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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • I agree that porn is a nsfw way to explain something in a lot of scenarios but I disagree about people needing to know at least the names of a technology from an explanation.

    Most people don’t need to know or care about the names to understand or use them. Knowing the names after I learnt the commands did not give me greater insight into how the tool works.

    If they are just being introduced to git and github then they are likely new to programming and have much more important things to care about like learning their first programming language or understanding how their teams project actually works.

    A place to host gits is a perfectly good explanation for anyone who is new to it.


  • How many people use Pornhub for discovery though? I usually find interesting content through a search engine, through word of mouth, through posts on here, etc. at which point it doesn’t really matter where the porn is hosted. A lot of the useful content I use aren’t even on Pornhub.

    Seriously though, I agree with you, githubs value to open source is not it’s discover-ability. Personally I think its value comes from the stability, as much as I’m an advocate for self-hosting I know from the amount of dead links on the internet that we could have lost a lot of projects or at least they would move about as hosts went down.

    I quite like the idea of federated gitea, although technically there is already a federated platform for porn if you count Lemmy and/or mastadon.




  • Instead of going fedi I’m going minimal.

    Reddit -> Lemmy, with the caveat that time spent on here is minimal, to be reviewed at a later date.

    xitter -> nothing, nitter.net if I want to read a xeet linked by another resource. Ultimately for me micro blogging social media is a time suck with little return.

    discord -> still on it for a few different reasons, not sure if I’ll set up matrix just to do a bridge, privacy and minimalism are clashing here.

    YouTube -> nothing, invidious if I want to watch yt content. Short or low quality video content is another time suck, try and keep video streaming to a minimum for environmental and mental health reasons.

    Netflix and others -> the high seas (it is decentralised)





  • I mean that is sort of the definition of justified but it’s being misused here, it just means having a good reason. Everyone is ignoring how subjective it is though. Bob may consider his life above others, so for him staying alive is a good enough reason to commit murder. Jane and a jury are very likely to disagree.

    Different language needs to be used I think to avoid the issues people have with the concept of violent resistance.

    Peace isn’t an option because injustice still happens under peace time. Liberation is a better solution for the oppressed.

    So now we’ve got:

    Liberation of oppressed peoples from oppression is always justified.

    This focuses more on the end goal than the action that resistance implies. Liberation can still involve violent resistance and that’s okay. You can be on the side of righteousness and still do what is morally wrong, this is true of all movements.

    We have to agree that liberation from oppression is always morally good and we have to apply it to all cases. So if we don’t look at the Palestinian struggle the same way we’d look at indigenous issues in north America or apartheid SA, we’d be hypocrites.


  • Get fdroid and download newpipe or alternative if you want to keep an app for YouTube without ads.

    Alternative web front ends also exist if you are okay with watching videos in a mobile browser. I use an invidious instance, pick one that’s close to you here. Other front ends also exist.

    Alternative video platforms such as LBRY also exist and I’ve found a few youtubers I watched on it.

    Absolutely take it as an opportunity to reduce your video content consumption. I like the invidious solution because I don’t get notifications and it takes a bit more effort to manually open the link in the web client so I tend not to watch videos I’m only half interested in.

    Edit: froid => fdroid


  • The US aren’t hypocrites when they support fascist states its what they’ve always done unless public support hasn’t let them.

    Hamas isn’t Palestine. I expect when the people rise up together they will win. There are way more organisations than Hama’s currently in this fight btw.

    Last I’ve seen is that the Palestinian offensive is 10 km away from splitting Israel in two. We’ll see what the situation is when the dust settles.

    For the moment I will continue to uncritically support the Palestinian struggle and call out those that don’t because they support genocide as the status quo.


  • Even if they only hit military targets they would still be labeled as terrorists. You need a different word that hasn’t been massively overused.

    If the support is conditional its not really support.

    Did you even do any research before you came up with this bulshit liberal stance? The Gaza Strip a neutral zone? That’s like saying Israel needs to become a neutral zone.


  • Terrorism or liberation?

    How will the opposite help?

    Injustice can happen under peace, so peace is not the answer. Peace is the language of the oppressor, liberation and justice is the language of the oppressed.

    Also if America backs someone and calls their opponents terrorists even through they funded them, does that mean the opponents are actually terrorists?