* in your commands is expanded by the shell before tar sees them. It also does not expand hidden files.
So when you do admin/* the shell expands to all non hidden files inside admin. Which does not include admin/.htaccess. So tar is never told to archive this file, only the other non hidden files and folders. It will still archive hidden files and folders nested deeper though.
In the second example * expands to admin and the other does which are not hidden at that level. Then tar can open these dirs and recursivly archive all files and folders including the hidden ones.
You can see what commands actually get executed after any shell expansions if you run set -x first. Then set +x to turn that off again.
Here is an example using ls:
$ set -x; ls -A foo/*; ls -A *; set +x
+ ls --color=tty -A foo/baz
foo/baz
+ ls --color=tty -A foo
.bar baz
+ set +x
I was surprised recently when I did something like
mv ./* ../somedirectory
and found that files like .gitignore were not moved.
I do most of my work in zsh on OS X, and this surprise bit me in bas...
The * expands characters, but . is a pattern not a literal character, so it must be specified since you are explicitly using a character search in the first example.
In the second example, the . files are included by default as they are included in the folder that was found to match the character * that was given.
Ah yes, one of the biggest bugs-later-turned-design-mistakes of UNIX. This is not tar, this is your shell; you always need to use both * and .* for a wildcard to match all files in directory - e.g. tar czf ~/package.tgz admin/* admin/.* api/* api/.* mobile/* mobile/.*
Thanks - this is what I did with a 'you had one job' look beaming at the terminal after realising the hidden files were missed and indeed it did the trick.
This is potentially a great 'weeder' question for junior Unix admin interviews, as it requires some knowledge about shell globbing and tar dir traversal.
I admit it took me a sec (and a second read) before I got it, so it was a fun "hey what" exercise.
Your comment is a classic example of satirical mockery used as a potent rhetorical device. It is not a factual assessment but a psychological operation aimed at framing the opponent (Russia) in a specific, belittling light. Its primary purpose is to influence the audience's perception and emotional state rather than to inform.
It creates immediate cognitive dissonance by juxtaposing the grave, threatening concept of a military invasion with absurdly inadequate and non-threatening imagery ("dudes on motorcycles," "scooters," "Lada Nivas without doors"). This contrast is jarring and humorous, making the perceived threat (Russia's military) seem ridiculous and incapable.
The core goal is to diminish the enemy in the eyes of the audience. By reducing a nation's military to a clownish parade of obsolete and laughable equipment, it attacks not just its capability, but its dignity and gravitas. This is a powerful tool for undermining morale on one side and boosting it on the other.
It is a highly effective piece of persuasive communication. While it contains zero factual analysis of military capabilities, it is psychologically astute and stylistically crafted to achieve a specific goal: to mock, diminish, and frame an adversary in a way that boosts the morale of its intended audience and undermines the perceived power of the opponent.
Its power lies not in its truthfulness, but in its emotional resonance and shareability as a weapon of rhetorical warfare in the modern information landscape.
The combat footage that you see is exactly the combat footage that the NATO powers want you to see, and no more. You’re being fed war propaganda, not sober reality.
I'm sure NATO armies that never saw actual combat are going to do great against a seasoned army that's been destroying NATO proxy for the past three years.
What army? They are down to their last reserves, have few modern tanks left, and even their air force is running on empty. If this wasn't the case, they would be in Kiev right now.
Again, why aren't they in Kiev? Here's the thing. Russia is a big country with a lot of people in it. This is no surprise that they have a large army, I wasn't disputing that. What I am disputing is that they have any professional soldiers left after 3 years of fighting. What I'm saying is that they have mostly conscripts. That their modern front line tanks are basically gone, or else they would be using them and not resorting to antiques.
They are not in Kiev because their goal is destruction of the AFU. Once the AFU collapses, Russia will be able to take whatever territory they want when they dictate the terms of surrender. Meanwhile, the only western source that shows any methodology has this to say about Russian casualties en.zona.media/article/2025/09/…
The fact that you think Russian modern tanks are gone shows that you have absolutely no clue regarding the subject. militarywatchmagazine.com/arti…
Of course, there's nothing that can be said to you that would change your views since you're clearly living in a fantasy world. You'll just have to wait and see how this ends for yourself. Prepare to be very surprised.
Not at all comparable. And as has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, testing rival airspaces with fighter planes has been a common even banal tactic used by a number of country's airforces, certainly including the US who has employed it countless times.
I like how you say even the us as if most of us don't view the us as a brutal militaristic bully that is constantly escalating tensions and provoking War.
Russia has violated Estonian airspace four times already this year, which is unacceptable in itself, but today’s violation, during which three fighter jets entered our airspace, is unprecedentedly brutal
So has Russia already been doing this for a while and the EU is only now making a big deal out of it? Or is this an actual escalation?
In October 2023, four NATO reconnaissance aircraft (an RQ-4 Global Hawk, a Bombardier Challenger 650 Artemis, and two P-8A Poseidons) conducted flights approximately 150 km from the Crimean coast.
In August 2023, MQ-9 "Reaper" and TB2 "Bayraktar" drones conducted reconnaissance over the Black Sea but were intercepted and diverted by Russian Aerospace Forces fighters.
Yes, the practice of testing an adversary's response capabilities through deliberate or accidental airspace violations persists, although its context, methods, and participants have evolved significantly since the Cold War.
This is exemplified by two flights of U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers, capable of carrying nuclear weapons, over the Black Sea near the Crimean coast on September 4th and 14th, 2020.
On September 4th, the aircraft took off from RAF Fairford in the UK. They flew over the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland before entering Ukrainian airspace and approaching Crimea from the north. The bombers came within approximately 40-53 km of the Crimean coast near Melitopol and Genichesk. They were escorted by Ukrainian Su-27 and MiG-29 fighters. Russian fighter jets did not intercept them, as the B-52Hs did not violate Russian airspace.
On September 14th, three B-52H bombers again departed from RAF Fairford. They crossed over Ukraine to the Black Sea, heading toward Turkey, and flew within about 37.5 km of the Crimean coast near the village of Mayak. Concurrently, two Royal Air Force Sentinel R.1 reconnaissance aircraft were operating near Russian borders over the Black Sea. In response, Russian air defense forces scrambled two Su-27 fighters on duty and a pair of Su-30 fighters from the Southern Military District. The Russian crews identified the aerial targets as U.S. Air Force B-52H strategic bombers and escorted them over the Black Sea.
The Ukrainian government in Kyiv confirmed these flights. On Monday, September 14th, the Ukrainian Air Force Command announced that three U.S. B-52H strategic bombers had re-entered the country's airspace, escorted by Ukrainian fighter jets. In a statement on Facebook, the command noted: "The B-52s, under the cover of Ukrainian fighter jets, headed for the Black Sea for joint actions with our partners in the field of collective security. Such patrols will be regular, as the B-52 missions in the skies of Ukraine are part of the long-planned deployment of six B-52s at the UK's RAF Fairford."
Democracy happened. After usa couped the gov of ukraine, certain parts of ukraine democratically decided they'd rather be a part of russia than live under the nuland regime.
Oh wow, remind me what that might have been in response too. Also, go read up a bit of history on which country Crimea has been a part of traditionally and who lives there. 🤡
Your username "prosecute_traitors" checks out. However, let me provide you an explanation of what happened.
The political upheaval in Ukraine known as the "Orange Revolution" occurred in 2004. This series of events, which involved significant support from Western nations, is often characterized by some as a foreign-backed coup d'état. The movement was triggered by widespread allegations of electoral fraud, leading to mass protests and a subsequent overturning of the election results in favor of the pro-Western candidate, Viktor Yushchenko. Many analysts view this as a precedent for external influence in the country's political processes.
