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  • What would you be willing to sacrifice for a better world?

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  • Private property isn't a sacrifice. I don't own any.

    There's a difference between personal property and private property. Private property is a mall, is a factory, is machinery at your workplace. Personal property is your toothbrush, your Playstation, your Television, your blender, your set of German knives, your computer, your books, etc.

    Freedom of speech has never existed. The illusion of it has been allowed to be stronger or weaker in various places at various times, if your speech is no threat it's often allowed, it's when it's a threat that suddenly the freedom vanishes and hides behind excuses like national security or illegal ideologies, etc.

    I question how you would get rid of freedom of thought without some sort of hellish brain implants being made mandatory so it's an odd thing to mention.

    I'd be willing to sacrifice an awful lot of fascists, reactionaries, and an awful lot of enabling liberals. I'd be willing to sacrifice bourgeoisie. The expropriation of their private property is not a sacrifice but a necessity for things being held in common trust for the people.

  • Can the US government force Canonical and Red Hat to disallow downloads and development from non US countries?

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  • Yes, absolutely. And they can drag Canonical into it as well if they wish though it's harder. Being UK based doesn't protect them from the long arm of US law including arresting any US personnel, freezing and seizing their funds, putting out arrest warrants for and harassing those in the UK with the fear of arrest and rendition to the US if they go to a third country (for a conference, vacation, etc, most would buckle rather than live under that). Additionally the US could sanction them for non-cooperation by making it illegal for US companies to sell them products and services, for US citizens to work for or aid them, etc.

    They can go after community led projects too, just send the feds over to the houses of some senior US developers and threaten and intimidate them, intimate their imminent arrest and prison sentence unless they stop contact and work with parties from whatever countries the US wishes to choose to name. Raid their houses, seize their electronics, detain them for hours in poor conditions. Lots of ways to apply pressure that doesn't even have to stand up to extensive legal scrutiny (they can keep devices and things and the people would have to sue to get them back).

    The code itself is likely to exist in multiple places so if someone wanted to fork from say next week's builds for an EU build they could and there would be little the US could do to stop that but they could stop cooperation and force these developers to apply technical measures to attempt to prevent downloads from IP addresses known to belong to sanctioned countries of their choosing.

    It's not like the US can slam the door and take its Linux home and China and the EU and Russia are left with nothing, they'd still have old builds and code and could develop off of those though with broken international cooperation it would be a fragmented process prone to various teething issues.

  • Nvidia not providing specifications for old GPUs

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  • All computing devices companies should be required to have sites as detailed as Intel’s ark site and going back in time to the very first product.

  • New books chart Biden’s downfall – and the picture is damning for Democrats

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  • "Increasingly unfit" how about how the entire media (aside from reactionary media) and his aides and the Democratic party hid his senility, lied about it, ignored it, made excuses for it, and accused anyone who pointed it out of distortion and having an agenda in order to let him push ahead with running again and save themselves the embarrassment of admitting the president of the US was not all there. All so the Democratic party could keep control and prevent scary things like a debate on supporting the genocide of Palestine and other issues they'd rather not allow discussion on.

  • No tariffs...

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  • It was just an example. Probably not even a good one. Sorry for the negativity though. Feel badly for lending towards a negative mood but well I had my own reasons, negative experiences. Just the same I've edited a little.

  • No tariffs...

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  • Sure you can probably get a good value on a bluray player because people are getting rid of them still to go all streaming. But can you get a good price on a used working order 4K TV? Probably not. The prices of even used 2 generation old goods are going to be as high as they were when new before tariffs hit.

    Used is not going to be cheaper in a week or a month or 3 months of tariffs, it's going to be the same amount as new right now or possibly more.

    These days there are sooo many resellers, flippers, scalpers. People who think it's a side hustle to go around buying up cheap used stuff and selling it for just below the price of new stuff and pocketing the difference. It's become so hard. Late capitalism ruins even good deeds.

  • Trump asks Supreme Court to block order requiring US to bring back man mistakenly deported to El Salvador - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale

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  • Anyone else in this position would do no such thing.

    Trump is in this position because he wants to do this AT LARGE SCALE.

    He doesn't care about being cruel to a couple of people, it's about getting the precedent and go-ahead to deport millions of people. What happens to this one guy is much less important than the precedent of at the very least being able to deport without due process. Ideally he and his friends would like to be able to deport without courts being able to order them to bring people back after the fact so they can just purge a bunch of people from the country.

