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  • Instance suggestions - a new home for me

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  • There's too much instance tribalism around here, which isn't great. I totally get defederating from stuff that's harmful, but sometimes it's down to political stances. People hate China, Russia and communism so they hate ML. Engaging in other communities as an ML user you will invariable just see people say "oh here comes the tankie" even though you said nothing tankie-ish.

    I'm not as extreme left as a lot of users in ML but i like to listen and i find common ground with people here in many issues. I feel that disagreeing politically is just not a good enough reason to block or defederate. At this point we'll end up with echo chambers that lack any semblance of political plurality of opinions. Ignoring people who lean differently doesn't make them disappear at the voting tables, it just hides one's head under the sand.

  • Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments.

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  • Such a pain you can't block an entite instance (at least not that I've found on Sync) and have to block the individual communities one by one. I blocked the ones with over 500 subscribers and i suppose the others will get blocked as they show up in my Everything feed.

    There's no way i want to be a part of German genocide whitewashing.

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    What are some obvious or not so obvious silver linings of Trump's disastrous policies? if any

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  • So apparently, from what i read, USAID, while it did some collateral good, was used for covert CIA foreign interventions meant to carry out incredibly damaging experiments for no reason other than CIA being CIA. A lot of these harmful missions were done under covert names like "sex changes in x country" or "lgbt support in y country". Allegedly Trump saw this and killed the program, just out of bigotry, either before the CIA explained it to him or despite it.

    Now i had doubts about this myself so i checked online from several sources and the consensus seemed that it checks out. Major news outlets wrote pieces on it. Even USAID defenders always say some variation of "even though USAID was involved in CIA operations destabilizing foreign governments, that was not its main purpose".

    So if this is true and as far as my research has lead me, i have no reason to believe it's a fabrication, thank goodness USAID is dead. I thought the US CIA programs of destabilizing foreign governments for shits and giggles was a thing of the past, but i was unfortunately wrong and i now realize that not even aid should be accepted from the US and I'm glad Trump destroyed that program.

  • They'll cast you back to the Windows realm with all their toxic might

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  • You really don't understand who you're talking to here. The average person hasn't heard about browser extensions. I'm serious. The amount of even engineers that work with me who are incredibly good at one specific thing, like autocad design, but don't really know or care about general computer things is pretty high, let alone non technical personnel. I've had people ask me to explain extensions and how to use ad blocking software. People just want a computer that works and does the thing they want it to without fancy things.

    People don't fear the terminal, they just don't understand it and they don't care to memorize things to learn it. If Linux wants to be an end user desktop, you need to do everything by the GUI. What is intuitive, interesting and easy to you is a nightmare for other people. I'm assuming vice versa if the accountant gives you a 10 dimension excel spreadsheet or something. It might just be me projecting my fear of accounting excel spreadsheets.

  • "You should probably just throw it away"

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  • Sharing files thru SimpleX? (across the internet)

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  • You use their servers to find your device and then exchange directly with it. They have discovery servers that link you when you don't have a fixed ip address.

    Or you can host your own personal discovery server for that.

  • Sharing files thru SimpleX? (across the internet)

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  • Have you tried syncthing-fork? You can synchronize folders across the internet with it between all sorts of devices, including android. No middlemen required since it's peer to peer.

  • Two Israeli Soldiers Flee Amsterdam Fearing Arrest over Gaza War Crimes Charges

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  • Get it through your hate filled heads, zionists are not welcome in Europe. You may think it'll be ok but it won't. The politicians like Von Der Leyen may be properly "influenced", but the people are not.

    Do not come here. Stay in Israel, since most likely other countries will arrest you too. Not only you can be arrested for being the little monsters you've been, you might even get seriously hurt, especially if you go around being racist in public to our arab brothers and sisters.

    I'm afraid to say that most people i have conversations with loathe your country and its actions. At best you'll have locals politely excusing themselves well away from you the moment you announce being Israeli.

