EU exports of banned chemical sparks outcry in South African vineyards
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cyanamide, used in products such as the plant-growth regulator Dormex, commonly applied in vineyards, has been banned in the EU since 2009 due to its toxicity, including links to carcinogenicity and infertility.German chemical giant BASF, Europe’s largest exporter of EU-banned pesticides last year
In 2020, the European Commission pledged to “lead by example” and ban exports of toxic pesticides to third countries. Five years later, no concrete measure has been taken.
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How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers
How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers
Since the ceasefire took effect, Israeli attacks have killed at least 360 Palestinians and injured 922.AJLabs (Al Jazeera)
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South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage
Four people have been arrested in South Korea for allegedly hacking over 120,000 video cameras in homes and businesses and using the footage to make sexually exploitative materials for an overseas website.
Police announced the arrests on Sunday, saying the accused exploited the Internet Protocol (IP) cameras' vulnerabilities, such as simple passwords.
A cheaper alternative to CCTV, IP cameras - otherwise known as home cameras - connect to a home internet network and are often installed for security or to monitor the safety of children and pets.
Locations of the hacked cameras reportedly included private homes, karaoke rooms, a Pilates studio and a gynaecologist's clinic.
South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage
The cameras were located in private homes, karaoke rooms, a Pilates studio and a gynaecologist's clinic.Gavin Butler (BBC News)
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- /pff what kind of idiot would do that/ *
Alexa, play despacito
- like 99% of consumers, probably
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WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests
WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests
Anti-government demonstrators are likely to have been targeted with camite, our investigation finds.Max Hudson (BBC News)
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the evidence points to the use of an agent that the French military named "camite".The Georgian authorities said our investigation findings were "absurd" and the police had acted legally in response to the "illegal actions of brutal criminals".
Camite was deployed by France against Germany during World War One. There is little documentation of its subsequent use, but it is believed to have been taken out of circulation at some point in the 1930s, because of concerns about its long-lasting effects.
Couldn't make up anything more cynical than this.
China’s factory activity unexpectedly contracts in November, missing estimates, private survey shows
China's factory activity unexpectedly contracts in November, missing estimates, private survey shows
The RatingDog China General Manufacturing PMI, conducted by S&P Global, dropped to 49.9 in November, missing analysts' expectations of 50.5 in a Reuters poll.Anniek Bao (CNBC)
Not really unexpected. A disruption of global trade, namely the pacific, a stricter export ban policy on a lot of minerals, a stricter import ban on some tech, and just a general distrust of the ever more emboldened and aggressive China has left a toll and I expect it to only lean more and more in that direction.
Idk what Xi Jinping was doing in the late 80s and early 90s, but clearly he has forgotten how quickly markets retract when trust is lost. Maybe his psyops algorithm app isn't pushing the weight he expected it to?
Lightning detected on Mars by Nasa rover, scientists believe
Scientists believe they have recorded electrical activity in the Martian atmosphere for the first time, suggesting the planet is capable of lightning.
Lead author of the research Dr Baptiste Chide told news agency Reuters: "These discharges represent a major discovery, with direct implications for Martian atmospheric chemistry, climate, habitability and the future of robotic and human exploration."
Lightning detected on Mars by Nasa rover, scientists believe
Researchers heard electric crackles on 28 hours of recordings made over two Martian years.Fiona Nimoni (BBC News)
Article is good, but here's the original Nature article, as BBC News doesn't link to it.
Here's the link to the mentioned Reuters article.
Detection of triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars - Nature
The SuperCam microphone aboard the Perseverance rover captured 55 triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars over two Martian years, providing implications for examining the planet’s surface chemistry, habitability and human exploration.Nature
Best way to browse and share files between hoarders?
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Yeah, forwarding a port to a server with SFTP allows you both to have two-way links. Have done this with some of my friends as well.
Sneakernet via a HDD is also damn helpful for initial bulk transfers.
Flash drive in person.
They take what they want, you do the same. Boom both are better off.
You could set up a tunnel between the two.. a job that rsyncs a folder to the other server automatically when something is added.
Just a thought.
Surprised no one just said Samba or NFS over a tunnel (Tailscale, WireGuard, etc).
Or by “sharing” do you mean keeping files synced between the two for replication?
We use Tailscale to share between accounts.
But for large transfers I use an encrypted HDD.
GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps
Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copypartyGitHub
Yeah this right here looks exactly what I was looking for.
Been transferring files for sometime over a Wireguard connection, but it’s a bit of a pain to use so I’ve been looking for something better.
Appreciate the tip @mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com
croc is not bad:
GitHub - schollz/croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :package:
Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package: - GitHub - schollz/croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :package:GitHub
Define share?
Keep all files in sync between two points?
Enable ad-hoc access to all files, or a subset?
If you want a quick and easy way to share the odd file you could set up a syncthing shared folder and COPY things in to it that you want to share. When the other side MOVES them out of the shared folder they will be removed from the shared folder on your side.
The advantage of this is security. No access is given to your system. If your friends box is compromised you dont have an nfs mount or ssh key on their machine. The worst that can be done to you is copies in the shared folder are removed or malicious files are placed in the shared folder but they wont be able to execute.
You also dont need to open any ports for syncthing , it will use relays if it cant make a direct connection.
Meta acquires AI device startup Limitless
Meta acquires AI device startup Limitless | TechCrunch
Limitless said it shares Meta's vision of bringing personal superintelligence to everyone.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Ex-British officer tells inquiry military committed war crimes in Afghanistan
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/54104530
A former senior British officer has told a public inquiry that British special forces in Afghanistan appeared to commit war crimes by executing suspects and despite widespread knowledge in the chain of command nothing was done.
Ex-British officer tells inquiry that military committed war crimes in Afghanistan
The inquiry's aim is to ascertain whether there was credible information of extrajudicial killings. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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Indonesians pick up the pieces after floods ravage Sumatra; death toll hits 442
Indonesians pick up the pieces after floods ravage Sumatra; death toll hits 502
For some Aceh residents, this has reignited the trauma of the 2004 tsunami that killed more than 170,000 people in the province alone.CNA (Channel NewsAsia)
I will never understand how we as a society moved from normal life to scrolling TikTok while driving
Thousands march in Croatia against far-right revival and WWII revisionism
Several thousand people rallied in Croatia's capital on Sunday in an anti-fascist march protesting the rise of World War II revisionism and far-right views in the country.
Thousands march in Croatia against far-right surge and WWII revisionism
Several thousand people rallied in Croatia’s capital on Sunday, denouncing the rise of far-right nationalism and attempts to glorify the Nazi-allied Ustasha regime established during World War II. Similar marches took place in Rijeka, Pula and Zadar.FRANCE 24
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Because the slogan would be "Our Party In the middle of our street"
And whilst they have plenty of madness, they're too left to be in the middle of anything 😁
I'm glad the Greens stepped into the space to pickup the sincere left wing voters just as all this kicked off.
Asking the Self-Hosting Community to Take a Brief Three-Question Survey
Edit 2: Wow! You all have been amazing! I'm taking the survey down now because I already have more than enough responses. Thanks again!
This survey is for a Statistics course I'm taking in college and asks about your earliest computer usage and how much time you currently spend on a device. I appreciate your reading this post and will be grateful for your responses. Thank you!
Edit to add that the survey is 100% anonymous.
Computer Use Survey for College Statistics Project
Thank you for taking this quick three-question survey.s.surveyplanet.com
damn that looks like gordo and the boys made in the kill room
(halt and catch fire)
CopyParty is kind of a great file server
Imagine if you could set up an entire file server in two steps, on any device. Just download a 1Mb file, and then run it.
I know folks have mentioned it here before, but I've been running CopyParty for a month or so, and I'm extremely impressed. After setting up multiple Docker services on my home server, I almost couldn't believe how simple this was to set up and use. I had to install Python, but after that, it's just two steps. Download the file, and then run it.
It's not exactly the prettiest interface in the world, but it will turn any device that can run Python into a complete file server. The web interface will run on basically any device you can think of. It's not fancy, but it's pretty intuitive once you learn how to use it, and extremely responsive.
I've seen some discussion recently about different file servers and file syncing like Syncthing, NextCloud, etc. I'm not sure if many people know about CopyParty and use it.
It has a lot of customizable features, and can operate on all sorts of configurations. I have it set up as a remote drive on my phone and office computer. I use the web interface to preview audio files and text files. I use it to manage downloads into the designated folders I need to put them in.
It is at least as fast as any other upload or download service I've used on my home server. Usually it's even faster. It can quickly search files, including the contents of files, and automatically detect duplicates.
If I knew self-hosting could be this easy, I probably would have started even sooner. I might have even started testing on an unused cell phone I have lying around.
There are a couple gaps that have prevented me from diving all in. There's no file versioning built in. So if a file is corrupted or overridden by mistake, it can't be rolled back using copyparty. There are no dedicated apps, so things like built-in file search and indexing depend on the capabilities of the OS (you can always access the indexed search through the web interface, but that's not always the most convenient). Some of the features, like the blazing fast upload, are only available through the browser.
Like any software, it's not perfect, but it is extremely impressive and very good at what it does. Which is a lot.
GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps
Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copypartyGitHub
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I fucking love copyparty. It starts simple enough but then the millions of options and configs let you twist it into exactly what you need.
As someone that runs a server OS that doesn't support docker, it is very refreshing to see a single binary project. It has a focus on being administrator friendly thats really fallen out of fashion these days.
Had to choose a file server setup recently. Ended up with Filebrowser Quantum.
Copyparty is awesome, but it seems happiest on bare metal instead of Docker. The Docker setup and documentation, especially when adding reverse proxies and authentication (like Authentik) is just not there yet.
I’m looking forward to giving it another look in a year.
All config with docker is the same, so basically every service is kind of maintained and especially backuped the same.
Plus, config is just files. If the server is dead, copy volumes and compose files to new machines, two commands, all services up again. No difference in how to deploy some services.
hfs v2 (the old banger of an exe) is no longer being maintained and has some known unfixed vulnerabilities, however there is now a rewrite (hfs v3) which is shaping up really nicely.
should also mention that copyparty is also available as a windows exe which will run without python or any other dependencies
Copyparty was mentioned here just the other day, and I started using it this weekend. There were comments about security risks though, based on being a small project with a LOT of integrations. Not sure how safe I feel.
Docker path mapping is needed to let Copyparty show the files I want to access. I run my containers on a server next to my NAS that hosts my files; that's a little complicated.
There were comments about security risks though, based on being a small project with a LOT of integrations.
time will show, but the only thing i actively regret adding was the support for discord embeds (the "og" option); opengraph is an awfully designed concept and, unrelatedly, it has been a source of a handful of bugs in how it was implemented in copyparty (that one's on me). Keeping that disabled avoids a lot of edgecases, most of which are decreed by the opengraph spec.
That said, there's no features keeping me up at night; i think for the most part things are fine -- just don't enable the smb server 😁
The best and recommended way to connect to copyparty (either from windows, linux, or macos) is with WebDAV -- this will give you much higher performance. WebDAV is also a MUCH safer choice when connecting over the internet, since it is just https after all. Meanwhile, exposing SMB to the internet is generally a recipe for, well... nasty surprises 😀
There are also very copyparty-specific reasons to not use the SMB-server, and these are explained in the readme. That's also why the SMB-server is not possible to enable in any of the official copyparty distributions without manually obtaining the necessary dependencies for that (impacket).
I checked my setup, and webDAV is indeed what I am using. Good that they made it impossible to accidentally use an unsafe method.
Thank you for the explanation!
All i know about it is that its made by the person who uploader fukkiretta(kasane teto song) to yt.
At least for now i don't see ane reasons to abandon the good old sftp
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Figured it was going be something in those regards. Thanks for the information.
I hope if that happens that ICE rounds them all up. They might remember that the USA will take their resources with composition.
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If you look what happened since 2013 when he took over. He is a dictator though. Trump is actually following his playbook, but in a lighter since. Some examples.....
Electoral Fraud and Illegitimate Power
Maduro's grip on power relies fundamentally on electoral manipulation. In the July 28, 2024 presidential election, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE)—controlled by Maduro loyalists—declared he won with 51.2% of the vote despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The opposition collected 83.5% of voting tally sheets showing their candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, actually won with approximately 67% of votes compared to Maduro's 30%. The CNE refused to release disaggregated results or conduct post-election audits, and its website remains inactive. International observers, including the Carter Center and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, documented widespread fraud throughout the electoral process. The government disqualified opposition candidate María Corina Machado, obstructed voter registration for millions, imposed restrictions on opposition poll watchers, and used state resources during campaigns. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concluded it cannot recognize Maduro's re-election as democratically legitimate due to the "severe disruption to Venezuela's constitutional order".
Following the contested 2024 election, Maduro launched "Operation Tun Tun" (Operación Tun Tun), a brutal crackdown described by experts as "state terrorism". Authorities conducted door-to-door raids to detain anyone with suspected opposition ties, creating what human rights groups call a "climate of terror" intended to terrify Venezuelans into submission.According to official figures, over 2,000 people were arrested in the first month after the election, including at least 129 children. As of July 2025, 853 political prisoners remain behind bars. These detentions are characterized by systematic torture, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention without warrants. Victims reported beatings, electric shocks, suffocation, and confinement in dark, overcrowded cells. Amnesty International documented that at least 198 children have been subjected to unfair detention, torture, and abuse, with four months passing before many saw their families.A 2024 UN fact-finding mission report concluded there are "reasonable grounds to believe that the crime of persecution on political grounds has been committed". Between 2015 and 2017 alone, Venezuelan security forces carried out 8,292 extrajudicial executions, with 22% of all homicides in one year committed by state forces. The UN mission has documented that Venezuela's intelligence agencies have used sexual and gender-based violence to torture detainees since at least 2014.
You're proving OP correct by responding with orgs like Directorio Legislativo:
Directorio Legislativo is a civil society organization based in Argentina and the United States that has been working for more than fifteen years to strengthen democratic institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.Geographical area in which it works: DL has offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina and in
Washington DC, USA. We are a regional organization with projects both in Argentina and
other Latin American countries. We capture and share regulatory news and information from
the governments and legislatures 19 countries (Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela)
Directorio Legislativo
directoriolegislativo.org/en/w…
María Baron Global Executive DirectorReagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow
ned.org/fellowships/reagan-fas…
countercurrents.org/2022/05/th…
In 1991, one of the founders of NED, Allen Weinstein, stated that much of NED’s work involves doing what the CIA used to do. Some, in fact, refer to NED as the “second CIA.”
Just have to scratch the surface a little bit to see the imperialist connection here. I'd implore you to not just take the surface-level info from NGOs without understanding the interests they serve.
Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows - NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY
The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program provides support annually for a dozen or so democracy activists, practitioners, scholars and journalists from…NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY
Yeah so American Imperial fronts like OAS and Directorio Legislativo and US Imperial non profits, got it
Yeah obviously the elections were not fair, that is not what I disagree upon, just that the main US backed opposition candidate Machado will sell off Venezuela to the US empire and be quite a lot worse than Maduro.
Calling Maduro a dictator that needs to be overthrown directly benefits the US in the current tense climate, something needs to be done but Machado is certainly not the way out, just even deeper into the ground.
These agree with you? Funny because they came from my OG post. Are you saying you agree Maduro is a dictator now? Lol. Regardless, you can have a position against Trump going into the country ( I do) but still realize that the dude is dogshit for the country.
directoriolegislativo.org/en/m…
oas.org/en/IACHR/jsForm/?File=…
humanrightsresearch.org/post/v…
latinoamerica21.com/en/venezue…
wlrn.org/americas/2025-07-28/h…
The problem is thinking you can have fair elections under extreme duress from sanctions. The whole purpose of those sanctions is to destroy as much as possible the democratic aspect, as the US itself admits.
From the official Office of the Historian US Gvt website, a key document regarding the logic behind the embargo in Cuba:
The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). [...]Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate.
Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause.
The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship.
If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.
The entire point of the blockade in Cuba, and by extension Venezuela, is that the people DO support their government, and the ONLY way to make them waver in their support is to make them literally starve.
