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Rashid Khalidi: ‘Israel’s Nightmare Scenario’ (2 of 2)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/23541996

from #WorldOutlook
By world-outlook.com on December 12, 2024

Rashid Khalidi: ‘Israel’s Nightmare Scenario’ (II) - World-Outlook

This is the second of two parts of a wide-ranging interview with renowned Palestinian American scholar Rashid Khalidi. He returns to important themes he has previously discussed in the 14 months since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel.

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Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld

Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld

Leaked images have shown an unannounced Lenovo handheld with a Steam button. The Legion Go S has a Steam button next to its display.

^{Tom Warren (The Verge)}

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A_Chilean_Cyborg

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Wonderful news!

Linux is the future of gaming and manufacturers are starting to realize.

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Foxitixation

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LINUX HANDHELD?

Posadas [he/him, they/them] via Chapotraphouse

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Posadas [he/him, they/them]
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Say what you will about jocks, but it's the nerds burning down the world to generate women that suspiciously look like children

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Dessalines

in reply to Posadas [he/him, they/them] • 1 year ago • •

Are there any highschool subcultures that are cool now? Speaking from a US perspective:

Jocks are now finance/crypto bros, or clueless managers.
Nerds are building bombs or AI or spending their days trying to get people to click on ads.
Theatre kids are imperialist hamilton libs who think the US is "a nation of immigrants", and not a settler-state based on indigenous eviction.
Hippies are pacifist color-revolution-supporters.
Goths are probably eco-nihilists.
My experience with modern day punks, skaters, and stoners is that they're mostly some kind of libertarian who believe in a lot of reactionary conspiracy theories.
Hipsters are almost always some flavor of western-chauvinist / white supremacist.

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'Multiple' drones entered airspace at New Jersey naval station: Official

The concern continues to grow over widespread drone sightings.

^{Mark Osborne (ABC News)}

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SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 1 year ago • •

A drone allegedly crashed last night in NJ reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hd…

Here's a tiktok live from the area tiktok.com/t/ZTY9TyBXv/

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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this has to be one of the weirdest stories of late

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via United States | News & Politics

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'Multiple' drones entered airspace at New Jersey naval station: Official

The concern continues to grow over widespread drone sightings.

^{Mark Osborne (ABC News)}

Xi’s RSVP is a snub to Trump, but the inauguration invite is still a big deal

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/politics/trump-xi-inauguration-china-analysis/index.html

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hackerwacker

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I've invited Trump to watch me take a shit.

CNN.com: Wow what a power move from lemmy user hackerwacker

U.S. military confirms drone sightings at air base in Germany

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/unidentified-drones-sighted-over-us-air-base-germany-spiegel-reports-2024-12-13/

I don’t want to argue about genocide. I just want to honor Mahmoud.

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/23541504

An Israeli drone strike killed the remarkable man behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen
from #TheForward #Forward
[#Jewish publication from #USA]
By Rabbi Regina Sandler-Phillips
December 9, 2024

Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders of Gaza Soup Kitchen, killed by an Israeli drone strike. – The Forward

Instead of arguing over genocide, remember Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen.

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teamevil

in reply to Peter Link • 1 year ago • •

That guy sounded amazing, God all this needless suffering is pointless unless you're a monster.

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TheOubliette

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It is a genocide, full stop, and this source is rife with liberal Zionist genocide deniers.

You cannot truly honor this martyr while denying what is happening to him and all Gazans. You cannot clean your conscience selectively.

Stackabrix, a simple terminal game

gitlab.com/christosangel/stack…

stackabrix is a simple terminal game, written in Bash, where the user, against the clock and with the least moves possible, must sort the blocks according to their color, and stack them in the respective stack.

During the game, the user can move left and right, pick blocks and drop them in other stacks.

The aim is to sort the blocks, and stack them in the respectively named stacks, fast as possible, and with the least moves possible.

The play's score is the sum of the time achieved in seconds and of the moves made.

If the score is among the 10 best scores achived, it makes it in the Top Ten Highscores.

Any feedback is welcome.

