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Edit: I think I need to clarify further that this is a one off thing. I've never had AI build anything for me. This is just one time that I wanted to test it out, and the test came out with a good app that I thought I could share to maybe benefit some. Just to be clear, it's not thinking for me, I still learn on my own, and have AI ONLY explain concepts for me, not code, and it does very well. Asked for opinions, got downvotes. lol
Hi all, I do code on my own without AI, but in all honesty, I'm not that great (I'm a junior dev at my job, and don't have a lot of experience). I always use AI to explain things to me, not code for me. I made that my mission, so I don't let it think for me because I want to learn. It explains things very well and I've been learning a great deal.
Today, I decided to test it out. I asked it to build an app for me that works on KDE Plasma, my favorite DE.
I use some appimages for some apps. I tried appimagelauncher and gear lever and had some issues with them.
I want to integrate appimages into my system. So, I did a small workaround where I created a small script in ~/.local/bin that has one line after the shebang exec /<path to app image>/<appimage>. Then created a .desktop file that points to that script. I made one for Suyu and VIA and they both worked. I wanted to do it for more apps, but it got repetitive, so I gave AI some requirements and told it to add what's necessary if needed.
I've never programmed in Python, and it chose Python. lol. Ok, let's go with it. It made a pretty nice app. The app does 5 things: 1. Creates that little script I mentioned earlier 2. Creates the .desktop file for that app and makes it point to the correct things (script, icon, startupWMClass(this is so the app will still launch after pinning it to the panel)....etc) 3. Copies the appimage into a "appimages" folder in the home directory 4. Adds an icon of your choosing to the app 5. It makes everything executable
I had it package the app into an appimage (that's something I've never done before and it was pretty freaking cool to learn) and I'm planning on making an .rpm and a .deb packages of it, too.
The honest part. I feel a tiny bit of shame deep inside. But then I look at it and I see an app that could help some people. Who cares how I created it? I have always wanted to contribute something to the Linux world, and this feels like it.
What I'm asking for: your honest opinion. Should I feel that little shame? Should I put it up on GitHub? It would of course be GPL licensed. Maybe some folks want to make it better or contribute or fork it. I love open source and I feel like this could be useful to some.
(I’m a junior dev at my job, and don’t have a lot of experience).
You're robbing yourself of gaining legitimate experience.
I always use AI to explain things to me, not code for me.
Ok.
I made that my mission, so I don’t let it think for me because I want to learn.
Alright.
I asked it to build an app for me that works on KDE Plasma, my favorite DE.
Seems like the exact opposite of just having it explain concepts to you, and not letting it think for you, and not letting it write code for you.
I’ve never programmed in Python, and it chose Python. lol. Ok, let’s go with it.
Ok, so you aren't actually learning any python, and it is just generating python code for you, which you made no attempt to change such that it would just be explaining concepts to you preferably in a language you do know. Sounds a lot like you aren't doing a lot of the thinking in this process, or writing the code.
Creates that little script I mentioned earlier
Creates the .desktop file for that app and makes it point to the correct things (script, icon, startupWMClass(this is so the app will still launch after pinning it to the panel)…etc)
Copies the appimage into a “appimages” folder in the home directory
Adds an icon of your choosing to the app
It makes everything executable
Instead of asking AI to make this in a language you don't know, you'd probably be a lot better off learning some BASH and discovering that this is likely doable in a one-liner or function which you can associate to an alias.
I had it package the app into an appimage
So it is thinking for you, writing the code for you, and packaging it for you.
The honest part. I feel a tiny bit of shame deep inside
You should.
Who cares how I created it?
Programmers, artists, your boss, your future self when something breaks in prod and you realize that you have robbed yourself of so much experience by outsourcing any opportunity to obtain skill, knowledge, and wisdom that you have no idea what the fuck to do or why the problem is happening, and then someone sues you over it because it turns out in the mess of AI code which you haven't even looked at 60% of up until this point there are out of scope variables from a thread the AI found on 1337codeForum.fuck circa 2008 which lead to a disaster where some guy who actually knows how code works half way around the globe stack buffer overflowed the fuck out of you.
