Lenny Scott: Prison service rocked by colleague's revenge murder
Lenny Scott: Prison service rocked by colleague's revenge murder
A union chief told the BBC the carefully planned killing had hit prison service morale.Jonny Humphries (BBC News)
like this
Oofnik likes this.
Implementing Portable User Identities with DIDs
Here's an idea to make Lemmy even better: true account portability.
Right now, your Lemmy account and all your content are tied to one server. Moving instances or having one shut down means losing your digital presence. Frankly, the server controls your online identity.
But what if you controlled your identity?
I've opened a discussion on the Lemmy dev GitHub about integrating Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs). Think of a DID as a permanent, global ID you own, independent of any server.
Why DIDs are a game-changer for Lemmy:
- Real Account Portability: Move your entire account – posts, comments, followers – to any new instance seamlessly. Your identity travels with you.
- More User Control: Your online presence becomes resilient, managed by an ID you control, not governed by a single server's policies.
- Proven Tech: It works. Protocols like ATProto (Bluesky) successfully use DIDs for portable user identities.
- Full Fediverse Compatibility: We can add DIDs to Lemmy while staying fully interoperable with Mastodon, Kbin, and all other ActivityPub platforms. No breaking changes, just a powerful upgrade.
This is a big step towards a more decentralized and user-controlled fediverse. If you're interested in more control over your digital self, check out the discussion:
**[GitHub Issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5942]**
If you're on other ActivityPub platforms, consider pushing for similar solutions! The more platforms that adopt truly portable identity, the stronger the fediverse becomes.
Integrate Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) for Censorship-Resistant, Portable User Identities
Requirements Is this a feature request? For questions or discussions use https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support or the matrix chat. Did you check to see if this issue already exists? Is this only a featu...muntedcrocodile (GitHub)
like this
rem26_art likes this.
Real Account Portability: Move your entire account – posts, comments, followers – to any new instance seamlessly. Your identity travels with you.
This is nice in theory but comes with edge cases that are hard to account for. Like, what if you have a post and your new instance defeds the instance the post's community is on? You either have to allow banned content onto the instance or the user loses data, neither of which are acceptable.
This is part of why ATProto's decoupling of user data from app logic is kinda genius and the direction we should go in if we want portable actors in Lemmy/thredi.
Full Fediverse Compatibility: We can add DIDs to Lemmy while staying fully interoperable with Mastodon, Kbin, and all other ActivityPub platforms. No breaking changes, just a powerful upgrade.
Not really, every fediverse platform that people use expects an Object's id to be a https URI it can just fetch the resource from. This is part of why FEP-ef61 specifies a way of translating a DID to a https URI. That's not to mention that moving existing actors from their current ID to a DID will cause all sorts of interop problems.
Edit: Also, is this AI-generated? It has all the tells of Gemini output, especially the the issue on Github.
we add a did to objects and keep the id the same. supporting platforms will use did old ones will carry on using id.
did is what ATProto uses this is a step in that direction
joinfediverse.wiki/Nomadic_ide…
As far as I can tell Hubzilla seems to do it by having alts on different instances and then having a way to associate them with each other, so every instance knows that all the alts they're the same user. It's a bit clunky but it avoids as many fundamental changes to ActivityPub because most things under the hood are the same as without nomadic identity and the UI just treats several actors as the same user.
did field is in addition to the existing actor field, providing a way to gradually transition the protocol to the new way.
It will probably need it's own RFC but let's hear from the devs if they want to do it. (In my experience it's hard to push through the desired change)
You will have better time trying to implement this in piefed
IMO nomadic identity is more important in Mastodon, etc where the fundamental connections of the network are person-to-person - the emphasis is on following other people and having them follow you and that is what determines what content you see. Also being free to leave (and go somewhere else) is a killer feature that centralized social networks cannot offer and nomadic identity really leans into that strength.
In contrast, in the threadiverse you can't follow other people - you join communities. Also when a post is viewed the author is just another piece of meta data, the focus is really on the content. With Mastodon they make a much bigger deal about who is saying the thing, display their avatar much bigger, etc. On Mastodon they're YOUR posts that are strongly tied to you. But here, the posts you make are kiinda more like contributions to a shared wiki (community).
So in PieFed/Lemmy if you need to drop your account on an instance and create a new account on another it's really much less of a loss and not really disruptive at all. You can just import your settings from the old account and continue to post in all the same communities you did before. The need for a nomadic identity just isn't as strong.
Moving communities to another instance, tho, now that would be great. It's on my very long list.
what's described is pretty much that.
FEP-ef61: Portable Objects describes how to use DIDs with ActivityPub. Here's a slightly less technical introduction: codeberg.org/ap-next/ap-next/s…
It's not easy, though. Adding this feature to an existing project will require a lot of work, especially if you don't want to share signing keys with servers. This was discussed in #3100, Lemmy devs are not opposed to FEP-ef61, but they don't plan to work on it.
Also, I don't recommend copying solutions from ATProto, their did:plc and did:web are not really "decentralized".
I mean, sure, but LLM issues are currently plaguing open source projects. Curl, for example: gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581…
If someone isn't passionate about something enough to write their own request, why would the devs be passionate about implementing it?
AI slop security reports submitted to curl
AI slop security reports submitted to curl. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.Gist
i looked into other services with did got an llm to put those ideas in the required format for the issue. Can you please point out the hallucinations in the issue so i can go and fix them
No. Asking other people to read (and now also to correct!) your LLM slop is extremely inconsiderate. Please don't do that again.
Whelp here I go again
Why not GPG!!??
I've been working on my own idea for what the "fediverse" should be, I'm calling it userless because I want to avoid users in the database and I wanna use GPG as the individuals identity because it already exists and can yes perfectly verify for me who created a post, I'm not sure why we need more than that.
I haven't flushed the whole thing out yet and I plan to hand write proper docs for the protocol.
But GPG has been around since forever. I've been told that it's too hard to use, it's insecure, it's too old. And when I use the thing I just don't agree, there is nothing technically wrong with the product like it should be way more popular.
So Activpub needs an actor with an inbox and outbox to send and receive content. A did is a virtual actor that reroutes to a real actor and collects content across real actors.
Gpg public keys have a dedicated email address field. And if you don't want to share your "real" email address then just make a new one. (edit) Or don't include one.
And the did stores ur profile picture a public key display names bio etc etc.
Yeah that's a pain point I experienced with Gpg armored packets, I couldn't figure out a way to pack in a PFP. Even shrinking it to 64x64 made the public key file feel too heavy. So I just decided profile pics are out of scope and you should just use gravatar.
