@k_o_t@lemmy.ml @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml can we get this thread pinned? i didn’t read it all but it looks like decent advice and the question about what’s tor and how to use it best comes up frequently
I don’t think it’s just a matter of profit. There’s also a matter of social acceptability: industry is very polluting and has real bad working conditions. Outsourcing those major downsides to remote countries is a good way to make consumerism socially acceptable: think about it, if your cousins/neighbors were the wage slaves working and dying in the mines and factories to produce smartphones, you would even buy one? We would have massive boycotts and sabotage/expropriation campaigns.
To be fair this is nothing new. Even during the 1930s/40s most governments were “not welcoming” of jewish refugees to say the least.
In the past decade in France the government has been condemned by some higher instances for deporting european citizens to other EU countries, as well as for deporting people before they could apply for asylum at the italian border.
If you’re from the USA, you can check out the history of IWW, or more recently the revolutionary movements of the second half of the 20th century (AIM, Black Panthers, MOVE, Young lords, Weather underground, etc). To this day egalitarian sentiment persists in revolutionary movements (such as on ZADs like Standing Rock) but there is no large scale organizing like there was in that day because:
- anti-gun laws have been passed to disarm revolutionary movements (which as you could see has zero effect on white supremacists taking guns to slaughter unarmed people)
- these movements have faced severe repression under government programs like COINTELPRO ; many leaders remain jailed to this day (such as Mummia Abu Jamal or Leonard Peltier) while others have been outright assassinated under government orders (such as Fred Hampton or the MOVE organization which was bombed by the FBI destroying dozens of home to eradicate it)
If you’re from France, i would recommend doing some reading about early CGT history, or more recently about Mouvement des Travailleurs Arabes, Main d’Oeuvre Immigrée, Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire, Action Directe… Or even more recently Movement de l’Immigration et des banlieues or the ZAD movement. While not exactly an organized movement, autonomous forces are still present in France especially during major riot times (2005 suburbs riots against police abuse, 2006 student riots against CPE law, gilets jaunes).
I’ve heard that argument and i understand the technical reasoning, but in real-world experience i found that disabling swap was the best swappiness for me. Maybe i’m doing something wrong but “help my computer freezes sometime” is a common problem in my circles and “disable swap” has been the best recommendation i found so far.
Well it’s a shame because now the debate for the 2nd round will be as stupid as ever. At least if Mélenchon got here we may have envisioned to have a talk about capitalism and feminism and deep racism in the heart of our society.
Buuuuuuuut to see the positive side of the argument, at least we won’t have to argue against a tyrannical old man in a suit (who used to be from Parti Socialiste and is still an unashamed soc-dem who does not support revolutionary movements) and his hordes of middle-class bobos who get triggered any time you make a political critique that’s not aimed at a right-wing party.
So i guess we’ve got that going for us? :-/
Personal experience: on desktop i always disable swap. On a server it makes sense because who fucking cares if your email takes 10ms or 1s to send, but in a graphical context there’s so many memory accesses that the tiniest bit swapped to disk starts to make the whole thing sluggishly slow.
Of course that’s less of a problem if you’re using a SSD, but now you may be putting unnecessary strain on your SSD whose durability is bound by writes not reads.
So disabling swap + enabling systemd-oom/earlyoom (to kill the most gluttonous executable when really needed) is a good combination for me.
I’m not familiar with dbus, but i had a quick look. I don’t know the difference between a bus and a connection, btu apparently:
- dbus_message_get_sender method on a dbus message provides the unique bus name used for that message
- GetConnectionUnixProcessID function returns the PID of a given connection name
Not sure if the latter would accept the result from the former as a valid parameter, but this SO thread suggested so.
Well first deepfakes need to die. It’s a dangerous tech that should not exist at all and does not need any more research.
To be fair, i haven’t dug into deepfake models, but i assume you would train them on the specific person you’re trying to deepfake: i mean for basic video stuff going with a pre-trained model may be ok but for audio there’s no way you can get away with it ;)
I’ve never met a single african/asian communist who was a fan of Stalin: they were respectively fan of other figures (such as Lumumba) and very afraid of purges such as initiated by Pol Pot / Stalin. As for south america, the only communists i’ve met from there were libertarians (anarchists), not marxist-leninists.
