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  • If not Github, where would you host your projects?

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  • Codeberg works for me. I used to use a couple of indie instances of gitea for various smaller project, but both have either gone down or been at risk, so I mostly use Codeberg which is more organized and failsafe.

  • Plans to remove ipv4 from the linux kernel.

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  • That's it, I'm deleting the internet

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    Verify You Are Human

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  • Someone posted an image that says "Verify you are human", with the test being "I stand with Palestine".

    The implication is that those who do not, are not human.

    Yes, joking about how Zionist scum (and apathetic people) lack humanity is dehumanization. The image is very literally saying some is not human if they don't stand with Palestine.

    And to recap what I said, this isn't some moral objection - death to the Zionist Regime and those who empower it. The problem is that dehumanization of humans is an anti-materialist delusion, which has historically led to underestimating enemies.

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  • Oh hey, my anniversary is coming up.

    For base daily driver on desk and lap, just a stable standard beginner friendly distro. I've customized it a lot, added custom hotkey scripts here and there, but it's so close to base that a stranger could use it. VMs for anything specialist, a couple of portable USB distros for presentation/demo/one-purpose OS environments, but for the most part I've just kept it simple and clean.

  • Anti-Trump protests held around the world

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  • It needs to [snip]

    Yes, but that's answering a different question.

    When I talk to co-workers about our material conditions, my aim isn't the immediate implementation of utopia. Our legs aren't long enough to get there in one step.

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  • I'll slapfight that, because that's a waste of time and water.

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  • No, it isn't standing with Palestine, nor standing against it. It's simply pointless and a tactical error.

    Dehumanizing is a mistake that the Nazis made, leaving them vulnerable to their own propaganda. They expected all their victims to be sneaky, cowardly and inferior, and they paid for that mistake.

    Dehumanizing the new wave of fascists leaves us open to the same mistake.

    The people committing genocide in Palestine are human, and it's important for us to stop them by any means necessary, including killing them.

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  • Unfortunately it initially made me think of the red triangle badges in Nazi Germany's concentration and extermination camps.

  • Anti-Trump protests held around the world

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  • Am effective protest needs to be disruptive.

    What do you believe the (realistic) aim of the protest is mean to be? Its demand is obvious, but that's different.

    This is a sincere question, I don't know the stated aims, if any. If its aim is to bring together concerned people and expose them to progressive groups, including socialists, then even a passive sanctioned protest can contribute to the labour movement.

  • Anti-Trump protests held around the world

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  • You have to build dual power to organize things like strikes and work stoppages. That’s what hurts capital. The protests come after that.

    Yes, although protests can complement that process of building dual power, they don't have to come afterwards. Like you've said, protests on their own accomplish nothing, yet they can still be an important way to gain awareness and introduce a broader range of people to these politics and groups involved.

    I am speaking generally, I haven't paid attention to these No Kings ones, but they'd surely be an avenue for fresh faces to meet socialist parties among all the spectacle.

  • What's the best car to eat?

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  • Carbonara.

    As far as I've heard, the best plane to eat is a Cessna 150.

  • What are some things that can be done with [large number] million dollars?

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  • It's pretty funny to see someone travel to a lemmy.ml thread and complain about lemmy.ml users being there.

  • Data Centers Are Military Targets Now

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  • huh, guess my habit for picking smaller indie providers is paying off.

  • To people who look at commercial ads; why do you look at ads?

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  • Clean McStainKill

  • To people who look at commercial ads; why do you look at ads?

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  • My approach if adblocking isn't an option is switching tab/window and muting the tab (on a computer, that's just two click at the top of the screen) or on a phone, muting and putting the phone out of view.

  • What stops you from chopping down a utility pole?

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  • I've seen my neighbors Disaster Response Survival Manifesto. In fact this is also why I'm trying to stop global warming.

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  • And eventually, maybe they’ll even tell their old people friends about it. I can definitely see one of my mom’s friends complaining about how slow their computer is, and my mom saying “well my son put this Linux stuff on our computer, and it sped everything right up” and then boom you got old people getting curious about it too.

    That's a good point. If we've reached a point where the basic experience Just Works while solving real Windows issues (incl updates and performance), then it's going to get word-of-mouth praise instead of complaints. And if regular people start hearing about Linux stuff improving their computer, it's going to mean far more than my ideological rants about owning your own tools and community created software.

  • Why did you come to Lemmy?

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  • I've tried to make a couple of anonymous throwaways (for privacy reasons - I've never been banned) and they vanish pretty quickly, seemingly as soon as I share a link. Yes, even when not using a VPN.

  • Why did you come to Lemmy?

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  • I was already no longer posting on reddit through alternative front-ends since around 2018, because I disliked privacy issues with it. I was just lurking via alternate frontends (the precursors to Redlib, there were more before the API fiasco). I was already into the FOSS community and so I forget exactly how I came across Raddle and Lemmy (maybe through /r/piracy or /r/datahoarder, but could have been many other places), and Lemmy was far far far slower then, but when I landed on Lemmy I really wanted it to become a viable alternative to reddit.