fediverse Fediverse Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China
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  • Daz Daz 6 months ago 57%

    What a depressing view of "socialism" you have.

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  • fediverse Fediverse Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China
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  • Daz Daz 6 months ago 83%

    Wouldn't they just use a VPN? I know they're technically illegal in China but from what I've heard lots of people still use them regularly.

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  • fediverse Fediverse Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China
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  • Daz Daz 6 months ago 41%

    So classic anti-communism then.

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  • Daz Daz 6 months ago 51%

    If you mean communists that support capitalist states like China, then yes, unfortunately. Better than being around nothing but liberals or anti-communists though.

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    Lisp Community Daz 6 months ago 100%
    ScrapyCL: The web scraping framework for writing crawlers in Common Lisp. github.com

    New web scraping framework from Alexander Artemenko/svetlyak40wt. Meant to be a CL alternative to Scrapy. Considering we have the great lquery and plump libraries in Common Lisp, building up to a fully featured alternative shouldn't be all that surprising.

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    linux Linux Firefox looks so much better than Chrome
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  • Daz Daz 6 months ago 100%

    You can but it won't be respected. It will continue to default to their included Noto fonts despite whatever font you select. You can test this yourself. I'm sure they do it for some "privacy reason" but if I wanted that trade off I'd simply use the Tor Browser or one of those hardened firefox profiles.

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  • fediverse Fediverse Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative
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  • Daz Daz 6 months ago 100%

    Wikipedia doesn't replace books. In my comment at least that's why I was specific about "general information". I think everyone must be aware that when it comes to Wikipedia on history or current events, it will largely be from a liberal and pro-west perspective. Not all the time, and usually the references and further reading sections point in more interesting directions. But this is far more valuable than the most boring so-called Marxist wikis. If you want critical history, go read historians like Gerald Horne, read first-hand accounts from journalists like Edgar Snow and so on.

    Besides the purely political, wikipedia is also good for overviews on technical and scientific interests. Even with the negatives of wikipedia, I'd take it any day over some decentralized spam fest where its a gamble if you found the best version of some article. Not to mention core issues of the fediverse, such as whether the hypothetical wiki instance you found yourself on will sustain itself long-term.

    Some days I wonder if the core Lemmy developers have drifted further towards anarchist politics and philosophy..

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  • linux Linux Firefox looks so much better than Chrome
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  • Daz Daz 6 months ago 100%

    Librewolf doesn't respect your choice in system fonts if you uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above". I don't use it for that reason.

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  • fediverse Fediverse Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative
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  • Daz Daz 6 months ago 90%

    I don't think a federated wiki is solving any of the problems of wikipedia. You've just made a wiki that is more easily spammed and will have very few contributors. Yes, Wikipedia is centralized, but it's a good thing. No one has to chase down the just perfect wikipedia site to find general information, just the one. The negative of wikipedia is more its sometimes questionable moderation and how its english-centric. This has more to do with fundamentally unequal internet infrastructure in most countries than anything though. Imperialism holds back tech.

    I agree that it might be fine for niche wikis but again, why in the world would you ever want your niche wiki federated? Sounds like a tech solution looking for the wrong problem.

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  • worldnews World News Israel declares Brazil’s Lula ‘persona non grata’ over comparison of Gaza war to Holocaust
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  • Daz Daz 7 months ago 88%

    It's really weird to see how almost infantalizing the Israeli minister is towards the ambassador. Like he's correcting a child or something. I suppose when you're commiting genocide you carry that attitude with you everywhere.

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    Lemmy Daz 7 months ago 95%
    Are there really almost 2m Lemmy users?

    From https://fediverse.observer/stats Which seems to not at all come close to representing what you might actually see on Lemmy, not that Lemmy is tiny either. Has there been any attempt to measure the total active Lemmy userbase? This would depend on the definition of Active but any working definition would be more useful than counting account creation. Something like "posted at least once this quarter".