  • Removed

    Communists always seem to feel attacked

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  • It's an instance emoji, Hexbear has tons and tons of them.

  • What brands should we NOT boycott?

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  • They pulled out of the illegal settlements and maybe the greater occupation some years ago and reactionaries were furious.

  • A Commie Pirates Guide to Consooming.

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  • First we are going to buy something. Mullvad VPN. Its the only VPN id recommend getting. It is 5.50$ or so a month, and if you cancel your streaming accounts it’ll pay for itself now that you’ll be pirating stuff with it.

    Why that provider? Mullvad removed port forwarding. Why not recommend a VPN better suited for torrenting that has port forwarding which can massively help in getting better speeds and getting connections at all on all but the most popular torrents? Yeah sure if you're only downloading the latest TV episode release you're fine but if you're interested in something obscure (as Marxists are often wont to be) it becomes a real problem.

    AirVPN for example still supports port forwarding and is a bit cheaper than Mullvad per month. They also have sales several times a year where it gets even cheaper.

    Would I trust them politically? I don't trust any VPN company that way. I don't trust any of them to not be deep cover CIA/five-eyes/zionist intelligence cut-outs or paid off to provide that data to the aforementioned and neither should you.

    There are a couple other options with port forwarding but PIA was bought out by an ad-tech company which makes them a little extra sketchy though still fine if you just use for torrenting. Proton also offers port forwarding for p2p specifically but many think they look extra like CIA and want to avoid them, their prices also aren't quite as good.

    I'll also mention qBittorrent has a search interface right inside it, view: search engine and then click the bottom for search plugins, update all and you can start searching most of the more popular public indexers without having to visit their ad infested sites and wait for page loads. You can add in Jackett as a plugin (configuration details on its github) after installing it and add even more site including private and semi-private open signup like rutracker after creating an account and putting the details in Jackett.

    One important thing: NEVER use software or executables you find via these searchers, they include DHT scrapers that scrape for any and all things out there in the swarms and it's a great way to get malware. You can search for your favorite repack but make sure it's on a site you know is trustworthy from an account you know is good, you can right click the results and click to copy the url to paste into your browser to check before downloading that it's a good source. Don't ever run software where the source you've chosen is solidtorrents and I'd recommend against it if the source is the pirate bay as well as they have a lot of malware there too.

  • Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

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  • Interesting project. Thanks for the link and I do appreciate it and could see some very good uses for that but it's not quite what I meant.

    Unfortunately as it notes it works as a companion for reverse proxies so it doesn't solve the big hurdle there which is handling secure and working flow (specifically ingress) of Jellyfin traffic into a network as a turn-key solution. All this does is change the authorization mechanism but my users don't have an issue with writing down passwords and emails. Still leaves the burden of:

    • choosing and setting up the reverse proxy,
    • certificates for that,
    • paying for a domain so I can properly use certificates for encryption,
    • making sure that works,
    • chore of updating the reverse proxy, refreshing certs (and it breaking if we forget or the process fails), etc

    Which is a hassle and a half for technically proficient users and the point that most other people would give up.

    By contrast with Plex how many steps are there?

    1. Install (going to skip media library setup as Jellyfin requires that too so it's assumed)
    2. Set up any port settings, open any relevant ports on firewall, enable remote access in setting with a tickbox
    3. Set up users
    4. Done, it now works and doesn't need to be touched. It will handle connecting clients directly to the server. Users just need to install Plex client, login to their account and they have access.

    By contrast this still requires the hoster set up a reverse proxy (major hassle if done securely with certificates as well as an expense for a domain which works out to probably $5 a year), to then have their users point their jellyfin at a domain-name (possibly a hard to remember one as majesticstuffbox[.]xyz is a lot cheaper than the dot com/org/net equivalents or a shorter domain that's more to the point), auth and so on. It's many, many, many more steps and software and configurations and chances for the hosting party to mess something up.

    My point was I and many others would rather take the $5 we'd spend a year on a domain name and pay it for this kind of turn-key solution for ourselves and our users even if provided by a third party but that were Jellyfin to integrate this as an option it could provide some revenue for them and get the kinds of people who don't want to mess with reverse proxies and certificates into their ecosystem and off Plex.

  • YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy

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  • Bullshit. Why would you believe it's good faith? Why wouldn't you want rules written down if they're to be enforced? Rules should be spelled out clearly to be fair and transparent.

    They may enforce it for a little while, but they can now quietly drop enforcing it and no one will notice because it will be a change documented internally only.

    This is a transparent attempt to manage the outrage.

  • Buy Once Software

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  • Simplewall.

  • Firefox 137 Released with Address Bar Revamp & Tab Groups

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  • Here I'm still using the separate search box. Why wouldn't I? Plenty of screen real estate horizontally. Nice to be able to do quick math there though I suppose.

  • Where are your militias against government Tyranny?

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  • 94% of Militia members in the US are foaming at the mouth reactionaries if not open fascists, with many being active or former law enforcement or related to military or intelligence.

  • Thinking on switching to linux

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  • There is AFAIK no way to do this.

    Apple's never open-sourced the APIs and interfaces and it only works on Macs and Windows. For this you will need to have either a Windows install (recommend separate drive so it doesn't break Linux bootloader) or a persistent or not Windows VM with USB passthrough. I'm not even sure how well the VM situation works but it probably should. You don't even have to have a license for Windows, you can just run it in the VM for this purpose alone but it does mean oh at least 40GB set aside on your drive for the VM image plus more if you want to do things like back-up the phone.

  • Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

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  • Jellyfin needs to partner with someone people can pay a very low and reasonable and/or one-time fee to enable remote streaming without the fuss of setting up either dangerous port-forwarding or the complexity of reverse proxies (paying for a domain-name, the set-up itself including certificates, keeping it updated for security purposes).

    And no a VPN is not a solution, the difficulty for non-technical users in setting up a VPN (if it's even possible, on smart-tvs it's almost always not, and I don't think devices like AppleTV and other streaming boxes often support them) is too high and it's an unwanted annoyance even for technical users.

    I'm not talking about streaming video's through someone else's servers or using their bandwidth. I'm talking about the connection phase of clients and servers where Plex acts like an enhanced dynamic DNS service with authentication. They have an agent on the local media server which sends to the remote web service of the third party the IP address, the port configured for use, the account or server name, etc. When a client tries to connect they go to this remote web service with the servername/username info, the web service authenticates them then gives them the current IP address and any other information necessary. It then sends some data to the local Jellyfin server about the connecting client to enable that connection and then the local media Jellyfin server and the client talk directly and stream directly.

    Importantly the cost of running this authentication and IP address tracking scheme would be minimal per Jellyfin server. You could charge $5/year for up to 20 unique remote clients and come out ahead with a slight profit which could be put back into Jellyfin development and things like their own hosting costs for code, etc. Even better if they offer lifetime for this at $60-$80 they'd get a decent chunk of cash up-front to use for development (with reasonable use restrictions per account so someone hosting stuff in Hetzner or whatever and serving 300 people with 400 devices will need to pay more because they're clearly doing this for profit and can afford to throw some more money at Jellyfin).

    Until Jellyfin offers something that JUST WORKS like that it's not going to be a replacement for Plex, whatever other improvements they offer to users it's still a burden for the server runner to set up remote streaming in a way that isn't either incredibly dangerous (port forwarding) OR either involves paying money to third parties AND/OR the trouble of running your own reverse proxy and/or involves walking users through complicated set-up process for each device that you have to repeat if you change anything major like your domain name when using a VPN.

  • GIMP 3.0 Released

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  • Yeah GIMP is more than a decade behind Photoshop and a lot of other software in many respects.

    It's frustrating. Basic things like content-aware fill for small spaces, not even AI generating huge things for large missing pieces but removing some text over a person's cheek or plaid shirt, something in total 100x100 pixels big or so. Just doesn't exist. You can clone stuff but it's not aware of things like the gradient of a shadow that it should match or a highlight or other basic things so you're left doing extensive work using layers and then cleaning it up to be visually acceptable using multiple tools over 10 minutes of time whereas Photoshop does it with one tool in an instant.

  • GIMP 3.0 Released

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  • Incredible. This is one of those hard to believe moments.

    It's been 21 years since the release of GIMP 2.0.

    It's been more than 10 years since work on a majorly overhauled GIMP 3.0 was announced and initiated.

    And it's been 7 years since the last major release (2.10).

    I can't wait for the non-destructive text effects. After all these years of dealing with the fact applying drop shadows meant the text couldn't be edited, at last it's no longer an issue.