If you want honest opinions from people, then this is mine. That little shame you feel is probably larger than you think and it's because you aren't doing yourself any favors.
It was a one time test. I thought I have expanded on that specifically. English is my second language, so I could have explained it wrong, or not enough I guess. Appreciate the input regardless 😀
Edit: to add, those 5 steps I asked it to do are the work around I did myself without AI. I know bash. I just wanted it to make what I did in bash into an app. Hope this makes sense.
You learn so much more doing it yourself instead of having AI write code for you. When I first learned how to admin an Apache server I had 0 understanding how it worked, but with some effort I'm now confident enough to do a simple setup on my own. I did follow along with tutorials and examples configs, but I made sure I knew what each part did at least on a high level. The reason I'm confident in this is that I know how to read the docs and how to troubleshoot issues when they happen.
When you let AI do all the work you don't learn the inner workings of a system and are only hurting yourself. If you want to use AI use it for writing some boiler plate you've already written hundreds of times or taking simple functions and converting them to another language. I use AI for basic and repetitive tasks, which is something it's great at. I don't use it for making large design decisions since that will (not "if", but "will") bite me in the ass later on when something breaks. Examples of good uses of AI (in my opinion): generating a list of US states in JavaScript, take a function that converts a strijg to a date object and try to translate it to another language, use it as a tool to bounce some high level ideas off of when you're at a development block.
Holy shit! Has anyone actually read and digested the post? I even edited it to clarify. What else do I need to say to make it known that THIS WAS A ONE TIME TEST. I'VE NEVER HAD AI BUILD ANYTHING FOR ME, EVER. 😂
It was a one time test. One off. Never happened before and won't happen again. I just wanted to test it, and the test came out with a nice app and I thought maybe I should share it. I could've just not said anything and put it on GitHub and no one would've have known. I am not sure how to say it better and make it make more sense. Is my English really that bad that people aren't getting what I'm saying? lol
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Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
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Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
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Despite all this anti-boomer rhetoric, I don't see that many people talking about how social security and medicare are massive wealth transfers from the young to the old.
This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one will be shutting down in 90 days.
Unfortunately, the moderation features in Lemmy never progressed to the point required to continue maintaining this service, and Lemmy simply does not have the userbase to justify the cost of this service. Myself and the moderation team apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.
This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one will be shutting down in 90 days.
Unfortunately, the moderation features in Lemmy never progressed to the point required to continue maintaining this service, and Lemmy simply does not have the userbase to justify the cost of this service. Myself and the moderation team apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.
This is sad news. Hopefully the comms can migrate to other smaller instances.
This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one will be shutting down in 90 days.
Unfortunately, the moderation features in Lemmy never progressed to the point required to continue maintaining this service, and Lemmy simply does not have the userbase to justify the cost of this service. Myself and the moderation team apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.
That's kind of sad but also isn't surprising. They didn't exactly put in a huge amount of effort to maintain it, nor did they put in much effort to grow it or make it appealing as a server for people to join.
I'm a bit bummed as lemmy.one was my introduction to the ecosystem. 🙁
OTOH, when they were having server problems, I set up a kbin account, but left it when it became clear I could only use the kbin app to access it. Looks like that's shut down now too!
I'm excited for both Piefed and MBin. Both projects are progressing rapidly and have communities that seem to have their heads and hearts in the the right places
I'll add to the bias. I created both a kbin account and a Lemmy.one account when the migration happened. Preferred kbin's look and feel, then changed over to mbin when Ernest started having issues. Haven't looked back, mbin is great.