But to be fair, i’ve never traveled to those places and met people from THE PARTY. there’s a selective bias at play where those people i’ve met were mostly political refugees. Still, being a communist has nothing to do with supporting Lenin/Stalin.
oh i’ve read it. it just makes very bad points, if only because most of life has nothing to do with a ship on the high seas and you’re not gonna die if you don’t have a single direction guiding everyone. also because it conflates power and authority: in specific situations, i may wish to delegate some power to a trusted 3rd party for accomplishing a task (such as a boat captain to guide us across an ocean and coordinate the rest of us). This does not mean that the ship captain holds power over me (authority), as exemplified by historical pirates who practiced horizontal decision-making (contrary to Hollywood/Disney portrayal of pirates).
marxism-leninism and all forms of Nation State are based on authority: power imposed over others by force. there is no consent involved in Nation States.
religions are ideologies not fucking people, or are you going to say that people have their religion ingrained in their blood or some other orientalist shit?
I’m not saying religion is hereditary. I’m saying religious oppression can fall into the category of genocide. Or are you like those leftists from the 30s who said antisemitism is not a problem because jewish is not a race?!
And no, Lenin talked about how anticommunist leftism was like an infantile disorder because how contradictory is.
The problem is those people he called “leftists” are way more communist than he ever was. So framing them as “anticommunist” doesn’t help when they’re in fact anti-bolshevik. Also, why would you say, for example, anarchism is contradictory? It’s much more contradictory to build a strong Nation State in order to reach a “classless, stateless” society than it is to go and abolish that shit for real!
The joke’s on you who haven’t even read the wikipedia page i linked to. Quoting the literally second paragraph:
Belief in reverse racism is widespread in the United States; however, there is little to no empirical evidence that white Americans suffer systemic discrimination.[Note 1] Racial and ethnic minorities generally lack the power to damage the interests of whites, who remain the dominant group in the U.S.[6] Claims of reverse racism tend to ignore such disparities in the exercise of power and authority, which scholars argue constitute an essential component of racism.[1][2][4]
i personally don’t recommend fail2ban: it’s a good way to lock yourself out of your own server but will probably not protect you from any attacks.
for protection unattended upgrades (like you have) and disabling SSH password auth (PasswordAuthentication no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config) is the best you can do.
also i’ve never run a lemmy instance but make sure the database isn’t reachable from the internet, only from localhost :)
Everything is automated today, cloud this and cloud that, but very few people know just how vulnerable everything is behind the scenes, and why being a system administrator is so demanding and difficult. This is also why I care very little for all the hype and buzz, words like “DevOps” and “secure by virtualization” is even a grandeur delusion than the problems described above.
From the article.
Do you really think that it’s the case were Hitler is worse seen than Stalin?
Errrrrrr yes. Except in neo-nazi circles, Hitler is the devil whereas Stalin is just seen as a dictator like any other. For example, most people who criticize Stalin in the west have no clue about the anti-muslim genocides committed in the USSR, or that “leftist” was a term coined by Lenin for actual communists fighting against his dictatorship… and that’s a shame especially in a day and age where “islamo-leftist” (at least in France) is a frequent slur just like “judeo-bolshevik” was in the 1930/40s.
We have so much to deconstruct and learn to understand oppression in its many forms.
Very good question! It’s important to understand that materialist analysis (although it’s evolved over time since being formalized by Marx) is still very important for social struggles: marxian economy is what’s being taught to economists for them to understand how to maximize “surplus value” (i.e. better exploit workers). There’s also been serious analysis of non-reproductive work (house chores, conversational work, etc) from feminist circles.
Also, marxism is not a unified doctrine. Marxism-leninism, maoism and stalinism (among others) are authoritarian ideologies which don’t accept dissent. But Marx himself had some anti-authoritarian critiques later in his life, and many people who identify as marxists don’t side (especially not uncritically) with authoritarian regimes.
Didn’t the fall of USSR teach us anything? Do today’s Marxists think that USSR did something wrong?
hell yes. especially since the collapse of the USSR, anti-authoritarian marxism (libertarian communism) is on the rise, and except on niche internet forums like Lemmy it’s hard to find Lenin/Stalin apologists in real-world struggles.
Don’t hesitate if you have more detailed questions. I could also ask some marxist comrades for some good resources if you like.