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Bad_Company_Daps

in reply to christos • 1 year ago • •

Looks pretty cool. I know this isn't the point but I feel like from a games perspective the scoring is a bit off. I don't think 1 extra second and 1 extra move should be the same value. For me to sit there and analyze what the optimal move set would be to move set would be to move a certain block may avoid 2-3 extra moves, but would take way longer than 3 seconds for me to calculate in my head. Maybe make a move add 5 points to the score?

I wonder if there's a game theory way to find the optimal amount that the moves and time should be weighed to make them equal value.

Either way, pretty awesome you got this working in bash.

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christos

in reply to Bad_Company_Daps • 1 year ago • •

Summing up seconds and moves seemed a fair way to mark one's score. The analogy of each in the sum is purely arbitrary, and quite possibly subjective: Some people play based more with their reflexes, muscle memory, than calculation. Not everyone functions the same. However this is a fair point.
Thanks for the feedback.

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Bad_Company_Daps

in reply to christos • 1 year ago • •

I do agree in the end it's arbitrary, and you're right there are 2 extremes in strategy, purely analytical and purely reflexive, plus everything in between.

Admittedly without having played this game specifically using both strategies this is purely speculation. But from my experience playing similar games, exactly to your point of the two strategies, if time and moves are weighed equally, I feel like a player using the analytics strategy would end up with a much higher score than a reflex based player at the "same" skill level (however "skill" levels would be pretty hard to quantify and compare by the two strategies).

Hope that makes sense :)

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christos

in reply to Bad_Company_Daps • 1 year ago • •

It does. And naturally, the more one practices, they become better at it.

And there is the element of chance: if the randomly generated grid is helpful (e.g. half solved), the easier and quicker it is solved.

Allonzee via Memes

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Allonzee
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Will you let them distract and divide you again? It's what they do...

And no, the 6.134258 shares of Apple in your 401K don't make you an owner, lol.

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Chemical Wonka

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

bourgeoisie vs proletariat

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Allonzee

in reply to Chemical Wonka • 1 year ago • •

Yes, those are some of the words the owners convinced the masses are SCAWY and EVIL, and only spoken by people that want to take your money when you're a millionaire/billionaire one day.

Because clearly if you succeed, you would never want to have some of your success taxed to repair/improve the commons like roads, schools, and HEALTHCARE of the society that provided the conditions for your astronomical success in the first place.

That would be ridiculous. How can you expect to buy a pet mega yacht to keep your first mega yacht company, while buying an island, while buying up smalltime entrepreneurs that would compete with you, while space touristing, while building your luxury climate change bunker compound if you can't suck entire nations dry?!

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Voroxpete

in reply to Chemical Wonka • 1 year ago • •

I think the framing in the meme is actually more helpful. Marxists would do well to update their language instead of constantly speaking in terms that sound utterly archaic to modern ears.

I would in fact prefer "Owners vs Workers" because "Laborers" still implies specifically forms of physical labour in a way that makes a lot of people feel excluded from the movement we're trying to build.

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Allonzee

in reply to Voroxpete • 1 year ago • •

Absolutely agree.

Framing/Marketing is essential.

It's how they've sold this exploitative hellscape.

"This isn't hell, this is freedom! Freedom from responsibility to one another. Free to win big or lose bigger!"

It's sad that it does work, but it does. Hell, marketing has convinced us that a blatant antisocial vice like greed is virtuous rational self-interest. Marketing 👐

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Count Regal Inkwell

in reply to Voroxpete • 1 year ago • •

(also Boureoisie is hard as fuck to spell)

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PeeOnYou [he/him]

in reply to Count Regal Inkwell • 1 year ago • •

spell it to the Mickey mouse song.. Bou rge oisie

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Voroxpete • 1 year ago • •

I disagree, actually. Labelling them by their Marxian terms ties them to Marxism. This continues to tie Marxism to modern day analysis. Using general terms erases Marxism, and therefore erases critical theory.

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Voroxpete

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 year ago • •

You can still teach people theory. Theory is important. But it makes no sense to open with it. That's like being asked to teach someone how to use a computer and opening with an explanation of how a CPU works.

No one is going to pay attention to all your theory if they can't understand how it meaningfully relates to their circumstances.

