ProdigalFrog

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[–] ProdigalFrog 1 points 15 hours ago

Awesome! Glad to hear it ^^

[–] ProdigalFrog 1 points 15 hours ago

Just to clarify, I did not post this as an allegory for the election loss, we don't need any myths to soothe our conscience. It just popped up in my subscriptions and thought it was interesting enough to post.

If anything, I think its conclusion about feelings and beliefs ultimately trumping objective truth is quite applicable to MAGA.

[–] ProdigalFrog 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Maybe I misinterpreted what Feral was getting at, but at least from my reading of it, he's saying the myth was 'half-true' in the sense that that propaganda was effectively sold to the lowly enlisted/conscripted men to give them self-justification to fight. Whereas the truth was indeed that the whole thing was just for slavery. The myth then became even more useful after defeat to help them accept it 'honorably'. His conclusion about what people believe and feel ultimately having a larger impact than the actual truth seems to confirm that reading, but I could be wrong.

[–] ProdigalFrog 3 points 22 hours ago

This is an absolutely fantastic series of docs, one of the best produced on this subject.

[–] ProdigalFrog 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Cheers for this, Mambabasa! I'll be throwing these on my ereader! :D

[–] ProdigalFrog 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm in favor of your idea, both for the reasons you stated, and for an additional one.

Due to some instances defederating from each other, the choice of instance for a community becomes more important if its to become a one stop shop for everyone. As an example, Beehaw, which is quite an active community, cannot access any .world communities, making .world a poor choice just on grounds of overall reach alone.

!electricvehicles@slrpnk.net as the core community is a good choice, as it is only defederated from a small handful of extreme instances, so its reach should be pretty decent.

I have been considering moving mealtimevideos and documentaries away from .world for similar reasons, as it sucks that all of the content I post there isn't available to beehaw users.

 

Consider watching the video with FreeTube, a nifty open-source program that lets you watch YouTube videos without Google spying on your viewing habits!

Combined with Libredirect, which automatically opens youtube links in Freetube, it becomes really slick and effortless to use.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15023396

The part relevant to the title begins at 23:00, but the whole thing is great.

This is a very long video, but it's quite information dense, and quite revealing of how the political parties function, fund themselves, and how any left-leaning politician that started to actually enact leftist ideals would be immediately targeted by the Liberal establishment. It's extremely relevant even to this day.

Consider watching the video with FreeTube, a nifty open-source program that lets you watch YouTube videos without Google spying on your viewing habits!

Combined with Libredirect, which automatically opens youtube links in Freetube, it becomes really slick and effortless to use.

 

The part relevant to the title begins at 23:00

This is a very long video, but it's quite information dense, and quite revealing of how the political parties function, fund themselves, and how any left-leaning politician that started to actually enact leftist ideals would be immediately targeted by the Liberal establishment. It's extremely relevant even to this day.

Consider watching the video with FreeTube, a nifty open-source program that lets you watch YouTube videos without Google spying on your viewing habits!

Combined with Libredirect, which automatically opens youtube links in Freetube, it becomes really slick and effortless to use.

[–] ProdigalFrog 6 points 1 day ago

A deeply unfortunate choice of sponsor.

[–] ProdigalFrog 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Search your local area + the word 'mutual aid' and see if there are any groups near you. Also a good chance of meeting some at a local food not bombs event, or other volunteer work.

There's an offshoot of libertarian socialists in the DSA, but those seem pretty spread out, not sure if you'll find any locally. If you have few other options, you could try checking out a regular DSA meeting, but from what I've seen, a lot of those groups just do quarterly meetings and aren't really that active in anything meaningful, and they tend to gather more social democrats than anything. Still, better than nothing, and you may be able to make some friends there that you can invite to local direct action things that you find other people participating in.

If you can't find anything in your area, start your own! :)

 

Consider watching this video with FreeTube, a nifty open-source program that lets you watch YouTube videos without Google spying on your viewing habits!

Combined with Libredirect, which automatically opens youtube links in Freetube, it becomes really slick and effortless to use.

 

Consider watching this video with FreeTube, a nifty open-source program that lets you watch YouTube videos without Google spying on your viewing habits!

Combined with Libredirect, which automatically opens youtube links in Freetube, it becomes really slick and effortless to use.

[–] ProdigalFrog 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In a really morbid way that would've been funny to see, if only to witness the confusion of conservatives.

