They don’t think China is capitalist (except when they are confronted with its undeniable successes).

This reminds me of the discourse around John Oliver.

When I criticize him for shitting on AES, people reply with “well, he has to do that in order to keep his show!”

Then what’s the point of having a show?

Nice and succinct. I’m going to share this with my almost-there friends.

All VPNs are blocked on my university’s network

I live off campus, thankfully, but it sucks that I can’t have any privacy on my laptop while on campus.

Yessir

-Non-Federated, Left-Wing Sites

• TankieTube, Communist YouTube

Thanks for the mention!

TankieTube is a PeerTube instance, so it belongs in the federated column IMO (albeit its current network is small).

It’s evidence that that the term “dictatorship” (like “authoritarian”) as used in the West has no material basis and is simply used to slander state enemies, because the word is never applied to Western countries.

Dictatorship is typically used by liberals to mean that a country doesn’t have elections, or that they are ruled by a leader without popular support.^[1] But in this context, this person is using it to mean “screw tightening”, which I interpreted as state repression, i.e. the qualities of a police state.

I put up the numbers as evidence that Russia is no more a police state than the UK. I don’t really mind if people call both or neither countries a dictatorship.

even more dictatorship than there is now in Russia

Criminal charges brought against people for internet posts in 2017:

UK: 1,696^[1] (population 69 million)

Russia: 411^[1:1] (population 144 million)

Vacationers on the beach in Odessa, Ukraine, 1989.

You can sync user and daemon UIDs across machines with LDAP and SSSD.

And even if you don’t do that, keeping the information is useful when restoring to the same machine

It’s certainly the agenda being pushed.

Are you referring to Nordstream, or another Baltic pipe?

It looks like the Polish train accidents are no longer blamed on Russia.

Polish authorities initially believed Russian sabotage was afoot.^[1]

But after investigations were carried out by Poland’s Internal Security Agency, it seems that local radio enthusiasts using amateur equipment managed to copy the brake signal used to override the manual functions of the train operator and force the trains to stop abruptly, causing the accidents.^[1:1]

I no longer take any of the accusations from Western intelligence at face value (i.e. without evidence), because I believe they’ve lied about Russian culpability so many times in the past.^[2] I don’t discount the possibility though—the Baltic Sea cables one seems to have a plausible motive at the very least, if they were used for NATO communications.

the Russian sabotage going on

What happened?

“To any Westerners losing sleep over the situation in Ukraine: Just pretend it’s happening in Africa.” —Sergei Lavrov (paraphrasing)

Would this only apply to servers hosted in Mississippi (or wherever)? Or any server with users registering from Mississippi IPs?

Edit: I’m guessing it’s the latter.

*The sound of children screaming has been removed*

I’m sure conservative were all over that “activist judge”, right?

Archlinux KDE Plasma

Arch only breaks my desktop about 2% of the time after system upgrades. This is slander.

No need to reinvent the wheel. Use the isEven API!