And, frankly, the term Marxism comes with so much cultural baggage at this point that you're far better off focusing on what it actually means rather than what it says. You need to get people out of their preconceptions and help people understand what Marx really meant.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Voroxpete • 1 year ago • •

You insult the average person, people are far smarter than you give them credit for. Moreover, you can't avoid discussing the "baggage" that comes from Marxism anyways, so acting scared and secretive is more damaging than anything else. Maintaining a correct line is more important than trying to be sneaky and having it backfire by having them either not read theory, which would be disastrous, or having them retain anti-socialist views because you were sneaky.

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Olgratin_Magmatoe

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

We cannot accept capitalism’s conception of economic relations as “free and private,” because contracts are not made among economic equals and because they give rise to social structures which undemocratically confer power upon some over others. Such relationships are undemocratic in that the citizens involved have not freely deliberated upon the structure of those institutions and how social roles should be distributed within them (e.g., the relationship between capital and labor in the workplace or men and women in child rearing). We do not imagine that all institutional relations would wither away under socialism, but we do believe that the basic contours of society must be democratically constructed by the free deliberation of its members.

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Allonzee

in reply to Olgratin_Magmatoe • 1 year ago • •

Exactly.

Freedom without responsibility or equity is a rampage.

Our people are only free in the sense that our most successful sociopaths are free to take everything their fellow citizens labor for without giving back anything, and everyone else is free to die in the gutter.

Societies have social contracts backed by law, we forgot and deregulated ours half a century ago, and even then it was lacking.

What society would want an economy that makes it untenable for most humans to raise a family on a single earner's income so a partner can raise kids? That was stolen for the owners profit. Such a society plainly does not prioritize having any future.

The shape of any society's economy tells you everything you need to know about that society's priorities. Ours says "everyone for themselves. You're either in the boat made of bodies, or feel free to drown, loser." Gotta love how enthusiastic our economists are about the system needing to have legions of "losers" as if their very lives are a fucking game.

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Olgratin_Magmatoe

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

Here's the full article if you're interested:

dsausa.org/strategy/toward_fre…

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CluckN

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

The 400m beats the 800m any day of the week. The 800m is too long to sprint and should be abolished.

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Allonzee

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You.

Take.

That.

Back.

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PeeOnYou [he/him]

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Race war!

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anton

in reply to CluckN • 1 year ago • •

The 400m is the worst distance because it's the longest, that can be done anaerobic.
This results in the maximum lactic acid and pain for such a short event.
It's the uncanny valley between proper sprint and endurance.

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theywilleatthestars

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

So left. That's what leftism is.

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Allonzee

in reply to theywilleatthestars • 1 year ago • •

While globally true, it isn't what the United States heavy handed Democrat party is at all. They work with Republicans to deny class struggle exists while they bicker on social issue symptoms. A for profit media amplified left/right freak show designed to keep us distracted and hating each other over relatively petty social issues so the owners can bleed us dry in peace. They've made us so divided on so many lines we can barely see straight, all to facilitate profit/growth/metastasis at all other expense.

The handful of spoiler candidates the DNC despises and undermines more than Republicans notwithstanding, the owner's succeeded in legalizing political bribery in the US, and thus we have an economically right-wing neoliberal party and a "put undesirables in concentration camps" party to the right of them.

A leftist movement either needs to steal the DNC infrastructure out from under them and force the neoliberals out as Trump did with the GOP by out-hating them, or we need to somehow make a third party work.

Because the DNC and the RNC are high on Corporate brib

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theywilleatthestars

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

"Democrat" is not synonymous with Left. Most Democrats aren't leftists

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Iron Lynx

in reply to theywilleatthestars • 1 year ago • •

This. Comparing them to my national parties (NL), my rough estimate is that the Dems are more right wing than D66, and they're pretty much centre-right.

Come back to me when your left is on par with GL-PvdA

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ParetoOptimalDev

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

Most social justice aware leftists don't deny class issues, lol wut

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PolandIsAStateOfMind

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

While globally true, it isn’t what the United States heavy handed Democrat party is at all.

??? Democrat party was traditionally center-right and now is far-right

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Dessalines

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

The US democrats are a far right party. The US doesn't allow any left-wing party to reach the public sphere, because its far right country.

