TIL about the Soviet ternary computer, Setun, after going into a rabbit hole of nanomagnetic and ternary computing.
I do not look forward to the precedent this sets as censorship and surveillance will start ramping up. This will likely lead to bans of free and open source tools, encryption, etc., especially if they originate from "enemy" countries or are used to protest against Israel and other Western imperialist projects, in the future.
Hopefully I can start some data hoarding soon.
US used RISC-V BAN!
US became confused!
It hurt itself in its confusion!
It's super effective!
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/3730331
This is my comment made a bit earlier to encourage tech literate comrades to join their local org as they can help improve their IT infrastructure and opsec.
https://twitter.com/hornetnezt/status/1762437507675779517
I do agree with this person. I think this would have been handled better privately even though this info is helpful. In the pre-branch I am in, we do take opsec seriously and want to find alternatives to improve our security. I'm sure other local branches would be open to change if more IT comrades joined and made their voice heard.
I believe PSL worked with tools that were most convenient and accessible to them at the time. Plus, while I hate big tech tools and prefer self-hosted solutions, the security of Google, Microsoft, and other mainstream products is nothing to scoff at (ignoring backdoors built in for the feds), though your privacy goes down the drain. PHP originally self-hosted their git repository and had to migrate to their mirror on GitHub after they were compromised.
Time is of the essence to build class consciousness among the proletariat. We have been raising awareness of the genocide in Palestine, and I don't believe our organization is working in vain by running a campaign and accruing members and resources. Our current campaign isn't simply to win office. Of course there's extremely little chance we will win. The campaign is an invitation for workers to join a communist organization to fight for a better world, and the presidential election is definitely not a time to be quiet as more people are paying attention to politics now. Revolution is not going to happen overnight, and we are still in early stages of emerging in the US.
Propaganda is helluva drug. I believe there's so many layers of brainwash to clean off before most people see the cracks behind CIA lies of China. Though I think people can skip this process of unlearning if they visited China, watch videos of people having a good time in China (and what an absolutely beautiful, majestic country it is, looking like something from a science fiction/fantasy with so many wholesome and wonderful people), or read a non-Western book about China. When I began reading Socialist Reconstruction, my wife was skeptical of how China was being portrayed very positively, but I was slightly more willing to accept the book as being truthful and not "overly-biased" (not that I care about bias, as long as the message is honest). Only recently after, my wife and I began freeing our Western conditioned minds.
I believe people like Fellow Traveler and such should know better by now. Maybe they are being used as controlled opposition, idk.
Most evil Gazan
I would argue both parties are the same as the left at this point (and always have been). Both bloodthirsty, corporate, ruling class parties committing horrific acts of austerity and genocide.
That's fair, I know China really tries to be careful.
I just need to move to China at this point. They're developing everything I dreamed of innovating. It was a major goal of mine to develop high performance RISC-V computers able to compete with Big Tech.
Just like a communist party, you have to be careful whom you let in. It's better to grow more slowly and organically with trustworthy people.
I tend to find smaller communities to share higher quality content and be more caring and helpful (excluding right-wing/hateful echo chambers). Lemmy before the Reddit exodus reminded me of the experience I had on small, indie game forums.
Before the Reddit exodus, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml were some of the most wholesome online spaces I experienced. It was like a breath of fresh air and I felt a good sense of community and friendliness here. Now many toxic people jumped to this side of the fediverse, especially on lemmy.ml. Lemmygrad.ml is now my main go-to instance as it is the best one that still has managed to retain its camaraderie, even though it took a slight hit.
Tbh, I love minimal websites. This could be my nostalgia speaking, though. Nevertheless, small websites means less bandwidth requirements for our comrades with slow internet.
Plus, text-focused websites tend to be higher quality and actually have meaningful content.
Way to win young votes, lol.