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17小时前

Maybe a weird question about Linux
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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 17小时前
Hey comrade. Sorry it's been so long.

4天前

Maybe a weird question about Linux

Depends on what you need it for and whether it's working for you.

Some people are really specific about workflows or they need particular functions. If you're a fairly typical PC user then you probably don't need either.

My advice would be that if you're content with your current distro then adhere to the "if it ain't broke" principle. You can always dual-boot or boot into a live USB to try out a new distro but honestly you're probably better off getting more familiar with the intricacies of Linux and your current distro and putting time into making it work well for you. Distro hop if you want to or if you have the need to but don't let others convince you that it's necessary or that it's a "higher level" of being a Linux user. It's a bit like the near-competitive customising of a distro's appearance (you know what I'm talking about - I'm not going to use the racist shorthand term the Linux community uses to describe this); it's cool if that's your thing but it's entirely optional and you should treat it as such.

Life is short, to-read piles are long, and the list of organising tasks are never ending. Do what makes you happy but you're probably not missing out on much, aside from needing to learn the ins and outs of a new distro.

4天前

Muslim hero tackles Bondi Beach gunman – yet Netanyahu claimed he was Jewish

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 4天前

Hi friend, I'm glad to see you here too. I hope you're doing well.

5天前

Muslim hero tackles Bondi Beach gunman – yet Netanyahu claimed he was Jewish

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 5天前

Updated info on Ahmed al-Ahmed (feel free to edit into body of your post if you want to):

Ahmed al Ahmed's cousin gives an interview to Al Araby. Full translation in the subtitles, but key highlights:
His full name is Ahmed Fathi Al-Ahmed
Ahmed is Australian, of Syrian origin, from the city of Idlib, from the village of Al-Nayrab
He didn’t know; it was not targeting Jews. He saw an armed man shooting at people. When he saw people dying and being shot, he couldn’t bear it.
At first, he wasn’t thinking about dying. When he saw people dying and bullets flying above his head, he said, “God gave me courage.”
Regret? No, God forbid. On the contrary, it was a heroic act. Why regret it? He is proud that he saved lives. Only God knows how many people would have died.
We live in Australia with all nationalities and sects. In our life, we never think about these things—whether someone is of a certain nationality or religion. Here, we don’t care whether someone is Jewish, Syrian, Muslim, or otherwiseSource: Twitter

Video interview here

5天前

Bombard the Jacobin Headquarters

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 5天前

6天前

Live: One shooter dead, another in custody after 16 killed in Bondi Beach attack

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 6天前

Updated info on Ahmed al-Ahmed (feel free to edit into body of your post if you want to):

Ahmed al Ahmed's cousin gives an interview to Al Araby. Full translation in the subtitles, but key highlights:
His full name is Ahmed Fathi Al-Ahmed
Ahmed is Australian, of Syrian origin, from the city of Idlib, from the village of Al-Nayrab
He didn’t know; it was not targeting Jews. He saw an armed man shooting at people. When he saw people dying and being shot, he couldn’t bear it.
At first, he wasn’t thinking about dying. When he saw people dying and bullets flying above his head, he said, “God gave me courage.”
Regret? No, God forbid. On the contrary, it was a heroic act. Why regret it? He is proud that he saved lives. Only God knows how many people would have died.
We live in Australia with all nationalities and sects. In our life, we never think about these things—whether someone is of a certain nationality or religion. Here, we don’t care whether someone is Jewish, Syrian, Muslim, or otherwiseSource: Twitter

Video interview here

6天前

Live: One shooter dead, another in custody after 16 killed in Bondi Beach attack

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 6天前

Update: Appears one of the suspects is likely Middle East/Arabic/Subcontinent background. Going to see a rise in racism for sure

Naveed Akram has been named as one of the shooters. Reports are that he's of Pakistani origin and he is Muslim.

Fortunately the guy who tackled one of the shooters has an Arabic name so my hope that's going to dampen down the inevitable response of racism and islamophobia.

