They’re considering making my dream illegal. Death to Amerikkka!

I am looking forward to getting the PinePhone because it has the power of the Linux desktop (though you are limited to applications supporting the ARM architecture, which is still quite a lot), it has a nice clicky keyboard accessory, it has hardware killswitches in the back of its interior, it uses gorilla glass, I finally get an SD card slot again, and it is a very versatile little machine (you can run a Java Edition Minecraft Server, try doing that on an Android) that is more freedom respecting and is well supported for repairs and maintenance. I honestly don’t like most android apps and their style, and I miss my Linux computer when I am at work, so this will be fun to play with. I plan to install Gentoo on the device and use crossdev to do the compiling on my main machine so I avoid burning up the poor thing. I also plan to get a PineTime, which will work nicely with the PinePhone, and it’s only $27.

GloDroid, which is an open source port of LineageOS, is available for the PinePhone. There’s still issues though, such reading external storage and automatic brightness. Hopefully after some time those issues will be sorted out.

This is pretty good timing for this topic, especially here on lemmygrad.ml we have been bringing this topic up multiple times.

PSL’s candidates Claudia & Karina even mention how income would be capped, though they do mention locking up war criminals and Wall Street con men (which would still be under a prison system designed for rehabilitation and reeducation):

All income and assets over ten million dollars would be subject to a 100% tax – with no exceptions or loopholes – as would all offshore corporate profits. All debt from student loans, bail bonds, medical and utility bills would be canceled.

https://www.linuxmint.com/privacy.php

Nothing I could find, plus they are based in Ireland, so maybe not?

I haven’t found anything for Ubuntu/Canonical (based in London, UK) yet, but apparently SUSE (based in Germany) does the same as Fedora/Red Hat (based in US):

https://www.suse.com/company/legal/terms-of-use/#k

Holy crap, very unbased. I’m glad I use Gentoo.

Just like a communist party, you have to be careful whom you let in. It’s better to grow more slowly and organically with trustworthy people.

I tend to find smaller communities to share higher quality content and be more caring and helpful (excluding right-wing/hateful echo chambers). Lemmy before the Reddit exodus reminded me of the experience I had on small, indie game forums.

Before the Reddit exodus, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml were some of the most wholesome online spaces I experienced. It was like a breath of fresh air and I felt a good sense of community and friendliness here. Now many toxic people jumped to this side of the fediverse, especially on lemmy.ml. Lemmygrad.ml is now my main go-to instance as it is the best one that still has managed to retain its camaraderie, even though it took a slight hit.

I know this doesn’t answer your question, but if you are looking to meet comrades, find your local communist party. If one doesn’t exist, there may be a pre-branch starting, and you should get in contact with a party like PSL to find out if there is one near you or even help start one. I contacted PSL and luckily found a pre-branch near me, and now I am helping with building it to become an official branch. I have met some pretty cool people this way. We come in all shapes and colors, and we each have our own mannerisms and come from different stages in our journey towards ML.

If you are not from the US, I hope the same advice still applies.

This sounds like a really good tip! I need to work on this myself.

My side hustle is working with the PSL and learning the ins and outs of my computers so I can one day be technologically helpful to the revolution.

One of the articles I had to read for PSL a few weeks ago was this: https://www.liberationschool.org/u-s-agenda-cuba-remains-counter-revolution/

This is called the “carrot and the stick.” At one moment, the U.S. extends a carrot to a country, the next moment they will use the stick, the club.

This is the same government that continues to finance the terrorist organizations trying to overthrow the Syrian government, armed the opposition in Libya and then just bombed Libya to smithereens.

And it is the same U.S. government that is backing the fascist-dominated government in Ukraine, and then tried to set up a false hacking accusation against North Korea, another socialist country the U.S. wants to overthrow. Now new sanctions have been imposed on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

The U.S. politicians in Congress and the President, the establishment, have had fierce debates about what tactics to use, but the objective is the same: Expand Imperialism’s reach and power around the globe. If you are failing with one tactic, use another.