  • Canadians cancelling their American-owned Netflix subscriptions like

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  • My theory is the following, i think what saved the US from being stuck on cold war propaganda was the internet. For a long time the US was truly great. It was a steadfast ally, a reliable trade partner and it helped rebuild the EU post WW2. It had railroads everywhere, cable cars everywhere, struggled and won against prohibition and oligarchs, treading ground on worker's rights and rights of minorities.

    Then the cold war came and things went seriously downhill. Because of the cold war a lot of things were done in secret and a lot was invested in propaganda. Corporations were allowed to do many things in secret. People in the US were told they were the best at everything and everyone else sucked. They never heard what the world really did think of them, only here and there by immigrants, who were seen as an inferior class anyway.

    Then the internet came and finally the US heard what the world thinks of them and boy, it wasn't pretty. Took a while too, many places didn't have the infrastructure ready. The world wasn't happy, the US had been doing very bad things in secret and so, US people finally saw what their country leaders had been doing.

    The US isn't a hopeless case but the US is at war with itself. A war that started in the 1800s and still rages on against an oligarch class that managed to inflitrate itself within the higher echelons of the government. Who took their railways away and their cable cars. Who took their days off and their workers rights and in some cases, even took away their right to strike (like the railroad workers).

    They can't vote their way out of this, both parties are deeply corrupt. The ones that could stop it, the regulatory agencies, are currently being gutted out. Now is a critical time for the US to change and make regulatory organs apolitical and independent from the executive branch. What is done now will define if the US will become an oligarchic dystopia or will return to its roots. I believe the destruction caused by Trump will invariably lead to the demise of the oligarchy, for oligarchy persists in denial and secret and what Trump is doing is reckless and obvious. But a time of shame has come to the US for what has been done.

    Once people in the US realize that the bipartisan struggle is an artificial struggle and that no president is coming to save them, republican or democrat, hopefully protests will spring up everywhere and when they start, real meaninful change can appear. Every American knows the establishment is everywhere. Every American knows they're in a class war.

    Every American wants to fight it, but the Republicans say Democrats are the establishment and the Democrats say Republicans are the establishment. To overcome this both Republicans and Democrats must recognize they are fighting the same enemy and it's not each other. The republican party and the democrat party are both artificial constructs of many political views that don't translate to anything in the real world of politics. They're amalgamations of parties that have differing political views who might win elections but won't effect meaningful change on account of that. It serves the interest of the oligarchs that no matter which party wins, they win.

  • I don't know what to do with this information

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  • I personally also suggest KeePass2 for an offline vault storage that you can use with Syncthing to synchronize so the data never leaves your devices.

    It's worth mentioning that both these programs are subject to leaks in machines infected with malware like OP's was, so maybe if malware is a problem you deal with regularly, i suggest the online options.

  • Genocide is no longer a red line for Germany’s Die Linke

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  • I used to be a both sides have a right to exist and we should strive to achieve that, but the longer i hear Israeli and Israeli apologists speak online and the more i see their actions the harder it is to remain of that opinion.

    My opinion now is that if we manage to successfully create the conditions to allow an independent state of Palestine and a state of Israel, it will be only a matter of time until Israel starts illegally occupying the Palestinian state. So unless it's a nuclear Palestinian state or a nuclear backed Palestinian state, it's very unlikely we can see a world where Zionism can exist in peace. Even with a nuclear Palestinian state, the Israeli mind would sit ill at ease trying to come up with a solution to disable the nukes and take over Palestine somehow, because Israeli can't fathom a world where they have to share the land that "god gave them", especially to a group of people they so overtly consider inferior to them.

    So unfortunately the state of Israel itself has made me believe a two state solution is impossible no matter who leads Israel. It's the Israeli zeitgeist. Their culture is a culture of war, oppression and genocide and if their god is real, i cannot see it being anything else but deeply ashamed of who calls themselves its people, who act so brazenly contrary to the principles set by the torah. Were this not the case, i see no reason that we could not have two states. But it's like they say, if my grandmother had wheels, she would be an electric car. There's only one way forward left. One state ruled by both Jews and Muslims. It will be bumpy at first, but eventually they will figure it out, like we all did. The idea of a Jewish only state is a deeply flawed idea that has harmed Judaism deeply and should be abandoned. And even if Israel comes out winning with the help of the US and they manage to stamp out Palestine, i believe over time that is exactly what they will become given enough time, as the old guard dies and their flawed, bellicose and bigoted ideas die with them. And that is the irony thay everything they are doing, all the deaths, all the cruelty, will eventually be pointless because their ideal dream is flawed and unsustainable.