A decade later, in 2014, a larger and more violent uprising, termed "Euromaidan" erupted. The immediate catalyst was the government's decision to suspend an Association Agreement with the EU. Opposition groups and external actors leveraged this decision to organize a forceful change in government. The direct involvement of key American figures, such as Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, Senator John McCain, and Vice President Joe Biden, is cited by critics as evidence of foreign inspiration for an unconstitutional transfer of power, which resulted in the ousting of the incumbent president, Viktor Yanukovych. This period saw a sharp escalation of violence, epitomized by the tragic events in Odessa on May 2, 2014, where dozens of pro-federalization activists were killed. The perceived lack of accountability for this event further inflamed tensions in the south-eastern regions.
In the historically Russia-linked Donetsk and Luhansk regions, peaceful protests against the new authorities in Kyiv escalated into large-scale resistance. The Ukrainian government responded with a military operation, which developed into a full-scale armed conflict. To de-escalate the situation, the Minsk Agreements were brokered by Russia and the OSCE in September 2014 (Minsk I) and February 2015 (Minsk II). These agreements stipulated an immediate ceasefire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons, and a special status for the Donbas region within Ukraine. However, subsequent admissions by Western leaders, including former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, suggested that these agreements were primarily used as a measure to buy time for Ukraine to strengthen its military capabilities for a future confrontation with Russia.
Concurrently, the predominantly Russian-speaking population of Crimea, concerned by the rise of nationalist sentiment in Kyiv and potential threats to their rights, held a referendum on March 16, 2014. Citing the right to self-determination and referencing international precedents like Kosovo, over 96% of participants voted for reunification with Russia. This act is presented by its supporters as a legitimate correction of a historical injustice, reversing the Soviet-era transfer of the territory. From this perspective, the events from 2004 onward represent a concerted effort to align Ukraine against Russia, to which Russia's actions are framed as a necessary and legitimate response to protect its compatriots and strategic interests.
NATO: Does coups, invasions, genocides, etc. all the time Non-NATO country: Tries to defend itself against NATO's aggression Libs: How dare they not roll over for our empire?
TIL that Iraq, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, etc. are all just one country. /s
was also invaded by Russia
This is extremely silly. What are you even talking about? If you are equating Russia with the USSR and think that the USSR invaded Afghanistan, then you should learn some basic facts about the topic, like the fact that the government of Afghanistan requested the USSR's military involvement several times before the latter agreed.
NATO is comprised of the US and the US' glorified provinces.
If you want to distance the less major colonial robbers and genocidaires from things like these, you have to demonstrate that they do not assist the US, including that they do not promise to help fight whoever attacks the US in response to such actions.
Conveniently, you can't point to any false statements that I made. All you have is excuses and apologia for your invasions and genocides. Actually, not even that, in this case.
So you are wrong
You are yet to point to anything that I am supposedly wrong about. Meanwhile, you have literally claimed that Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and other countries are all just one country. You have also failed to point to any countries that Russia supposedly 'also invaded'.
Haha. You are yet to point to any lies that I have supposedly said, and you are quite literally now claiming that the US is not a part of NATO. Hilarious.
That vague argument could be made, but you are the one now making a claim, and I'd like to see you provide something that shows that, materially speaking, they don't do whatever the US wants like, 90% of the time.
Like obvs there are other countries involved, but ultimately, do they do much without the consent or direction of the US? Like direct, concrete action, and not just fluff?
NATO is dominated by the US. NATO is the alliance of imperialist countries, and the US is the top imperialist country. The US controls the vast majority of NATO, and the secondary members participate insofar as they wish to perpetuate their imperialist dominance as secondary empires.
Even if a person were to concede, as you are insisting, that the US does not = NATO (though for all intents and purposes that is effectively true, let's set that aside for now), then that doesn't change the fact that when you said:
The only country NATO invaded was also invaded by Russia.
You were demonstrating a complete and shameful lack of historical knowledge. That statement is just a ridiculous, ahistorical lie. Formally, undeniably, admittedly even by NATO, these following countries have been invaded by NATO: Yugoslavia, Afghanistan (the only one you seem to be aware of), and Libya. And NATO as an organization admits to "indirect participation" in the invasion of Iraq.
So set aside your other petty derailment arguments about NATO not technically being the US and acknowledge that you were full of shit even before Iran, Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba were brought up.
Edit: Ok, I guess you can't acknowledge it, I see now that you were banned. Well I wasn't holding my breath you were going to anyway. lol
I love that you have a list of references! But of course they are all ignored because engaging with them might change someone's beliefs and, no disrespect intended, changing a deeply held belief is difficult, scary, and can lead to a sort of cascade of changes as ones world view crumbles. Which in and of itself can feel devastating.
This is all true, but even if the person being exposed to the reality of the situation wholly rejects it at the time of exposure, it still often plants seeds that can later and over time germinate into actual doubt about those deeply-held but demonstrably false beliefs. It may seem like a fool's errand in the moment to try to use evidence to correct a person who believes a thing for emotional reasons and often it is, but it also can be the first, second, or third cracks in what is actually a shaky foundation that looks sturdy to an outside observer. And even if it has absolutely no effect on the person being corrected, in places like this, there are other people reading, and among them could easily be those who are open to having their minds changed though we'd never know it.
I get that, but it's like capitalist systems don't have another tool in the toolbox. Wouldn't it be so much more effective if they just paid people a decent wage to begin with?
At minimum we should support the regular destruction of NATO equipment and the opportunities for the global south to break free from imperialism now that NATO is occupied, such as in the Sahel states. Russia isn't some saint, here, but in the Russo-Ukrainian War they are siding with the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics in the Donbass, and siding against NATO.
Ideally, an expedient peace resolution will be reached, but without that it's better for the international working class that Russia achieves its stated aims than it would be for Kiev.
They keep poking borders without recourse. Perhaps there isn't enough poking back. I say that to protect our borders from Russia, we give support to Ukraine. We know what happened there already.
Yeah, NATO keeps doing that without recourse, and should face retaliation. In general, NATO should face justice for colonial horrors that it has been inflicting upon the world..
On Wednesday, a Louisiana immigration judge’s order to deport Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil to either Syria or Algeria was made public.
The order by Judge Jamee Comans is a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s efforts to criminalize free speech and target opponents of the Gaza genocide for removal from the US...
The ruling is notable for its transparent political purpose. Trump administration immigration authorities are pursuing a vendetta against Khalil who has no criminal record and has steadfastly refused to be intimidated.
Mahmoud Khalil has been ordered deported as part of the transparent political vendetta against his steadfast opposition to the Gaza genocide and attempts by the Trump administration to silence him.
The order specifies deportation to either Syria, where Khalil was born to Palestinian refugee parents, or Algeria, from which he holds citizenship through a distant relative. Comans justified the dual destinations under statutes governing removal of stateless persons and nationals of more than one country. Sending Khalil to Syria may well be a death sentence. As for Algeria, he possesses no meaningful ties to that country.
"Just send em back anyhow! There ain't a difference where"
Death to Amerikkka and the Euroanglo-Zionazi entity. Send the settler judge back to Europe while it's going down too.
Israel is “falsifying claims” of Palestinian rape against Israelis on 7 October 2023 to “to justify a further genocide” in Gaza, a groundbreaking new report says.
Published by the Sexual Violence Prevention Association this week, the report documents how Israel is deploying “wartime rape propaganda” and the “weaponization of sexual violence as a tool of war” in Palestine.
The report deploys a framework the group has dubbed SORVO – Systemic Oppression, Reverse Victim and Offender: “a tactic employed by oppressive groups to weaponize sexual violence, and accusations thereof, to justify their oppression.”
Omny Miranda Martone, the report’s lead author, said, “I am seeing SORVO employed against Palestinians every single day. We cannot allow Israel and the US government to use sexual violence to justify genocide.”