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Jan 6, 2015

We were well aware of the US backing the Nazi government of Ukraine as their puppet for so long, and it’s surreal looking at an old article affirming this before the Ukraine war happened.

I plan to fight for revolution in the US until it is too dangerous and the revolution turns out to not likely succeed. I am already working towards becoming a candidate member with PSL. Because I want to be a computer hardware engineer working in the semiconductor industry, China may be my best option. This is why I am going back to school next year to get my bachelor’s–so I have a viable Plan B just in case.

No shit

Damn, that’s kinda metal

I watched this video this morning, and it was an eye-opener and made me appreciate China more. If the US were to crumble or become too dangerous for me to live in (and our efforts to launch a revolution in the US do not succeed), I have been considering the idea of moving to China (and hoping I have the means to do so). They are already very enticing to work for, especially since I want to be a computer hardware engineer in the semiconductor sector with the intention of making electronics to help people, unlike defense or even agricultural work (designing electronics for combines using AI technology to spray herbicides more efficiently while continuing to impose monoculture techniques across the US and further degrade our soil).

One of my concerns was regarding China’s firewall. If I were to move to China, I wasn’t sure if the firewall would impact my ability to view blocked websites or my ability (and future hobby) to help archive important resources on the internet. I didn’t look much into it nor did I really understand its purpose. I would hear the argument that the Chinese people often use a VPN to circumvent the firewall, so this sounds already much better than the current (not abused yet) and potential tech laws in the US. I didn’t know if the Chinese citizens were breaking the law for circumventing the firewall with a VPN, but apparently it’s not illegal. The purpose of the firewall is to encourage citizens to use their own country’s software, hardware, digital spaces, etc. in order to help with the testing and development of their infrastructure while avoiding becoming dependent on other countries’ tech. Rich Western nations have done the same with their own resources, but now we are pointing a finger at China while banning TikTok in the US because “how dare they compete with us!” China’s firewall serves as a tariff, not censorship. When I learned this, a light bulb went off in my head, and this makes so much sense now.

I’m not so much of a web dev, but I have a two year degree in Computer Information Systems, which is basically Computer Science (including GUI, web, and database development), though finding a job has been impossible for me, even in IT Support, thus I am going back to school to study Electrical Engineering. I run Gentoo Linux and have intermediate knowledge of the Linux ecosystem, hell even Windows now given my work experience. I’m sort of a jack of “many” trades in IT at this point, more or less, and I learn very quickly.

Nevertheless, I figured such a project would be a fun hobby project, but I have wanted to help out Marxist organizations and websites on their technological front as well. I am super busy, however, and it takes me months to even complete my own projects. I would probably be able to help on the side when I am doing college or potentially if and when I get a job that gives me more free time (hell, even PTO, being a contractor sucks). I already have a huge and growing backlog of projects I have been needing to do, but helping Marxist and tech documentation websites preserve their content has been a major concern of mine, especially in light of Google’s Web Environment Integrity API development.

Thank you for informing me about MIA. I had no idea they manipulated texts and are trots. I am definitely going to be wary of them now.

I have wanted to make “mirrors” of Marxist websites and port them to different formats and protocols. I will keep this in mind. Sounds like a fun project.

OP of comment of GitHub link here. I also like RedSails for its minimalist style. A couple more examples I like (not communist but minimalist techie blogs) include this and this.

Also, I believe this guy in Greece (who is currently trying to build a hut as he can longer afford rent) is socialist (never mind, just an anti-communist leftist, but I still like some of his ideas), and he’s an emacs user and contributor (as a philosopher who started off with no understanding in technology, interestingly) who made this nice, minimalist website.

Maybe something like this? https://github.com/muxelplexer/marxists-org-dark-stylized

https://github.com/lyoshenka/awesome-motherfucking-website