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UnderpantsWeevil

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

The top brackets are manifestations of the bottom bracket. Its a divide-and-conquer strategy, and foolish to ignore on its face.

For centuries women couldn't own property, couldn't hold professional jobs, and couldn't participate in politics. Same with ethnic minorities. Queer sexual preference was outright prohibited by law and used to disqualify candidates from office, to break up organizations with police action, and to deny people access to private careers and public services.

You can come at this from a vulgar Marxist perspective and only see the Owners v Workers. But you're missing why owners have power if you neglect the layer upon layer of privileged class surrounding them.

If it really does just boil down to Workers v Owners, why don't the cops simply seize the means of production themselves? What keeps them loyal to the bourgeois if they themselves are not invited to the Epstein Island Bunga-Bunga parties? What keeps suburban professionals loyal? What keeps religious radicals loyal?

There's more at play than mere title to real es

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Allonzee

in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • 1 year ago • •

If it really does just boil down to Workers v Owners, why don't the cops simply seize the means of production themselves?

theconversation.com/why-police…

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UnderpantsWeevil

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

A good article for understanding the relationship between the police and other unions. But it doesn't answer the question

Why don’t the cops simply seize the means of production themselves? What keeps them loyal to the bourgeois?

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Allonzee

in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • 1 year ago • •

Police unions do not see themselves as part of this movement. With one exception – the International Union of Police Associations, which represents just 2.7% of American police – law enforcement unions are not affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the U.S. labor body that unites all unions.

Because as outlined culturally the police see themselves as the system itself, by nature of the job, as evidenced by their hostility towards the larger labor movement they're often tasked with breaking, something the vast majority of other union heavy vocations don't do, and are often given special carve outs when the labor movement and unionization are targeted legislatively precisely because it's their job to enforce those rules.

American police are more a capital defense force, and unlike the larger labor movement, have their priorities of being unaccountable to those they police backed by the state. They're the owner's special little boys/girls, they attract and recruit conservative minded power seekers who conflate legality with morality, and they like

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FrowingFostek

in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • 1 year ago • •

Imma just take a stab in the dark and say conservative/classical liberal ideology keeps them licking the toe jam of the owning class.

They love them some hierarchy.

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ryedaft

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

cough cishets

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Allonzee

in reply to ryedaft • 1 year ago • •

I will call any human nearly anything (not master, daddy, mommy, etc) they want to be called with any pronouns they want to be used out of basic kindness and courtesy. It doesn't cost anything to be nice.

People who belligerently don't want to are assholes who want to hurt people's feelings.

That said, I will gladly join hands with the assholes to dethrone the profiteers legally murdering people including children in droves out of ice cold, reptilian, calculating, sociopathic greed, because priorities.

For profit insurers don't care what your pronouns are when they murder you. You don't get a disrespectful wrong pronoun, because they murdered you and don't address you at all.

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riodoro1

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

Being distracted and divided is what we do.

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Elgenzay

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

Thought it said labradors and thought this post was written by a dog criticizing human politics compared to their dog politics between themselves and their owners

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chiliedogg

in reply to Elgenzay • 1 year ago • •

"Humans have limitless bacon, but force us to perform tricks and go outside to pee in view of the whole world before they'll give it away as a treat."

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swab148

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

No war but class war.

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recreationalcatheter

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

I love how you left out east vs west in the top panel.

What a weird thing to forget 😅

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JasonDJ

in reply to recreationalcatheter • 1 year ago • •

I think Tupac and Biggie would be friends today. Probably even do a collab album. And then beat the shit out of puff daddy.

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recreationalcatheter

in reply to JasonDJ • 1 year ago • •

I was referring to the century old propaganda in this meme. It's okay to not be for progress and growth, just don't pretend to be for it 🤷

Guess everyone was right about tankies not being able to honestly discuss anything.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

It's still very important to recognize the impacts of racism, sexism, homophobia, and more. White supremacy, cishet supremacy, and patriarchy are additional axes by which the overall contradiction of bourgeois vs proletarian is waged. You can't erase that. You have to acknowledge it within the broader class war. Historically, class war has been waged the fiercest by those most marginalized by it, uniting and making significant social progress is necessary for Socialism.

