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The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg
The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg
The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by Israel and reportedly maltreated by her Israeli captors after she was kidnapped, along with hundreds of other activists, from Gaza’s territorial waters on Friday.Nate Bear (¡Do Not Panic!)
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It’s going to always come down to wealth inequality, which is bred by unregulated capitalism, which is bribed into existence by money in politics.
And getting politicians to reject money is impossible since they don’t want to end up on the eating side of the inequality gap.
Y'all got to take the word "distract" out of your vocabulary. Israel is not committing genocide to distract from the Epstein files.
I don't really know or care much about Greta Thuneberg. But I wouldn't criticize her unless my activism was objectively more effective than hers...and I don't think that describes either of us.
Effective? Come on.
I mean she's great, gave a voice to what a lot of people have been thinking for decades before she was born. Maybe what most people think today.
But there is really nothing that's effective. It's not dissing her, it's just that the machine is too strong and it's able to even use the opposition to itself for the machines purpose, like the article says.Usually. It didn't work with Greta, so she's just ignored.
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Sure. Skill issue. Says the skilled warrior changing the world.
Sure. Whatever you say.
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Your teach? Wow. I thought you are a psychic since you know everything about me from one Lemmy post lol.
I hope you aren't such s duche with you students.
Anyway, in any case it makes sense to asses effectiveness every now and then. For academic purposes of nothing else.
We have also not abandoned many systems many times, that's not an argument.
Show me the effect and disruption. I'm not against it, just right now there isn't much there.
You can say she was the head of that flotilla and without her it would be at least much smaller and you are right, but in this case, considering what Israel did to them and there is still a lack of any real effects.
I am thinking of the political effects. I'm surprised that there doesn't seem to be any after what they did to her and others on the boats.
But on the other hand, the world has stood by for more than half a century of torture of Gazans, so it shouldn't be surprising.
I'm surprised that there doesn't seem to be any after what they did to her and others on the boats.
This stuff takes longer than a news cycle, that was two days ago.
But on the other hand, the world has stood by for more than half a century of torture of Gazans, so it shouldn't be surprising.
Agreed.
"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." Ursula K Le Guin
It's been done before, even under more oppressive conditions. It can and will be done again.
I get it. You find it comforting to believe there's nothing you can do to change things, so you refuse to consume anything that would challenge that notion. Otherwise, you might feel obligated to do something you aren't willing to do, like join a cause or think critically about how you might make change.
I suppose ignorance is bliss, after all, but if you did want to challenge that notion, I'm happy to share the following:
- Palestinians being able to fish in Gaza while the IOF was distracted by the Sumud flotilla.
- The global change in public sentiment regarding Palestine and its occupation by a settler-colonialist force, including 60% of Jews in the US recognizing that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza (up from 27% in late 2023).
- International governments recognizing the state of Palestine. A move, albeit performative, indicating that governments are feeling major public pressure to act. And that was before the solidarity protests and general strikes across europe that are breaking out today.
- The successes of the BDS movement. Billions of dollars in divestments have been won from genocidal collaborators like Coca-Cola, Teva, Caterpillar, Microsoft, and countless more, even by governments and retirement indexes, along with 250+ wins in the US alone
- Spain's announcement of a complete arms embargo against Israel, along with eight other measures against the occupation
- The success of the Mask Off Maersk campaign, a major win being the end of Maersk's collaboration with illegal settlements in the West Bank.
- Other campaigns; like The Oakland People's Arms Embargo, and the recently launched AIPAC Out!; uncovering Israel's American collaborators at every level, in a way that is accessible and therefore actionable to the public.
That's only what I could name off the top of my head
It is in this context alone that we see serious peace talks taking place, with Trump and other US negotiators getting directly involved, and Israel actually seemingly motivated to engage in negotiations on Hamas's terms (i.e. their demands for a permanent ceasefire, unrestricted humanitarian aid, full IOF withdrawal, prisoners exchange, resisting the disarmament of their people, etc). That deal most certainly won't be enough, but it's a start. We both know that Israel wouldn't even come to the table without overwhelming pressure to do so. The cracks in the empire are showing and the empire is desperate to close them, but the thing about cracks is they tend to permanently weaken the structures that stand on them.
Shipping giant Maersk divests from companies linked to Israeli settlements
Move follows campaign accusing Maersk of links to Israel’s military and occupation of Palestinian lands.Yarno Ritzen (Al Jazeera)
Yes, that's all great, but you have completely the wrong assumptions about me and about what I said.
Nevertheless I appreciate that you gathered all that information together.
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I don't think it is toxic, as much as it is almost always misused. Read the following and tell me how many people you know have been using the term correctly.
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I wouldn’t say those three things are inherently logically incompatible, but there would be a lot of grey areas.
The power structure of the federal government doesn’t make it any easier to actually exercise the federal government to accomplish helpful objectives, but making things worse is a relatively easy exercise.
The focus on state level politics seems much more meaningful to actually accomplish any goals, since at least there is not as big of a hurdle where land and money have more power/representation than real people.
They are not logically incompatible, but we will have to make clear and specific decisions about where one ends and the other begins.
Unless you are asking me to live in a society where I must share my toothbrush with others because I am not allowed to keep any private property.
I do believe in private property: with modest, reasonable limits. Which we can and will discuss the details of over time, and I understand that will likely become a heated discussion at times, but I believe it is an inevitable and necessary one. Does that disqualify me from being a leftist? Does it make me a liberal too? Let me know.
Private property in this context means things which generate/are used to generate capital, not just any kind of object which people might have and use. The important distinction is that capital is social, it is a means of coercing others to do work for you. That's true for a factory, where people work for the owner, or for a rented property where the tenant must work to pay the owner. It's true in a way even for wages - when you spend money you are buying the products of people's labour (which under capitalism was not produced in a just way). It's not the case for your toothbrush.
The distinction that liberalism made was that everyone should in theory be allowed to own private property rather than royals appointed by divine right and hereditary nobility they delegated some power to. Not that in the 1700s we were suddenly allowed to have our own clothes for the first time in history.
It’s not the case for your toothbrush.
Isn't it though? I didn't make my toothbrush. It came from the toothbrush factory. In fact, it's an electric toothbrush. Which presumably requires a lot of somewhat high tech inputs and resources to create. Would someone have developed this innovation without some economic pressure to do so? I'm not totally convinced. I think there is some role for capital in that sense. Maybe I'm wrong.
Thank you for taking my somewhat tongue in cheek comment so generously though. My humor is not always placed appropriately and doesn't always come across well, but it sometimes provokes people to respond, and I'm simply trying to learn and keep an open mind, and I appreciate your time and effort in sharing your knowledge.
This isn’t at all to say her original stance was misguided. It is to say that she recognises genocide and ecocide come from the same root. Systems of power that destroy ecosystems also destroy people, also destroy planets, also destroy worlds. She is in many ways simply displaying a logical consistency, as much as a moral one, about the interconnected nature of the evils that plague our civilisation. And this is where she broke with a liberal class who see evils selectively and in terms framed and dictated by empire.
hear hear! Too many people who love the “first they came for” poem who still think Palestine is a pesky wedge issue being used against their boys in blue.
She's not that rowdy little girl anymore. Now she's a fierce young woman.
So of course they abandoned her.
Greta could have become a very rich liberal grifter.
keep them Davos cheques coming in.
instead she's risking her life to help those humanity has abandoned.
respect
And you got leftist piling on liberals for some reason
Edit: oh shit I'm in .ml my bad(not really) lol hey at least you don't ban dissent I guess
Edit 2: Leftists once again can't see the forest for the trees with your ideological purity test pitted against defeating a common enemy. For people so smart you really need to understand that your power lies with NUMBERS
Wym some reason? Y'all get off too easy imo.
Stop with the woe is me shit, you know perfectly well how complicit y'all are.
Economic liberalism is associated with markets and private ownership of capital assets. Economic liberals tend to oppose government intervention and protectionism in the market economy when it inhibits free trade and competition, but tend to support government intervention where it protects property rights, opens new markets or funds market growth, and resolves market failures.[2]
Shitlibs even too lazy for wikipedia
Economic liberalism is associated with markets and private ownership of capital assets. Economic liberals tend to oppose government intervention and protectionism in the market economy when it inhibits free trade and competition, but tend to support government intervention where it protects property rights, opens new markets or funds market growth, and resolves market failures.[2]
Shitlibs even too lazy for wikipedia
Anti-capitalism is when you tax billionaires. The more you tax them the more anti-capitalister you are
that doesn’t mean we can’t tax the shit out of billionaires or drag them out into the street
"I believe in personal liberty over economic system"
you completely dense morons
You not wanting to understand what we're telling you does not make us the morons.
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In the sense that the government can't seize your shit [...] that doesn't mean we can't tax the shit out of billionaires
Doesn't it? Where do you draw the line between taxes and government seizure, especially in the context of capital owners? Also, wouldn't it be far more effective for the government to simply own the means of production and operate at the behest of the people? Does taxing capitalists more while still allowing them to have full control over the means of production - which they'll use to influence the people and government in their favor - not simply set up the same situation we find ourselves in now, just some amount of time down the road?