The report details how Israel has created a false narrative of Palestinian rapists as a way to both cover up the reality that Israeli soldiers are raping Palestinian detainees and as a way to justify their genocide in Gaza.
For instance, in the US, the Democrats, who are rapidly losing ground, are resorting to increasingly radical political tactics.
Lol, lmao even. The rest of the article is right though. My hope is that Capitalism wanes with the US, but it has infected so much of the world because of us Idk. Even our "enemies" are capitalist or have elements of capitalism. I fucking hate that word, capital. I mean shit, Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin. That just makes me feel like its all powerful people vs everyone else.
By John Koblin, Brooks Barnes, Benjamin Mullin and Michael M. Grynbaum Sept. 18, 2025
Mr. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, and Dana Walden, his head of television, were also hearing from skittish advertisers and employees who had begun to receive threatening messages. When the team reviewed Mr. Kimmel’s planned remarks, they grew concerned that his monologue would only inflame the situation further.
So they made the call: “Jimmy Kimmel Live” would temporarily go dark.
That decision — the product of a spider’s web of interlocking political and financial pressures placed atop one of the country’s biggest corporations — quickly morphed into a flashpoint for free speech in America. Many Democrats, actors and comedians cried foul as right-wing activists celebrated. On a diplomatic trip in Britain, President Trump knocked Mr. Kimmel for “bad ratings” and proclaimed that ABC “should have fired him a long time ago.”
By John Koblin, Brooks Barnes, Benjamin Mullin and Michael M. Grynbaum Sept. 18, 2025
Mr. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, and Dana Walden, his head of television, were also hearing from skittish advertisers and employees who had begun to receive threatening messages. When the team reviewed Mr. Kimmel’s planned remarks, they grew concerned that his monologue would only inflame the situation further.
So they made the call: “Jimmy Kimmel Live” would temporarily go dark.
That decision — the product of a spider’s web of interlocking political and financial pressures placed atop one of the country’s biggest corporations — quickly morphed into a flashpoint for free speech in America. Many Democrats, actors and comedians cried foul as right-wing activists celebrated. On a diplomatic trip in Britain, President Trump knocked Mr. Kimmel for “bad ratings” and proclaimed that ABC “should have fired him a long time ago.”
New York lawmakers, immigrants’ rights activists and religious leaders were arrested on Thursday at protests both inside and outside the complex in lower Manhattan where federal officials have been routinely detaining immigrants amid the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda.
At least 70 demonstrators staged a direct-action protest to block access to and from the underground garage used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to transport people arrested by the agency. The nature of the protest prompted the New York police department (NYPD) to begin arresting people sitting in front of the access ramp.
Even 47 years later, this thing gets me hyped. The “Master Component” had a 16-bit microprocessor?! Three-part harmony music? A display they called an “extraordinarily high level of resolution”? That sounded like the future. Sign me up.
And when they start hyping up ROM cartridges to a general audience, most people probably had no clue what that meant. But it must have felt like home electronics had just landed on the moon.
This was the first real console war: Intellivision vs Atari 2600. And wild to think—two years ago, Atari finally bought Intellivision.
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.
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.
Edit: In my experience Piped or Invidious gets rate limited often and stop loading videos for a while and I need to change instances. Freetube doesn't have that problem, the only times videos stop working is when youtube changes something, when that happens I use Freetube to grab the video link and run a script to download with yt-dl and watch on the mpv player.
::: spoiler script that I grabbed on the internet
\#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Directory for downloaded videos:
DL_DIR="$HOME/Downloads/yt"
mkdir -p $DL_DIR
# Video player:
\#PLAYER="xdg-open"
PLAYER="/usr/bin/mpv"
\#PLAYER="/usr/bin/smplayer"
# Downloader and options:
YTDL="/bin/yt-dlp"
YTDL_OPTS=(--no-playlist -S "res:1080" -N 5 --add-chapters)
YTDL_DIR_OPTS=(-P "$DL_DIR")
set -e
CMD() {
printf "[CMD]: "
printf "\"%s\" " "$@"
printf "\n"
"$@"
}
# Get URL from clipboard if run without argument:
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
URL="$(xclip -o -sel c)"
# CMD qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.clearClipboardHistory
else
URL="$1"
fi
# Get video filename
printf "[URL]: %s\n" "$URL"
FILENAME=$("$YTDL" --get-filename "${YTDL_DIR_OPTS[@]}" "$URL")
printf "[FILE]: %s\n" "$FILENAME"
# Download video
CMD "$YTDL" "${YTDL_OPTS[@]}" "${YTDL_DIR_OPTS[@]}" "$URL"
# Play video
CMD "$PLAYER" "$FILENAME" >/dev/null 2>&1
I also configured a cronjob to clean the directory everyday. :::
Yea that's the thing I'm more looking for. If I want to share a video with someone, I don't want to have to send them an app to download first, I want to redirect to a private site in a browser that they can then choose to use how they wish.
Got it. In this case yeah Freetube is not a solution, the person would need to download Freetube and install Libredirect on the browser(wich means on mobile the person need to use firefox).
Honestly the instance that worked better for me with better uptime is inv.nadeko.net
Broken link, you redirect to the far-right site "Rumble." Tankie.Tube is also a peertube instance, I'm looking for private frontends for YouTube that function like XCancel does so I don't have to worry about trackers. I've seen piped, invidious, etc, wondering which is best.
As a side-note, tankie.tube doesn't have an auto-block as far as I know, it's more just a space for communists to share communist media.
Kinda, in the same way "commie" and "pinko" are pejoratives for communists like "tankie" is. It's just a way for anti-communists to hurl insults towards communists, and some communists have now jokingly begun referring to themselved as tankies as a response. It's meaningless beyond the fact that it's a pejorative.
If liberals genuinely want to understand and confront the rise of the far right, then rather than smearing the left they should perhaps reflect on their own faults.
Non plus ultra: Download the video and then upload to whichever PeerTube instance you use. At least if you're confident enough that this won't cause you legal trouble (e.g. cases like "fair use" should be safe).
FreeTube has a neat function to download comfortably (but make sure to pick an option with both audio and video).
Do you mean for sharing links on Lemmy/the Fediverse? There was discussion around this a while back and in the end the consensus was that it was most useful to just use the direct YouTube link as the primary, then optionally include a link to an alternative front-end. That way it was easier for people to use their own preferred front-end, and it avoided a problem we were sometimes running into where enough people would try watching a link at the same time that it would overwhelm the alternative.
Thats what fucken happens when your crumbling empire desperately mocks its own allies and attacks them through trade.
We coulda had a bad bitch, coulda been an impenetrable western continent of free trade, travel, and culture. But motherfucker racists and fascists need to divide their fellow people, on this isolated rock, floating in a vacuum.
That US ambassador was ambassador in the Netherlands previously and the press there let him enjoy that position for a good 30 minutes until they buried him and he never recovered.
Reporters in the Netherlands clash with the new US ambassador, Pete Hoekstra, over controversial comments he made in 2015, in which he said the 'Islamic move...
Libreboot supports the Dell 3050 Micro and the Lenovo T480. I was wondering, since it requires the FSP blob, could it be a backdoor? Does anyone know how it works? Compared to the T440p and 9020, those boards are 100% free BIOS, but lack newer microcode updates.
By its limited scope of just initializing the chip, it seems a lot more benign than Intel ME, which would be a jucier target than the FSP. But no independent audit has been completed on it to my knowledge. Purism got started with an attempt to reverse-engineer it (legitimately without the leaked code!), but Intel told them to take it down, which is a bit troubling.
Couldn't you just place a sticker on top? I know that you'll either not get the led light or it's gonna look a bit funny in the dark if part of the windows logo shines through if the sticker is not thick enough, but you can place a tiny tux sticker there!
