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I'm afraid it will be hard in the future.

More information, but I warn you, you may not like it -- lemmy.world/post/36143572

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Cats have healing powers mrrrrp purrrr

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Cowbee [he/they]

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I am once again recommending you read theory. This is becoming a big pattern with your posts, you have doomsday predictions that are framed in the views of "good vs evil" as though those are the driving mechanisms of the problems of today. I really think trying to get a solid understanding of the way capitalism works and its contradictions will help you make better sense of the world, which can be much more comforting than relying on conspiracy theories about crypto and predictions from John the Theologian centering the idea that currency will become invalid and we will all have to run into the hills and barter to survive (as your linked post states).

Such an economy would collapse without workers, you aren't going to be hunted, capitalism rests on wage labor and needs continuous labor and circulation to keep going. What's more likely is imperialism waning as profit rates trend lower and lower and the global south seeks independence, resulting in crisis, not some even stronger oppressive capialist force that can act with any kind of coherent plan. The capitalists aren't going to run automated megafactories and hunt former workers for sport, they need workers to consume to continue the process of circulation. When circulation becomes untenable because of overproduction of goods and not enough wages to buy said goods, the system crashes. It isn't going to get stronger, it will get more desparate and violent but weaker at the same time. Fascism is a cornered, hungry animal lashing out.

Even as the capitalist world gets increasingly fascist, the way you frame the ways it will act ignore that the primary purpose of fascism is to save capitalist relations, not just to do evil for evil's sake. The way we fight fascism is fundamentally centered around organizing, not fleeing cities and trying to rely on physical currency. The mechanisms of capitalism are understandable, and as such we can move on to understand the ways it will actually decay and run into crisis, and how we can move on to socialism.

Here's an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list that you may find helpful.

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

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

Revolution. Socialism. Liberation. - Freedom Road Socialist Organization | FRSO
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SugarCatDestroyer

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Yes, the problem is that everything I've talked about could happen suddenly, for example, after wars. I don't know exactly when it will happen, but I have a bad feeling about the future, a very bad one. But I'm glad to hear your criticism; it helps much more than kind words. Thank you.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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I want to stress that I'm not trying to be mean, I genuinely think you'll feel more comfortable by trying to get a better handle on how society functions. Much of what you talk about is more speculative fiction than an actual likely course of events. That doesn't mean the capitalist world isn't headed towards crisis, but the way in which it reaches said crisis is going to look a lot more like the Great Depression or Russian revolution than it would 1984 or the Hunger Games. This fundamentally changes how we prepare so that we can better alleviate the problems coming in the future. I mean this with all kindness, a better world is possible, and it takes educating, agitating, and organizing.

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SugarCatDestroyer

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It's just that recently the risk of a third world war has appeared. I have many different theories, but I can't confirm every one of them.

Okay, we'll see what happens next, but it's best to be prepared for any horror, even a sharp rise in food prices. I've seen videos and read articles predicting an imminent catastrophe, and corporate greed tells me that this catastrophe is just around the corner.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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A third world war is not that likely. The US Empire cannot win an outright war against China, either China would win or both would lose. What's more likely is the US Empire going the way of Rome, continual decay until eventual collapse. It does help to be prepared for anything, though, I agree.

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... I’ve seen videos and read articles predicting an imminent catastrophe, and corporate greed tells me that this catastrophe is just around the corner.

my own doomerism had me believing this as well, but then learning about texts like the ones cowbee has shared w you has shown me that our situation was predicted a century+ ago and I found it reassuring.

The most wild part is that it was never just some fringe leftist prediction; even liberal & conservative scholars from a century ago also predicted it like Keynes, or Polanyi, or Roosevelt (yes the president). It turns out that almost a century ago americans and other westerners just stopped paying attention to all the warnings from all of the scholars that they used to listen to and now we're in this doom filled future because all the people who benefit from the status quo have successfully created an environment where the future is seen as either more status quo or nothing but abject horrors to scare us into drinking the kool-aide of inescapable climate change and perpetual oligarchy.

Once I developed a rudimentary media literacy because those texts; the mainstream media became transparent and it became clear that everyone, but the people of ruling class, are kept ignorant of reality because ignorant people are easier to manipulate into all the unnecessary asshattery that we've been doing for the last five generations.

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SugarCatDestroyer

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You have good experience, and you're right about a lot of things. And yes, ignorant people are easy to manipulate, especially if they're poor and desperate enough.

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Maeve

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We own nothing, nothing is ours
Not even love so fierce* that burns like baby stars
But this poverty is our greatest gift,
The weightlessness of us as things begin to shift...

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SugarCatDestroyer

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Well, yes...

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eldavi

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especially if they’re poor and desperate enough.

aka the yin to the fascist yang.

in other words: make them so worried about trying to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table that they're don't have the energy & time to think about why they have to do this when there are litterally billions of other people on this planet who don't have to worry about doing the same thing.

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SugarCatDestroyer

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Yes, that's the problem.

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Avid Amoeba

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I can attest to this as well. These days I'm scared by the immediate possible horrors of American fascism but I'm actually hopeful for the future beyond that. I also think now I'm much better prepared for escaping the worst of the acute fascism than I was before.

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... now I’m much better prepared for escaping the worst of the acute fascism than I was before.

i'm expecting it to smack me down hard since i already was not having a great time under non-fascist capitalism.

you should teach a class on how to prepare for it. lol

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Avid Amoeba

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Not much to teach. Just lucky to have another citizenship and some savings. Then theory just helps with answering questions like:

Could there be life-disrupting/threatening political change in Canada in the foreseeable future?
Would it be safe if we just move to northern Canada?
Should we move out of Canada in such an eventuality?

with a "yes," "no" and "probably yes." Previously I might have answered those with "no," "yes" and "no."

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eldavi

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the us empire is about to demonstrate to the world that my other country of citizenship is still a helpless vassal state despite the incredible progress at self determination they've made in the last few decades and my recent career change has proven that savings were a thing of the past despite earning the american average salary.

i wish canada were an option for me, but the best chance that canada would consider me for permanent residency status is if i went back to the old career field that was giving me anxiety, depression, and the perpetual need to disregard reminders that i was helping the ruling class further fuck over the entire world.

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Maeve

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I think it's important to discern capital voices, reactionary voices (regardless of sincerity), and level -headed voices, regardless of whether they manage to get money or not, in what amounts, although sources should be scrutinized. No one is perfect, but we need to evaluate motivation.

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Maeve

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I see Hunger Games metaphorically like all mythologies, poetry, court jesters, Shakespearean plays, etc. And like myself, reactionaries tend to take things literally, rather than get a handle on their passions and channel them in more creatively appropriate ways, when opportunity presents. Something about luck means preparation meeting opportunity. But part of preparation is knowledge and understanding. It's a long, hard, frustrating process for we who are conditioned into expectations of ease, comfort, and drive-thru results. There will be the five stages of grief accompanied by bitterness and many of our comrades will get stuck in the five stages, bitterness, and the way things were/could have been. I think those who are able to see and move beyond these things, accept there will be hardships and work through them to move beyond will be the ones shaping the future. The choice is yours. The choice is mine. The choice is our comrades. Choose ye this day whom you shall serve. A spirit of defeat serves the enemy, regardless of where our loyalty lies.

You've been such a reassuring, steady influence as I work through my issues. I'm ever grateful for it and proud to acknowledge it.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Thank you, that's extremely sweet of you to say, comrade! And very well-put. One thing interesting about the "prepper" community is that it often is filled with right-wingers convinced the world will collapse, rather than organizing for revolution. They see no way out, and this turns them inwards to try to save themselves and maybe their family and friends. Understanding the world is the first step needed to find the way out!

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Maeve

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No thanks needed. It's a decades long process of seeking, for we who are conditioned from birth by the well-meaning who were also conditioned from birth, for centuries. But that protestant work ethic will become a useful tool, rather than a weapon of destruction, for those who join us.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Well-said again!