I would say it does set that up (in fact it has in the past, just look at what was in the new deal and how it's been eroded since it was signed. Assuming you're familiar with US history...), and that is why liberalism is incompatible with anti-capitalism.
lol that's not what I'm referring to. What they call themselves doesn't matter, what matters is whether their policies/laws and/or philosophy/ideology align with neoliberal principals. In other words; we only care about the material reality of the matter. This is because Marxists follow a framework called dialectical materialism.
Words, especially those which a politician or lawmaker uses to market themselves to the public, are not material. They can't be measured in any meaningful way and they don't necessarily reflect reality. (You can, however, measure the material indications and effects of those words if you're inclined to do so, but that's besides my point.)
“For some reason”
Liberals in the US are MAGA enablers. To the last individual.
Communism operates under what was referred to by Marx as a 'dictatorship of the proletariat', which we regard as complete liberation of the working class, because it allows the public to have control which is simply not possible under the liberal framework of "personal liberty for all". Under the liberal framework, even the smallest most democratic intervention is decried as "government overreach"; that is, if it is even made democratically possible in the first place.
Which isn't totally incorrect, because what you're talking about isn't "personal liberty for all". You exclude billionaires. Us socialists/communists exclude capitalists as a whole, because the sole interest of a capitalist is to enrich themselves at the direct expense of the working class and our liberty. Billionaires are certainly the worst and most visible offenders, but a materialist lens allows one to see that each and every capitalist serves interests that are fundamentally in conflict with those of the working class. To operate any other way would be to betray their own interests, and wouldn't make for a very effective result.
Liberation will only come when the working class has the power to decide collectively how our resources will be used, which will only come when we have majority control over the means of production, which will eventually lead to the capitalist class becoming completely obsolete. Liberation means being able to provide for our needs above anything else; for the sake of our humanity alone, and from the work that we are already doing; rather than our labor power being extracted for private gains and our needs provided only to the extent that it serves capitalists' profit motives.
Why is that? Have you ever spent time thinking about how that would be any more or less possible under the current system than, say, seizing the wealth of billionaires and socializing it back to the working class? How would the latter ever be possible by any means short of revolution, especially now if Trump gets his way? What will you do when the ruling class doesn't put that kind of relief on the table? How much oppression and destruction will you consent to, if you believe liberation is not possible and things can only get worse from here?
If you don't believe in it, you won't fight for it. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. That's exactly why our system does everything in its power; both to obscure revolutionary working class history, and to inflate the state's ability to repress dissent. So I'll repeat this until the day I die: it's been done before under worse circumstances.
Russians and Cubans were under brutal dictatorship. Haitians were completely enslaved by one of the most powerful colonial forces in their time. Vietnamese guerillas successfully fought off invasion by the single most militaristic nation in the world, and they aren't alone in having done so (see North Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, so on). If I could speculate, I'd say China's political and economic situation in 1950 is a pretty reasonable outcome for the direction we're heading now in the US. Regardless of how you feel about what came after each of these struggles, the factual reality is that these weren't armies sponsored by any state. These were working class people fighting directly against the states that profited from their exploitation.
All of those people got organized and won liberation from their domestic oppressors, doing their part to weaken the empire, despite what would seem as insurmountable odds to a disorganized worker. It's on us now to organize ourselves against our own oppressors, to get them off both our backs and theirs, and we can't do that without maintaining optimism about our ability to win should we fight. We know that Fascism can only exist for so long until it cannibalizes itself. As a collective we are capable of beating it long before that comes to pass. If we allow the state to beat that optimism out of us then we are only greatly delaying our liberation and doing the ultimate disservice to our people.
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words." - Ursula K. Le Guin
I don't think we should waste our time trying to convince fascists of anything (most of whom are the wealthy elites we outnumber anyways), other than by carrying out the consequences of their actions. Their interests are simply not aligned with ours.
That's okay though, because threshold number of people required to disrupt the system and make real change is much smaller than you would think. All it takes is coordination between those of us that believe in upholding the dignity of the working class, and we gain that coordination by organizing and spreading class consciousness.
The thing is that most of the everyday people in the US already agree with us. Even Republican voters. Most people believe that housing, food, and healthcare should be affordable; that there should be real solutions to homelessness and crime; even bodily autonomy (pro-choice, gender affirming care) is popular among the people. It's just that neither party puts up real solutions, both of them make excuses for why those things are not possible, and the Republicans are really good at making up scapegoats and creating non-solutions that sound really good to someone already conditioned to accept them, which the Democrats generally play along with and split the difference rather than putting up any real challenge or counter-argument.
As for the aesthetics of socialism, even Castro eventually had to spell out that it was, in fact, socialism that was responsible for all the gains they had made since their revolution - that the bogeymen they were so afraid of were simply projections made by their former oppressors. Working class consciousness doesn't have to be 100% before anything can ever happen. It can grow as a result of our success after the fact.
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Formation of the ORIThese forces were called upon to unite in a single organization, and we organized the ORI. It was not easy, it was also a lengthy process; but, in the end, we organized the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations.
Sectarian attitudes are gradually disappearing; so are the attitudes of exclusivism. In the same way, people are no longer being excluded because they are socialists, and, consequently, sectarianism and similar attitudes are disappearing. Some attitudes of extremism are also disappearing. Extremism, which is often called "the measles," should, of course, not be confused with revolutionary firmness. Extremism is another manifestation of the petit bourgeois spirit in the revolutionary movement which we must fight against just as we have to fight against sectarianism.
There are many things our people have already had time to learn. They have had time to get rid of some of the prejudices that many people had who depicted socialism as something terrible something inhuman, something harsh, something enslaving, which is exactly all that imperialism is and which it accuses socialism of being.
Well, we are in a socialist regime. How different is this socialist regime from everything that had been said about socialism So much so that even those who have had problems, like the reactionary clergy, who have had problems with the Revolution, can't blame the socialists for them, can't say the socialists tried to close the churches, prohibit and persecute religious ideas. On the contrary, Aware that religious sentiment is a part of the feelings of some people, revolutionary power must respect the religious sentiment of that part of the people. It does respect it, and gives it every facility. It was those who waged war on the revolutionary regime who said that they would be deprived of parental authority over their children. And the people have learned the truth. Who were they who took away parental rights? Saboteurs who murdered young men and women, counter-revolutionary criminals who murdered a 16-year-old teacher and deprive his mother forever of parental rights, of affection, of warmth and the hope of having her son at home again.
Not only did they murder him; they tortured him. Why did they torture him? Did they torture him, as the Batista secret police used to do, to force a secret from a revolutionary? No, they did not torture him to get any secrets out of him. They tortured him because they were sadists, because of their love of torture, because that boy was there teaching. What secret could he have had? Thus, it was not to squeeze out any secrets. They stabbed him fourteen times. They stabbed him simply to torture him, to fill him with anguish, to make him suffer, to sow terror in the hearts of all mothers. We found out that what robbed people of their parental rights was exploitative - capitalism, which dragged peasant girls away from the countryside to put them to work as servants, to force them into a life of prostitution. We found out that it was capitalism that condemned the daughters of workers and the daughters of peasants to that fate. And it turns out to be precisely socialism that wipes out illiteracy, that educates a million Cubans, that makes plans to rehabilitate prostitutes, to teach typing and shorthand to domestics, to wipe out unemployment, to bring teachers to the remotest corner of the country, to fight and die defending the country from the claws of imperialism, to bring hospitals, to bring roads, to organize social activities, to organize children's activities, to organize youth activities, to develop culture and to struggle for the happiness of the people. That is what we have given our people.
Socialism behaves very generously toward its enemies -- too generously. The social system which captured over a thousand mercenary traitors -- paid by and serving the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon, and who came here escorted by foreign ships -- the system that captured 500 counter-revolutionaries -- among whom were many murderers who had already committed blatant crimes against the peasants -- without even applying the maximum penalty on them, the social system that sees with anguish its calm and generous attitude repaid by the cowardly and vile murder of a 16-year-old youth -- that is socialism.
In other words, with all its power, socialism does not abuse it. It is calm. It is conscientious. It struggles to overcome all its defects. It struggles to overcome-extremism, sectarianism, abuses, injustices, simply because it is socialism, simply because it is what Marx and Engels conceived of, what Lenin and all the revolutionaries fought for -- a better life for man, a happier life for the people, a freer life for the people, that replaces the regime of class oppression, the regime of an exploiting class over the workers, with a workers' democracy. In Marxist terms, this is known as the "dictatorship of the proletariat". (applause).
Source: marxists.org/history/cuba/arch…
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Liberal ‘leaders’ abandonment. There needs to be an understanding that leadership is no longer following the will of the people in the United States. On either the left or the right. This fact is more of a cause of why things are so crazy than anything the people are doing or wanting
At least in the United States
Also: Israel is currently a terrorist state
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The current anger with Sanders appears to be, from an outsiders pov, that he didn't criticize Israel by calling it a genocide soon enough.
That appears to be it.
I mean. To dismiss everything because one mistake, even if that mistake is massive, and then correcting that mistake, if belatedly, to me, says something very positive about that politician.
I'd prefer it was immediate, and it's gross that it took him so long, but all the other stuff isn't cancelled out by that. He's still a net positive. And he DID criticize earlier than any other us politician I can think of, and sure it
Could have been even earlier and harsher, but like. Fuck. If you hate politicians for being open to changing mind based on new evidence, or reforming beliefs you don't like, or admitting mistakes, you are AGAINST them being rational and it plays right into the hands of neoliberal propagandists.
