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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Forgejo is foss fork. Gitea, while being free and open source as well for the time being, is run by a for-profit corporation now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"Forge-yo" difficult to say?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Varoufakis is just one of many people who have come up with fancy new terms for capitalism and imperialism. It's not to say that he doesn't have an important perspective on some things, but coming up with new terms for things defined over a century ago only serves to distract.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

The trend to shutting out China from the west started with Obama's "Pivot to Asia." At this point the only point of contention between US ruling elites is whether China or Russia is the primary threat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Because universal surveillance is more profitable than consumer privacy, and surveilling consumers aligns really well with the interests of the billionaires that control telecommunications.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's a call for freedom from oppression and genocide, specifically in the Palestinian context. "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." Germany has decreed it hate speech.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Copyright expires long after unprofitable content has been all but lost forever, something like 100 years after the death of the original creator. It used to be a far shorter period, but US corporations with big profitable IP holdings keep bribing lawmakers to extend it, and force its enforcement outside of the US as well. The concept of being able to sell copyrights is also quite silly if you ask me.

So unfortunate Gutenberg and similar libraries can only have really old stuff as things stand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Corporations will never offer such archives, as they're a money losing proposition. In some cases IP and copyright law is even such that content can't be realistically archived and provided.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

In general white cishet westerners don't know any social dynamic beyond the "in" group oppressing the "out" group (colonialism, settler-colonialism, slavery, capitalism, imperialism), so without targeted education, their imagination of different social structures can only be a projection of this assumed default state.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hetzner may have the thing for you. IIRC their VPS options don't have that much storage, but their storage plans are super cheap and easily connect to the VPS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

A bullet is cheaper than food, healthcare, and education.

Austerity submachine gun go brr.

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