Imnecomrade - pronounced “I am any comrade”
Techie, hippie, commie nerd
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6·2 months agoI prefer to post invidious links for people’s security and privacy. I know it’s annoying if it doesn’t work for you. Maybe try a VPN or just change the link from “inv.nadeko.net” to “www.youtube.com”.
28·2 months agoThe judicial system is such garbage. Finding a “neutral” jury just means you get a bunch of cop-loving people with a shitty centrist bias that end up locking people in prison even when the evidence showed otherwise. If most people lean a certain way, perhaps their opinion should count.
Exactly. I just put a disclaimer there because it sounded a little distasteful without it, at least for anyone new who didn’t know my beliefs. I just wanted to be clear I’m not relishing in the genocide of a people for sake of radicalizing people.
When I first listened to the video, I was also thinking about how Bernie just keeps repeating his same old lines, sounding pathetic as the masses, who have further developed class consciousness over the past decade, are not putting up with the censorship and ongoing whitewashing of the genocide. They demand radical change which Bernie is straying away from as he compromises more and more with the far right democrats and republicans while refusing to put up any fight.
Messages like the rich need to pay for their fair share aren’t enough. The rich systematically maintain a system through violence and austerity to keep their power and wealth, instilling bigotry and reactionary ideas among the masses to keep them competing and working against each other, and dismantling rights fought and won by previous movements. As Parenti said, the people really want to be liberated from the bourgeoisie’s control and domination of their lives. They are tired of struggling for survival. Bernie’s pathetic fight for concessions are not enough. The people want full liberation, to finally dismantle a system which perpetuates horrors that no one should ever have to experience, and they want to replace it with one that will ensure it never returns.
I’m honestly glad the crisis the Palestinian genocide has created (of course, I believe this goes with saying, I wish it never had to come to this and that Palestinians were free from the beginning and never faced settler occupation and this holocaust nightmare) has happened while Bernie is still alive. It has turned so many people against Bernie and other socdems, undoing much of the harm they caused toward the socialist movement and finally radicalizing people who would have been radicalized earlier. I’m glad Bernie will have to die knowing he’s a monster who perpetuated genocide, and that people are beginning to not settle for an imperialist social democracy but for actual revolution to dismantle and replace this horrific system of oppression that threatens humanity’s survival.
It saddens me to see dementia worsen in Parenti. He was a brilliant man, and I hope the last years of his life are as peaceful as possible.
Same band to tell people to vote Hillary Clinton. Supporting Palestinian liberation is pretty low bar at this point, and it’s not uncommon for libs to support “Free Palestine”. Nevertheless, Green Day has been supportive of the working class and has some revolutionary themes within their songs, so maybe Billie is radicalizing.
I prefer IDLES at this point, but I did grow up listening to Green Day, as have other comrades here and irl, so I do agree this was nice and a bit unexpected to see. They did the bare minimum while most mainstream artists haven’t, though it’s a bit late and would have had more impact closer to October 7th.
I’ve worked at a company that did injection molding, and they made people have to work at superhuman speeds with equipment that continued to give injuries. Part of the reason is because they would collect data from the fastest person on the machine and expect everyone else to work as fast. The mentors who were being timed caught on and started working slower to make the pace less ridiculous. Management would also let go of people who had injuries because they didn’t want to pay for it.
Personally I would like to work in a semiconductor factory as an engineer or even start in an entry level position. Probably won’t happen in my lifetime if I stay where I live, and it will probably become more difficult to achieve in Amerikkka as tarriffs lead to domestic industry crumbling while the working class begins to lose access to basic necessities like education and healthcare. My dream at this point is revolution or move to China, if I even survive.
2·3 months agoLinuxRuleZ (who is a moderator and major contributor to torrminatorr.com) rocks. Their packaged Linux native and Wine prefixed games work nicely with the Steam Deck (though sometimes I have noticed the Wine ones are broken). Make sure to seed their torrents as they are not up for very long, and they delete their old builds because they cannot sustain the storage requirements.
I think
they–actually maybe the adminstrator of torrminatorr.com, I thought LinuxRuleZ was the host because they are very prolific and people mention the administrator’s sites mainly to get LinuxRuleZ’s repacks–also host zamunda.se (also other domains/mirrors exist, but this one is possible to create an account successfully atm), and have been working on a new site appnetica.com.While 1337x is too risky from pirate from, and this creator’s repacks don’t work with the Steam Deck due to the immutable OS which also lacks various linux packages, I think johncena141’s repacks are pretty cool because they use DwarFS, a virtual filesystem like FUSE that has some of the best possible compression ratios and speeds possible, for their repacks. I saw redditors complain about this person’s repacks being too difficult and complex, lol, but I think this is one of the best ways to use open source tech for Linux piracy. This honestly inspires me to learn to crack my own games and software and create nicely packed torrents.