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There's more, he criticized protests against ICE in LA turning into riots, and had some nice things to say about Kirk after he was killed.
That said I think it's really unproductive for people to turn on him after he was a big spark in a movement and is still outspoken. He has irritated me a few times lately but he's still one of the most influential leaders.
I mean. To dismiss everything because one mistake, even if that mistake is massive, and then correcting that mistake, if belatedly, to me, says something very positive about that politician.
even if it's clear that he's been doubling down on that mistake when presented with the evidence and then only switched it's become clear that the tide has begun turn?
Better late than never?
Would you rather the kind of politician that just lies constantly?
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They specifically mentioned the liberal establishment. You're talking about criticism from people that probably abhor the liberal establishment even more than they do progressive liberals like Bernie.
Also I think this kind of criticism is important and I don't know why it bothers people so much. It's okay to be critical of things you ultimately support, either for ideological or simply for tactical reasons. It's called critical support, and I think people should do it more often. Even if the criticism isn't ultimately supportive, that doesn't mean all of a person's hate is directed in that single place. There may be more than just the surface level WHAT, like the WHY of it all and what that implies, that you are missing (or dismissing).
You have to stand for something or you'll fall for anything, and refusal to engage in critical analysis - pretending any politician can do no wrong (or the contrary case; can do no right), getting defensive, and outright rejecting any investigation to prove or disprove your conclusion - does not fall into the category of 'standing for something' to me but rather overzealous team sports.
We have to practice more critical thinking, despite how badly our political class does not want us doing that. Whether it helps any specific politician win an election or not (which you can still do even with criticisms). Especially considering that it's this kind of criticism that has made it untenable for a growing number of politicians to deny the genocide in Palestine; it's pretty clear that the only needle that uncritical support will move is that of the progressives, towards the liberal end of the spectrum. After all, it's our criticism of the current system and its complicity in human suffering that makes us progressive in the first place.
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The liberal establishment always abandons effective fellow liberals. Sanders, Mamdani, Thunberg…
This is where there really is a distinction between "liberal" and "leftist" or "progressive."
I would not call any of those three people "liberals."
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On the other hand look at the Right wing Clowns celebrating the kidnapping of Greta.
I may not like Greta, but credit where credit is due, She's brave. (Also Fuck NuxTaku you zionist pig, I heard your family is in Israel)
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Nah there's a pretty stark shift right when she started to talk about Gaza.
It's a pretty common trend, anyone that doesn't tow the Israeli party line is pretty quickly outcast or opposed.
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It's sort of like Malala, and how she remained committed to socialism and Islam. I think ten years ago for a while the western boosters who brought her to international attention thought she'd flip and be a useful stooge. When she turned out to not be, we heard less and less of her.
Same deal with Greta Thunberg, who is something more dangerous than someone who can be bought: she's someone who is principled for climate justice and human rights.
The left is pretty much splintered into different types of ideologies, levels of hostility towards conservatism, and having wildly different objectives to accomplish, so they could not agree with each other and thus rarely ever win over the right.
The right-wingers? They have unanimous hatred towards the left and seemingly united until once they defeat the left, they'll fight and kill each other as to who gets the biggest slice of the pie.
I'm saying this because much of the left are split over this personality.
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This is how I feel about Jeremy Corbyn in the UK and his stupidly named political party that will go nowhere.
Obstensively he is fairly radically left wing, he's just not radically in favour of actually doing anything. Basically he sits on the sidelines and mutters about genocide being bad (hot take I know) but otherwise just sits there. The only reason he's considered a threat is because his party might actually take votes away from labour but if he won an election nothing would change.
Short of an actual uprising against the corporate elite nothing is going to improve. You can certainly not rely on politicians to be your saviours. That's true globally not just in the US in the UK.
I am unsure about that.
Although I am not exactly right-winger. I do not believe there is a God, for example.
Long ago - at least that is how it seems now - "right-wingers" were laughably and infuriatingly wrong. They tried pushing evolution in schools. They were against gay rights. And so on.
Now I find that it's the "left-wingers" who are laughably and infuriatingly wrong. They have even managed to malleate how science is defined socially. And science is not the only example - they've lost their minds in crime, immigration, sexuality, racism - everything - and they changed (or tried to change) all definitions. I will not go into any examples because it always starts a debate. But I will say this. If we think math is a "white supremacist construct", then there is something that has gone very, very wrong.
Liberal is a dirty word.
They're conservatives who have gay and black friends.
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Test Batch Setup with Wet Hops
My test batch setup is nearly complete (please also appreciate the "beautiful" tiles) and I tested it with a wet hop beer. As you can see, those were clearly at the upper end of their ripeness scale, but it was the only time I could manage to pick some at all due family & kids.
In they went in for a ~20 minutes 80 ˚C hop stand, during which my kitchen smelled a troubling lot of garlic and onions. By removing the bag with the hops, I stirred up the already settled trub, so I had to pour all hop debris & hot break into the minikeg along with the wort. Let's see what that does to the beer. I've overshot my OG quite a bit with the setup in the pictures, with a lot higher efficiency than predicted, only by stirring every now and then, so we're looking at an OG of 1.051 instead of 1.046.
Yesterday, after a week of fermentation under rising pressure, it was time for a gravity sample. It's fully attenuated already, and except a hint of some sharpness, I'm happy to report that we're apparently free of off-flavours. 😀 It came down do 1.008 (vs 1.010 predicted) , which leaves me with a 5.6 % ABV beer instead of 4.2 % with a lot less residual sweetness (US-05, you monster). Next time, I'll certainly mash hotter, and check the temperature with an external thermometer as well. I also wonder what a Kveik yeast would do to the result.
Here is the base recipe I intend to use for ongoing experiments with malts, yeasts & hops.
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Those beautoful cones! I wish I got some, but my vines did not flower this year at all.
Is that sous videt device? How simple is it to clean actually?
Totally forgot got mention it: These are actually wild hops! Foraged next to a rural road with not zero, but little traffic.
And yes, it's a sous vide stick. The one by Inkbird, which I got relatively cheaply. It sits in a hop tube so no grains can get into it.
After use, I instantly rinse it, then put it in a jar with clean water and let it sit there until I'm cleaning up everything. Then, I rinse it again. As it doesn't have to be sterile, I'm fine with this regime for the time being.
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Netflix Now Requiring All Subscribers To Recruit 5 New Customers
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Parce qu'il n'y a rien de plus fun que du jargon juridique, on vous propose une formation juridique avancée ? Ca sera le 16 octobre dans le 19ème arrondissement de Paris, de 19h à 20h30
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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns after less than a month
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns after less than a month
The shock move comes 26 days after his appointment following the collapse of the previous government of François Bayrou.Laura Gozzi (BBC News)
Ex-German chancellor Merkel blames Poland and Baltic States for war in Ukraine
Ex-German chancellor Merkel blames Poland and Baltic States for war in Ukraine
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has blamed Poland and the Baltic States for turning down a proposal for the European Union to negotiate directly with…Krzysztof Mularczyk (Brussels Signal)
Zionist Bari Weiss named editor-in-chief of CBS News as Paramount buys Free Press startup
The CBS News owner Paramount will acquire the Free Press, a media startup founded by Bari Weiss, and has appointed her editor-in-chief of the storied US news network. The publication is known for criticizing both the left and right and has been a home for staunch support of Israel.
Weiss, 41, has no experience working in broadcast television, though she has carved out a reputation as a heterodox opinion writer and burgeoning media operator.
The purchase comes in light of major changes to 97-year-old CBS News after a merger between Paramount Global, the channel’s parent company, and Skydance Media, a media company founded by David Ellison, the son of billionaire Larry Ellison, this summer. Paramount is also behind the Paramount Pictures movie studios and US cable channels including MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.
Bari Weiss named editor-in-chief of CBS News as Paramount buys Free Press startup
Commentator to lead storied US news network, five years after acrimonious exit from New York TimesLauren Aratani (The Guardian)
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Zionist Bari Weiss named editor-in-chief of CBS News as Paramount buys Free Press startup
The CBS News owner Paramount will acquire the Free Press, a media startup founded by Bari Weiss, and has appointed her editor-in-chief of the storied US news network. The publication is known for criticizing both the left and right and has been a home for staunch support of Israel.
Weiss, 41, has no experience working in broadcast television, though she has carved out a reputation as a heterodox opinion writer and burgeoning media operator.
The purchase comes in light of major changes to 97-year-old CBS News after a merger between Paramount Global, the channel’s parent company, and Skydance Media, a media company founded by David Ellison, the son of billionaire Larry Ellison, this summer. Paramount is also behind the Paramount Pictures movie studios and US cable channels including MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.
Bari Weiss named editor-in-chief of CBS News as Paramount buys Free Press startup
Commentator to lead storied US news network, five years after acrimonious exit from New York TimesLauren Aratani (The Guardian)
Verizon Announces CEO Transition
Verizon Announces CEO Transition
Verizon Communications Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Independent Lead Director and former Chief Executive Officer of PayPal Holdings Inc. Dan Schulman as CEO.www.verizon.com
ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering $2,500 Payment for Deportation
ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering $2,500 Payment for Deportation
ICE confirmed its plan to pay unaccompanied immigrant children in exchange for their agreement to be deported.Jonah Valdez (The Intercept)
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Why would they attack the US embassy when the US literally at their doorstep with missiles pointed at them, fishing for an excuse.
