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in reply to Ian

I'm an idiot, what specifically is added by the descriptor "ready-made" in this context?
in reply to tisktisk

It's a quote from Marx talking about why the Paris Commune adopted different political forms than that of the republicans. Saying "ready-made" in this case would be saying that the form of government of an insurgent working class is essentially different from the typical bourgeois state, and that the working class can't simply try to operate the bourgeois state, ready-made because it already exists. Effectively this means that Marx is clear that in order for the working class to free itself, the bourgeois state must be destroyed and replaced by a government created by the working class, and, judging by the Commune and later experiences, will be constructed amid the struggle to destroy the bourgeois state.

Sorry if that's a lot for an innocuous question. But if you're still curious, for fuller context:

The direct antithesis to the empire was the Commune. The cry of “social republic” ... did but express a vague aspiration after a republic that was not only to supercede the monarchical form of class rule, but class rule itself. The Commune was the positive form of that republic. ...
But the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes.
The centralized state power, with its ubiquitous organs of standing army, police, bureaucracy, clergy, and judicature – organs wrought after the plan of a systematic and hierarchic division of labor – originates from the days of absolute monarchy, serving nascent middle class society as a mighty weapon in its struggle against feudalism. Still, its development remained clogged by all manner of medieval rubbish, seignorial rights, local privileges, municipal and guild monopolies, and provincial constitutions. The gigantic broom of the French Revolution of the 18th century swept away all these relics of bygone times, thus clearing simultaneously the social soil of its last hinderances to the superstructure of the modern state edifice raised under the First Empire, itself the offspring of the coalition wars of old semi-feudal Europe against modern France.
During the subsequent regimes, the government, placed under parliamentary control – that is, under the direct control of the propertied classes – became not only a hotbed of huge national debts and crushing taxes; with its irresistible allurements of place, pelf, and patronage, it became not only the bone of contention between the rival factions and adventurers of the ruling classes; but its political character changed simultaneously with the economic changes of society. At the same pace at which the progress of modern industry developed, widened, intensified the class antagonism between capital and labor, the state power assumed more and more the character of the national power of capital over labor, of a public force organized for social enslavement, of an engine of class despotism.
After every revolution marking a progressive phase in the class struggle, the purely repressive character of the state power stands out in bolder and bolder relief...


Later on in the same section Marx describes the different political form of the Commune, mentioning mandated revocable delegation in place of representation, combining executive and legislative functions into the assemblies of delegates, and so on.

in reply to Ian

God I wish there were more like you Ian. Superb work and mucho thankso
in reply to tisktisk

@Provinto@lemmy.ml gave an excellent answer, but I figured I'd take my shot at simplifying further.

Essentially, the bourgeois state is formed over time to support bourgeois society. A revolution that tries to wield it in its own favor has to contend with the fact that over time, the state as a superstructure is fully compatible with its respective base, capitalism. In order to change the base and superstructure, an entirely new state needs to take its place, not just in name but in structure, otherwise the old superstructure left hanging will wrest back control, like what happened at the Paris Commune.



The Promised LAN


Saw this posted over on HackerNews, and loved it. I'm big on self-hosting, and this is an incredibly exciting idea to me.

The Promised LAN is a closed, membership only network of friends that operate a 24/7 always-on LAN party, running since 2021. The vast majority of documentation is maintained on the LAN, but this website serves to give interested folks, prospective members or friends an idea of what the Promised LAN is, and how it works.


Their manifesto is also worth reading. My personal favorite part:

We do not wish to, nor will we, rebuild the internet. We do not wish to, nor will we, scale this. We will never be friends with enough people, as hard as we may try. Participation hinges on us all having fun. As a result, membership will never be open, and we will never have enough connected LANs to deal with the technical and social problems that start to happen with scale. This is a feature, not a bug.

This is a call for you to do the same. Build your own LAN. Connect it with friends’ homes. Remember what is missing from your life, and fill it in. Use software you know how to operate and get it running. Build slowly. Build your community. Do it with joy. Remember how we got here. Rebuild a community space that doesn’t need to be mediated by faceless corporations and ad revenue. Build something sustainable that brings you joy. Rebuild something you use daily.

