“The Gaza I Know Is Gone”: Israel’s Rampage Continues as Survivors Struggle for Food, Water, Safety
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October 22, 2024[For anyone who cares about Palestine, this article is very hard to read.]
“The Gaza I Know Is Gone”: Israel’s Rampage Continues as Survivors Struggle for Food, Water, Safety
Israeli forces have killed at least 115 Palestinians and injured nearly 500 over the past two days, according to Palestinian health officials.Democracy Now!
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Meta’s Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestinian Instagram Posts
Meta’s Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestinian Instagram Posts
Jordana Cutler, Meta’s policy chief for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, repeatedly flagged for censorship posts by Students for Justice in Palestine.Sam Biddle (The Intercept)
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It's almost like sure Israelis and Jews can be trusted...
...but Zionists can't?
Almost like Zionism is a religious affiliated cult of ideology.
Kinda like Christian Nationalism.
I'm confused about your meaning but:
- Of course Jewish people can be trusted. No room for antisemitism on this topic.
- Basically every Israeli is Zionist unless they actively fight against the existence of Israel itself.
- Zionism is not exclusive to Jewish people. Most Zionists are not Jewish, in fact.
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"Our Job Is to Flatten Gaza. No One Will Stop Us."
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Younis Tirawi and Sami Vanderlip
Oct 22, 2024
"Our Job Is to Flatten Gaza. No One Will Stop Us."
Inside one Israeli battalion's yearlong mission of destructionYounis Tirawi (Drop Site News)
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The screenshot says this violated rule 4 or the sitewide rules:
Rule 4Do not share or encourage the sharing of sexual, abusive, or suggestive content involving minors. Any predatory or inappropriate behavior involving a minor is also strictly prohibited.
I looked it up out of curiosity. The post acknowledges, or at least implies that 4chan users use more slurs, and doesn't touch on racism otherwise.
For my part, I don't think there's a large gulf between racist opinions on the two platforms, just on decorum regarding slurs.
Here's the link:
web.archive.org/web/2021092218…
Ah, r/unpopularopinion one of the subs I almost never visited cause 90% of the stuff on there was just plain stupid.
For my part, I don't think there's a large gulf between racist opinions on the two platforms, just on decorum regarding slurs.
Yeah. I'd probably make the argument that 4chan is just open about the racism while other platforms like reddit have at least some enforcement leading to it being less blatant.
I had a nasty habit to argue with subreddit mods after being banned for mild violations. Obviously that would only happen when the penalty had been inadequate, otherwise I would keep my mouth shut.
It happened two times, at first I was banned for a week on the whole platform. Second time, I was permanently banned from reddit.
Mind you, these two were the only occasions I was banned from reddit per se. I would naturally receive bans on various subreddit for reasons, but never from the entire website.
Funny how the most powerful people on reddit are also most fragile and best protected by the admins.
goodness how i despise power tripping moderators.
i've been a mod in one pretty large and active online community and somehow power has never gotten into my head, but i've seen so many completely trip out over the smallest non-issues, fucking bizarre
Reddit is full of the most dishonest lying pieces of shit for mods and admins.
And they keep shoving more and more ads in their website and bots are running more rampant now, so it’s a sinking ship
Loved when I got banned for a few days because I answered something in a subreddit that apparently didn’t allow “opinion based answers”. I don’t even remember what the actual question was but it was something like “How do you think the pyramids were made”?
Just take the question down instead of banning people for answering. There is no non-opinion based answer to questions like that. Some might be more widely accepted than others but that’s about it.
I just replied with “might as well make it a permanent ban cause I’m blocking the sub”. Not gonna even waste my time contributing to communities like that.
u will probably feel less welcomed if u arent white and male and a rightoid in 4chan than reddit but honestly not by much, i think the critical difference is that on reddit u can filter ur experience so all the shits stains hang out in their own subs and the normal people avoid them, but im not sure if that is actually better, because it permits a site which is at least tolerant of some of the shittiest ideologies and prejudices around to be main stream while everyone rightfully regards 4chan as what it truly is.
i suppose its much the same here with lemmy being pretty respectable but with vile people being allowed to leak thru from right wing cesspools like lemmy.world.
