leraje
@leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone
Atheistic satanist - justice, compassion, science.
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 2 days ago:
ABMN is not just Black Metal, they're YT channel (findable on Invidious too) is divided in to playlists by subgenre.
SNH also a huge mix of sub-genres and non-metal genres such as EDM, Noise, punk etc.
In terms of non-metal, there are similar projects for neofolk (which also has a tendency to attract the fash), the LeftFolk collective features some great music. The Riihimaki Collective feature hardcore, and DIY Conspiracy are a punk collective.
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 3 days ago:
Luke's List (Google spreadsheet)
Antifascist Black Metal Network (not just Black metal)
- Comment on AI to help police catch criminals before they strike 1 week ago:
This will be fine. After all, a government that understands technology so well it implemented the genius tech regulations in the OSA coupled with a Police force with officers so intelligent they never get the law wrong or have a growing reputation for violence against women can easily be trusted to not take the UK down a dystopian path where the non-white and/or poor and/or disabled will be targetted simply by living in an area where a crime once happened.
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 1 week ago:
"We need an excuse to carry on increasing the surveillance of our citizens."
"Just say sex offenders and terrorism. If anyone protests we can then call them a sex-offending terrorist, thus winning the argument instantly."
"Hmmm...we have used those excuses quite a lot over the last few years. Don't we risk-"
"The phrases becoming essentially meaningless? Well, yes, but it doesn't matter. By the time the populace finally realise that, we'll have total control." - Comment on Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights 1 week ago:
The two examples the US uses - 'chilling online free speech after the Southport attacks' (translation: not giving credence to the lies Farage and the extreme right invented about the immigration status of the perpetrator in order to avoid people being burned to death in hotels) and 'prohibitions around silent prayer outside abortion clinics' (translation: stopping christofascists from trying to intimidate service users and providers) speak volumes about what fascist America sees as the only important free speech.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 1 week ago:
Again, I would have to check, but I think that might've been where Bruce got the idea.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 2 weeks ago:
I'd have to double check but I think it was a New 52 run. You're right to say he has no set, specific plan but his best work-in-progress is using her own warrior tendencies against her by making her constantly fight an unbeatable opponent.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 2 weeks ago:
He has a few possibles for Diana, largely centred around trapping her in a virtual world with an unbeatable enemy she is forced to fight until she dies of exhaustion.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 2 weeks ago:
All the DC billionaires think Superman is dodgy. Lex is a xenophobe who wants to destroy anything more powerful than him, Bruce sees a potential threat to humanity but respects the man. Oliver just thinks he's a pompous dick.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 weeks ago:
Lots of reasons.
They pay their artists an an absolute pittance with a model that vastly favours the big labels. New artists, those artists striving to establish themselves and/or independent artists are screwed over.
At the same time they pay hundreds of millions of dollars to pricks like Joe Rogan.
The 'fake artists' controversy where Spotify pay stock music production companies to produce pretty bland 'playlist' mood music, then created an internal team to seed these tracks on their uberhyped suggested playlists.
Getting caught heavily promoting AI Bands who have been trained on actual musicians work, without paying them for it, which in turn allows Spotify to pay out even less royalties to actual musicians.
Daniel Ek recently investing in 100m Euros into an AI weapons company, which has triggered an artist boycott.
You have zero ownership and zero access rights to the music you stream.
In short, if you care at all about music and the people who make it then streaming in general is not a good model for their future and Spotify is poison.
- Comment on Bluesky age verification in the UK 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Convinced my organisation to use Mastodon and Bsky. Any userfull tools to automate crossposting? 3 weeks ago:
Yep, it seems very well put together - I've chatted with the dev briefly and they seem very aware of the fedi side of things and how different services can interoperate.
- Comment on Convinced my organisation to use Mastodon and Bsky. Any userfull tools to automate crossposting? 3 weeks ago:
Give Fedica a try - they have a very generous free tier which includes both Mastodon and Bluesky.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 3 weeks ago:
Yes its a swear word. Yes, there is a shrinking population where I am (UK) that still can associate it with its original meaning (but that is different in other places too) but you can apply that weak justification to a lot of other words too. 'Cool' literally means 'not warm' but it has also evolved to incorporate other totally different meanings, which can also vary slightly or a lot depending on geographical colloquial use.