Maduro is a popularly supported leftist president that was elected democratically. Machado is a fascist that directly asked the US Empire to invade, she's supported by the wealthy compradors in Venezuela while Maduro is supported by the working classes. The odds appear to be pretty damn high that Machado would have lost against Maduro, because in general she's a deeply unpopular fascist.
Under Maduro, Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication. I'm not sure on what basis you distrust him so much, Venezuela is building socialism under Maduro from the bottom-up, and Maduro is doing his part from the top.
It's incredibly unsurprising that the US Empire is manufacturing consent to invade Venezuela, and overturn their anti-imperialist president. Outside election monitors back up the results, and indicate that the Venezuelan electoral system is far more advanced than the US. I'd trust evidence more if it came from Cuba or Nicaragua than the heart of the empire. This is on top of your vague claims of Maduro being a "monstrous dictator."
Edit: Lmao the cryptofash on MeanwhileOnGrad got upset at this
The Maduro government’s first two years
April 19 marked two years since Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the same date on which Venezuela gained independence from Spain in 1810en.granma.cu
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They're valid sources and work well. Your sources are overwhelmingly from the US Empire and NGOs they set up or otherwise have strong connections to, like Directorio Legislativo:
Directorio Legislativo is a civil society organization based in Argentina and the United States that has been working for more than fifteen years to strengthen democratic institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.Geographical area in which it works: DL has offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina and in
Washington DC, USA. We are a regional organization with projects both in Argentina and
other Latin American countries. We capture and share regulatory news and information from
the governments and legislatures 19 countries (Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela)
Popular polling does support Maduro. I wouldn't trust those that claimed the US 2020 election was fraudulent, yet these same people are also saying Maduro was fraudulent.
It’s interesting that I agree with you, here. A major difference I see between Venezuela and the USSR is that the USSR generally tried to assimilate, arrest or murder the resistant capitalist classes (ie dekulakization), while Venezuela seems to be generally exiling or marginalizing them.
It’s my understanding that Venezuela has kept its political assassinations and imprisonments low and targeted, which was not the case in the USSR.
Agree wholeheartedly.
It should be obvious to far more people that this country should get to decide it’s own destiny. We have no idea what a Chavismo…or even Castro Cuba would have looked like unmolested. It should also be obvious that what’s feared most in the west is the success of those systems.
The thing that absolutely floors me is that Trump had a Bay of Pigs…and nobody (in the mainstream) talks about it.
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Netanyahu congratulated Machado on her Nobel win and commended her efforts to promote democracy and peace.
Machado has previously pledged to move Venezuela’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem if her movement comes to power, aligning her with other Latin American leaders who have taken pro-Israel stances, including Argentina’s President Javier Milei and former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
I feel like a lot of people are missing the obvious conclusion that everyone involved here is awful.
Maduro? Brutal dictator.
His domestic opposition? Violent fascists.
His international opposition? Absolute war criminals.
It's really sad. My primary opinion is that the US needs to leave Venezuela the fuck alone. If you want democracy in Venezuela, you can't get it through sanctioning the population into starvation if they don't vote the way Chevron tells them to. Did Maduro steal an election? Yes! But his opposition at home and abroad isn't mad that it wasn't fair: they're mad because they think it's bullshit for him to steal it after they stole it first!
Get the fuck out and let them actually decide what they want. The US is the clearly the greatest villain in a story with no obvious good guys.
The problem is that all of the "evidence" for Maduro cheating comes from the same people that said the US 2020 election was rigged, and are using it as ammo for regime change. Machado and the like are fascists that are trying to topple a democratically elected socialist, just like Pinochet with Allende.
Under Maduro, Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication. I'm not sure on what basis you distrust him so much, Venezuela is building socialism under Maduro from the bottom-up, and Maduro is doing his part from the top.
Maduro is no dictator just like Allende wasn't.
The Maduro government’s first two years
April 19 marked two years since Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the same date on which Venezuela gained independence from Spain in 1810en.granma.cu
Troll, bot, russian, terrorist
Liberal ideology is very good at coming up with thought-terminating epithets that allow the user to avoid thinking about what other people have to say. After all, a religious devotion to avoiding non-sanctioned narratives is the only way it can protect itself. It sure as hell can't compete in the "marketplace of ideas".
Yes. Under Maduro, Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication. I'm not sure on what basis you distrust him so much, Venezuela is building socialism under Maduro from the bottom-up, and Maduro is doing his part from the top.
Edit: Lmao, you made a post on the cryptofash circlejerk about this, calling it "open fascism" to support a socialist leader against imperialist aggression. Do your buddies know that you defend slur usage, or is that something they agree with?
The Maduro government’s first two years
April 19 marked two years since Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the same date on which Venezuela gained independence from Spain in 1810en.granma.cu
Slurs are socially constructed; opposing its use affirms its existence. I'm saying there's no point in opposing it because that's not how you get actual social change! The slur use exists insofar as oppression exists. The slur CAN'T exist without oppression. What you're promoting is literal idealism that Engels critiqued.there's a large difference between marginalized groups disempowering the word and non-marginalized groups perpetuating its power.
There is something deeply racist about the idea that the only thing a white person can do by choosing to disregard a social construct is perpetuate oppression—and further that there be no nuance on the matter.
Maduro cheating comes from the same people that said the US 2020 election was rigged
Do you have a source for that? Because from what I can tell, the exact opposite is true, and the sources for these two claims are generally opposed to each other.
Maduro’s grip on power relies fundamentally on electoral manipulation.
All the "Maduro cheated to win the election" stuff comes from the same people insisting Biden cheated to win in 2020 and Obama cheated in 2008.
Following the contested 2024 election, Maduro launched “Operation Tun Tun” (Operación Tun Tun), a brutal crackdown described by experts as “state terrorism”.
Were these experts affiliated with Elliot Abrams?
described by experts as “state terrorism”.
“Experts” from the imperial core.
creating what human rights groups call a “climate of terror
Imperial core human rights groups. “Always the same map” human rights groups. Citations Needed podcast: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex
intended to terrify Venezuelans into submission.
Which Venezuelans? The poor or the wealthy? The working class or the capitalist class?
Citations Needed: Episode 08: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex
We discuss the cynical use of "human rights" to advance US interests with guest Glenn Greenwald. The conceit that the U.S.citationsneeded.libsyn.com
It's disappointing that for years the up/downvote rhetoric has been for what really adds to the conversation and I find this reply more according to the reality from the PV of someone that is not Venezuelan but has roots and friends there but most importantly that we're not part of the meme, just average people that don't wish for anyone what means to live there as the average or below.
I do remember when I was a child and had the joy of go to Venezuela and to have fun on vacations, now I it's not joy but the feeling of accomplish humanitarian labor and donations to average and poor Venezuelans that at first supported the socialism that Chávez sold them and later Maduro, Cabello and others continue in a nonsense of left political system.
If someone downvote replies citing sources from the Venezuelan diaspora, let me remind you that that diaspora is not 100% from the people of this post meme but real Venezuelans that have left/lost almost everything because of really bad politics and actions of Chávez, Maduro and others that surprise: the last presidential election didn't got official acts published.
Socialists who fight fascists are the real fascists. Only people who call themselves socialists while repeating war department propaganda as the US blows up fishermen every day are the real socialists.
Get a grip lmao
You say while defending Batista-esque dictatorships having nothing to do with socialism.
Ok CIA
Very funny from someone demonizing socialists, complaining of left-wing bias and dismissing sources that support left-wing views, and defended slur usage, even calling me an "idealist" for saying we shouldn't use slurs. You can think yourself a socialist, but your actions are consistently against socialists and socialism.
Slurs are socially constructed; opposing its use affirms its existence. I'm saying there's no point in opposing it because that's not how you get actual social change! The slur use exists insofar as oppression exists. The slur CAN'T exist without oppression. What you're promoting is literal idealism that Engels critiqued.there's a large difference between marginalized groups disempowering the word and non-marginalized groups perpetuating its power.
There is something deeply racist about the idea that the only thing a white person can do by choosing to disregard a social construct is perpetuate oppression—and further that there be no nuance on the matter.
I'm a leftist. And your arguments are troll arguments.
Once again, i don't feed trolls
None of my arguments are troll arguments, you haven't explained what you mean by that. I'm clearly genuine, I wouldn't put nearly this much effort into studying theory and the admittedly light organizing work I do in real life just to troll. You can believe that you're a leftist, but you're extremely bad at being one if you dismiss leftist sources as "too biased" and do things like parrot US Empire talking points on socialist leaders. You help manufacture consent for invasion, with no evidence of your own for your absurd claims likening Maduro to Batista.
Do some self-crit if you genuinely think yourself a leftist. Join an org, read theory, touch grass, stop parroting imperial talking points.
He is an authoritarien and the country went to shit.
Venezuela is not a nice place to live in.
Maduro is a corrupt dictator, trump aswell and the current opposition to maduro most likely will just be an authoritarian and fascist pupped goverment that will act in the USAs interest. So yeah multible things can be true at once, just because a nation is opposed to the american empire does not mean that it is automaticallly good.
Its quite sad to see that some terminally online leftist just automaticly replace siding with the imperialist systems that there born into( USA, EU Australia etc.) And just replace that with other imperial powers like russia and china.
Like why?? How about not bootlicking authoritarians?
don't like this
Nobilmantis doesn't like this.
Under Maduro, Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication. I'm not sure on what basis you distrust him so much, Venezuela is building socialism under Maduro from the bottom-up, and Maduro is doing his part from the top.
Venezuela is a developing country, that is developing despite the US Empire's best efforts. It is regularly improving, which is why the working classes support Maduro.
Russia isn't imperialist, it has no colonies nor neocolonies, and a tiny amount of global financial capital. China isn't imperialist either, it's a socialist country wituout any financial domination of the state or economy. There's no mechanisms pushing for imperialism within China, and this manifests in regular south-south trade leading to development of global south countries when trading with China, unlike the unequal exchange of trade with the west where the west charges monopoly prices for tech and places compradors in power to prevent industrial development.
Multiple things are true, correct. This isn't the grand own you think it is, though. You're passively parroting imperialist narratives.
The Maduro government’s first two years
April 19 marked two years since Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the same date on which Venezuela gained independence from Spain in 1810en.granma.cu
Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing”
I’ve become very skeptical of the concept of “brainwashing.” Over the past few months this skepticism has boiled over into open and explicit disagreement with even well-meaning pushers within the Marxist-Leninist corner.redsails.org
Russia isn't imperialist
Why do you think they're invading Ukraine. Sparkles and rainbows?
You’re talking about simple conquest. By that definition any offensive side in a war is imperialist, which is nonsensical as that means nearly every war in human history involved at least one “imperialist” power.
Imperialism is system of establishing and maintaining hegemony over large areas for the benefit of an elite (capital in modern times, patricians in ancient times, etc) within a metropole (probably too simple of a definition but it works). The Romans were an empire not just because they had an emperor and not because they conquered lands, but because they controlled lands from Spain to Syria and wealth flowed from those lands into Rome.
The Marxist definition of imperialism is more specific than just "big country invade small country".
In, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism Lenin lays out five aspects of what makes Imperialism:
- the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life;
- the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy;
- the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;
- the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and
- the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed. Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.
The question of "Is Russia Imperialist" isn't a moral one, it's a technical one. So if Russia were do to something that we all agree is morally reprehensible, that's a separate concern from whether Russia is imperialist.
The technicality revolves around whether Russia has developed an oligarchy of Financial Capital, such that its invasion of Ukraine or other flexes of its influence, perpetuates the export of Russian finance capital around the world.
As it stands now, I don't think that's currently the case, but with Marxism being a dialectal philosophy, I do wonder if this war will accelerate that merging of Bank and industrial capital that Lenin discusses. It's a Bourgeois states, and there's financial capital in there somewhere that absolutely has an interest in forming a Russian imperialism.
So when people say "Russia isn't Imperialist", this is what's being referred to. You can take it or leave it, but it's worth getting into the weeds a bit, so we aren't all talking passed each other
aggression with an expansionist agenda.
especially by a country and especially unprovoked.
Economically or militarily.
D-day wouldn't be included because the goal wasn't expansion. Though I would be very surprised if the usa and Europe hadn't perpetrated many acts that should be included during the full course of the war.
And of course you can get into the argument of cultural imperialism as well
For sure, but there are a few problems with that definition. The first is that it doesn't apply to the Russian intervention in Ukraine that started this conversation, which is neither unprovoked nor being done to expand Russian territory.
The second is that it only includes atate actions meant to take territory in an official capacity, while many imperialist actions have been carried out under the auspices of private companies like Haliburton, Dole, the United Fruit Company, and the Dutch East India Company.
The third is that we already have the term Expansionist, which is perfectly fine and general enough for both capitalist and non-capitalist actions, while Imperialism describes a specific dynamic that arises from specifically capitalist causes.
The second is that it only includes atate actions meant to take territory in an official capacity, while many imperialist actions have been carried out under the auspices of private companies like Haliburton, Dole, the United Fruit Company, and the Dutch East India Company.
For the record, my stated definition does not limit it. When "especially" is used in definitions, it's not stated as a limiter but rather to show it primarily applies to as such.
which is neither unprovoked nor being done to expand Russian territory
This is a fundamental disagreement. Especially in regards to saying it's not to expand their territory as a goal.
One interesting thing I find with lemmy. Is equating ownership existing with capitalism. Presumably because that's how it's portrayed in communist literature.
Then it's not part of the definition? That's like saying the definition of "apple" is "a fruit from a tree, especially a fruit with simple uniform flesh and a thin skin" and then when I say this orange is not an apple you say "I said especially so it doesn't really count"
So your definition is now simply military invasion.
D-day wouldn’t be included because the goal wasn’t expansion.
Wasn't it? They intended to take German territory to expand France, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc.
Marxist does not get to exclusively define what imperialism is
Marxism isn't the only analytical lens out there, no. But the people you're arguing with are working with that definition, which is why I took the time to clarify. Thank you for appreciating my effort post though lol
The general Marxist take is that when Yanukovych was offered an IMF loan that required austerity policies and privatization of safety nets, and a Russian loan that did not come with the same restrictions, he went with the Russian loan and was couped for it, including a western-supported Banderite false-flag shooting. Following the western-supported coup, the areas in the Donbass region seceded, as they supported Yanukovych, are culturally and ethnically Russian, and were unhappy with the Banderites taking over the government under the cover of "democracy." Said Banderites were also legally suppressing the Russian language in the Donbass region.
What ensued was a decade of fighting, 2 failed Minsk agreements that Kiev broke and admitted to never wanting to follow, and massive risk of NATO on Russia's doorstep. The Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics requested Russian assistance, and Russia complied, sparking the next stage of the war.
Russia purely wants the Donbass region and NATO neutrality. They want the Donbass region not out of the kindness of their hearts, nor for plunder or further expansion, but because it's a land bridge straight to Russia, the same route the Nazis took in World War II. NATO was building up because the West uses their millitary to threaten countries into opening up their economies to foreign plunder (like what's happening right now in Venezuela), a tradition employed since NATO was founded, destroyed Yugoslavia and Libya, etc.
This is the common Marxist take, shared largely by PSL's statement and FRSO's statement. Essentially, the war is tragic, should end as quickly as possible, and was provoked by the west.
Resolution Against the U.S./NATO-Provoked War in Ukraine - Freedom Road Socialist Organization | FRSO
This resolution was adopted at Freedom Road Socialist Organization's 9th Congress in spring 2022.andy (Freedom Road Socialist Organization | FRSO)
NATO expansion:
- George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
- Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
- Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
- Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
- Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine
NATO in general:
- The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
- CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
- Noam Chomsky, 2023:
- Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
- Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discreetly Internationalized It - CounterPunch.org
When the United States entered WWII, the future head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, bemoaned that his country was fighting the wrong enemy.Gabriel Rockhill (CounterPunch.org)
NATO is the millitary alliance of the world's imperialist powers. This group of countries uses this alliance to prevent the global south from going against it and liberating themselved from foreign plunder via overwhelming financial domination. The way imperialism tends to work in the modern day is countries like the US, France, Germany, UK, etc expropriate vast wealth from countries in the global south, similar to how capitalists steal value created by the working class.