U could use pgp as the key in the did if the devs want to support it as a cryptography protocol. The did is also used to sign each message similar to pgp. U simply need more functionality than what pgp provides.
I 80% agree. I do wish PGP armored packets had extra fields and if that's an RFC that could be sent to the Gnupg maintainers then gpg would be absolutely perfect but I haven't gotten around to figuring that out. All things considered since GnuPG already exists and it's already installable everywhere and it already works I figured I could just roll with it for userless atleast. I want to use GPG for all user authentication related concerns.
A did is a virtual actor that reroutes to a real actor and collects content across real actors
Where is that virtual actor hosted? If it's centralized, I feel like it defeats the purpose of user-centric identity control. If it's user-hosted, that sounds like GPG with extra, even more inconvenient steps.
Yeah I don't think this is gonna get anywhere when the easiest alternative to controlling your account is to just host your own Lemmy instance, and you can do that literally right now with no changes to Lemmy or the protocol.
It'd be nice for ActivityPub to support optional GPG signatures for those that want to have that level of control. That would get you all the identity verification that this new fangled did stuff gets you, with the added bonus of GPG being a reliable, existing, proven technology that people already know how to support.
DID as a permanent, global ID you own, independent of any server
So there would have to be another server, hosting my identity? Would identities somehow be federated between identity instances?
a json blob
So in a way it's similar to joinmastodon.org/verification ? A two sided reference between identity and profiles?
Proposals for commercial planes to operate with one pilot shelved after critical EU report
Proposals for commercial planes to operate with one pilot shelved after critical EU report
Regulator Easa concludes there is not enough evidence it is as safe as flying with two pilots as currently requiredGwyn Topham (The Guardian)
There's a reason redundancy is huge in aviation. All of those redundancies are written in the blood of prior accidents. Same thing with signage in the military.
And year, redundancy for the person flying the plane, or at least monitoring the autopilot is probably a good idea, tough shit for the airlines that want to cut costs.
like this
TVA likes this.
Yeah, if they'd decrease prices then I honestly wouldn't be that opposed. Flying is very safe, and autopilot is really good. It can even land, though I think this is normally not used if you have a human pilot, but it can do it if it needs to.
We all know that they'd just be cutting employees and probably increase prices though.
The MBAs have taken over the world and are enshitifying entire safety critical industries. They’ve been testing how high they can get the stock price/deaths ratio before someone makes them stop. This is why some industries just shouldn’t be driven by profit, and very near the top of that list is aviation safety.
With the FAA overrun with industry goons and Trump appointees, and aircraft design flaws now acceptable as a cost of doing business, we can expect more regulatory cuts and bits of passenger strewn about the landscape.
like this
massive_bereavement e TVA like this.
like this
TVA likes this.
like this
massive_bereavement likes this.
with the landing gear there's mechanical backups. the pilot can (destructively) manually drop the gear if there's a failure. same with other backups: on a non-fly by wire aircraft, the pilot can physically move the control surfaces with enough force. even Airbus has a limited mechanical backup (which has been used a couple times! like when all three avionics controllers disagreed and tripped offline.) likewise, even when there's a total loss of power, the pilot can windmill the engines to start. and since any loss of communication dooms the aircraft, it needs to be extraordinarily reliable - and I'm not sure that level of reliability is physically possible, because the underlying communications links (even ACARS) aren't rated for it, nor are the backbone routers of the internet.
finally, I think it is human nature that remote pilots will become complacent if their own lives are not at stake, like their passengers'.
I'm sure it's fascinating research, and may have a place for cargo/repositioning flights, but I can't see that such a scheme could be made reliable enough to risk human lives.
like this
TVA likes this.
Remember not too long ago when the pilot or copilot went to the bathroom and came back to find the other guy unconscious?
Now think about what happens if there's only one guy.
My mom just told me about British airways flight 5390.
While the aircraft was flying over Didcot, England, an improperly installed windscreen panel separated from its frame, causing the captain to be partially ejected from the aircraft. He was held in place through the window frame for 20 minutes until the first officer landed at Southampton Airport.
Whoever tried to pass this one pilot thing should be fired.
Airplanes CAN also fly on a single engine (that is, if it's a 2 engine one) but that doesn't mean that it should
Ideas like these always come from people who forgot what were actually doing and what the actual priorities are
The priority is to move people safely from point a to point b. The priority is NOT to make a tiny select few rich people even richer
The priority is to move people safely from point a to point b. The priority is NOT to make a tiny select few rich people even richer
Clearly you haven't been paying attention for the last 40 years. The priorities for all services and industries have changed.
People flying planes?
First put Copilot as the copilot. Then yeet the pilot as well.
3 LLMs duking it out with people in the cargo hold of a winged tin cylinder seems like a genius idea.
Remember that plane where the 1st officer locked the captain out of the cockpit and flew the plane into a mountain?
I believe the rule now is that for a pilot to exit the cockpit, a cabin crew member has to be in the cockpit, to prevent this sort of thing.
What is your favourite metal song?
like this
Raoul Duke e adhocfungus like this.
FRYD likes this.
Israel soon will halt or slow aid to northern Gaza as military offensive grows
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel will soon halt or slow humanitarian aid into parts of northern Gaza as it expands its military offensive against Hamas, an official said Saturday, a day after Gaza City was declared a combat zone.
The decision was likely to bring more condemnation of Israel’s government as frustration grows in the country and abroad over dire conditions for both Palestinians and remaining hostages in Gaza after nearly 23 months of war.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, told The Associated Press that Israel will stop airdrops over Gaza City in the coming days and reduce the number of aid trucks arriving as it prepares to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people south.
Israel on Friday ended daytime pauses in fighting to allow aid delivery, describing Gaza City as a Hamas stronghold and alleging that a tunnel network remains in use. The United Nations and partners have said the pauses, airdrops and other recent measures fell far short of the 600 trucks of aid needed daily in Gaza.
“We left because the area became unlivable,” Fadi Al-Daour, displaced from Gaza City, said as vehicles piled high with people and belongings rolled through a shattered landscape. “No one is searching, and there are no journalists to film. There is nothing.”
like this
fif-t likes this.
These past few years have shown how badly humanity hasn’t truly shaken off its barbaric nature. I’m in my mid-40s and I grew up during a time where yes, there were still some issues, but on the whole it felt like humanity was finally starting to evolve, but now it’s the same shit that’s happened across the centuries just with a different veneer.
The fact we constantly repeat our shortcomings should have been a clue in and of itself, but I though that technical advances would also further us too instead of just coming up with more efficient ways to be assholes.