6天前

Live: One shooter dead, another in custody after 16 killed in Bondi Beach attack

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 6天前

Ahmed al-Ahmed is the name of the guy who tackled the gunman. It's going to blunt the Islamophobic response that will come in response to this attack.

2周前

Flesh Simulator - I'm sorry.

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2周前

Grabbed this comment shortly after the video was posted because I doubted that it was going to stay up for long. It might still be there but either way it's a big red flag for me.

2个月前

"In fact, one can get a doctoral degree...without learning about, much less reading, Paulo Freire. This is tantamount to getting a doctoral degree in Linguistics without ever reading Noam Chomsky."

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2个月前

One time I was doing subtle agitating and educating at a place I was working at. I mentioned Paulo Freire and a person sparked up with recognition at the name, saying that they were doing an assignment at university based on Freire.

I asked about it. They said were doing a photovoice project where they were going to take some photos of homeless people and attach quotes from the subjects to the photos to "give them a voice."

I'm sure I wasn't completely able to mask my disgust at hearing that. That's not Freirean, that's not critical pedagogy, that's not even photovoice (not gonna go into the weeds on that here), that's just taking some shots on your disadvantage tourism expedition and concealing a deeply paternalistic and explotative approach to some of the most marginalised people in society for your own benefit. I don't want to dilute or whitewash the horrors of colonialism by saying this but this is a subtle expression of the same underlying psychology of colonialism; it's human zoo bullshit, just transposed onto a palatable, bite-sized, socially sanctioned form using the medium of photography.

This is what passes as teaching Freire at that particular university. It's utterly shameless, and to charge people for it too?

2个月前

People get so fucking weird about seeing people read in public.

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2个月前

https://files.catbox.moe/az1b2z.mp4

2个月前

Thom Yorke says "witch-hunt" over Israel stance "wakes me up at night" as Radiohead members share views

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2个月前

Guitarist Ed O’Brien, meanwhile, had his say on the issue, claiming: “We should have played Ramallah in the West Bank as well.”

2个月前

Lab Grown vs. Free Range

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2个月前

Inshallah he will be

2个月前

Graham Platner on Reddit 6 years ago commenting on a thread mentioning the totenkopf on a post discussing SS soldiers with a visible totenkopf in the photo

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2个月前

Keep in mind that this crowd has increasingly jumped onto the rhetoric that originated from some segments of the radical left over the past couple of years when they started using "tankie" as a bogeyman term and they very often accuse tankies of supporting anyone who flies the red flag. I know that there are also a lot of SocDem/DemSocs and adjacent people who are defending Platner right now too and they make the same accusations.

One day it's "You guys will support anyone who claims they are communist, disgusting!!" and the next day it's "No but we need to support the guy who calls himself a communist, despite significant evidence that he has fascist sympathies, so therefore any criticism of him is purity politicking."

I'm loath to invoke this hackneyed term but it's a legit case Schrödinger's Socialist: we get attacked for supporting anyone and everyone who uses a label like socialist and yet the minute we say that a person who claims to be socialist doesn't pass the sniff test then suddenly we're gatekeeping the left etc. etc.

2个月前

Graham Platner on Reddit 6 years ago commenting on a thread mentioning the totenkopf on a post discussing SS soldiers with a visible totenkopf in the photo

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2个月前

Hello friend, I hope you're doing well

2个月前

Graham Platner on Reddit 6 years ago commenting on a thread mentioning the totenkopf on a post discussing SS soldiers with a visible totenkopf in the photo

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2个月前

"Purity testing is destroying our movement."

"Stop gatekeeping the left!!"

"Do you want the republicans to win? This is how Trump won."

"Yes, he might have had a Nazi tattoo for over a decade and he might have killed an untold number of brown people while serving imperialism as a machine gunner and he might have been stationed as a guard for Abu Ghraib prison during the rampant war crimes and human rights abuses that took place there but he has a chance to unseat Susan Collins, who voted for some bad things."