NATO is as "defensive" as the Iron Dome in Israel. These countries export genocide and terrorism on the third world, expropriate huge sums of wealth, and then "defend" against anyone that pushes back against that.
Yeah man ask Libya and Yugoslavia how defended they feel
Nato is a defensive alliance just like cops are there to help you
Projecting the actual ethnic cleansing done by the Ukranian coup government onto the Russians who stopped it
Many such cases!
Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication
I think this really needs to be stressed. Venezuela is a country building Socialism. Maduro and the PSUV is in power because of a genuinely incredible mass movement of communes, neighborhood committees, and other organs of grassroots democracy. This is qualitatively different from say, any of the Gulf oil monarchies
I highly recommend the books Building The Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela, and Commune or Nothing: Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project, for a look at these aspects of Venezuelan politics, because it's often papered over in discussions about the country.
Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela (Jacobin) - Anna’s Archive
George Ciccariello-Maher [Ciccariello-Maher, George] A Journey Through Venezuela's Experiments In Radical Democracy, After The Age Of Chavez. Since 2011, Verso Booksannas-archive.org
Russia isn't imperialist, it has no colonies nor neocolonies
Yeah, tell that to Crimea, the Donbas, or even Siberia or the puppet states like Belarus, Georgia and Moldova. Russian neo-colonialism is all over Africa.
China isn't imperialist either, it's a socialist country wituout any financial domination of the state or economy.
China is a kinder imperialist, but they are using largely the same playbook that the west used in Africa, including debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty and regulation, and undermining labor movements.
They also have a mix of socialism and capitalism, sometimes getting the best of both, and sometimes the worst. They definitely dominate the state economy through control of banking and the use of capital controls to direct funding to national priorities. The current real estate crisis and "ghost cities" are a pretty obvious example.
Russia isn’t imperialist, it has no colonies nor neocoloniesYeah, tell that to Crimea, the Donbas
Are you kidding me? The people in Crimea and the Donbas wanted to join Russia, to protect them from Ukraine, which had been killing them since 2014.
- Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
- Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: | transcript
- Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
- Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
- Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
- Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
- NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
China is a kinder imperialist, but they are using largely the same playbook that the west used in Africa, including debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty and regulation, and undermining labor movements.
The Atlantic, 2021: The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth
What is China doing to undermine local sovereignty or labor movements in Africa?
The current real estate crisis
What “current” real estate crisis? The Chinese state intentionally popped the real estate bubble over a year ago, making the capitalists eat their losses.
- Reuters: China Evergrande ordered to liquidate in landmark moment for crisis-hit sector
- Bloomberg: China Reiterates Stance That Homes Are Not for Speculation
- CNBC: China’s housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary
>“We will scale up the building and supply of government-subsidized housing and improve the basic systems for commodity housing to meet people’s essential need for a home to live in and their different demands for better housing,” an English-language version of the report said.
Compare that to Obama, who bailed out the private banks at the expense of people with home mortgages, banks that knowingly wrote those bad mortgages. Michael Hudson, 2023: Why the Bank Crisis isn’t Over
The financial sector is the core of Democratic Party support, and the party leadership is loyal to its supporters. As President Obama told the bankers who worried that he might follow through on his campaign promises to write down mortgage debts to realistic market valuations in order to enable exploited junk-mortgage clients to remain in their homes, “I’m the only one between you [the bankers visiting the White House] and the mob with the pitchforks,” that is, his characterization of voters who believed his “hope and change” patter talk.“ghost cities” are a pretty obvious example.
Reuters, 2015: The myth of China’s ghost cities
Wherever you’re getting your information from, it’s dogshit.
Why the Bank Crisis isn't Over - CounterPunch.org
President Biden has done everything that he could to confuse the public as to what is happening. His Monday speech assured voters that the SVB “rescue” was not a bailout. But of course it was a bailout.Michael Hudson (CounterPunch.org)
I see you have your cut and paste propaganda all ready to go there.
The people in Crimea and the Donbas wanted to join Russia, to protect them from Ukraine,
Sounds an awful lot like claiming Iraqis wanted the US to overthrow Sadam and would welcome it with open arms. It worked out about the same too, except for the Russian military embarrassing themselves. Even taken at face value, all you are doing is justifying the imperialism, not showing it doesn't exist.
China is the biggest debt holder nation in the world. Zambia just had to default on loans for infrastructure that largely served Chinese needs, and Kenya and Ethiopia are not far behind. Meanwhile, the DRC is falling into debt paying for infrastructure to ship Copper and Cobalt to Chinese. China has not been as abusive as the west was, but they aren't that much better either. It's still the same tactics.
New Labor Forum: Chinese Investments in Africa: Twenty-First Century Colonialism?
Chinese Investments in Africa: Twenty-First Century Colonialism?
China’s increasing presence in Africa has been the topic of many studies and publications in recent years. How Chinese businesses and investments on the continent impact African labor movements has, however, received little attention.Herbert Jauch (New Labor Forum)
I see you have your cut and paste propaganda all ready to go there.
Oh yeah, famous Chinese propaganda outlet: The Atlantic.
Fuck off; you're just using the word "propaganda" to mean "anything I disagree with. There is nothing that anyone could say to you to disagree that you wouldn't immediately say "that's propaganda and therefore wrong!" to.
It worked out about the same too
Are you stupid? Iraq immediately erupted into long term insurgency, a thing that categorically did not happen in Crimea or Donbas.
Evidence for that? Ukraine government - the same who sold the Ghost of Kiev, Russia collecting Ukrainian children like Pokemon, the Martyrs of Snake Island, the secessionists shelling themselves, Russia shelling itself, russian troops shelling themselves, russian timetravel technology deployed in Bucha and much more.
Is getting your intelligence insulted your kink or something?
including debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty and regulation, and undermining labor movements.
Notice how you have these facts in your brain that you're sure are true but can't actually identify why you think they're true? That's what being propagandized feels like.
Crimea and the people of the Donbass region both voted to join Russia. In fact, the Donetsk and Luhanks People's Republics, the ones being ethnically cleansed by the far-right Banderites in Kiev that have been in power since the 2014 western-backed Euromaidan coup, specifically requested assistance from Russia in 2022. Belarus and Georgia having close economic ties is not the same as imperialism. You also have no evidence of neocolonialism, trade with Russia is closer to south-south trade as it doesn't have a monopoly on the goods it exports like gas and nuclear power plants, and as such African countries are developing more via trade with Russia and China while being underdeveloped by the west.
China is a socialist country. They have markets, but that doesn't mean they have a "mix" of capitalism and socialism. Public ownership is the principle aspect of their economy, and the state is under the control of the working classes. There is no "real estate crisis," housing prices were kept low and no longer able to be used as an investment vehicle. The "ghost cities" are smart urban development, and most are habited after being developed. This kind of thinking ahead is possible because of socialism.
You also have no evidence of "debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty," or "undermining labor movements." China regularly forgives loans, doesn't requore privatization of publicly owned industry or force austerity like the IMF does, and has been doing huge work in developing and building up the global south with more south-south trade.
What's going on here is it's absolutely unacceptable for you to admit that the west is the worst, by far, out of that trio. China is genuinely a progressive state with mass popular support internally and internationally, governed by a communist party. Russia is seeing rising support for socialism internally, and is higher up on the list of candidates for new socialist countried because of it. The west is the indisuputed world empire, helmed by the US, and this empire is projecting hard onto other countries as it exports genocide and plunders the world on its way out.
You also have no evidence of “debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty,” or “undermining labor movements.”
Their evidence is that the TV told them this many times over years, enough times that it’s true.
Tell us what a non-authoritarian leader of Venezuela would look like to you and how they would resist the constant pressure and hostile actions of the US government, because it seems to me that leftist leaders are always denounced as authoritarian by North American and European based NGOs and governments.
The only way to avoid being labelled as authoritarian is to be friendly to the imperial core countries, i.e. being capitalist.
The question is whether government/people should get $60/barrel revenue before expenses, maybe $40/barrel after expenses, or $10/barrel but pump 5-10x as much, bribed to be loyal to US. Long term, obviously no corruption and high revenue/profit per barrel has its advantages. It's not as though Exxon/Chevron can't get access to Venezuela oil with fair deals, it's that pretending corrupt puppets are the legitimate leaders provides extortion oil costs.
When you understand the hoops the US government is willing to jump through to get cheap foreign oil, you should understand that similar policies are used to deprive Americans of their fair share of resource revenue.
Just and free while being secure: "authoritarian"
Unjust and unfree while being insecure and overrun by bears: Libertarian
Venezuela has had US antagonistic covert ops operating in country since at least 2007. That's almost 2 decades of needing to find the US spies and their allies to prevent sabotage, coups, false flags, etc.
That's just the military aspect. They've also been under worsening sanctions for almost as long, which has been driven by the US strategy to starve the masses so that they revolt. This processes causes increased desperation among the people, which increases crime rates.
All of these things require the use of authority and as they get worse require more invasive and obvious uses of authority. It's hard enough to find spies, it's even harder to find spies and neutaize them without ripping the US off as to how you're finding them, going even further and finding spies without ever being wrong is nigh impossible.
They were absolutely free, compared to the horrible brutality of prior systems and the vast expansions in democratization and social welfare.
As for the USSR, the 1930s famine was tragic, but was the last major famine outside of war time. After collectivization of agriculture, yields were greater and more stable, and the bourgeois kulak system was practically abolished. Adverse weather conditions, crop disease, and kulaks violently resisting collectivization were the causes of the famine, and replacing that system with a more effective one ended famine.
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What are your real-world examples—bourgeois “democracies”? If it’s so easy, why hasn’t it happened?
The pure socialists’ ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.The pure socialists had a vision of a new society that would create and be created by new people, a society so transformed in its fundaments as to leave little opportunity for wrongful acts, corruption, and criminal abuses of state power. There would be no bureaucracy or self-interested coteries, no ruthless conflicts or hurtful decisions. When the reality proves different and more difficult, some on the Left proceed to condemn the real thing and announce that they “feel betrayed” by this or that revolution.
The pure socialists see socialism as an ideal that was tarnished by communist venality, duplicity, and power cravings. The pure socialists oppose the Soviet model but offer little evidence to demonstrate that other paths could have been taken, that other models of socialism — not created from one’s imagination but developed through actual historical experience — could have taken hold and worked better. Was an open, pluralistic, democratic socialism actually possible at this historic juncture? The historical evidence would suggest it was not.
Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency — which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution. Ideally, it would be a fine thing to have only local, self-directed, worker participation, with minimal bureaucracy, police, and military. This probably would be the development of socialism, were socialism ever allowed to develop unhindered by counterrevolutionary subversion and attack.
One might recall how, in 1918-20, fourteen capitalist nations, including the United States, invaded Soviet Russia in a bloody but unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the revolutionary Bolshevik government.
"Bourgeois Democracy": What Do Marxists Mean By This Term?
By Scott Cooper Republished from Left Voice . In 1947, Winston Churchill famously said that “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.Scott Cooper (Hampton Institute)
It's absolutely possible to remain just and free while being secure. Skill issue.
Maybe read it again?
Those being anarchists, not socialists. There have been shitloads of anarchist communes working perfectly, until some external force fucks them up or reclaims the land or whatever.
I asked specifically for socialist ones.
The Russian RSFR, the Paris Commune, The Bavarian soviet Republic, The Rhine Soviet Republic, The Hungarian Socialist Republic, socialist Cuba, socialist Vietnam, socialist Laos...
Turns out you don't knwo what you're talking about! All of them were immediately invaded, their opposition showered in material support and sanctioned to hell and back.
Tell us what a non-authoritarian leader of Venezuela would look like
Presumably they would look not-authoritarian, a description that doesn't fit Maduro at all.
It could well be that, in the face of US policy regarding Venezuela, only an Authoritarian could hold onto the country. That still doesn't make Maduro not an Authoritarian.
it seems to me that leftist leaders are always denounced as authoritarian by North American and European based NGOs and governments.
That's a fair observation but, again, that doesn't mean they are wrong when they say it about Maduro. Maduro is referred to as dictator by Human Rights Watch, the Organization of American States, and other human rights organizations, including some inside Venezuela.
Maduro is a dictator. It's largely the fault of the US that Venezuela has a dictator. If the US succeeds in ousting Maduro, it will almost certainly replace him with an even worse Dictator. All of that can be true with no contradictions.
Presumably they would look not-authoritarian
And what does that even look like? Something like Allende, I'm guessing.
Human Rights Watch
The liberal Zionist western propaganda outlet?
This is a vicious cycle of falling back to dictatorship to avoid imperialism, or some of it.
A) The country opens up and holds free elections, leading to an American puppet winning and the country turning into a vassal state at best, a glorified colony at worst.
B) The country turns into a dictatorship to limit foreign influence and fight back against imperialism, becoming a similarly terrible place to live, but at least without giving anything to the empire. Also note that as time passes, it's quite likely that the dictatorship will forget why it was even created, i.e. it will no longer be about rejecting imperialism.
There are often the only two realistic scenarios for countries targetted by the American Empire. Both are bad and I'm not sure I feel like analyzing which one is slightly less bad for the average person.
Chavez in his first few months/year of being in office would be a good example of a non-authoritarian in that role.
My problem with Maduro and many of those in the post early days of Chavez taking over is that far too many seem to have a tremendous amount of money that they cannot explain how they came across legally. Executives at PVDSA, the state run petroleum company, seem to be extremely vulnerable to this corruption.
You can make the case that dictatorships/authoritarian structures are needed to protect a socialist revolution, which Im not sure I entirely agree with, without supporting the theft of state resources by people in the government.
Its quite sad to see that some terminally online leftist just automaticly replace siding with the imperialist systems that there born into
That's not what we’re doing; that’s what intellectually incurious imperial core labor aristocrats think we’re doing.
How about not bootlicking authoritarians?
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Yes he’s certainly an authoritarian. Authoritarian doesn’t automatically mean bad…there’s such a thing as the concept of a benevolent dictator.
What evidence do you have that “the country went to shit” or “Venezuela is not a nice place to live in” or that he’s a “corrupt dictator”?
This original post, presumably, attempts to scratch slightly beneath the surface of what we hear on the news and suggest that your above statements only apply to a certain “deserving” class.
I don’t actually know a lot about Venezuela, and I’m asking these questions in earnest. I started to ask questions a lot earlier, but certainly looking into Maria Machado (this years Nobel Peace Prize winner) made some alarm bells go off. Could it be that the narrative is controlled by Machado and her neoliberal/right wing ilk, and she actually represents a large minority class of people that was purged/displaced in Venezuela?
I’m still investigating.
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We also get it from Maduro and the rest of the Chavanistas: his party rules by supreme power and decree. The way his party allocates power as a matter of internal affairs, may be another story.
Please, let’s not talk in absolutes. This notion that any and all narratives that you deem negative are part of a grand conspiracy just isn’t true.
I implied in my original reply that I believe Maduro may be benevolent, along the lines of Castro. I don’t really have a problem with dictators…the problem with dictators is they’re usually fascists. That isn’t the case in Venezuela.
his party rules by supreme power and decree.
Again, how do you know this, and why are you so certain that this is a fair characterization? Have you read or listened to Maduro’s speeches or read Chavismo literature? Did you ask working class Venezuelans they consider these “decrees” to be extra-legal are or whether they are popular among them? Or did it come from Five Eyes sources, their telling of events?
the problem with dictators is they’re usually fascists.
In the modern era, dictators dictate with the consent of the bourgeoisie. And yes, that is fascism. In stark contrast, the Maduro government is a thorn in the side of both the indigenous bourgeoisie and the foreign imperialist bourgeoisie.
Yes I have listened to his speeches and read his lefislation…that’s why I’m saying what I’m saying.
You’re citisizing things I didn’t say…I know Maduro is popular there. I don’t know how else to say it: I believe he has the best interests of the working class in mind.
There's a concept true. Just not an example. Technically it's possible for sub atomic particles in deep space to randomly coaless as a Ruben sandwich. But you're far more likely to see the evaporation of a super massive black hole.