Israelis and Palestinians protest for peace as journalist Mariam Dagga's family mourns her death
NAZARETH, Israel (AP) — In the streets of Nazareth, Israeli and Palestinian activists wore stickers replicating the ‘Press’ insignia emblazoned on flak jackets and other clothing worn by journalists as they rallied for peace in Gaza. Their message: Journalism is not a crime.
A throng of people wearing blue-and-white ‘Press’ stickers — used to identify journalists in dangerous areas — gathered in the Israeli town on Friday to call for an end to the war in Gaza, which has killed nearly 200 journalists among tens of thousands of others. Some held photos of Palestinian journalists killed.
’’Don’t assassinate the truth,” read a banner the protesters held. Some banged on empty pots to symbolize hunger in the Gaza Strip and protest the killing of journalists.
Mariam Dagga, a 33-year-old who freelanced for The Associated Press, was among the war’s victims. She and four other reporters were killed earlier this week when Israeli forces struck Nasser Hospital in the Gaza town of Khan Younis, along with 17 other people.
UK refuses to invite Israeli government officials to London arms fair over the war in Gaza
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has barred Israeli government officials from attending the country’s biggest arms fair over growing concern about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The decision does not cover representatives of Israeli defense contractors, who will be allowed to attend the DSEI UK exhibition, scheduled for Sept. 9-12 in London. The event was formerly known as Defense and Security Equipment International.
“The Israeli Government’s decision to further escalate its military operation in Gaza is wrong,” the British government said in a statement. “As a result, we can confirm that no Israeli government delegation will be invited to attend DSEI UK 2025.”
The decision comes after Prime Minister Keir Starmer in July announced plans to recognize a Palestinian state unless Israel takes steps to end the crisis in Gaza, agrees to a ceasefire with Hamas and commits to a long-term peace agreement. Britain previously barred sales to Israel of any arms that could be used in the nearly 23-month war in Gaza.
https://apnews.com/article/britain-israel-defense-gaza-arms-fair-1949dbe6f401212a7c7faa6b47c3198b
like this
Oofnik likes this.
READ THE SECOND LINE.
They de facto only blocked from attending people who didn't needed to attend.
This press release of theirs is another example of the traditional technique in British Modern Politics (and not only there, but in Britain using that kind of thing is a fucking art form) of presenting a miniscule barely bothersome action on something that goes along the direction the public wants as a massive action in that direction whilst in fact not really doing anything in any way effective in the direction that the public wants.
It's like when they loudly announced they had "Limited arms sales to Israel" some months ago and then in the details it turned out that they had blocked about 20 categories of weaponry out over 300 (and this all the while they kept flying surveillance flights over Gaza to give the info to Israel).
Smoke & Mirrors.
These people are professional deceivers and hypocrites.
wow.
how can jewish ISIS recover from this blow.
/////sssss
Company behind Jack Daniel's says Canadian boycott is 'significant' as sales drop 62%
Parent company officials say trade dispute is causing 'significant headwinds' and 'significant impact'
The parent company of American alcohol producers such as Jack Daniel's whisky and Woodford Reserve bourbon says sales to Canada dropped 62 per cent during the latest fiscal quarter compared to a year ago, as American alcohol remains off the shelves in many provinces.
After U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian goods in early March, a number of provinces retaliated, pulling American alcohol from store shelves. Alberta and Saskatchewan have since lifted the ban.
like this
originalucifer, PokyDokie, Zier e Oofnik like this.
According to Goods Unite Us, Brown-Forman, the parent company mentioned on the article, directs 70% of their political contribution towards the Democrats.
Though they manufacture Jack Daniels in the deep red state of Tennessee. So it's a fair bet a majority of their workers voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
Brands - Goods Unite Us
Goods Unite Us is an App and website focused on helping consumers shop brands in alignment with their social and political beliefs.Goods Unite Us
They can move their distillery then.
Fuck red states and fuck the businesses that hide in them.
Did they shut down due to a lack of business, or was it the government stepping in and imposing its mandate that everyone else has to follow no matter what?
If it's the former, good. If it's the latter, then it's very bad.
As an American I like Jack from time to time and Woodford Reserve, but I usually go to Jim Beam.
However, lately I have been drinking Crown or Bushmills Black Bush. Fuck buying American.
History - Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey - 100 Proof from Tennessee
The best whiskey maker the world never knew. Uncle Nearest 1856 Premium Whiskey. Visit one of these locations or buy online. Enjoy responsibly.Uncle Nearest
Inside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety
Public transport cost pushes Britons to fly abroad for day trips
Public transport cost pushes Britons to fly abroad for day trips
Meet members of a Facebook group for travellers taking "extreme day trips" from Bristol Airport.Chloe Harcombe (BBC News)
in a real browser
Which is a major security risk and you should avoid those "real browsers".
by displaying Unicode characters an attacker can send you a link that clearly shows its yahoo.com and you see in the browser url that its yahoo.com but in reality its unicode letters that look similar to latin one.
that's really bad
you are right.
You could disable it though in firefox: "about:config" and find "network.IDN_show_punycode" and set to true.
AI in fiction is a boring concept to me. It’s presented either as “What is a person?” or “What if we create an evil god?”. To me anything with feelings is a person and the other is just a chrome paint job on evil god characters in non sci-fi genres, so it’s just a speculative dead end.
AI in real life is much more interesting and its proliferation makes fictional AI seem even more bland. Real life AI is first and foremost not intelligent and probably not even close, that said we have no rubric to grade it by because we don’t even really know what intelligence is yet. That said, machine learning algorithms highlight patterns in the world and in our behaviors that are fascinating just because they show just how complicated the world and people are in ways our brains just passively process. Kind of like how QWOP highlights just how difficult and complicated walking is.
Yemen’s Houthis say prime minister of rebel-controlled government killed in Israeli airstrike
cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/49026720
Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday vowed to take revenge for the killing of their prime minister and other political leaders by Israeli airstrikes earlier this week.The Houthis confirmed Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi was killed in a strike on the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, which also left others seriously wounded.
Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthis’ Supreme Political Council, said in a video statement, “We promise to God, to the dear Yemeni people and the families of the martyrs and wounded that we will take revenge and we will turn the wounds into a victory.”
Al-Rahawi is the most senior figure in the Iran-backed Houthis to be killed in Israeli’s campaign against the group.
Yemen’s Houthis say prime minister of rebel-controlled government killed in Israeli airstrike
Yemen’s Houthi rebels say the prime minister and a number of other ministers in their government were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday.Eyad Kourdi (CNN)
like this
Oofnik likes this.