Should probably be looking at the people looking for the excuse.
Maduro and his government have a long history of blaming the U.S. for problems stemming from government mismanagement and incompetence. It's the only way he's managed to hold onto power as long as he has. If it weren't for all the conspiracy theories surrounding the US's involvement in literally EVERYTHING, then who else would the people have to blame? For example:
Early "Sabotage" Claims (2013)
Accusation: Soon after taking office, Maduro claimed the White House was plotting a "collapse" of his government through sabotage of food, electricity, and fuel supplies in October 2013.
Reality: As with later incidents, critics viewed this as a tactic to deflect blame from the government's own failing policies and to boost approval ratings with anti-U.S. rhetoric. A political scientist noted at the time that few Venezuelans actually believed the alleged coup attempts.
2019 Nationwide Blackout
Accusation: In March 2019, a massive power outage crippled Venezuela for days. Maduro and his government immediately claimed the U.S. and the Venezuelan opposition orchestrated a "criminal attack" and "cyber warfare" against the national electrical system. Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez accused U.S. Senator Marco Rubio by name of being involved.
Reality: Experts and opposition leaders pointed to years of government mismanagement, corruption, and a severe lack of maintenance and investment in the country's power grid as the true cause. A former president of the national electricity corporation stated that the 2019 outage was a result of incompetence and poor maintenance, not sabotage.
Economic Collapse and Hyperinflation
Accusation: As Venezuela's economy collapsed and hyperinflation skyrocketed, Maduro's administration repeatedly blamed U.S. sanctions and what it calls "economic terrorism" for the country's economic woes.
Reality: Economists and international organizations primarily attribute the economic crisis to the Maduro government's policies, including price controls, currency mismanagement, and corruption. U.S. sanctions were largely targeted at specific individuals and sectors, rather than the general economy, and many of the economic issues predated the most severe sanctions.
Oil Industry Decline
Accusation: In 2025, amidst a U.S. military presence in the Caribbean, Maduro accused the U.S. of a thinly veiled attempt to seize Venezuela's natural resources under the guise of an anti-drug operation. This fits a long-running pattern of blaming U.S. actions for the decline of Venezuela's oil industry.
Reality: While U.S. sanctions have impacted the oil industry, analysts note the decline began much earlier due to years of mismanagement, corruption, and lack of investment by the state-owned oil company, PDVSA. Production had already fallen dramatically before sanctions were in place.
2024 Presidential Election Unrest
Accusation: Following the widely disputed 2024 presidential election, Maduro blamed the subsequent protests and unrest on a "far-right conspiracy" spearheaded by the U.S. and his political rivals. He accused the opposition of faking election results.
Reality: The U.S., Canada, and the European Union all condemned the election as neither free nor fair. The Venezuelan opposition presented overwhelming evidence suggesting their candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, won by a wide margin, contradicting the government's official results.
Claim: absolutely true shit said by somebody I don't want to think is right
Reality: the most genocidal, warmongering, racist country ever told me "nah bro it wasn't like that" and I identify with them so much that I just took their word for it
You clearly haven't spoken to very many Venezuelans, have you? I have lots of extended family there, and I can assure you, they don't support Maduro. The only people that still do, are either being bribed or extorted.
There aren't very many "true Chavistas" left. And the ones that are still there, also don't unanimously support Maduro. Chavez was inspirational. Maduro is just incompetent.
My bad I didn't know you knew a statistically significant portion of venezuelans of a random array of educational, economic, and cultural backgrounds. This is for real the first time some gringo tells me they know a Russian/Venezuelan/Cuban/Chinese/whatever somebody (making them basically an authority on the subject).
I guess the sanctions that were designed precisely for the purpose of causing unrest have nothing to do with the people desperate or angry enough to go to those Nazi-ass countries being very dissatisfied with the situation at home. What a fucking revelation, I'm telling you.
Dude. Venezuelans know enough about their own country's political climate to know when things are not as they seem. This is especially true when 2/3rds of the country voted against him in the last election. It's pretty hard to gaslight that many people, all at once. If it was "close", people wouldn't all be looking around at each other saying, "What the fuck just happened?"
And if you want to talk about how bad the sanctions are, maybe explain why everything Maduro does in response to those sanctions, actually makes things worse for regular Venezuelans? Every policy he puts in place, makes it even harder for people to buy things, or to save money, or even just to find work.
You tell me. What do you know about what people are going through there? I don't know anyone who thinks what Maduro has done, has made anything better for them. He's had over ten years to make some kind of progress...but all he's done is abandon all the policies that actually helped people, and implement new ones punishing people just for trying to get by on their own.
You saved that drivel on your phone as if it were useful for anything other than smoking gun proof you're a dope?
First off the entire premise of your argument is fucking stupid. He's a bad leader? Oh well! Not your fucking problem! He's the democratically elected leader of that country so fuck off.
But even allowing your hitleresque premise that you should be allowed to murder tens or hundreds of thousands of people because they voted wrong, your arguments are as stupid as a New York Times article and for the exact same reasons. Just taking a sample from the middle:
Reality: Economists and international organizations primarily attribute the economic crisis to the Maduro government’s policies, including price controls, currency mismanagement, and corruption. U.S. sanctions were largely targeted at specific individuals and sectors, rather than the general economy, and many of the economic issues predated the most severe sanctions.
"The people applying the sanctions to their country, who are actively engaged in a propaganda campaign to de-legitimize it, and who are repeatedly murdering their civilians with military attacks on random fucking boats sailing around it, said the sanctions aren't what made the country bad, it was already bad!"
Fucking baby brain.
If you actually believe the line that sanctions don't hurt the general economy you're a fucking moron and I can't be effusive enough on that point. You're extremely fucking stupid to think that. It's literally the entire fucking point of them. The politicians putting them in place say so explicitly in all situations except in this specific context when they're defending themselves against critics. The entire point of sanctions is to make the population blame and overthrow the government.
state.gov/venezuela-related-sa…
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Reality: The U.S., Canada, and the European Union all condemned the election as neither free nor fair. The Venezuelan opposition presented overwhelming evidence suggesting their candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, won by a wide margin, contradicting the government’s official results.
"Trump said the election was stolen that's why I'm building a gallows for Mike Pence"
Lol! 1st of all...he lost the last election by 2/3 of the vote. Venezuela has one of the most transparent elections systems in the world. It was designed to provide verifiable proof of outcome, in order to guarantee the results were legitimate.
All the government had to do, in order to validate their claim on power, was to publish the results. That way, they can then be independently verified, and everyone would know who really won.
Except, they didn't do that. It's been almost two years, and they still haven't released those results. Why?
If you are such a galaxy-brained genius, and Maduro is such an unimpeachable Paragon of truth and honesty...explain that. They have the results...they just aren't letting anyone else see them? "Trust me, bro" is not how that system was intended to work.
Except, they didn’t do that. It’s been almost two years, and they still haven’t released those results. Why?
Because they don't answer to the people trying to murder them you fucking moron.
Oh and by the way literally the only people saying the election was illegitimate are the people trying to murder them. Not that you've shown yourself capable of critical (OR EVEN INDEPENDENT) thought, but don't you think you should be examining your sources before you say shit? Mmm?
Finally, way to ignore literally everything of substance in my comment and go off on your own shower argument like an NPC by the way. Not touching the central argument that none of your points have any say on whether you should be allowed to murder innocent people. You fucking nazi piece of shit.
I hope for you what you hope for others.
Because they don't answer to the people trying to murder them you fucking moron.Oh and by the way literally the only people saying the election was illegitimate are the people trying to murder them.
Are you saying the Venezuelan population is trying to murder them? The Venezuelan people are the ones who need to see the results of their own elections. Without that, the government has no legitimate claim to power. That's the entire point in setting up a system that can be verified independently. There is no ambiguity here. Either the results say he won...or they don't. So, the only reason they are refusing to show people the results, is because he lost. Period.
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about, so you're backing up your bullshit with insults, thinking that's a valid argument. It isn't.
None of your arguments are valid unless you can address the giant hole in your argument when it comes to those results not being released. That is the only thing that matters. You cannot make the claim that the Maduro government is legitimate anymore, when they have refused to provide the evidence that they won. Everything else you can say to try and defend him, is just hollow and pointless, without that.
Even making the argument that the US is wrong to question the election results falls flat, when the results are so obviously in question. All you're doing is showing me that you are not arguing in good faith. You are defending the indefensible.
Updated August 8, 2023Venezuela: Overview of U.S. Sanctions
For over 17 years, the United States has imposed sanctions in response to activities of the Venezuelan government and Venezuelan individuals.
Yeah I guess theyre just bad at math or something, sanctions don't have an impact, that's why the usa imposes them
accusation: nuh uhhhh
reality: youre a bozo
Venezuela isn't being hit any harder than any other country the US has beef with. Those other countries aren't all collapsing under the weight of those sanctions. In every other case, they've managed to find a stable equilibrium within their own means. So, why is Venezuela so different? Why isn't Iran experiencing rolling blackouts in a weekly basis? Why is Cuba able to fund cutting edge medical research?