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UltraGiGaGigantic

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

While I appreciate you covered up drakes face with Luigi, please consider using the laforge version of this meme in the future. Here is a copy for you. Thanks.

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Allonzee

in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic • 1 year ago • •

I will do so!

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Mac

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chetradley

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UltraGiGaGigantic

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Nice

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UltraGiGaGigantic

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Damn dude, you win. Way to inspire me to aspire to your level of greatness.

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JackbyDev

in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic • 1 year ago • •

I love the pic you posted, wonderin' if I share it, would you mind? I know a couple people online who would love it please reply.

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dQw4w9WgXcQ

in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic • 1 year ago • •

I'm out-of-the-loop. Did Drake do something bad?

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to ☂️- • 1 year ago • •

Less "first," more "alongside" imo. Class division is the primary contradiction, but you can't untangle it without making progress on the secondary contradictions.

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JackbyDev

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

And no, the 6.134258 shares of Apple in your 401K don't make you an owner, lol.

Thank you for saying this. It's very frustrating when people act like having retirement savings makes you like billionaires.

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explodicle

in reply to JackbyDev • 1 year ago • •

This is 100% by design. The only way to retire in this economy is to invest in an exploitative business. So over time, people find themselves supporting ideas that make retirements in general farther away, but their own retirement nicer.

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PolandIsAStateOfMind

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

Right is in the first place because they support capitalism, therefore owners

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Oka

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

Right vs Left Race vs. Race Men vs. Women Cis vs. LGBT

What did the left Race, or the women cis, or the Race Men do to deserve this?

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sunbytes

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

We need a Luigi (the human) Wojak asap.

Nintendo will step in and spoil the fun (hard) if this gets momentum.

Also for human Luigi: Mugshot Vs Twitter pic for drake meme also?

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RadiantLuminous

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PeeOnYou [he/him]

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fuck Nintendo, i don't think they'll want to push their luck

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NutWrench

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

Yup. It's not about the "gays vs the straights" or the "left vs the right" or the Romulans vs The Federation. It's about the rich vs everybody else. It's a class war. It always has been and the rich use the media they own to make you think it's a culture war. To keep you fighting with other so you won't figure out where the REAL source of your pain comes from.

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agent_nycto

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

I kinda disagree with this a little. These things are interconnected. While we shouldn't let stuff like race and sexuality divide us, we shouldn't ignore that some groups have been fucked over more than others and part of dismantling the system is seeing what parts are rotten. Red lining n shit.

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Allonzee

in reply to agent_nycto • 1 year ago • •

I'm not saying to ignore them, I'm saying we have a common enemy using those differences to exploit and murder us by amplifying every division except owners vs workers using for profit media and captured government, encouraging us to fight one another over them so they can do so.

Note the absolutely confused and terrified tone the for profit media is going through right now when they're perfectly fine when 10 kids get gunned down. That's just another wedge for division, gun control, for them to stoke as no one that mattered, to them, died.

Im saying that until we pause and dethrone the owners, they will see to it those secondary divisions remain entrenched and heated to keep us weak, and therefore they are the primary threat that must be the priority to solve literally any of our great national blights.

We cannot begin to heal... Any division... Until the instigators that keep stoking them for private profit are defeated and made subject to society, government, and regulation again instead of controlling them.

Reigning in our sociopathic, murderous late sta

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agent_nycto

in reply to Allonzee • 1 year ago • •

I've seen some pretty compelling arguments from minority groups that step 0 can't be done without simultaneously addressing the divisions you're talking about. I don't see why we can't do both. I agree that these things are used and usually ultimately come from capitalism, but I think that recognizing and fixing those divisions is an integral part of dismantling capitalism.

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Allonzee

in reply to agent_nycto • 1 year ago • •

Again, capitalism amplifies these divisions with the bully pulpits ONLY THE CAPITALISTS CONTROL through government and profit media.

You can't have any movement they don't inform and can't kill entirely if they wish, because they own the signal, and a few techies on distributed social media doesn't change that.

