for over 500 years, imperial forces have humiliated, kidnapped, and murdered our local leaders to crush resistance and enable the systematic looting of our lands. gold, silver, pearls, coffee, bananas; today, oil: the main fuel of the insatiable monster they created, capitalism

despite massacres, betrayals, and setbacks, we have resisted and we will continue to resist for another 500 years if necessary. for the forest, for biodiversity, for collective life, and for our right to joy

#Venezuela

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if you need it, please take care of your mental health, which may be in the form of adding more mute words and blocking news accounts or all the way to a social media sabbatical

you don't owe it to anyone to follow the news and it's not your fault what bad people do

God I hope they make a new Team America about this event

Just think of the Trump and Vance puppets

"Billionaires raised fortunes against him. The president threatened to strip his citizenship. Mainstream synagogues slandered him as the spawn of Osama bin Laden and Chairman Mao. But today, Zohran Mamdani became the first socialist mayor of New York City.

For all the hysteria, when I look at Mamdani, I didn’t see some radical departure from the past. I see him as the heir to an old and venerable Jewish tradition – that of Yiddish socialism – which helped build New York.

In some cases, the link is direct. Bruce Vladeck, a member of one of Mamdani’s transition committees, is a well-respected expert on Medicare, but for the sake of this article, his credentials matter less than his surname.

Vladeck is the grandson of Baruch Charney Vladeck, a Marxist troublemaker from the Pale of Settlement, a tract of land in the Russian empire where Jews were permitted to live at a time of rampant antisemitic oppression. Baruch showed up in New York after the failed Russian revolution of 1905 with a Cossack’s saber scars all over his face. He later became a socialist alderman and member of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s housing administration. Vladeck was not actually his birth name. It was rather a nom de guerre, adopted when he joined the Jewish Labor Bund, the socialist, secular and defiantly anti-Zionist movement whose slogan, “here where we live is our country,” would make an apt tagline for Mamdani’s New York."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#USA #NewYork #NYC #Mamdani #AntiZionism

They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition

When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York

^{Molly Crabapple (The Guardian)}

Man the EU message on the Venezuelan oil raid is as disappointing as I have come to expect.

Just another side of the same coin.

When you think that things like turning off #Bluetooth as a precaution are overkill, security researchers drop a bomb like this. (long, but interesting read)

insinuator.net/2025/12/bluetoo…

#CVE #security #cyberSecurity

The reason Grok so easily can generate nudes of children is because it is trained on that type of content. It is not using "imagination".

Too few are saying this part aloud. Any face generated using image-gens can be from a situation of abuse.

I had to make a decision. If curl estimates time left to transfer a file is 4398046511103 seconds. How do we display that in - 7 bytes?

I decided that if the time exceeds 99,999 years we show it as ">99999y" even though a 63bit epoch *can* hold up to 292 billion years.

7 bytes because I need the entire curl progress meter to fit within 79 bytes.

What's a better thing to do on a Saturday? 😁

github.com/curl/curl/pull/2017…

progress: narrower time display, multiple fixes by bagder · Pull Request #20173 · curl/curl

Each time field is now 7 characters wide, so that the total width never exceeds 79 columns so that it works correctly also in Windows terminals. The title lines are adjusted accordingly. This is ac...

^GitHub

Ich bin auch immer noch total hyped für Gnu Taler. Bargeld ist einfach total unpraktisch, aber die US Zahlungsdienstleister Visa, Mastercard bzw Google und Apple Pay sind aus offensichtlichen Gründen sehr kritisch zu betrachten.

Gnu Taler ist einfach die perfekte Alternative zu beidem. Können wir das bitte in Zukunft auf jedem Chaos Event haben?

#GnuTaler #CCC #39C3

🧵 My sense of justice was triggered by #Palantir corporate gaslighting two Swiss investigative journalists on LinkedIn.

This is something most people won’t even see, but I was angry, so I looked while my kid was still asleep.

Here’s what it looks like when tech bros attack journalists while you and I have too much food over Christmas.

Two Swiss journalists spent a year filing 59 #FOIA requests to document Palantir’s 7-year campaign to sell surveillance software to Swiss authorities (army and health services in particular).

📄: republik.ch/2025/12/09/warum-p…

The Swiss army’s internal report concluded they couldn’t rule out US intelligence accessing data through Palantir systems, despite reassurances.

Their story hit The Guardian, and #UK MPs are now questioning £825M in Palantir contracts.

📄: theguardian.com/technology/202…

The journalists were rejoicing on LinkedIn. It’s a big deal to have your story picked up by mainstream UK media, especially after a year of hard work.

This is where it gets ugly.

MPs question UK Palantir contracts after investigation reveals security concerns

Journalists find Swiss government rejected company over fears US intelligence might gain access to sensitive data

^{Aisha Down (The Guardian)}

🔥 Венесуэльцы по всему миру празднуют падение режима Мадуро

Люди выходят на улицы США, Чили, Аргентины и, конечно же, самой Венесуэлы;

Диктатор в это время (со слов Трампа) плывёт со своей супругой на американском корабле в Нью-Йорк.

I might be working up a rant about the elegant symmetry of De Morgan's laws, and how unfortunately it's wrong.

There are four laws:

1. ¬A ∧ ¬B → ¬(A ∨ B)
2. ¬(A ∨ B) → ¬A ∧ ¬B

3. ¬A ∨ ¬B → ¬(A ∧ B)
4. ¬(A ∧ B) → ¬A ∨ ¬B

Intuitionistic logic accepts 1–3, but not 4. #4 claims that if there's no proof of A and B simultaneously, it must be for one of two reasons: there are no proofs of A at all, or there are no proofs of B at all.