Venezuela has no shortage of natural resources at its disposal, and also no shortage of countries willing to do business with them, despite the sanctions. There is no reason why they should have failed so completely, to maintain even a minimum level of economic stability.
But, they haven't. They're unique in both their economic and infrastructural collapse, as well as their out of control inflation. Almost everything they've done over the last two decades has made their situation worse than it should have been. It's like they took all the available options, and chose the ones that would cause the most damage.
I feel for you brother.
How did you and your family feel over the past three decades as the United States attempted over 15 coups in your country?
At first, they were angry...but that was before Maduro took over. Now they just wish someone would get it over with...just hopefully without a lot of collateral damage. The shittiest part about it all is, most people there now, look at Trump like he's the one that's going to save them.
How fucked up is that? Things there have gotten so bad, that people even think Trump is offering something better.
Why instigate an invasion when the enemy is literally at the door blowing up civilians? This makes zero sense.
Maybe the US should stop giving him excuses to use them as an universal boogeyman if they want the 16th coup attempt to work.
Maduro using the USA as a bogeyman is a lot different from going to war with the USA.
At this point, the USA is looking for an excuse to go to war and Maduro has backed down from a lot of positions to keep the USA from having any excuses.
Under any other president, I would say, "Why would the US bother?" But, unfortunately with Trump, you never know.
But, by the numbers...why would they bother? Maduro has already agreed to allow US oil companies to take their oil...so, why invade when you are already getting what you want from the current administration?
What the US is doing out in international waters, is performative theater for their base at home. They sit out there and blow up a few smuggling boats, and all the brain dead MAGAts at home, cheer. The US still gets the oil, and also gets to claim they're being "tough on Maduro", without risking a single US soldier.
Maduro on the other hand, is hemorrhaging support at home. People are catching on, to the fact that he is completely corrupt and has no intention of helping them. He's getting richer every day, thanks to US investment, and none of it is "trickling down" to the people. He's had to crack down on dissent after he lost the last election and refused to leave office, and now even his allies are losing faith in his administration.
What he needs is for the boogeyman to do something real. He can't keep relying on flimsy conspiracy theories and conjecture. He needs them to "prove" that they are a real threat, or else no one is going to keep believing his bullshit anymore. And, if a few Venezuelans have to die in the process...well, that's just a sacrifice I'm sure he's willing to make.
The first Trump administration did the same thing to Iran that this administration is trying to do to Venezuela, get the weaker nation to do something that would be construed as a casus belli to justify regime change. Trump wants to be a wartime president without being the aggressor.
Maduro may be bleeding support, but Venezuela can't win a war against the USA and Trump is looking for any excuse to go to war. Having an American ship parked off shore should be enough to pull in some patriotic support. However, any aggression against the USA now could be used as an excuse for regime change.
Except there was no regime change in Iran. They just rattled their swords for the crowd, which is all they're doing now.
And for the record, the US has a long history of losing to so-called "weaker countries", when asymmetrical warfare is involved. The only war they actually managed to "finish" recently, was the invasion of Iraq...and that was largely because the Iraqi population wasn't actually trying to fight back. Venezuela would not be the same.
And I'm not trying to say this would be a smart move by Maduro...just desperation. Right now, half the population in Venezuela don't even believe the government when they say there's an American fleet parked offshore. The government has been saying shit like that every other week for the last 12 years, and it always turns out to either be totally overblown, or straight up bullshit. People there just aren't buying into the propaganda like they used to. Which is never a good sign for a dictatorship that relies on fear mongering, in order to maintain loyalty.
1) Symbolically attack a US embassy
2) Get bombed into the stone age by a war hungry American president
3) ???
4) Profit
This is bad analysis.
They're gonna do a false flag on Venezuela because they want to destroy a left-wing government. The fact that it will distract from the Epstein files is a positive side effect, but they are enacting an agenda beyond it.
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There is a sliding scale between security and convenience, and SimpleX falls on the incredibly secure side of that equation.
By doing it the way they have, they have made sure that nobody can impersonate you, except under duress.
Been using it to communicate with a coupla friends and my boyfriend.
Its easy to get people on-boarded and it seems to have the important features. What's the issue?
I use it and yes, it is quite noticeably better.
Connecting to somebody new with a new pseudonym is completely possible by just tapping one switch in the share screen.
Plus, you don't need a phone number which does generally require at least some personally identifiable information to obtain
Do be aware though, your database is an incredibly important file. If you lose your database or lose the password to your database, you are completely screwed just as if you lost cryptocurrency. Those accounts are burned forever because you will never have the keys to generate those accounts again.
Someone I volunteer with sent me a Google Doc and I told them I couldn't see it without a Google account and they just couldn't wrap their head around why I did not have and would not be getting one. I gave them several alternatives where they could upload the document to share and they simply refused.
I also volunteered with another program with the local school district/city and they required to use Google Groups for communications. I sent them a list of 8+ alternatives but they just tried to guilt me into using Google instead.
It's a sad corpo world we lived in.
I played with it briefly. It looks like a good choice for a situation where security is paramount and the people involved are reasonably motivated. I don't have those needs, and nobody I know has asked to connect with me using it.
Signal, on the other hand is a familiar experience for most people with no new concepts to learn, and popular enough that I think most people will find a number of contacts already using it.
I don't know that it is "tangibly better for privacy". Not saying it isn't, just that I don't know. It's definitely better for anonymity/pseudonymity. The main benefits, in my opinion, are:
- No phone number needed for sign-up. Signal wants people to be able to easily find who is available to message on Signal, and they're leveraging the phone numbers in your personal contacts to build a private "social graph". This is actually really nice, but also can be a huge hurdle for a variety of reasons I won't go into, none of which are privacy, as others have repeatedly alleged, because there is nothing connected to your phone number, as Signal has demonstrated in their public subpoena responses.
- SimpleX let's you have multiple profiles. For example, a work profile, a personal profile, a public/social profile, and an anonymous/pseudonymous profile. They also support business profiles. This is, in my opinion, a huge problem for Signal. Sometimes Signal is used to do things like organize protests. If that group is public, anyone can join and see exactly who you are, and you're essentially doxing yourself in that group. Really not ideal. In the case of something like Session, I can use Shelter to create a work profile and install a redundant copy of the app for another profile, but due to #1, this is not possible.
I also see orgs like EFF and 404 Media using Signal as a comms method. You can't message them either without doxxing yourself, unless you just erase/pseudonymize your profile, which would then just completely confuse your actual friends and family.
- No one can message you that you have not invited to message you. Due to #1 (again) people can and do use Signal to send spam/scam messages. Now they could do so just using SMS, but my personal SMS app has spam filters, Signal does not.
If you want to create a public invitation, you can do so, and share it wherever you want. I share mine on my personal Linkstack site. If, in some hypothetical future, spammers/scammers start scraping the web for invitations, and that invitation gets collected and sold/shared, I can simply rotate it out with a new invitation, but, importantly, without losing any of the connections to people I've already messaged. You can do similar with Signal usernames, but only for the 1 profile, and you cannot stop people from messaging with your #. You can also set it in a group to disallow private messages to other members, which is a huge problem in places like Discord and Matrix.
This doesn't really matter so much today, as certainly the # of users are so small as to be a waste of time for any spammers, but it matters so much on a fundamental level, in a hypothetical future where it becomes widely adopted.
You can also create 1-time invitations so that you can be 100% sure that the person messaging you is the person you invited, as opposed to Signal's "safety number" approach.
- They don't use Google/Apple notifications. This is both a pro and con. Ideally they would just support UnifiedPush but instead they run their own notification server. This hits your battery life, as well as causes problems with notifications. I often open the app and just watch it update messages for several seconds and then get a wave of notifications, but I also don't utilize the "always on" notification service. The fact that Signal just uses Google/Apple is appalling but you can get around it using the FOSS Molly app. To reiterate, there is no way to receive notifications in the Signal mobile app without going through Google/Apple's servers. It really chaps my ass to see supposed "private" apps that make no option available to circumvent the servers of tech oligopolies. I understand very few people would utilize this but I still think it's extremely important, and the fact that Molly devs actually provide this shows that it's entirely feasible. Google FCM notifications is the only remaining reason I absolutely need Google Play Services installed on my device, and it frustrates me to no end.
Only things going for it is that it’s open source and auditable.
It’s venture capitalist funding is a hard no from me though. Same reason I stuck with mastodon vs Bluesky.
And it has been audited by an independent auditor. And it doesn't have user ID's. And you can have multiple accounts with no effort. And you can selfhost your own servers. And it's actively developed. And it's available on all major platforms. And the list of pros goes on.
I have to contend that the founders views don't align with my own (or with most people on lemmy). But that aside (freedom of speech), I wouldn't dismiss them simply because "VC bad". If you want a different perspective, read this.
I use it, although not with people who are new to encrypted messaging or who I really need to keep contact with.
SimpleX has great features for the separation of pseudonyms, which is part of why I think it's the best concept for an encrypted messaging app so far. But it's not only for-profit, but funded by venture capital. I don't think it's going to last for the long term, and if it does, it'll probably experience a similar enshitification that other services have. Supposedly they're going to profit by allowing businesses to pay for their service, but I doubt that they'll actually make much money from that.