One option is to pull the keycap off and paint over it. If you feel really crafty you can sand off the coating to make whole keycap translucent and use a stencil. Personally I don't look my keyboard that much that it'd bother me and it's made by microsoft anyways, their ergonomic keyboard is the best one I've used so far.
"Cute little thing like that, yeah, I'll grab 20, one for each keyboard in the house, a few at work, a few left over for harmless pranks SEVENTY NINE DOLLARS clooose tab" I'm sure the quality is nice but I'm just gonna scribble Tux in with sharpie.
Since it was $79 I assume you just typed 20 in the quantity, but if you do the multiple quantity discount for 10 stickers it's half as much. $2 per is still a bit on the expensive side, but it's not nearly as bad lol.
I wish more people would. I think it's ridiculous that we've put up with buying all these tools and appliances that come with ads like pimples all over. Pisses me right off.
Also e.g. the lobbying around ACPI breaking suspend to ram sometimes. Funny little Bill Gates quote on that:
One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and make the “ACPI” extensions somehow Windows specific. It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work. Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me. Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open. Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
Leaders of major tech companies, including Apple, Google and OpenAI, praised President Donald Trump’s pro-business agenda at a White House dinner on Sept. 4....
I mean, what is he supposed to do. The orange man threatened to put Zuckerberg in jail for the rest of his life if he doesn't comply. I have not very much hope left for the upcoming testimonies regarding Steam, Twitch, Discord and Reddit.
"We are watching him closely," Mr Trump wrote in his new book, "and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison - as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election."
The former president made the claim in a new book, titled Save America, which is a collection of pictures and anecdotes from his presidential campaigns and term in office.
He wrote it in a book (or his writer lol), shortly before he got elected, about a year ago. Look for "Trump Zuckerberg jail threat", I don't know which source to cite here.
If you have any power at all, complying with the blatant fascist is treason. You know what happens next. Think of all the people who have virtually no power, who can be beaten, imprisoned, deported, without consequence. Chuds like Zuckerberg and Gates pave the way for that. They have enough money and power to insulate themselves.
Even fucking Musk parted company with the ghoul emperor. Imagine having less spine than someone who bought a social media platform so people would stop making fun of him (didn't work, obv).
You are right, but I highly doubt that he cares enough considering the quote I posted earlier. He probably also has a shitload of staff around him telling him what to do, whose life also depend on him complying.
Also, Musk bought Twitter to influence the outcome of elections, not for being a petty child that doesn't want to be insulted online. Well, maybe, but that's not the whole story here.
No one rich enough to be in Trump's vicinity actually believes any of the glazing they do to him. They're all executing the very basic strat for dealing with a baby man: stroke his ego -> get what you want.
As far as interacting with other sociopaths goes, my guess is trump is refreshingly simple for them.
He wouldn't be a billionaire if he were a good person.
But....to his credit, he did publicly say recently that he wants to have given away 99% of his wealth over the next 20y, and says he doesn't want to die rich. I am ok with making that the bar for being remembered. Provided it's not to his own foundation.
gates has put his money into a charity to protect his money; charities are only required to share a pittance of their wealth by law and lots of oligarchs have been putting their money into charities because of it.
it's troubling to read that people are actually buying the bullshit that the pr firms are putting around this activity.
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I recently bought my first mechanical keyboard, after having used my razer for 8 years, and i was looking into different keycaps, but i ended up having a hard time finding a good keycap set that is of good quality, and that i also liked in terms of colors, and has a super key or something like that. The keycaps that i ended up settling on didn't have a super key, so i just ended up putting the windows menu key on the super key, so that it atleast looks a bit more generic than the actual windows key. It's too bad they're hard to find, but i guess it makes sense since there is probably very little demand for it. Another idea is to maybe put a sticker on it or something.
I still don't get this I don't think I've ever accidentally pressed it while playing a game, and I am someone who constantly presses every wrong key while typing
I remember playing an FPS game.. Heretic? Shadow Warrior? I would play it without a mouse. Alt would be a modifier on the arrow keys for strife (sidestepping). Spacebar to shoot, and you're set for disaster.
Space Cadet Pinball was another one. It was nice playing with Ctrl, on the corner. But hit the Win key and you instantly lost focus of the window.
If I cared that much, I could have bought a blank keycap for an extra buck when I bought my keyboard and banished that thing forever. (I own a Unicomp New Model M 103-key, which only has one Windows key to begin with, and the manufacturer will happily sell you blank or custom-text keycaps. Unfortunately, while they do sell a set that includes Tux keycaps, they're sized for a 104-key.)
My Thinkpad has the Windows logo on the bottom bezel under the display, as well as this. Mostly doesn't bother me, but it does feel a bit wrong for a laptop that all traces of Windows have otherwise been erased from.
And if not, maybe take the money you saved on a Windows licence and treat yourself to a better keyboard. It's worth spending a bit on your primary input device, the thing you use the most.
For anyone sadly stuck on Windows, please, please for fucks sake don't pay full price for a license. Go grab an OEM key from an authorized reseller for like $20.
There's some limitations on how many machines you can use it on simultaneously. That's it. Otherwise it's a full valid license at less than 1/4 of the price.
Even better, just use MASgrave and pay nothing. Yo ho ho.
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I used to have this really awesome early 2000's transparent blue plastic keyboard with all the newest media keys. The only problem was that it had 4 windows keys on it! One on either side of the spacebar. The right side of the spacebar was Alt, Windows, Context menu, CTRL. That was a bit weird but it was alright. The next placements were crazy though. Someone figured there was space for more keys right below the Delete, End and Page Down keys but I guess they couldn't really figure out what would be best for there so they put a 3rd Windows key, a 2nd Context Menu and then a 4th Windows key right there. This was pretty close to the arrow keys and if anyone remembers gaming in the early 2000's, pressing the windows key accidentlly would often just crash your game completely. If you could get back into it, it could take quite a while for it to respond again. So if you were playing something like Warcraft 2 multiplayer, that button was a fucking nightmare.
Ugh, I loved the colour of that keyboard so much I put up with all those windows keys.
edit: I can't believe I found it! I've tried searching for this keyboard a few times, but finally found proof on this site!
Background:
Multimedia/Internet keys are additional function keys on PC keyboards that either invoke specific applications like browser, e-mail, media player, etc. or invoked certain function for t...
Wow, Win98 logo and media buttons? Truely between eras.
I actually like the context key above the arrow keys, another method of effectively right-click is nice. Those Win keys are crazy though, that's the perfect place for extra function keys. Imagine having f13 & f14 that you can bind to anything without worry!
I did't know much about the German keyboard layout but I know the Czech one, which is derived from it (we both use QWERTZ) and was able to look up most of what I didn't know.
So, the keyboard has 4 layers: default, Shift, AltGr, AltGr+Shift (the fourth one is not standard but is recognized by xkb; in Czech I use it for custom character mappings, in German it is standardized but Linux-only).
Default layer prints lowercase letters a-z and äöüß, numbers and the symbols in the lower-left of each key.
Shift layer prints uppercase letters A-Z and ÄÖÜ and symbols at the top left of each key.
Caps Lock only affects letters.
AltGr layer prints lower-right symbols, most of which are only populated in a later version of the layout.
