/social/ - Socialism

>>329
Feels good comrade.

>>150
I've been pleasantly surprised by the clearly socialist rhetoric in the construction union here. Not sure how much it extends to rank and file but if it comes from the top in a megaphone then hopefully it's being heard.

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Helped out the union lads yesterday. Was interesting to talk with them, seeing which areas of the company were their prime targets and which were filled with people who think they'll be the CEO one day.

>>797
Just got another three. These are mostly old ones people aren't looking at, but it's nice to purge them.
Going to get some stickers of my own to mark territory with. There are already a few AFA and anarchist ones around, but they're starting to show age.

>>718
>SHAME!
That's just a general rally thing here. Even the leftward centre party and unionists yell it.

Signal Compromise Likelihood Increase

When I mentioned on leftypol.org that Signal was compromised I was immediately told to kill myself and there were an interesting amount of other emotionally charged language from an anon attempting to claim expertise when they clearly couldn't understand the methodology of the audit they used as proof of its soundness.

Soon after I made it clear their reactions to me were tells that demonstrated that Signal shouldn't be trusted .org went down.

Salient; Coincidence or significant?

Signal Compromise Likelihood Increase

>>1079
>Signal compromise
Are you talking about a new development, or what we know about their situation as a service in general?

>>1080
This happened very recently.
It's exactly what it says on the tin; the Likelihood of Signal Messanger being compromised has Increased.

>>1079
What happened? All I can find so far is some recent news articles about pro-Russian hackers targeting Ukranian Signal accounts, and twitter blocking them.

>>1082 *
Is there a link or article I can read?

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Just wanted to share a very good article/blog I found on the recent ramping of big tech attacks against APIs and alternative frontends. Let's discuss possible ways of dealing with this in the best of ways. I have personally been relying on these since they appeared, for several years. 

https://denshi.org/blog/the-downfall-of-alternative-frontends/
>It seems like just yesterday, everyone was using and recommending privacy-friendly and open-source frontends to popular social media sites. Every major website had one of these: Twitter had Nitter, Reddit had Libreddit and Teddit, YouTube had Invidious and Piped, Instagram had Bibliogram and TikTok had ProxiTok. Even sites like Medium, Imgur and Quora were no exception, with open source frontends being developed for them as well. To go with all these frontends, there were various browser extensions like libredirect that would automatically redirect any social media link to its open-source frontend counterpart.
>However, within the past year or so, nearly all of these frontends have been discontinued or rendered practically unusable. What happened?
>[…]


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Seems like it's time for me to at least start exploring what's on mastodon and to get back into piracy for music again. Refresh my

>>971
They mention 'bloat' in one section. Bloat is a real thing, although just like 'opsec' and 'AI' it's abused to the point I almost skip over it, but this is a legitimate usage of the term. And it's important to emphasize that lightweight doesn't imply featureless:
The recipe site they give is very minimalist. It has no javascript at all, just HTML text, a stylesheet, a SVG favicon and an image of the dish. This is perfectly fine for its purpose and its target audience, although a little dash of JS scripts might be appropriate for the mainstream at almost no cost. And one can look at the commercial recipe page to see it has more features which some users might find useful. But those features don't need to take up much space, most are just buttons and menus. The majority of the loading time is from invasive non-content, like trackers and ads.
This page serves a different purpose, it has conveniences like a websocket code library for live post updates and all the features you see in the settings menu, and even then it's currently only about 735k, only half of that actually transferred due to text compression. Some fanatics might screech that the 310k of optional JS are bloat, but they're actual features which improve the site. There are entire single ad scripts on that page larger than this whole thread, images and all. That's bloat. (Either the site has chang

>>971
I've actually considered running gated* instances of nitter/invidious/etc., I've noticed the few surviving ones tend to be Cloudflared, rate-linited, and if that's how they're going after these sites rather than manual blocklisting or heuristic detection then decentralizing and authenticating is a real (temporary) solution.
* think "have to answer a random socialism captcha question before entering".

>>971
>repost
Eh, I'll take it.

Alternative frontends aren't inherently an enemy of companies (some embraced third-party mobile apps and dashboards) but for for those that have cracked down on them, the frontends are almost a guerilla project, like piracy.

I wonder naïvely how much of the crackdowns are intentional and targeted, or if it's mostly the result of IP rate limiting in general (which could be a DoS mitigation strategy, for example). I suspect a true targeted attack against public alternative frontends would probably involve legal action against servers, such as cease and desist notices, as well as rangeblocks against known VPS/cloud IP addresses which are likely to host servers.