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Hopefully those who have ears to hear will.

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This post is better? -- lemmy.world/post/36167196

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Not by much, IMO. It is true that non-renewables are being used up, but AI isn't the answer, and certainly not suicide. The answer is organizing, and moving onto socialism so we can coherently and collectively plan society.

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primrosepathspeedrun

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David graeber has some good stuff on the nature of money and debt, if you want something a little easier than Marx's 'capital'.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Here's Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber, I believe this is what you're referencing. Capital isn't too difficult, IMO. It's long, but the first 3 chapters are the most complex, after that it's fairly smooth sailing, and Marx is actually a pretty witty writer. Just in case anyone was too scared by its reputation to read it!

Read Debt: The first 5000 years(David Graeber, 2011) on ProleWiki

This book explores the role debt has played in shaping human history, from ancient civilizations to modern societies, debunking the conventional economic narratives...

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It's not that its hard, but Marx–while capable of very good and engaging writing–was trying to be a respectable 19th century intellectual for that one, so it's kind of a painfully dry slog. That was the style at the time.

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I'd actually say that applies more to volume 2 than it does 1. 1 has lots of literary references, metaphors, and fiery writing, while volume 2 is far more straight and academic. Lenin on the other hand was always spicy with his writing, haha.

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Lenin

Fuck that guy–but anyone who says he couldn't write clearly doesn't know how to read.

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Can't agree with Lenin slander, he's one of the greatest heroes the working class has ever had and one of the greatest theoreticians of all time. That being said, at least we can agree that he was a hell of a writer!

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I think even among ML's there are better candidates for all that. Castro's entire set, for one.

I think he absolutely meant it and was a gifted administrator(putting aside killing all the other communists for a moment), but he made the same mistake all the French revolutionaries made–centralized power too much taking it from the soviets, so it fell apart when anyone less capable of filling those extremely large shoes stepped in.

He made the classic 'great man' mistake, and didn't trust the people he meant to save, so his success began to die the moment he did. It's hard to blame him personally, but god dammit he could have done so much better with a little sacrifice in initial efficiency to help the people be a bigger part of the revolution.

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Lenin was one of the earliest theorists, organizers, and eventually the leader of the first explicitly Marxist revolution in world history. Any one of these accomplishments would make him one of the most important and admirable Marxists ever, but all three?

Lenin's worst mistake was giving too much of his health to his nation. Sorry, but your reading is not supported by the historical data, even though it is so often repeated by the western left.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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That's not really an accurate view of the Soviet Union. Lenin didn't take power away from the soviets, they were still the driving force of decision-making. Thanks to achieving a socialist system, life expectancies doubled, literacy rates tripled, healthcare and education were free and high quality, working hours lowered, vacation days increased, housing and employment were full or nearly full, and they went from feudalism to space in half a century.

Lenin didn't "kill all of the other communists." The vast majority sided with the bolsheviks, and others fought against them and lost in the civil war. It wasn't like Lenin pushed a "kill everyone who disagrees with me" button, there was an active civil war with people killing bolsheviks and the Red Army as well.

The Soviet Union also didn't really fall apart simply due to Khrushchev, Gorbachev, or Yeltsin alone. They contributed by undermining the socialist system and introducing parts of government meant to work against each other, but the soviet union still functioned well until it was illegally dissolved.

All in all, you have a very inaccurate view of Lenin and the Soviet Union, I'd say. It was the single most progressive force in the world throughout its existence, and figures that you list like Castro directly owe at least some of their success to Lenin and the Soviet Union.

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Emotions are important and allowing them, feeling and working through are important. And so is not reacting from the emotional storm, or immediately after it's passed. Give the invisible charge in the air to pass, metaphorically.

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What’s this “future” shit? That’s how it is now. We have healthcare tied to employment in the US, and if you post anything negative about Nazis you will lose your job.

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I have been wondering this ... why don't people open "mattress testers" companies where they basically employ people for sleeping (wage is $0 but it's a "job"). Just to fulfill the work requirements.

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This is thinly veiled "china bad" bs

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Don't worry! There won't be a future for very long! Ecological collapse will save us!

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mub

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Is there a black market for Doctors (other than charities) ? Feels like an opportunity for an enterprising group of doctors.

Forking the medical industry with free treatment probably needs a gofundme . . . . . Or what the rest of the world calls a national health service.

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Jerrycan

type of fuel can (20-l-standard version of WWII and later NATO)

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I used to work at a gas station decades ago that charged $20 for the 1 gallon Jerrycans. It was really rough anytime I had to sell one, because the only people who need them are already desperate. Anytime I was working alone I would give them away.

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We are thrilled to announce the soft launch of Fedora Forge, our new home for Fedora Project subprojects and Special Interest Groups (SIGs)! This marks a significant step forward in modernizing our development and collaboration tools, providing a pow…

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FYI

We are thrilled to announce the soft launch of Fedora Forge, our new home for Fedora Project subprojects and Special Interest Groups (SIGs)!

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Yes, it's the first line in the excerpt. Not really sure why it needed to be repeated in a comment too. 😀

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Because the title didn't tell me what the Fedora Forge is. I figured I might not be the only one and wanted to save someone a click.

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I appreciate the click save

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Some clients show an excerpt (I ain't complaining about you putting it in a comment though) so probably to that guy it looked like you just copy/pasted this thing

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it's hard to imagine anyone using lemmy wo excerpts to articles since lemmy is 90% links to articles.

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On Thunder I have no excerpt and I find really annoying all those who post link without comments. They are just doing clickbait like any news aggregator. If I want that there is already google news for instance...
So I value those who add a comment to their post and say why they post it and find it interesting. Isn't Lemmy all about sharing thought, so does poster except other to do it for him and just want to have popular posts?

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i wish i understood why people use those apps to browse lemmy. i used to think that they were pointless, but watching them drive up the userbase numbers up for .world and .ee made it seem like i must be missing something so i tried all of the ones i could find and the experience was the same for me as it is with a browser.

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Whoohoo! I wad just saying how cool it would be if big projects like Fedora, OpenSuse, the free desktop foundation, kde, gnome, etc moved to forgeo because of the impending federation support linking them all together

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Plex or Jellyfin for my Raspberry Pi?

Hi, all. So I want to set up a media server using my Raspberry Pi. It will be used by me and my partner, who is very much tech illiterate. She knows how to use Plex, but I'm tempted by the open nature of Jellyfin. How steep is the learning curve there? Should I just go with Plex and keep it simple? Or is Jellyfin manageable if I set it up for her?

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Jellyfin all day every day

It still has issues to fix but it's open source and actually yours

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mub

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I really would like to switch but can't for one reason. It lacks a user friendly logon screen like literally every other similar system. I've tested jellyfin with my family. They liked it, but they all hated having to enter a username and password instead of just having a list of profiles to select, so they voted no. This seems like such a trivial thing to implement, and would improve accessibility for lots of people.

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Plex is an enterprise solution, if you need your tech illiterate grandma to access the media it's easier to pay them. If it's just a local network or you're okay with going down a rabbit hole of setup, then Jellyfin does everything and does it better IMO (Plex requires you to be online to login before it shows you your local data, plus you're sharing information on what media files you have to Plex).

I personally have been using Jellyfin for years, and my only complain is that the LG app is slow and I get some videos that stuck for a few seconds in it (probably some codec thing, that I could fix by transcoding the media but I haven't been bothered enough to figure it out)

sabreW4K3 via Palestine

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Israeli minister labels Gaza ‘real estate bonanza’ as attacks continue

https://www.channel4.com/news/israeli-minister-labels-gaza-real-estate-bonanza-as-attacks-continue

#Palestine

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Mrkawfee

in reply to sabreW4K3 • 1 mese fa • •

Only took two years for Corporate media to start reporting what these Zionist psychopaths say to each other in their language rather than rely on official propaganda.