But nothing will change, because there are too many people that refuse to acknowledge that, that think their cause is more important and must take priority when the class war either created or exacerbates their oppression, effects more people, almost everyone, and while identify affirmation is a nice and in a decent society important thing, material needs, food, water, shelter for ALL are objectively a higher priority than telling 10% of the population for any subgroup "I see you, your identity is valid." I'm all for that. But this is a literal war where people are being murdered, and a cause parade for any cause other than stop murdering/exploiting our very lives for profit us has no place in a war for the vast majority of the population's survival.

And i

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Paranoia Level: Virtualization vs Isolated Machines for Self-Hosting?

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/23071801

Considering a lot of people here are self-hosting both private stuff, like a NAS and also some other is public like websites and whatnot, how do you approach segmentation in the context of virtual machines versus dedicated machines?
This is generally how I see the community action on this:

Scenario 1: Fully Isolated Machine for Public Stuff

Two servers one for the internal stuff (NAS) and another for the public stuff totally isolated from your LAN (websites, email etc). Preferably with a public IP that is not the same as your LAN and the traffic to that machines doesn't go through your main router. Eg. a switch between the ISP ONT and your router that also has a cable connected for the isolated machine. This way the machine is completely isolated from your network and not dependent on it.

Scenario 2: Single server with VM exposed

A single server hosting two VMs, one to host a NAS al

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/23071801

Considering a lot of people here are self-hosting both private stuff, like a NAS and also some other is public like websites and whatnot, how do you approach segmentation in the context of virtual machines versus dedicated machines?
This is generally how I see the community action on this:

Scenario 1: Fully Isolated Machine for Public Stuff

Two servers one for the internal stuff (NAS) and another for the public stuff totally isolated from your LAN (websites, email etc). Preferably with a public IP that is not the same as your LAN and the traffic to that machines doesn't go through your main router. Eg. a switch between the ISP ONT and your router that also has a cable connected for the isolated machine. This way the machine is completely isolated from your network and not dependent on it.

Scenario 2: Single server with VM exposed

A single server hosting two VMs, one to host a NAS along with a few internal services running in containers, and another to host publicly exposed websites. Each website could have its own container inside the VM for added isolation, with a reverse proxy container managing traffic.
For networking, I typically see two main options:
Option A: Completely isolate the "public-facing" VM from the internal network by using a dedicated NIC in passthrough mode for the VM;
Option B: Use a switch to deliver two VLANs to the host—one for the internal network and one for public internet access. In this scenario, the host would have two VLAN-tagged interfaces (e.g., eth0.X) and bridge one of them with the "public" VM’s network interface. Here’s a diagram for reference: ibb.co/PTkQVBF
In the second option, a firewall would run inside the "public" VM to drop all inbound except for http traffic. The host would simply act as a bridge and would not participate in the network in any way.

Scenario 3: Exposed VM on a Windows/Linux Desktop Host

Windows/Linux desktop machine that runs KVM/VirtualBox/VMware to host a VM that is directly exposed to the internet with its own public IP assigned by the ISP. In this setup, a dedicated NIC would be passed through to the VM for isolation.
The host OS would be used as a personal desktop and contain sensitive information.

Scenario 4: Dual-Boot Between Desktop and Server

A dual-boot setup where the user switches between a OS for daily usage and another for hosting stuff when needed (with a public IP assigned by the ISP). The machine would have a single Ethernet interface and the user would manually switch network cables between: a) the router (NAT/internal network) when running the "personal" OS and b) a direct connection to the switch (and ISP) when running the "public/hosting" OS.
For increased security, each OS would be installed on a separate NVMe drive, and the "personal" one would use TPM with full disk encryption to protect sensitive data. If the "public/hosting" system were compromised.
The theory here is that, if properly done, the TPM doesn't release the keys to decrypt the "personal" disk OS when the user is booted into the "public/hosting" OS.
People also seem to combine both scenarios with Cloudflare tunnels or reverse proxies on cheap VPS.
What's your approach / paranoia level :D
Do you think using separate physical machines is really the only sensible way to go? How likely do you think VM escape attacks and VLAN hopping or other networking-based attacks are?
Let's discuss how secure these setups are, what pitfalls one should watch out for on each one, and what considerations need to be addressed.