>>971
From what I've heard, YouTube has started rangebanning commercial data centers, so unless you're self-hosting, a public Invidious/Piped instance is likely to get blocked.

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>>653
>>658
There's only so far they can push that line of rhetoric.

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https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
>Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet).
There is also the sequel, The Freedom Fighter's Manual which the CIA airdropped over Nicaragua, worth a read.

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>>1050
I remember reading that manual a couple of years ago and realizing much of it was just describing my regular work day.

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Someone created this lovely site a couple of months ago:
https://specificsuggestions.com/

>This is not a guide for overt displays of heroism. Surveillance is abundant in the 21st century work environment. Presented here are practical, everyday actions for reducing systemic harm while minimizing vulnerability.
>These are Specific Suggestions for Simple Sabotage in the 21st century.

>>1073
Cool stuff.
>Opportunities will present themselves if one looks at their surroundings in a different light. For example, disabling the productivity of an entire workplace may at first seem impossible, but if the saboteur were to unplug a single wifi access point within a space, work might grind to a halt.
It's easy to think like a defender and notice cameras and guards. But when you think like an attacker, there's weakness in the system everywhere.

Capitalism, in broad strokes, evolves businesses this way by rewarding the cheapest path. If a business puts in the time and money to build defenses, another doesn't, and neither gets attacked, one has wasted money and is more likely to fold. States can intervene to try and force security through regulation, and there are other exceptions, but the trend remains. So most businesses are pretty soft on security once you're in the door, and filled with these single points of failure, like a router or server or service payment. Look at Crowdstrike and Cloudflare misconfigurations to see how devastating a well-placed accident can be.

Hamas says fighting ongoing with Israeli soldiers in occupied West Bank 
Hamas fighters, alongside al-Quds Brigades of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have launched an attack on Israeli forces in the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem.

The armed groups said they inflicted casualties among Israeli soldiers in the al-Manshiyya neighbourhood.

Fear among Israeli army of the West Bank refugee camps
Amjad Abu El Ezz , from the Arab American University in Ramallah, says Israel’s incursion in the occupied West Bank is a systemic plan that was formulated long ago.

“What we’re seeing on the ground – the killing, arrests, demolition of houses – it’s not a limited operation. It’s actually very structured to control the West Bank and weaken the Palestinian Authority [PA],” El Ezz told Al Jazeera.

He noted the economic sanctions and cutting of aid by Israel’s government to the PA is further undermining its governing ability in the occupied territory.

“There is a fear among the Israeli army [that] the refugee camps would become a model throughout the West Bank. But there’s also a domestic political game between [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich and Netanyahu, who wants to keep his coalition intact at the expense of the Palestinians,” El Ezz said.

Palestinian resistance targets Israeli force in a tight ambush in Tulkarm

>>1062
Always good to heard the IOF taking casualties.

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North Korea condemns Trump’s Gaza takeover plan as ‘slaughter, robbery’
North Korean state media has accused the US of “slaughter and robbery” over President Donald Trump’s proposed plan to occupy the Gaza Strip and expel its population of more than two million Palestinians.

“The world is now boiling like a porridge pot over the US’ bombshell declaration,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a commentary published on Wednesday, in which Trump was not explicitly named.

The White House’s Gaza proposal was evidence of the US’s “hegemonic, invasive” ambition for world dominance, it said.

KCNA also called the US a “ferocious robber” over the Trump administration’s calls to take over the Panama Canal and Greenland, as well as its decision to rename the “Gulf of Mexico” the “Gulf of America”.

“The US should awaken from its anachronistic daydream and stop at once the act of encroaching upon the dignity and sovereignty of other countries and nations,” KCNA said.

“It’s not an issue limited to the Gaza Strip only,” it added.

North Korea has been an outspoken critic of the situation in Gaza, condemning Israel for its “ruthless” massacre of Palestinians and calling the US an “accomplice” to its crimes.

>>1064
>Always good to heard the IOF taking casualties.
I'll probably start uploading the new videos of such here when the war restarts.
What's size limit? I just got an general error trying to upload a vid of abt 60mb.

>>1067
Upload limit is currently 20MB per post (all attached files plus text).

I can set it higher if you think it's necessary. A server upgrade to a higher storage size is inevitable anyway now that leftybooru allows small videos.

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Thanks for reporting. On my phone there is this close button on the form so I didn't know this was an issue once the screen gets too thin.