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Kami

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They will probably scold them in two more years

geneva_convenience via Palestine

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The Israeli Soldiers Who Have Gone Insane Are Actually The Sane Ones. The Real Insane Ones Are Those Who Are Not Psychologically Wounded By The Crimes They Have Done

The Israeli Soldiers Who Have Gone Insane Are Actually The Sane Ones. The Real Insane Ones Are Those Who Are Not Psychologically Wounded By The Crimes They Have Done - Walid Shoebat

There was an article that was published on Haaretz about IDF soldiers losing their minds due to the crimes they have committed.

^{Shoebat (Walid Shoebat)}

#Palestine

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Ardens

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I know... You can't make people be so violent, without manipulating them. And it's always the rich and powerful, who make the "workers" kill each other...

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eldavi

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it's wild how much more effective dividing and conquering with legacy/social media is compared to doing it with a military.

acargitz via Progressive Politics

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acargitz
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Corbyn and Sultana clash over new party membership

MP Zarah Sultana says she is a victim of a "sexist boys' club" in row over setting up new left wing party.

^{Sam Francis (BBC News)}

#progressivepolitics

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geneva_convenience

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Is this really the time for identity politics Zarah

Viking_Hippie via Progressive Politics

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Viking_Hippie
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"no matter who the settler class was, I would be against them"

cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6177592

This is one of the two main actors from the show Hacks

#progressivepolitics

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geneva_convenience

in reply to Viking_Hippie • 1 mese fa • •

The term Liberal Zionist is like Liberal Nazi. Or Liberal Liberal.

geneva_convenience via Not Not the Onion

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Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant statement Thursday in which he criticized the commission’s finding, declaring that “these so-called genocide experts have probably never committed a genocide in their lives.”

“Until you’ve killed countless civilians, the word ‘genocide’ shouldn’t even come out of your damn mouth,” said Netanyahu, arguing that the pampered intellectuals at the U.N. were nothing more than a bunch of armchair human rights abusers. “Name one ethnic group you’ve attempted to obliterate. I’ll wait.

I mean, have you even bombed a single children’s hospital? Please, you’ve got no idea what you’re talking about. Maybe you read a book about the 1948 Genocide Convention? Well, I’ve read Sports Illustrated, but that doesn’t mean I’m a quarterback.

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant statement Thursday in which he criticized the com…

^{The Onion Staff (The Onion)}

#notnottheonion

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Formatting test [Because I don't understand how some images show up as links while others reflect the image themselves also extra long title test inbound

HTML GUESS:

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Thumb HTML GUESS:

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Image signal-2025-08-23-13-11-07-825 hosted in ImgBB

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chaos

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fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-…

Guides | Lemmy Markdown

Lemmy Markdown Guide

^fedecan.ca

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Ging

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the cake is a lie
Is this bold italic as instructed?

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Ging

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Plaintext with escapes:
***the cake is a lie***
Answer seems no

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Ging

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True bold italic with X

stln via United States | News & Politics

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US Plans to Deploy the Golden Dome Missile Defense System: Problems and Prospects

Former Deputy Chief of Space Operations for the US Space Force, General Michael Gattlein, announced that the deployment plan for the Golden Dome missile defense system has been completed.

The US Department of Defense is not disclosing details of the program or its cost. The Pentagon statement stated that a review is currently underway, so no further information is available.

A look at the general's changing tone makes it clear that the project is facing difficulties. In July, he claimed that he would present an "objective plan" and disclose the program concept after the 60-day deadline.

As for the cost, one can conclude that Trump's $175 billion plan was optimistic. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the development and deployment of the missile defense system will require $542 billion, and that's just the cost of creating the interceptor system. Defense Department spokesperson Kingsley Wilson stated that cost details should not be disclosed because the program is critical to national security.

Although the project has a relatively short development timeline, it already has its critics. They argue that the effectiveness of a missile defense system depends on a variety of factors, from its location on the planet to the types and number of threats the system must counter, as well as its expected reliability.

Computer modeling has shown that the guaranteed destruction of several warheads would require dozens of times more interceptor missiles. A simple calculation shows that the system could easily be overwhelmed by the launch of several missiles, not to mention a massive nuclear missile strike. Military analyst Todd Harrison of the American Enterprise Institute warns that even minor changes to the system's parameters could increase its cost by hundreds of billions of dollars.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-17/pentagon-completes-golden-dome-blueprint-but-mum-on-cost-technical-details

#USA

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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As Ted Postol explains, it's completely unworkable m.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Wzlqh7…

- 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.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via Socialism

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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VS Achuthanandan: The epic life of a communist turning the tiller proletariat

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/17/vs-achuthanandan-the-epic-life-of-a-communist-turning-the-tiller-proletariat/

#socialism

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via Europe

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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UK regime partners up with Palantir

New strategic partnership to unlock billions and boost military AI and innovation

The UK will be at the leading edge of defence innovation as the government signs a new partnership with Palantir to unlock billions in investment and deliver on the Government’s Plan for Change.

^{Ministry of Defence (GOV.UK)}

#europe

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via Economics

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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The Economic and Strategic Logic Behind China’s Power Sector Engagement in Africa

China’s Financing Power Plants Transforming Africa's Energy

Why is China financing power plants across Africa? This analysis breaks down China’s motivations — from resource security to export markets — and what’s at stake.

^{The China-Global South Project}

#economics

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via World News

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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Speaker Johnson says China is straining U.S. relations with Nvidia chip ban

US has a protagonist complex acting like the main character, doing whatever they want, then panicking when other countries push back.

Speaker Johnson says China is straining U.S. relations with Nvidia chip ban

The Cyberspace Administration of China ordered companies to halt purchases of Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, a chip that was made for the country.

^{Samantha Subin (CNBC)}

#Worldnews

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wurzelgummidge

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

“They steal our intellectual property,” Johnson told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday.

Why the fuck would they do that when their own is so much better

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HiddenLayer555

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They just don't get it do they. China has literally stated they intend to transition away from US technology. I think they're fine with straining the totally previously healthy and definitely not one sided relationship with the US.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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I bet he's just upset because of this 🤣 cbc.ca/news/business/nvidia-am…

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小莱卡

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They absolutely get it, they're just trying to gaslight the general population that the US is the victim.

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via Memes

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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Me checking news in the mornings

#memes

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eldavi

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

i didn't know motorola did IP69K capable phones. lol

daydrinkingchickadee via Palestine

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US vetoes UN Security Council Gaza ceasefire demand for sixth time

‘Forgive us, Palestinian brothers, sisters,’ says Algerian ambassador to UN Amar Bendjama after devastating outcome.

^{Lorraine Mallinder (Al Jazeera)}

#Palestine

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HiddenLayer555

in reply to daydrinkingchickadee • 1 mese fa • •

League of Nations was more effective and that's not a complement of the League of Nations

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Flyberius [comrade/them]

in reply to daydrinkingchickadee • 1 mese fa • •

Literal political violence

MeatPilot via Memes

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MeatPilot
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Pull ahead for your order

#memes

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ChonkyLincoln

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you can order Chicken McNuggets “well done” and it’s life changing

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eldavi

in reply to ChonkyLincoln • 1 mese fa • •

mcdonalds helping isreal w the gaza genocide; get chicken tendies from almost anywhere else.

CrashLoopBackOff via Lemmy Support

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CrashLoopBackOff
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Developer / Potential Contributor Question: how to add a custom post/comment ranking algorithm to Lemmy?

How would I add a new ranking algorithm to Lemmy as a contributor? I'm a developer by trade, but unfamiliar with Rust and the codebase of Lemmy specifically. It doesn't seem like Lemmy has a concept of 'ranking plugins', so whatever I do would have to involve an MR.

