Imnecomrade - pronounced “I am any comrade”

Techie, hippie, commie nerd

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Yeah, I remember his criticism of Linus Torvalds approving the proposal to switch from whitelist/blacklist to greenlist/redlist for the purpose of removing and substituting words with historical racist context (though the words I mentioned specifically have suggestively racist connotation). He’s a reactionary cryptotechbro, but I didn’t realize this was possible on the Steam Deck and figured I might as well share for educational purposes. I’m going to try this when I get home.
















  • On certain communities and on Hexbear, which I frequently repost to and from, it’s generally suggested and sometimes expected to post links using privacy/archival frontends, especially if the source is reactionary. I try to follow those rules. And while the bot is useful, I find it a bit annoying to see I received a comment and it ends up being the bot, boo. Plus lemmy now seems to show video content from YouTube if it uses an invidious link.

    I know sometimes the video links do not work, but I prefer giving invidious links anyway as it’s easy to forget to finagle the link before just immediately clicking on it and accidentally opening a site like YouTube. I like to give users a buffer before deciding how to approach the link if it doesn’t work. Invidious has a link available to watch directly on YouTube, so I figured people can still ultimately watch the video if nothing else works.




  • it’s not a Socialism thing

    Yeah it’s more of a strong governance model thing where strong communication and cooperation is maintained between workers. A socialist society or the company being nationalized isn’t required but essentially upholds the business model that doesn’t strive for short-term profits but instead orients toward sustainable and realistic growth and resists against the enshittification of the organization.

    Skill issue. 🤭

    Amerikkka does suck at building an educated population with a high standard of living that produces motivated and competent people able to create non-mediocre tech. We’ve been a decaying society undergoing third/fourth worldization via deindustrialization, privatization, deregulation, and rollback of workers’ rights for decades now. No wonder companies are ran by executives that don’t have the discipline to work towards anything beyond short-term profits, and instead we have companies like Google that buy companies and then kill their products on a quarterly basis, while developing and rushing deployment of tools like Gemini AI for the purpose of chasing the next tech bubble and turn the company into a laughing stock, and then they layoff thousands of their workers because of the executives’ nearsightedness, incompetence, greed, and ignorance that setup the workers to fail from the start, which is done to make up for the losses and meet their quarterly quotas artificially. It’s as if late stage capitalism/imperialism is facing crises that it doesn’t have an answer to solve besides pillaging other countries and stopping socialist nations from competing with it (this isn’t meant to be demeaning towards you).



  • The original post is this

    https://www.xiaohongshu.com/discovery/item/6789b4f3000000001c00c30e?ignoreEngage=true&xsec_source=app_share&type=video&xsec_token=CBllI-uCpLknDxw1_NrM26DTwH-CcWzBGlSXy2AJCeZhw%3D&author_share=1&shareRedId=OD0yNDU8OE42NzUyOTgwNjdHOTo1SjlL&share_id=37377f489fe94acab882f258c2753b95
    

    You can download the video with yt-dlp if you are comfortable with using the terminal.

    yt-dlp requires the link to be written in this format

    https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/6789b4f3000000001c00c30e?xsec_token=CBllI-uCpLknDxw1_NrM26DTwH-CcWzBGlSXy2AJCeZhw&xsec_source=app_share
    

    Finally, you can install it with yt-dlp as so

    yt-dlp https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/6789b4f3000000001c00c30e?xsec_token=CBllI-uCpLknDxw1_NrM26DTwH-CcWzBGlSXy2AJCeZhw&xsec_source=app_share
    

    Anytime I post a Xiaohongshu video, I make sure to transform the url to this format so people can easily copy and download it with yt-dlp.

    yt-dlp comes with various parameters that you can use to your needs, and it works with various websites with video/audio content.




  • Sort of, I was referring to conservative proletariats more broadly, including others that don’t fit that description. I know rural and suburban white working class Americans tend to have other racist beliefs, often coming from fear, and benefit from racial discrimination/hyper-exploitation, though there tend to be some that are more open-minded and “esoteric” (not sure what word I am looking for) in which they have more potential to be slightly more easily re-educated and willing to work in solidarity of all peoples instead of just their own white neighbors. I tend to hear from leftists from older generations that there was a time they tried to unionize and would have succeeded if the ruling elite didn’t divide the masses by blaming immigrants as the problem. I’m curious what it would take to push such people away from white supremacy, patriarchy, imperialism, and nationalism, and how many have the historic material condition where they have benefited from hyper-exploitation of various minorities and natives as you said. I never had luck pushing any of them to the left, though, but seeing some of these people have an epiphany on Xiaohongshu gives me hope.



  • You may need Google Play Services. On LineageOS, you need to install the MindTheGapps package after installing the OS and before you boot into the phone for the first time: https://wiki.lineageos.org/gapps/

    If you are waiting on the SMS but can launch XHS, I suspected my custom ROM and rooted phone were causing issues with XHS (and you will get banned if you try making a WeChat account on such a device), too, but I managed to get an SMS the next day but still had to wait for the SMS limit to pass (and it was of course expired by then). That evening, I entered my phone number again, immediately got an SMS, entered the code, and it worked. I do have the Shamiko module installed with Magisk, so maybe that made a difference.