Given what James is drinking in this screenshot, he may have preferred the sperm.
I think a cinderblock was involved.
Vanillepudding, meine leibspeise!
(Curious to see if anybody gets the reference)
In West Africa, Canadian mining firms come up against bloc of independent states
In West Africa, Canadian mining firms come up against bloc of independent states
Canada has long profited from West Africa’s gold resources. In fact, every year, these firms extract billions in revenue from the region.canadiandimension.com
Halifax police confirm body of Walmart employee was found in walk-in oven
Halifax police confirm body of Walmart employee was found in walk-in oven
Police have confirmed the body of an employee who died at a Walmart in Halifax over the weekend was found in a walk-in oven.Atlantic
A lot of good stuff is happening in the fediverses!
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1779269… I had posted here last week asking for suggestions, and incorporated some of them -- for example, the last section mentions the proof-of-concept Faircamp integration into Hubzilla.
Including:
- DAIR-tube, the PeerTube page of Dr. Timnit Gebru's Distributed AI ResearchCenter
- The Website League, an island network that's taking a very different approach
- GoToSocial v 0.17, continuing their focus on safety and privacy with interaction controls.
- Piefed and the Threadiverse
- Bonfire's new Mosaic service along with their work on Open Science Network and prosocial design
- Letterbook
- Bluesky and the ATmosphere's continued momentum
The post has more info on all of these and more ... there really is a lot going on.
A lot of good stuff is happening in the fediverses!
There really is a lot going on!Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)
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- The Website League, an island network that's taking a very different approach
"Website League"? I like the sound of that. Like some sort of super team...
Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
Quietly merged into this week's Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers.www.phoronix.com
I'm pretty talkative on certain subjects when I see people mangling the discussion and engaging in bad faith.
This is just softpedaling it and telling people to suspect foul play just because they are Russian honestly. There are some significant sanctions going up against Israeli companies but nobody seems concerned with that.
Misskey forks and Mastodon all have a file drive to manage things, thread watching, one-click access to LibreTranslate without browser extensions (good for libraries and school). Lemmy is really only good for the insane blood bowl of comments sections - and I literally have to use SearxNG lemmy comments plugin to sift through it because federation is so annoying. Though I am being harsh maybe. Eh honestly it's workable if you babysit every aspect of federation but it was never worth it to me. A.gup.pe is pretty much the best way to bridge Lemmy with Mastodon/Misskey/Friendica forks.
Let's be for real though, Mastodon's ecosystem is horrible. They all support mindless aggression against Russia and "Israel's right to exist" where Palestinians used to live side by side even with Zionists. The few people who stand up even for international law, which is based in US oriented institutions, are constantly lambasted, to the point even mild radical liberals like that German "immibis" guy are driven to their own instances.
FediMap shows why. Until server hosting is less concentrated in NATO countries you can expect more heavy handed neoconservative moderation. At least there are cool Brazilians.
Literally just use a Misskey fork, Funkwhale, and Peertube.
“Compliance requirements”? The kernel’s american now?! WTF?
Nope, but it is not above the law.
This is all hypothetical
Yes, that is exactly my point: let's not get all worked up about something where we have almost zero facts. Although:
open source is beholden to western laws and corporate practices
is definitely the case for the Linux Foundation: it's beholden to US laws. And wake-up call or not, a foundation would always be incorporated somewhere, and beholden to the laws of that somewhere.
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socially he’s not terrible but when the war drums come beating he’s stepping in line for the stars and stripes
Like pretty much every Finn would these days, really.
Also from seemingly reasonable commenters there are many arguments around security coming up. I don't get how one can jump to that idea? This obviously has nothing to do with security, it's about sanction compliance. And yes, likely a pretty pointless sanction compliance in this instance, as the sanctioned entities don't have a direct benefit from having an employee name mentioned in the kernel. However that's not how sanctions work, both just because, and also intuitively it makes sense: Sanctions wouldn't be enforcable at scale if every single case would have to be judged on merit - it's hard enough to enforce them as is.
And btw I so hope most of the comments on here are Russian trolls, but I fear many are people that fully drunk the Russian trolls' cool-aid and are now fully brainwashed...