Specifically, I'd like to introduce a ranking system that approximates Proportional Approval Voting, specifically using Thiele's elimination methods, like is used in LiquidFeedback.

I'm pretty sure that with a few tweaks to Thiele's rules, I can compute a complete ranking of all comments in a thread in O(ClogC + E + VlogC), where C is the number of comments, E is the total number of likes, and V is the number of users. This would also support partial approvals, upvotes could decay with age.

I believe this would mitigate the tendency towards echo chambers that Lemmy inherits from Reddit. Lemmy effectively uses Block Approval Voting with decays to rank comments and posts, leading to the same people dominating every conversation.

Winner-take-all approval voting

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

#lemmy_support

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solrize

in reply to CrashLoopBackOff • 1 mese fa • •

Lemmy needs less algorithms rather than more. If they're accepting voting-related patches, maybe write one that turns off voting and just shows everythng chronologically. There is actually no way to do that right now. Sort by "new" orders the top level comments in a thread most recent first, but keeps the threading intact. There should be a setting that flattens out everything and sorts purely by timestamp.

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CrashLoopBackOff

in reply to solrize • 1 mese fa • •

Then the conversation would be dominated by whoever has the most time to make posts, which isn't what I'm going for. I'd rather have a method that satisfies Proportional Representation.

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rglullis

in reply to CrashLoopBackOff • 1 mese fa • •

Have you considered taking the approach from phanpy.social/, and let the sorting algorithms on the client side?

Not only would make your work independent from Lemmy, it would give you complete freedom to choose how to implement this.

Phanpy

Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

^{phanpy.social}

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CrashLoopBackOff

in reply to rglullis • 1 mese fa • •

I don't think it would work for my specific algorithm, unfortunately. To compute PAV, I need access to the "raw votes" of each individual user.

PAV doesn't need to know the identity of the user behind each upvote, but it does need to be able to correlate which upvotes originated from the same user so that once a user is determined to be "satisfied" by having a comment they upvoted given a high rank, all of their other upvotes need to be deweighted for the remainder of the process to "make room" for other users' opinions.

I checked the Lemmy API docs, and while that information is available at /api/v4/post/like/list and /api/v4/comment/like/list, so I could have a frontend that scraped every comment and then every like of every comment in a community (ignoring how inefficient that would be), but both of those endpoints are tagged as "Admin-only".

Plus, even if I could do that, to compute the rankings my process does need the upvotes of every comment in a post (or every post in a community) before it knows which one is on top, which seems too much to put on a client.

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rglullis

in reply to CrashLoopBackOff • 1 mese fa • •

so I could have a frontend that scraped every comment and then every like of every comment in a community

Or you could do the same thing that lemvotes.org/ does and follow the communities and actors to build this database on a separate server, which then can be used by the client(s).

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CrashLoopBackOff

in reply to rglullis • 1 mese fa • •

Huh. TIL!

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geneva_convenience

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We don't have nearly enough comments for this to be a real problem

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CrashLoopBackOff

in reply to geneva_convenience • 1 mese fa • •

What if the lack of comments were because comments weren't proportionally representative?

Someone sees a discussion that interests them, so they see what the top comments are. But if the Hive Mind(tm) has spoken (even if just by awarding the top two or three comments to the same viewpoint), will they engage, or will they go somewhere else?

Remove the Hive Mind, and maybe you'll get more engagement?

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Nutomic

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The "Chat" option does just that, with newest comments at the top.

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Nutomic

in reply to CrashLoopBackOff • 1 mese fa • •

The ranking is implemented in a rather complicated way for performance reasons:
- First there are SQL functions which calculate the rank for a specific post or comment (defined here)
- These SQL functions are used by a scheduled task which updates post ranks at a regular interval (defined here)
- Then there are the database tables which store the calculated rank (eg post.hot_rank)
- Also the API parameters to specify the requested sort, and preferences for default sort options etc
- These params are used in the post listing db query to sort posts by the given rank field (here)

lemmy/crates/db_schema_setup/replaceable_schema/utils.sql at main · LemmyNet/lemmy

🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmy development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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CrashLoopBackOff

in reply to Nutomic • 1 mese fa • •

This is exactly the info I'm looking for, thanks! I knew there'd have to be some kind of scheduled task to recompute the rankings (IIRC the lemmy docs say ~10 minutes for recomputing ranks), I just wasn't sure where it was.

The change that would require the least effort to implement my voting system (whether the lemmy maintainers would accept the change notwithstanding) would be to target the schedule task, and introduce a server-wide configuration option that would allow admins to pick whether they're using Block Approval (what we have now) or Proportional Approval (what I'm introducing) based algorithms for their server's "hot" algorithm. No API or frontent changes required. Then, work towards community mods being able to set that on a per-community basis.

Something for me to experiment with, anyway.

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Nutomic

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Sounds interesting, though from your links it's not clear to me how exactly it works. Depending on that it could make more sense to implement as a separate sort option, then each user could try and compare it to the existing sorts.

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CrashLoopBackOff

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I was thinking of it as a drop-in replacement for "hot" just so that it doesn't require any changes on the UI to implement. I'm a bit rusty with UI development, lol. The frontends wouldn't have to add a new button, and the Lemmy API wouldn't need to add a new sort type. That said, maybe that sort of thing is easy to do?

As far as it would work, Thiele's elimination rules is computed roughly as follows (I'm assuming that only upvotes are counted; I haven't considered yet if the process works if disapprovals count as a vote of "-1" or how the process could remain scalable if an abstention counts as a vote of "0.5":

begin with the list of posts, list of users, and list of votes

# initial weighting, takes O(E)
for each post:
    for each vote on the post:
        lookup the user that voted on the post
        based on the number of votes the user has given, determine how much the user would be made "unhappy" if the current post was removed
        # the basic idea here is that if the user didn't vote for a post, then they won't care if its removed
        # if the user did vote for a post, but also voted for 100 others, then they probably won't care if one gets removed as long as 99 remain
        # if the user did vote for a post, but only voted for 2 or 1 others, then they'll care more if this one gets removed
        # if this is the only post the user voted for, then they'll care a lot if it gets removed
        # LiquidFeedback uses a formula of "1/r", where r is the total number of votes the user has given
        # as posts get removed, the votes get removed too, so surviving votes get more weight
        # for the sake of efficiency, I'll probably use a formula like "if r > 20 then 0 else 1/r" so that users only start to contribute weight to posts once they only have 20 approvals left. Replace 20 with a constant of your choice
        add the user's resistance to the post being removed to the post

# initial heap construction, takes O(C)
construct a min-heap of the posts based on the sum of the users' resistances to the post being removed

# iterative removal of posts
while posts remain in the heap: # O(C)
    remove the first post in the heap - this has the least resistance to this post being marked 'last' in the current set # O(logC)
    yield the removed post

    for each vote for the removed post: # in total, O(E) - every vote is iterated once, across the entire lifetime of the heap
        lookup the user that voted on the post
        compute this user's resistance to this post being removed
        remove this vote from the user
        based on the number of remaining votes the user has given, compute the user's resistance to the next post being removed
        compute how much the user's resistance to their next post being removed increased (let this be "resistance increase")
        if "resistance increase" is nonzero (based on my formula, this will happen whenever they have less than 20 votes remaining, but not if they have more than 20 votes remaining):
            for each vote for a different post by this user:
                increase the post resistance to removal by "resistance increase"
                perform an "increase_key" operation on the min-heap for this post # this will be O(logC)

               # worst-case, each user will perform 20 + 19 + 18 + ... "increase_key" operations - 
               # they only begin once there are 20 votes remaining 

               # when they have 20 votes remaining, they have 20 increase_key's to do
               # when they have 19 votes remaining, they have 19 increase_key's to do
               # etc.