But that's obviously not true except in extremely limited situations. It's like saying that if a restaurant never serves meat and fish on the same day, it's because it never serves meat or because it never serves fish.

(In contrast, the converse is obviously true: a meatless restaurant certainly never serves meat on the same day as fish. And the inverse: if the restaurant never serves meat, _and_ it never serves fish, then certainly it never serves either meat or fish, and vice versa.)

The symmetry is elegant, but wrong in general.

IL has a similar asymmetry in the duality between ∃ and ∀, of which ∨ and ∧ are special cases.

#SelfHosting week 0, phase 1B: DNS records settings. Performed @_elena 's instructions on her "self hosting for newbies" part 2. Except for the post-install as I run it through terminal and not through web UI. For an ms-dos-born it's easier to perform a simple command such as "yunohost tools postinstall" rather than go to web, then type, then search for the various UI elements.
Everything went smooth, except for letsencrypt at first. But in the end it seems to have worked. It got stuck because hostinger panel didn't get one suggested parameter, the numeric 3600, every record has a parameter which is 3, 4 or 5 numbers.
Created the domain and subdomain to point it to yunohost admin interface, and then obstacle came.
Opening browser to subdomain, just returns "connection timed out".
Checked for nginx parameters through yunohost terminal, using the desired Sudo commands.
Then, "sudo yunohost diagnosis run"
"sudo yunohost diagnosis show --issues --human-readable"
and I got explanation on reverse dns which was wrong.
After that, I searched on the web (and on AI, I admit) the position on hostinger panel to set them, and I found "set tpr record"
placed the desired domain name.
And now it's time to wait for propagation. But what about the "connected timeout", in the article posted in blog.elenarossini.com no such obstacle was mentioned.
I'm back to my 20s when I spent the night (it's almost 4 in the morning), learning commands.
Last but not least, accessibility issue: I'm using an app called WebSSH pro, downloaded on app store. Set it up, and VoiceOver for iOS does not read the keys I press on keyboard so I'm very slow to type commands there. Pc is better. In a few hours I'll try hostinger's terminal.
UPDATE: I have just found I set one DNS wrong, now I'll wait for it to propagate. Next update in some hours. I placed a useless number. Such as 72.162 (wrong) instead of 72.62 (right).
Like when you start developing on your own and everything crashes due to a missing semicolumn in a string of code.

#accessibility #yunohost #selfhost #blind

Der #Signal #Messenger ist schon ganz gut.

Aber wieso er in Bezug auf den #DigitalIndependenceDay immer wieder als empfehlenswerte #Alternative genannt wird erschließt sich mir nicht.

Da gibt es meines Wissens doch Andere mit wesentlich weniger digitalen Abhängigkeiten.

“The dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted and with this enormous promise, the Libyan people now have a great responsibility to build an inclusive and tolerant and democratic Libya that stands as the ultimate rebuke to Gaddafi's dictatorship. (…) . You have won your revolution and now we will be a partner as you forge a future that provides dignity, freedom and opportunity."

—- Barrack Obama

I hear this is going great.

#Libya #Venezuela

bbc.com/news/world-africa-1539…

Muammar Gaddafi death: World reaction

Reaction from world leaders to reports that Libya's Col Muammar Gaddafi has been killed.

^{BBC News}

RE: mastodon.skorpil.cz/@stepan/11…

The OP in this quoted thread is the essence of what I hate the most about the otherwise great fediverse. Thanks a lot Štěpán for setting the record straight, although it had no effect on the OP (no surprise there). Fuck communism!

Štěpán Škorpil

2026-01-03 11:36:10

Nobody's talking about this because it's not quite true. Nobody criminalises criticising the elites.
It criminalises those who "founds, supports, or promotes a Nazi, communist, or other movement which demonstrably aims to suppress human rights and freedoms, or incites racial, ethnic, national, religious or class hatred, or hatred against another group of persons". No metions about critisizing. Class hatred is not criticising.

In Czechia we had a communist regime in years 1948-1989. The communist party made nearly the same evil as nazis did. For example:
Just because of different political opinions they executed 248 people, imprisoned 205 000 people (8 000 died there), sent 20 000 people to work camps, and forced 22 000 people to work in technical auxiliary battalions.
Another 450 people trying to escape from the country was killed by our own border patrol.
This communist party used their power to completely forbid other parties, to suppress religion, to control TV, radio newspapers. They controlled who can or cannot study, publish books, or even sing based on people's political views...

The party who did all this is still operating here, proudly carrying the legacy of all this, honoring all the symbols, adoring soviet mass killers. That's the KSČM party who is now complaining about the new law, trying to shift the narrarative to "criticising the elites".

I think #XMPP has a relatively clear and achievable path to drastically reduce the amount of metadata, but I’m increasingly worried that it is not going to move the needle in terms of adoption.

For 99.99% of people, the only relevant feature for an instant messenger is simply 'Are my friends using it?' The other 0.01% are equally divided between people who already use XMPP and don’t mind the metadata, and people who won’t use it anyway.

#Jabber #Conversations_im

vainas que la gente no entiende: defender a mi país de la agresión extranjera no significa ser leal a un gobierno local, simplemente significa defender la posibilidad de construir la vida colectiva en nuestro propios términos y no en aquellos que nos quieren imponer

#Venezuela