As you can see, AltGr+2 produces ², and AltGr+3 produces ³. I think the full-size "2" and "n" are misprints. My old Czech keyboard has some errors too.
we have lots more diacritics so the number row only prints numbers on its Shift layer (most people therefore use the numpad only)
to print rare diacritics (ó, ď, ť, ň, and German ä, ö, ü), one has to first press the corresponding modifier key (´, ˇ, ˚, ¨) like on typewriters
an alternative for common capital diacritics (á, é, ě, í, ú, ů, ý, ž, š, č, ř) is to briefly turn on Caps Lock (advantage over typewriters)
pressing the ˚ key twice prints the degree sign (°) twice (Windows) or once (Linux)
there is a bloody dedicated § key but we need to press AltGr+7 twice, then backspace (or Alt+96) for a grave (`), which is part of ASCII and used in Markdown
physical keyboards almost always reserve the right side of the keys for the English-US layout (very confusing for novices) so one has to type in the AltGr layer blind (except for €); it contains useful symbols ([]{}\<>|\€$@#\^&×÷`) as well as useless ones (Đđ – these are Slovene, why not the Slovak Ôô?), leading people to prefer Windows-only left-Alt+numpad codes (such as Alt+64 for @) that use the obsolete OEM-1252 codepage (the Unicode extension has to be enabled via registry and Alt+letters hex codes get passed to programs anyway, often defocusing the input element). I only found a Slovak one on Wikimedia Commons
some lazy manufacturers combine the Czech/English and Slovak/English layouts, which are similar except ľ, ť and ô, leading to 5 (!) symbols per key, 3 of which are irrelevant unless you switch layouts
Gboard for Android offers QWERTY for Czech, which looks normal (hold for diacritics, potentially swipe for ě and ů) and the unpopular QWERTZ-PC, which has all the physical keyboard's quirks, but its "Czech QWERTZ" is based off German QWERTZ, containing ú and ů but not the other diacritics for some reason. All other keyboard apps with Czech language layout get this right (hold for diacritics, potentially swipe for ě and ů)!
The "n" is probably a misprint, AltGr+2 prints "²" and AltGr+3 prints "³" in the German layout; it can be customized to actually print "n" in xkb though.
I mean, if the redundant Windows keys produce different codes, it could be worth a lot to macro enthusiasts. The model exists with an English QWERTY layout too:
The picture seems to be from 1998 so you'll likely need a passive DIN to mini-DIN adapter as well.
If you want an alternative, lab label tape is a bit pricy but is super durable, comes in fun colors, doesn't leave residue, and sticks for practically forever.
The "sticker" is actually an off-cut from a laptop skin from my other laptop (which also runs Linux, and also has a sticker over its Windows key 😛), so it's held up pretty well
My keyboard came with both windows and Mac keycaps, so I put the mac one since it isn't a corporate logo. Plus the symbol signifies a culturally significant sight in my country.
I've had this laptop for some years now and I don't remember why it has the ~~derpy~~ cute Tux, but I think it's the default one. tuxedocomputers.com/en/Individ…
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Why is there a Win-Lock option? I get Caps Lock and Fn-Lock but is there any other reason besides saving a finger for the all-important Win-Ctrl-Alt-Shift-L shortcut to open LinkedIn? /s
Not as easy on a laptop, like this is. Usually a pain in the ass to replace laptop chicklet keyboard keys, if you can even find a replacement without a windows icon
Let's pray for the day that future generations will know that to be the Super key, but like the floppy disk icon for 'Save' they won't know why it is what it is.
I don't know what I do to keyboards when I use them for a really long time, but I have the exact same laptop frame and keyboard and most modifier keys are unrecognizable and half of the WASD keys are rarely used keys because I fucked up the keycaps while cleaning and I got other keys off the keyboard in place of them. So anyways, my Windows key is abused beyond recognition and you can't tell it was a Windows key.
4 years and 3 months still going strong. I use the touchpad a ton too and that coating on it has come off too, but it's perfectly usable. It also surprisingly lasted two pretty bad falls with just 1-2 minor cracks that I had to open the laptop up so that i can super glue the cracks just to ensure the cracks won't spread from future vibrations.
Visual condition is pretty unappealing, even a bit bad: the erased keycaps, the lifted coat off the touchpad and one visible crack, but it runs just as it did the day I got it
4 years? My laptop is from 2018 (with only the battery in a shitty condition), my mom had a laptop from ~2004 in 2021 (until I embarrassingly fried the motherboard when replacing the hdd). Electronics last forever if you don't murder them.
You can possibly get real creative with developing different scratch styles. From intentional needle drawing to the plastic equivalent of stonewashing jeans.
My bad, didn't explain it well in my initial comment
I broke my A and S keys when cleaning: because the WASD keys on these keyboards are transparent, I could see all the hairs or dirt under them and once every 4 months let's say, I was pulling them off
And one day they didn't wanna reliably clip back in place anymore
So now I have Right Ctrl on A and Right FN on S to replace the keycaps
So, they're basically newer keys in there, and also they are not transparent like A and S were
I've put a GNU sticker over one, and a Tux sticker over another. I should see if there's a Debian spiral sticker I can get (or even custom keycaps) for future keyboards.
There's the german instance feddit.org. its filled with cryptozionists but i think the post would not be deleted. I think they also have some city-specific comms, I for sure saw a hamburg comm.
Edit: don't link to lemmygrad though they're allergic.
Either is fine, but the image you linked is hosted on lemmygrad.ml, if they notice the URL they will have a strong reaction.
I would advise against making an account on there but a federated instance, and not to engage them unless necessary. They are extremely rude people even for germans. But, it would probably be more visible to people that can go there.
I could try to post some stuff there tomorrow, however I'd need to make a new account and some alone time which is pretty much nonexistent for me nowadays. But if you need help please do reach out.
Sorry another edit: lemmygrad is pretty widely defederated, meaning you can see other peoples posts but they cant see yours. If you want visibility a lemmy.ml or lemmy.blahaj.zone account might be better, blahaj federates with feddit.org for instance.
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Is there more software that, like TrackMeNot and AdNauseam, generate random internet activity so as to reduce the accuracy of any profiles tracking companies keep about you? E.g. software that carries out complete plausible-looking surfing journeys in the background: not just issuing searches (like TrackMeNot) and following ads (like AdNauseam), but also clicking on other links, scrolling, going back, perhaps even watching a YouTube video every once in a while and browsing Facebook? (All this, of course, respectful of the environment and the limited resources of small projects.) Or apps for the smartphone to generate false but plausible-looking position data and the like?
(Background: As many of you know, trackmenot is a browser extension that enhances your privacy by generating random search queries in the background, watering out the profiles that Google, Microsoft (and Yahoo, Baidu and AOL) have of you. It's available in the Firefox extension store; whereas for Chrome, Google has banned it from its store for unfathomable reasons. There's also AdNauseam, which works towards the same goal by randomly clicking ads in the background.)
Download TrackMeNot for Firefox. An artware browser add-on to protect privacy in web-search. By issuing randomized queries to common search-engines, TrackMeNot obfuscates your search profile and registers your discontent with surreptitious tracking.
I'm actually not in favour of obfuscation methods, as recent events have shown - authorities questioning a dude for wearing the same innocuous shirt?
Random traffic might turn out to be 'traffic of interest' for just being the at the wrong place, wrong time. I would prefer actual strong cryptography and isolation.
I agree, it could be a last resort when things like ghostery or such fail, but otherwise there's enough crap saturating the wires, no need to artificially inflate that
authorities questioning a dude for wearing the same innocuous shirt?
Why wouldn't they tho? Both persons had the same shirt on. That seems like a no brainer to me. Maybe I'm missing something. It's one of the reasons when I go out in public, I do not wear clothing that are emblazoned with logos, graphics, words, etc. For one, it doesn't do anything for me to wear logos, graphics, words. To me, it's akin to having a political yard sign or bumper sticker. What do you gain from it? What's it do for you? Some guy wearing a t-shirt with a cannabis leaf across the front, again why?, and it's an easy identifier and puts another tick mark for complimentary evidence.
Maybe I should clarify - I'm not a fan of human noise (there's probably a more precise term) - I'm more in favour of privacy/anonymity in the midst of actual, randomized noise, that isn't just random human activity.