2个月前

Graham Platner on Reddit 6 years ago commenting on a thread mentioning the totenkopf on a post discussing SS soldiers with a visible totenkopf in the photo

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2个月前

I don't want to be taken out of context here and it's deep enough in the comment thread that this will get buried but the whole "Croatian tattoo artist" claim from a guy with a sketchy past who claims to have reformed yet has provided no evidence of reform except for words said online gives me really strong Beau of the Fifth Column vibes from back when he went on that podcast to claim that his human trafficking conviction, where he smuggled eastern European women into America to exploit their labour for the hotel industry for a few years before they went back home, was actually a humanitarian mission to rescue Jews from the oppressive government of Turkmenistan (or Tajikistan? I forget exactly but it was a central Asian -stan country that Americans have zero clue about.) It's just super convenient and it has that whole "I have a girlfriend but you wouldn't know her because she goes to a different high school in another state" vibe to it.

The people coming out in defence of Platner are doing all the same things that people did when faced with criticisms of Beau as well.

[CW: Human trafficking and sex slavery discussion from here on]

(Sidebar: you can't convince me that young Eastern European women smuggled into the US to work in the hotel industry while being paid a pittance so small it was illegal even under the dismal minimum wage laws in the US while being charged like hell for accommodation don't end up in the sex trade. You absolutely cannot. Whether Beau was aware of it, whether he facilitated it directly, that's a matter for speculation but the hotel industry itself is sketchy and that's without the elements of human trafficking, exploitative pay and living conditions, and Beau holding passports for ransom. That's no smoking gun for Beau trafficking women into the sex trade and I've never seen any evidence to support this but saying it didn't happen is about as plausible as the people saying they were on Epstein island but only for a scientific conference.)

2个月前

Graham Platner on Reddit 6 years ago commenting on a thread mentioning the totenkopf on a post discussing SS soldiers with a visible totenkopf in the photo

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2个月前

Yeah, the Finnish government who was vehemently anticommunist and quite cosy with Nazi Germany has continued using the swastikas to this very day.

"I'm not a Nazi sympathiser, I just love the quiet collaborators of Nazi Germany and their particular use of the swastika" isn't the defense that some people think it is.

2个月前

Graham Platner on Reddit 6 years ago commenting on a thread mentioning the totenkopf on a post discussing SS soldiers with a visible totenkopf in the photo

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2个月前

Yes, there's limited historical evidence of them using the reverse:

Prior to the Nazis seizing power there was fairly widespread use of the swastika, including in Germany, and its use was less codified so you can probably find pre-Nazi German swastikas being flown that are of the opposite orientation and it would take a real history buff (obviously not a Graham Platner-tier history buff) to be able to tell if that's a Weimar Republic era warship flying the reverse swastika or if the image was taken a few short years later under Nazi Germany. (Also anyone who can tell the difference immediately who isn't some dusty old academic in the history department of a university deserves a side eye.)

So yeah. It's complicated but it seems like it was used, albeit rarely.

2个月前

Graham Platner on Reddit 6 years ago commenting on a thread mentioning the totenkopf on a post discussing SS soldiers with a visible totenkopf in the photo

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ReadFanon [any, any] @hexbear.net 2个月前

If it's really C-tier then that's only possible if the swastika occupies the A-tier and the SS runes are the only entry for B-tier; we really aren't plumbing the depths of obscure, esoteric, possibly-fascist symbols here.

Imagine caring so little that you're oblivious to the third most widely recognizable Nazi symbol for your entire life and yet mysteriously you are brimming with opinions about Nazi symbols and all of a sudden it's of overwhelming importance that you start discussing this.

I'll take the lead from people who actually know what they're talking about and not the people who have been sleepwalking through a century-long discussion on one of the most studied and well-documented aspects of human history.
This smacks of terminally-online curated concern. People will swear up and down that they're concerned with x or y issue but they are completely incapable of showing any depth of understanding whatsoever of the subject itself. It's the same old playbook - the Nayirah testimony, the CPC reannexing Tibet, the "Holodomor"... these people don't actually care about what they have convinced themselves they care about. It's some real Deleuzian shit.