I honestly don’t personally know any real-life person who acts like that - they’re either just not scared of cool infrastructure, or they’re the occasional ‘patriot’ freak who’s nationalist/racist enough to consider Japan a threat too.

Leave the straw-man circlejerking to the rightoids, comrade.

Off-topic but related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Epstein (born 1915)

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Where I previously lived, I would have said ‘agree’, or at least it would be a serious quality-of-life determent to not drive, due to spending over an hour to make a trip that a car could in 20 minutes. It also helps that I don’t want to hire drive-share or taxis constantly, but this also wasn’t a reliable option.

Excessive for my threat model, one more thing which could break something (even if by no fault of its own).

I like it as a concept, but many of my devices don’t use it.

Send an email to their webmaster if you haven’t already. The more of us, the better.

Athenian democracies solve a lot of our current issues. It’s a bit like jury duty. You put your own name down and can be picked for roles in government.

Sortition?

I see a lot of people on Lemmy recently claiming to be left but also trying to tell me how democracies are bad. -_-

Probably the case, although it’s important not to dismiss people for criticizing liberal democracy - the system that has repeatedly put us in the mess we’re in now. There are plenty of issues which are wildly popular regardless of political alignment but which liberal democracy fails to deliver, so to consider it a democracy at all, simply because most people get voting rights to pick representatives, is very debatable.

There are plenty of other forms of democracy, many which have been successfully run in communities of hundreds of thousands of people (consider Zapatistas, Cheran, and more).

Despite my disagreements with local anarchists, they are objectively helping people and are lightyears above the Online Left. I will take comrades of almost (almost!) all tendencies over the Online Left.

Why not Debian directly instead of MX?

Debian requires more config out-of-the-box to get a nice desktop/laptop experience. This is ready to go.

I’m only used it as installed onto a USB, and in fact I chose it for that reason, so my experience isn’t ideal because of that USB drive speed but it’s a great lightweight OS that looks nice out of the box. Lightweight doesn’t have to look clunky or feel strange or unfeatured. I recommend it if there are reasons that lightweight is important (old hardware, low-end hardware, portable OS, … )

Not in context. Take a single look at that Clive Palmer guy.

IDK, this post says “GPT-5.3-min” which is not an open-weight model AFAIK.

They claim it’s not being used, it’s really using a local model, which is inline with their anarchist ethos so I’m leaning towards believing that, and that the GPT reference is an in-joke. I do think it’s unprofessional to write something like that, even as a joke, but it’s not the first time I’ve seen unpaid mods make dumb mistakes like that.

Specifically asking for political classification is a little bit weird though.

Out of context, yes.

In context, dbzer0 is an explicitly anarchist instance - the users of the instance have shared political values, and their instance rules ban certain politics (such as fascism) - so it’s a legitimate part of the moderators’ job there to assess politics and ban any which break their rules. Their users don’t want to see certain politics.

given that we could be producing it at home at-cost in quantities large enough to saturate the population for next to nothing

I say this out of complete ignorance: what’s stopping people? Regulation laws? Cost of initial equipment?

It wildly depends on the articles/topic, but yes, it’s generally not trustworthy. Especially anything politics or corporate, but sometimes articles on objective topics can have issues.

*counts world population*

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Speaking as a Marxist who sees the PRC and the CPC as a current progressive world force - why are all your posts so aggressively-ridiculous strawman slop, as if its aimed to alienate working people? It’s the flavor I see in dirtbag-left online circlejerks and never among communists I’ve seen in real life, and I’ve met thousands of us.

In addition to the monetary penalty, a permanent injunction required domain registrars and other parties to suspend the site’s domain names.

Has there been any discussion to host official .onion / I2P / etc. addresses to avoid domains? I couldn’t find any in the FAQ.

My issue with Protonmail is that, last I checked years ago, I couldn’t set up email forwarding or a local client without paying for an upgrade. So there’s a soft form of lock-in to prevent changing providers.