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ffhein

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My paranoia level: Even though I'm pretty good with computers in general, I would not trust myself to set up a safe public facing service, which is the reason that I don't have any of those on my home server. If I needed something like that I wouldn't self host it.

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subtext

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Scenario 5: put it all in one big long docker-compose.yml and cross your fingers that docker isolation does its job.

E: definitely not what I do, no siree

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Nope don't do that either.

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SayCyberOnceMore

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Kinda Scenario 1 is the standard way: firewall at the perimeter with separately isolated networks for DMZ, LAN & Wifi

The Firewall provides a proxy for anything in the DMZ, so all the filtering is done there and not on the DMZ device(s).

GeoIP on the firewall, so anything that's opened to the interweb - inc. inbound VPNs can only come from selected regions.

Fail2Ban on DMZ device(s), to prevent repeated login attacks.

Wifi has multiple SSIDs to block / permit outbound access to the internet (IoT stuff), LAN (Guests), etc.

Then regular updates / patching / backups....

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TCB13

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Kinda Scenario 1 is the standard way: firewall at the perimeter with separately isolated networks for DMZ, LAN & Wifi

What you're describing is close to scenario 1, but not purely scenario 1. It is a mix between public and private traffic on a single IP address and single firewall that a lot of people use because they can't have two separate public IP addresses running side by side on their connection.

The advantage of that setup is that it greatly reduces the attack surface by NOT exposing your home network public IP to whatever you're hosting and by not relying on the same firewall for both. Even if your entire hosting stack gets hacked there's no way the hacker can get in your home network because they're two separate networks.

The scenario one describes having 2 public IPs, a switch after the ISP ONT and one cable goes to the home firewall/router and another to the server (or another router / firewall). Much more isolated. It isn't a simple DMZ, it's literally the same as two different internet connections for each thing.

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SayCyberOnceMore

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Fair point, I neglected to mention that I have >1 Public IP
The firewall directs traffic as required.

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TCB13

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That's a good setup with multiple IP, but still you've a single firewall that might be compromised somehow if someone get's access to the "public" machine. :)

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SayCyberOnceMore

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I have a single connection to the 'net, hence a single firewall.

I've port scanned my firewall (externally) when travelling for work, so I've verified what's exposed and verified that GeoIP works (forgot to enable a region before travelling there), so I've reached the point where I'm happy with this setup

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Rogue

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Don't expose anything publicly, instead setup wireguard for every VM. Connect your phone, PC etc to the VPN so you have full access without publicly exposing anything.

You may have touched on this but your post was way too long so I only read the headings

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TCB13

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If you did you would know I wasn't looking for advice. You also knew that exposing stuff publicly was a prerequisite.

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Rogue

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Fair, but you were asking how people approach security for self hosted solutions and I guess I'm challenging why anything needs to be public. Self hosting is typically for your own services which can usually be hidden behind a VPN.

The exception I guess is email, but I never understand why people attempt self hosted mail servers

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TCB13

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Why only email? Why not also a website? :)

"self-hosting both private stuff, like a NAS and also some other is public like websites and whatnot"

Some people do it and to be fair a website is way simpler and less prone to issues than mail.

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Rogue

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Do websites come under the remit of self hosting?

Personally I host static websites with GitHub, cloudfront, netlify, onrender etc. Trivial to setup, more reliable and better cdn distribution. Anything dynamic lives in a data center rather than a self host setup.

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You may not want to depend on those cloud services and if you need something not static, doesn't cut it.

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Sadly very true. I've also notice how a lot of people just dismiss this stuff as being historical and no longer relevant without actually reading it.

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Macron names centrist ally François Bayrou as France's new prime minister

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French President Emmanuel Macron appointed centrist François Bayrou as the new prime minister after a no-confidence vote ousted Michel Barnier's government.
Bayrou, founder of the Democratic Movement party, faces the challenge of uniting a fractured parliament to pass an unpopular 2025 cost-cutting budget, which led to Barnier's downfall.
Barnier, ousted after just three months, was criticized for bypassing parliament.
Bayrou must form a cabinet and navigate political tensions to avoid another government collapse, which could endanger Macron's presidency amid calls for new elections.