               # because this is a constant, it doesn't contribute to the time complexity analysis.
               # so each user performs at worst a constant number of O(logC) operations
               # so the overall time complexity of the "increase_key" operations is O(VlogC)

For this algorithm, the yield the removed post statement will return the sorted posts in reverse order. So worst to best. You could also interpret that statement as "Give the post a rank in the final sorting of count(posts) - (i++)".

Thiele says that process can be used to elect a committee of size N by stopping your removal when N votes remain. But because it's a "house monotonic" process (electoral speak for "increasing the size of the committee by one and re-running an election is guaranteed not to cost any existing members their seat), I figure it could be repurposed to produce a ranking as well - the top one item is "best one", the top two items are the best two, the top three are the best three, etc.

To make the above process work for approvals that decay over time, we'd just treat a decayed approval as a partial approval. I still have some work to do on how exactly to integrate partial approvals into the "resistance to removing each post" calculations without ruining my time complexity. But basically it's a proportional score voting election instead of proportional approval.

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Nutomic

in reply to CrashLoopBackOff • 1 mese fa • •

Adding a new sort type is not a big deal, so dont worry about it. And a new admin setting for this would also require UI changes, so the new sort type is easier overall.

The current sort options calculate the rank for each post only from the data on that post (number of votes, creation time). Your suggested algorithm looks much more complicated than that, as it requires two iterations and needs to access data from multiple posts at once. Im not sure if this can really be implemented in a way thats performant enough for production use. Anyway feel free to open a pull request, then hopefully other contributors can help you to get it working.

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philophilsaurus via Privacy

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philophilsaurus
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How to protect my identity while running an online store?

Hello, Sorry if this is the wrong place for this.

I am looking to start an online store for some art projects/crafts/stickers mostly as a creative outlet for some of my current frustrations.

Since some kinds of people take art way too personally, I want to take precautions from doxxing or being harassed.

What are some best practices for an online shop? Are there any recommended storefronts or something like that? I’m sure there’s a lot of things I’m not even considering.

Any help would be much appreciated, Thanks

#privacy

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shortwavesurfer

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Sell it for Monero on XMRBazaar.com. You can just list your item and don't have to give any kind of personal information to create the listing or receive payment for the product.

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Matt

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Unfortunately, normal people don't like crypto because of association with scams. But it's great as an secondary payment option.

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rhymepurple

in reply to philophilsaurus • 1 mese fa • •

I recommend that you think hard and properly access your threat profile. You are likely going to have to pay with either your wallet (eg: some sort of company incorporation, lawyer fees, forwarding services, and other privacy protection services), your time (eg: using "inconvenient" services, managing separate accounts, etc.), or both. It can be draining (in more than one way) and take away some of the joy that you're intending this to bring you if you do too much to protect yourself. On the other hand, if you do too little then you can overexpose yourself leading to pricey or dangerous situations.

At a minimum, I would recommend incorpating and making sure your name is not publicly tied to the company in any way. You will likely need a person/company/lawyer to be publicly listed as an agent of some sort for the company. You should be able to have someone do this for you for a small-medium sized fee. Once you have that, do everything in the company's name and ideally with separate phone numbers, email addresses, online accounts, bank accounts, and physical addresses as anything tied directly to you.

Some of that is to protect yourself financially and legally, but there are some obvious privacy benefits as well. Anything beyond that should be dictated by your threat profile.

As always though, follow best practices when it comes to security! Use strong passwords and use multi-factor authentication when possible (or ideally, use passkeys). Don't reuse passwords (and ideally, don't reuse email addresses for multiple accounts). Avoid clicking links in messages when possible. Don't open suspicious documents (especially if they are unexpected). Verify the authenticity of any new person/business you interact with (especially if they contact you first). Be vigilant of all forms of phishing attacks.

Another piece of advice (that you didn't ask for, sorry!) - if the process of making art is the thing that brings you joy and the materials are not too expenses, then just focus on making the art without selling it (at least for a while). At worst, you will realize that maybe this isn't as enjoyable as you thought it would be with the added benefit of not needing to deal with all the troubles of working through all the legal/financial/privacy protections. At best, if you decide to get serious about selling it then you'll have a larger product inventory and better understanding of what you like making most. It may also help you understand what you should price everything at (assuming you've made some of the items in larger quantities).

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swelter_spark

in reply to philophilsaurus • 1 mese fa • •

Get a P.O. Box for returns/exchanges, so you don't have to give out your home address.

Use a VoIP service if you need a business phone #. Callcentric is cheap and reliable.

Use an email redirect service like SimpleLogin or AnonAddy to create an email account that's just for business, and add it to your PayPal (if you have one & plan on using it) so people don't see your personal email address on receipts.

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traceur201

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If your volume is low probably some managed service that handles payments and searchability for you. Like etsy, but I'm not sure if etsy is actually good (anymore?)

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Aether Crescent 🌙

in reply to philophilsaurus • 1 mese fa • •

Whatever you do don't get a domain name (website) and register it with your name and other info they want like email, phone nunber and address. Anyone could whois you and find out all that information in literally 1 second by just typing in your website and it's usually public data unless you request and pay extra for them to hide your info

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Flatfire

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Most domain registrars make whois info private by default these days. It's typically just a toggle. Same with DNSSEC

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Contractor Used Classified CIA Systems as ‘His Own Personal Google’

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Helix 🧬

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I'm pretty sure he's far from the only one. Databases with such a vast amount of "forbidden" knowledge will always be misused.

That's why we shouldn't have global surveillance, espionage and "highly classified material" wherever it's possible for agencies to do their jobs without them.

And I'd argue most of the data the contractor had access to was neither relevant for his own work, nor for the work of all of the CIA.

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surph_ninja

in reply to Helix 🧬 • 1 mese fa • •

We’ve known since Snowden that these people browse private info for fun, and exchange anything spicy they find with each other. But this guy was straight up selling classified info to anyone who would buy it.

I’m shocked they’re letting this guy off with a plea deal. This was so far beyond misuse of systems. This was full on treason.

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eldavi

in reply to surph_ninja • 1 mese fa • •

I’m shocked they’re letting this guy off with a plea deal. This was so far beyond misuse of systems. This was full on treason.

but he didn't try to run or get caught running in russia; so he's ok. lol

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surph_ninja

in reply to eldavi • 1 mese fa • •

More likely they didn’t want to set a precedent of prosecuting people for selling state secrets, since they’re all doing it.

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eldavi

in reply to surph_ninja • 1 mese fa • •

either that or the people in charge are saving up lol

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Random Dent

in reply to surph_ninja • 1 mese fa • •

He probably kept it all in cardboard boxes in his bathroom, which as we all know is totally fine now.

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surph_ninja

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Depends which kind of partisan you’re talking to. One kind believes it’s ok to keep them in boxes in a bathroom. The other kind thinks ok to keep them in the trunk of a car or a private server.

Reasonable people want both kinds held accountable.

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this happens unsurprisingly often. the NSA calls it LOVEINT

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How to start a proxy war 101

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Mr_WorldlyWiseman

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Yes remind me which invades/threatens to invade neighboring countries, EU, Russia and/or China? Which of them is flying aircraft into the others' sovereign airspace? Which of them is actively committing genocide?

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cheeso

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EU, EU, EU

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onlooker

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Don't like her? Too bad. Take it or Leavitt.

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Zerush

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Not needed in TV, enough with the gov. It's better for you to laugh, if the president make a joke.

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If the flag in the bottom right weren't labeled, my dumb ass would have thought Ukraine was sponsored by Mercedes

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Fact : what's really behind the Swiss E-ID

End of September, Switzerland will vote for E-ID.
A big threat for our privacy as it will widely used for tons of new use cases.

Behind the government pitch of an "open source project, completely optional" hides big tech industry... Which will make it mandatory to access their services.

What are your thoughts on that ?

