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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-JRdRXiNv4

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies

Paywalled articles are still openly available if you politely email the researcher. While we should strive to have no barrier, if you can’t afford to publish openly those who need the research can still acquire it under the table. Having research unpublished because the researchers could not afford to pay the fee is worse than having the research published in a closed journal.

I’ve gotten a few dozen papers from closed journals that way, and I’ve never been told no.

When I was at college, I used a free tier AWS box to allow me to make things inside the school network public through some SSH and proxy shenanigans, and I used the box to let me escape the anti-vpn firewall rules they had by tunneling my VPN service through SSH

Unfortunately, this is a third party, but considering its a cloud platform, it might be a bit more reliable than a third party service.

The solution is gay tolerance candles

I’ve been pretty depressed by the current political atmosphere in the US, lately, and living in a more conservative area of my state makes it even more alienating. Today, I went to a left wing book fair at a city I’m considering moving to, and it was an amazing change of scenery.

Those aren’t worth it imo. Those specs are pretty bad for the price. As someone who has a server like that (although newer specs), it is pretty expensive to run, sitting at between 100-200$ a month in electricity if run non-stop, granted I live in an area with higher-than-average electricity prices. Taking out 1 CPU will be negligible on power, but have drastic impact on performance. Another consideration is storage, which will be expensive with enterprise 2.5” drives, so be aware of that. Fans in dell servers (or at least the one I own) tend to be quiet if configured to use low fan speeds when under low load. I used to have one in my dorm room under my bed, and I could barely hear the fan whine when trying to sleep, but I could drown it out with a box fan or quiet music

This looks like a port scanning address, which is normal. Being scanned is just a fact of life if you host a service on the internet. What exactly was in your access log? Is it a connection on / ? Is it a 404 on a weird path? Is it accessing data on a service you run?

Personally, I’d block the IP and move on, since 99 times in 100, its not too big of a deal since an automated scan won’t do much. If it is scanning services you actively run, it would warrant digging in deeper, reading all logs and bit more closely, but it is still not too likely it will result in an intrusion.

The original says keep nazis out of punk. Skrewdriver is a neonazi band

From any other company who runs a social media company with a spam problem, I’d say this is an interesting solution. You can identify some bots and sock-puppet accounts by PCI. For Musk’s twitter, I’m not exactly trusting it, it feels like enshittification is in full swing.

I wonder how this will affect diversity of opinion on twitter, since I feel those already critical of twitter won’t be as likely to spend a dollar

And I’m a little skeptical that this will dissuade botting, since 1$ is nothing

Yeah, its an undercover cop

A corner store near my college occasionally had 4 cans for $2. I’d stock up for weeks at a time when that happened, and I got a sick finger workout carrying a ton of paper bags full of them home

They don’t taste great, but for less than a dollar a can? 100% worth it

Neovim + LLDB, because I like vim motions and hate electron apps.

At work I used VS Code with vim integration, or an OpenSUSE tumbleweed VM with neovim, which I “integrated” into the windows terminal. Unfortunately, WSL was not allowed due to valid security concerns.

I’m finally beginning to escape a 6 month long depressive episode. I’m beginning to feel happy again, and I can finally find joy in my hobbies. Not everything is going great right now and I’m still struggling to get by, but things are beginning to look up. Hopefully, I can harness this newfound energy to finally begin to deal with everything looming over me.

I’m also beginning to read some leftist books. I’ve picked up “Black Metal Rainbows” by Daniel Lukes, et. al, and I’ve grabbed a copy of “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” by David Graeber. I’m hoping to read some other titles when I get the chance. Hopefully, I can get back into reading again, it’s a great break from staring at a screen all day.

I’ve read half of Black Metal Rainbows so far, and I think it’s pretty good, even as someone who isn’t in very deep the black metal scene. The book is a collection of essays, art, stories, and interviews, and so far I’ve read about topics ranging from anti-fascism and removing fascist and nazi bands from metal, queer artists and their experiences in the scene, feminism, sex work, men’s mental health and DSBM, and an interview with Dødheimsgard (my beloved). I’d highly recommend it if you are interested in black metal or leftist communities in metal.

https://blackmetalrainbows.bandcamp.com/album/black-metal-rainbows

I called myself libertarian at the beginning of highschool.

My political beliefs went from edgy ultra-communist to what could only be described as (edgy) ancap. In my head, the idea of a light set of laws, in particular the US constitution, with ideals of individual freedoms sounded amazing.

From the perspective of the US education system, the constitution is holy, and the best thing to happen to mankind. I truly believed that strong personal freedoms and the ability to rise from rags to riches was incredible. The ability for an immigrant to move from an oppressive world to a free one was idyllic. And I was told that libertarianism was the way to do that, that a free market is what caused that.

At that time, I made some new friends, and by god am I thankful one of them told me “lmao, the free market is kinda shit, and we really don’t have one” before I became obsessed with right wing pundits.

An idyllic view of libertarianism is not that bad, dare I say nearly a good one. But holy shit does it devolve into one of the worst political systems in practice. Granted, an idyllic view of nearly any political or governmental system is nice, but the ideal view of any system doesn’t really matter in practice.

To answer your question, I genuinely think the only way to consider libertarianism a good thing is to either:

• try and shed your edgy early political views and miss the mark spectacularly
• fall for right wing propaganda like I did
• Have no understanding of politics in practice.
• fail to realize the moment you askew rights for personal freedoms, you effectively give then up and allow someone with more economic power to have the personal freedom to trample yours.

Being tolerant to intolerance leads to more intolerance. Being intolerant to intolerance does not lead to more intolerance.

It is not just OK, but necessary to be intolerant towards fascist ideologies.