nephs @ nephs @lemmygrad.ml

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Agree, extravagant bonuses need to be paid to all those executives, shareholders, investors, and music producers so that they can continue pushing their pet artist everywhere, and can continue employing the engineering teams that will keep quiet and keep pumping out that sweet sweet code.

We need those people to control everything we hold valuable, otherwise everything would be chaos! Therefore they are supposed to milk us on all of our online actions, our personal devices, etc. We owe them so much!

/s

No, it's about voting with you money against a whole way to do business. Long live FOSS, long live adblockers!

You mean "disappears"?

Anywhere not banning lemmygrad is probably an OK place.

Everyone else, if not purely technical instances, are mostly replicating politics in a way that hurts humanity as a whole.

I just miss grouping channels together to have curated independent feeds. They removed it for algorithm based shit.

12 years here. Few thousand karma. Fuck the corporate shit.

Looks like a repost. I'm up voting it.

Probably the same kind of tool general population would need to take down capitalism itself.

But you won't see this because your instance censors mine.

These reads are great, but so long!

I just learned how to use https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.danefinlay.ttsutil/ to generate a wav file with audio from text, https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.caydey.ffshare/ to encode it to mp3 and https://pocketcasts.com/ (sorry, no FOSS here) to control play.

So that I can listen to it while doing mindless work. Maybe those instructions cna be useful for more people. :)

How would this community see a restoration of hammer and sickle in Ukraine by Putin's Russia?

It's funny how people in the west can't imagine on their wildest dreams an actually competent government that won't just be controlled to make things easier for their rich elite (the bourgeoisie, for the well informed).

I'm finding logseq very interesting.

FOSS and filesystem based. But you have to figure out sync yourself. I'm setting it up with syncthing, but I'll have to replace it with git because I need it to work across ios and android systems.

A link for the masses: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm

My argument was not against authority, my argument was against oppression against minorities.

Which concepts would you use to make the argument against oppressing minorities?

The parallel I was trying to draw was about minority abstract fights, without class theory becomes identitarism. But a "socialist" fight without concern for minorities, runs the risk of becoming fascism, on the limit, running purely on dogma, tradition, majority, and rigidity.

Is that disagreeable? Am I mixing up concepts? What am I missing?

I can agree racism exists before capitalism.

I can agree socialism isn't the cure for racism or sexism. And I believe everyone in this forum will condemn any form of socialism that marginalises minorities, either for race, or gender, or any other oppressed minorities.

"socialism" without concern for minorities drifts into the authoritarian regimes we know are shit. But also, minority fights without class theory will just make a few individuals from each minority group slightly better, without actually improving material life conditions for most, if not all, people.

But... I mean, I'm just kind of freestyling the theory I "know". Fuck racists, fuck capitalists, fuck racist capitalists and capitalist racists. :)

I understand your rage. Just please, try to push your knowledge a little deeper.

Not all white individuals are colonialists, and I'm not a white person, by the way.

Some individuals, sure, white, I'd give it to you, did describe it. But those individual intellectuals were the counter-thinkers to white colonialists. Would you agree with me about it?

Scapegoats are always different. And the individuals directing the public opinion, the people you just called colonialists, we, here, at lemmygrad, call capitalists. They are the same. The rich minority, controlling the means of productions and the public opinion thought the media they control, creating escape goats, one at a time. That's one of the products of fascism. The capitalists are just above it, seeding and using fascism against the minorities your mention.

Fascism is stupidity and ignorance. The capitalists are the brains behind it, using it to their advantage.

We hate the same people, me and you, we just call them different names. But you don't have to, they have been the same for a good while, let's just agree with a precise definition and terminology to avoid raging at the abstract.

Rage at the specific! It's hard, that's why we write so much! And that's why we call them capitalists.

Anything else is just sugar coating and taking the focus away of the class struggle, which is the one that fundamentally matters.

Its not about religion, gender, sexuality, or any oppressed minority. It's all about the capitalists, the rich minority that controls the means of production, artificially seeding dissent in the working class so that we fight between each other instead of against them.

It is all about the capitalists, and they use religion and stupidity to drive fascism into trying to crush intellectuals and revolutionaries that could actually create better conditions for everyone.

Best is always 10 years ago. Second best is right now!

They're missing out on that sweet sweet profit they'd have if they hadn't spend it on useless stuff for workers. /s

GPL, also known as GNU GPL. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

The reason for non GNU distros is to maintain the right of closing down the source of whatever product you build with it, disallowing the customer's software freedoms.

It would be pointless to have a non GNU system with other copyleft protections, because that's counter to the reason why they exist, in the first place.

Yeah, you have the choice of have your software be controlled by companies that could just stop licensing it.

But the point of GNU is to disallow closing down sources. Companies don't like that, because it's not profitable. They need non gnu stuff so that they can build money printing closed gardens with it.