derbis @ derbis @beehaw.org

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No, it is not. You can look up the one state solution. At this point it's inevitable, just a matter of how much grief we put ourselves through to get there.

They're talking about "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." They routinely malign this call for freedom as "antisemitic," and I haven't been to one where this hasn't been said. It's part of their effort to conflate these things, not me being disingenuous.

Any languages besides Spanish planned?

People want them because they're posturing conspicuous consumers.

Ditto except why not put the freezers in Dubai

You nailed it. A big factor in this is just the general public. The lowest common denominator. Time was, to use the Internet, you had to be at least to a degree, a certain kind of person. You'd be an alternative-seeker, you'd be open minded, prone to critiquing, somewhat technically capable. Less and less so as time went on, sure.

Commodification was always the end game for the track we were on. Well, we got it. Something easy, something you don't have to think too hard about, or work too hard at. Those things are just barriers to more eyeballs, which means barriers to revenue.

The only solace I can take here is that, yeah, fediverse, foss, and free culture might be doomed to the niche. But maybe that's ok. Maybe that's the place for the sort of people who were native to the older iteration of the web (regardless of their age.) We don't really want the same thing to happen to this niche, we just want to keep our place on the web.

My hunch is that those layoffs are going to come from the more peripheral efforts like that malware startup they acquired

Haha amazing logo

I might even suggest that having an mp3 or other file-based record collection is still in the same vein.

The big departure, imo, is people who don't own their music collections. They rely only on Spotify or Apple or Amazon or whatever and just stream.

One day, when their contracts with the labels or whatever expire, or the service is discontinued, or you move to another country... your collection evaporates. It's happened before.

This also seems like a big issue with this report:

Not included in those percentages is money divided among multiple species.

Well, how much is that? How wide is that coverage? I felt bad for the poor mountain snail that got only $100, but if that's only for specially allocated snail funds, maybe it's covered elsewhere?

Maybe it isn't covered elsewhere, and it's still a problem. Wouldn't know from this report.

It "stems" from a deliberate effort to conflate them by the likes of the ADL .

Your article itself says:

Police now believe this was a Russian-inspired destabilisation operation rather than a home-grown intimidation campaign.

Your article itself also says that the police are the source for this assertion, and goes on to say

In June, the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver of Moroccan and Algerian descent in a Paris suburb sparked almost two weeks of riots across the country in which schools, buses and police stations were torched, shops looted, mayors assaulted and police attacked in nightly clashes. The violence, which did not specifically target Jews, was fuelled by widespread resentment of perceived police racism.

And if that weren't enough, it's already demonstrated that expressing support for Palestine is being conflated with antisemitism.

The government initially banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations

So the government bans support for Palestine, the police enforce that ban, and the police say antisemitism is rising among young Muslims.

All this from the same article, that you posted. Very weak sauce.

Thanks for the thorough answer. I'll have to do some thinking.

Where are these discussions happening? I haven't seen much on the Lemmy instance itself until like yesterday.

This seems ideal to me. Does Lemmy not support this setup?

What in particular? Maybe these could be addressed as a fork. I would be willing to contribute to the extent I can

I, personally, believe that we all will come to a comfortable consensus moving forward

This is a somewhat uncomfortable ellipsis for me. Can you be more specific about the emerging consensus? Last time I asked this question it went ignored.

Where are these discussions happening? On the beehaw Lemmy or elsewhere?

I only saw one thread alluding to this posted by a beehaw admin on Lemmy.ml.

Audit.

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/vpn-services/mullvad-ivpn-mozilla-vpn-top-consumer-reports-vpn-testing-a9588707317/

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/8/9/infrastructure-audit-completed-by-radically-open-security https://www.techradar.com/news/mullvad-vpns-servers-have-undergone-an-independent-audit-and-the-results-are-in

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/6/22/vpn-server-audit-found-no-information-leakage-or-logging-of-customer-data

Some of them don't even log the data required to cooperate with requests. Mullvad is one.

Huge resources have been devoted to tracking down people, mostly anonymous and with little reach, over speech that authorities interpreted as supporting Hamas, the letter notes. By late November, 269 investigations had been opened and 86 indictments filed.

“It is quite amazing the number of criminal investigations, when it comes to Palestinian citizens of Israel, most of them completely anonymous, many of them almost with no audience,” Sfard said. “The gap between that and the freedom and impunity for those who advocate all kinds of things – ethnic cleansing, killing civilians, bombarding civilian areas, and even genocide – doesn’t square up, and that’s something for the authorities to explain.”

This right here. Don't let anyone tell you Israel is not an apartheid state with separate sets of rules based on who you are.

Yep. BIG deficiency in this article. I don't use a VPN because of shadowy "hackers" who sit in front of their keyboards with a pistol and a balaclava. I use it because ISPs and governments have demonstrated they can't be trusted.

How about this?

I live in the United States, where I already have no digital privacy, and tunneling my internet traffic through a VPN owned and operated in another country won't meaningfully improve my privacy or safety

Uh, what? If someone wants my traffic logs in the US, now they have to go through Mullvad, which has a track record of not providing or collecting it.

They don't even know who I am, much less have all the data that my ISP has about me. So selling it would be pretty useless

Oh last edit: turns out this is the guy who was trying to well ackshually us into thinking Chrome nerfing ad blockers is not a big deal.

It's hard to accept that Israel has the same kind of right to it as Palestinians.

Every displaced Palestinian has a home address they were forced out of, and had his home stolen by someone who felt that being Jewish gave them a right to be present in the land (sure) but also to a particular parcel of land that already belonged to particular individuals.

Zionists will tell you that most of the land was acquired legitimately. That's an exaggeration, but some certainly was. Enough of it was outright stolen to make hundreds of thousands of refugees. I'm a one stater; there is enough room for all in the region. To the Zionist, it isn't about a right to be there. It's about the supposed right to dominate the land through demographic control - i.e. ethnic cleansing.