   This is a Science Fiction Museum currently being built in Chengdu. It was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, and is meant to emulate an expanding star cloud. I'm sure libs think this is very depressing communist architecture.
It seems someone has created a [/c/trotskyists](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/trotskyists) community. I believe this community should be removed for what I think are obvious reasons.
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Russia must've learned the art of Juche necromancy
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Some of the comments on that post are hilarious. "This makes it look like America is fascist." Yeah, I wonder why.
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Can those people have normal relationships with other human beings and be normal for just 1 second?
Not if they're libs
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You're just a filthy tankie! Look at how good our US subway is!
::: spoiler Warning: May be disturbing to anyone who prefers public transportation that isn't about to crumble into pieces.
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Wow, the US was able to shoot down a balloon that has no weapons and can't defend itself?? This is so impressive. We truly have the best military in the world. /s
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It feels like we're living in an alternate reality where The Onion is a serious, non-satirical news source
www.theatlantic.com
I'm not sure how much more blatant the bourgeois propaganda can get. I mean, they are just going completely mask off at this point.
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How do people live with unread notifications? My brain won't let me. If there's a number next to the icon, my brain will not calm down until I have read, and responded to if necessary, every single notification. If I was in a situation where I had >500 notifications, the entire day would be spent just reading and responding to every single one. The only way I can avoid it is to never see the notifications at all.
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Let me finish those libs' sentence: "Capitalism breeds innovation in new ways to exploit the proletariat and, being the bootlickers we are, we're hoping that saying this is going to lead to us not being exploited as much."
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That's not the only one either, there's a sequel
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Not to mention the fact that you can feel infrared as heat
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What is a 4D movie supposed to be? Is it just a 3D movie that you can fast forward and rewind?
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I completely agree. I am absolutely sick of Ukraine and that clown Zelenskiy at this point. I wish they'd just accept the fact that the fascists are going to lose again and stop talking about it.
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That's not true, they don't only have CIA talking points. Obviously, they're not loyal to any specific US intelligence agency, they have talking points for all of them.
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/460337 > More than 50% more energy was generated than was used for the reaction. 2.05 Megajoules in, 3.15 Megajoules out. Let's see how fast the US fossil fuel oligarchs start creating anti-fusion propaganda like they did with fission.
www.llnl.gov
More than 50% more energy was generated than was used for the reaction. 2.05 Megajoules in, 3.15 Megajoules out. Let's see how fast the US fossil fuel oligarchs start creating anti-fusion propaganda like they did with fission.
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It's so weird how it disappeared from Twitter. I wonder why that happened.
I have created a [reply bot](https://gitea.arsenm.dev/Arsen6331/lemmy-reply-bot) that I posted earlier. With it, I can create any bot that replies to users' comments with a set message. It can also get information from the comment and include it in the reply if needed. The reply bot I made is pretty advanced in terms of what it can detect because it uses PCRE2. For example, I can detect only things that start with something, or only things that have specific characters in specific locations and don't have other characters before or after. Does anyone know any bots on Reddit that they may want brought to Lemmygrad (other than parenti bot, that's already been brought over), or have any other ideas for bots that could be added?
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/457579 > I used my Go API bindings to make a reply bot that replies to comments with custom messages. > > Github mirror: https://github.com/Arsen6331/lemmy-reply-bot
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This place is much better than Reddit. I can actually say stuff without being bombarded by libs who think they're going to convince me they're right by assuming I'm Chinese because I'm a communist (This has happened multiple times, and I'm not even close, my family is a mix of Armenian and Russian, and I was born in the US) and then informing me that I'm being paid by the Chinese government to post propaganda (I wish)
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So, essentially, there's a perception in the US that nuclear reactors are always at risk of catastrophic failure and that if this happens, it will be as bad as Chernobyl. Therefore, they oppose anything even remotely related to nuclear power. Of course, this perception has been very intentionally created by the fossil fuel oligarchs.
At this point, it's been so drilled into the heads of most people here that they just won't listen to anything you have to say that counters this point of view.