Bring back what we’re missing.


in reply to Pro

Not like I'm gonna make art for anybody else anyway. Do I look like a fucking party clown? I'll take your ideas, they're gonna suck, and maybe if it's impressive I'll write a note I never look at again.
in reply to Pro

If you offer somone 60$, and they deny it and say they can only do it for 260 it's because they already have someone willing to pay 250, and they can only make 1 piece at a time. Why would they turn down a 250$ piece to make your 60$ piece? It's simple scarcity. You aren't entitled to someones labor for any price. I really don't care if you use AI to make what you want. The only thing about AI that annoys me is that it's everywhere now, and it looks bad a lot of the time. But just understand that your post here just makes you look entitled. That's why your being mass downvoted. I suggest you do some introspection, and try to see things from other peoples perspectives.

in reply to Pro

spamming this cringe bullshit across a bunch of different instances doesn't make you any less of a permavirgin slop fiend who loves to be cucked by corporations

in reply to Pro

Doesnt matter. True of all women in your case (sorry, had to).
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Pro doesn't like this.

in reply to outhouseperilous

What is "women"?
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in reply to Pro

spamming this cringe bullshit across a bunch of different instances doesn't make you any less of a permavirgin slop fiend who loves to be cucked by corporations



Should i install a discontinued custom recovery ? And how to keep root after update on LineageOS!


Am using my redmi note 8 with lineageos built in custom recovery. And my device was rooted. Recently i installed a OTA update and i loose my root access. As i don't own a laptop (i used my friend laptop to flash custom rom and magisk) it's cery inconvenient to lose root on every OTA update.

I researched about it and find magisk don't root android in a deeper level but in a surface level, thats why an OTA update wipes root access.

So recently i was looking at custom recovery like orangefox and twrp fir fixing this issue. For my device orangefox dropped development and rwrp have updates only one a year and last one was yeras ago...

What should i do ? How can i really keep root on an OTA update without a PC or Second device with OTG cable ?

Is there any other root manager that don't allow to lose root after OTA updates ? And is this issue caused by updating the recovery along with the OTA update ? Just so confusing!

Or should i avoid rooting at all ?

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in reply to dejected1761

Try Lygisk, it's a fork of Magisk that's meant to survive OTAs for devices that only have one system partition. I've used it on a previous phone and it worked great.
in reply to dejected1761

What's your fear in relation to using older recovery?




On "ChatGPT Psychosis" and LLM Sycophancy


#AII


Flagged and Ignored: Testing X’s Response to EU Sanction Violations


  • Researchers identified hundreds of posts violating EU sanctions on the social media platform X.
  • X is categorised as a “Very Large Online Platform” (VLOP) under the Digital Services Act (DSA), and as such is legally obligated to mitigate systemic risks on their platform and investigate illegal content reports from users.
  • A sample dataset of 125 clear sanction-violating posts were reported to X using the “Report EU Illegal Content” form on the platform. These included, for instance, programmes from the Russian state broadcaster RT.
    Only 57% of the reports of illegal content received acknowledgement receipts, breaching DSA obligations.
  • Only one of the reported posts was removed, and for the remaining cases, X responded via email, stating that no violation of EU law was found, despite clear evidence to the contrary.
  • There were 7 responses made by the platform within 2 minutes or less, potentially indicating automated reviews.
  • In the case of content from the sanctioned Russian influence operation Doppelgänger, posts were deleted despite the platform’s initial response claiming no action would be taken.
  • The results of this reporting experiment suggest that X’s current moderation mechanisms are insufficiently equipped, or that the platform is potentially unwilling to enforce sanction-related policies at scale.


Labels Don't Want Supreme Court Review to Delay Piracy Lawsuit Against Verizon


In a move that could reshape the online copyright enforcement landscape, last month the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a pivotal piracy liability lawsuit. The Court's decision will have a direct impact on similar lawsuits, including that between major record labels and ISP Altice, which is now on hold. Verizon has asked the court for a similar stay, but since that lawsuit is in its early stages, the labels are firmly opposed to any further delay.


NASA Tests Mixed Reality Simulation in Vertical Motion Simulator




NASA Tests 5G-Based Aviation Network to Boost Air Taxi Connectivity





Deleting Windows from dual boot Linux/Windows computer


I have a PC currently configured to dual boot Windows 10 and Linux Mint. I don't need Windows anymore, but Mint is working just fine and I'd rather avoid wiping the whole thing and starting over. Is there a safe way to just get rid of Windows?
in reply to Demonmariner

Do you have data on the Windows partition?

Either way, a good way to do it might be to use dd (or a different disk image tool) to copy your Linux installation partitions to a portable hard drive, and make sure the image works. Then wipe the drive and copy the Linux partitions back to it via dd or another imaging tool.

in reply to Demonmariner

Hi,
I didn't see the answer if you only have your pc and no other big storage :
If you still have the installation usb or recreate one. Boot on it then you open gparted with that you remove the two partition off windows, the main with the system and the recovery one (if there is) but don't touch the first or last partition esp if it exits.
Then you can expand the partitions to get the free space. Extend to the right is fast but extend to the left can be really slow and prone to failures.
I case you Linux partition are all on the right you can also create new main partition, do the install of the linux on this one, then reboot on the USB, move the user and configuration files on the new system, delete old installation partitions, then extend the new install to take the full drive.
There is commands to remove the old esp entries I don't remember yet.
This can take few hours so be patient.