I'll work on fixing this tomorrow. Until then, rotating your phone to make the page wider will hopefully workaround this problem.
I've added some styling code to show that close button until a screen is absurdly narrow.
(If your browser has cached the styling code, you may not see this fix until you either clear the browser cache or use a private browsing/incognito window.)

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>>1069
Nice. Cheers anon. Much appreciated! <3

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>>660
Collectors edition

>>1056
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Quoting a Lemmy user:
>I worked in Evendale about a year. It’s a very white area, not particularly progressive, I’m sure the [Nazis] thought they were going to be safer and more tolerated.

https://eu.cincinnati.com/story/news/2025/02/07/group-carrying-swastika-flags-seen-demonstrating-in-cincinnati-suburb/78342108007/
'Hate will never prevail.' Residents confront group displaying swastika flags near I-75
>The confrontation between the demonstrators and people protesting them had already started. Eley said police were trying to keep the two groups separated.
>Eley said he and others kept approaching the demonstrators. He said he saw police, one with an AR-15 style rifle, pushing back residents who had come out in opposition.
>Eley said they eventually made it past police and someone snatched a flag from one of the demonstrators.
>"The Nazis began to back off," Eley said. "They quickly jumped in the back of a U-Haul truck and took off."
>A woman brought out lighter fluid to burn the flag, and he joined in with others stepping and spitting on the f

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>>1059
The day after: residents come out with their guns.
(The overpass is between Evendale and Lincoln Heights)

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Made quick montage using some of the clips here: >>>/praxis/222

Pet ownership licenses seems like a pretty reasonable standard to have as a general thing. Dangerous animals is one part of it, but so is being competent enough to actually take care of the animal. Not just in terms of training, but in terms of, like, being able to feed them properly. There's too many idiots with "vegan cats" for instance.

>Personally, I think in order to own one of these dogs, I think you should have to prove that you have an advanced level of dog handling ability.
This should just be the case in general. Tiny dogs like chihuahuas can be aggressive as fuck too, and even if they can't maul you to death, a bite can be dangerous. Not that pitbulls aren't specifically more dangerous, but it's more a thing of degree. Of course, this would be less of an issue if dog training services were more available or just education for people about how to handle animals. That goes beyond pets too, you see a lot of dumbfucks approaching wild animals or livestock with no regard for how the animal might react, like they're some Disney princess. There's an even bigger issue here with not really understanding or respecting nature as a force to be reckoned with that needs to be corrected with education, if only for public safety reasons.

>>56
>The idealist in me says that people who would like pet animals should strive to get pets which are native to the

All dogs should have to be on leashes in public, and you should have to be capable of handling an animal if it acts up. The only real exception to this would be assistance animals who are usually trained well enough not to need a leash (guide dogs though kind of need one to function anyway).

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>>52
Speaking of invasive species, it seems like hunting them is an opportunity for revolutionary socialists to prepare for the revolution.
>good for the local environment
>discount on food costs if it's an edible pest
>legitimate pretext for owning and training with a gun in countries where guns are restricted

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I don't know man, just looking at them is painful. 
I say pitbulls should be banned not only for the sake of people's safety, but for the sake of the domestic dog species as a whole because they suffer from enormous genetic defects (hereditary heart disease, breathing issues, high risk of cancer) as a result of the disastrous inbreeding that they were put through in dozens of generations just for the sake of making them look grotesque and giving them an aggressive behavior.

Ban, implement mandatory neutering to extinguish the breed, or on the other hand outbreed them with other kinds of dogs. That's the three ways I see out of the pitbull problem.

>>52
>Australian invasive species
Their state broadcaster is running a TV show this year called Eat the Invaders, which is basically 'you will eat ze bugs!' except ze bugs are "pests like cane toads, camels, carp, cats, deer and rabbits."
https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/11308519942543-Eat-The-Invaders-is-set-to-change-the-conversation-on-our-invasive-species
It's based on an existing cookbook Eat the Problem, but the spectacle of Australia's equivalent of Bill Nye eating cat on state national television is pretty fun to imagine.

>>985
>pic
and I thought US federal voting was bad...

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https://x.com/JimMcMurtry01/status/1880696608809169374

lol i hate these faggots

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>>1017
Ah yes, property owners. Shed a tear for that oppressed class and their years of hardship. They bought that land fair and square, don't ya know!
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>>1017
The one thing more stupid than colonizers claiming righteousness over other immigrants is claiming it over indigenous peoples.

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Relayed from a university comrade:
>Mutual aid is socialism.
As in, it's anti-capitalist and this is in itself is how we establish socialism.