Rwanda received migrants deported from the US earlier this month
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/35133682
- First group of seven migrants arrived in Rwanda in mid-August
- Three have expressed desire to return to home countries
- Trump has taken hardline approach toward immigration
WASHINGTON/NAIROBI, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Rwanda received seven migrants deported from the United States earlier this month, a government spokesperson said in a statement on Thursday, weeks after the two countries reached an agreement for the transfer of up to 250 people.
"The first group of seven vetted migrants arrived in Rwanda in mid-August," Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo said in a statement
"Three of the individuals have expressed a desire to return to their home countries, while four wish to stay and build lives in Rwanda. Regardless of their specific needs, all of these individuals will receive appropriate support and protection from the Rwandan government."
U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a hardline approach toward immigration, aiming to deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally and seeking to ramp up removals to third countries.
A U.S. State Department spokesperson on Thursday referred questions on the deportations earlier this month to the government of Rwanda and declined to comment on details of diplomatic communications with other governments.
"Implementing the Trump Administration’s immigration policies is a top priority for the Department of State. As Secretary Rubio has said, we remain unwavering in our commitment to end illegal and mass migration and bolster America’s border security," the spokesperson said.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact.
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a major part of the global climate system. It brings sun-warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. The Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years as a result of the climate crisis.
Climate models recently indicated that a collapse before 2100 was unlikely but the new analysis examined models that were run for longer, to 2300 and 2500. These show the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades, but that the collapse itself may not happen until 50 to 100 years later.
50 to 100 years from now? .... phew..... i can rest easy now ..... at least all I have to worry about in my lifetime is extreme heat and hurricanes .... I'll let the next generation worry about the mid Atlantic Ocean current failing
Hey it might even start a mini ice age .... which would be a good thing because of the global warming right?
Former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy murdered in Lviv
**In short: **
Ukraine's former house speaker Andriy Parubiy has been shot dead in Lviv.
Parubiy's colleagues in parliament and the government have shared tributes, praising him for his contributions to Ukraine's fight for sovereignty.
What's next?
A manhunt has been launched for the killer.
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
like this
Oofnik, aramis87, CrankyPants, Lasslinthar, frustrated_phagocytosis e Raoul Duke like this.
Good. Dude literally cofounded the ukranian nazi party.
Edit:
Andriy Volodymyrovych Parubiy (Ukrainian: Андрій Володимирович Парубій; 31 January 1971 – 30 August 2025) was a Ukrainian politician[7] who co-founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine in 1991, and who served as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, from 14 April 2016, to 29 August 2019.
Andriy Volodymyrovych Parubiy (Ukrainian: Андрій Володимирович Парубій; 31 January 1971 – 30 August 2025) was a Ukrainian politician[7] who co-founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine in 1991, and who served as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, from 14 April 2016, to 29 August 2019.
Despite his move away from the Social-National Party in 2004[30] Parubiy was frequently the target by pro-Russian media, who routinely refer to him as a Nazi, especially after the Revolution of Dignity.
I'm shocked that a .ml user would behave like pro-Russian media. Totally shocked.
???? DUDE, THIS GUY CO-FOUNDED A LITERAL NEO-NAZI PARTY, IN WHAT SENSE WOULD THIS INFORMATION BE pRo-RuSsIaN????????
EVERY FUCKIN NAZI SHOULD JUST DIE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND IT? I DON'T FUCKIN CARE IF IT IS UKRANIAN, RUSSIAN OR FUCKIN BRAZILLIAN, OKAY?
Schindler was a nazi, and yet we praise him - despite having been vocally pro-german before he saw the reality of what his country stood for. People change, shitty people included. Sometimes, they even change for the better.
Also I'm not white, nor a gringo. It's pretty sad you have to retreat to racism for your cheap bait.
Schindler was a nazi, and yet we praise him
EWWWWWW. Fuck off, nazi scumbag.
It's pretty sad you have to retreat to racism for your cheap bait.
What a shitty "racist" guy that I am for calling you a white gringo... Western people really suffered, and still suffer, by this... /s
You know, we can acknowledge the errors of Ukraine without removing their rights to live as a free country.
Ukraine had a big problem with far right, and it was full of corruption. I don't know to which extent it is still true, but that doesn't mean we should let Russia annex or ethnically cleanse them.
Check out Dmytro Yarosh, Pravy Sektor or the Azov Brigade for example. They have far more reach than "1% on elections".
Historicaly the nazis were very popular in Ukraine because they fought against the soviets which, as you can guess, weren't much liked by most of the population. They were seen as heroes and liberators by a lot of people. That doesn't make it right, but it makes sense. History has a tendency to be grey like that.
Well, those groups were obviously among the first to fight against the Russians in eastern Ukraine after Maïdan. They were very active in the Maïdan revolution too.
It's a valid thing to point out that integrating neo-nazi or nazi-adjacent people like that in the government and war machine is problematic. That doesn't invalidate Ukraine's legitimacy or give credit to Russia's stupid claims. But denying those facts only fuels the russian propaganda machine.
I wouldn't really call Azov brigade nazi any more, although they do have an origin as a nazi organization. They were cleaned of most of that crap around 2018 or so.
Also, in 2014 Ukraine de facto had no army, as they had found it impossible that Poland or Slovakia or Moldova would attack them and believed that even if that was to happen, the Russia would come help. And when Ukraine then needed some military might when this war began in 2014, the only ones who had learned to properly use a weapon were the Moscow-funded extreme right wing oranizations, who merrily bit the feeding hand when it tried to start punching them.
Ukraine began with building an actual useful army in 2014, but for a long time the informal extreme right organizations were stronger than the Ukrainian military and police forces combined, which meant there was a real threat of a far-right coup in Ukraine. The way Ukraine was able to dismantle those dangerous organizations was by slowly allowing them to integrate into the Ukrainian army, while at the same time everything possible was done to water down the nazi symphaties from those units. Nowadays by far the biggest part of Azov soldiers are against nazism, but of course there are still ugly symphathies among the oldest members of the organization. For example, the Azov battallion changed its logo away from being the wolfsangel already a couple of years ago, but very often you still see the old logo in use. And that is a nazi symbol. But, because the majority of soldiers in Azov units are there to fight a war in a skilled unit where they are likely to stay alive, I still would not call it a nazi organization now in 2025.
Of course, when you're in the trenches, the philosophies of your fellow soldiers are less important than their ability to shoot the orcs between the eyes.