I don't even mean t shirts with a logo. It could've been a pair of jeans on a specific date at a place in conjunction with 5 other (random obfuscated) things that a poi also happened to do. Like googled 'how to fold a swan' or whatever.
Even if you didn't do these things but was instead random generated traffic, it would generate unnecessary attention.
One might argue that if enough people adopted such methods, authorities would have too many leads to follow up. But then again, the chances of a random string of generated activity coinciding with that of a poi isn't high, so there likely will be a manageable number of leads.
Even if the number were higher, they have proven to have no qualms about skipping due process. As long as they might've gotten the actual poi, they have no problems subjecting many more unrelated to the same treatment because everyone is some sort of terrorist now.
They could also arrest you just because you have higher than normal randomized traffic and activity that you can't or won't answer for.
"Why did you search how to fix a sink leak and then how to fold a parachute within 2 minutes of each other?? You must be a terrorist generating random activity to hide your true actions. What do you have to hide?" - "found coke stuffed in all the couches and beds boss"
They could also arrest you just because you have higher than normal randomized traffic and activity that you can’t or won’t answer for.
I hear what you're saying, and I'm not going to call it paranoia, however, that isn't in my threat model. Entities that can come into your home, arrest you, and ship you off to Guantanamo for buying a parachute and a drain kit for the sink are not in my scope. Frankly speaking, that is probably not in 90% of most people's threat model, who care about privacy, anonymity, and security. Those entities don't even need to fabricate an excuse like a couch full of coke, to give you that full Guantanamo experience.
To tell the truth, I probably couldn't account for 75%+ of the websites I've visited just today. When I get to researching something, it's usually pages and pages, from many, many different sites. Highlight, search, read, nothing here, go back, highlight, search, bingo! Now for more in depth reading. Highlight, search....ad nauseam. This process happens very quickly. I don't watch TV at all, and I don't read fiction. 99.99% of what I do read tho, comes off the internet. So, they'd have to sift through a bunch of data.
Even if you didn’t do these things but was instead random generated traffic, it would generate unnecessary attention.
I'm quite certain that all of my privacy, anonymity, security, and obfuscation efforts has put me on someone's list, but again, that's not in my threat model. I'm not hiding from the government. I send them tax forms every year. I vote prolifically in both local and nationwide elections. I pay property taxes, etc. They know who, and where, when it comes to finding me. If I were a person of interest, they'd come visit. Now, I'm certainly not going to overshare with them in the least either. Hell, I'm not hiding from anyone. I'm just preventing unauthorized access. That is what keys and locks do.
A nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing human rights in digital spaces across West Asia and North Africa — is warning that Israeli-linked software secretly embedded in Samsung phones across the MENA region poses a serious surveillance threat.
According to SMEX, Samsung’s A and M series devices either come preloaded with the app “Aura” or install it automatically through system updates, without the user’s consent. The application reportedly collects a wide range of personal and device-specific data, including IP addresses, device fingerprints, hardware details, and network information.
In 2022, Samsung MENA partnered with Israeli tech company IronSource, integrating its Aura software into Galaxy A and M series phones across the region. The partnership was publicly marketed as a way to “enhance user experience” with AI-powered apps and content suggestions.
We have reached the point where it feels safer buying a random Chinese phone
1) they got rid of that choice for you: the american carriers has pre-complied with trump by blacklisting all chinese phones based on their imea numbers; it no longer matters that it's technologically feasible for it to work in the united states. so now, if you want premium phone quality but 1/3rd the price; you must buy an american brand and the full price tag.
2) you don't have anything the chinese gov't wants, so they don't care about keeping tabs on you. also buying into the propaganda that they're tryping to keep tabs on your carries with it the implicit acceptance that you're okay with the american gov't keeping tabs on you.
that's the one loophole in this effort to black list chinese branded phones; that non-chinese brands that use the same hardware are allowed on their networks and, until recently, i was looking for an oppo or oneplus that could leverage this loophole.
you're fucked if you try to use a xiaomi or huawei or any other chinese brand that doesn't share hardware w non-chinese brands like i have been doing for the last few years.
i had it on tmobile prepaid for a little bit over year or so and i had the account since 2009 w 2 other chinese phones in the past. i tried switching to at&t in january and it worked for the first day, but then i got a text from at&t saying that my phone is no longer compatible and i had no signal. the store told me that the imea number had to be whitelisted and that i had to put in a request at their website. the signal reception sucked anyways, so i tried switching back to my old t-mobile account by popping in the sim, but it didn't work either and the t-mobile store said that chinese phones aren't allowed on prepaid anymore for "public safety". (he literally used air quote fingers and rolled his eyes. lol)
google recommended mvno's to get around the ban, but they're just as unaware as most that this is a thing in the united states; their websites still show that my redmi is compatible but i've literally tried them all and none have worked.
chatgpt recommended getting around the ban by purchasing phones that share the same hardware like they do with oneplus, oppo, etc. and that was the approach i was going to take until i decided to get a fairphone and put eos on it instead.
yeah, anything out there that i could put out now, it's already on stalker websites for like five bucks (since there's a bunch of other Mes with the same name. Apparently I play hockey. I keep forgetting to follow "my" career tho i should look up Hockey Other Me sometime.
We need to switch over to open source phones. There is no reason we need to rely on these big companies that governments and Powerful interests all have their hooks into.
Samsung phone might be dangerous to your health and life, even in a case of being near oen. Even if you aren't conspiring to send aid to Gaza, since they can probably also track people around you. Andd they do kill based on metadata. US and Israel, both.
goes to show anything tech coming out of US, EU and its client states are not ever trustworthy.. I would go as far as to e.g. not buy a Bosch fridge, never mind the other reasons not to.
After everything that has happened in the past 2 years, that entire region should entirely boycott Samsung until they're clear all Israeli spyware is cleared out of phones. The Middle East is a fairly large Market and everything Samsung should be forbidden entry by leaders of those countries until this is fixed.
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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.
It's time to read theory, comrades! As Lenin says, "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle." Reading theory helps us identify the core contradictions within modern society, analyze their trajectories, and gives us the tools to break free. Marxism-Leninism is broken into 3 major components, as noted by Lenin in his pamphlet The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism: | Audiobook
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Critique of Capitalism along the lines of Marx's Law of Value
Advocacy for Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
As such, I created the following list to take you from no knowledge whatsoever of Leftist theory, and leave you with a strong understanding of the critical fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism in an order that builds up as you read. Let's get started!
Section I: Getting Started
What the heck is Communism, anyways? For that matter, what is fascism?
Breaks down fascism and its mortal enemy, Communism, as well as their antagonistic relationship. Understanding what fascism is, where and when it rises, why it does so, and how to banish it forever is critical. Parenti also helps debunk common anti-Communist myths, from both the "left" and the right, in a quick-witted writing style. This is also an excellent time to watch the famous speech.
Section II: Historical and Dialectical Materialism
By far my favorite primer on Marxist philosophy. By understanding Dialectical and Historical Materialism first, you make it easier to understand the rest of Marxism-Leninism. Don't be intimidated!
Further reading on Dialectical and Historical Materialism, but crucially introduces the why of Scientific Socialism, explaining how Capitalism itself prepares the conditions for public ownership and planning by centralizing itself into monopolist syndicates. This is also where Engels talks about the failures of previous "Utopian" Socialists.
Section III: Political Economy
That's right, it's time for the Law of Value and a deep-dive into Imperialism. If we are to defeat Capitalism, we must learn it's mechanisms, tendencies, contradictions, and laws.
Best taken as a pair, these essays simplify the most important parts of the Law of Value. Marx is targetting those not trained in economics here, but you might want to keep a pen and some paper to follow along if you are a visual person.