Power corrupts. And sometimes there really is no point to arguing which shitty person is slightly less shitty than the other shitty person. The only true answer is not play, and that there shouldn't be such positions of power. Anything else is calvinball.
You'll notice that there are no real arguments that he isn't a authoritarian/dictator. Just justification that certain people identify with him, so it's okay. Or that because one cringe group of privileged people criticize him. All criticism against him is from similar cringe groups of people. The meme in a nutshell. A non sequitur.
Maduro absolutely is an authoritarian. As is Trump. I don't agree with either one of them. But Trump absolutely means to fuck all the way off when it comes to continuing to meddle in South America. Argentina and Venezuela have enough problems of their own. They don't need ours.
What makes Maduro an dictator? He's popularly supported, was democratically elected, and is setting up participatory systems in the economy. I can agree that he's "authoritarian" against capitalists and fascists, but that's absolutely a good use of authority.
Secondly, there's no evidence to the notion that "power corrupts," just correlation. In systems like capitalism, corrupt leaders are pushed upwards because that's profitable, it wasn't the power that corrupted them but a system that selects for corruption.
Tell the cryptofash on MeanwhileOnGrad that they're a hoot, btw.
- They have a “tankie”-punching community, but we’re the brigaders?
- That comm is way more censorious than we’ve ever been. Wrongthink is an instant permaban.
Your position is there has never been a benevolent leader? Power corrupts universally and equally? That’s nuts, quite frankly.
It’s absurd to suggest that Trump and Maduro are equivalent. They’re not equal in a single way, even if you believe they’re both bad.
It isn't groundbreaking to say that people can be corrupt to different degrees. What you failed to do is provide any meaningful explanation for why you believe Maduro to be corrupt, authoritarian, a dictator, etc. We gave ample evidence pointing to his popular support, the robust system of democracy in Venezuela, the rising commune movement and participatory economy, etc, while you called us bad-faith.
To me, it looks like you think yourself above having to back up your claims and as outside of the conversation looking in, rather than actually communicating with us. This is compounded by your commenting both here and on the MWoG threads, a known cryptofash gathering spot. Is this behavior of yours "good faith" in your eyes?
“Calling out Trump” is clearly a rhetorical tactic to distract from your incorrect assessment of Maduro. It should be noted that you’re aligned with Trump when you say that, and it should give you pause.
You don’t seem to remember your own comment. You used the most extreme straw man, adorned with sarcasm, to asses Maduro…there was no reality in your reply.
Meh, the fact that you think you’re talking to liberals is pretty amusing. Why defend an argument when you can attack the messenger, right?
Power corrupts.
A meaningless platitude; as baseless as saying that lightning never strikes the same place twice. Liberals just think it's true because they've created a system where people who were already corrupt gain power.
The only true answer is not play,
Yeah man, people should just "not play" real life. Fuck me, Western liberals really are the most privileged fuckers: all just a game to them.
You’ll notice that there are no real arguments that he isn’t a authoritarian/dictator.
???.
Other than the arguments people are making that he was democratically elected. Those are objectively arguments, regardless of your feelings on them.
Maduro absolutely is an authoritarian
Name one country that is oppositional to the West that you don't "consider" authoritarian.
Venezuela is not a nice place to live in.
Hmm, I wonder why? 🤔
democracynow.org/2019/4/26/hea…
Report: U.S. Sanctions Have Killed 40,000 in Venezuela Since 2017
More than 40,000 people have died in Venezuela since 2017 as a result of U.S. sanctions. That’s the conclusion of a new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the economist Jeffrey Sachs. The report examines how U.S.Democracy Now!
The country went to shit before Chavez died as a result of many backing away from trade as a result of US demands as well as a slew of bad policy choices that turned them from a food exporting nation to one that imported food which collapsed the economy. Chavez and Maduro instituted price controls which have harmed the agricultural economy significantly which further harmed things.
That being said while their results were bad their intentions were good which is not going to be true of whatever puppet government the USA would install.
The fact is price controls are terrible policy and have never worked because we cannot predict the future needs of the market. Unless we magically get vastly better AI that runs the entire economy it is unlikely price controls will ever work so when Chavez instituted them it lead to a collapse of the agriculture sector leading to hunger issues.
Some of the economic problems were self created because many leftists have zero formal economic backgrounds and thus have trouble separating reasons for factual historical failures of specific leftist policies, like price controls or rent control being extremely problematic historically speaking, vs what is merely capitalist propaganda eg "capitalism is the only system that works" which isn't true historically speaking.
Some of the economic problems were self created because many leftists have zero formal economic backgrounds
That may well be, but at the same time, most economists in the world have a garbage education in neoclassical economics and carry neoliberal brain worms.
The system was created and developed by rich folks to ensure that rich folks continued to accumulate more and more wealth. Economists seem to me to be just working backwards from that point without ever mentioning it.
We had a middle class when taxes on the wealthy were 50-90 percent. Unless we bring that back, the ‘economy’ is bullshit.
Referring to the USA of course.
But Venezuela’s economy collapse was caused mainly by US foreign policy. It may have been exacerbated by Maduro’s or Chavez’s policy, but the US was the cause.
We had a middle class when taxes on the wealthy were 50-90 percent. Unless we bring that back, the ‘economy’ is bullshit.
If you were white and male it was a good deal for one generation. That was an anomalous moment in world history that will never come again. The US was the only major power in the world that didn’t have its productive capacity blown to smithereens in WWII, unions were comparatively strong, and the USSR posed a serious ideological threat to capitalism which caused the bourgeoisie to give (temporary) concessions.
Yes, of course there was systemic racism and women couldn’t even have personal checking accounts without approval from a male….
I’m just saying that unless taxes go up to 90% on folks making over a couple million dollars a year then we’ll never get there again.
I wouldn’t want to “go back” to it. But we do know that the 90% tax on the wealthy is a viable plan to fund the social services and needs of the people. And we also know that it needs to happen.
Edit: I hope it’s clear I was not advocating for something or anything like a return to 1950’s values lol
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Yeah, I have a friend who lives in Venezuela, he and his family can barely afford to eat, and I mean barely. Beans everyday and nothing else for years. I tried to send him some computer parts and it was going to be over 5 grand to send them, so I couldn't afford that, but his pc was genuinely very low end 5 years ago and I know he hasn't been able to upgrade, especially with all the money going to his 9 other family members living in the 1 bedroom apartment.
But whatever lies you have to tell yourself to sleep at night buddy.
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Second comment: 1 hour later and nowhere to be seen
If you want to get banned just start insulting people like the op.
additionally feel free to let your fashy friends know that I'm on payroll for both Putin AND Xi for my sfw online posting activities. I also collect checks from George Soros for in-person work that upsets conservatives.
it's important to have multiple income streams 💅
I've started tagging every single one i see. I should write them all down lol
The insatiable fascist urge to make lists of leftists
I think most people are indeed agreeing that Venezuela is facing financial hardship, but not because of Maduro, but mainly due to the sanctions by western govts.
Venezuela is a small country and the US is a large and influential one. So such sanctions are going to hurt Venezuela.
Can I ask a question to get the idea across?
We have heard news that Palestinians have faced food shortages and there was even famine warning.
Do you see it as a failure of their leadership or that of Israel blocking food and aid to the place, while isolating and attacking them?
If it is the latter, then wouldn't Venezuela be in the same position but relatively more favorable?
I think that is the view that many in the thread have.
Palestine and Venezuela are not even remotely similar, while both have been screwed over by US stupidity, they are so vastly different in circumstance I personally find comparisons to be a little silly.
Venezuela is well known to have screwed up its own economy in previous leadership, while spurred from US sanctions and interference it was ultimately their own actions that caused their economic collapse. Maduro has not helped with these issues and has only helped expand these problems. Though not nearly as problematic as previous leaders.
And while I personally get the hate Venezuela has towards the US, Jesus they are playing with fire. The US is out for blood, and will likely flatten the country just because they can, its going to be quite bad, and very sad.
At the point that US starts flattening Venezuela, killing hundreds a day and planning to rebuild it, then that would be a more fair comparison.
The US Empire isn't committing genocide in Palestine and attacking Venezuela out of "stupidity." The US Empire is rational, and acting in its own self-interest. Israel is a US millitary base in west Asia, and Venezuela is daring to go against US imperialism and try to harness its own production and resources for their benefit. The US Empire's aggression is rational, not simply a matter of stupidity.
Venezuela under Chavez and Maduro has seen dramatic expansions in social welfare, democratization, and poverty alleviation. The opposition wishes to establish itself as a comprador class to sell out their people to the US Empire. Venezuelans have the choice between resisting the system that keeps them perpetually underdeveloped, US imperialism, or resist that and risk millitary confrontation. Venezuela has bravely chosen the latter, and going along with imperialist framing of Venezuelan leaders just cedes legitimacy to the narrative the US Empire is concocting to justify invasion.
Well that was a lot of credulous Lemmy users. I should spend less time debunking imperial talking points and more time selling these people bridges. I’m leaving money on the table.
Some of them even fired up their dusty old alt accounts to vote multiple times.
Two things can be true at the same time. Maduro can be a dictator and the US can exerciser its military power illegally and attempt to intimidate and topple him.
Both can be true at the same time.
Both can be true at the same time.
They can also not be, brainiac. Despite what Redditors may think, vagueposting is not an argument.
As a latino....I am tired of USA citizens whitesplaining me shit.
Guy is a dictator.
Trump should still fuck off from latinoamerica but Maduro is a dictator.
Well that was aggressive. You seem very excited about this subject, maybe you should calm down.
There was nothing “vague” about my statement. Maduro is a dictator and the US is violating international law going after him.
It's not at all a grand statement to say "US bad, but enemy of US also bad." All this does is cede legitimacy to the US Empire against its enemies, manufacturing consent during their aggression. It doesn't matter if you finger wag the US, by legitimizing their claims against their enemies, you legitimize their assault.
This is even further compounded by your lack of explanation of how a democratically elected and popularly supported president is a dictator. This is the same playbook they used against Allende.
Once again both can be true at the same time.
Here are some articles on the subject if you wish to educate yourself. Of course if facts get in the way of your preconceived notions or political objectives you can always ignore them.
theguardian.com/world/article/…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuel…
hrf.org/latest/hrf-condemns-fr…
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Evidence shows Venezuela’s election was stolen – but will Maduro budge?
Analyses indicate Nicolás Maduro lost the presidential election, but country’s leader shows no signs of stepping asideTiago Rogero (The Guardian)
You seem very excited about this subject, maybe you should calm down.
“You are an emotional soyjack and I am a rational chad.”
Redditors, man.
Two comments and not a single coherent argument besides name calling.
I can see redditors live rent free in your head. Is there some kind of trauma they inflicted which you can’t move past?
Well, the friends are right, because he is a dictator.
Which is still better than whatever USA has in store for Venezuela.
And which absolutely doesn't justify slaughtering Venezuelan civilians.
It's okay they think Maduro is a dictator. That's not a crazy idea, to be fair, but I believe it's a debatable idea, since parties in democracy may get overwhelming support, to the point, the leader of the State can accumulate enormous power. But I struggle to call it a dictatorship or an authoritarian regime, until they start changing laws so they can benefit from them directly without the stated support of the people by referendum. I honestly believe Maduro would have been out by now if it wasn't for the antagonism of the USA and their pets.
It's easier for me to call Bukele a dictator. He kind of bent the law, exercising his authoritarian faculties, so the authorities could "allow" him to have a license from his presidential duties in order to participate in presidential elections. How can anyone forget another symbolic fact? One time, in 2020, Bukele did enter the Legislative House guarded by soldiers and sat on the chair of the President of this power to make some speech. Dictators accommodate well enough to hegemonies since they will accept anything as long as they remain in power. They don't defend sovereignty, they just defend their position.
In the case of my country, we really can't be called a dictatorship, because reelection was banned by historical lessons. The USA plays a familiar game with us, they call it a narco state, instead. I wonder what's the third option in the CIA manual.
Notice these same people don't come out of the woodwork upon the mere utterance of "El Salvador" or "Bukele" like they do with "Venezuela" and "Maduro" even as Trump is deporting legal citizens to CECOT.
The words "dictatorship" and "authoritarianism" are clue words for followers of western publications to turn off their brains. They want to sort countries, parties, and leaders into neat little "good guys" and "bad guys" bins. These words allow them to do that with minimal effort, circumventing the need to understand the societies involved. Questioning that framing takes research effort and "sympathizing with authoritarians" so they never do it.
Rich people love dictators, as long as it's their chosen dictator.
I once worked with a guy from a wealthy family who had to escape Venezuela after Maduro took power. His family hated him, of course, because they'd become rich under the old system, but now they were in America, and he had to work a real job. He flat out told me that he felt like the best governmental system is when 5% of the population is wealthy, and 95% is dirt poor. Of course, he'd been one of the 5%.
had to escape Venezuela after Maduro took powerthey'd become rich under the old system
.... They didn't flee from Chavez? What's the timeline here?
Yeah, you're probably right, it was probably Chavez. I worked with this guy years ago, I'm not sure of the timeline off the top of my head.
The point is that the rich had it made under the old system, and had to leave when it changed.
I also had some elderly neighbors from Venezuela, and they had relatives that would have loved to visit them, but they were afraid to leave because they were afraid their houses and businesses would be confiscated by the government while they were gone. That happened to one relative when she went to visit family that was living in Paris, so she just stayed in Paris.
their houses and businesses
Of course they worry about wealth redistribution, they’re wealthy. That’s why the capitalist class will do literally anything in their vast power to crush socialism.
China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation | Simon Tisdall
China’s relentless siege of traditionally US-backed Taiwan has moved beyond crude military pressure (although that’s increasing). Its efforts to enforce the island’s economic and diplomatic isolation – and overthrow its pro-western, elected government – are augmented by spying, cyber-sabotage, mass surveillance and idiotic lies, conspiracies and disinformation.
Announcing a $40bn increase in defence spending last week, Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, warned the annexation threat was “intensifying”. In an echo of Ukraine, which faces similar pressures from Russia and is likewise unsure of US support, Lai said the most worrying scenario was that browbeaten Taiwanese would simply give up.
“Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s first preference is to win without a devastating, unpredictable war,” wrote analyst Hal Brands. “His method is encompassing, steadily escalating coercion … This is a classic ‘anaconda strategy’, meant to get progressively tighter until Taiwan yields. Isolation and demoralisation will ultimately produce capitulation, the thinking goes.”
China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation
The US hasn’t just left Ukraine vulnerable; it is also provoking Xi’s intensifying attitude towards what he considers a renegade province, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon TisdallSimon Tisdall (The Guardian)
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Fucking finally, time to take care of the rouge "state" 🇨🇳
Umm.. Lol.
the rouge (or red) state being China 🇨🇳;
Or rogue state 🇹🇼 Taiwan?
Technically, the only rogue and red state is China ofc.
Conntrack question
cross-posted from: lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/38…
Hi, I've had issues for the last days where my services were unreachable via their domains sporadically. They are scattered across 2-3 VMs which are working fine and can be reached by their domain (usually x.my.domain subdomains) via my nginx reverse proxy (running in it's own Debian vm). The services themself were running fine. My monitoring (Node Exporter/Prometheus) notified me that the conntrack limit on the nginx vm was reached in the timeframes where my services weren't reachable, so that seems to be the obvious issue.As for the why, it seems that my domains are known to more spammers/scripters now. The nginx error.log grew by factor 100 from one day to the next. Most of my services are restriced to local IPs, but some like this lemmy instance are open entirely (nginx vm has port 80 and 443 forwarded).
I never heard of conntrack before but tried to read up on it a bit. It keeps track of the vm's connections. The limit seems to be rather low, apparently it depends on the memory of the vm which is also low. I can increase the memory and the limit, but some posts suggest to generally disable it if not stricly needed. The vm is doing nothing but reverse proxying so I'm not sure if I really need it. I usually stick to Debians defauls though. Would appreciate input on this as I don't really see what the conseqences of this would be. Can it really just be disabled?
But that's just making symptons go away and I'd like to stop the attackers even before reaching the vm/nginx. I basically have 2 options.