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i don't know what exactly was in question in the kernel, that the lawyers had to worry about, but From EAR rules...
"note that open source software can still be subject to export control measures if it includes technologies or functionalities that are regulated. In such cases, specific controls may be applied to prevent the unauthorized export of these technologies or functionalities."
IF something was deemed controlled, it makes sense to pull it so kernel can ship anywhere, and whomever received it can do their own tweaks
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That's so cute that you think that anyone who doesn't eat out of the hand of Google News is brainwashed by Putin. You're such a critical thinker. Thank you for weighing in.
Actually the difference between me and people like you is I actually read what Washington and Kiev are saying about the war and have memory longer than a goldfish! Plus, I avoid search engines that have gone under heavy censorship since February 2022 by groups like Alliance to Secure Democracy. I have far more cogent criticism of the Russian government and their media, their central bank, and MOD than anyone like you, or most of the supporters of the SMO. Mainly that they let the west get away with a Nazi coup in Ukraine in 2014 and sat on their hands.
Of course support for the Ukrainians has nothing to do with western propaganda LOL, you have no choice whether America and its sub-imperial partners in Europe, Australia, Japan, and South Korea send supplies and funding to the Ukrainians. It doesn't make any difference whether you buy the propaganda or not. These same thinks tanks that call for a war in Ukraine are now discovering that western industrial capacity cannot be restored and falls far short of doing anything other than delaying Ukraine losing.
The economic shock of the coronavirus pandemic has now rolled into the mass realignment caused by sanctioning Russia. Sanctions place a burden on all countries which are expected to abide by them. Outside of western countries which constitute 14% of the world population, people are ambivalent about the Anti Terrorist Operation Against Donbas Separatists entering year TEN, they only care about the western financial system being turned into a weapon against them.
In fact, even American vassals like Europe and Japan are becoming more cagey about war. It certainly is not inspiring the hardcore faction of the Taiwanese about war with China.
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The US is in many ways, as bad as Russia concerning privacy. If the Americans want a backdoor, they'll get it too.
However, not many western countries are currently almost at war with the US, the US so far has been a very good ally to the Western countries. It is not in their interest to bring our hospitals down, or put a stop to our air traffic. They don't gain much from hurting us. Russia does.
Russia does have an interest in bringing systems down and spying as much as possible. And they have no ethic restrictions at all.
So why should we leave an obvious angle of attack open? Sure, it's supposedly to be found by code reviews, but why make their job harder?
Do we even have numbers on how many Russians have contributed?
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We stop at that point. Because it is very clear and obvious to everybody, that a Russian citizen can be forced to do the governments bidding at any time and Russia has demonstrated that they will do that. The whole country is build on propaganda and fear amongst it's people.
The rest of the groups you name, are not the same. Sure, a poor person could be bribed. But is that the same as the 100% chance that Russia will use anything they can to fuck with everybody they see as an enemy? I don't think so.
So your arguments are simply invalid in this case. If Russia was a democracy, a real one, I would say they made the wrong decision by pushing the Russians out. But in the current circumstances? I understand the decision.
I do agree that quality control should catch things, but we are all human and we don't catch a 100%. So if quality control is flooded with too much things to catch, the chance of one slipping by increases.
Also, a lot of FOSS is based on volenteers, do we just ask those people to put in more hours? Who is responsible anyways if something makes it through and actually causes damage to something or someone?
I find the decision quite reasonable. You at least filter out the party most likely to pull something shady. We should still be very careful, but it takes away some the work.
I suppose any law in any jurisdiction you want to use it, don't you think ?
Guys, are you all really that young to not remember alla the fuss with crypto software ? Same thing here: you want to distrubute something in a country, you need to follow the country's law, even if they are stupid.
It's literally just speculation.
I agree.
Even if it were true, what the fuck does that have to do with the nationality of a few Linux contributors?
Probably nothing, I agree. But since there are sanctions against Russia I suppose they have not really any other choice.
Is that sad ? Yes, but it is life.
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I can't stress how much the western supremacists are off the rails on this one: agreeing with the standard sanctions policy commonly used by the US, of punishing entire civilian populations based on the actions of their government, regardless of how you feel about that government and its actions.
