligent, what about organizing and doing some theory and praxis instead of wasting your time "kicking out" the US with your wallets (spoiler alert: it's not going to work).
is this real world in the room with us? how is that helping in the least degree to produce any meaningful change? you are going to get fucked and experience what the third world has been living for decades. and you deserve it.
To be fair, sales of all products have fallen in Europe as the result of European economies collapsing. And the specific reason for American products selling worse could simply be a result of American products are becoming more expensive in relative terms for the Europeans. with the moralizing being the justification rather than the core reason. Maybe if you want some real change you might want to figure out how to get out from under US occupation first. Don't see Europeans rushing to dismantle all those American bases.
The point is that random products selling less doesn't challenge power at all, even with the rise of anti-US sentiment your governments keep bending the knee and the US keeps feeding its army.
Do they? The UK has generally been saying what Trump wants to hear where possible and then acting in our own best interests instead. IIRC the trade deal for US meat doesn't change our food standards so we can export ours and the US can't send much of theirs back because it's ~~low grade trash~~ below our standards.
Need this for everyone around the world. Including within the USA. The billionaires running things ONLY care about money. It's the only lever the rest of us have.
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