- The vm has ufw enabled and I can set up fail2ban (should've done that earlier). However, I'm not sure if this helps with the conntrack thing since they need to make a connection before getting f2b'd and that will stay in the list for a bit.
- There's an OPNsense between the router and the nginx vm. I have to figure out how, but I bet there's a possibility to subscribe to known-attacker-IP-lists and auto-block or the like. I'd like some transparency here though and also would want to see which of the blocked IPs actually try to get in.
Would appreciate thoughts or ideas on this!
Increasing ip_conntrack_max safely?
I've see the following in my logs every so often: kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. Currently, I have ip_conntrack_max set to 65536 (default, RHEL5). Keeping memory usage in min...Stack Overflow
Connection tracking might not be totally necessary for a reverse proxy mode, but it's worth discussing what happens if connection tracking is disabled or if the known-connections table runs out of room. For a well-behaved protocol like HTTP(S) that has a fixed inbound port (eg 80 or 443) and uses TCP, tracking a connection means being aware of the TCP connection state, which the destination OS already has to do. But since a reverse proxy terminates a TCP connection, then the effort for connection tracking is minimal.
For a poorly-behaved protocol like FTP -- which receives initial packets in a fixed inbound port but then spawns a separate port for outbound packers -- the effort of connection tracking means setting up the firewall to allow ongoing (ie established) traffic to pass in.
But these are the happy cases. In the event of a network issue that affects an HTTP payload sent from your reverse proxy toward the requesting client, a mid-way router will send back to your machine an ICMP packet describing the problem. If your firewall is not configured to let all ICMP packets through, then the only way in would be if conntrack looks up the connection details from its table and allows the ICMP packet in, as "related" traffic. This is not dissimilar to the FTP case above, but rather than a different port number, it's an entirely different protocol.
And then there's UDP tracking, which is relevant to QUIC. For hosting a service, UDP is connectionless and so for any inbound packet we received on port XYZ, conntrack will permit an outbound packet on port XYZ. But that's redundant since we presumably had to explicitly allow inbound port XYZ to expose the service. But in the opposite case, where we want to access UDP resources on the network, then an outbound packet to port ABC means conntrack will keep an entry to permit an inbound packet on port ABC. If you are doing lots of DNS lookups (typically using UDP), then that alone could swamp the con track table: kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01183
It may behoove you to first look at what's filling conntrack's table, before looking to disable it outright. It may be possible to specifically skip connection tracking for anything already explicitly permitted through the firewall (eg 80/443). Or if the issue is due to numerous DNS resolution requests from trying to look up spam sources IPs, then perhaps either the logs should not do a synchronous DNS lookup, or you can also skip connection tracking for DNS.
Linux connection tracking and DNS
My busy Linux-based nameserver is giving unreasonably slow responses. How do I know if Linux connection tracking is causing the problem I am having?kb.isc.org
There’s an OPNsense between the router and the nginx vm.
Have you tried integrating opensense with Suricata or perhaps Snort as an IDS/IPS? Then use ntopng for observables and traffic analysis. Currently, there are several IP that have been hounding the pFsense firewall. Mostly from China, Romania, and Singapore, but they just get blocked by Suricata.
I have no experience with conntrack tho.
Solar Powered Wifi Camera with Wireguard
Hello --
I know this is not a 100% fit for this community and I apologise - but I don't really know where to ask best. There's some selfhosting involved, so maybe the smart crowd here has some recommendations.
Here goes:
I want to mount a camera at a quite remote location. I have Wifi there that I can use (I pay for it, but its usage is shared, I don't monopolize it). I do not have power there. It's outside, mild in winter, quite warm in summer. I will not get there for months at a time. I want the camera to be private, not open to the world. Ideally I'd like a solar powered wifi camera that can connect to my home via Wireguard (I have that bit going, multiple roaming notebooks and phones connect to home, terminated in an Opnsense router).
I do not need any specific smart features on the camera - PTZ would be nice, but not even fully required.
I can come up with a configuration that involves a Raspberry Pi routing an off the shelf camera via a Wireguard tunnel, or similar, but that doubles the power issues I need to solve. I am not opposed to DIY a solution, but there's the challenge of getting it well packaged in a waterproof way.
Considering I can't really touch the wifi setup (cheap commercial router), I don't really see a way to have a private connection without having some sort of a VPN (I could do others than wireguard in a pinch).
If you'd like to help me chip away at one or the other bit of this problem, I'd be very grateful.
There's a pretty cool write up by KittenLabs about their SolarCamPi project - it's pretty involved as far as DIY projects though, even down to stripping features out of the Raspberry Pi so it would use as little power as possible..
Awhile back I dabbled with a timelapse setup where I had a battery, GoPro and a Raspberry Pi with a 4G hat for remote monitoring - using Tailscale as the VPN - but that was never intended to run 24/7. I just set those up and accepted that they'd run for as long as they ran and then collect them.
Lots of 4G/WiFi solar security cameras around as another sort of 'all in one' solution - typically the main issue is they all want you to use their app. If you can find one with rtsp or ONVIF it's easier to make them work with whatever you want, though again you'd probably need a Raspberry Pi or something inbetween in order to create the VPN/Tailscale/WireGuard connection to keep it secure.
GitHub - gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks: wz camera mods... make your camera better.
wz camera mods... make your camera better. Contribute to gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Works out of the box. Not sure what the need for Wireguard is here.
Argus PT - 5MP Wi-Fi Solar Battery Camera with Pan & Tilt | Reolink Official
Argus PT is a 5MP battery/solar powered IP camera with pan & tilt, dual-band Wi-Fi, high-quality color night vision, AI detection, smart alarms and more.m.reolink.com
It’s not always about hiding only payloads.
Although if you are wireguarding to your home IP you’re still not really hiding the destination.
Probably a direct link to the home network so the camera looks like it’s on the same network.
I’ve thought of and tried this for my VR headset to my home in a similar manner. The VR headset will only stream from my gaming PC if it’s on the same network and so I’d hope to use a VPN to tunnel into my network when not at home to play remotely. I’ve not gotten this to work, but this sounds like a similar hope for OP with a camera.
Grab a regular ethernet connected camera with 12V supply and ONVIF compatible (most PTZ cameras like Amcrest or Vikylon are 12V), and a OpenWRT router like GLiNet's cheapo units in bridge mode. They have a wireguard VPN active already, you just need to get it set up. Then you specify what subnet the inside of that router is so you can get to the camera, and access it via IP.
Put down a car battery, a cheap MPPT charger and a panel or two. The PowMr charge controllers have a couple of USB ports on them to power the router and they're $50.
Yah, that's a PWM charger. You'd likely see up to another third more power stored with an MPPT at temperatures below freezing from my experience running various offgrid livestock pumping systems over the years. I still use old PWM controllers on things like fencers because they're pretty low draw, but I haven't bought a PWM for years now since MPPT prices came down to earth.
Just a suggestion, idk what your particular scenario is but it sounds like you're running out of power pretty quick. And for batteries, I've personally moved to LFP with heaters in insulated boxes for the sheer life expectancy, power density and reliability compared to LA in cold temperatures. But I wouldn't say it's the cheapest way to do things.
Well, I guess whatever camera you get should give you a power requirement and you can work backwards from there as to storage and panel requirement. My off the cuff notion would say you'll need a deep cycle or a group 31 of 100aH to last for a day or two depending on weather and length of day, and lithium batteries will get plating if you try to charge below freezing so they're out.
It's all in the math, then double it because nature hates you.
I would do a outdoor POE camera connected back inside to a WiFi router running OpenWRT. You can then set it up as a WiFi client (base station) and a VPN tunnel.
I would also look into Netbird since it is easier to manage.
Just saw a new outdoor Wyze camera with a motorized head, small solar panel, SD-card, and wifi for around $80. If you figure out the server side, it might be a good hardware foundation.
Other option is a Pi-based camera.The server side would be easier to set up, but you would have to figure out power, enclosure, and weatherproofing.
Edit: this might allow access to the video stream: github.com/mrlt8/docker-wyze-b…
GitHub - mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridge: WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/LL-HLS bridge for Wyze cams in a docker container
WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/LL-HLS bridge for Wyze cams in a docker container - mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridgeGitHub
World News in Brief: Children hit by HIV funding gaps, risks to Pakistan’s courts, minority exclusion | UN News
World News in Brief: Children hit by HIV funding gaps, risks to Pakistan’s courts, minority exclusion
Children and adolescents living with HIV continue to be left behind in access to early diagnosis, life-saving treatment and care, as shrinking funding threatens to reverse decades of progress, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday, ahead o…UN News
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Israeli attack kills two children in Gaza, medics say
An Israeli attack killed two children in Gaza on Saturday, medics and relatives said, in violence that has persisted in the Palestinian enclave despite a fragile ceasefire.The children's uncle said an Israeli drone fired on Fadi and Goma Abu Assi, brothers aged 10 and 12, while they were gathering firewood to help their wheelchair-bound father east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
"They are children...what did they do? They do not have missiles or bombs, they went to gather wood for their father so he can start a fire," Mohamed Abu Assi told Reuters as their funeral took place.At the funeral, the children's father wept over the body of one of the boys whose white shroud had been peeled back to show his face.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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Since the October 10 ceasefire, over 354 Palestinians have been killed in the largely devastated enclave, according to Gazan health authorities. Many of the deaths occur when Israeli forces shoot at Palestinians it accuses of crossing the yellow line set up during the ceasefire to mark territories still under Israel's control in the strip.On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces said their troops "identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, carried out suspicious activities and approached the troops in southern Gaza, posing an immediate threat," adding that the troops "eliminated the suspects to remove the threat."
Gaza: Israeli fire kills 2 Palestinian boys
Palestinian sources say two brothers were killed in Gaza by Israeli drone fire. In the occupied West Bank, meanwhile, attacks by Israeli settlers injured 10 Palestinians.Kalika Mehta (Deutsche Welle)
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DEP-18: A proposal for Git-based collaboration in Debian
DEP-18: A proposal for Git-based collaboration in Debian
I am a huge fan of Git, as I have witnessed how it has made software development so much more productive compared to the pre-2010s era. I wish all Debian source code were in Git to reap the full benefits.Otto Kekäläinen (Optimized by Otto)
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This is so stupid, Vietnam was trying to avoid dependency on China, and was actually seeking closer ties with USA.
Only the stupidity of Trump has allowed China to increase influence globally, when the world actually trust China less than ever, Trump has managed to make the world still trust China more than USA.
Trump couldn't have done a better job for Putin and/or China if he was 100% controlled by either of them.
America’s oldest ally in Asia is drawing closer to China
Thailand increasingly depends on its bigger neighbour for trade and security
https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/11/27/americas-oldest-ally-in-asia-is-drawing-closer-to-china
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Wow. Try inventing a partition line like Yosemite Sam and saying "I dares ya ta cross this line" and when the Korean people tried to push the racist American colonizers out of their country. Try forced them to lives in caves because of the amount of napalm they dropped. Try bombed every single building to the point where bombers were sent out and and there was nothing left to destroy.
There was no North/South division before the US created it, and they created it because they wanted to nuke China.
The US was taking over the occupation of Korea from the Japanese. The USSR wanted the Koreans to govern themselves and be self-sufficient enough to not become vassal states of the USA which the USA would use to invade and nuke the USSR.
It's not just a both sides wanted to control Korea thing. That's not accurate
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America has always wanted for its own interests. It's never been to actually help another country.
Except now the America First group is in charge and has exposed the eugenics and racism inherent in our system. Who wants to be part of that?
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Netanyahu requests a pardon during the Israeli prime minister's ongoing corruption trial
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges, seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation.
Netanyahu, who has been at war against Israel’s legal system over the charges, said the request would help unify the country at a time of momentous change in the region. But it immediately triggered denunciations from opponents, who said a pardon would weaken democratic institutions and send a dangerous message that he’s above the rule of law.
Netanyahu had submitted a request for a pardon to the legal department of the Office of the President, the prime minister’s office said in a statement. The president’s office called it an “extraordinary request,” carrying with it “significant implications.”
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-netanyahu-pardon-5dbc2461b440c8edc8d82d31650cdbe8
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Time to wake up the world ,keep it on the news
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Never forget that Netanyahu allowed the Oct 7th attack to happen so he could use it as an excuse to scare congress into letting him declare martial law so he didn't have to go to prison.
Every single Israli and Palestinian that has died as a result of this conflict since the attack, has their blood on Netanyahu's hands.
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yup. his only chance at avoiding consequences is to stay in power as a wartime president.
this is why the ceasefire isn't a ceasefire. I hope Israel does better but..... not holding my breath.
If we had done better with trump in 2016 or j6th none of this shit would have happened.
Absolutely. Just do the following first...
- Officially apologize to every Palestinian family for every life lost in decades of conflict.
- Fully dismantle all settlements built on occupied land and return every home, school, and farm.
- Compensate for every square meter of land taken, including lost income and cultural sites.
- Ensure full and unrestricted access to Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, with reparations for every blockade-induced hardship.
- Return all property confiscated during evictions or military operations.
- Admit and make amends for every instance of detention, displacement, or imprisonment without due process.
- Rebuild all destroyed homes, schools, hospitals, and infrastructure.
- Recognize all refugee claims and fund safe, dignified resettlement or return.
- Fully acknowledge and compensate for the psychological trauma suffered by generations.
- Publicly commit to ending all military occupation and systemic discrimination permanently.
- Implement complete equality in law, services, and political representation for all Palestinians.
- Renounce any historic narratives that justify oppression and commit to truthful education about past wrongs.
- Fund and actively support the creation of a fully sovereign, functional, and internationally recognized Palestinian state.
- Lead and finance the complete rebuilding of Gaza, including infrastructure, housing, healthcare, and education, to meet modern standards.
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I can think of another one.
What if religion was separated from government, and all people were treated equally under secular law, as is the case in every advanced country where even non-cis-males are allowed to read freely and have a complex pluralistic civilization ?
IOW what if all the Sky Daddy people fucked off with their cosplay and let the adults manage things?
No. Not disengagement; quite the opposite. De-radicalization and modernization.
The way Germany stopped worshiping Hitler and the mythical Great Germanic Past. The way Japan stopped worshiping Hirohito and the mythical Great Japanese Past.
Both were quasi religious states, depending on a population steeped in a culture of credulity coupled with unchallengeable authority.
Related but not identical: North Korea, Iran, Putin's Russia, MAGA
Germany and Japan were subject to complete and total American led nation building. Douglas MacArthur basically wrote the Japanese constitution and modeled it on America.
Who do you plan to appoint as leader of this new project of yours?
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Yeah that's the real serious problem here
There is no Force Majure. America that was, is no more.
Learn to swim?
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What an uninformed, specious thing to say. I almost suspect trolling
Are you seriously suggesting Bibi's Likud, or its partners Shas and Mafdal are ... secular ?!?
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I think a key distinction is that the religious rhetoric is often precisely that — rhetoric. Specifically, it's rhetoric aimed at an international audience, because conflating Judaism with the Israeli state is essential to how Israel frames itself and its genocide. It allows them to denounce all criticism of zionism as antisemitism, even if those critiques are coming from Jewish antizionists. Meanwhile, Israel's actions have been helping drive an increase in actual antisemitism, which is also useful for Israel, because it helps them to justify the existence of Israel as necessary for Jewish safety.
That might seem like splitting hairs, but it's important if we want to understand what's happening. Many of the most vehement pro-genocide voices in Israel are secular Jews, as is a decent proportion of Jews in Israel. Judaism is more than just a religion, but an ethnoreligious group, and that distinction is important because Israel cares more about the "ethno-" part of that than the religious part (because like I say, there are many people who identify as secular Jews).
It's somewhat analogous to how Trump performs a particular kind of conservative Christian rhetoric that's more about white nationalism than any Christian ideals. The religious component is important to acknowledge, because many prominent MAGAs aren't doing it performatively in the way that Trump and some others do, but rather their Christian faith is tightly intertwined with their white nationalism. However, to see this purely as a religious issue would lose crucial nuance of the issue.