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More accurately, this says "Freedom to Leonard Peltier"
A while ago, I realized how pervasive big tech spyware was. It's everywhere. In search engines, word processors, even the OSes themselves. Upon this realization, I decided to try to get away from that spyware, and researched how to do that. This is when I came upon self-hosting. There are certain open-source programs that allow you to do the same thing the big tech services allow you to do, but you host them yourself, so you control them. There was just a slight problem: I had no servers. This is when I learned about "the cloud" and how you could rent servers from companies and then use those to host your software. I tried it, but realized I was just hosting my own services on big tech servers, so it wasn't helping. I'd been wanting a raspberry pi cluster for a while at that point, but never had the motivation to get one, so I waited until my birthday, collected the money gifted to me by my relatives, and bought 4 raspberry pi 4s with just 1GB of RAM, as well as all the equipment to run them (an 8-port network switch, power cables, etc.). Since then, my cluster has grown. Little by little, I've collected money and bought new parts. Now, I have 8 raspberry pi 4s (four 1GB, four 2GB), a Pine H64, a RockPro64, and my old 2012 Mac Mini running Debian. I also have an old 2011 MacBook that I've revived and patched to run the newest macOS which I will use to compile and test apps for iOS and macOS, as well as a Radxa Rock5 Model B with 16GB RAM on the way that I will be adding as well. Originally, whenever I wanted to run a new service, I'd just kind of find a server and stick it on there, then manually configure everything and hope I remember where it's running. Now, I have a [Nomad](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad) cluster with [Consul](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul) and [Traefik](https://github.com/traefik/traefik) handling everything automatically for me. If I want to run a new service, I just make a Nomad config for it, and Nomad finds a free server with enough resources, downloads it, configures it, runs it, and then publishes it to Consul, from where Traefik automatically picks it up, sets up routing rules, acquires a TLS certificate, and exposes the service. Everything happens automatically. If a server goes down, Nomad will run the services that were running there on a different server and Traefik will reconfigure itself to match. This is what my setup looks like:  At the top is my Mac Mini, a WiFi antenna for Home Assistant, and a RockPro64, on the shelf under that, there are 8 raspberry pis, under that is a network switch and a Pine H64 running the reverse proxy, and under that is a UPS that lasts over an hour in the event of power loss. On the right is my 3D printer, which is connected to one of the Pi 4s for OctoPrint. This has been very useful for me. Not only does it mean I own my data AND my services, it also means outages don't affect me and my services are always very fast and reliable. I've had numerous times where Github was down and most people couldn't do any work, except me because I have my own Gitea instance, for example. I think anyone with the expertise, time, and resources to do this should do it.
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And besides, Linux gaming works well. Not perfectly, but certainly well enough for casual gaming. Maybe it'll need some tinkering for some particular games, but there are very nice installers like Lutris that attempt to handle that for you, so you don't have to.
"[Chinese Communist Party Congress set to anoint Xi as president for life](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-beijng-xi-communist-party-1.6617557)" If you read past the headline, the article goes on to say "We can be almost certain that Xi, as the Communist Party's general secretary, will be appointed for another five-year term," and "Technically speaking, since the term limit has been removed, he can stay in power for life, [although] that may require some formal ceremonies after five years." Apparently, a theoretical 5 year term that they aren't even completely sure will happen means for life, and "technically speaking, he can" means he will do so.
I used the prompt "Stalin Zedong" at https://diffusionui.com/b/stable_horde. This is what it made.
Hit their own base (trying) to own the tankies. Kim Jong-Un must have telekinesis powers now in addition to necromancy.
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I kept calm for the most part because he is an American teenager.
That's not much of an excuse. I am a teenager born and living in the US. I am also an ML. Before becoming an ML, I never really thought about ideology, but I was anti-capitalist because I realized before I was even a teenager that the incentive structure of capitalism must lead to misery because it prioritizes capital over everything.
gitea.arsenm.dev
I've been using Arch on all my daily driver devices for years now. One of the main reasons for this is the AUR. It's very convenient for installing all kinds of software, since it can build a full, native package from a simple build script written in bash. I personally have packages on the AUR and use it daily. Anyway, I've thought many times of such a simple and easy solution being missing from other distros, but have never had the experience and motivation to create it. Recently, I used [goreleaser](https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/) to automatically build and release my project, [ITD](https://gitea.arsenm.dev/Arsen6331/itd), for several distros at the same time. While doing so, I had an idea, so I went to check what goreleaser uses to build packages, and it turns out they have a separate library for this purpose: [nfpm](https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm). This was the only thing missing for me to be able to build an AUR-like system. I did notice one issue. It didn't support Arch Linux packages, so I created a PR adding support for them. The PR is completely working and it has been reviewed and approved. So, I started working on my idea, and so far, it's going really well. I've already been able to build and install multiple packages using my program on my Arch system and inside a Fedora and Debian docker container. I just uploaded my program now that I've finished implementing the basic features and testing them. I hope it ends up being useful. Link to the repo with my new program: https://gitea.arsenm.dev/Arsen6331/lure The README is very small right now, I'm working on making a better one.