#Switzerland #Privacymatters

#privacy

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exu

in reply to harfang • 1 mese fa • •

I'm in favour of it.

Contrary to the last time this was proposed, the government is in control of it instead of private corporations.

This will also be an alternative to any of the current online ID verification, which involve sending photos of your ID, videos of it and videos of yourself to some random third party for verification.

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harfang

in reply to exu • 1 mese fa • •

My point of views is it will be used more broadly, in every services. So, even if it will be "optional",there will be no option to choose not to use it.

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Petter1

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There is an article in the proposed law that e-ID is only allowed to be required for actions, where the law explicitly requires authentication.

In this proposed law there is no article that explicitly forces services to require a ID

So it only applies to services that used to require identification since a long time, lime buying alcohol, money laundering protection, some government stuff you had to do physically prior etc.

But there is a new law coming which sadly did mot get a referendum, that requires age verification for 18+ media like video and games. But this law will take effect no matter if e-ID is accepted or not. So if e-ID was declined, you would have to scan the compete ID, do a liveness selfie and send it to private companies like Netflix to watch 18+ stuff there.

With e-ID, you can proof you’re old enough without revealing name, gender, body hight etc.

Please inform yourself correctly before spreading nonsense

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harfang

in reply to Petter1 • 1 mese fa • •

As you mentioned. There's a new law coming without referendum.
Today you'll need it to guy alcohol.
Tomorrow streaming
After tomorrow access to public transport

The open web forum in my picture exists. You can have a look. They dictate the rules. Its public information 😀

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hubobes

in reply to harfang • 1 mese fa • •

Yes because that law did not get a measly 50k signatures. So there is no need to vote.

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harfang

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Because people are not involved in the digital topics as they don't understand it.

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SoulKaribou

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Am I witnessing democracy right now ? Wow it's like people collectively decide about key topics, amazing. Go Switzerland !

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harfang

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It's not real democracy as the government motivate people to vote yes or no, and the government is completely corrupted. But yeah, it looks close to a democracy

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Matt

in reply to harfang • 1 mese fa • •

You're just spoiled.

Switzerland is the only country that I know has direct democracy. The others have indirect democracies where you vote politicians (or parties here in Slovakia) and they decide on your behalf what they want.

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harfang

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Agee there's kinda direct democracy.
But check out, its public. How many top level politics are paid by insurances ? 50-80 people ?^^

For me a democracy is a government not funded by private companies.

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Matt

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For me a democracy is a government funded by funds that are not stolen away by an Eurofund embezzlement mafia.

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JustTesting

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Then do something about it: no-lobbying.ch/

Volksinitiative No-Lobbying | Schweiz

Mit der Initiative "Für eine volksorientierte Politik – NO-Lobbying" wollen wir dafür sorgen, dass unsere National- und Ständeräte für die Anliegen des Schweizer Volks einstehen und nicht willfährige, bezahlte Helfer sind, welche die Interessen von m…

^No-Lobbying

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harfang

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This is so cool. Thank you for the link

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nazgul666

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You are not required to vote. You will not be punished if you abstain from your vote. You are completely free to chose "yes" or "no" based on your own judgings.

Isn't that exactly what democracy is about?

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harfang

in reply to nazgul666 • 1 mese fa • •

The thing is plenty of politics are paid by insurances and other big companies.
Those people influence most of the voters which makes it unbalanced

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nazgul666

in reply to harfang • 1 mese fa • •

Indeed, the lobbying is nasty and the party financing is not as transparent as it could be.

But discrediting the whole system as undemocratic because of those "minor flaws" is just not fair IMO.

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harfang

in reply to nazgul666 • 1 mese fa • •

Maybe not all the system is corrupted, but when I found that Switzerland just follow the rules defined by the open wallet forum in this case. I've doubts

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hubobes

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Do you have the same issue with the W3C or the Wifi Alliance?

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harfang

in reply to hubobes • 1 mese fa • •

I don't

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hubobes

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Why not? They are mostly made up of corporations.

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harfang

in reply to hubobes • 1 mese fa • •

ATM I don't feel they're a menace for my privacy

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JustTesting

in reply to nazgul666 • 1 mese fa • •

I posted above already, but repeating for visibility. There is an initiative in the works right now to combat this: no-lobbying.ch/

Volksinitiative No-Lobbying | Schweiz

Mit der Initiative "Für eine volksorientierte Politik – NO-Lobbying" wollen wir dafür sorgen, dass unsere National- und Ständeräte für die Anliegen des Schweizer Volks einstehen und nicht willfährige, bezahlte Helfer sind, welche die Interessen von m…

^No-Lobbying

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PowerCrazy

in reply to nazgul666 • 1 mese fa • •

Who decides what I'm voting yes or no on?

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nazgul666

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There are two basic scenarios:
1. The legislative authority is drafting a new law. This law can be challenged and will then be voted on (this is the case for the E-ID law)
2. A suggestion for a new law can be raised by citizens. This law will then be voted on.

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Petter1

in reply to harfang • 1 mese fa • •

Who is "the government" in Switzerland exactly? I see people in favour and against it in "the government" of Switzerland. Or is "the government" just the politicians that disagree with you?

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harfang

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I meant the politicians:)

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Schlemmy

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I think avoiding functioneren creep will be a certain issue.

Belgium has such an e-id for nearly 10 years now. It works pretty good and acces to your personalia data is granular.

If only age verification is needed, the request will only grant you birth date.

Comanies that want to use it need to be vetted and their acces to your data is centrally regulated.

itsme-id.com/en-BE

itsme®, your digital ID

itsme® is your digital identity that allows you to securely identify yourself, log in, confirm and sign documents.

^itsme®

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Kazumara

in reply to Schlemmy • 1 mese fa • •

If only age verification is needed, the request will only grant you birth date.

I always wonder why they don't minimize data further. "Age of Majority reached: Yes" seems like it should be good enough.

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uniquethrowagay

in reply to Kazumara • 1 mese fa • •

The German one supports that. It will also tell you exactly what data is transferred to the service in question.

But because Germany is Germany, the eID is rarely even implemented.

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Schlemmy

in reply to Kazumara • 1 mese fa • •

That's exactly how it works with the Belgian system.

Same for reductionis at the local swimming pool. They can only check if I'm a local but don't get to see my adress.

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utopiah

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centrally regulated.

Any privacy freak who did a review on ItsMe? I just shared minutes ago lemmy.ml/post/36346569/2117413… that I don't trust them but maybe I'm just paranoid. The fact that they are regulated means little, Meta and Google also are and they legally siphon everything we let them.

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Schlemmy

in reply to utopiah • 1 mese fa • •

We have a local privacy podcast (Dasprivé). The CISO was featured on the podcast. I can't transcribe everything but the community consents on the fact that they run a tight ship.
The use case is very local so apart from Flemish and French speaking sources i sadly can't get further than 'trust me bro' at the moment.

Every authentication uses your SIM, your civil service number and your password (PIN, fingerprint, face id).
Before authenticating you'll see all the info that'll be shared like your, date of birth, adress, phone number,...

Acces is granular. If age verification is needed, the request will only state that you're 18 or above for example. They don't get my date of birth.
As a resident, I get a reduction at our local swimming pool. The can use my id but the only info they see is whether I live in the city or whether I'm from outside.

Everytime my data is accessed, the acces is logged. The log contains information about the organisation and, if it applies, the person that made the manual lookup. The legality is checked by logging the legal ground for acces.

Are they trustworthy? I don't know. We use our eID for online verification for over 20 years now and ItsMe has certainly made the whole process a breeze.

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utopiah

in reply to Schlemmy • 1 mese fa • •

French speaking sources

Works for me, URL please and thanks already for the clarifications.

