RIotingPacifist

@RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You can hide an intermittent mesh networking device in anything with a solar panel, it’s not that easy to triangulate users if the communications are intermittent (although that itself doesn’t play nicely with consumer devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Satellite internet is not a good option, it’s easy to block and easy to spot people using it.

  Maintaining links to the global Internet is easier to do if you’re hiding your transmission inside other things, but that’s easier said than done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link)⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not ironic, people didn’t confuse Reddit for Digg, it wasn’t a even Digg clone nor did it pretend to be one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you can get sued for using a trademark as long as your use doesn’t confuse people into thinking you are the original.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think all monopolies should be split into different companies, and then given to the workers who would collectivize them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  One point of tension is that under a system where you still need to get paid to get things needed to survive/enjoy life, any organization outside of the state will be incentized to only do what they have to do and have the workers have more freetime (either for leisure or other work), whereas salaried state employees would use that time for improvements.

  My gut tells me this is a trade-off worth making but it might not be, perhaps it makes more sense to have state monopolies, maintained by the state as then additional capacity gets put towards improvements.

  I’ve just not seen state enterprises turnout that well, wether it’s the NHS or the Soviet economy outside of wartime, I don’t agree with the capitalist critique that workers have no incentive to perform well at their jobs, because the USSR/NHS didn’t/doesn’t have a flat pay structure, so my best theory is the alienation of people from their labor is a huge factor. And this is also supported by my personal experiences as well as those of people I know who work in the NHS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the idea just didn’t have legs!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think all monopolies should be split into different companies, and then given to the workers who would collectivize them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So first off anyone who says boring shit like calling you a “revisionist” or “read theory” is a moron unable to defend their position, they’re treating socialist theory like a cultish religion.

  Or to put it another way MLs are dumb, ignore them.

  Generally I think if there are state owned assets, work on them should generally be contracted out to cooperatives, as that puts workers truly in control (as opposed to being cogs in the machine) and allows workers to find a different cooperative to work at, but I don’t think there is any one “correct” answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think all monopolies should be split into different companies, and then given to the workers who would collectivize them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What if companies that offer a superior product are forces by markets to hold back competition. YouTube isn’t the exception, it’s the norm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink Alternative that can't be blocked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Satallites are a really fucking dumb way to deliver internet.

  They are especially dumb for delivering “unstoppable” internet.

  If you want to deliver unstoppable internet the key is to make it impossible to detect, you’re much better running a fiber cable, but that ofc is pretty high risk if they discover it. Alternatively you want a mesh network that can change frequencies to prevent jamming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you build and cultivate revolutionary optimism, given what's happening in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Basic pattern recognition from the last administration should teach Dems that a buisness as usual candidate, will be their last.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you build and cultivate revolutionary optimism, given what's happening in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen the response from communities? libs and apolitical people are on the streets ready to throwdown against armed thugs, that’s giving me a lot of hope.

  Electorally (sorry anarchists), even Democrats are talking about abolishing ICE, we’ll see what happens in the primaries if such Democrats can win control of the party, but even if they can’t what we’ve seen on the streets should scare them into compliance! Time to remind them that what is “legal” doesn’t matter if the will of the people is at odds with the “law”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey I’m a human, but have you considered letting the Lord our Savior Tux into your boot partition?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the article is pretty trash.

  15% of the top subs contain corporate propaganda becomes “15% of the subs are compromised”, “compromised” means something more than “contains propaganda” to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t Digg 2.0 what “created” Reddit (or at least gave it critical mass) (along with the child porn obviously)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy has VC funding?

  I actually think the lack of funding means Lemmy doesnt have the same incentives to enshitify itself.