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    linux Linux Stop using gitlab.com for projects - Credit card info required for new registrations
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    I hate that projects name themselves "fed" as that word is permanently associated with, well, feds.

    "Welcome to the Fediverse, we got pigs of all kinds"

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    Socialism Daz 1 year ago 83%
    From the Masses, To the Masses: A Summation of the October 22 Coalition’s Resistance to Police Brutality in the Late 1990s kites-journal.org

    Just finished reading issue #1 of Kites Journal and thought I'd share this piece. I know it's long but you'll find it readable. Covers the O22 coalition, an organization that was created through a united front effort though with strong leadership from the Revolutionary Communist Party (before they devolved into a weird cult of personality thinktank) to confront police violence. Of particular interest is the fact that while organizing against police violence, O22 recruited family members of those who were killed by police to be the face of the organization and the actual leadership. It's in stark contrast to the style of orgs these days which operate more with a service style.

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    socialism Socialism What kind of socialist ideologies are popular on Lemmy.ml?
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  • Daz Daz 1 year ago 75%

    What is the general vibe on here towards actually existing socialism as well as the ideas towards reformism?

    I can only speak for myself but so-called AES is just capitalism. It can be capitalism that is far far better than the U.S or other imperialist countries, but I'm not a communist that cheers for improvements to Capitalism. And what is there to speak of with "reformism"? It's a dead end that doesn't lead to Socialism and is the norm.

    As an aside, both Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad are largely full of what I'd called revisionists, meaning simply the refusal to acknowledge that Socialism has been defeated and supplanted by state capitalism where it once briefly existed. The actual communists (i.e they at least agree with Leninism) in imperialist countries are largely revisionists so it's not surprising that's what you see online among English speakers. However, Lemmygrad is a dogmatic echo chamber. If you want to hear nothing but pro-AES sentiment and walk on dogmatic egg shells, that's the instance you want. Lemmy.ml is ran by good people (the developers) and seems to have decent moderators despite my political differences. I at least come across a variety of positions and whatnot.

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    Guix Daz 1 year ago 100%
    From development environments to continuous integration—the ultimate guide to software development with Guix https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/from-development-environments-to-continuous-integrationthe-ultimate-guide-to-software-development-with-guix/
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    opensource Open Source Logseq: A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management.
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    The main thing that has prevented me from using Logseq is the general slugish or delayed feeling of the GUI. It's not significant but enough that after using it for 2 months I swapped back to org-mode in Emacs. Even though I love org mode for general project planning, task management (gtd) and such, I have never found a comfortable workflow for actually writing non-code/non-markup in Emacs. The logseq experience of writing notes was immediately comfortable for me. Just wish it was fast.

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    Lisp Community Daz 1 year ago 100%
    Peter Seibel: Common Lisp Standardization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly soundcloud.com

    A fantastic talk about Common Lisp and its possible future, using history of CL's standardization process as a historical backdrop.

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    lisp Lisp Community error using drakma http-request
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  • Daz Daz 1 year ago 100%

    What about other http libraries with SBCL, like dexador?

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    Breakcore Daz 1 year ago 100%
    hkmori - lost www.youtube.com

    its a jam 🥁

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    lemmy Lemmy Subscribing to a community from another instance always shows "Subscribe Pending". Is this a bug?
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  • Daz Daz 1 year ago 100%

    Appreciate the clarification.

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    Lemmy Daz 1 year ago 100%
    Subscribing to a community from another instance always shows "Subscribe Pending". Is this a bug?

    I am seeing posts from this community, I can seemingly create posts and replies, yet it's showing "Subscribe Pending". Is this a bug or is it actually pending? ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/040fcc87-f73c-45c4-b0ba-525ade2d512a.png)

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    lisp Lisp Community error using drakma http-request
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  • Daz Daz 1 year ago 100%

    Not a great answer but I suspect this is Windows being crap. Lisp and windows have never been that great of an experience. Drakma works fine on my Fedora box.

