Stalin: Earlier, the bourgeoisie, as the heads of nations, were for the rights and independence of nations and put that "above all." Now there is no trace left of this "national principle." Now the bourgeoisie sell the rights and independence of their nations for dollars. The banner of national independence and national sovereignty has been thrown overboard. Without doubt, you, the representatives of the communist and democratic parties must raise this banner and carry it forward if you want to be patriots of your countries, if you want to be the leading powers of the nations. There is nobody else to raise it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8488
Lenin: During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the "consolation" of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now "Marxists" (don't laugh!). https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8489
Denis Nowell Pritt: What are the Communists? Our capitalist Press and propaganda has for so many years built up a "Communist bogey" that for most non-political people a Communist is a mythical monstrosity. He is either just a man who is born lazy, or an agitator paid by foreign gold, who is remarkably successful in persuading honest and intelligent workers to strike for no reason; he is in any case anti-social and unpatriotic. The real truth is very different; the Communists in every country have numbered in their ranks some of the most highly skilled and conscientious workers, scientists, teachers, and writers; they are on the whole well informed and read The Times and the Financial News assiduously! They spend a good part of their leisure in mastering the intricacies of Marxist philosophy, in studying and seeking to improve social conditions, and in Trade Union and political activities. They include people of wide general culture and lively intellect. And above all, they are international in their outlook, sympathy, and philosophy. All the gangsters and fools who were welcomed into the Nazi party are assiduously excluded from the Communist ranks. Their professional politicians live on limited salaries and must maintain a high standard of personal conduct; (this rule is particularly strict in the Soviet Union). For a practical example of the difference between a Communist and a Nazi, one may recall the superb contrast of Dimitrov and Goering during the course of the Reichstag Fire Trial in 1933. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote8490
After one of the owners died, work has been struggling with not having admin access to some of our systems, namely Google Workspace.
We finally got that access... so now I've sent the email to my boss about my name change. I verified with my boss a month or two ago that he's not going to fire me for being trans (it's actually a cute story...), that way I could safely start the legal name change process... but I've been holding off on otherwise being "out" at work because of this account thing...
So finally sent an email to my boss about the new name... it's the last place where I wasn't out!
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I made something to scratch an itch that's been bugging me for years... will save me a lot of time and trouble on some of my work (and possibly personal) projects...
In other words, I made something: https://pypi.org/project/pyasdb/
(For anyone wondering my current use case, I have a tool I wrote for work that's sitting on top of peewee and sqlite and it's been a massive pain to expand it out... this isn't something super special, but for the 20k-40k or so entries this should do just fine searching/querying/etc, even before adding indexing... and it'll make rebuilding my toolkit faster as well as easier to maintain since there's no firm structure to the resulting database)
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Want to learn real quick that "leftist" does not automatically mean "good person" or "free from bigotry"?
Call them out on body shaming or misgendering monsters.
It's also a painful reminder that so much "acceptance" is just performative.
If you think I'm valid for being fat, but then insult a monster for being fat, it tells me that you never actually saw me as valid.
If you think my gender transition is valid, but then purposefully misgender an awful trans person, it tells me that you never saw my transition as valid.
Because if these things are true and valid, then being an awful person wouldn't matter!
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So the temporary system had some sort of failure, I'm not even 100% sure what caused it to be honest. It went down sometime yesterday and some of the virtual drives got corrupted, which caught the database and the virtual gateway device.
I was able to restore the system... most of the way. Thankfully there are backups of the database, but some of them were also flawed as well, the most recent intact one was from 5/16, so 5 days were lost.
To be clear, this problem was exacerbated by the fact that there's not as much redundancy in the temporary setup (sadly it looks like it'll be a few more months before I have a place of my own and can spin up my own hardware again). But I'm going to still look at how I might get those in better shape.
As far as how long it took: I had a busy day yesterday and didn't see that the server was down until I was too exhausted to do anything about it, so it had to wait until I got off work today... each attempt at restoring the database takes around an hour, so that took *a while* to get restored.