DwarFS tangent
I’ve been wanting to learn FUSE/DwarFS and OverlayFS to see if it would be viable to create a solution for compressing my Steam games since deduplication would probably help save a lot of space from a lot of copies of libraries and wine prefixes bundled separately for each game.
91·4 months agoLenin foresaw that success in socialist construction in Russia would serve as a model and example for the victorious proletariat in other countries. He said: “If Russia becomes covered with a dense network of electric power stations and powerful technical installations, our communist economic development will become a model for a future socialist Europe and Asia.”
Trotsky, Rykov and their supporters tried to frustrate the plan for the electrification of the country, but Lenin and Stalin thwarted all their efforts to do so. In a letter he wrote to Lenin in March 1921, Stalin subjected the arguments of Trotsky and Rykov to withering criticism and at the same time paid high tribute to the plan drawn up by the Goelro. “It is a skilfully drafted outline of a single economic plan, without ironical quotation marks,” he wrote. “It is the only Marxist attempt made in our times to place under the Soviet superstructure of economically backward a really practical and, under present conditions, the only possible, technical-industrial basis.”
With the cessation of the civil war and the transition to peaceful economic construction the Party was confronted with the task of laying down a new line on all questions affecting the economic life of the country. The Central Committee of the Party clearly realized that the system of what was known as War Communism had now become obsolete. The need for the surplus grain appropriation system had passed away and it was necessary to create opportunities for the peasants freely to dispose of their stocks of grain left over after paying their taxes. This would stimulate the revival of agriculture and trade, help to revive industry, improve the food supplies of the towns and create a new economic basis for the alliance between the workers and the peasants.
Lenin was of the opinion that the severe wounds inflicted upon the economy of the country by the imperialist war, and civil war and foreign intervention could be healed, and that its foundations could be reconstructed on socialist lines, only if the working class and the trade unions widely co-operated in this task. He strongly urged the necessity of making the workers and peasants understand that it was impossible to live in the old way, that the old economic conditions of existence had to be changed, and that production had to be carried on in accordance with a great economic plan. He put into the forefront the task of conducting extensive explanatory and educational work. It was necessary, he said, to create “a broad and firm basis of conviction for the new production tasks.”
At this crucial moment, at the turning point from war to peaceful economic construction, the Trotskyites launched and attack against the Party. Trotsky advocated a policy of immediately converting the trade unions into state organizations, of “shaking up” the trade unions, as he called it, and of regimenting and bullying the masses. The sole object of this policy was to rouse the workers against the Party and to split the working class. This would have been fatal for the proletarian dictatorship. Trotsky’s attack was followed up by attacks by other anti-Party groups, such as the Anarcho-Syndicalist “Workers’ Opposition,” led by Shlyapnikov, the “Democratic Centralists” led by Rykov, and the “Left Communists” led by Bukharin. It was they who forced upon the Party what was known as the “trade union discussion” concerning the function of the trade unions under the proletarian dictatorship.
Lenin hurled himself upon these enemies of the Party and disrupters of Party unity with his characteristic determination and relentlessness. He regarded the campaign launched by the Trotskyites and the other anti-Party groups as an attack upon the dictatorship of the proletariat and as an attempt to break the alliance between the working class and the peasantry.
He immediately replied to the politically harmful and dangerous platform proposed by the Trotskyites in a speech he delivered at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Party in November 1920; and on December 30 he spoke on the functions of the trade unions at a meeting of the Bolshevik delegates to the Eighth Congress of Soviets and leading trade union officials. He showed that the Trotskyites were confusing the trade unions with military organizations. He denounced their attempts to draw a contrast between the trade unions and the Party and revealed how dangerous the Trotskyite and other anti-Party platforms were for the proletarian dictatorship. He directed his main blow at the Trotskyites as the principal anti-Party group.
In January 1921, he attacked the opposition groups in an article entitled “The Party Crisis” and in a pamphlet entitled Once Again On the Trade Unions, in which he expounded and amplified the Marxist view of the functions of the trade unions under the proletarian dictatorship and showed that they served as a reservoir of state power, as a school of unity and solidarity, a school of administration and management of industry, and as a school of Communism. He exposed the anti-Marxist theoretical and political fallacies of Trotsky, Bukharin and Shlyapnikov on the trade union question and showed that they were substituting eclectics for dialectics. He called upon the Party to give a strong rebuff to all the anti-Party groups.
The great service that Lenin rendered in the course of this union discussion was that he revealed the true significance of the conflict within the Party. He showed that all the anti-Party groups were actually contending against the leading role played by the Party, against the alliance between the working class and the peasantry, and against the proletarian dictatorship. In this struggle Lenin received the loyal backing of Stalin, and together they repelled the attacks of the opponents of Leninism on the unity of the Party.