Lol, I think we might be closer than you think. Lemmy and reddit are both basically unusable in web form on mobile, but Ernest took the time to make the layout of kbin in such a way that it compresses down to a PWA/Mobile layout without becoming a complete clusterfuck, something the mbin maintainers have maintained support for and I think is one of the key distinguishing features of the platform. The way it works feels very similar to the old RIF layout, and as such was everything I wanted from a reddit replacement from day one 😀
Everyone thinks the moderation/admin features need to be improved. I'm curious which improvements people are really needing. Whenever I see big complaints about it (beehaw, lemmy.one) I never see any specifics. Link the filed Github issues for them otherwise the feature requests don't really exist, and I'd like to give them thumbs up reactions so they get prioritized more.
we have a game mode called "Zero Rando" (no randomization) that's basically vanilla with QoL improvements and bug fixes
the Randomizer had so many compatibility fixes, QoL improvements, and bug fixes over the original game, this ended up being really useful for new first time players
since you've played before we also have "Zero Rando Plus" which is the same thing, but also includes the balance changes we've made for Randomizer
and we also have "Rando Lite" and "Rando Medium" to get started with the randomization stuff before going up to Normal Randomizer or Full Randomizer
0:00 Vanilla Fixer: automatically applies compatibility fixes without changing the game at all.0:21 Zero Rando mode: features many quality of life improvemen...
our "Zero Rando" makes way less changes to the gameplay than GMDX or Revision, which are often recommended to first time players but they're actually totally different games from the original
our "Zero Rando Plus" would be more similar in the amount of changes to them
I think that was the patch I ended up using my first playthrough (I'm away from my computer at the moment or else I'd check), but I might want to use something else my second time.
Transcended seems good. I haven't played it, but it sounds like it still has changes from Revision left over in it (it was forked from Revision). Like cameras seeing bodies, pawns reacting to unconscious bodies, and dogs having the jump attack. But idk if those can be turned off. If they can be turned off then it's pretty similar to our "Zero Rando".
But we have more QoL features available that you can enable which aren't included by default in "Zero Rando". A big one being Password Autofill which isn't enabled by default in "Zero Rando" but it's huge for Steam Deck players.
We also allow selectively enabling balance changes. Like auto augs, or general aug balance changes, there's an option for skill changes, map changes. Here's some of the settings menus:
I wish I remembered if my first playthrough was vanilla or not. I feel like it was. I can't remember when it was exactly but it would have been when the game was already roughly 10 years old. Roughly maybe 2010-2012?
A built in auto mod is the largest thing. A way to say that this common pattern is spam and to block it system wide, right now we just don't have that. A nice to have stretch goal would be to use some model to fight actual gore or csam material, which just doesn't exist. A moderation dashboard would be great to see users with their comment history, vote trends, high level to see if a person just had an off comment that might be taken the wrong way, or if there is a trend of trolling behavior
These have been opened on the GitHub and either sit open forever or are just closed.
does Reddit have any of these tools built-in? they sound cool, but they can also be built externally (I believe an automod exists?), and I would say correctly take a back seat to bug fixes
Why compare us to reddit? We feel like Reddit but from a hosting and admin perspective it's a whole different ballgame. Mods of reddit at worst run the risk of their communities being taken down for a bit if they let content slip through. Here on Lemmy us admins are legally liable for content that is posted. We don't have a large limited liability corporation that will take the hit for us. We need these tools, or we are the ones that will have boots through doors.
I think it's better as separate software. It means it can be developed more efficiently. And this seems to have a lot of features, so it seems it is efficient to develop this way.
to be fair, they're both correct. Lemmy.world could go solo with no federation and still have a decent user base, maybe add db0 and ani.social and it would cover nearly all of the bases.
Nah the points are laughably easy to game even in centralized reddit since this moderation aspect never made any sense. As if bad actors can't upvote themselves, buy upvotes or just repost any random garbage to /r/funny.
Its a terrible system that turned Reddit into a content desert. Once you decline some new person because "they dint have enough karma" they're never trying to contribute again and you end up with power users who have a moat around content production.