And to end this text: Most of the funding for the Ukrainian right wing extremists came from the Russia, until in 2014 it stopped. Since then, the amount of right-wing extremism in Ukraine has been in a steady decline, while at the same time it's been on a rise in the Russia and in territories occupied by the Russia. Just like in any other country that has been under Russian influence during this century, there is indeed still a big nazi problem in Ukraine. But it's important to understand that in any areas under Russian control the problem is and will be rising, whereas in other parts of Ukraine it's decreasing. A country having a nazi problem is not a reason to decline helping them reduce the amount of nazism. (And the problem is not bigger than that in present day Germany, BTW. But still, just like in Germany it is important to do something and that something is indeed being done, it's also important in Ukraine to do something. And that something is also being done. Stupid to claim the problem doesn't exist, stupid to claim that it's a defining feature of Ukraine.)
Historicaly the nazis were very popular in Ukraine [...] They were seen as heroes and liberators by a lot of people.
That is a blatant exaggeration bordering on revisionism. They were seen as liberators by a minority upon invasion in 1941, that quickly changed once the people realized the facts of the occupation, and millions fought against the nazis.
It's so fucking far more than one percent it's not even close. Oh such an enormous reach, if you "do your own research" instead of looking into facts.
My man, either stop eating russian lying narrative, or stop spreading it, preferably both.
Firefox integra Copilot l'AI di Microsoft
How do you see the modlog for fedia.io
When I go to the fedia.io site, I only get a login site.
I am trying to understand why the mod of !bside@fedia.io got banned.
It's a super chill indie gaming community, no drama, I enjoyed the content that was posted there.
I get a login notice when I click that URL.
I don't have an account on fedia.io.
like this
celeste likes this.
like this
celeste likes this.
IDF strike on Gaza City bakery kills 11 Palestinians, including children, medics say
At least 11 Palestinians, including children, were killed in an IDF airstrike on a bakery in Gaza City on Saturday, medical sources said.
Dozens more were wounded in the attack on the Ansar neighborhood in the western part of the city while waiting in line to buy bread, medical sources added.
Images from the scene show bodies scattered alongside loaves of bread.
IDF strike on Gaza City bakery kills 11 Palestinians, including children, medics say
According to Gaza's Health Ministry, a total of 66 people were killed and 345 wounded by Israeli fire over the past day, including 15 who were trying to obtain humanitarian aid and 10 who died of hungerJack Khoury (Haaretz)
like this
FerretyFever0, dandi8, andyburke, Oofnik, massive_bereavement, aramis87, CrankyPants, NoneOfUrBusiness e PokyDokie like this.
84% civilian casualty rate
youtube.com/shorts/33ZUdtAkvCc
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
like this
FerretyFever0 likes this.
I’m assuming their excuse is that it was terrorist bread.
Genocide.
US blocks Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas from attending UN meeting in New York
US blocks Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas from attending UN meeting in New York
The decision comes as France leads international efforts to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN meeting next month.Paulin Kola (BBC News)
like this
FerretyFever0, dandi8, andyburke, massive_bereavement, Oofnik e NoneOfUrBusiness like this.
US breaks one of the most important the pillars of the United Nations.
THE RIGHT OF ALL LEADERS TO ATTEND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, this is written in the UN charter and the US agreed to let everyone travel to UN meetings in New York when the UN was founded.
This is an attempt to start the destruction of the UN.
like this
FerretyFever0, elgordino, Oofnik, dcpDarkMatter e NoneOfUrBusiness like this.
like this
NoneOfUrBusiness likes this.
No its not, it is doing what America has wanted to do and now what its owners have wanted to do for ever.
Its failing at being decent, it is succeeding at its task to ruin it all.
like this
NoneOfUrBusiness likes this.
Eh, good. 2 years and going of active genocide and the UN is completely useless. May something better come from its ashes.
If you still have faith in international bodies like the UN and don't realize they're simply pacifying tools to cover for and allow the west to do whatever they want, you're not paying attention.
May something better come from its ashes.
Don't hold your breath, such a better version would still require major powers to concede and no major power would join without veto capabilities.
We need alien ovelords.
They were selling palestinian land in a synaguoge in montreal
commediaportal.ca/web/en/media…
Montreal real estate event sells property in illegal settlements in the West Bank in Palestinian Territory
Protest results in injunction banning pro-Palestine activists from protesting outside of Jewish institutions in MontrealCommunity Media Portal
like this
NoneOfUrBusiness likes this.
like this
FerretyFever0 likes this.
like this
FerretyFever0 e NoneOfUrBusiness like this.
There is already a UN building in Geneva. Make that the primary one .
like this
dcpDarkMatter e NoneOfUrBusiness like this.
like this
NoneOfUrBusiness likes this.
Trump blocks. Trump.
Fuck this inbred oompa loompa, and every person that helps him. He spreads his disease while a third of America claps and ignores the clear signs of child rape and genocide.
This is a creature, a monster. He is a thing, not a being. A creation of wealth, power, and privilege. He should never have reached such a ripe, demented age.
Our societies have failed us. The United States of America has been compromised.
Your comment seems to imply that the placement of the UN HQ and GA is somehow ...a reward for a country's virtue? What kind of silliness is that?
The choice of placement of the UN HQ&GA should be guided by a simple principle: what place in the world is stable enough, neutral enough and independent from external pressure enough to be the place where representatives of all the countries in the globe, regardless of whether they are good or bad or «good» or «bad» can reliably meet without hindrance under a flag of truce.
It's a fucking practical question not a moral one.
Reminder that the US also sanctioned and blocked UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese from entering the country less than two months ago because they didn't like her reporting.
news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1…
The USA is no longer an appropriate place to host the UN headquarters.
UN calls for reversal of US sanctions on Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Top UN human rights officials have voiced serious concern over the imposition of sanctions by the United States targeting Francesca Albanese, a UN-appointed independent expert on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.UN News
The USA is no longer an appropriate place to host the UN headquarters.
Never been
Switching to the Fediverse for Daily Social Media Use
Switching to the Fediverse for Daily Social Media Use
I’ve come to realize that being endlessly absorbed by AI slop and brainrot, especially Instagram reels constantly shared between friends,...Circle With A Dot
like this
originalucifer likes this.
Not everybody is a tanky here.
I joined waay before the reddit API change and .ml was like one of three available instances.
Yeah same, we’re just early adopters.
I don’t think there even were other instances back then.
I nuked the internal network by mistake. Working on fixing it right now
edit It's back up now if you'd like to try again 😀
using something like Mastodon is no harder than signing up for X or Facebook. The difference is you won’t be treated like a product, you’ll be treated like a person.
I like this. I might reuse it.
Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving
Hello fellow Fediversians,
I have been mulling over an eminently feasible and inevitably controversial solution to a couple of challenges I see with the Fediverse gaining traction, and becoming the primary microblog/forum platform for many users. Also I believe this solution can fill a valuable function of accountability in the form of unbiased archiving.