President Macron names centrist ally François Bayrou as France's new prime minister

French President Emmanuel Macron named centrist ally François Bayrou as France's new prime minister on Friday as he sought to steer the country out of political chaos.

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What ever happened to the person that actually won the election why hasn't that person been appointed prime minister yet. Some great democracy you got over there France

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We voted for parliament groups, not a person. The prime minister is chosen by the president.

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Sounds super democratic. Why not copy the German system where the majority party in the majority coalition becomes PM / Chancellor?

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Because de Gaulle wanted a system that combined the worst of the Presidential and Parliamentary systems.

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So how long until the centrist gets ousted?

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Macron will keep retrying until. Le Penn gets a shot.

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I give it less than a week.

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openSUSE is the GOAT for several reasons, but by far my favorite reason is Zypper.

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I'm daily driving it for ~3 years and I only started yast once to see why everyone praises it so much and second time when I actually needed something (don't even know if I suceeded or failed).

Snapper on the other hand... That is a bit I praise the most! I still don't get it why it's not default for more distros...

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I continue to have a hard time with it. I desperately want to like it but feel like it doesn't handle laptop Nvidia right. I keep getting boot to black screen on KDE and have to rfkill unblock on install and just a host of issues I can't seem to ever nail down. Might have to try again since switcherooctl, but there are some rough edges for me.

Love MicroOS for server though. Rock solid.

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not_amm

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Hey, may I ask how has it been MicroOS for you?
I'm interested in using it for my small server and self-hosting, but I mostly use containers with Docker and I've seen that MicroOS comes with Podman by default.

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NanoooK

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Podman is good, you should try it.

Most docker's commands can be replaced by podman's.

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not_amm

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Will do, thanks!. Have you used something like Docker Compose? I didn't have a lot of time before, but I'm still researching and I don't get what is the "standardized" way of dealing with composed containers

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NanoooK

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I have never used Podman Compose but it exists. I guess it's really similar to docker compose.

With podman you can use "Quadlets", which are systemd files allowing the services to integrate very well with the system (you can use journalctl to see the logs of a container).

   Podman  supports  building,  and starting containers (and creating vol‐
  umes) via systemd by using a systemd generator.  These files  are  read
  during boot (and when systemctl daemon-reload is run) and generate cor‐
  responding  regular  systemd  service  unit files. Both system and user
  systemd units are supported.  All options and tables available in stan‐
  dard systemd unit files are supported. For example, options defined  in
  the  [Service]  table and [Install] tables pass directly to systemd and
  are handled by it.  See systemd.unit(5) man page for more information.

  The Podman generator reads the search paths above and reads files  with
  the  extensions  .container  .volume, .network, .build, .pod and .kube,
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not_amm

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I've been reading about them, thank you! I'll test them in a VM soon, I find it weird to use systemd, but I guess if it works... I hope I get a new PC this month so I can transition distros and storage easily.

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rodbiren

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I ended up installing docker. Didn't want to make a bunch of systemd files. It automatically updates each day and has required almost no maintenance at all. It's a little strange, but can work great.

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not_amm

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I already use Docker, but in rootless mode, which works kind of weird. I wouldn't say I'm obsessed, but I like to go by example and implement all the best practices and zero trust in my own devices, since I'm studying cybersecurity:)

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N.E.P.T.R

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For nvidia hardware, use nvidia images of Aurora/Bluefin (or Bazzite if you want gaming out of the box). All the OSes I mentioned are based on Fedora Atomic and offer image options for nvidia proprietary drivers. They even signing the kernel drivers, so you can use Secure Boot.

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I have distro hopped my dang brains out with everything under the sun. I'm back to Mint. It works without being an absolute pain and is boring as watching paint dry, which is the point of an OS. I just use it to compute, work, code, and game. it boots and updates eventually.

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Yes I encountered that when I used Tumbleweed on my laptop, the solution was to run "sudo prime-select boot offload". It set up my laptop to use iGPU for desktop environment and NV offload for gaming. I made it part of my update script. No idea why that wasn't handled better.

But generally I'm done with rolling distros, I now use an Ubuntu derivative that still keeps kernel and mesa quite up to date, I enjoy a stable environment.

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