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Schlemmy

in reply to utopiah • 1 mese fa • •

I can't find the blog post that I was referring to but this might help:

From their own site:
itsme-id.com/en-NL/why-itsme/s…

ISO cert:
itsme-id.com/en-BE/business/bl…

It's good to point out that the system was developed by a consortium of banks to simplify identity verification en prevent fraud. Banks are held to ''Know Your Customer''. KYC entails that they need to check your identity every now and then and up until ItsMe that meant that you had to verify with your eID and a card reader. Those card readers have issues. Outdated firmware and whatnot make the proces a terible experience. I have several government websites that I use from day to day and the all need my eID for authentication.

Some figures.
Nearly 1.700.000 authentications every day for 11.700.000 Belgians. 80% Of the Belgians use the app.

Digital security of the highest level

Securing your online identity is a top priority: that means not only protecting your personal data, but also ensuring a secure connection, every time.

^itsme

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utopiah

in reply to Schlemmy • 1 mese fa • •

To clarify, I know it works. I used it years ago (2022 I guess) and found it extremely convenient then. I did even help others set it up because I found it so efficient. So that's or popularity is not into question. How secure it is also isn't what I'm questioning because honestly if my bank suggests to use it, and it's not secure, they will have to pay in the end. No, the question is solely WHO gets WHICH data. For example is the bank consortium that can see my purchase? Is it "anonymized" (whatever that might in practice means) then sold to 3rd party?

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Schlemmy

in reply to utopiah • 1 mese fa • •

Ah, you can see clearly who gets which data with every authentication. It's logged and I can look it up on my portal.

Actually'', apart from ItsMe, I can see every time someone did any lookup on my online data with the federal government for the last 10 years. I even get to see their names.

There's no third party watching with ItsMe because the traffic is encrypted. The data is owned by the Federal government and the party that requests authentication gets to see what the are legally allowed to see and what you clear. With every authentication you get to see what info they request.

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utopiah

in reply to Schlemmy • 1 mese fa • •

So who gets to see then beside I guess your bank and the merchant site? You don't have to share anything specific, can be company names but if that would reveal some of your personal preference you can share type of economical actors (e.g. other shops, advertisers, insurances, etc).

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Schlemmy

in reply to utopiah • 1 mese fa • •

No, the data can't be used for other means than authentication.

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utopiah

in reply to Schlemmy • 1 mese fa • •

Every authentication uses your SIM, your civil service number and your password (PIN, fingerprint, face id)

Maybe I misunderstand what you are covering but I don't think so, e.g. card reader and Ente Auth do not require connectivity.

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Schlemmy

in reply to utopiah • 1 mese fa • •

It's used for official authentication. The certificates are handled by the federal government. That's only possible with a call to the federal governments servers.

Any eID or other card wil have outdated data on it at some point. Like, when you move or, when you die.

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hubobes

in reply to harfang • 1 mese fa • •

You can not just say that it is a threat to privacy. Its design improves privacy as we finally can ID ourselves, where it has always been required, without actually giving our identity to online services.

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harfang

in reply to hubobes • 1 mese fa • •

Just required for few services. Not it will be used more broadly

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hubobes

in reply to harfang • 1 mese fa • •

Did you read the law? It explicitly prohibits broader usage without the necessary new laws to allow them to do so.

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harfang

in reply to hubobes • 1 mese fa • •

I known, but its still up to the provider. And to prove its unnecessary will takes so much efforts.
There's too much lack in this law from my point of view.
Instead, to prove our age for example, we could get TOKENS with age verification that are completely anonymous.

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hubobes

in reply to harfang • 1 mese fa • •

I mean that is exactly how it works. And if a private company wants to verify your age while violating the law they can do that already, just don't use their service then.

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harfang

in reply to hubobes • 1 mese fa • •

Let's see 🙏🏼

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utopiah

in reply to harfang • 1 mese fa • •

In Belgium we do have e-ID and we had it for years.

If in any of the circles there is only BigTech then indeed you are right it is a threat.

In Belgium though I can access my official document with some of these (honestly I don't remember which, but AFAIR It'sMe is one option) but more importantly there are some options with some decoupling, e.g. SMS (arguable as one must have a phone number usually via BigTelco) but, last and not least :

a card reader with your physical ID card and its chip with eid.belgium.be/en/what-eid which has had Linux packages for years
just learned about it yesterday which is why I'm excited to clarify this, a 2-step authentification app which does NOT have to be from BigTech, e.g. Ente Auth ente.io/auth/ which is FOSS and available on F-Droid

which means as long as at least one of these alternative is available then IMHO we can get some of the benefits without the centralization risk.

Ente Auth - Open source 2FA authenticator, with E2EE backups

Protect your accounts with Ente Auth - Free, open source, cross-platform 2FA authenticator, with end-to-end encrypted backups

^ente

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przmk

in reply to utopiah • 1 mese fa • •

If I'm not mistaken, it's up to the the service that's using the Belgian e-id to enable some of the options or not. For example, the website where I check my payroll only works through itsme or with a card reader — no TOTP or SMS 2FA. It's a big issue because itsme refuses to run when you don't pass Google's safety net.

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utopiah

in reply to przmk • 1 mese fa • •

I'm talking about public services. For private services I have no idea what they all do and, as importantly, what they are legally bound to do. I would hope that obviously they would have to provide at least 1 solution that doesn't rely on any third party, e.g at least provide the card reader with legal Belgian ID option (which seems to be what they offer you, so IMHO that's good enough), but I don't know.

ItsMe not running is pretty good in terms of privacy because their entire business model is, and correct me if I am wrong, to be an intermediary. I didn't check what data they share but I'd be pleasantly shocked if it was none.

The card reader might seem slightly inconvenient or outdated but there is no intermediary and it is, AFAICT, secure because it's based on well established cryptography.

PS: it's also fun because you can play with PAM and thus, I didn't try that, login or get su and sudo with your ID card.

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przmk

in reply to utopiah • 1 mese fa • •

It doesn't matter whether it's a private or public service if they both use the same auth provider (beId). I wouldn't be surprised if the SMS/TOTP options went away completely at some point for our "security".

A different issue is that itsme is often the only option when doing things on mobile. Sure, you can avoid it for now, but it's getting increasingly inconvenient to do so, unfortunately. I try to express my disappointment to itsme every now and then about the fact that they require Google's SafetyNet and that the Connective Plugin needed to activate itsme in the first place doesn't even work on Linux, but to no avail. They sent me a detailed email about setting up a Windows VM to get it working so credit where it's due for the effort, but the situation is still bad...

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utopiah

in reply to przmk • 1 mese fa • •

itsme is often the only option when doing things on mobile

Indeed that's why TOTP, via e.g. Ente Auth, was a good surprise. I didn't see it until now and I believe that's the mobile alternative to ItsMe.

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przmk

in reply to utopiah • 1 mese fa • •

That's what I was saying — sometimes the TOTP option is not available at all for certain services. Ente, Aegis, Bitwarden, etc won't save you there and itsme remains the only option on mobile when that's the case.

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utopiah

in reply to przmk • 1 mese fa • •

Should be illegal IMHO

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Schlemmy

in reply to utopiah • 1 mese fa • •

Not really. I signed several contracts using ItsMe. That only works if my identity can be proven. No regular 2FA will be able to do that.

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InFerNo

in reply to przmk • 1 mese fa • •

That's actually a choice made by the service. The onboarding document has the options listed and they get to choose, which is imho stupid. Just offer all options.

Service A has email enabled, service B doesn't. Since ACM/IDM is SSO you can first authenticate with service A with your email code and then go to service B already authenticated.

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InFerNo

in reply to utopiah • 1 mese fa • •

Those aren't eID. They are a way to authenticate using CSAM.

There are different weights tied an authentication method, card reader scores highest.

From the top of my head there's email, sms, totp, card reader, eiDAS and itsme® (which I avoid because it's proprietary and controlled by a 3rd party).