Essentially the concept is an instance entirely populated by bot accounts, accounts which individually scrape the publicly posted content of public figures from other platforms and reposts that content in quotation, with timestamp, link-back attribution, and cross-links to other posts referred to by the primary post if they exist within the archive. Also may include comments requoting the post if it is edited with new timestamp, etc.
Why do this? Well simply put it would create a consolidated archive of published cintent from public figures which cannot be tampered with for the purposes of accountability, similar to the Wayback Machine, but with the added function of direct interactivity via federated services.
In this way Fedenizens can follow their favorite public figures on-platform and interact with their content in a separate persistent environment, and journalists can have a fully up to date copy of what has been said without filter or revision.
This is all extremely feasible with the help of ML agent scripts, even if APIs are not cooperative.
What are your thoughts? If you were an instance admin would you block such an instance or allow it?
There is of course the issue of how to pick what public figures to add to the archive, but I suggest this can be done by nomination. Who nominates? Well the other function of such an instance would be for individuals to self-nominate in order to mirror their content from other platforms into the fediverse. I suggest that these members can also nominate other accounts, perhaps with a quorum voting system, say 5 nominations succeeds in adding a person to the archive.
Some people may in the end choose to use the instance as their primary, as they interact a lot with the archive streams. I think this would be a welcome outcome.
Twitter mirrors
Instagram mirrors
Reddit mirrors for posts
Corporate social networks generally don't like being mirrored by a competition and actively fight with these.
Bluesky was being mirrored like this by Bridgy, but as it is a two-way bridge and Mastodon users did not expect their data leak to another network they bullyed Bridgy dev into making it opt-in.
There are more issues to mass-mirroring content from outside and I hope others will tell about them.
Your instance is not blocking that much.
Apparently the Facebook company fights with account mirroring even more than ex-Twitter. Performance of Instagram mirroring will be smaller...
Coopr8 likes this.
Maybe you need to wait a bit for federation to kick in?
I don't have links at hand, but from some other questions I know that federation is not "download everything the moment someone looks at another instance". Basically follow something and wait until some new content appears on origin instance. If after that you don't see the content federated, then it's time to start asking around
Coopr8 likes this.
You don't know about the mastodon unofficial bots reposting from X (without interaction of person postingon X) and Lemmy unofficial bots and sometimes whole instances following RSS feeds or those somehow don't fit what you aim for?
Amb. Chas Freeman: The End of Western Dominance Is Here!
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Amb. Chas Freeman: The End of Western Dominance Is Here!
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
like this
sonofbalkans e dandi8 like this.
They don't know it. They'd have egg on their face if it turned out he wasn't dead or died some other way.
The choice to include that it was an airstrike instead of a gunshot, blade, poison, or a hand grenade is an editorial choice. It certainly answers one of the first questions which would form in the reader's mind.
- BBC
- Al Jazeera
- NYTimes
- NBC
Yemen's Houthis say Israeli airstrike killed prime minister of rebel-controlled government
An Israeli airstrike killed the prime minister of Yemen’s rebel-controlled government, the Iran-backed Houthi militant group said SaturdayFreddie Clayton (NBC News)
like this
CrankyPants likes this.
Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine
Kagi has quickly grown into something of a household name within tech circles. From Hacker News and Lobsters to Reddit, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise. Whenever the topic of search engines comes up, there’s an almost ritual rush to be the first to recommend Kagi, often followed by a chorus of replies echoing the endorsement.
Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine
Kagi has quickly grown into something of a _household name_ within tech circles. From _Hacker News_ and _Lobsters_ to _Reddit_, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise.マリウス
Tech people have zero idea what privacy is or should be, and desperately look for anything to make then feel elites. Paying for Kagi is a flex.
Kagi is fine, but it certainly not magic.
Qwant, Startpage, and SearXNG work well.
Ecosia is DDG (which is Bing results) as a non-profit.
Mojeek...ugh, you stupid but nice guy. You'll get there one day.
[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?
I just thought this might make a fun discussion thread for folks to chat about ideas and make silly pie jokes.
I'm curious to hear what folks think would be fun, or work well!
like this
LostWanderer likes this.
No idea, as much as I like Piefed, I'm not the biggest fan of the whole pie imagery related to it.
Curious to see what other people will come up with!
I completely forgot "lemmings" 😅😅
I've probably actually seen that one more, I don't know how I forgot it lol
like this
LostWanderer likes this.
Piefeeders PieFeds(like federal agent) piffids piefedditors pies magpies
Its a hard one for names, maybe the name should come from the instance like blarj users.
Cutie pies!! 🥹
The only downside is it might not be the most self explanatory
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.m.youtube.com
I choose not to differentiate the two. I think we are all part of the same group
It's home instances that we are tribal about more than software interface.
like this
TVA likes this.
It's Lemmings not Lemmites, so keeping that same energy... Piefeedings? Piefeddings? I think Piefedders sounds better, though none of them are great.
However, Piefed does have fed in it like fediverse, so it's not a bad name, just hard to riff off of.
like this
HarkMahlberg e Fitik like this.
Re: Lemmings.
How about Magpies?
Black-billed Magpie Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Black-billed Magpies are familiar and entertaining birds of western North America. They sit on fenceposts and road signs or flap across rangelands, their white wing patches flashing and their very long tails trailing behind them.www.allaboutbirds.org
I was thinking about that too. And you know what? After taking part in Mastodon, then Lemmy, now PieFed and discovering PeerTube I now more identify as a Fediverse user than a user of one of the parts
Fediversling/Fediverser lacks an unofficial-official name too, btw ;)
Pythonidae?
It doesn’t sound very nice, I prefer the others’ suggestions: cutie pie, magpie, slice, etc.
Okay but don't forget about the PieFed memes community!! !piefed_promo@piefed.social
Example post:
also, I got a good name for the american piefed users!
like this
giantpaper e Infrapink like this.
I have been using "Pie-heads", b/c we are just crazy enough to make that work! 😛
And the network of Lemmy + PieFed + Mbin (+ nodeBB + flarum) as the "Threadiverse", distinct from the wider Fediverse that also includes Mastodon, PixelFed, etc.
Re: [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?
Pamasich likes this.
Lemmy users are lemmings
I think Piefed users can be called Piefeddites
like this
Raoul Duke likes this.
Let me propose "Spinner" because we're making thread.
Example : feddit.org users are Spinner.
Thanks! It seemed like it might be fun 😊
Hope you have a lovely day!
Serious answer, piefedians, fedians or piens for short.