Absolutely crucial and the most important work for understanding the modern era and its primary contradictions. Marxist-Leninists understand that Imperialism is the greatest contradiction in the modern era, which cascades downward into all manner of related contradictions. Knowing what dying Capitalism looks like, and how it behaves, means we can kill it.
Section IV: Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
Can we defeat Capitalism at the ballot box? What about just defeating fascism? What about the role of the state?
If Marxists believed reforming Capitalist society was possible, we would be the first in line for it. Sadly, it isn't possible, which Luxemburg proves in this monumental writing.
Excellent refutation of revisionists and Social Democrats who think the State can be reformed, without needing to be replaced with one that is run by the workers, in their own interests.
Section V: Intersectionality and Solidarity
The revolution will not be fought by atomized individuals, but by an intersectional, international working class movement. Intersectionality is critical, because it allows different marginalized groups to work together in collective interest, unifying into a broad movement.
Critical reading on understanding misogyny, transphobia, enbyphobia, pluralphobia, and homophobia, as well as how to move beyond the base subject of "gender." Uses the foundations built up in the previous works to analyze gender theory from a Historical Materialist perspective.
De-colonialism is essential to Marxism. Without having a strong, de-colonial, internationalist stance, we have no path to victory nor a path to justice. Fanon analyzes Colonialism's dehumanizing effects, and lays out how to form a de-colonial movement, as well as its necessity.
Solidarity and intersectionality are the key to any social movement. When different social groups fight for liberation together along intersectional lines, the movements are emboldened and empowered ever-further.
Section VI: Putting it into Practice!
It's not enough to endlessly read, you must put theory to practice. That is how you can improve yourself and the movements you support. Touch grass!
Mao wrote simply and directly, targeting peasant soldiers during the Revolutionary War in China. This pair of essays equip the reader with the ability to apply the analytical tools of Dialectical Materialism to their every day practice, and better understand problems.
Congratulations, you completed your introductory reading course!
With your new understanding and knowledge of Marxism-Leninism, here is a mini What is to be Done? of your own to follow, and take with you as practical advice.
Get organized. Join a Leftist org, find solidarity with fellow comrades, and protect each other. The Dems will not save you, it is up to us to protect ourselves. The Party for Socialism and Liberation and Freedom Road Socialist Organization both organize year round, every year, because the battle for progress is a constant struggle, not a single election. See if there is a chapter near you, or start one! Or, see if there's an org you like more near you and join it.
Read theory. Don't think that you are done now! Just because you have the basics, doesn't mean you know more than you do. If you have not investigated a subject, don't speak on it! Don't speak nonsense, but listen!
Aggressively combat white supremacy, misogyny, queerphobia, and other attacks on marginalized communities. Cede no ground, let nobody be forgotten or left behind. There is strength in numbers, when one marginalized group is targeted, many more are sure to follow.
Be industrious, and self-sufficient. Take up gardening, home repair, tinkering. It is through practice that you elevate your problem-solving capabilities. Not only will you improve your skill at one subject, but your general problem-solving muscles get strengthened as well.
Learn self-defense. Get armed, if practical. Be ready to protect yourself and others. Liberals will not save us, we must save each other.
Be persistent. If you feel like a single water droplet against a mountain, think of canyons and valleys. Oh, how our efforts pile up! With consistency, every rock, boulder, even mountain, can be drilled through with nothing but steady and persistent water droplets.
"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent."
Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a national organization of revolutionaries fighting for socialism in the United States. Our home is in the working class.
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.
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.
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.
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.
... 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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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
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?
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.
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
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?
I haven't heard of any learning curve with Jellyfin. It seems easy to set up, and the apps are about as user friendly as you can get (especially the third party ones)
Speaking of third party apps, here's some recommendations:
Android: Findroid Works absolutely great, it's very rare that I even find a bug.
iOS: Swiftfin I don't use iOS but this is the one I installed on my friend's phones.
Linux (and maybe Windows): Delfin This is a GTK 4 app for Linux and maybe it has a Windows build too but I didn't check. It's not perfect, there's bugs here and there but it mostly works fine. The developer isn't very active (which is understandable), so it would be nice if someone, who has the time for it, would help out.
Here's also the official page with Jellyfin clients: jellyfin.org/downloads/clients… It doesn't seem to include Delfin though.
Finamp was pretty good, but offline mode and playback had some quirks/struggles for me. Maybe its cuz im on graphineOS. The true winner for me on my pixel8 is symphonium. Its a one time purchase, with a free mode... absolute knockout. Zero bugs, great, easy UI, smart playlists, scrobble integration for discovery, etc etc etcccc
On the other hand, jellyfin's identify feature works better than plex's did for me, and it lets you rename stuff very easily whereas Plex needed you to find the exact piece of media in a database.
My mom asked me to rip a set of weirdo bootleg tai chi DVDs years ago, back when I used Plex, but I couldn't figure out how to get them to show up in the library because, again, weirdo bootleg media and I have no idea where she got them. But I switched to jellyfin last year and on a whim decided to mess with them, and getting them to show up in my jellyfin library was basically automatic
Edit, another fun example of fucking with Plex's identify feature just came to mind. For some reason it kept deciding that random movies were actually some movie named "A Fish Called Wanda." I'd never heard of it before, the movies it would misidentify were entirely random as far as I could tell, and no amount of fuckery would get it to identify the movie correctly. It would decide that, say, The Matrix was actually AFCW, I'd remove the files for The Matrix, and it would decide something else was AFCW. Eventually I got fed up and downloaded an actual copy of AFCW, but it still refused to play the correct files if I navigated to AFCW in my library. Never did figure that one out.
The main difference between Plex and Jellyfin is the network setup. Plex takes care of that for you, while you have to set it up your self with Jellyfin. Another difference is that Plex can combine content from multiple servers ( I think. I'm not a plex user, so I don't know for sure), while it will always be seperate servers in jellyfin.
Jellyfin will always have my heart though, because it's open source and not here to make money. Plex also have a reputation to show ads and other stuff from streaming services.
The networking aspect is basically the only thing stopping me from switching from Plex to Jellyfin. I got Jellyfin running and accessing my server myself, while on my home network is easy. However, when it comes to accessing outside of my network, it gets complicated, and when it comes to other people accessing my server it gets more complicated, and then accessing my own server and friends' servers it gets even more complicated.
With Plex, all of that is super easy. I can watch stuff from my own server and my friends' servers on any device, including a web browser, and I can tell my mom, for example, "install Plex on your Roku and tell me what email address you use to log in" and boom, she has access to my library.
yes my world will burn when they crack into my jellyfin instance and magically break out of its docker container and then what? goo nowhere on its vlan?
literally thousands of self-hosted jellyfin/emby instances and the support forums are just chocked full of people getting hacked via it! so many!
If you don’t trust nginx or caddy or etc security, just install Tailscale to the jellyfin node and share the node with friends. All they need is Tailscale client then, and you dont have to open any ports.
No you haven't. The security is the Jellyfin login prompt, then Jellyfin itself, then the Jellyfin container, and if you're really paranoid, that container won't be in your LAN.
Dynamic DNS has been around forever. A program monitors your public IP address and updates the DNS record when it changes. You can even use a service like FreeDNS if you don't want to pay for a domain.
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Can you explain to my mom how to install tailscale on her Roku and that she has to turn it on each time she wants to use Jellyfin but then back off again when she wants to watch something on a different app?
As far as I understand, Tailscale (being a Wireguard network) doesn't need you to flip it off and on - if you're connecting to the relevant endpoint it gets routed through that, otherwise it just goes the normal way.
Not gonna pretend that means the setup is trivial to nomies, but you could probably set it up for them and not have to worry about it.
Yeah but it doesn't auto connect on a lot of devices. So if you restart the device you have to reconnect. Tech illiterate people struggle with this concept.