    Also, wrap your code in tick marks:
    `(setf drakma:*header-stream* *standard-output*)`

    (setf drakma:*header-stream* *standard-output*)

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    Lemmy Daz 1 year ago 94%
    Individual blogging as a possible feature for Lemmy?

    Would Lemmy be a good fit for adding individual "blogging" as a feature? What I mean is the ability for a user to create posts tied to their account instead of a specific community. The default Lemmy Frontend/webapp has all the basic features that would normally make up a blog: ability to make posts, markdown editor, hell even replies that you normally need to disable on blogs because of spam. I can imagine adding a section next to the "Communities" button that says "Blogs" where you could browse users blogs. Not sure if you'd want to federate the blogs but something I'm thinking about. Not asking this as a feature request on the part of the developers. This should be something I implement myself. But I thought I'd throw the idea out in the wild and see if folks could either tell me "why not" or point out what might be problematic with this.

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    communism Communism Discussion Thread: What are all you reading in terms of fiction AND non-fiction? (NOW for BOTH fictional and non-fiction works) - #8
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    Lemmy Support Daz 2 years ago 100%
    Is there a way to temporarily hide posts/comments from a subscribed community?

    The issue I have is that certain communities that I like can be high traffic, and sometimes I don't want to see their posts. I would like to be able to temporarily hide the community while going through my "Subscribed" feed, especially when I sort by "new". Is this a feature or is there maybe an opinion that Lemmy users/developers have on this kind of behavior. I think I'd find it desirable but I could be missing some context.

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    genzedong GenZedong NSFL: Buffalo supermarket mass shooting - livestream - triggers
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  • shitliberalssay [ARCHIVED] Shit Liberals Say Namecheap solves geopolitics.
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  • genzedong GenZedong Mah boi has grown so much! Thanks Hakim for your videos, it really helped me fight my programming!
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  • us_news US News We Need to Talk About Rural Gentrification (Makan: How do I access this article past the paywall? Thanks in advance, comrades!)
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    If you use firefox, the reader view bypasses it. Another method is to put the article link into an archive service like archive.is, some people already archived it beforehand: https://archive.ph/vn0qk

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    Death to NATO Daz 2 years ago 100%
    I Cannot Live on Tomorrow’s Bread - Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Vijay Prashad thetricontinental.org

    > On April 19, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its annual World Economic Outlook, which forecasted a severe slowdown in global growth along with soaring prices. > > [...] > > *What is the root cause of this extraordinary wave of inflation*? US President Joe Biden blamed Russia’s war in Ukraine: ‘What people don’t know is that 70 percent of the increase in inflation was the consequence of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s price hike because of the impact of oil prices’. However, even The Wall Street Journal editorial board noted that ‘this isn’t Putin’s inflation’. Georgieva of the IMF has tried to walk a middle ground, saying that ‘Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created a crisis on top of a crisis’. Her view mirrored that of the World Economic Outlook, which pointed out that ‘the crisis unfold[ed] while the global economy was on a mending path but had not yet fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic’. > > [...] > > The No Cold War platform, with whom Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research has a close working relationship, has produced a very important intervention into this debate. Briefing no. 2, *****The United States Has Destabilised the World Economy*****, which appears below, makes the case that a governing factor in the current inflation crisis is the outsized impact of the United States on the global economy; here, US military spending, the scale of the United States in global consumption, the role of the Wall Street-Dollar-IMF regime, and other factors play a key role. We hope you find briefing no. 2 useful and circulate it widely.

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    genzedong GenZedong [meta] Is five stickied posts too many?
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    Africa Daz 2 years ago 100%
    Anti-government protests gain momentum in Swaziland www.youtube.com

    > On Tuesday, April 12, “Defiance actions’’ were organized by the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) across Swaziland. The date marks 49 years since King Sobhuza II, father of the current monarch, took absolute power in 1973. The key demand of the protests was an end to the absolute monarchy as well as the creation of a people’s government with a multiparty democracy and democratic ownership of the economy.

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