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People do respond to rhetoric, especially rhetoric that is reinforced by their culture
It is crucially important that the memes people internalize are not based on belief-without-evidence, nor or specially-chosen-people.
Those are toxic memes for a successful modern diverse inclusionary civilization
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Exactly - this is being missed because the propaganda has framed this as a 'Jews vs. Muslims' religious conflict.
It's not. It's an ethnostate built for Zionists, not Jews - as shown by the way the state is treating orthodox Rabbis who are protesting against the occupation.
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It's definitely the excuse they use to justify it.
It's just surprising how many people fall for it, including those critical of it.
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Rename it Sky Daddy Land and let it be run by a council of atheists.
Then the Palestinians and Israelis will have a common enemy and will stop fighting.
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Realistically, I don't see the conflict ending until climate change renders the area an uninhabitable wasteland.
Given how climate change seems to be accelerating, this is probably a few decades.
Pope Leo said on Sunday that the only solution in the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people must include a Palestinian state, reaffirming the Vatican's position.
Title sounded like he was supporting a single state solution with Palestine as the state, but it's the same two state solution that Vatican has supported for some time
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I guess it depends on what you mean by almost done. They've taken 50% of the land in gaza. They've killed 3% of the Gaza strip and .06% of the West Bank. These are massive extinction events by population percentage, but the Palestinians are still very much there. As soon as people give up, the Palestinians are in a much much worse state than they already are.
It won't be as easy for them to push through the other 50% without displacing or killing 2 million people, which is a world of difference from 70,000. I'm not optimistic, but I also don't see a current path for Israel to "finish the genocide" that doesn't simultaneously eliminate a large percentage of their remaining political and economic power in the process. On the other hand fascist counties aren't know to act rational. Either way, this genocide is far from over. Imo, it will last at least another decade, if not much longer, if it's bent on geographic, cultural, and/or population annihilation. I think there is at least some hope that the political winds can change before that happens.
This is liberal Zionist gaslighting. Its like saying the only solution to Apartheid South Africa is for the blacks to have their own bantustan.
The only solution which no one in the mainstream dares to say is to dismantle the genocidal state built on Jewish supremacy.
Two-State Solution has never been viable for the same reason Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan have never been viable outside the sphere of Israeli influence. Any state that isn't aligned with Israel is targeted for a combination of assassinations/bombings and infiltration/regime change.
Why would an "independent" Palestine be any different? A popular government would never be allowed to rule. At best, you'd have an Egyptian style military dictatorship or Jordanian monarchy which rules the public with an iron fist. At worst, you'd have a Libya or Yemen, where the native government is merely a proxy for the Israelis to continue their genocide of the local population.
agree that the only solution is one state for all. basically expand the right of return.
the "two state solution" isn't a solution, but just Israel following basic international law. Which is too high a bar for Israel
Zimbabwe: Chinese firms tighten grip on country’s lithium sector as Environmental Law Organisation urges for more domestic production of high-value, refined lithium products
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/46485447
[...]While Chinese investment has helped revive Zimbabwe’s lithium industry, ZELO [the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Organisation] found widespread concerns over poor labour standards and environmental violations, particularly among medium- and small-scale Chinese operators across the lithium, gold, coal and chrome sectors.
Reported issues included non-compliance with Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regulations, dust pollution, water contamination from mine effluent, low wages, inadequate protective equipment and allegations of worker abuse and discrimination.
The report warns that such malpractices have contributed to the perception that Chinese companies have a poor human rights and environmental record in Zimbabwe. It says this presents reputational risks for the country’s lithium exports at a time when global supply chains increasingly prioritise strong Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards.
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ZELO's latest study, 'Mine to Market for Critical Minerals: Zimbabwe’s Lithium Supply and Value Chain Situational Report', finds that Chinese companies now control most major lithium mining and processing operations in the country.
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Although Australian and British companies also operate in the sector, ZELO says Chinese dominance has created an imbalance that weakens competition and reduces Zimbabwe’s bargaining power.
“This imbalance restricts the Zimbabwe’s ability to derive optimal value from its lithium resources,” the organisation said. “It also exposes Zimbabwe to external risks linked to fluctuations in Chinese global investment or commodity demand.”
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Data from the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) highlights the stark value gap between raw and refined lithium. A tonne of lithium concentrate with 4%–5.5% Li₂O content sells for between US$300 and US$600. By contrast, refined lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate can fetch more than US$26,000 per tonne.
ZELO says this disparity underscores the need for Zimbabwe to prioritise domestic production of high-value, refined lithium products instead of exporting low-value concentrate.
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ZELO recommends increased investment in beneficiation, production of industrial by-products such as sodium sulphate anhydrous and alumina silicate, and stronger local content rules to promote skills transfer and technology adoption. It also calls for tighter enforcement of labour, safety and environmental regulations and strategic partnerships with non-Chinese investors to diversify markets.
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Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s journey from CIA-backed ‘Zero Unit’ to DC shooting suspect
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Quitting Spotify for Navidrome
Listen to music like it’s 2005 : Luke Cyca Dot Calm
Getting off spotify and rediscovering my own music collectionlukecyca.com
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Android or iOS?
On android I found symphonium to be a great app to use with my navidrome server. On iOS, play:sub was the best experience I found
On iOS, ply:sub was the best experience I found
I'll check out ply:sub. Thank you for the recommendation.
If you’re doing a search, it’s play:sub. Here is the link on iOS. apps.apple.com/us/app/play-sub…
Also, it’s a fantastic app and I use it every day.
play:Sub Music Streamer App - App Store
Download play:Sub Music Streamer by Michael Hansen on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like play:Sub Music…App Store
Nope. You can buy an infinite trial via the developers ko-fi!
There's info about it on the symfonium forum.
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Yeah, you will have to send the dev the new trial ID for a re-activation.
That's also why it's costs more, because it's more manual work for him.
It's a chore, but really cool by the dev to offer it as an option for people with de-googled devices.
I plan to switch to Android in the next year, so I’m always interested to hear what clients people like over there too.
Symfonium is great, and in its current state, probably the best Subsonic client for android. (Tempus is good enough for me though.) But best of luck if you ever have a nontrivial issue and ask the dev for help. That's one abrasive mf. (Just take a look here. It's hard to find anyone so full of themselves.)
That said, if it works for your needs, it's a great app. I won't judge anyone for using it, but I'm someone who can't and won't separate the art from its artist. If that applies to you, you've been warned.
The joy of Play Store :)
Using this thread as a compilation of all the nice comments on Play Store 🙂 And also maybe as a reminder to real users that it takes 15 five stars rating to just counter 1 one star rating.Symfonium support
GitHub - eddyizm/tempus: An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.
An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android. - eddyizm/tempusGitHub
DSub2000 | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Android client for Subsonic servers.f-droid.org
Too bad it's unusable if you're like me and have huge playlists that you want to offline for shuffling due to spending long stretches of time without an Internet connection.
When I asked about this limitation, I was told that it was stupid to have such big playlists and needing to offline them because nobody is without Internet for long enough times for it to matter.
Great response from the developers that.
Doesn't finamp provide music player features?
I wish jellyfin would support downloading music out of the box.
My experience with self-hosted apps on my phone are limited. I've never used Plex so I never used it's mobile app.
So thank you for the clarification.
Finamp certainly needs some work but it’s far better than the native Jellyfin application, at least for iOS/iPadOS, I can now listen to music in the background.
Hell the Finamp contributors took my suggestion on a way to sort playlists and actually implemented it so I gotta say much props to them.
[FEATURE REQUEST] Sort by Album, Artist, Release Date, Etc
Type: New feature The ability to quickly Sort your track library & playlists by Song Name, Artist, Album, Release Date, Etc Explanation This unfortunately is not native to Jellyfin and i don't see ...BugZappa (GitHub)
You’re right about that.
I do sometimes miss PlexAmp, but the native Emby application for music on iOS is pretty decent. Just kinda wish it was decoupled from the main app.
Can't crossfade, developers won't add the features the server doesn't support it. I get a random crashes at least once a session. Search sucks because I don't feel like wiring up elastic. Doesn't stream large lists, browse to P? With 5000 artists and 20K tracks? Forever.
The beta is a little smoother but doesn't address any of my issues with it.
Symphonium is 100 times better, never crashes, solves lists/streaming by downloading the lists and handling them locally.
A few years ago, I set up a home-server with music and some pictures on there, and recently I noticed that my storage disk was getting full. Then I saw that the disk only had 16 GB and wondered, where the hell I got that small of a disk from.
So, I go to plug in a bigger disk and can't even find the original disk at first. Turns out my whole storage capacity was one of these bad boys:
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And yeah, I've got about 1800 songs, clocking in at 5.8 GB, so even that tiny storage would easily be enough for a much larger collection.
And I do also have them replicated on my phone, for listening on the go. (Don't even need an SD card in my case.)
Really feeling this, the first paragraph could've written by me and I switched to Navidrome as well some months ago.
Btw, your RSS feed seems to be broken:
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I migrated from Apple Music to Qobuz as part of my dropping of US services.
It’s very much playlist and release based which is great for both curation and discovery. At least I’ve found myself discovering more music from their playlists, which are often curated by musicians.
They do have a “for you” list but for whatever reason only show it on mobile, and it’s not my favourite algorithm.
I disagree.
I don't necessarily know about new music, artists, or genres. I want to get a mixture of stuff I haven't encountered.
Something like 60% of the music I listen to in a given month I had never heard of 12 months prior. I've found so much music that I vibe with by way of generated playlists.
Discovering something new that scratches my music itch is in itself a pleasure for me, and I can go back to it at a later date, like everything else.
This doesn't mean I support Spotify, but it does mean I disagree with your stance.
Quickly and effortlessly get some music playing that can act as a backdrop for your real activity such as working, driving, cooking, hosting friends, etc. Keep it rolling indefinitely.“Discover” new music by statistical means based on your average tastes.
This is the main thing I want out of music software tbh.
I am actually in the process of setting up my own navidrome server on my proxmox host running on my old desktop hardware.
I was initially inspired by the following post and am very excited to get rid of Spotify.
Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes
For years, I relied on Spotify like millions of others. The convenience was undeniable stream anything, anywhere, discover new music through algorithms, and share playlists with friends. But over time, several issues became impossible to ignore: artists getting paid fractions of pennies per stream, fake Artists and ghost Tracks, AI music and impersonation, creepy age verification complicity and the fact that despite paying monthly, I never actually owned anything. So I decided to take back control of my music experience. Here's how I built my own self-hosted music streaming setup that gives me everything Spotify offered and more.
GitHub - jeffvli/feishin: A modern self-hosted music player.
A modern self-hosted music player. Contribute to jeffvli/feishin development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I don’t know why so many people think you have to do one or the other, that you can’t host your own and use spotify.
No matter how much you might hate Spotify from an ideological point of view, you cannot deny its amazing music discovery ability.
I use Spotify as a way to find what to add to my collection, which I then stream using Plexamp when it makes more sense than just using Spotify - which isn’t very often tbh, only really when license issues prevent an album being in my country on Spotify. I can share my plex music library with friends and family though.
RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy director prefers “natural immunity” over vaccines
RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy director prefers “natural immunity” over vaccines
Ralph Abraham is “dangerous,” but somehow not the worst among those considered.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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VoidAuth Release v1.5.0 - Multi-Factor Authentication 🔒
VoidAuth is Single Sign-On for Your Self-Hosted Universe! 🐈⬛🔒
This release includes Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Support through TOTP Authenticators! There are other features in this release, like a migration from pug to ejs for email notification templates and quality of life improvements like a built-in container healthcheck, navigation between some admin pages, and reducing the character minimum for usernames to just three letters (sorry ted); but MFA is the big one! Users can enable MFA on their accounts to require an Authenticator or Passkey during sign in, and admins can add MFA requirements to groups, OIDC Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains to require users to setup and use MFA in specific scenarios.
Since the last major release functionality has also been added to migrate your database between SQLite and Postgres, check out the docs! Here is the release notes:
Features 🚀
- MFA Support Through TOTP Authenticators and Passkeys
- MFA_REQUIRED Environment Variable and MFA Requirement Option for Groups, Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains
- Email Templates Migrated to EJS, Defaults Templates Are Now Re-Written on Start
- Navigation Between Admin Pages for User and Group
Fixes 🔧
- Change Username and Name Character Requirements (3 Character Minimum)
Chores 🧹
- Added Dockerfile Healthcheck
- Update Dependencies
Docs 📖
- Update OIDC-Guides.md by @Cherryblue in github.com/voidauth/voidauth/p…
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This release includes the first outside contribution to the project as well as the first sponsor! The VoidAuth repository also blew up a bit over the week, going from ~200 to ~600 stars on GitHub. I have no idea why, but seems pretty cool! Thank you to everyone who engages with VoidAuth in any fashion, you are all greatly appreciated 😊
Release v1.5.0 · voidauth/voidauth
What's Changed Features 🚀 MFA Support Through TOTP Authenticators and Passkeys MFA_REQUIRED Environment Variable and MFA Requirement Option for Groups, Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains Email Templat...GitHub
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There is no direct feature comparison between VoidAuth and pocket-id ('comparison is the thief of joy' after all). At least one major difference is that pocket-id does not allow users to sign in with a password since passkey-only accounts are one of their design decisions, and VoidAuth does not support LDAP integration while pocket-id does. My main motivation in creating VoidAuth was to fill gaps in my own user experience while using SSO, previously I ran Authelia+LLDAP (which is still an excellent combo) but found the setup lacking in some common use-cases and devoid of an Admin Interface.
I am glad you like the interface and logo, it is inspired by my own black cat who right at this very moment is yelling for pets 😹
Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty
The oversight body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has shunned US demands for the court to drop its investigation into Israeli war crimes and to amend its founding treaty to prevent the prosecution of nationals from countries that do not recognise the court’s jurisdiction, Middle East Eye can reveal.
In a statement issued on Wednesday after its annual meeting in The Hague earlier this week, the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) vowed to uphold the integrity of the Rome Statute and said it was “gravely concerned” by threats and coercive measures targeting the court.
Diplomats speaking on the sidelines of the event told MEE that the Trump administration had tried to exert further pressure on the ICC in the leadup to the ASP meeting by calling on the court to drop its investigations into war crimes in Palestine and Afghanistan as a condition for lifting sanctions.
The US also called on member states to amend the Rome Statute to prohibit prosecutions of citizens of non-signatory states, a move that would have effectively granted immunity to American and Israeli nationals. An amendment of that nature would also end the Ukraine investigation into alleged war crimes by Russia, a non-member of the ICC.
Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty
The oversight body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has shunned US demands for the court to drop its investigation into Israeli war crimes and to amend its founding treaty to prevent the prosecution of nationals from countries that do not re…Sondos Asem (Middle East Eye)
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U.S. military detains civilian, raising Okinawa police concerns
U.S. military detains civilian, raising Okinawa police concerns | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
OKINAWA, Okinawa Prefecture–A video showing an American civilian being slammed to the ground and detained by U.S. military police outside a local bar has gone viral, raising concerns about infringement of Japanese police authority outside U.S.The Asahi Shimbun
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NATO Is Preparing to Confront Russia With Limited US Support
The worst-case scenario is now a possible one: European troops fighting off an invasion largely alone.
It’s by no means clear the Europeans would succeed. Romanian and other European officials at the exercise in Cincu, about 260 kilometers (162 miles) north of Bucharest by road, voiced concerns about how long it would take for NATO allies to make it to the front.
French four-star General Philippe de Montenon said he’s confident Europe could prevail, even without the US on side. “The direction of history is a progressive disengagement of the United States from the European continent,” he said.
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It's kind of funny how the West is getting beat by its own game.
We only care about the money.
Edit: Apparently this reality upsets a lot of you.
We only care about the money.
Trump does. Oligarchs & dictators too. What's your point?
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The West will only do what it believes will make its rulers the most amount of money.
If Americans think it's more profitable for their rulers to avoid supporting NATO, then that's what they're going to do.
The West
Yeah that really clarified everything about your POV, thank you.
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Is there any credible material proof that Russia is preparing for an invasion of Europe???
They are just barely capable of winning a slow war of attrition against Ukraine, how can you make a credible argument they could achieve any war aims against all of Europe?