Code is code, the nationality of the person shouldn't be used to exclude them. ppl know how most of us here feel about Israel but I would never even think of excluding an Israeli contributor to any of the projects I work on.
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Lemmy needs way better management of uploads than a randomly created URL floating in the void. If you accidentally paste a picture of your face or dick it is just stuck there and you have to beg an admin to help. You don't even have to hit post.
Oh yeah I skipped over the Nazi microblog instances because they are pretty isolated and infighty. It's the full throated imperialists who ban anyone who talks about the genocide like anyone is responsible for it but the Palestinians.
They do actually often use EU laws to back up their censorship. They of course would never consider other hosting options. They are proud of the EU for some reason.
But whatever if that's what people decide "Mastodon" is going to be like there is a lot more to be done with ActivityPub services other than link it to your chosen flavor of microblogging, and it certainly doesn't need to have the sheen of Eugene Rotchko on it haha
Or how I once sent a software bug report in for an Engineering product; because company is USA based they assigned it an ITAR /EAR status. It was a 4" cube I modelled, and now some dev has to treat it as sensitive EAR data. LOL
That's interesting because I remember reading that in 2022. Meanwhile Zelensky is publicly threatening to deploy "3 secret weapons" which he apparently discussed behind closed doors with western leaders who are responding negatively to this pronouncement (indicating an unwillingness to escalate)
Let's be for real, Russia could tac nuke a non NATO Eastern European country in response to whatever dual use weapons zelensky is talking about with a nuclear payload, and their chief worry would probably be the global backlash, not the threat of strategic nukes
Put down the washing machine memes and listen to the quieter admissions of Ukrainian soldiers. That's how I saw them throwing civilian bodies into a pit, gloating, before editing 30 min later to claim they took it off a Russian phone (despite visible armbands). Morale is breaking down, conscription is failing versus the Russian mercenary and volunteer partial mobilization. There is no political change coming in Moscow.
It's a horrifying prospect unless you just want to maintain access to natural resource and monopoly rents via international corps, offered up by whatever Navalny type they would want to take power.
Medvedev... yeah no way but it would be funny.
@Tinidril If it were not for our input I kind of doubt that would be the case.
You know we are at a precipice, we have the technology now to really make this world a nice place, or we can fight over what are mostly obsolete resources and turn it into a hellscape. I would prefer the former but obviously you and a lot of others prefer the latter.
Putin was so concerned about NATO expanding right to Russia's doorstep that he did an invasion that immediately led to NATO expanding right to Russia's doorstep. Even Putin stopped trying to sell that bullshit months ago, probably because it makes him look like a complete idiot.
If the US abandons Ukraine, you think that's the end of the conflict? Completing an invasion is the easy part. It's occupation that's the hard part. That's when the real brutality begins, and Russia doesn't have nearly enough occupiers to do it properly. There will be at least a decade of even more horrific bloodshed, probably ending in a Russian withdrawal.
Your friend's heart might be in the right place, but they don't know how warfare works.
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Here grandpa you forgot your pills
I don’t trust them considering their enthusiasm over it and the comments about Finnish history.
If, as it seems to emerge, they are "forced" to do it under legal advise, it is completely irrelevant that you (or anybody else for that matter) trust them or not.
About their "enthusiasm", all I can see is that after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia is not sees as that friendly and trustworthy anymore: they had a signed treaty with Ukraine to preserve Ukranian integrity in exchange of the nuclear weapons (from URSS), we see how much Russia valued their own word. I cannot blame someone from a country which share a border with Russia for not having simpaty for Russia.
True, someone innocent will pay, but it is not that different from having Russian scientist turned away from CERN or any other situation where there was a collaboration. It is sad but on the other hand it is a consequence.
Go read “Finnisu Civil War: History, Memory, Legacy” by Tepora and try to laugh at the comments about history. Impossible.
As you cannot laugh to any other memory of any other war.
You are too blinded by propaganda to use reason. It's deeply pathetic.
Didn't read the book did you dum dum?
The US is the most belligerent nation on earth, shall we ban american contributors? How about israeli?