  • Genocide is no longer a red line for Germany’s Die Linke

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  • I get that, i really do, but sometimes you just gotta take the loss for being unpopular if the cause is right. Israel is less popular today than it was yesterday. Sometimes you can't help that your core principles are not valued by the majority at the moment, for whatever reason. If events change the minds of people, there's a steady alternative to go to. To debase one's principles to appeal to the right wing voters will only make their constituency not vote. People who are right wing won't vote left because they are more anti immigration or more pro Israel. But people who vote left won't probably vote at all if the alternatives are right wing or right wing light. They just won't see themselves represented at all. Then you get low voter turnout.

  • Genocide is no longer a red line for Germany’s Die Linke

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  • Yeah no wonder conservatives are winning victories all across the democratic world. It seems the left wing has suffered a collective lobotomy. We live in a world where the left is fragmented in purpose, condoning the unacceptable, and ineffective in climate action. It would be cool if the left was, you know, actually the left, instead of trying to be more like the cool right wing because they think that's what would win them more votes. Have some dignity, guys. Nobody is going to vote for the second, third or fourth best party at being right wing.

  • How Shopping Malls Are Being Transformed Into Apartments In The U.S.

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  • Why rebuild something when you can repurpose it ?

    In many places around the world old structures like warehouses, train stations, churches, convents, fire houses and other things are seen as an architectural opportunity to repurpose as housing, usually due to cost, but that lead to very unique dwellings that end up influencing other houses that are built from the ground up. Architects pounce at opportunities like this. The results are often superior to what a standard house built from the ground up would be.

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  • The thing about anonymity that a lot of people don't get is that there is no such thing as 100% anonymous. Vpn makes it more expensive to track you. Tor makes it more expensive to track you. Good opsec makes it more expensive to track you but ultimately, if you've got a target on your back, there is no way to be 100% anonymous.

    The thing you gotta ask yourself is, what is your threat model ? Are you hiding from LEO on account of torrents or just want some privacy from corporations? VPN is fine. Are you buying drugs on the darkweb ? TOR is fine. Are you selling drugs on the darkweb ? You probably need a more sophisticated masking network mesh. Are you involved in CSAM or run a darkweb market ? Nothing you do will help you, you are going to get caught, that is a certainty.

    Don't go wasting your precious brain matter on developing a leak free network. There is no such thing. If someone wants badly to track you down, with enough money, they will. Best you can do is be a little bit more trouble than it's worth to spend on you. For some things, like i mentioned before, there is a cutoff point where you're as anonymous as you'll ever be. For others, there is basically unlimited resources to track you. Even using TOR, they can get you at your entry node, like it has happened before, if no one else in your neighborhood is connected to TOR.

  • What would 10 year old you be the most surprised about you now?

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  • Life gets worse. Much worse. And you will survive and even find happiness. And everything you needed, you had it all along.

  • Syncthing Android app discontinued

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  • I tried looking around but this humble soul doesn't have much in the way of receiving donations. I suggest contacting him via https://github.com/Catfriend1 to ask for an alternative and if he gets back to you, share it here for other people who dislike paypal.

  • Syncthing Android app discontinued

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  • Fyi the syncthing-fork guy (catfriend1) who's still updating has a donating button on F-droid via Liberapay. It's up to you if your financial situation allows you to donate, but the more of us help the remaining developers for their time, in particular those of us that rely so much on their work, the better off we'll be. Let's give them a little motivation to keep working on this.

    FYI2 syncthing-fork (as written and confirmed in this thread) has an import button for your folders from syncthing Android.

  • Game Companies List ‘FitGirl-Repacks’ as a Key Piracy Threat

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  • ESA is the European Space Agency. It's a pretty prominent acronym. They really couldn't bother researching it before registering their little butthurt group? Imagine making a corporate group and calling it NASA.