The other option with a backup (dd) of the main partition is obviously safer but take nearly the same amount of time and need an external drive.




Tesla’s earnings hit a new low, with largest revenue drop in years


Tesla on Wednesday reported a drop in its profit during the second quarter, as the electric vehicle maker continues to struggle despite CEO Elon Musk's pivot back to focusing on his companies after his controversial role leading the Trump administration's government cost cutting efforts.

The company's electric vehicle sales have been flagging, and earlier this month it reported a drop of 13.5% in the quarter, compared with the same period a year ago. On Wednesday, Tesla said its net income also suffered, slumping 16% year-on-year.

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AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API


Hackernews.

Alternatives:
- The Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
- Open-Meteo.
- Open Weather.

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Operation Grayskull Culminates in Lengthy Sentences for Managers of Dark Web Site Dedicated to Sexual Abuse of Children





German Chancellor Merz announces massive cuts to social welfare benefits


Germany’s federal government is preparing massive cuts to social welfare benefits, pensions and healthcare starting in the autumn. Chancellor Friedrich Merz made this clear last Friday at his summer press conference. The business pages of the main media outlets are also full of suggestions on how to save billions at the expense of the needy, pensioners, the sick and wage workers.

It is now clear that the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union and Social Democrats (SPD) deliberately omitted the planned social cuts from their coalition agreement and delegated them to expert commissions in order to first push through the massive increase in military spending. They apparently anticipated tremendous resistance if they had announced a huge increase in rearmament spending and social cuts at the same time. But now, as Merz made clear, there is no more time to lose. Workers and the most socially vulnerable are to pay the costs of rearmament and war.

in reply to geneva_convenience

socially vulnerable are to pay the costs of rearmament


This sounds like a populist victory waiting to happen

in reply to SubArcticTundra

Merz is preparing the weapons so that when the AFD, which he will paint as opposition to his Fascism-lite regime eventually wins, they can do full Fascism.
in reply to SubArcticTundra

It's very revealing how casually liberals spit out populist as an insult. The derogatory use of the word unmasks their real conviction that majority rule is only admirable when the majority thinks like them. Strip away the varnish and their ideal is not democracy at all, but a stewardship by the enlightened elites who keep the unwashed masses at bay.

in reply to Amoxtli

Wtf, it doesn't make a lot of sens since open ai doesn't have the monopole of ia anymore.
Also the only service they found to sell is literally a chatbot wich no company will find interesting if it cost too much
in reply to Amoxtli

We all will pay for it to Larry's pocket and then he will pay the 3 letter agency for a favor. That's how Larry is doing business for years.


Jerboa Release 0.0.80




( Very Related to Libre Software ) How AI, ICE and Elon Musk Manipulate People Into Supporting Evil?


I did a very deep dive into the history of Libre Software and stuff, and how "Open Source" became a term. And speculated out of it a whole theory about AI, ICE and US Politics in general.

Probably the best article I've ever written.




Instagram changes its algorithm after being accused of steering predators to children


It will now “avoid” doing that on more accounts.




Tesla’s earnings hit a new low, with largest revenue drop in years


The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.



Trump Media Is Now a $2 Billion Bitcoin Bet


The company behind Truth Social is converting its cash into crypto, creating a high-stakes link between its future and the volatile digital currency.



Missing something on scheduled posts?


I recently scheduled several posts, but they didn't post at the scheduled time, unless I'm missing something. Any suggestions?
Missing something on scheduled posts?
in reply to PugJesus

Hey good folks, i.e. Rimu & PugJesus@piefed.social / piefed.social/u/PugJesus (pardon, not yet sure how to correctly tag here),

I happened to have this same issue last week, and am pleased to see today that the bugfix seems to have worked! Ah, and one other useful thing I discovered was that one can go back and correct a post if one happened to have botched the scheduled time, previously:

I couldn't find a way to go back to that post directly, but sure enough, I pulled up browser history, went back to the post link, made the edits, and it successfully posted at the corrected, specified time! 😃





Proton launches privacy-respecting encrypted AI assistant Lumo


Proton has launched a new tool called Lumo, offering a privacy-first AI assistant that does not log user conversations and doesn't use their prompts for training.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/proton-launches-privacy-respecting-encrypted-ai-assistant-lumo/

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in reply to jackeroni

Is kinda sad, this person could have chosen any other profession, yet they chose to be an ineffective low level operative for an authoritarian regime. I feel a mix of pity and disgust. I hope you eventually feel shame.
in reply to jackeroni

As you can see in replies they aren't even like surprised pikachu, they are more like , sadly with mouth not nearly as closed as eyes and ears