chayleaf @ chayleaf @lemmy.ml

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You are deeply delusional if you think "producing bombs" is the only thing America does for Israel. The states have very deep ties, because Israel is America's primary outpost in the region. "Geopolitical partners" are non-fungible. You can't just say "if the US didn't support Israel, some other country would", that's not how it works, besides the self-evident statement that there would be some state with some ideology with some policies at that territory. For example, from the very start (1967) PFLP fought not just Zionism, but also Western, primarily American imperialism - that's how obvious the connection is.

And I'm not American so I don't even know who Kamala is, but I imagine it's some random genocidal politician that could just as well be replaced with any other genocidal politician. The US supporting an Israeli ceasefire would indeed be a heavy blow to Israel because US interests are the only thing preventing unanimous UN support for a ceasfire, and because the US is Israel's primary economic partner, and under US sanctions Israel's military prowess would quickly dive below the level of Cuba, even lower because of the hostility of most countries of the world towards it. But the "ceasefire" framing is disingenuous as it considers the two sides of the conflict as equals, as opposed to the occupied and the occupier.

Of course, what you are saying would be natural for someone who believes in vulgar economists' favorite "supply and demand" and "the invisible hand of the market" being something akin to natural forces. Luckily, they aren't actually natural forces, but something created by humans, something we can analyze just fine.

it's no secret that Israel can only function like it does thanks to US support

ha ha women objectification funny

it's probably caused by fast shutdown

good, now please remind me when and for what reason was Alan Turing killed?

now remind me what happened in Cuba in regards to LGBT over the past 50 years?

I stg some people are immune to dialectics

even if we take your position 100%, jailing LGBT people is not genocide in the slightest, your position just trivializes actual genocide (unless you mean Holodomor, which you should've mentioned, and which is absolutely not man-made and doesn't count as a genocide as such, even if you can criticize some of its surrounding policies)

you're probably one of the people who say "personality cult bad", yet you ascribe to Stalin the level of influence that could singlehandedly flip the modern Russian's outlook on one of the most polarizing topics in modern times 70 years after his death. Well, news flash, nobody has that kind of power. People act as "conductors" of objective historical forces, and Stalin was no exception, even the CIA said there was collective leadership in Stalin's time. Communism doesn't recognize "human rights" or any "universal" morals, so you have to scientifically analyze the LGBT movement to make a case for supporting it. Can you blame Stalin for not personally having done research into the gay question over 20 years before the word "gay" even appeared, during the WW2 and its preparatory phase? In order to answer a question, it must first be asked.

when people criticize Stalin in general, they criticize the objective forces he stood for - namely, the preservation of socialism by all means, in spite of countless wars. When Khruschev proclaimed destalinization, he also proclaimed "peaceful coexistence" with capitalist countries, he proclaimed the "state of the whole people" (as opposed to the dictatorship of the proletariat), and started the ball rolling towards the dissolution of the USSR. Of course, this too isn't a personal decision of Khruschev, but a manifestation of broader revisionism and opportunism in the party. This is the reason the Marxist-Leninist movement will continue defending Stalin's legacy.

least genocidal liberal

Hamas has stated their goal is not the genocide of Jewish people. So maybe apply some critical thinking, look into primary sources, do some historical analysis instead of taking things at face value?

applications from the Play Store or App Store are something people have to get and use everyday

I haven't made the full switch to mobile Linux yet, but my Android phone has 0 proprietary apps besides the firmware and it's 100% usable

in my country, if you exclude browser-based banking no bank will work

Well, the question is why are you excluding web banking? While it's less convenient at times, banking apps collect every piece of info about you they possibly could collect, they try to prevent you from "messing" not only with the banking app, but with the phone itself - they are one of the most egregious cases of "normalized privacy invasion", so web banking is much preferable to banking apps. If you're allergic to webapps for some reason (which would be a very weird thing to say for someone who installs banking apps), fine, switch to a bank that allows doing operations via SMS (that's the only feature I miss from Sberbank).

the NFC / contactless payment system here requires either Apple Pay, Google Wallet or a proprietary app develop by a banking alliance

Why are you using contactless payment? Unsatisfied with the amount of data your bank collects, you want to give the same data to Apple/Google? What's the problem with just carrying a card with you? I genuinely don't understand. This certainly isn't a "100% unavoidable requirement", but just a fad you didn't even think whether you could do without

Govt provides electronic versions of your identity card, driving license and a ton of other cards related to the govt that also require an Android/iOS app they make...

That's absolutely true, which is egregious. You should petition your government to open-source those apps (public money = public code), you should reverse engineer those apps to get their functionality without the proprietary code (if they just show a barcode/qr code/picture, it's easy, but it gets harder if it uses NFC). Either way, this isn't something you "need", as carrying your documents around really isn't a problem... for me, anyway, YMMV I guess

Even something simple like setting up a TP-Link Tapo wireless security camera will require an app these days.

...first you buy an IoT device that connects to "the cloud", then you say you need proprietary software to access it. Of course you do, that's the kind of device you bought - the vast majority of IoT devices are made with zero regard to the user's privacy and security, to hackability or right to repair.

That said, it's very easy to find hackable devices if you do the bare minimum research. Examples from my home - Valetudo (FOSS robot vacuum firmware) on Viomi V2 Pro, Tasmota (ESP32 firmware) on an AiYaTo light bulb. This is not a problem with mobile Linux, but rather you choosing a device that's made to collect data from your phone.

In conclusion, everything you listed so far isn't a problem with mobile Linux, but a problem with your approach to software/hardware freedom. Chances are, you aren't a hacker, and by extension aren't a part of the target audience of a Linux phone. That's fine, but don't pretend there's some insurmountable barrier preventing anyone from using it - it's just that you don't need it. Waydroid exists, which makes all of the claims in your comment invalid (besides maybe banking apps which may detect Waydroid), but you won't consider Linux phones viable anyway - because, again, you don't need it.

the organizers recolored Rainbow Dash's hair to the colors of the Russian flag but it didn't help

Nix doesn't do anything special when launched.

The way it works is very simple - instead of e.g. /usr/lib/libssl.so.3, binaries use /nix/store/openssl-.../lib/libssl.so.3. This is done at build time, not runtime.

it's the way Nix works too

eh... writing proprietary software is much more embarrassing

there's not much to know about it, I use Cloudflare simply because its routing is better than direct IP connections for many places on Earth. I can't fully use Cloudflare anyway because I host many non-web services.

I know about it, but it kinda defeats the purpose (the purpose being police raid protection)

no reason not to publish them as long as they aren't infringing on any IP, I've published some very niche projects

mpv lets you watch the stream if you have yt-dlp, though it doesn't show the chat obviously

• full disk encryption on everything except the router (no point in encrypting the router)
  • the server doesn't have a display connected for obvious reasons, so I'm manually unlocking it via ssh on each boot
    • obviously, the SSH keys are different, so the server has a different IP in initrd. That said, I still don't have any protection against malicious modification of initrd or UEFI
• the server scans all new SSL certificates in realtime using certspotter and notifies me of any new certificates issued for my domains that it doesn't know about (I use Cloudflare so it triggers relatively often, but I still do checks on who the issuer is)
• firewall blocks outgoing 25 so nobody can impersonate my mailserver

Is there a way to break down home.packages into smaller chunks for modularity?

home-manager uses the NixOS module system, so you can use everything that comes with it, like imports

So they're just to ensure reproducibility?

That and for easier importing of other people's Nix code

it only went open-source last week