Fun answer: pie-ons (peons), or of you want to separate the lurkers from the contributors, you have pie-eaters and pie-mongers
I don't really call them lemmites, haven't seen anybody else do so either, I think Lemmings has such a cool ring to it, very cute animals that travel in groups.
As for Piefed users if it's competing with something that cute then my vote is Piefolk.
Vance says he’s prepared to be president ‘If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens’
JD Vance has said he is ready to take on the presidency “If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens” to Donald Trump.
In a wide-ranging interview with USA TODAY, the vice president said he was “confident” President Trump would see out the rest of his term, but added he has had a lot of “on-the-job training”.
He also insisted to White House Correspondent Francesca Chambers Trump was in “incredibly good health”, despite recent questions about the president’s physical wellbeing.
Vance says he’s prepared to become president ‘If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens’
The vice president said he ‘couldn’t think of better on-the-job training’ than his time in officeNicole Wootton-Cane (The Independent)
like this
dflemstr e Raoul Duke like this.
like this
TVA, Lasslinthar, Get_Off_My_WLAN, andyburke, aramis87, Benign, dandi8 e CrankyPants like this.
like this
Get_Off_My_WLAN likes this.
US to revoke visas for PLO and PA members ahead of UN General Assembly 2025
US to revoke visas for PLO and PA members ahead of UN General Assembly 2025
The US could be complicating the planned recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September by denying and revoking existing visas to members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Palestinia…MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
like this
Maeve, NoneOfUrBusiness, dandi8, Lasslinthar e CrankyPants like this.
Rubio's announcement said the PA must halt efforts “to bypass negotiations through international lawfare campaigns”, including appeals to the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice, and efforts to secure the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palestinian state”. The Trump administration cites these two actions as having "materially contributed to Hamas’s refusal to release its hostages, and to the breakdown of the Gaza ceasefire talks."
Wow.
like this
NoneOfUrBusiness, frustrated_phagocytosis, Lawelen e Maeve like this.
“Part of the agreement with the UN is that the host country for its headquarters allows all heads of state to address the annual gathering.
The Palestinian Authority "stressed that this decision stands in clear contradiction to international law and the UN Headquarters Agreement”
THIS HERE ^^
The Trump Admin is using this to destroy the fundamentals of the UN. The UN will have to move out of the US which is exactly what they want to achieve without saying it out loud.
like this
NoneOfUrBusiness, frustrated_phagocytosis e Lawelen like this.
like this
frustrated_phagocytosis, Lawelen e Maeve like this.
Mussolini's great-grandson makes Serie A debut
Romano Floriani Mussolini: Dictator Benito Mussolini's great-grandson makes Serie A debut for Cremonese
Romano Floriani Mussolini, the great-grandson of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, comes off the bench to help Cremonese defeat Sassuolo 3-2 in his Serie A debut on Friday.Adwaidh Rajan (BBC Sport)
Just in time for fascism to spread around the world! His great-grandfather would be so proud.
... if he weren't, y'know, dead.
Is he actually a fascist though? Or does he just happen to be Mussolini's great grandson?
The sins of the father...
He says he has no interest in politics, but his mother is a Forza Italia MEP who started her career in a far-right "post-fascist" party.
Her father seemed to also be aligned with his father (Benito), so I would be surprised if the fascism has filtered all the way down.
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
The clandestine businesses – a financial lifeline for many women – have been given a month to cease operationsZahra Joya (The Guardian)
like this
ammorok, dandi8 e CrankyPants like this.
BREAKING: 4 Israeli soldiers missing, others killed in resistance ambush in Zeitoun neighbourhood east of Gaza: Israel media
Israeli media reported that 4 soldiers were missing, and others were killed and wounded in Gaza, as part of a large ambush to capture Israeli soldiers carried out by the Qassam Brigades in the Zeitoun neighbourhood east of Gaza City.
Sources reported that the operation began with a large ambush in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, which resulted in the deaths of several Israeli soldiers, while other reports confirmed injuries described as critical.
like this
Maeve, dflemstr e NoneOfUrBusiness like this.
like this
Envy likes this.
If Gaza didn't resist, it would not have to be like this!!1!
Let's ignore the last 80 years of it being like this.
like this
NoneOfUrBusiness likes this.
why is it breaking news
Why hate on people sharing positive news?
like this
NoneOfUrBusiness likes this.
Why is it fucking breaking news that a tiny few soldiers have been soldiered while participating in a genocide?
I mean it's not breaking news but, like all colonial warfare, it's much harder for the Palestinian resistance to get kills on the IDF than vice versa, so this is newsworthy in the same way minor developments in the Ukraine war are newsworthy.
like this
NoneOfUrBusiness likes this.
like this
NoneOfUrBusiness likes this.
like this
CrankyPants e Drusas like this.
like this
CrankyPants likes this.
like this
CrankyPants likes this.
like this
CrankyPants likes this.
like this
CrankyPants likes this.
I would argue thst hamas is better than iraqi resistant , i would argue that they are more comparable to vietcong and that us army was a lot more competant than the diaper army
He slipped and died': How Israel hides its troop deaths
'He slipped and died': How Israel hides its troop deaths
Whether falling from trees or dying in car crashes, Israeli soldiers seem to be the unluckiest on the planet. But, in this Information Age, it is becoming increasingly challenging for Tel Aviv to conceal its combat-related deaths.thecradle.co
It's like how people are getting excited about Gavin Newsom's dank memes.
When the opposition is winning in every aspect, even a minor piece of opposition becomes remarkable.
Piefed now has a built-in alternative to Lemmyverse to discover and search for active communities, with the "Active people" filter on the communities page (weekly basis)
Parola filtrata: nsfw
To see it in action:
- piefed.zip/communities?topic_i…
Crust.piefed.social (the Piefed development instance)
- crust.piefed.social/communitie…
Not all instances implement it yet, I guess it depends how often they pull from the dev branch
Example of search for 'movies'
like this
originalucifer, Fitik e celeste like this.
Is this different to Lemmy's communities tab sorted by 'Top Week', which sorts by weekly active users?
IMO, the main advantage of Lemmyverse is the better text search and presentation.
like this
MHLoppy likes this.
like this
Fitik likes this.
like this
MHLoppy likes this.
You still don't see the number of weekly active users.
On Piefed, it's the 'Active people' column, where you can see the numbers without having to go to each community. Lemmy (and Photon in this case) only show subscribers, which isn't an accurate metric as most of them are ghost accounts.
That could indeed be the case, but that's probably a low priority item for most of the client devs.
I had been asking Rimu to add this feature for a while as Lemmyverse doesn't show Piefed communities on the community search, and as a lot of people use Lemmyverse to search for communities, Piefed communities are basically invisible.
