also as a former driver I just want to say DOWN WITH THEIR ECONOMIC TERRORISM!

What public transport apps if I may ask? Most of Western Europe and especially Germany present no issues and even have OSS options, same with Finland.

a decentralized file hosting/sharing protocol that powers library genesis, for example

Reactionaries, like real fucking fascist shock troops are actually a minority compared to interwar period. Most Trump voters are just tired, frustrated and desperate, not actually fanatically rallying behind him. His bravado may resonate with some social anger but it will probably run out of steam as soon as people find out he offers no real solutions. On the contrary, Nazis and fascists were able to rally a significant number of strata of the population. So let's compare the relevance and position of the groups upon which the Italian, Spanish and German fascists based themselves:

• Demobilized soldiers and mercenaries like the Moroccans in Spain and Freikorps

Nowadays many people join the military in the US just to get free college and healthcare etc. And yet they still fall short of their recruitment targets. See the recent protests in solidarity with Aaron Bushnell. Also after WW I most armies were infantry based and there was initially mass unemployment amongst the veterans.

• Medium to large-scale landowners/peasants

1-3% of the society. And if anything, their militancy at least makes the ruling class tremble, lest it was adopted by workers.

• Clergy

Even in the US religion is losing relevance

• Students

Massively shifted to the left almost everywhere

• Small business owners

They are still getting screwed every once in a while by the ruthless law of the accumulation of capital but still mostly they might be partly correct but still go into some major distortions in their understanding of things. Petty bourgeoisie is not a revolutionary class. But at the same time, they no longer compete with other small business owners of other (Jewish) ethnicity but actually rely heavily on unskilled migrant labor

• Organized criminals

Crime has mostly economic causes. For massive spike in crime that could serve as the manpower pool for the fascist militias, the system would actually need to be built on a prejudice against white males, not just in /pol/cel projections grounded in not seeing shit primarily through economic lenses.

So even if the unavoidable aggravation of capitalism's agony happens sooner:

• to reject the possibility of emerging from it victorious is actually a defeatist internalization of downplaying the potential of own class, just what the porky wants
• to tail the liberals will not serve in any way to convince the less politically educated people that we are any alternative...
• ...and if anything, ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy for their besieged fortress myth about some leftist conspiracy
• most dictators came to power not by election, but by a coup or manipulation
• even if we think about the most notable example when they did, that is in Germany in the 30s, it's all actually vastly different. While KPD's sectarianism towards SPD and the refusal to take advantage of several revolutionary situations were what led to it not being able to successfully withstand Hitler, there are some key differences here:

Democrats are as much of a millionaire club as Republicans. SPD was a massive workers' organization. CPUSA actually endorses Biden because that's what most IMCWP parties not in power do: legitimize the status quo and maintain a watered-down programme. No diff here with CPRF in Russia. And such sort of passivity and conservatism is what permeated the leadership of KPD under Thälmann and it is the reason why a revolutionary party aspiring to stand as an independent force that won't ever let itself be co-opted into the system is needed.

I get that feeling of FOMO. But ask yourself, which do you think matters more against millions of other voters whom you'll never talk to:

a) voting

b) organizing to defend yourself against the Trump regime, by force if necessary where a loud and consequent group can easily sway thousands if not millions under the right conditions. That vs trying to basically convince people why one shade of the same color is better than the other which serves mostly narrowing their worldview and proving that you are not willing to stand up for your ideas.

on Firefox if a desktop addon has no mobile version you can look up how to add custom add-ons collections when it comes to cookie prompt blockers, but ublock origin and adding filters to it work out of the box. Recently also some apps started showing cookie prompts with no option to decline unless you pay, if they can work offline, make them so

impure functions and their consequences

Thanks

A simple example:

func GetConfig(path string) mo.Result[*Config] {
return mo.Try(func (*Config, error) {
// logic to get the config
})
}

conf := GetConfig.OrElse(&DefaultConfig)

While it might not make much sense for a function you use just once, it can get actually pretty useful to simplify error handling like this for something you use more often.

another brutalism W :hoxha:

Same. I was long reluctant to use docker due to it's cognitive and performance overhead, but once setting my system to just ignore postgresql in automatic updates settings proved insufficient and I realized I'd have to rollback ICU with all it's dependencies as well, I've decided to say fuck it, I'll use docker and if docker pisses me off, I'll just hop to Nix.

maybe try setting up a matrix bridge if you feel confident you can secure that properly. On one hand it might increase attack surface (use only servers and bridges with End to Bridge Encryption) but what's an attack surface on software that is so ridiculously compromised. Also you can try using an alternative client such as Flare. Though YMMV, for me the last time I've used it it was quite rough around the edges but I'm happy to see it's actively maintained so might be worth checking out.

Also no, flatpak doesn't fix this issue. Yeah it provides some isolation which can be further improved with flatseal, and other defense-in-depth methods. But unless you are willing to face the trade-offs of using Qubes, you won't compartmentalize your entire system. The key file in question is stored in ~/.local/share. I'm not denying vulnerabilities in userland applications, but thanks to it's wide reach, often massive codebases and use of unsafe languages like C, it's the core system or networked software that is the most common attack vector. And that doesn't ship and will never ship via flatpak.

The most obvious way this is exploitable is directory traversal. But not only that. Just look up "Electron $VULNERABILITY", be it CSRF, XSS or RCE. Sandbox escape is much easier with this crap than any major browser, since contextIsolation is often intentionally disabled to access nodejs primitives instead of electron's safer replacements. Btw Signal Desktop is also an electron app.

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