Have zero knowledge of Roku but for example with AppleTV boxes it is totally fire and forget, Tailscale is always on in the background and apps will find my media servers through it.
And I’ve noticed even tech illiterate people will learn to become literate when there is some motivation, like a huge movie archive 😀 Flipping a preference like VPN on if they want to use certain app is certainly within realm of possibility.
Why exactly would they ever need to turn VPN off again? It’s not like all their traffic will go through it if it’s on, unless you specifically configure stuff that way (exit node, routes).
And one option to do the VPN stuff is on their router too, so it’s totally transparent to them. More stuff to configure though, unless running owrt or some other router software compatible with Tailscale.
I have only recently started with self hosting and after some minor frustration, i am in love!!! Plex isnt just worse cuz its paywalling your own files, its install, support and ui are pretty trash, imo. The one advantage i saw was that it was easy to share w folks. If your jellyfin is going to be secure AND accessible, thats more work to do.
Keep in mind jellyfin does NOT recommend using a pi, bc it struggles w transcoding etc. That said, my first go was an rpi5. I used this guide and it was pretty brainless.... ezpz:
Beware, uptime w the pi is pretty bad... had to restart server all the time, and some devices would not stream properly. It did work, mostly though, and it was a great intro for me since i just had it lying around.
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IDK about the RPi5 but earlier models don't do well with transcoding. You'll want to make sure to convert all of your videos to a format widely compatible with your clients. H264 is usually compatible with any device of the last 10ish years.
Honestly I found plex a lot simpler to set up when I started out.
In Jellyfin I had to wrangle the settings a lot when trying to set up hardware encoding since my streams kept crashing due to some codecs not being dupported by my CPU.
Yeah, unless one happens to have one of the beefier Raspi 4 or Raspi 5 variants (which, of course, would be an overpriced choice if their sole purpose is to be a home server). To give specific recommendation for cost-effective beefier home server hardware: Used Thin Clients. For example, Dell T530 Wyse (or T520, or T540, or the 6x0 series).
Only issue I had with my thin client node is the ethernet port sucked, dropped packets semi-consistently got a 2.5gb ethernet usb adapter to replace it and things have been noticeably better
I ran it on a RPi4 years ago, but it didn’t perform well enough. It performs fine on an old laptop, but not so much in a Pi from my experience. Can’t speak to the RPi5, though.
I never needed transcoding. So jellyfin ran on my Raspi4 for a couple of years. Never faced any issues to be honest. Major issue was hard disk getting disconnected, but then again I had faulty SATA to USB connectors.
While jellyfin itself is very simple, you might run in to problems if you want to use it while not on your home network. For this you're either wanna use a VPN (or tailscale) or use something like nginx to give your server a web address, while you get this for free if you use plex.
Giving yourself a public address might be easier for the person trying to access jellyfin, but it it comes with a bunch of security considerations and you probably (definetly) want to do some research on the inns and outs of that. I would recommend tailscale but either way it's gonna be some extra fiddling, unless you already have something like that set up.
I remember an announcement that the feature enabling remote viewing (outside of network) has/will become a paid function on Plex. But I haven't followed it so don't know all details
You can always run both and see which you prefer. I use jellyfin for me because the devices I use have clients that work really well. Older TVs for family members weren't as simple and I couldn't be bothered to figure it out so they use Plex.
I use a smart tv that has it's internet access blocked by mac address. Simply sideloaded the jellyfin app and since tv and server are on the same network they can still communicate :3
I'm on an older Synology diskstation (418play) and I found Emby was better packaged to use on that platform. On a Pi I might have gone for Jellyfin instead.
I am experimenting with Jellyfish this month and really enjoying it.
I have a lifetime pass from Plex from a long time ago so it's my fallback now. And because of that I wasn't sure if I should try Emby since ... Well you have to pay. And I already have Plex.
But I'm curious ... Because it feels like everyone who uses Emby is very happy with it and swears by it. And generally they all feel like Jellyfin is generally inferior to it.
Seems like Emby is a better Jellyfin that you have to pay for if you want all those premier features (I would).
I haven't really used Plex a whole lot but I have found Jellyfin from a user perspective to be extremely easy to use. The quick connect codes are one of my favorite features.
neither, the raspberry pi doesn't have a gpu to deal with transcoding so it's gonna be frustrating when ur trynna watch or listen to anything (its gonna keep buffering). i highly recommend checking out your local auctions from big business or government that are giving away old mini computers and use that as a self-hosting measure instead (no more than 100$). raspberry pi is kind of a scam ngl since you can get much better hardware for cheaper, ur paying for a brand image
I play 4k and 1080p HD stuff all the time with 5.1 surround at home and when I travel. It also runs my pihole and I have a rudimentary raid 1 (def not real raid 1) running with the rsync command to mirror my media drive that backs my data up every day at midnight. It's a punchy little fucker.
I don't disagree that you're generally paying for the name but it my 4b w/ 8GB ram I got as a gift kicks ass. There are definitely better machines out there but the pi can handle lots of what I ask of it.
I have an old 2 something I'm thinking of using to host my cloud storage on, too. I don't mind if it's slower uploading.
incheresting im not really sure what was wrong with my pi4 w/ 8gb ram then since it kept buffering every 3 seconds for 1080p stuff on jellyfin and it was frustrating af! i saw many others dealing with the same thing online and after seeing jellyfin.org/docs/general/post… I thought it was a hardware problem but it could be something else or plex does things different im not sure. nevertheless im glad that happened to me since ive moved on to superior cheaper hardware and it made me careful of branded products when it comes to hardware in general. im glad that set up u have is working for you :3
The Jellyfin server can offload on the fly video transcoding by utilizing an integrated or discrete graphics card (GPU) suitable to accelerate this workloads very efficiently without straining your CPU.
I agree. Jellyfin is great. After dropping my beloved Pi and switching to a refurbished Dell Wyse 5070 with DietPi every headache is gone. Again: Use DIETPI!
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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.
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)
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.
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...
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.
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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.
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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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?
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
T4V0
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in reply to tasankovasara • • •*in your commands is expanded by the shell before tar sees them. It also does not expand hidden files.So when you do
admin/*the shell expands to all non hidden files inside admin. Which does not includeadmin/.htaccess. So tar is never told to archive this file, only the other non hidden files and folders. It will still archive hidden files and folders nested deeper though.In the second example
*expands toadminand the other does which are not hidden at that level. Then tar can open these dirs and recursivly archive all files and folders including the hidden ones.You can see what commands actually get executed after any shell expansions if you run
set -xfirst. Thenset +xto turn that off again.Here is an example using
ls:sun_is_ra
in reply to nous • • •A quicker way to test this is by using echo
try
echo tar czf ~/package.tgz admin/* api/* mobile/*RheumatoidArthritis
in reply to tasankovasara • • •What is the setting in bash for globbing, to control whether * matches dot files
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in reply to tasankovasara • • •The * expands characters, but . is a pattern not a literal character, so it must be specified since you are explicitly using a character search in the first example.
In the second example, the . files are included by default as they are included in the folder that was found to match the character * that was given.
Maybe this helps?
Onno (VK6FLAB)
in reply to tasankovasara • • •You don't need the wildcard, and as others have pointed out, it doesn't include "hidden " dot files by default.
tar -czf ~/package.tgz admin api mobilebalsoft
in reply to tasankovasara • • •*and.*for a wildcard to match all files in directory - e.g.tar czf ~/package.tgz admin/* admin/.* api/* api/.* mobile/* mobile/.*BCsven
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in reply to tasankovasara • • •This is potentially a great 'weeder' question for junior Unix admin interviews, as it requires some knowledge about shell globbing and tar dir traversal.
I admit it took me a sec (and a second read) before I got it, so it was a fun "hey what" exercise.
Excellent question.
neclimdul
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