You can’t even argue they can take one country at a time, the entire border is riddled with NATO tripwire troops, guaranteeing the direct involvement of each major European military from the get-go.
Is this just fearmongering to drum up support for more military Keynesianism?
They already have invaded Europe. For the second time in the last decade.
Fyi, Ukraine is in Europe.
Fuck USA for abandoning it's allies, the whole world is realising they cannot be trusted.
The EU is doing the right thing by arming up.
They have invaded Ukraine, a country that is not in NATO nor in the EU, this article is talking about a war with all the European member states of NATO. I think my wording was clear.
And considering rearmament, do you know what the security dilemma is, and what that means for the security of everyone in Europe?
Geography is not interested in this bullshit and you shouldn't be, either.
Europe is not going to defend a sovereign state. Europe is not defending itself as you understand it. Europe consistently pushes for us/them.
it was Russians who made themselves the morally corrupt 'them' by killing people in Europe.
Geopolitics is not about morals. But I'm sure Rheinmetall is happy to hear your perspective.
Are we the baddies?
All countries are the baddies from some perspective.
It was an invitation to reflect your deranged yapping about what is morally correct and who deserves what. You're basing your moral perspectives off of western propaganda and are unable to see through it, because you don't even try.
But morals, as I mentioned, are not part of the decision tree of imperial war efforts.
The most efficient thing to do, would be to do any and everything to stop the killing. Europe's capitalist class is not interested in that. But me telling you that probably triggers some kind of brainrot accusation of being a Russian bot from you. Breath, don't, I'm not, chill.
You sniffed the NATO stuff a bit too hard and fell off the deep end, my friend. Off to the front you go. It's the only morally correct thing for you to do.
Alright, this answer has a lot of questions. They are rhetorical, tho, I want you to ask yourself these kind of questions and think about their implications. I'm not going to keep discussing this, I'd rather stop wasting my time on randos on the internet, but alas, here we go.
The long term efficient thing is to support Ukraine and continue to wear down and embarrass russia.
To what end? Have Russia collapse? Then what happens? And why do you want that? Do you want that, because you think they are evil and a shithole country? Don't you think that's a dumb take? What happens with the civilians, do they have it coming?
The long term efficient thing is to not be in a constant state of war. Ask: Who benefits from a constant state of war?
If russia is allowed to expand based on violent expansionism, it will only be encouraged to do more
Would considering NATOs expansionism be marked as Russian propaganda for you? If so, why? NATO is a military alliance lead by the world hegemon, which is a hyper-aggressive bully on the world stage, projecting its power with more then 800 bases around the globe and attacks other sovereign nations at will, as a standard mode of operation; NATO countries like the USA, the UK and Germany are complicit in the abhorrent genocide against the Palestinian people; why are these nations the ones to decide, at which point they themselves are getting too close to another sovereign state and not the state that's being cornered by them? And why are they suddenly trustworthy in regards to Ukraine/Russia? Isn't that creating dissonance in your mind?
and that will cost Europe more in lives and resources in the long run.
It will cost Europe AND Russia more lives of the working class people to keep on fighting a war of attrition. What are they fighting for, do you have a coherent answer? Good versus Evil? Does Russia want to own all of Eurasia? Does Europe only want to "restore order"? Tell me, why you think they are at war, at all, what's their endgame? And why do ordinary people like you and me have to die for these goals, while the military industry thrives with exploding stocks? And why do these stocks plunge, every single time when peace talks are being held?
Of course, they don't want to slap russia too hard, or it might have a tantrum and escalate.
Escalate how, nuclear? Because either Russia is too weak to win against Ukraine or it's such a big danger, that they might invade (western) Europe soon, which is it? They might have a tantrum and escalate, but Europe still wants to keep fighting a war against them. Dunno, seems unreasonable and incoherent.
So the slow bleeding off of its capabilities is the goal.
You don't think Russia would know this? Why aren't they just escalating anyway then, or change strategy? You agree, that Ukrainians are bleeding, too, right? Again, ask: Who is the beneficiary?
It really sucks for the Ukrainians, but they clearly would rather fight it, (...)
Who are "they"? The nationalist government? The men being kidnapped off the streets to be sent to the frontlines? Who wants to fight? The people of Luhansk and Donetsk? You don't think they'd rather be alive, no matter where some random border is and which passport they have? Polls suggest, that the Ukranians are in fact not "clearly" in a mood to fight, anymore, but quite the contrary.
Maybe, it's not the Ukrainians that want to fight. Who does, tho? Who benefits from this?
(...) than become part of the shithole country that russia is.
That's a value judgement based on your own biases. Why isn't Ukraine a shithole country, too? Or dunno, Poland, or hell, Germany? And do you think the Russian speaking people from the Donbas region, as well as other regional minorities would rather be part of shithole Ukraine, the country that suppresses their primary language and that were at war with the Ukrainian government since the Maidan in 2014? Or should they all just be executed anyway, as they are Russian traitors to the Ukrainian nationality?
Look, this is tiresome as fuck. I'm not saying Putin a cool guy, alright? I'm not "supporting Ruzzia", but I seriously think that a lot of you folks here on lemmy.world are only repeating what NATO-aligned media is telling you to think and that's: WAR WAR WAR. RUSSIA BAD. CHINA BAD. It's 100 % NATO propaganda. You are not NATO, you are not the capitalist class. You don't have to identify with these narratives. You will not benefit from this.
You are not going to defend "your way of life". The capitalist class is defending theirs. All there is for you is misery, stop cheering for the war machine, it's dumb.
What you miss is that by supporting appeasement to russia, you are the one encouraging more war. Yes russia wants to keep expanding. Putin has said this directly.
NATO 'expansion' is when countries ask to join and then are admitted . Around russia, countries join nato for the defensive pact. If russia doesn't want countries on their borders banding together to protect themselves from Russian aggression, then they shouldn't have been so aggressive. Russia has absolutly no right to attack it's neighbors just because they want to be able to defend themselves.
Yes, it sucks for the civilians on all sides when Russia attacks. The only solution is for russia to stop attacking - which they could do any day. But they're a war mongering country, so will only stop when they run out of the ability to attack.
See now, I tried telling you, that you're whole thought process is taken over by the absolutely normal bias one gets from living a normal live in the west and is only mildly interested in politics. One can only think in the propagandized patterns learned from the ruling system.
Good guy Marx said: "The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."
You actively have to break through that, by critically open your mind for different perspectives. Here in this thread has been another conversation that also touches on your appeasement critique, I recommend you read the very thoughtful commentary of @Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com from this comment on downwards, it's not that much and while they're in discussion with someone else, they're explaining it better and calmer, than I'm able to. Have a good day.
Russia is pushing all these far right movements in europe and usa. They also attacked critical infrastrucure e.g. the internet cables and send their drones into europe. Also Russia send killers into europe to kill certain individuals e.g. in Berlin the "Tiergarten killer".
Russia needs to feel that it can no longer do this without consequence. Europe needs to walk the talk.
Stop repeating NATO propaganda, these are the voices of the war ministers!^a^
NATO is already attacking Russia/China^b^ with their hybrid war. The capitalist system^c^ is pushing all these far right movements in Europe and the rest of the world. The US and its allies also attacked critical infrastrucure e.g. the north stream pipeline, the Ras Issa Port in Yemen^d^, Iranian nuclear sites^e^ and send their drones everywhere and keep killing civilians^f^. Also the US sends killers into wherever the fuck they want to kill certain individuals^g^. The USA needs to feel that it can no longer do this without consequence. Europe needs to chill and leave NATO, asap.
a) \
b) Center for Strategic and International Studies: Pivot to China\
c) Science & Society, Vol. 83, No. 2, April 2019, 481–509: Global Capitalist Crisis and Twenty-First Century Fascism: Beyond the Trump Hype\
d) Human Rights Watch: Yemen: US Strikes on Port an Apparent War Crime\
e) Wikipedia: United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites\
f) Wikipedia: Civilian casualties from the United States drones strikes\
g) Wikipedia: List of assassinations by the United States
Such is life currently: hyperbolic questions in ironic comments like " have you proof about Ruzz agression, because the West..." etc.
Smh, about the contrast between their potential to embrace a grand selfdeception and the arrogant stubbornness to look away from the invasive destruction and killings Shahed drones cause on a daily bases for more than a thousand days.
French four-star General Philippe de Montenon said he’s confident Europe could prevail, even without the US on side.
This is discussed too rarely. Does anybody know of a source that makes a reliable comparison?
Only the former head of the US forces in NATO, Ben Hodges , has oftentimes said similar lines afaik, like here :
Europe should “quit whining” about the threats it faces and “act like the superpower” that it is, according to a former senior US army officer.
Generally, he's quite confident about Europe defending itself.
Europe should stop whining and ‘act like the superpower’ it is, former US general warns
Ben Hodges tells a London audience that Nato members on continent should prepare for future Russian strikes on their air and sea portsMark Paul (The Irish Times)
Well, France has the second or third largest/most powerful individual Navy in the world, and Russia has severely diminished trained personnel, so unless China enters it would be a one sided massacre in Europe's favor.
Probably why Russia has worked so hard on the south of Ukraine to secure the sea border even losing territory in the north.
The issue is when China enters, and whose side they will be on. Does Xi Jinpooh see more profit in helping his cabal of friendly dictators or would he just carve out a slice of the Russia Pie?
I can't see China wanting to get involved in the war. Wars are expensive, and the outcome is not guaranteed.
Besides China has improving relations with Europe, what is the point in risking that?
China is invading like 4 territories every day of the week and they attempted to covertly build a partially underground military citt in Beijing 10x the size of the US Pentagon, in addition to being the origin country of the vast majority of cyberattacks.
They vetoed the only Israel Palestine ceasefire agreement that the US would agree to last year and endorsed the bloodthirsty Trump admin, openly promoting him with their TikTok platform.
They bankroll North Korea and Iran.
If War incarnated on earth he would be taking notes from Pooh Bear.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, maybe War has incarnated, riding a RED horse.
And projection force from our aircraft carrier is also a good asset.
Long range missiles and Fighter Jet deployments control modern warfare. The only way around it is a decentralized power structure bunkered down for infinite guerilla warfare, but Russia's power structure is very much centralized.
Plus, if you can take the shores you can spread from there to cut off supply lines.
Why do we fucking still Need to use military confrontation for everything?
Fr in this modern world with phones, internet and much more, why do we have to confront by sending young people in a year grinder?
I am ashamed of my species
Russia should know full well ... countries on the path to destroy themselves ... wait a decade and win.
There is a growing division of the AfD in Germany between eastern and western oriented politicians. I am not sure if Russia can rely on controlling those parties in 10 years.
They could just... wait a decade and win.
Is Putin going to be alive in a decade? He doesn't give a shit about Russia, he only cares about his own glory. What good is controlling the world after he's dead? He'd rather control Ukraine now and let the entire country crumble after he's dead.
Haaai :3 i already saw you a couple times herw on lemmy.
Yeah btw these fuckers are everywhere .
Ik Surprised no One told me to go kms yet
the situation in ukraine did not happen in a vacuum. there are reasons why russia decided to invade.
there is no logical explaination why russia would want to attack NATO and trigger article 5.
but hey as long as the fear exists we can watch line go up in rheinmetall, saab & dassault stocks so the capital of a stagnating empire can save itself.
there are reasons why russia decided to invade.
Yeah the reason being that they believe that Ukraine had little in the way of defence and that they would be able to get away with it. Hence why military posturing is necessary, to convince the Russians they wouldn't be able to get away with it.
If some disaster took down Poland's electrical and communication network Russia would be in there like a shot. Don't try and claim otherwise they have form of taking advantage.
Yeah the reason being that they believe that Ukraine had little in the way of defence
This is bad analysis. You may disagree with the invasion and call it illegal while simultaneously understanding that NATO is a military alliance created specifically against the USSR and should have been dismantled (as was promised to former Soviet citizens during the dissolution of the country). NATO was never supposed to get to Poland, let alone Ukraine or Finland.
Add to that the Victoria Nuland leaked audios discussing which president the US would put in place during the Euromaidan in 2014, the anti-Russian policies the Ukrainian government has taken for the past decade towards ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine, and you have plenty more arguments than "Russia just wanted to invade Ukraine and spoil their economic and diplomatic relations with all of Europe just because Pootin bad".
Again, you can still oppose and criticize the invasion, but try to do some realistic geopolitical analysis beyond the Lord of the Rings "Sauron is very evil and so are the Orcs".
I don't know what Nita was never supposed to get to Poland is supposed to mean. NATO was a defence pact to defend against any threat to its members, the idea was to prevent something like what happened in the first world war where everyone ended up fighting each other because of all of the complicated interrelations that had all been independently agreed.
The reason they ended up being butting heads with the USSR was the USSR was constantly interfering with Western affairs. Just as Russia is doing today.
NATO has a policy of never initiating an attack the only reason the military would ever enact would be if a threat was made against one of its member states.
There is zero reason for Russia to consider NATO a threat. But they clearly do so NATO has to defend itself that's not fear-mongering that's just being pragmatic.
My problem is your interpretation of NATO's fairly logical response to a potential threat as seditious or part of some evil conspiracy on the part of the industrial military complex. Sure they're benefiting from this but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're involvement isn't partisan.
NATO expanding into Poland as per Wikipedia article on controversy of NATO expansion eastwards.
NATO was a defence pact
...which has historically been used to bomb considered enemy nations such as Yugoslavia or Libya.
the idea was to prevent something like what happened in the first world war where everyone ended up fighting each other
Not true. Per Wikipedia's article on NATO: "Throughout the Cold War, NATO's primary purpose was to deter and counter the threat posed by the Soviet Union and its satellite states, which formed the rival Warsaw Pact in 1955".
NATO has a policy of never initiating an attack
Ask Libyans or Yugoslavians what they have to say about that. And that's just official NATO interventions, without counting Iraq or Afghanistan, in which some but not all NATO members participated.
There is zero reason for Russia to consider NATO a threat.
This is absolutely delusional, it's patently obvious that you have never talked to a Russian person, and I say this as a Spaniard. NATO has consistently been a formation hostile to Russia, and has for the longest time been carrying out "simulacrum exercises" in the Baltic sea and regions near Russia.
Aremed confrontation as in military, especially if the people dont want to be there fighting, Isnt good.
Unfortunately with some governments you cant treat in peace and the people Will Need to arm themselves and do stuff.
I still Think that in any case there should be the leasts deaths possibile
No one is arguing otherwise.
But your original question is why do we still need the military when we have smartphones, and of course the answer is because the existence of smartphones does not dissuade the likes of Putin, because why would it?
The devs for Lemmy are Marxists and they setup lemmy.ml as the first lemmy instance. They chose .ml because for them it stands for Marxist-Leninist, despite what ICANN officially regards it as.
Also, like you point out, the instance pushes a lot of bizarre propaganda and dissent is often met with bans. From my observations, criticism of Russia or China can get you banned, presumably because these countries have a history of communism. Also, they even defend Putin and justify the invasion of Ukraine.
In my view, it’s one thing to be communist. It’s another to align yourself with the worst examples of it. Many communists distance themselves from the CCP and USSR, arguing that these were not real examples of communism. But, these folks in .ml seem to be defenders of it.
Many communists distance themselves from the CCP and USSR
Which is somewhat like being a nazi but distancing yourself from Nazi Germany.
I love you got three angy downvotes for explaining this.
I'm sad there isn't an appropriate gif of an "angry tankie" shaking his fist.
Congress declares war, not the President.
Congress has already authorized the President to deploy military units at the president's discretion, per the AUMF which renews biannually under the NDAA
If the US fails to honor NATO's Article 5 then the rest of the world will worry the US won't honor their defence packs.
Japan
Taiwan
Philippines
South Korea
Nuclear proliferation will follow
Japan Taiwan Philippines South Korea
Are client states under the occupation of the US military. They aren't worried the US might fall to act. They're worried the US might act to remove their leaders and replace them with more pliant ones.
Nuclear proliferation will follow
Why would an occupied territory hosting US nuclear weapons build their own nuclear arsenal?