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Test from Friendica to:
Mastodon
Friendica
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Lemmy
Kbin
Pixelfed
Gotosocial
Iceshrimp
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Peertube
🚀 Dive into the Ultimate Racing Experience with Assetto Corsa: Ultimate Edition - A Review 🚀
https://pixel--playground.blogspot.com/2024/03/dive-into-ultimate-racing-experience.html
🚀 Dive into the Ultimate Racing Experience with Assetto Corsa: Ultimate Edition - A Review 🚀
🚀 Dive into the Ultimate Racing Experience with Assetto Corsa: Ultimate Edition - A Review 🚀 Hey there, fellow racing game enthusiasts! ...PixelPlayground (Blogger)
🔥👍 Helldivers 2: A Thrilling and Challenging Gaming Experience 🔥👍
https://pixel--playground.blogspot.com/2024/03/helldivers-2-thrilling-and-challenging.html
🔥👍 Helldivers 2: A Thrilling and Challenging Gaming Experience 🔥👍
🔥👍 Helldivers 2 : A Thrilling and Challenging Gaming Experience 🔥👍 Hey there, fellow gamers! 👋 I just finished playing Helldivers 2 , ...PixelPlayground (Blogger)
A Thrilling Adventure in a Breathtaking World - My Review of Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition 🌄🐲🔥👏
https://pixel--playground.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-thrilling-adventure-in-breathtaking.html
A Thrilling Adventure in a Breathtaking World - My Review of Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition 🌄🐲🔥👏
A Thrilling Adventure in a Breathtaking World - My Review of Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition 🌄🐲🔥👏 Hey there, fellow gamers! 👋...PixelPlayground (Blogger)
Kosmetyki trychologiczne w Głogowie
Image Upload Trouble
If y'all have had issues uploading images... sorry about that.
I missed a setting when re-configuring the server after transfer to it's current environment and it's fixed now.
Longer Explanation: there are two servers involved, a reverse proxy and then the actual Friendica server. The Friendica server accepted uploads up to 100MB... the proxy didn't have that setting... so it would just go for a bit, then timeout. Added that setting to the proxy and all solved.
Introduction
New here, i'm a nerd and in freetime programmer! Italian, living in Ireland
I like to do a lot of stuff, and i'm interested in: #programming #osdev #music #art #bookbinding #sewing etc.
I like crafting things basically. And writing OS (and about Osdev in general).
Also have an interest into arts, and so far i made a small bunch of paintings (i'm a newbie so don't expect high level art), i will maybe post the photos here in the future.
So far that's all, my nick in the fediverse, and outside is most of the time dreamos82.
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silly little thing
!!!!!!! I am a she/her cis female
UHHH I am good at talking, and yea we can do art trades if wanted!! imma pretty talkative person (mentioned two times but I promise I will chat and keep company)
but yeayea thanks
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Ranting about capitalism
Another reason to hate capitalism. It's considered smart for someone to buy cheap products then resell them for a higher price. They don't add anything extra, literally just reselling the same thing because they can, and it makes a profit. Personally I hate this kind of behavior, but It's a major part of capitalism. So many companies do this and it's frustrating as a consumer. This particular person got caught and is being prosecuted because they lied about the quality of their products and sold them to the military and police. They claimed it was made in the US and passed all safety standards, when in fact it was just cheap gear from China that doesn't comply with any safety regulations. So of course they get in trouble, but the thousands of other companies that do the exact same shit get away with it because they aren't selling safety gear to important people.
Uncertified ballistic gear sold to more than 100 police, fire, military agencies across U.S.
A combat Marine who owned the Vancouver company that sold the gear is now headed to federal prison.Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive (oregonlive)
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Server Migration Complete
Thank you for your patience!
The server has been migrated to a new dedicated remote server (hosted with OVH) and to the newest version of Friendica (2024.03, previously it was 2023.12).
Things should stabilize mostly for the time being, but I will be on the lookout for bugs.
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@Rainbow Jax Welcome to the server!
Pardon the dust, I'm currently going through a move so shutting down spare servers and migrating the server to a temporary remote server until I can get settled again. In a few days things should pick back up as the transition is complete. So please keep that in mind when getting an impression of Friendica and of my server ❤ (I'm also going to upgrade to the latest version of Friendica that just came out as part of it)
And yeah, definitely different niches to different platforms. Mastodon and Friendica have a fair amount of overlap since they mostly focus on the same content, just one has a word limit and more UI designers.
Pixelfed I haven't actually looked at, but if I understand it correctly it's a very different user experience, so it's a good compliment to either Mastodon or Friendica.
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Wishmasta - Girl on the Beach
Wishmasta - Girl on the Beach - Flame2Fame Music
Imagine walking along the beach at night and then you see a girl lying on the shore, looking at the leisurely splashing of the waves, with a dreamy look.Wishmasta (Flame2Fame Music)
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