Shared moderation lists already do all of this in an actually functional way. You can subscribe to Bob's list of douchebags and have the client block them. This is something bluesky added quite recently but it already exists on fediverse to instance admins tho afaik not individual users yet.
you cannot transfer is your imaginary internet points
Ironically enough, even though "imaginary" this aspect might be key to moderation. Assuming (and that's a flawed assumption) that people would upvote/downvote based not on their opinion but rather on how healthy/unhealthy to the discussion a comment is, then those "points" would be useful to see above/below a threshold one would want to interact, e.g. show content or not (or even now show even as to unfold).
You can transfer all your subscriptions and blocks. What you cannot transfer is your imaginary internet points that aren't summed up by default in lemmy anyways.
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Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
@pluralistic already showed how those layoffs meant to scare the rest into quietly accepting the enshittification of their jobs.
In the long run, these companies will hurt themselves, but at the expense of those who lost their jobs and those who will be forced to pick up the workload they left behind.
This seems topical (via @lexLohr): @pluralistic argues that the top-level management of big tech companies was never on the side of their employees: “The point of AI isn't to make workers more productive, it's to make them weaker when they bargain with their bosses.” pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/som…
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On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh, kicking off his visit to the Middle East amid calls for Washington to play a role
An exasperated Dr Chris Shoemaker breaks down why the Nakahara study should have been the final nail in the coffin. The study surprisingly showed nearly all of the vaccinated hearts working 46% harder for at least 6 months after the shot. ‘As a cardiologist you would be apoplectic if a heart was working 15% harder’. So it’s no surprise the recent Ladapo study yields a conservative 470000 deaths in the US from this bioweapon.
Read this story in English here. Cuando se prueba un avión de última generación de la NASA, se necesitan herramientas especializadas para realizar pruebas y capturar datos, pero si esas herramientas necesitan mantenimiento, hay que esperar hasta que se reparen. A menos que tengas un respaldo. Por eso, recientemente la NASA ha calibró una nueva […]
Colonel Douglas Macgregor.. To me, this is the only man that actually says what and why, regarding things going on in the world (Military Speaking) minds.com/newsfeed/17691416354…
#Enthoven estime qu’il n’y a pas de #génocide à #Gaza. “invente un #genocide imaginaire” L’ambassade de #France en #Israël est à l’initiative d’un “débat” du 21 avril, dans lequel on nie l’existence d’un génocide à Gaza, et qui a servi de tribune, pour accuser #LFI d’être un mouvement antisémite “Nous sommes imparfaitement protégés contre l’ #antisémitisme, contre la bête immonde. Quand on invente un génocide imaginaire de palestiniens, mais qu’on refuse de parler de #terrorisme à propos d’un pogrom. Il n’y a pas et il n’y a jamais eu de génocide à Gaza, comme le raconte tant de gens. Tsahal a peut-être commis des crimes de guerre, auquel cas il seront documentés.”
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Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei described the widespread and unprecedented violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories as a blatant breach of fundamental principles of international law.
LE PARLEMENT ISRAÉLIEN REFUSE UNE COMMISSION D'ENQUÊTE SUR LE 7 OCTOBRE
Que cherchent-ils à cacher ? Éléments de réponse -
«Honte à vous !» C'est le cri qui s'est élevé à la #Knesset, le parlement israélien ce mercredi 22 janvier. C'est le cri de familles de victimes israéliennes, tuées le 7 octobre, et qui réclament la vérité sur cette attaque depuis quinze mois. Les députés israéliens ont mis fin à leurs espoirs. Ils ont voté contre la création d'une commission d'enquête d'État sur les événements du #7octobre #2023.
Ceux qui ont empêché l'enquête sont les membres de la coalition gouvernementale d'extrême droite, celle de #Netanyahou. Ces élus ont ainsi bloqué toute possibilité de créer une commission par voie parlementaire pour les six prochains mois. Les représentants du Conseil d'Octobre, un collectif de familles d'israéliens défunts, ont laissé exploser leur colère.
