europe.pub is a nazi bar

it’s breadtube, but Andrewism is still the first online source i’ve found to define ‘authority’ the way i and meatspace comrades have used it:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrewism-how-anarchy-works#toc2 (~5 minutes to read)

he references Bakunin, with some generative critique.

i see. so we must escalate the security dilemma and bolster the capitalist military to defeat the Oriental Hordes to protect our managers’ very peaceloving and democratic ways of life. only once the capitalists have installed someone nicer to manage the Orient can we hope to return to begging the capitalists to relinquish their weapons and their power, of which they now have more of, and which many more people have been integrated into. in the meantime, leftists need to put their shit on hold. none of this will contribute to the rise of the far right or stoke xenophobic tendencies. i’m not a nationalist; joining the military is simply the forward-thinking thing to do. military service very famously attracts good people with good intentions. this is definitely not a right-wing position based in false consciousness and a Tom Clancy-esque view of geopolitics. this posturing has no relation to how we ended up in this situation. the fact that all of this benefits international capital is merely a coïncidence. mutually assured destruction means nothing to me.

with business going so well for the MIC, Gaza beach resorts should be open just in time for the postwar economy to swing back around! we could all use a little time in the sun after making everything worse.

/s

Use the tools that you have right now, and figure out something better once you have the breathing room to do so.

the military is not my/our tools. it’s the state’s tools.

our tools are being torn at to make way for a war economy, for a war that isn’t ours.

and if you tell me you’re not advocating for joining the military, then who does?

If it’s to provide opposition to Russian aggression, that is something that should be done. I am fully behind opposing fascism and imperialism.

‘social’ patriotism is still fascism. the proletariat have nothing to gain in a war waged under capitalism. you can oppose the war without supporting the military-industrial complex. revolutionary defeatism remains as relevant today as it was a hundred years ago.

just as then, this clash of civilisations narrative is creating a left-to-right pipeline and disappearing comrades into militaries or (if they refuse) prisons. anticapitalism is being sidelined for ‘national unity’ and ‘social cohesion’. money that previously didn’t exist is now allocated to US-bound tributes and funding for corporations which are in the business of fucking killing people, to support the nationalist programme of a Banderite State as these two capitalist countries grind each other’s lower classes against each other. surveillance becomes a ‘necessity’ to defeat the Evil Nonwhite (read: Nonhuman) Hordes. the Bad Refugees need to be expelled to make space for the Good Refugees. housing and funding for refugees and integration programmes suddenly materialises, and these Good Refugees get expedited (and sometimes exclusive) access to such help. literal nazi ideology and dogwhistles are rehabilitated to make all this more palatable.

where is the antiïmperialism in this? where’s the antifascism? i am convinced militarist-patriotic ‘left’-ists don’t personally know any comrades from Ukraine.

• https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/evasions-on-the-left-over-ukraine
• https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aotearoa-workers-solidarity-movement-the-betrayal-of-donbas-no-war-but-class-war
• https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-anarchist-antimilitarism-and-myths-about-the-war-in-ukraine

Just when will my human rights, which are grounded in the constitution

the US constitution is an ideological rag and a liberal holy text written by and for wealthy protocapitalists seeking independence from mercantilism. it wasn’t written for you, just as it wasn’t written for women or BIPOC. the police and courts serve the state, not persons.

I start with the assumption that the company wants to fire him so badly that they are ready to pay “over $21,000” (have you read the article?) to do that.

you mean this line?:

A Florida nurse named Kerry Campbell launched a GoFundMe campaign to cover James’s legal fees and basic needs. It’s raised over $21,000 so far […]

besides the misquote: corporations are quite infamous for the lengths they’re willing to go to to avoid social responsibility. in this case, they quite literally outsourced ‘this hassle’ to the police.

I’m not American, your insults don’t work on me.

neither am i, and from this comment i get the impression you’re a European chauvinist.

it’s not an ‘insult’; you need to look in a mirror.

you start from the assumption that the company had a legitimate reason to want to fire him from day one because of his disability.

the problem might be not an “apple per day” the kid was eating, but the “special needs” kid himself.

why is special needs in scarequotes?

They might be forced (by some company policy or something) to hire him

are people with disabilities not allowed an income? if we’re going to force people to work, then companies should be forced to hire. people gotta eat.

from your other comment:

They just waited for the sum to be big enough for the police to act.

claiming a person who took a nibble/day from the deli over the course of 3 months ‘stole $110 of food’ is some mental gymnastics. a corporation sicced violent goons on him and gave him a criminal record for what is probably pocket change from the perspective of their accounts after management deliberately avoided interventions in an effort to get him fired.

is there a point you’re trying to make? because your aloud-pondering comes off as ableist and almost ageist.

a digital wallet with ZKP could resolve ‘are you old enough?’ without the query ever needing to leave your device.

without a digital wallet, it could be done with fully homomorphic encryption.

both of these would be innovations which i feel require guided development. innovation counter to the goal of the legislation, which is surveillance. innovation driven by the self-proclaimed purpose of ‘protecting children’; innovation driven by the impetus to make it harder for people to masturbate.