Orwell was a colonial cop who later on kept a list of “crypto-communists” and “anti-white” personalities that he gave to the British gov.
I don’t know much about Orwell but he was a marxist not an anarchist so i don’t see the point.
But I am not talking about the Spanish revolution, I am talking about you as an anarchist in this comment section, and more generally all anarchists I’ve met.
Can you name one example in these comments where i’ve “sided with the bourgeoisie”? Or other anarchists for that matter? It’s funny to me because in the french political context the communist party is derided for being too lenient and siding with the bourgeoisie (the PCF is often working hand in hand with housing developers to gentrify neighborhoods, and as a whole they don’t promote abolition of private property anymore).
Any marxist analysis of anarchism will ultimately lead to that same conclusion, quoting someone about it would only be a formality.
So are you suggesting that anti-authoritarian marxism or libertarian communism does not exist? There’s plenty of those so why are you suggesting you have the only and ultimate truth?
we are not here to appeal to anarchists, we are here as a proletarian encyclopedia
Does that mean you can only get an account if you’re a unionized worker? Disclaimer: I wouldn’t fit in that category personally. I mean i don’t know about you but in my neighborhood/circles marxists are usually intellectuals from the universities while actual workers/proles tend to be of the “burn everything down” anarchist type who don’t care for leaders and nice words like they care for actual change. But maybe that’s because in France we have a much stronger history of anarcho-syndicalism with the CGT in early 20th century being the biggest union, all the while promoting sabotage, direct action and general strike.
Here is the link you were interested in: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ejercito-zapatista-de-liberacion-nacional-a-zapatista-response-to-the-ezln-is-not-anarchist
Oh yes i read that one a few years back but it’s really far off from “the movement themselves have had to put out press releases and articles explaining to please stop calling them anarchist” (quote from you). It’s a piece asking western leftists to not try and fit zapatism into narrow categories including “anarchism and communism”, which would fail to capture the specificity of the struggle and would divide the movement on brand not practical concerns.
In that sense, i agree with that link: i personally don’t care if you’re a marxist or an anarchist (or whatever else really) as long as you are building power for the people, not “dictatorship of the proletariat” (or any other dictatorship really). That approach is common to the zapatistas who build/promote power from below no matter what your ideology/religion is, as the article argues.
Also worth noting: the article is an answer to an post saying we global north anarchists should not support zapatism because it doesn’t fit in a narrow understanding of anarchism. We could even say it does defend anarchist principles, or to quote the article:
In this light, revolutionary solidarity needs to take up the weapon of unflinching, merciless critique of all reformist, nationalist, hierarchical, authoritarian, democratic or class collaborationist tendencies that could undermine the autonomy and self-activity of those in struggle and channel the struggle into negotiation and compromise with the present order
Yea i agree the original comment was inappropriate, but please be careful when using such a loaded word as “racism” just because someone spelled “white” or “black” :P
I also strongly recommend you read the wikipedia page on reverse racism, aka anti-white racism. Have a good day!
anarchists siding with the bourgeoisie against the mean tankies, what else is new?
Well that’s new. For example in revolutionary Spain, an anarchist revolution made the bourgeoisie practically disappear overnight (though not via a genocide like Pol Pot has committed, which is laudable in my view), and it is in fact the Nation State apparatus (which the anarchists refused to seize, but unfortunately didn’t abolish formally) controlled by the communist party (supported by USSR) that reintroduced commerce and bourgeoisie in Catalonia as well as dismantled the people’s militias and forced women to drop their guns. This is well-documented in many works, including in George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia or in Martha Ackelsberg’s Free Women of Spain.
we do not hide the fact that we are marxist-leninists
I appreciate that. I was simply pointing out that your articles are very poor: either no sources or very shaky sources. You could do a better propaganda job if you put your heart to it. Comrade Lenin would certainly be disappointed in your lack of rigorous scientific marxism ;)
Zapatistas are not anarchists, and they have been saying that for decades.