La députée israélienne qui avait réclamé la commission d'enquête estime que le gouvernement cherche à «fuir ses responsabilités», et son groupe a estimé que «le peuple d'Israël ne pardonnera pas aux membres de la coalition d'avoir empêché une commission d'enquête d'État sur le plus grand désastre de l'histoire du pays».
Mais que cherchent à cacher Netanyahou et ses complices ? Pourquoi les dirigeants fascistes d'Israël refusent-ils une enquête sur un drame qu'ils ont pourtant massivement instrumentalisé pour déclencher un #génocide à #Gaza ? Quelques éléments de réponse.
🔴 Le soutien de l'extrême droite israélienne au #Hamas
Avant même le 7 octobre, Netanyahou et ses amis étaient les alliés objectifs du Hamas. «Quiconque veut contrecarrer la création d’un État palestinien doit soutenir le renforcement du Hamas et transférer de l’argent au Hamas. Cela fait partie de notre stratégie». Ce sont les propos qui étaient tenus par le Premier Ministre israélien.
Le Times of Israël explique dans un article que «pendant des années, les différents gouvernements dirigés par Benjamin Netanyahu ont adopté une approche qui divisait le pouvoir entre la Bande de #Gaza et la #Cisjordanie, tout en prenant des mesures qui renforçaient le groupe terroriste palestinien du Hamas».
De son côté, Bezalel #Smotrich, qui est aujourd’hui ministre des Finances et membre de l'aile la plus radicale des colons, déclarait en 2015 : «L’autorité palestinienne est un fardeau, le Hamas est un atout».
Avi Primor, ancien ambassadeur d’Israël, l’avait confirmé dans une interview télévisée la même année 2015 : «C’est le gouvernement israélien, c’est nous qui avons créé le #Hamas, afin de créer un poids contre le #Fatah».
La droite israélienne a elle-même créé son ennemi préféré. Elle préférait un mouvement palestinien confessionnel plutôt qu'une opposition anticolonialiste laïque et unie. Si une commission d'enquête sur le 7 octobre faisait son travail, elle pointerait inévitablement la responsabilités de ceux qui, en Israël, ont choisi de renforcer le Hamas depuis des années.
🔴 Une attaque annoncée et ignorée
Bien avant le 7 octobre, l'unité #414 avait signalé les préparatifs d'une attaque imminente. Cette unité de l'armée israélienne, majoritairement féminine, se trouve sur la base militaire de Nahal Oz, située en bordure de Gaza. Elle est chargé de surveiller la frontière, à l'aide de puissantes caméras. Les militaires qui s'y trouvaient avaient prévenu leur hiérarchie de mouvements suspects, mais l'état major israélien n'en a pas tenu compte et n'a pas envoyé de renforts à cette unité.
Le 7 octobre, la base de #NahalOz est tombée rapidement, et ses soldates ont été tuées dans les combats ou enlevées. Ont-elles été sacrifiées délibérément par Netanyahou ? C'est une question que pourrait se poser une commission d'enquête.
L’armée et les services de renseignement israéliens avaient également reçu de multiples avertissements des services secrets égyptiens qui faisaient état, eux aussi, d'un projet d'attaque.
Au sein même des renseignements israéliens, l’unité #8200 avait même révélé que les entraînements des combattants du Hamas portaient sur l’assaut de bases militaires et le «transfert des soldats captifs». L’unité estimait que l’objectif était de prendre «200 à 250 otages». C'est précisément ce qu'il s'est passé. Le gouvernement israélien n'en a pas tenu compte.
Pire, un énorme festival de musique a été maintenu par les autorités israéliennes littéralement aux portes de Gaza, et l’armée elle-même reconnaît que ses effectifs étaient dégarnis le 7 octobre, car ils étaient occupés à sécuriser des colonies à l'autre bout du pays. Un choix délibéré ?
🔴 Qui a tué les victimes israéliennes du 7 octobre ?