Conceptually, it's a messaging app done right. Not haunted by legacy identifiers like phone numbers, can be run in a decentralized manner, and a more secure invite system.
In practice, it tends to burn through battery, and it's already hard enough getting people to use Signal. People also seem to have a hard time grasping the concepts of invites, or anything that's not a phone number for that matter.
I've stopped using it due to the battery issue and I don't want to fragment my communication strategy further. It ought to have a privacy advantage by virtue of not needing a phone number, but at the end of the day, my messages are also getting swept up on the other end by non-privacy-respecting phones.
Nutomic has said some problematic shit, and is one of the devs of lemmy/admin on lemmy.ml.
This isn't anti-commie nonsense, dudes transphobic.
We had a small group (under 50 people) that used it daily for several months as our primary means of communication after moving from Matrix. I think the privacy/anonymity features are sound, and the creator/lead dev seemed to be making the removal and prevention of CSAM on the platform a priority which is great.
We always had problems though. Users on iOS and Windows had regular problems with the chat losing track of where it was, images not loading, images getting stuck as your "last read" position, etc. Users on all platforms including Linux and Android would randomly lose the ability to see messages from others in rooms, fail to receive notifications, or upload images that only they could see. There's also a fair bit of feature disparity across platforms. While we were using it iOS lacked the ability to mark all messages in a room as read, meaning some people were stuck scrolling slowly through hundreds of messages a day or living with unread message counts in the thousands.
We ended up moving to XMPP. Maybe in the future when the platform is more evenly developed we'll give it another shot, but for now XMPP is working better for everyone across multiple platforms.
Gajim on PC (Linux) and Monocles on mobile (Android) are my favorites. Gajim is available on every desktop platform you mentioned. Monocles is a fork of conversations.im.
I don't actually have a recommendation for iOS as I don't use it. I know at least one person in our usual group does though, so I'm assuming there's a client on that side that doesn't suck?
Thanks for the recommendation!
I'm trying to move a friend groupchat away from discord and there are users on all those platforms.
Are you hosting your own server? How's it working with multi devices one one account (phone and desktop usually)? I've experimented with prosody a bit and it seemed like only one machine was able to receive message at one time, so the phone and computer quickly got out of sync.
Sorry for asking too many questions, it's hard to find these things easily.
Neat idea, but in practice, it's only practical for a single small-ish group of motivated, technical users who wish to communicate internally to the group. When you luck out with such a situation, there are many options out there to choose from, including running a private chat server somewhere running something like XMPP, possibly over tor. It's well-trodden ground.
Signal has a completely different use case than the above. You can get a lot of regular people to switch from SMS or imessage to a Signal chat without too much cajoling, and sometimes just discover that contacts are already on it so you can start with that.
Why? This way it doesn't give you false expectations of privacy.
Of course it doesn't prevent the other side from running a modded client that doesn't delete, but at least it's obvious that disappearing messages are something that requires both sides to be on board
It is better. First of all you don't have to connect your phone number or an email.
this is an automatic victory
Its on a torified network.
It's encrypted
And if you choose basically every chat is a burner account. So once deleted it's gone.
I've noticed that signal is actually NOT secure at all and may actually be a gov project
I use it, and its pretty decent. Looks good and works.
Pros:
-No user ID needed.
-Can self host the server that passes on your messages.
-Has the option to use Flux.
-Works out of the box.
Cons:
-Battery drain is a thing. Either toggle the periodic check, or turn it off and open it yourself to check messages.
-Using one account accross multiple devices can be a pain. Since u can't keep using your phone account at the same time as it is connected to your pc. Can be circumvented by having mutiple accounts in the same group chat; but yea it's a pain the ass.
Neutral:
-Convincing people to use it hahahh. But this is a universal probem vs mainstream messenger apps.
Final verdict: 4/5.
Very good if privacy and anonymity is your number 1 priority. It's less of hassle to set up than some other options, and relatively easy to get people into it. Sent invite, they download the app, make profile and are good to go.
Batterydrain and same use account across multiple devices could and should be better for mainstream adoption. On the other hand if u toggle the periodic checks then I find the drain tolerable. And how many of us are in places that don't have a wallsocket available to charge your phone 😛
This Data Scientist Sees Progress in the Climate Change Fight
Countries are falling short on reducing emissions, but British data scientist Hannah Ritchie looks at the numbers and sees the world making real gains on climate change. In an interview, she talks about the unheralded progress she sees in the global shift to clean energy.
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France’s PM resigns after less than a month amid widespread criticism of new cabinet
France’s political crisis has deepened after the new prime minister dramatically resigned within hours of appointing a government.
Sébastien Lecornu was the third French prime minister in a year, as the country continued to lurch from one political crisis to another. He quit hours before his first cabinet meeting on Monday afternoon. Macron accepted Lecornu’s resignation on Monday morning.
Lecornu then made what he called a “spontaneous” speech on the steps of the prime minister’s residence in Paris. He appeared to place the blame on opposition political parties in France, who he said had not wanted to compromise.
France’s PM resigns after less than a month amid widespread criticism of new cabinet
Sébastien Lecornu quits after Emmanuel Macron unveiled largely unchanged cabinet lineupGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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On an unrelated topic I found a comment in a YouTube video about Sonichu Medaillion being cursed. It peaked my interest. Truly cursed. Then I found a shop selling these and scrolled down, and it recommended me more curse.
I don't know what else to say, other than the recommendation was right.
DHS agents retreat as Chicago cops refuse to shield them from swarming protesters
DHS agents retreat as Chicago cops refuse to shield them from swarming protesters
Department of Homeland Security agents were seen abandoning one attempt to arrest a man in Chicago over the weekend after being outnumbered by protesters.David Edwards (Raw Story)
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Judge blocks Trump’s bid to deploy national guard to Oregon
a federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any national guard units to Oregon a few hours after the California governor, Gavin Newsom, announced he would sue the president over the planned deployment of his state’s troops.
Both states sought the temporary restraining order after the president sent guard members from California to Oregon earlier in the day. On Saturday, the same judge temporarily blocked the administration from deploying Oregon’s national guard troops to Portland.
The ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut said there was no evidence that recent protests necessitated the presence of national guard troops, no matter where they came from.
Judge blocks Trump’s bid to deploy national guard to Oregon – US politics live
Ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut blocks any deployment to Portland for two weeks as legal wrangling continuesTom Ambrose (The Guardian)
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This is so incredibly short-sighted. Support for solar energy really should be a Republican priority too - it's business, it's industry, it's making money. China, India, the entire continent of Africa, are all going solar. The United States could be a world leader in this trillion-dollar industry - hell, there's a national security argument that we need American scientists and workers to support the American solar industry.
Never mind the climate issue for now. Walking away from solar leaves billions on the table that other countries are going to snap up. Republicans love subsidizing industry. This is a braindead bipartisan opportunity.
But little Donnie hates solar energy personally, threw a tantrum about it, and no one in the 80-year-old boy king's court dares to disagree with him.
Yup. I'm using piefed on the voyager app and I have the votes displayed separately right now. But you have to enable that option in settings as the default is "total" not "separately".
I use the web version of the voyager app but they have the actual app in most app stores.
Ex-special counsel John Durham undercut case against James Comey in interview with prosecutors: Sources
Ex-special counsel John Durham undercut case against James Comey in interview with prosecutors: Sources
As special counsel, Durham investigated the origins of the FBI's Russia probe.Katherine Faulders (ABC News)
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Iran says Cairo agreement for cooperation with IAEA ‘no longer valid’ after sanctions reimposed
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that a Cairo agreement for cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog “is no longer valid” after the imposition of snapback sanctions by Western countries, Anadolu reports.
“The three European countries thought they could achieve results through the snapback mechanism, but that tool was ineffective and only made diplomacy more complicated,” the state news agency IRNA quoted Araghchi as saying after meeting foreign ambassadors and diplomats accredited to Tehran.
Hamas denies reports of agreeing to weapons surrender under international supervision, warns against false news
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has issued an official statement firmly denying media reports, particularly by Al Arabiya Al Hadath, claiming that the movement had agreed to gradually hand over its weapons under international supervision. In its official statement, Hamas said: “The movement confirms that there is no truth to what was reported by Al Arabiya Al Hadath and some other media outlets, quoting a so-called source within the movement, regarding the course of ceasefire negotiations.”
The statement added: “The movement stresses that spreading such misleading news aims to distort facts and create confusion among the public.” Hamas described these reports as “baseless allegations” and strongly rejected them. The movement also called on media outlets to “adhere to professionalism and objectivity, and avoid relying on anonymous or unreliable sources,” stressing that “accurate and official statements are issued only through the movement’s official platforms.”
Islamophobia is the new global currency of power
There is no more honest way to describe the world we live in than this: Islamophobia has become the new global currency of power. It is traded in the speeches of politicians, exchanged in the deals of diplomats, printed in the pages of media, and laundered through the language of security and counterterrorism. It buys impunity for genocide, secures legitimacy for authoritarian leaders, and bankrolls new markets of surveillance and control. The Gaza genocide has torn away whatever illusions were left: the blood of Muslims is not just cheap; it is expendable capital in the economy of global powers.