There's a list of properties a service can request when accessing data via ACM/IDM, for example your ssn, name, etc.

You can read your eID with local software too, with the aptly named eid viewer. Click on the picture in the overview and drag it into a text editor to see the entire exportable xml.

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Wurzelfurz

in reply to harfang • 1 mese fa • •

I have not yet looked into it.

I will vote in favour if:
- The E-ID platform is controlled by the government and is fully open source
- Platforms only get a single binary information for age verification if the person is old enough or not and does not get any identifiable information.
- The government platform does not get any info about what service is doing the request. So the government controlled ID platform cant log what service the person uses.

If any of these points are not fulfilled with the planned implementation I will have to weigh the risks.

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harfang

in reply to Wurzelfurz • 1 mese fa • •

Its not fully open source actually. Just the App, not the infrastructure or what and who's behind .

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hubobes

in reply to harfang • 1 mese fa • •

github.com/swiyu-admin-ch contains far more than just the client. Only a certain component where they had to rely on a proprietary solution is closed source. Everything else is in the open.

swiyu - the Swiss Trust Infrastructure ecosystem

Organization for all public repositories of the swiyu Public Beta Trust Infrastructure - swiyu - the Swiss Trust Infrastructure ecosystem

^GitHub

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sleen

in reply to harfang • 1 mese fa • •

private ids where always the scope of the privacy movement. However, it may as such present other challenges which can include age based discrimination. It as such must be implemented wisely.

Age is already being weaponised against us (child protection, etc), this shouldn't be like that - We can already see what kind of power governments hold. Ageism is what will ultimately destroy us.

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harfang

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- 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}

#linux

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eldavi

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i use zsh on my work macs and now i'm thinking of doing so too on my linux machines because of this lady's videos.

i've been using bash for 20+ years and my work macs keep reminding me that the transition is going to have hiccups because bash has become muscle memory for me.

jackeroni via World News

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Bloody Day For Israel With Six Soldiers Killed In Gaza And West Bank (Videos, Photos)

Six Israeli soldiers were killed on September 18 in two separate attacks that took place in the occupied West Bank...

^{Anonymous1199 (South Front)}

#Worldnews

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herseycokguzelolacak

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Six fewer terrorists in the world.

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تحريرها كلها ممكن

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Israel kills over a hundred Palestinian civilians every day.

jackeroni via World News

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Russia challenges ICAO’s findings on MH17 crash in UN Court of Justice — ministry

Russian diplomats also noted that although the tragedy occurred over 11 years ago, "there is still a long way to go in the quest for truth"

^TASS

#Worldnews

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And dont forget it

#memes

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dx1

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It's the episode where it's "Columbus Day," and the mobsters are getting indignant about the suggestion Columbus was a mass murderer, while local indigenous people are protesting it. Tony says something like "in this house Christopher Columbus is a hero."

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小莱卡

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of course 😂

AresUII via Memes

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AresUII
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Just dumping a random old pic I made for no reason

Not a canary or anything

#memes

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UltraGiGaGigantic

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My FBI guy's reaction when I navigate to a sketchy website to watch horny gay dudes do everything they can to each other for the 5th time today.

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eldavi

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Not a canary or anything

we've had enough of those lately and i'm going to miss kimmel.

Bluefalcon via World News

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Texas Man Is Charged With Making Threats Against Mamdani

I need a response from our president.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-threat-nyc-mayor.html

#Worldnews

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sepi

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Our president will say something idiotic. Is that what you are waiting for?

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eldavi

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this is like the homophobes and gay marriage; a mayor in new york has literally nothing to do w him in texas, but he feels like it does.

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Bluefalcon

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But a brown man can never be higher then a white man

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eldavi

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especially a dirty commie one. lol

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TubularTittyFrog

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In my city we have people coming from out of state, to protest our mayor. It's bollocks.

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eldavi

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where do they say bollocks and have states?

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"no matter who the settler class was, I would be against them"

cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6177592

This is one of the two main actors from the show Hacks

#Palestine

Fairgreen via Privacy

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Murena launches phone with hardware kill switch

mastodon.social/@murena/115225…

Murena - choose freedom!

2025-09-18 13:01:32

Meet your everyday privacy HIROH
🥳 Introducing the HIROH phone powered by Murena:
🔸 Built-in privacy with /e/OS
🔸 Hardware Kill Switch button
🔸 Premium quality hardware: 1.5K AMOLED display & 108MP rear cam
Your everyday phone should be your private phone.
👉 Pre-order & save 200€/$: murena.com/products/smartphone…
#Privacy

Smartphones - Murena - deGoogled phones and services
^{Murena - deGoogled phones and services}

#privacy

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Drunk & Root

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when they adding phone fry button so i can hit a switch and it explodes

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nuggie_ss

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via Socialism

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Freedom

#socialism

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Beijing Prefers Peaceful Reunification with Taiwan But Warns Conventional Arms Are Sufficient

Retired PLA Lieutenant General He Lei said China has enough conventional weapons to resolve the Taiwan issue if necessary, though peaceful reunification remains Beijing’s preferred path

^{Pavel Morozov (Pravda English)}

#Worldnews

Xiko do Couto via Política

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A Reforma Administrativa avança para destruir o Estado brasileiro

cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/16758437

A Reforma Administrativa avança para destruir o Estado brasileiro

Em meio a entrevistas concedidas à grande mídia, o relator do GT da Reforma Administrativa divulga a conta gotas possíveis ataques a direitos e ao próprio Estado.

^{jornalofuturo.com.br}

#Politica

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via United States | News & Politics

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Trump statue holding Bitcoin appears in US Capitol

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/politics/video/trump-statue-bitcoin-gold-ldn-digvid

#USA

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geneva_convenience

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Ate the onion

No wait

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ likes this.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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there's never been a harder time to be a satirical publication

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'Kill zone' around crucial Ukrainian city as Russian forces try to squeeze defenders out

Pokrovsk has withstood Russian assault for more than a year, but Sky News hears from an expert that the defence could be coming to an end - here's why.

^{Michael Drummond (Sky News)}

#Worldnews

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EU to force Ukrainians to return home

EU to encourage Ukrainians to return home

Member states are facing financial strain providing benefits to millions escaping the conflict

^RT

#Worldnews

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ghost_laptop

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Lol, what a huge pieces of shit, they sold the country for pennies and now kick them out like any other brown minority, so much for Slavs trying to be friends with white supremacists.

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wowleak

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Well sventr.site is as far as i know a russian propaganda channel

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ghost_laptop

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Is the Kyiv Independent good enough for you, buddy?

kyivindependent.com/eu-to-phas…

EU to phase out temporary protection program for Ukrainians, prepares transition other residence statuses

In a recommendation adopted by member states, the Council agreed on a framework to ensure a "sustainable return and reintegration into Ukraine, when conditions allow," as well as a coordinated transition to other residence statuses for those eligible…

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

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wowleak

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Yes thank you, there is a huge difference in tone between the two and what is said and what is not. Glad i got to read both.

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Phoenixz

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Well aren't you a peach

How about you try a news source instead of... Whatever the hell this site is pretending to be, and then maybe make an attempt to be nuanced and truthful?

Edit: lol, the domain doesn't even resolve anymore

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ghost_laptop

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Is the Kyiv Independent good enough for you, buddy?

kyivindependent.com/eu-to-phas…

EU to phase out temporary protection program for Ukrainians, prepares transition other residence statuses

In a recommendation adopted by member states, the Council agreed on a framework to ensure a "sustainable return and reintegration into Ukraine, when conditions allow," as well as a coordinated transition to other residence statuses for those eligible…

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

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Sherad

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Works fine for me.

Well now it's gone but the other link is even better lol

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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NATO will fight this war to the last Ukrainian.

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SugarCatDestroyer via Memes

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

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