In March 1921, the Tenth Congress of the Bolshevik Party was held. The preparations for the congress and the congress itself were directed by Lenin. He was the reporter on the main questions on the agenda, such as the political activities of the Central Committee, the tax in kind, Party unity, and the Anarcho-Syndicalist deviation. He also drafted the main resolutions for the congress.
This congress took place in one of the most critical periods of the revolution. In February and March the country was in the throes of an acute food, fuel and transport crisis. Discontent grew among the peasantry. A week before the congress opened the Kronstadt mutiny broke out—this was another attempt on the part of the counter-revolutionaries to overthrow the Soviet regime. The Bolshevik Party had only just hone through a fierce internal conflict.
But under Lenin’s direction the congress marked a turning point in the task of cementing the unity of the Party of the working class and of working out the New Economic Policy.
In his report and speeches on Party unity Lenin severely criticized the anti-Marxist views of all the anti-Party groups. He showed that they were merely unprincipled politicians, and that their ideas were akin to those of the petty-bourgeois counter-revolutionaries. He said that the main lesson to be drawn from the discussion was that factionalism must be combated with the utmost severity and the unity of the Party maintained at all cost. This lesson had to be learnt by and must become a law for every member of the Party. As the history of all revolutions showed, the slightest relaxation of the unity of the Party—the vanguard of the proletariat—would facilitate the restoration of the power and property of the capitalists and landlords. With amazing penetration he exposed the new tactics of the class enemies who were banking on a conflict within the Communist Party and on utilizing in their interests the activities of every opposition group. As was stated in the resolution drawn up by Lenin on this question: “These enemies, having become convinced that the chances of a counter-revolution openly conducted under the flag of the Whiteguards were hopeless, are exerting all efforts to take advantage of the disagreements within the Russian Communist Party to promote the counter-revolution in one way or another by transferring power to political groups which on the surface appear to recognize the Soviet regime most.”
On Lenin’s motion the congress adopted a resolution entitled “On Party Unity” which was an exceptionally important factor in the defeat of the anti-Party groups and in reinforcing the unity of the Bolshevik Party.
The congress adopted another resolution proposed by Lenin which was closely connected with the resolution “On Party Unity.” This was entitled “The Syndicalist and Anarchist Deviation In Our Party.” In this resolution the congress condemned the Workers’ Opposition, declaring that the propaganda of its Anarcho-Syndicalist ideas was incompatible with membership of the Communist Party and calling upon the Party to combat this deviation.
Lenin took determined measures to strengthen the General Staff of the revolution, viz., the Central Committee of the Party. The Congress elected to this body firm and tried Bolsheviks like Lenin, Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Kalinin, Dzerzhinsky, Orjonikidze, Frunze and Kuibyshev.
By inflicting defeat upon the opposition Lenin cemented the unity of the Party and prepared it for fresh battles against its enemies and for fresh efforts to overcome difficulties. In this way he ensured the success of the Party’s sharp turn in its economic policy.
2·4 months agoI think I would have figured out the image quickly; I should have took a few seconds to look at the image instead of immediately resorting to an online search. I will have to check the game out some time, looks intriguing. I learned about morphic resonance from my spouse, who iirc told me the originator of the concept, Rupert Sheldrake. There’s been a few other places the idea has appeared in pop culture and in academics according to Wikipedia.
Upon further reading of the Wikipedia section, yeah, I guess that game is one of few media, if any more exist, in popular culture that is inspired by morphic resonance and doesn’t have Sheldrake directly involved in some part. I’ll definitely give that game a look.
Ah man, I did a reverse image search to see what reference you were making, and apparently it’s from an anime video game series called Zero Escape. I haven’t consumed much of any anime content, but this does look interesting. I accidentally saw an image that revealed the answer before I tried to guess. At first, I thought it was a mangled cross in a busted birdcage upon first glance. If I had known this wasn’t some Rorschach test and that there was actually something in the image beyond abstract black shapes, I may have had guessed it correctly within a few minutes. Now we’ll never know, I failed you.
(Replied to myself somehow the first time…)
Funny, I did the same thing on hexbear yesterday. I swear morphic resonance is real.
Unrelated, but so many times I have something on my mind, work on a new interest, study, etc., and I will see people on the internet doing the same thing. When I was working on restudying Geometry a year or so ago just simply to improve my math skills so I am prepared to do Calculus again when I go back to college someday for electrical engineering, I started reading Euclid’s Elements. Mind you, I was not influenced by anything on the internet beforehand, I just simply researched recommended reading materials to pirate and restudy mathematical subjects I am rusty on, and the same night I went to bed.
Before I slept, I was watching YouTubers/streamers play the MyHouse Doom WAD when it was getting popular. I use applications to avoid ads or anything that would spy on me and suggest me stuff based on my browsing habits and my spoken words irl. It was simply newly released videos that I saw in my subscriptions, and at the time it was NewPipe I was using. I simply watched the video on my own volition…and they kept mentioning the game being Non-Euclidean. The following days Euclid/Non-Euclid memes and content were appearing, nothing to do with the game or me studying.