since the general attitude right now has been ‘require agegates and just leave it up to The Market™’, then the solution in practise will probably be a private third party that brokers this information, probably with a natural monopoly, that will charge exorbitantly for their API, have Google Analytics running on every page, leaks like a sieve, leaves logs everywhere, and will probably get caught selling data, which will incur a one-time fee equal to 80% the size of the company’s rainy day fund, and maybe the CEO will be asked to step down, shielding the rest of the C-suite from consequences (and allowing them to just do it again). they’ll work closely with law enforcement, they’ll be breached in the first year, and probably have a huge leak 4 years later.

in that time, due to real changes in the law or jurisprudence, or companies just ‘playing it safe’, age verification will come to encompass queer identity, sexual education and health, war coverage, counterculture and even history. more online regulation just means more barriers to entry which means a larger monopoly for multinational corporations.

i think there are better uses for this technology than controlling pornography.

the provider knows who’s asking because of the IP address and API key of the requester. if it uses a form with a redirect, they even know your IP and what page you were on, tied to your legal identity. if the provider makes any API requests to a government registry, now that knows the when, the how, and (categorically) the what. short of a statement of ‘no logs’ and an audit to confirm as such, there is definitely logs. hackers love this information. data brokers love this information.

the problem is not the service knowing. it’s anyone knowing. the provider deänonymised you the moment you gave your id. the precise implementation details are important here.

the problem is that people are being verifiably linked to their ‘adult’ preferences. this is data that is being generated, in bad faith, and handled by multiple parties. your legal identity should not need to be tied to this information. this information can be used against you both now and in the future.

we’ve already seen in the US where there is a push for information about gender and basic sexual education being labelled as ‘adult’. when i was in school, information about countries like Cuba, Afghanistan or China was considered ‘too mature’ (or marked as ‘terrorism-related’ by the school firewall) for children; i could see this thus extending to require age verification before you can access ‘subversive’ information, on the basis of ‘protecting children’ from ‘political extremism’.

But at the same time, you still post to !gunners@lemmy.world

Dbzer0 was selected as the main non-ml community 7 months ago in this thread: https://lazysoci.al/post/21253059

‘some people made a collective decision (that didn’t involve you) that everyone should move to my preferred forum, and here you are!’

seems adversarial to [dbzer0] values

this is an anarchist/GLOSS/pirate instance; freedom of information is tied closely with anarchism and the hacker ethic.

for me: it’s less about whether this type of information should exist (it shouldn’t) and more that i reject privileged information conceptually. i don’t think this type of information should just be available to admins and people with the technical resources and expertise.

i would prefer (in my uneducated opinion) that this information only be visible to the user (on their own posts), community moderators (in their own communities) and admins (on the voter’s home instance), and anonymised elsewhere (for example, only showing a source instance).

but since that is not how it works, then i would rather have access to the same level of information that anyone else has over me. i also feel more in control of my own data when i have access to my own voting history. thus, i think that’s why there’s a sentiment that there is a different approach to this problem, and it won’t end with just blocking one tool.

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you can use a combination of ‘Always Open Site in Container’ ‘Limit to Designated Sites’ and temporary containers for that.

i was very lucky that my introduction to software engineering came from a mentor who cared intensely about their work. but i dropped out of the IT industry after i never met someone like that again.

i never even went to secondary, but across several jobs i was having to teach my colleagues (compsci degrees) basic computer literacy skills. the moment they had to leave their IDE, they were lost. they had not even a basic understanding of version control systems. zero curiosity. they frequently broke their git repos and couldn’t fix it. they didn’t give a single fuck about the theory of what they were doing for 72 hours a week; what they were voluntarily choosing to do for 72 hours a week on 30 hour contracts. they hardly even cared about the practise.

LLMs completely ruined these people. they started using it for everything: responding to Slack messages, writing emails, writing code, doing code review… and when it was found out at my last company that i was the only one stubbornly refusing to use LLMs for anything, i was put on a fucking PIP and told it was company policy to use ‘labour saving technology.’ despite the fact that my code had the fewest defects, ignoring how frequently i was misled into doing something i wasn’t even supposed to do because the fucking task requirements were ALSO WRITTEN WITH AN LLM [THAT MADE SHIT UP]. but it was my fault for ‘not checking first’ (???).

i will never touch a computer for money ever fucking again.

aside: reading this while listening to clipping. was an experience

i’m not a fan of the privacy report…

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.bashsoftware.boycott/latest/

i mean there’s basic input validation yeah, but the number of unique valid signatures isn’t known for all countries till after the collection period.

i didn’t have a strong opinion on the matter. just sharing my thoughts re: promoter463’s suggestion.

do we take the ideological route of dismissing him for reformist that he is

no, probably not. i think he’s already doing good work; he’s becoming walking agitprop. he ruptured the liberal obsession with (manufactured) polling data. he’s now even an official enemy of the state, so he’s got that going for him.

i don’t know what it means exactly to ‘endorse’ him (letalone in the context of this comm). share memes and articles about him? raise awareness? sure, why not? let’s watch what he does.

signatures aren’t immediately validated; the identification you provide is just ticking boxes. verification happens after the signing period, when the signatures are sent to their respective states to confirm and tally.