Now that I have started this community off with a non-technical post, I will share my own, personal solution to digital privacy. This post will be more technical. I self-host every service I possibly can from a cluster of servers (mostly low-power ARM SBCs) that are in my room. Until recently, I was just manually throwing services onto servers and then manually configuring everything. As I've mentioned before in a GenZedong General Discussion Thread, I am now using an orchestrator called Nomad as well as a service discovery solution called Consul. This allows me to submit a single configuration file, and my servers all automatically configure themselves to perform whatever task I wanted them to. I've placed all my configuration files along with relatively detailed READMEs about them into this repository if anyone wants to take a look at them: https://gitea.arsenm.dev/Arsen6331/nomad. Due to using SBCs, I am able to do all of this with a power consumption of just 50W. Here is a list of things I host and what they're meant to replace: - [Matrix Dendrite](https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite): Discord - [Nextcloud](https://github.com/nextcloud/server): Google Drive - [OnlyOffice](https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer): Google Docs - [Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/): HomeKit/SmartThings/<insert smart home platform here> - [Gitea](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea): Github/Gitlab - [Minio](https://github.com/minio/minio): Amazon S3 (storage and download for files) - [LMS](https://github.com/epoupon/lms): Spotify - [SearXNG](https://github.com/searxng/searxng): Google Search (Note: I used to use [my own](https://gitea.arsenm.dev/Arsen6331/scope) metasearch engine but switched to SearXNG a couple days ago because mine kept getting ratelimited) There are more but they're not really alternatives to anything, I'll list them here: - [Authelia](https://www.authelia.com/): Provides authentication and 2fa for services that don't provide their own mechanism. Can also work similarly to "Sign in with Google" buttons via OAuth2 and OIDC. - [Traefik](https://traefik.io/): Reverse proxy that provides access to all the rest - [Homer](https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer): Provides a dashboard for all my services. My instance can be found at: https://dashboard.arsenm.dev
Since most people don't have the resources or knowledge to host their own servers, this post will provide recommendations for increasing digital privacy without self-hosting. If anyone can think of something to add, please comment and I will edit the post. --- # Alternatives to big tech services This section will list alternatives to common big tech software that steals your data. - Discord: [Matrix](https://matrix.org/); Easy to use clients: [Nheko](https://nheko-reborn.github.io/), [Element](https://element.io/) - Github: [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/) - Twitter: [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/) - YouTube: [LBRY](https://lbry.com/); Easy to use clients: [LBRY Desktop](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/releases/), [Odysee](https://odysee.com/) - Google Search: [SearX](https://searx.github.io/searx/)/[SearXNG](https://github.com/searxng/searxng); List of public instances: https://searx.space/ - Windows: Any Linux distribution. Seriously, don't use Windows. Linux isn't as hard as people say it is. My parents and grandparents use it. - Google Chrome: Firefox. Do not use Chrome, it is one of the worst things that exists for privacy. Chromium (the open-source version of Chrome) is a little better but I still wouldn't use it. # Suggestions for privacy-respecting hardware - Smartphone: [PinePhone](https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/)/[PinePhone Pro](https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/) - Smartwatch: [PineTime](https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/) ([definitely not biased at all](https://gitea.arsenm.dev/Arsen6331/itd)) - Laptop: [Pinebook Pro](https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/), [System76](https://system76.com/), [Purism](https://puri.sm/) # Suggestions for privacy-respecting software - [TOR](https://torproject.org): Encrypts your traffic in three layers, then routes across a randomized network of nodes, providing very high security and privacy, and making it near impossible to track your activities. - [Mullvad VPN](https://mullvad.net/en/): VPN that allows you to make an account without providing any details, and pay in cash or crypto (or just with a card) to ensure your identity cannot be found out since it's not even known by Mullvad. - [LibreWolf](https://librewolf.net/): Browser focused on privacy and security. May break some sites, especially streaming sites like Netflix, Hulu, etc. Broken sites can be fixed by changing settings at the expense of some privacy if required.
Hopefully this puts a dent in US global dominance
Welcome to Capitalism, where you can lose your vision because some corporation didn't get enough money.