This solves it, if other clients want to implement it too, that would be nice of course
pyfedi
Project background: https://join.piefed.social Demo site / Flagship instance: https://piefed.socialCodeberg.org
As in old.reddit or the old “new” reddit they apparently changed a week ago.
I’ve been messing around with customising themes all week on quokka.au, and I would be happy to give it a shot.
Where I'm at so far with a theme. Gotta finish up the top bar with community subscriptions and tidy up the user part on the left before moving onto the feed.
Oh great, now I can check if my Taylor Swifties Markov Chains are more popular in Meta’s piefeed instance over Microsoft’s 🙄 /s
Folks, please don't not fall for Popularity Biases. Just because one instance has more robots talking to each other, doesn't mean you should join the community.
So don't fall for it.
The Unfairness of Popularity Bias in Recommendation
Recommender systems are known to suffer from the popularity bias problem: popular (i.e. frequently rated) items get a lot of exposure while less popular ones are under-represented in the recommendations.arXiv.org
!movies@lemmy.world is almost only composed of a single poster sharing articles from the Guardian.
!movies@piefed.social has a diverse mod team, with dedicated threads for movies, weekly discussion threads, and people sharing their own reviews.
Now, what you have just exemplified is the way:
community based introductions.
So thank you for curating👍, and sharing your thoughts on them. 🫶
Japan and South Korea hope to be friends again
Japan and South Korea hope to be friends again
The new president of South Korea, Lee Jae Myung, and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba have tried to leave old feuds behind and look to the future at a Tokyo summit.Martin Fritz (Deutsche Welle)
like this
NoneOfUrBusiness, Dantpool e Raoul Duke like this.
Japan and South Korea have similar political systems and similar human development indexes, which implies relatively similar sets of values. And they're fairly alone with those in their corner of the world. They both have to deal with being adjacent to Russia, China and North Korea, which aren't exactly the best neighbors. And they face similar social issues, e.g. extremely low birth rates.
In short, it would be very beneficial for them to be friends.
It doesn't work this way. At all.
Russia and Ukraine have many similar things. And what?
Half of Afrika shoots each other while being indistinguishable from an outsider's point of view.
USA despises Canada while Canada helped USA many times and the last war between them wasn't even between them but between metropolias.
Want me to provide another hundred of examples?
like this
NoneOfUrBusiness likes this.
Most of these have actually quite different political systems. e.g. Putin's Russia is a dictatorship, while Ukraine is a somewhat imperfect democracy that has been on the road to become more similar to EU countries. Trump might despise Canada, but is that true for Biden and other prominent Democrats, too? Was that true for pre-MAGA Republicans? Either way, Trump's USA is a rightwing dictatorship while Canada is a democracy.
Also, even if a set of relatively similar countries isn't actually friends, it would still be very beneficial for most them, certainly more beneficial than going to war with each other.
That makes perfect sense if you have no sense of the historical context of relations between Japan and Korea or the major factors of racism and historical revisionism at play.
Since the end of WWII, Japan has actively downplayed and minimized its own historical atrocities against Chinese and Korean civilians. Mass rape, torture, and indiscriminate massacre aren't things a proud culture like Korea are gonna just "get over" on a short timescale. The fact that racism against Koreans in Japan is still rampant is just icing on the shit cake.
One of the other articles linked to from the OP article mentions that, while two Japanese companies (Mitsubishi and Nippon Steel) have voluntarily offered reparation payments to "forced laborers" from WWII recently, this has actually inflamed tensions because they have also notably not offered apologies. The money is seen as a dirty bribe to shut up about the whole "nearly a million people pressed into slavery" thing.
This is happening now because both of these countries have relatively similar political values and are being squeezed by both sides by China and the US. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Yeah, that's an interesting point. Perhaps there are cultural difference that makes it more difficult to let go of old grudges.
Or maybe Europe is just more used to fighting eachother and becoming friends again once it's over.
I mean, I'm Swedish, we may joke about the Danes and talk shit about them. But if something serious were to actually happen we'd stand behind them no questions asked. And I'm pretty sure we have the record for most wars and battles fought between two nations.
One issue is that Japan was treated with kid's gloves after WW2 unlike Germany, the Germans were made keenly aware of how much they fucked up and the allies spent some effort to "denazify" the country - even if it was incomplete, it was still a lot more than what was done in Japan.
Now that I think about it, it probably also helped a ton that the EU wasn't just two countries, but pretty much from the very beginning a round table of more-or-less equals. Really takes the edge off animosities between any two countries in a way that's probably impossible when all you have is bilateral relations, even when there's a guarantor like the USA that would prevent any active hostilities.
in fact, those who are most similar often fight the most
consider dogs. typical dogs are pretty chill and get along with practically everyone, except other dogs. at least that's my impression. when they see another dog, they start barking like there's no tomorrow, because they sense competition. somebody who's completely different than themselves is no problem because they occupy a different niche, so they're not competition.
I suspect what we’ll see is an anti China alliance between Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, and Vietnam as Chinese influence grows. Probably won’t be something official like NATO but it does seem to be in their strategic interest to make this happen. Especially now that US support is iffy.
And my understanding is that the current generations have less animosity.
vietnam was scorched earth razed by the us. that wasn't "just business" at all.
they haven't actually fought china for many decades, and have been talking a lot of big deals lately.
if i recall correctly you haven't been on conflict with china for decades though, right? that's despite some territorial disputes.
do you think vietnam would realistically be on an official anti-china alliance?
If you mean something that would be called a war then the last one was in 1979. I heard from some on the internet who had people from their family deployed that there were still smaller conflicts in the 80s.
The territorial disputes in the recent 20 years were worse than you think, soldiers died, fishing ships were sank and there were protests. However, the Vietnamese government kept it down to not lose on the economic front. The past 2-3 years the government got on better terms with other sides and got more aggressive when it comes to the islands lol.
For the alliance, I think we have a policy in national defense that says we won't be in any military organization, so nope. There might be others that are related to economy and security which tends to be against China's wrongdoings though.
now that is commendable
how was the situation till now? japan, korea and china all hate each other for some reason?
for some reason?
I don't mean to be a dick, but it might have something to do with the Japanese Empire having massacred them in the past.
philpo
in reply to LadyButterfly she/her • • •Shows that a private prison is a absolutely fucking bad idea.
Oh,how should we have known that.
naticus
in reply to philpo • • •philpo
in reply to naticus • • •He resigned because he was threatened while still on the job.
Generally speaking the police (and in some countries the prison system is a de facto separate police) deals far better with it's members being threatened,especially as their self perception is different and their managements goal is not to make a fucking profit first.