Why would the US allow them to do so?
Why would an occupied territory hosting US nuclear weapons build their own nuclear arsenal?
Many of them already do have nuclear weapons of their own. Also the US wouldn't have any say in whether or not they produce nuclear weapons they could announce their preference but they have no ability to enforce it.
Again, very bizzare take. There are people in literally every country that wants foreign influence or bases out, that proves nothing and that number of people is very minimal compared to people who want them. The locals in Okinawa are one such example as the military presence is disturbing and soldiers are not known for ethics. I'm in one of your so claimed "occupied states", and everyone's thankful for the alliance (literally no one calls it occupation except Russian people living here who hate everyone who tries to defend themselves from the next invasion).
Random, but did you know an alternate name for Russians where I live is "occupiers"? If you say "occupiers", literally everyone knows that means Russians.
There are people in literally every country that wants foreign influence or bases out, that proves nothing
You don't think an enormous population of foreign military resulting in high rates of unprosecuted sexual violence and organized crime demonstrates anything about the state of politics in the host country?
So you believe people in Korea, Japan, and the Philippines at the highest levels of power just... want this for their people? Or do you think they're so beaten down they don't believe in their own capacity for self-defense?
Random, but did you know an alternate name for Russians where I live is “occupiers”?
I mean, you keep coming back to Russians, as though you think they're a different species.
I guess you'd call them, what? Orks?
Is the violent occupation of conquered territory only a problem for you when the occupying army is Slavic?
You don't think an enormous population of foreign military resulting in high rates of unprosecuted sexual violence and organized crime demonstrates anything about the state of politics in the host country?So you believe people in Korea, Japan, and the Philippines at the highest levels of power just... want this for their people? Or do you think they're so beaten down they don't believe in their own capacity for self-defense?
Please read the article you yourself sent me and give me source for your "high rates". I'm not denying the issue exists, but officials have been fighting this issue with good results. If you think few bad apples are worse than risking entire country and millions of people then.. I can't even argue that, I'd just call you extremely dumb and move on.
Is the violent occupation of conquered territory only a problem for you when the occupying army is Slavic?
The irony here is that I'm Slavic. I also clearly signalized against Chinese aggression. I'm not anti-Russian, I'm anti-whoever-can't-stay-in-their-borders-and/or-do-colonialism
EDIT: Random, but who do you think is responsible for more Slav deaths - Nazi Germany or Russia?
Please read the article you yourself
Buddy, you can try reading past the first paragraph. There's an extended back and forth in the interview discussing the violence around these bases and their broad unpopularity.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1…
Do you have a source for your claims? Because I do for mine. Also, look up land used by US in Japan. It has reduced by nearly 50% since they entered Japan.
US Military Bases and Human Security in Okinawa
This chapter tries to describe human insecurity in Okinawa and to investigate issues in applying the concept of human security to the periphery of a developed country.Eiichi Hoshino (Springer Singapore)
And how exactly would they force the United States to do anything?
“Join Us or we’ll start a two front war to make you join us” is hardly a convincing argument.
Aren’t things like Article 5 basically a ride-or-die pact that obligates member nations to come to eachother’s defense?
They aren't self enforcing. Someone at the Pentagon actually has to give the order to mobilize
It would be better if the U.S. just waits a minute sees shat happens, and then congress votes to declare war and the executive branch would have to act based upon their vote or would be directly disobeying the legislature again. Congress declares war. Not the executive branch. And in the end we are the only country to enact article 5 in history, when 9/11 happened and NATO countries answered the call even though many probably did not wish too.
The thing here would be that unless Russis initiates the attack, it wouldn't trigger article 5 and congress could just ignore it.
And a lot of people would like to ignore it even with the long term pitfalls, because all they care about is themselves and right this very second
Congress declares war. Not the executive branch
Congress authorized enormous discretion to the president under the NDAA and AUMF. There's no actual need to declare war in the modern era.
That is for the best. The US is a hostile power, and allowing it to embed enemy troops or sabotage NATO operations should not be permitted. Europe is better off without the traitorous Trump Regime.
It sucks that it has to be this way, but to deny the intent and nature of the current United States, is to invite disaster.
It’s by no means clear the Europeans would succeed. Romanian and other European officials at the exercise in Cincu, about 260 kilometers (162 miles) north of Bucharest by road, voiced concerns about how long it would take for NATO allies to make it to the front.
Those two things are not synonymous.
Romanian military are concerned it would take allies time to get to the front (I.e. it would take time for NATO to mobilise in the event of an unanticipated invasion of Romania). However firstly that doesn't mean victory wouldn't be ultimately achieved (allied forces had a bad time of it during the first part of the second world war, but ultimately were victorious) and secondly it assumes that Russia would be able to rally its forces (what forces) and initiate a surprise invasion despite Europe heavily monitoring Russian military activity. Which all seems unlikely.
I'm also unclear about why 260 km is considered an insurmountable distance. In an emergency that distance could be covered in a couple of hours, (I'm assuming that liberation forces and not required to obey the speed limit) presumably everyone would be going the other way in any case.
it would really be something else if they fought them
No it wouldn't be. Germany is suggesting forced conscription already, and so is France. I don't want to see young men thrown into the meat grinder to satisfy the imperial wishes of either Europe or Russia
In my opinion, the morally correct answer is to have a mild relation with Russia, consisting of trade and not much more. Europe would get access to a huge pool of resources to boost its industry, and stopping to antagonize our neighboring countries would help to drive down military tensions in the continent.
NATO was conceived as an anti-Soviet military pact, and any excuse for its usefulness expired after 1991. Now it's just a military playground for US interests, keeping European money flowing to the Wunderwaffen of the USA Military Industrial Complex, and maintaining Yankee military bases in the continent.
Big imperialist capitalist countries want to have spheres of influence, especially in their immediate proximity, this is basic geopolitics. Intruding reach other's leads to escalation. It really is that simple.
Also, in case you didn't think of this: joining a military pact isn't a human right. It is totally possible and sometimes very rational to say "no" to a country who wants to join it. I'd bet my ass you would have absolutely no problem with the EU rejecting countries from joining such as Morocco, Algeria, Libya or Saudi Arabia. If you don't see that NATO allowing neighboring countries to Russia to join it is an escalation towards Russia, I don't know what to tell you. I tried to explain how Mexico joining a military pact with China and/or Russia would be a horrible idea in terms of escalation and risk of war.
How did Europe respond to the genocide in Gaza? To the invasion of Iraq? To the blanket bombing of Vietnam, Laos and Korea? To the invasion of Afghanistan? To the coups in essentially all countries in Latin America? To the invasion attempt on Cuba?
Why should Europe exclusively react to Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
that isn't much of an answer. I still have no idea what your position is.
to answer your question though, I don't think any of those invasions you listed are good things. I don't think they had good outcomes, and I don't like them
I equally condemn them, yes.
My position is: Russian government sucks, it's a far right wing nationalist antidemocratic regime. Europe is just not really better or in a moral position to believe itself better than Russia. We have our own far right problems that we should locally take care of. If you ask me, a communist, I suggest having radical left wing organizations, strong unionization, and class struggle against the oligarchs and capitalists in Europe, and I would strongly encourage Russian citizens to do the same with their own government.
That said, I think that war is the least desirable outcome, possibly especially because I'm a young conscriptable male by demographics. My stance as a European is antimilitarism, I think Europe is as much an evil empire as Russia if not worse, and I don't want state expenditure to be directed towards weapons and tanks, I want it to be directed to healthcare, education and pensions.
I believe that Russia assumes an aggressive militaristic stance with its neighboring countries that it considera its sphere of influence, because it doesnt have the soft power tools (propaganda, economics, intelligence, media control, cultural hegemony) that the west does, and it sees the west intruding in its sphere of influence (e.g. color revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia). The only way the Russian oligarchy and capitalists have of maintaining its sphere of influence, given the lack of soft powers to do so in comparison with the west, is through military power.
I want to leave Russia alone with its sphere of influence, and have friendly relations with it and China, and not have war.
Because appeaemt doesn't work?
They're not willing to engage in good faith. If they were they never would have started the "special operations" in the first place. Nor would they be asking to keep all of their gains in the war.
They were more than willing to engage in good faith from late 1990s to early 2010s, it's the constant western meddling in Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and other Russian sphere of influence countries, coupled with the expansion of NATO, that pushed Russia to isolation. Russia doesn't have the economic or soft power to fight the US+EU in that field, so either US+EU accept Russia peacefully having its own sphere of influence, or Russia will naturally attempt to do so militarily.
The USA doesn't need to militarily engage in Mexico because it already belongs to its sphere of influence, in Venezuela they don't enjoy that so the natural response is to threaten with military invasion (as it's doing now). It's basic geopolitics.
so either US+EU accept Russia peacefully having its own sphere of influence, or Russia will naturally attempt to do so militarily.
Aww poor Russia, they were just trying to "peacefully have its own sphere of influence".
Give me a fucking break.
And what the US is doing in Venezuela is not a "natural response" to anything, and to try to point to it as a justification for Russia's actions is actually insane.
What about the stolen ukrainian children
It's mostly magnified out of reality. The source for the vast majority of "stolen Ukrainian children" numbers (supposedly hovering around the tens of thousands according to western media) is a Ukrainian ministry. You don't believe Ukraine has any reasons to exaggerate the numbers in atrocities for international image purposes? When the numbers are roughly confirmed by independent journalistic work, I'll take the claims as they are, but until then I'll be cautious and not take Ukrainian government propaganda at face value, the same way that I don't take Russian government propaganda at face value when they talk of genocide of ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine pre-2022.
theses russians are some of the worst neighbors europe could have
Russians could say the same about Europe contributing to genocide in Palestine, to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and the bombing of Libya and Yugoslavia. Or those don't count somehow? Do you really think Europe has any moral high ground to stand on seeing its current support to the Netanyahu genocidal regime?
Cyber warfare is universal, and CIA actually dominates simply by the fact that most social media are owned by US companies. If you don't think Twitter being owned by Elon Musk counts as western Cyberwarfare you're plainly wrong. Chinese cyberwarfare through TikTok arguably is the biggest contributor to awareness of the Palestinian genocide in the west. As for the rest of comments, they're isolated minor incidents during wartime, I could be talking shit about Poland keeping a Spanish journalist prisoner for years without evidence because he has Russian ancestors, but I don't bring these things up because all states do dirty shit.
Already tried that. We hoped that by buying massive amounts of Russian oil and gas they would see that peace is worth a lot more than war.
But they decided war anyways. And suddenly we had to find a replacement for all that energy.
Already tried that. We hoped that by buying massive amounts of Russian oil and gas they would see that peace is worth a lot more than war
And Russia responded to that positively. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, there were even negotiations to make Russia enter the European Union. Those hopes for Russia were shattered when Europe and the US kept interfering in its sphere of influence (Georgia, Ukraine, etc) through colour revolutions and propaganda. The culminating point where Russia saw there was no possibility was when in 2014, the democratically elected president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich was removed by a US-sponsored colour revolution (see Victoria Nuland's leaked phonecalls), that's actually what triggered the invasion of Crimea. It was Russia's way of saying "I cannot win the soft-power competition against the US, so if my only way to maintain a sphere of influence is through military power, so be it".
If you still don't believe allowing for a Russian "sphere of influence" is an important geopolitical item if we want worldwide peace, imagine how USA people and their government would react to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia and Peru entering a military alliance with Russia and China and started to import military material from said countries and have Chinese and/or Russian military bases. Last time something similar happened with Cuba, the world was on the brink of nuclear war.
My brother in foreign affairs, Russia has been an aggressor of Ukraine it's whole existence.
Ukraine signed an agreement which cited that it would give up nuclear warheads for protection by the USA against Russia.
That protection never happened. Crimea was taken. Chaos ensued on the borders. Then Russia struck their fucking capital.
AND YOU WANT US TO FUCKING TRADE WITH RUSSIA, lol... Surely that will fix everything.
This you?
I implore them to try something it shouldn't take much to fuck them at this point.
Bro I'm not gonna be in any trenches
Then you'll be in jail. Disobeying your country's military or dodging conscription gets you that.
USA has never been happy about coming to Europe's defence. But they eventually have plenty of times.
I mean, before Pearl Harbor, 88% of americans were opposed to joining the war. After Pearl Harbor, 97% supported joining the war. If Japan had kept it in their pants, so to speak, a lot of things might've been very different.
If Russia decides to go from Temu Nazis into actual Nazis and attack the rest of Europe, USA is going to be part of it at some point. I'm hoping on our side.
At least 11 killed in South Africa mass shooting
At least 11 killed in South Africa mass shooting
Gunmen stormed a hostel near Pretoria and opened fire, killing 11 people including a three-year-old.Jessica Rawnsley (BBC News)
illegal drinking establishments, where mass shootings are common?
police shut down 12,000 such premises outlets between April and September this year
Why is licensing bars so difficult, and why is there such "anger" over them? Sounds almost like 1930s US prohibition, where organized crime (police???) are intimidating for protection?
One of the very few businesses excluded from the municipal licence exemption.
Cannot start a watering hole without the municipality's blessings (some money needs to grease the wheels).
But basically led to a lot of underground drinking spots. They were a godsend during COVID lockdowns, any sale of alcohol was prohibited, there was some guy that was killed by the military when they found him drinking a beer in his own yard (which technically was legal).
But yeah some stupid alcohol rules here in SA, not all for example drinking and driving, but most
Fucked up with no one to blame but myself.
I spun up nextcloud to replace onedrive about a year ago. Everything was going well so I chose not to renew my onedrive subscription, this was exactly 6 months ago, I'd assume.
I got an email a few days ago reminding me that they would delete my data. I ignored it because obviously I had moved my data to nextcloud. not gonna trick me Mi¢ro$oft.
But yesterday I decided to have a quick look though and it turns out I didn't copy over everything, and certanly not my 5 years of camera roll backups.
I started a sync of everything last night and woke up in the morning to find that it had stopped at about 10gb out of 80gb. And now onedrive won't connect and if I try to log in to onedrive with that account via the web it just kicks me back to the microsoft portal.
I'm 99.5% sure there is nothing to be done and I'm not an overly sentimental person so if they are lost it won't break me. I have many important photos backed up in immich but just not everything.
But I just needed to ask in case someone knows where to find the M spot I can touch for magic file recovery.
Edit: turns out you can just pay them more money and they still had my stuff. thank you for joining me on the shortest support ticket of all time
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You got two options. Both suck.
- Call support. Have fun. I'd rather rip out my eyeballs in this scenario because you're not a paying customer. You will get the shit-tier service, will likely be hung up on, and reexplain the situation to 3+ individuals over the course of 4 hours and ultimately get nothing done.
- Resubscribe. Finish the job. The odds of your accounts db being wiped are kinda slim. Sucks because you do what you explicitly sought to avoid: pay Microsoft.
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No backup plan for Milan Olympic ice hockey arena as construction goes down to the wire
MILAN (AP) — There is no backup stadium if the main ice hockey arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Games is not ready on time.
Construction on the arena that is set to welcome NHL players back to the Olympics for the first time in more than a decade is behind schedule and its completion is going right down to the wire.
A test event at the Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena — the new, 16,000-seat venue on the outskirts of Milan — had to be moved, and new test events aren’t scheduled until Jan. 9-11.
https://apnews.com/article/milan-cortina-olympics-hockey-arena-bb158ccdaadf24daea1c3ae73250264f
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I saw this headline and my thinking is: "Good".
It's always felt really, really stupid that part of landing the Olympics is the promise of building new arenas and stadiums, and those arenas and stadiums seem to sit unused afterward. Just a huge waste when so many countries and cities already have facilities for professional sports.
I thought for a long time that there should be 4 sites for the Olympics, two for summer and two for winter. The Olympic committee maintains them with help from the host county and donations or dues from the participants counties.
Pick 4 suitable sites in as stable countries as you can find, and build world class facilities there. This whole building all new facilities every time is fucking stupid and wasteful. Besides it's been shown that the "revenue generated" doesn't make up for the costs to build, run, and clean up after all of it.
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Apparently NodeBB has it, there was talk of getting them to work together
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