[–] ProdigalFrog 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good time to consider abandoning the DNC altogether and give Anarchism a chance. Create a new world in the shell of the old with worker owned cooperatives, cooperative energy, cooperative housing, mutual aid becoming a core tenet of society, and solving local problems with direct action .

Society with decentralized power and the elimination of profit motive would limit corruption heavily, and should be a sustainable long term way of being, and allow us to effectively fight climate change.

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin is a nice exploration of how that sort of society could be. But we can also look to how the CNT structured society during the Spanish civil war to see it put into real practice.

[–] ProdigalFrog 2 points 3 days ago

There are thankfully now stand alone devices that can use meshtastic, and they support hosting on RPI as well.

[–] ProdigalFrog 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I personally always enjoy Meta update posts on other instances to see what they're up to, how they handled a particular problem, or offer help if they need it, and welcome the same on the meta posts on my own community from non-members.

But that's just me.

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And thus, let us welcome November.


🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

We have a new community thanks to @CurlyWurlies4All, who created !enshitification@slrpnk.net, a place to document and discuss the downward trend of the tech world as described by Cory Doctorow.

Or maybe you're interested in how you or your community can better respond to the upcoming changes due to climate change? You might want to check out !disasterresponse@slrpnk.net, which gathers together some excellent articles and guides on preps, mutual aid, and disaster response.

But what if you have a burning question about solarpunk problems, solutions, or ideas? Something that makes you do the chin grabby thing and ponder about the future? Well why not ponder about visiting !asksolarpunk@slrpnk.net and drop a big 'ol brain tingler in there! (I'm sorry).


⚕️ Experts & Fighting Misinformation 👩🏿‍🔬

We recently received a report for a post spreading potentially dangerous misinformation in !antidepressants@slrpnk.net, and as the creator and mod of that community is MIA, we had to determine ourselves if the report was legitimate. We eventually determined that the post wasn't misinformation, but as we admins are not medical experts, it took a fair amount of effort to research.

With how potentially dangerous medical misinformation can be, and with how widespread it is online, this situation highlights the importance of having someone qualified to root out that mis-info on subjects where it has the possibility of doing serious harm. We've decided to lock the community to prevent the possibility of that occurring in the future, at least until someone with the ability to weed out that harmful information wishes to take over moderating the community.


🛠️ Technical Updates 📡

Despite last month's announcements, not much actually happened so far. We are currently considering pushing back the Photon frontend migration until the new Svelte5 based version stabilizes, but are optimistic that it will bring a nice speed improvement.

We are currently struggling a bit with IP/DNS issues, as our contract with the glass-fiber internet provider does not guarantee a fixed IP (the joys of DIY hosting...). After nearly five years of never changing it, they seem to have made some backend changes and now it seems to randomly change some time. For now, we put an automatic monitoring and DNS updating in place as a mitigation, but this is not ideal on some slow updating DNS mirrors. It would be possible to upgrade to a contract with a fixed IP, but it would require some negotiations as their default offer for that has a lower upload bandwidth. On the upside, it might finally allow IPv6 connections. For now, we will probably wait and see how often this happens and how well our mitigation works.

Our Movim XMPP chat and blogging service has also seen some updates with some bug fixes and additions of "Briefs" as a sort of microblogging feature. This is not compatible with Mastodon etc., but you might have some fun with it nevertheless. The upcoming group video/audio calls are still a work in progress and will hopefully arrive by the end of the year or so. In addition, we updated the Ejabberd XMPP server to the latest 24.10 version, which includes some nice bug-fixes and a few new behind the scenes features.


Solar-Powered Servers ☀️

We have not really analyzed our power consumption via the newly installed solar panels, and it has been a bit rainy the last month, so production has not been optimal. By a guesstimate, we covered about 70-80% of the total electricity needs of our servers, with some days of significant surplus but insufficient battery storage capacity. In a few months we will probably have a clearer picture how well it fares over the winter, but so far it is better than expected.


💬 Open Discussion 🗨️

It wasn't just a poem, we really do like it when you share with us your news, questions, happenings and thoughts. If it's about the instance, the fediverse, or anything else you think is on topic (like how you created that new community? You know the one), this is the time to slam it (or gently place it, that's cool too) down below!

We hope you all had a great October and fun filled Halloween. If we're lucky, maybe November will start with a touch of Steve McQueen. :)

...I'll stop now.

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