You find it offensive because of your local cultural interpretations. I acknowledge that and respect it, hence why I have said things like 'that word' in my subsequent comments to you. What I'm asking you to consider is that, in places away from your local culture, it doesn't carry that meaning and hasn't for some time. The US is not the entire world.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 3 weeks ago:
I really don't mind discussing this with you, but please at least make an effort to have your statements make some kind of sense. Just try and envisage the possibility that outside of the US the same or similar words have always had, or have evolved to have, different or alternative meanings. The people where I live who still interpret the word in the same way you insist is the only possible interpretation are of an older generation. Its in pretty common use by all genders in younger generations.
Also, if you ever get around to getting a passport (a document that lets you travel to other countries), you might want to leave Australia, the UK and Ireland in particular out of any travel plans you have.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 3 weeks ago:
Outside of the US, that meaning fell away and/or changed in some places quite sometime ago. I know it's difficult for a certain type of American to envisage a world outside of their own borders but believe it or not, it does exist and even has different cultural language evolutions.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 3 weeks ago:
I'm assuming you're American? If so you should be aware that word doesn't carry he same baggage elsewhere in the world.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 3 weeks ago:
You say: "...prevailing orthodoxy to the dogmatic views of leftism..."
Most on Fediverse say: Just respect difference and don't tolerate intolerance.
By the way, it's OK to swear. Some examples might be: "You seem to be making a ham-fisted attempt to troll people. Stop being a cunt."
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 4 weeks ago:
The OSA is nothing to do with kids or parenting and everything to do with further developing surveillance of the UK and controlling what we can access.
I guarantee you, at some point after this will come prohibiting content deemed terrorism such as mentions of the word 'palestine' and 'action' in the same paragraph for example.
Sooner or later we'll have our own pseudo or real great firewall. I expect them to come after VPN use at some point too.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Can confirm the ubo custom filter method works perfectly.
- Comment on heavymetal - Reborn! 4 weeks ago:
No, it happened in the early 80s so bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Budgie, Saxon etc
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 5 weeks ago:
Hate is too strong a word I think - I nothing them - but they produce the sort of soulless indie/pop ballad that you know will end up in the soundtrack of Hollywood paint-by-numbers romcom that would've gone straight to DVD a decade or so ago. The unending radio play rotation would force the song (and we could be talking about any and all Coldplay songs here) into your brain and then five years later you'd find yourself humming it as you suddenly realised a longe bar version of it is playing in the lift (elevator USians) you're in.
- Comment on Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act 5 weeks ago:
Not to pour cold water onto any sort of activism but this has zero chance. We all know what the OSA is really for and the kids/terrorism thing is a front for spying on us but the gen population are totally bought into the kids/terrorism thing and there's not a single MP with any sort of political ambition who'll take the chance on looking like they hate kids and support terrorists.
- Comment on WeTransfer updates T&Cs, allows it to use your data to train AI 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 1 month ago:
You might personally think defence trumps all other things - I don't. Its clearly not unimportant (and I never suggested it was) but defence is, we're told, something we use to protect our way of life and our way of life includes not being called a terrorist for doing something which very obviously is not an act of terrorism.
All forms of protest are under a sustained attack in the UK right now and this is just another extension of that. Sabotaging reality to exert control over a populace is obviously a very much worse thing.
- Comment on Growth narratives on the new social networks 1 month ago:
My own take on it is that growth is not very important in terms of how a network develops. The only truly successful growth is that which happens completely organically. Worrying about why one service has 'stopped' growing is pointless. Those who are unhappy jump ship - those who remain are likely people who are never going to and/or bots or influencers who aren't interested in being part of a community just finding a way to exploit it.
I would propose so-called 'smaller' networks (such as the fediverse) concentrate on quality not quantity. That has the duel benefit of making the experience for current users even better and makes the network attractive to those who are outside looking in.
- Comment on Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 1 month ago:
It is now - but yeah my heart bleeds for those poor RAF jets, they're definitely what's important here, not making the word 'terrorist' a meaningless empty word that can be used to justify anything at all.
- Comment on Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 1 month ago:
They did wrong by breaking into an RAF base though
Hardly a terrorist action though is it? Breaking in to throw around some red paint.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I learnt to speak French by living there for a year or so but I still cannot read it at all beyond short sentences because how a word sounds is different than how it looks.
As for English, I think both learning English and English speakers learning other languages is extra hard because English is such a hodge podge of random bits of other syntaxes and structures. Its a mess of a language in lots of respects making it hard to learn and hard for native speakers to get past the messiness and learn a better structured language.