I know zapatistas do not refer to themselves as anarchists, they are “from below on the left”. It just so happens that most anarchists also are “from below on the left” (because that’s the very definition of anarchism) and therefore identify with the zapatistas, rather than appropriate their revolution. I think it’s also important to point out that it’s not me personally drawing this connection: the zapatistas movement has a strong support base in the anarchist circles across Mexico (Mexico itself having a long and complex history of anarchism), and has strong connections to the international libertarian communist (anarchist) networks as outlined recently by the zapatistas delegations visiting communities who struggle across Europe (in the ZADs, in the squats, in the unions, in the popular districts, etc).
EDIT: To be clear, the zapatistas movement does not collectively identify as anarchist, however some people from Mexico involved in the zapatistas movement identify personally as anarchists.
So to be clear: i’m not trying to appropriate the zapatistas revolution which is very specific to their local cultural and colonial context. However, i personally understand their revolution to be based on anarchism because it places the Commune front and center and explicitly refuses to build a Nation State. In making a connection between anarchism and zapatism, i’m not trying to rally zapatistas to a specific political brand because i don’t care about ideology so much as i care about praxis. On the other hand, i am fully trying to get people interested in anarchism to learn more about the zapatistas caracoles because i believe the socialist/communist/anarchist movement in the global north has a lot to learn from these communities and their struggles.
I know anarchists have nothing else to cling to
That’s wrong. Not that we have many successes, but anarchism is rising again on all continents. The corruption of political parties and the rise of dictatorial centralized States have led to more people criticizing the systemic aspects of oppression and how they are enacted/reinforced by Nation States. There’s a lot happening around the world and simply dismissing anarchist activity as “nothing” (just like the prolewiki article does citing only one anarchist example which doesn’t even have a link/source) doesn’t help your point against anarchism. For a major Nation-wide controversy involving anarchism in the past years, i recommend you do some reading on “Exarcheia” and “Rouvikonas” in Greece.
the movement themselves have had to put out press releases and articles explaining to please stop calling them anarchist.
I’m interested if you have a link to that! :)
That linked page is so full of bullshit it’s hard to skim through. There are some good points: various interest groups using Wikipedia as a platform to promote their worldview, sexist bias leading to important women being denied their page… but there’s also a lot of unsourced or shaky assertions.
it is interesting to see here how easily administrator privileges are given to random users by other administrators, suggesting a widespread problem in the hierarchy
Source? The specific governance varies with every language community, but at least in the French-speaking Wikipedia is administered by a registered non-profit. I can’t say i agree all the time with their positions, but their power is transparent and no power is given to random people.
There have been various examples in the past of administrators who used their privileges to prevent their articles from being edited (therefore presenting their biased opinion as fact), or even asking for payment to let an edit through.
Source? I’ve never heard of either though i don’t consider it impossible, but you have to remember that all admins are all-powerful: a single admin can not control the site, so such allegations imply that the whole staff is on it?
Wikipedia is purposely kept difficult to edit
Source? Wikipedia has been constantly “improving” the participation UX. I personally prefered their old interface but i appreciate the new one is easier to use.
It is not rare for users going against the agenda set out by the administrators to simply be banned on frivolous grounds.
So the source for this is down now, but we can read it on the wayback machine. So it’s an interview from this guy Kohs who denounces that some people writing on wikipedia have an agenda and we should be aware of that and check sources/history. Good advice so far. Oh wait this guy is behind that scandal and was actually paid to do commercial PR on Wikipedia and was banned for that… funny ;)
Since most Wikipedia editors are white, it follows that Wikipedia will promote white supremacist points.
This makes no sense. First, i’d be interested in ethnic/religious/cultural stats on Wikipedia. Second, these stats should be made by language community because every language has its own policies on Wikipedia. Third, in the history and geography of humanity, whiteness is not necessarily linked to white supremacy. White supremacy itself is a rather “recent” phenomenon that started with european colonization and the rise of capitalism. It’s also not present in the entire “white” world: for example racial oppression in France is mostly a form of cultural supremacy, not white supremacy. Or as a french rapper put it, “here they love you when you’re rich and eat pork”.
Although Wikipedia purports to be a reliable and neutral source of knowledge, it has been mangled by several known cases of corruption, involving paid editors hired to whitewash their clients’ reputation.
True. Wikipedia even has a dedicated page on that topic. Why not link to it?
