Almost a million dollars, jesus. The US is a truly disgusting country.

Do you have a link to what got removed?

Some things that help me at least:

• Only use bed for sleeping.
• Don’t use screens at least an hour before bed.
• Keep phone out of arms reach when in bed. Ideally in another room (these devices weigh heavy on our psychology, and the further they are from us, the less distracting they are).
• Leave blinds open at night so you wake up with the sun. Try to sync your body / circadian rhythm with your environment if possible.
• Get lots of walks and outside time during the day. If you have a lot of energy, work out more during the day.
• No coffee / intoxicants in the evening.
• Drink lots of water.
• Don’t try to fix your sleep problems at night. Most of your remedies should be getting on the right foot the next day, and making habits of those.

Left / Right bias is fine, as long as the site is credible.

MBFC is literally just some guy’s opinion blog, there’s nothing credible about it. It has the appearance of neutrality on its cover, and 1 page in it comes out as staunchly pro-zionist.

We need someone with some Marxist literacy to create a similar project and call it like something equally neutral sounding, like, “media bias credibility meter”.

I guess prolewiki already could handle this, but liberals are immediately turned off by the partisan pro-worker viewpoint, and are easily duped by anything that sounds neutral on its cover.

There is a longer more complicated history around the term social democracy, but the short version is that beginning in the later 1800s, there arose two camps: reformist / pacifist / bourgeios socialists, and revolutionary ones. The reformist ones formed parties who, in every country they did so, ended up joining forces with capitalists to repress and put down the revolutionary ones. Every country has a long history of socdems doing this, as its been occurring since the 1800s when Marx and Engels noted this tendency.

What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn’t Sweden socialist?

Some more links:

• Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook
• Halim Alrah - Why liberal democracies are a sham.
• On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.
• Scandinavia’s covert role in western imperialism
• Paul Cockshott - On Socialism and Democracy. 2 3
• Comrade Hakim - Why electoralism always fails.
• Why not just vote leftists into office: what’s wrong with democratic socialism?
• An Overview of Leninism, audiobook. Lenin - State and Revolution , audiobook

Why are people downvoting this? Are they just now learning US socdems support their empire and imperial troops?

There are no pacts between lions and men.

Goals

These are gold, especially the thursday one.

Thank u gary.

Not sure what you mean, you might have to open up an issue and post a video.

Its kind of a bug; although the API for search can take in all those sort types, it actually can only use a few of them, so TopWeek gets turned into TopAll. This is because when searching for All types, many of them have no concept of TopWeek, like a search for users.

In lemmy 1.0 I’d like to fix this by showing a specific set of filters and sorts for the given searchable item type: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3995

Read the article above. He’s very anti-immigrant, and anti-communist.

A few that I can think of: Rockhill, Smith, Enfu, Boer, Manoel, Foster, Cockshott, Shaikh.

We lost Losurdo pretty recently, and he was IMO one of the best of the last few decades.

You can’t simply say “we must assume” as evidence.

Okay yeah you definitely didn’t read it. Large sections in that doc just before that are on phone number identifiers, NSLs, and 5-eyes countries, the US goverment pushing signal in privacy spaces… literally the reasons why signal isn’t trustworthy. Unless you can tell me what an NSL is, then I’ll assume you didn’t read it.

While there may be other US government requests they are not alllwed to disclose, they were legally required to provide the same information to the courts, and we can see what they provided.

Did you ignore the large section on NSLs? These come with a gag order, meaning its illegal for signal to notify their users about them being spied on.

In fact, they implemented “Sealed sender” in 2018 where they are not able to see who the message is being sent to.

This is a “just trust me” from signal, since neither of us have access to their centralized DB, but you also ignored two paragraphs down, where it showed that with message timestamps and recipient information, this would be trivial to find the real sender of a message, regardless of sealed sender. Again, actually open source software can’t say “just trust me” like signal can, we actually have to show code to prove it, and let people run that code in a private manner.

And sure, while the US government funds Signal, you know who else endorses it? Edward fucking Snowden. If anyone knows about secure messaging, it’s the man that physically removes the microphone and camera from his phones before using them.

Elon musk and jack dorsey also endorse signal. An endorsement means nothing, especially for centralized software based in a 5-eyes country.

Read the linked doc, because it’s clear you didn’t.

Signal is a centralized, US-based service which requires your phone number (thus your real identity, IE name and address), has social networking graphs of everyone you talk to, and must forward that information to the US government when asked, as well as (by law) not tell you that they’ve been asked to do so. During the Obama era, 60 NSLs were issued for this private information every single day.

People overlook its privacy concerns for the same reason they do with apple: it has a shiny interface and is easy to use, and makes people very attached to it. Behind all that, is a surveillance network that its creators have explicitly said they do not want it to be able to run in a decentralized, private manner.

It has a long history of privacy offenses below (such as refusing to publish its server’s source code for years, its reliance on other US tech services (amazon, google), US-government funding, and a US-defense-tank friendly administration) which get ignored or shouted down by many of those above. See the article below.

Why not signal.

Pretty much any alternative is better, as long as its not hosted in a five-eyes country, and especially if it doesn’t require phone numbers or real identities like signal does.

I personally have been using SimpleX for friends and real life contacts, and Matrix for larger more anonymous group chats.

5m seems about right. Lemmy’s from scratch builds are ~3.5m on a fast machine, and we have ~60k lines of code, and are using some with large libraries with lots of features enabled.

But you really should only ever have to do a from scratch build either at the beginning, or when you deploy. When developing, your IDE should only ever really run check or clippy, which should take seconds at most.

This is pretty sad. Oneplus phones, tablets, and watches have like double the battery of samsung / apple, at 1/3rd of the cost. Hopefully OPPO will make another branding for europe at least, because the EU still does allow chinese smartphones to be sold there. The US can just isolate itself and force its people to buy $1500 smartphones.

Xiaomi, vivo, and oppo(oneplus’s parent company) are growing pretty rapidly in market share at least.

Same for me, + limewire and IRC channels, then torrents. There was a golden age in the 2000s where you’d see new albums and movies get released before they even came out, and in relatively good quality too.

This is anecdotal, but everyone I meet born after 2000 has no idea what torrents are, or how to share media, and many of them are paying for like 3 streaming services. They have no idea all this stuff is available for free without much effort, and with better quality.