Should their code be removed from the kernel?
The real question i haven't seen answered is Who owns the kernel code. Torvalds owns the Linux™ but that's to prevent others from buying it, but i was under the impression the source code is owned by all those who contribute to it and not whoever happens to be employing Torvalds at the time. Or is it a matter of where git.kernel.org/ happens to be hosted?
I'd suggest Codeberg but that's in Germany, so maybe another forgejo instance hosted maybe in Switzerland.
Russia might invade Finland.
Finland's part or NATO now. Putin may be a lot of things, stupid ain't one of them. Ironically, this kinda backfired on him but can't say it was unexpected considering most scandinavians love the american dream.
Who owns the copyright is irrelevant. Russian developers are still entirely entitled to use and modify the Linux source. The only thing they can't do is submit their changes for inclusion in the main Linux development tree. The only real consequence for them is that their changes might be broken by future kernel updates and they will have to fix it themselves to use newer kernels. That, and they will have to maintain their own distribution system. I've also seen nothing to suggest anyone's code is being removed.
The US didn't invade Ukraine and, obviously, isn't under US or European sanctions. I'm sure that you and I could agree on a great deal when it comes to American foreign policy, it's just not relevant to this situation where Russia is the clear aggressor. (Setting aside the usual "buffer zone" bullshit that every aggressor state uses and Putin already abandoned).
Who owns the copyright is irrelevant.
It is, which is why i focused on where the repository is located and whether that determines possession.
Possession is irrelevant too. Access to source code has not being restricted, and doing so wouldn't even be realistically possible. The only practical change is that new updates from these developers will not be published by the Linux Foundation, and ongoing integration will not be done by mainline Linux developers.
If Russia wants, they can fork Linux at any time, call it Rusinux, and do whatever they want with it. They could even port future Linux updates back to their kernel.
They still have to keep it under the GPL2 license, but only if they want to honor Western copyright laws and treaties.
Newly added to the Trade-Free Directory:
Open Source Routing Engine for OpenStreetMap
Valhalla is an open-source routing engine and accompanying set of libraries for use with OpenStreetMap data. Valhalla is used within Mapzen, Mapbox, and Stadia Maps services and SDKs.
More here:
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Exploring Lemmy Codebase - Rust for lemmings
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/27020356
We are officially finished with The Book. Now onto something that matters.Today is an exploratory session to explore the lemmy codebase, see how well it's documented for contribution, and make a targets for contribution.
If anyones following along this week is dedicated to familiarizing ourselves with the codebase. Pull it down, set up our dev environment, run the code. After that pick a directory and attempt to explain a few functions to a duck. If a duck is not present find a google search result for the term "duck" will suffice.
As always, a stream will be available at the following link of myself doing this for around 2 hours starting one hour after this post is made.
twitch.tv/deerfromsmoke
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Amid war and natural disasters, capitalism is at root of crisis, says socialist candidate for president
Amid war and natural disasters, capitalism is at root of crisis, says socialist candidate for president : Peoples Dispatch
“A third party option takes away that consent from the ruling class and gives power to working class people,” says Claudia De la Cruz, socialist candidate for presidentNatalia Marques (Peoples Dispatch)
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These ideas only seem "radical" since capitalism has brought us to such an unbelievable, ridiculous point that the population has become numb to it.
It is the most inefficient system that any society could imagine
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‘I see my wife and son burning every time I close my eyes’
‘I see my wife and son burning every time I close my eyes’
Families recount the scene of an Israeli airstrike that set tents ablaze at Al-Aqsa Hospital — one of many recent attacks in central Gaza.Jonathan Adler (+972 Magazine)
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Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense admitted that the personal information of Gu Lixiong and other high-ranking generals was leaked: a review and negligence
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense admitted that the personal information of Gu Lixiong and other high-ranking generals was leaked: a review and negligence - VOCO News | North American Chinese real-time news
Taiwan media "China Times" exclusively reported on Monday (October 10) that the Political Style Office of Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense last week sent a list of all personnel within the Ministry of National Defense who must declare property, …sharonyeh (VOCO News 北美華人新聞)
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--U.S. Politicians
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