Ultimately, Wikipedia is designed to promote imperialist interests; it naturally follows that Wikipedia will also promote white supremacist, anti-Semitic, fascist and sexist viewpoints in their articles. Not only are most edits made by accounts managed by/for corporations and government agencies, the whole website structure is made to keep this agenda in place and going strong.
Source? I certainly see bias on certain language communities, but arguing that Wikipedia as a whole promotes “white supremacist, anti-Semitic, fascist and sexist viewpoints” is a very far stretch. If anything, the french-speaking wikipedia does exactly the opposite although i disagree with the liberal “rough consensus” that most pages reach.
The article on the genocide that happened in the Congo Free State (…) claims that the term genocide is contested and currently, the article contradicts itself, first making it seem like the Congolese Genocide was caused mainly by disease, later saying it was caused by “harsh economic exploitation, rather than a policy of deliberate extermination”.
The article doesn’t appear to contradict itself. It points out that deaths can be mostly attributed to disease, while still pointing out countless colonial atrocities. It does not appear particularly bad or biased to me.
All in all, that article is full of FUD. Wikipedia has bias and strong debates, but this “prolewiki” article lacks both. In that sense, it’s a lot worse than most wikipedia article that i come across. Too bad for something that’s supposed to show how unreliable wikipedia is…
EDIT: Their page on Anarchism is also hilariously bad, as if it was written by interns working for The Party™.
Anarchism does not go beyond general phrases against exploitation, it does not understand what the causes of exploitation are, nor the class struggle as a creative force for the realization of socialism. The anarchist denial of political struggle contributes objectively to the subordination of the working class to bourgeois politics.
Wow. So much wrong in that sentence. Yes anarchism has some economic analysis: the entire cooperative movement was born from Proudhon’s theories (he can be criticized on many other topics but that’s not exactly the point). There are anarchist unions such as the CNT in Spain and the IWW in USA, both of which have been very involved in revolutionary activity and were the biggest unions of their time. The quoted sentence is an easy dismissal that’s completely disconnected from reality of anarchism as a political struggle.
After 1917, anarchism in Russia became a counter-revolutionary tendency
LOL. More like Bolshevism in Russia became a counter-revolutionary tendency and slaughtered dozens of thousands of workers who were real revolutionaries.
Anarchism saw brief surges in popularity in Catalonia, the Free Territory in Ukraine and in the Korean Peninsula.
It’s insulting to reduce decades of popular struggles to a dismissive sentence grouping together very different histories under a single umbrella. If anything, anarchism in Catalonia was the driving force of the socialist movement for a long time… many peasants learnt to read in anarchist circles, and the CNT was the biggest union with over 1 million members in Barcelona alone. Wikipedia also has short but good articles on the Ukraine Commune and the Korean Commune.
Examples of anarchist experiments
- Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Fun fun fun. If you’d like to name TAZ/ZADs, then let’s name a few more: Standing Rock, Notre Dame des Landes, Hambach… We could also mention anarchist communes, or libertarian communist (anarchist, in my view) territories like the zapatistas caracoles in Chiapas, or the free communes from Catalonia/Korea/Ukraine we mentioned earlier.
SOOOOOOOO after examining two articles on your “source” i’m glad to say it’s entirely bullshit and if you want practical/useful information you should stay away from that “prolewiki”.
Errr parent comment was troubling, but your claiming that calling out whiteness is “racism” is even more troubling. I don’t know a single place on earth where anti-white racism is a thing, despite fascists claiming that. To be clear, some anti-white resentment does exist in white-supremacist regions, but resentment is not racism or rather is a small subset of racism and not the actual problem that we more precisely call “structural racism”. (see also the wikipedia pages on those topics :))
There’s tradeoffs involved. Even when a journalist is doing a good job, they may have an editor butcher the article to suit a specific narrative (source: i have journalist friends). And most times, news outlets refuse to publish sources: even on the web, it’s rare to find an article that has actual links to more detailed information.
Wikipedia’s strength is transparency:
- a lot of information is conflicting but the sources are linked to make yourself an opinion which you deem more reliable ; biased information is usually presented as such (“that person/organization claimed that…”)
- a lot of information is missing due to sources not filling the admissibility criteria but more information can generally be found in the debate section
Overall, there are great articles out there on any medium. But on average, i’d choose a wikipedia article over any other media any day of the week :)
Not sure why you were downvoted: this is an interesting debate!