I have so many moments like this on hexbear and lemmygrad, too. I will be doing anything that hasn’t been mentioned or done on this site/fediverse, and it’s not even related to the news or anything, and then people will just talk about it.
I also notice that some days people in traffic will all simultaneously be more aggressive or more calm on a particular day for no apparent reason, and my spouse will be in another state delivering loads and experience the exact same behaviors 99% of the time.
Tangent done
Obligatory:
Even if Russia and Amerikkka were to align for a mutual imperialist project, the working class keeps getting shafted with violent laws that make workers lose access to healthcare, education, unemployment benefits, housing, employment, etc. on a daily basis. Even if these nations stave off recession, workers are getting screwed over and only the bourgeoisie benefit. Even if fascism comes first, we’re still facing multiple crises like climate change, multiple crises that will still radicalize workers, but we have to organize. We can’t depend on China to save us. We can’t just sit and wait for world socialism to take over this settler nation. We can’t just hope for the fall of Amerikkka on its own.
Even if it does fall, we need to organize to bring upon a vanguard party that will give us an alternative to revolt and replace the warlords in power. Join PSL, FRSO, or start or join a local ML-favorable organization to help those around you (even if the organization isn’t perfect, though PSL has improved since the sexual allegations that keep being brought up here. I believe it has other problems, but those can be fixed over time, and the same applies to FRSO). Help the immigrants, trans, lgbt, minorities, poor workers, disabled folk, and other marginalized people. Just get up and rage on. (And if you are already doing so,) Don’t lose hope, but don’t let hope leave you complacent and distract you from bringing change to your community. Helping workers keep their heads above water while awakening their class consciousness eventually helps the working class gain political power.
Even if the odds are against us, we might as well fight as hard as we can with what we have left to potentially tip the scales and push humanity to a different course. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The fight for socialism will never die. No matter how many times capitalists bring us down, we can still get back up until humanity goes extinct. Perhaps both the Russians and Amerikkkans will revolt near the same time and one day we'll see a USSR2 and the end of Amerikkka and a new seed planted in Turtle Island.
Not saying Turtle Island will be the nation as it is a myth, just describing the continent and recognizing a socialist society will be something that replaces this colonized, demonic, imperialist, savage hellhole and return autonomy to the Black Belt and the Indigenous lands.
8·4 months agoYou could replace this chart with a different Western nation and its equivalent parties (or at least scales between the strong left and strong right among the population) and the numbers would mostly match up. It seems to be a pattern, even in Amerikkka, too, at least in regards to the older generations voting more conservative and siding with status quo generally while the new generation of voters have been radicalizing towards the fascist right (especially among young men) as well as the socialists/progressive left (especially among young women and non-binary).
Monocles chat is a fork of Conversations, and afaik the latter hasn’t updated OMEMO 2 for a couple years since this issue was created. This blog post from August 2024 mentions various clients that haven’t updated from OMEMO 0.3.0 to 0.4.0 at the time, and Conversations still seems to not support AES-256-CBC since the commit for this file hasn’t changed for 4 years.
I’m plan to use Profanity (code), but as far as I am aware and have heard, the only other clients to have updated their OMEMO implementations are (KDE desktop app) Kaidan (via QXmpp) and (Windows UWP app) UWPX (code) (also archived January 28, 2024). It would be nice to have a native Android/iOS GUI app that I can recommend to people to use with XMPP and implements OMEMO 2 or at least AES-256-CBC, but I don’t know of any at this time. If anyone here can recommend me such an application, I would be happy.
So based on this table, it looks like aTalk and Moxxy for Android exist, and both have OMEMO 0.8.3 implemented.
From my comment in lemmy.ml in regards to security issues:
Many Signal alternatives also have security issues of their own, often making them less secure than Signal. This includes Matrix and XMPP. In the blog post regarding XMPP+OMEMO, the author replies to a question about which would be better than Signal, Matrix, and XMPP with this suggestion:
Anyone who cares about metadata resistance should look at Cwtch, Ricochet, or any other Tor-based solution. Not a mobile app. Not XMPP. Not Matrix.
In regards to Ricochet, not having a mobile app version makes it difficult to recommend to less tech savvy people.
Credit to @[email protected] for pointing me to the blog post.
I have wanted to put original content on PeerTube as well, but it’s hard with my computer situation and being busy all the time. I hope to see more comrades posting content on alternative platforms, especially exclusively. I’m worried about loss of educational digital media on private platforms like YouTube and Reddit as enshittification continues. I’m also worried about archive.org. I depend on it greatly. I hope we archive and preserve media as much as possible on other platforms before we inevitably lose them.