The Gaza genocide is not an isolated catastrophe; it is the center of a global pattern. From the internment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang’s camps to the expulsion of the Rohingya from Myanmar, from the headscarves torn off French Muslim girls in the name of secularism to the US “Muslim ban” dressed in the language of national security, the same logic is at work. Islamophobia is the shared language of power between democracies and dictatorships, between so-called secular republics and openly ethno-nationalist states. It allows brutality to pass as order, apartheid to pass as security, and genocide to pass as policy.
Nowhere is this more visible outside Palestine than in India, where 200 million Muslims are being pushed to the edge of extermination by the RSS-BJP regime. Under Narendra Modi, Islamophobia has been weaponised not as fringe hate but as state ideology. Laws like the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens have created a framework where Muslims can be rendered stateless in their own homeland. Pogroms in Delhi, lynchings over beef, bulldozers demolishing Muslim homes, and open calls for genocide from Hindutva leaders are not accidents but steps in a carefully scripted project. This project is nourished by propaganda techniques borrowed directly from Zionism: Palestinians are framed as “terrorists” the way Indian Muslims are framed as “jihadis” or “Bangladeshi infiltrators”; Gaza’s resistance is criminalised the same way Indian Muslims’ protests are portrayed as sedition. Both Zionism and Hindutva work by criminalising Muslim existence itself — and both find eager allies in Western capitals that profit from these performances of “civilisational defence.”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251006-islamophobia-is-the-new-global-currency-of-power/
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Be careful with statements like that because one could just as easily reverse them. Especially when Islam is six centuries younger than Christianity. I would like you to consider for a fact that The holy Land has been conquered many times by many different people because it is important to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
al-Futūḥāt al-ʾIslāmiyya (the Islamic conquests). Is what kicked off that whole back and forth power struggle.
Islamic Conquests (approx. 622-900 CE)
610 CE: Muhammad begins receiving his first revelations on Mount Hira.
622 CE: Muhammad's arrival in Medina marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar and the first Muslim city-state.
629/630 CE: Mecca is conquered by the burgeoning Muslim forces.
632-661 CE (Rashidun Caliphate): The early successors of Muhammad lead rapid expansion into Byzantine and Sasanian territories.
711 CE: Muslim forces begin their conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal).
By 900 CE: Muslim armies had conquered vast territories in North Africa, the Middle East, parts of Europe, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.
The Crusades (approx. 1095-1303 CE)
1095-1099: The First Crusade is called by Pope Urban II and results in the capture of Jerusalem.
1099: The Kingdom of Jerusalem is established by the Crusaders.
1144: The Crusader state of Edessa is captured by the Muslim leader Imad ad-Din Zangi, prompting the Second Crusade.
1187: Saladin, the Muslim leader, recaptures Jerusalem.
1189-1192: The Third Crusade, led by Richard the Lionheart and others, fails to retake Jerusalem but secures pilgrimage access.
1202-1204: The Fourth Crusade diverts to sack the Christian city of Constantinople.
1291 CE: The Fall of Acre to the Mamluks marks the final expulsion of the Crusaders from the Holy Land, though the last major Crusades continued into the late 13th century.
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Be careful with statements like that because one could just as easily reverse them.
I have no idea what you're trying to say?
My statement is that Western civilization grew out of the crusades, the reason Europe pretends to be a different continent from the rest of Asia. Its the foundation for the Doctrine of Discovery, for Manifest Destiny, for Orientalism and the whole colonial period. It's what created the West as a sociopolitical force in history.
You can't reverse it without reversing history. You'd have to let the Caliphate be the ones that conquered the Americas to actually create the reverse situation.
The Fall of Acre to the Mamluks marks the final expulsion of the Crusaders from the Holy Land, though the last major Crusades continued into the late 13th century.
Yes, and Columbus wanted to start another Crusade by opening a Western passage to Asia. The fact that he ran into another continent is the only reason he didn't try to take back Jerusalem.
But they never stopped! The Europeans took back Jerusalem when they defeated the Ottomans in WW1, then in the 1940s they established Israel as a new crusader state with the stroke of a pen. Instead of Christendom we have Judeochristian values, but there's a clear continuity.
The point is, the OP is not describing anything new. This is all part of the precession of history, the same historical forces that created the West are still in play today.
Not astounded at all that you completely missed the point.
Maybe I can spell it out a little bit clearer. I'm saying that Christianity and Islam have been in a power struggle for over 1400 years. It is ridiculous to say that Western Civilization was forged in these events and to not also realize that Middle Eastern civilization was forged by the same events that impacted both civilizations.
I'm excusing neither I'm holding both accountable. Both committed atrocities upon the other in the name of their flavor of God.
Obviously Eastern civilization was also shaped by the crusades? I'm just describing the historical forces that lead us to this point and pointing out that Islamophobia isn't the "new global currency of power" as claimed by the OP. It's as old as the West as a sociopolitical force of history.
In different historical conditions where the Caliphate conquered the Americas instead of Christendom the exact opposite would have happened, maybe Europe would have been colonized by Asia, but that's not the world we live in.
But now the Caliphate and the Ottomans are gone. The West conquered the world and colonized the East, so hatred of Islam has become normalized by the hegemon because the West rules the world. But it's not new.
This hypothesis of Columbus trying to finance a crusade is heavily contested, to put it mildly.
I think it is trying to frame conflicts as part of a struggle between entities you see in the modern world. Pre-nation-state Europe was waaaayyyyy more divided than united. The entire east vs. West or even Muslim vs. Christianity narrative is accurate in modern times, but pre Napoleon it falls flat.
France had historically seen the ottomans as a preferable partner to England, religion be damned. When the ottomans conquered the Balkans, many Christians even fought on their side. The Austrian slur for Hungarians, Krüzitürken - cross bearing Turks -, reflects that.
Even the now infamous Reconquista wasnt as much of a fight between Islam and Christianity, as it was a power struggle between rulers that sometimes used Religion as a back drop. But alliances and marriages between these ruling families also crossed sectarian borders. The reframing of the Reconquista is a narrative used by Nationalists and not an accurate description of the history of the nebulous West.
Nowhere is this more visible outside Palestine than in India, where 200 million Muslims are being pushed to the edge of extermination by the RSS-BJP regime. Under Narendra Modi, Islamophobia has been weaponised not as fringe hate but as state ideology.
I can’t speak for other parts of the world but I can for the Indian subcontinent.
I’m an atheist, and personally, I try not to judge anyone based on their religion — it generally works well, especially with upper and upper middle class communities. From my experience, upper class Muslims are usually integrated into society and not involved in shady activities.
I also don’t agree with government policies that discriminate against people based on religion like requiring proof of ancestry after Independence because such policies are unjust and target citizens unfairly.
That said, I do have concerns about certain practices in some lower income communities in India. Poverty, limited education and social isolation can make people more vulnerable to radical messaging. Madrasas (which btw are even attended by children younger than teenagers) teach extreme ideas, like framing conversion as a duty or promoting a black and white worldview. In rare cases, this can lead some individuals to embrace jihadist ideology or commit illegal acts in the name of religion. Social media can further amplify these messages. While most Muslims are peaceful, certain forms of radicalisation especially among vulnerable Islamic populations can be more organised and aggressive compared to similar movements in other major religions.
So even the propaganda by our right wing government is exaggerated, it does have some truth to it. It can be solved by eliminating all religious education in pre-teen ages and criminalising parents for forcing that type of education on children.
I saw this popular community here Leopards Ate My Face, well, good luck standing for religions that are against you. Defend people, not religions.
Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan
Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how
States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theaterGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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In Amsterdam, 250,000 call on government to get tough on Israel
An estimated 250,000 people took part in a massive protest in Amsterdam on Sunday, calling on the Dutch government to take a firmer stance against Israel and to help end the genocidal violence in Gaza.
Demonstrators, many wearing something red to illustrate the “red line” they say the Dutch government has crossed by its lack of action, packed into the Museumplein and its surrounding streets.
Lemmy Development Update September 2025
It's been a busy month, with a lot of work to add new features to lemmy-ui which were already added to the Lemmy backend before. There were also a lot of bug fixes for the development version. We are gradually getting closer to a 1.0 release.
While the API changes for 1.0 are mostly finalized, we still have many more lemmy-ui 1.0 tasks to complete.
Some of the major additions:
- Simplified lemmy-ui development.
- Audio file support in lemmy-ui.
- Added comment locking (which also locks children). Thanks to @flamingos-cant)
- Post time filtering, with a smart dropdown.
- Added ability to block all users from an instance (separate from blocking all communities)
- Added ability to make a note for a person, and view the vote totals you've given to them.
- Fixed remote RSS feeds.
- Added ability to do actions on report items, from the reports page.
::: spoiler Full list of changes by user
salif
Meri-Dax
flamingos-cant
- Use more standard AP fields for community tags
- Don't populate embed fields when the Opengraph tag is empty
- Add urls for moderators and featured collections on local communities
- Comment lock
MV-GH
- Restore deprecated apk post processing config
- Regenerate baseline profiles
- Bump to Android SDK 36
- Fix too large images in comments being cutoff
- Add option to disable video auto play
dessalines
- Fixing missing shortcode from emoji updating.
- Validate saving default_items_per_page local user setting.
- Fixing show_scores -> show_score DB name.
- Fixing
LockCommentandModLockCommentView - Fixing local_user table column order.
- Adding type_ to
PostOrCommentOrPrivateMessageenum. - Fix post like not decrementing vote totals.
- Add ability to mark a notification as unread.
- Changing rss inbox feed -> notifications
- Fixing admin list users not using query.
- Adding
ban_expires_atto views - Adding a post undelete delay to fix federation tests.
- Add voyager development as the default test server for test.sh
- Adding default posts_per_page setting.
- Add ability to lock comments
- Adding post time filtering with defaults.
- Upgrading pnpm to 10.16
- Collapse removed comments that have no children by default.
- Updating to new 1.0 names.
- Adding ability to visit a random community.
- Highlight new comments using the last read comments time.
- Fixing scheduled publish time.
- Adding read and hidden content for your profile.
- Add ability to show banned users and all users.
- Fixup notifs
- Add @nutomic to codeowners
- Fix profile radios spacing.
- Add ability to block all persons from an instance.
- Add ability to create a note for a person, and view vote totals
- Add ability to resend verification email.
- Use the
getCommentsSlimvariant for post comments. - Fixing build tools to version 36.0.0
Nutomic
- Include error message for rate limit error (fixes #6019)
- Proper null check for mod-reason-mandatory (fixes #6021)
- Update dependencies, use latest diesel-cli
- Set image_mode: None for development
- Correct name for instance default theme
- Avoid unnecessary requests to w3.org (fixes #5999)
- Fix remote user/community rss feeds (fixes #5997)
- Dont allow write api actions for banned user
- Exclude
LocalSite.multi_comm_followerfrom public api - Let banned users login
- Make reason mandatory for mod actions (fixes #1948)
- Remove local_user.enable_keyboard_navigation (fixes #5988)
- Rename FederationState.next_retry and NotificationType
- Rename person banned columns
- Show most used languages first
- Restrict max length of community title
- Reenable plugin hook (fixes #5925)
- Sorting for instance list
- Print diff-check errors to stdout (fixes #5937)
- Avoid regenerating metadata for unchanged post url (fixes #5956)
- Dont allow removing only mod/admin, remove leave_admin endpoint
- Provide federation context collection (fixes #5283)
- Add report actions (fixes #501)
- Convert buttons for view all, show context to links (fixes #3229)
- Enable various lints
- Enable alt text for videos (fixes #2779)
- Fetch emoji data separately (fixes #3470)
- Downscale proxied thumbnails (fixes #2591)
- Insert emojis at current cursor position (fixes #1983)
- Simplify translation code
- Fix Arabic user/community names (fixes #2207)
- Correct name for instance default theme (fixes #2371)
- Fetch similar posts when copying suggested title (fixes #2029)
- Fix community link in modlog title (fixes #2209)
- Properly render multi-line deny reason (fixes #3103)
- UI changes if current user is banned (fixes #989)
- RSS feed should use local domain (fixes #2012)
- Add button to expand all images (fixes #1273)
- Remove env var LEMMY_UI_DEBUG, use NODE_ENV instead
- Add new modlog filters
- Extend readme
- Improve development instructions to use remote instance
- In search results show number of posts/comments for users/communities
- Add checkbox for title only search (#3220)
- Use params instead of string concat (fixes #1350)
- Setting for community/post notifications
- Extend admin user list with more info
- Allow blocking community that banned you (fixes #3267)
- Multiple language input using checkboxes (fixes #1935)
- More details about crossposts (fixes #3386)
- Instance list changes (fixes #3261)
- Respect link target for post domain (fixes #3256)
- Show community languages in sidebar (fixes #1009)
- Implement donation dialog
- Hide bio for banned users (fixes #961)
- Indicate when registration is disabled (fixes #2070)
- Add icon to indicate new accounts (fixes #2389)
- Remove outline for username button
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Or see the full list of changes at the links below:
An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.
LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
The official web app for lemmy. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmy-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Easier Development on lemmy-ui
Until now it has been very complicated to work on the official Lemmy frontend, as you had to set up an entire local Lemmy stack with Postgres database and Rust backend built from source. Now there is a much easier way, as lemmy-ui can directly connect to a remote production or test instance.To get started you need to have
gitandpnpminstalled. Then run:
# for development branch (1.0): git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui --recursive # for stable branch (0.19): git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui --recursive -b release/v0.19 # then: cd lemmy-ui pnpm install LEMMY_UI_BACKEND_REMOTE=enterprise.lemmy.ml pnpm dev
Alternatively you can use./scripts/test.sh. Finally openhttp://0.0.0.0:1234/in your browser. You can replace the value forLEMMY_UI_BACKEND_REMOTEwith any production instance. The local lemmy-ui connects to that instance for all API calls, so you will see the same content. All actions work as usual including login, voting, posting etc.Note, due to breaking changes in the development version, you may need to switch branches.
mainis for the new 1.0 version and all new feature development is happening there. With this you can connect to the test instance voyager.lemmy.ml.release/v0.19is the stable branch, with it you can connect to enterprise.lemmy.ml, or existing production instances. Only bug fixes should be made there.Hopefully this will encourage some of you to contribute to lemmy-ui. If you have any experience with web development it will be easy get started.
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- Added ability to block all users from an instance (separate from blocking all communities)
- Indicate when registration is disabled (fixes #2070)
This is great!
Indicate when registration is disabled (fixes #2070) by Nutomic · Pull Request #3375 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
If registration is disabled, disables the "Create account" link in navbar and redirects users away from /signup.GitHub
Audio file support in lemmy-ui.
This is cool, I wonder if this could lead the way to podcasts being released on the Fediverse lemmy with comments directly under the release itself.
Ehhh, I don’t think the comparison they’re making here is right. Leaning on open source software is not just for lazy developers - it’s often the best architectural choice.
I can’t think of a situation where vibe coding is the best choice except for when speed matters much more than quality, and even then only sometimes.
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Vibe coding works when you need to say connect to some API and can feed the model a bunch of docs.
It's great for very low skill, low maintenance, low risk code that I can easily and reliably regenerate.
Increasingly coding models are improving at architecture choices, Claude 4.5 vs 4 is way better here. But ultimately it's inferior to a ginger making those choices.
It's also a great debugger and reviewer.
I used it this weekend to connect to an API and to build a table of constants by just feeding it docs. That was a huge time saver.
I also used it to try and implement stuff and I gotta say once it hit tricky things it started trying to game it and just say it works.
I'm a dev and work with some devOPs, and you nailed my experience with them exactly! Here are some projects I've seen them build:
- open web ui (self-hosted AI) with some custom logic to verify an API key; it's only available on the VPN/LAN, but IT has rules; basically ended up being a bit of lua in nginx
- some JS and Python to add some widgets to the app (stuff like reporting issues)
- random lambdas and other scripts to check server health
I remember doing all that stuff when I worked at a startup, and it's nice to just see things get automated.
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Huh ?
Open source projects can be inherently insecure, outdated, or at risk of malicious takeover.
Because proprietary projects are immune to all that ? what is happening here ?
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Madam please ^^
You should know that COBOL still evolve and the last version of it is 2018 I think (maybe one in the 2020s) and is object oriented since 2003. The problem is that ibm's COBOL is note like 62 (at least where I worked)
“Vibe coding” is just cargo cult programming with prettier syntax highlighting.
I still think AI’s useful — when it’s treated like a tool, not a replacement.
Been experimenting with that in a small side project: VSCoder Copilot
TL;DR: AI doesn’t make you a dev — it just makes a good dev faster.
Easier Development on lemmy-ui
Until now it has been very complicated to work on the official Lemmy frontend, as you had to set up an entire local Lemmy stack with Postgres database and Rust backend built from source. Now there is a much easier way, as lemmy-ui can directly connect to a remote production or test instance.
To get started you need to have git and pnpm installed. Then run:
# for development branch (1.0):
git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui --recursive
# for stable branch (0.19):
git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui --recursive -b release/v0.19
# then:
cd lemmy-ui
pnpm install
LEMMY_UI_BACKEND_REMOTE=enterprise.lemmy.ml pnpm devAlternatively you can use
./scripts/test.sh. Finally open http://0.0.0.0:1234/ in your browser. You can replace the value for LEMMY_UI_BACKEND_REMOTE with any production instance. The local lemmy-ui connects to that instance for all API calls, so you will see the same content. All actions work as usual including login, voting, posting etc.Note, due to breaking changes in the development version, you may need to switch branches. main is for the new 1.0 version and all new feature development is happening there. With this you can connect to the test instance voyager.lemmy.ml. release/v0.19 is the stable branch, with it you can connect to enterprise.lemmy.ml, or existing production instances. Only bug fixes should be made there.
Hopefully this will encourage some of you to contribute to lemmy-ui. If you have any experience with web development it will be easy get started.
Farms are closing without workers. US border policy threatens to empty shelves. | Opinion
Farms are closing without workers. US border policy threatens to empty shelves. | Opinion
Every year, I stand in my family's orchards, worrying if we'll have workers to pick the 6 million pounds of apples or if they will rot on the trees.Linda Pryor, The Courier-Journal (The Courier-Journal)
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