Au sein de l’armée israélienne, il existe une consigne appelée «Directive #Hannibal» visant à empêcher par tous les moyens la capture de soldats, y compris en sacrifiant la vie des personnes capturées. Elle est utilisée depuis les années 1980. Avant la guerre de Gaza en 2008-2009, le lieutenant-colonel Shuki Ribak affirmait qu’aucun soldat ne serait enlevé «à n’importe quel prix. Dans n’importe quelle condition. Même si cela signifie qu’il se fait exploser avec sa propre grenade avec ceux qui essaient de le capturer».
L’usage de cette doctrine lors de l’attaque du 7 octobre a été sérieusement questionnée. Le grand quotidien Israélien #Haaretz y a répondu de manière catégorique : dans une enquête parue le 7 juillet 2024, le journal confirme que la directive #Hannibal a été employée pour empêcher le Hamas de ramener des otages, y compris en tuant ces derniers.
Des documents et des témoignages prouvent qu’Israël n’a pas hésité à massacrer ses propres soldats, mais aussi des civils. Dès 7h18, lorsque le commandement israélien apprend un enlèvement dans un poste frontière israélien à Gaza, l’état-major divisionnaire donne l’ordre «Hannibal à Erez» et envoie un drone d’assaut.
Plus tard dans la matinée, le commandement ne se contente plus d’ordonner des frappes sur les bases de sa propre armée, mais donne «des ordres plus généraux». À 10h32, un général fait tirer des obus vers la bande de Gaza, «même si les soldats et les civils se trouvaient dans des zones ouvertes ».
À 11h22, l’ordre est encore plus clair : «Pas un seul véhicule ne doit retourner à Gaza». Une source a confirmé à Haaretz : «Tout le monde savait à ce moment-là que de tels véhicules pouvaient transporter des civils ou des soldats kidnappés… Tout le monde savait ce que signifiait, ne laisser aucun véhicule retourner à Gaza».
Les images prises après les combats montrent de nombreuses carcasses de voitures totalement carbonisées, comme soufflées par des missiles, et des maisons dévastées par des déflagrations. Sur les zones de combat dans les Kibboutz, le général Barak Hiram avait déjà admis au New York Times avoir ordonné à un commandant de char de tirer sur la maison «même au prix de victimes civiles». Les familles des 14 Israéliens morts à ce moment exigent une enquête.
Yasmin Porat, une israélienne de 44 ans, s’est retrouvée au milieu des tirs entre le Hamas et l’armée israélienne le 7 octobre. Prise en otage dans un kibboutz, elle a été utilisée comme bouclier humain par un assaillant qui voulait se rendre aux soldats israéliens, et a donc été sauvée. Elle a raconté dès le mois de novembre 2023, dans une émission de radio israélienne, la manière dont s’est déroulée l’opération. Elle a d’abord été retenue pendant plusieurs heures et traitée «humainement», puis elle raconte que l’armée israélienne a attaqué par surprise le bâtiment où elle était retenue avec d’autres, et que des otages israéliens auraient été «tués par les tirs croisés très nourris» et des tirs d’obus de char sur la maison.
Lorsque le journaliste lui demande : «Il est donc possible que nos forces aient tiré sur eux ?» elle répond : «Sans aucun doute», avant d’ajouter : «Ils ont éliminé tout le monde, y compris les otages».
Une commission d'enquête pourrait chercher combien d'israéliens ont été tués par leur propre armée le 7 octobre.
🔴 La fabrication de mensonges d’État
L'organisation caritative #Zaka, reconnue par l’État israélien et animée par des juifs orthodoxes, a été très médiatisée après le 7 octobre. C'est elle qui avait certifié avoir vu le corps de «vingt enfants brûlés» dans le Kibboutz de Be’eri : «J’ai vu 20 enfants ensemble, les mains liées dans le dos, et ils ont été abattus et brûlés, en deux piles» affirmait l’un des membres. Il est avéré que c'était un #mensonge, pourtant relayé par tout le gouvernement israélien, puis par les médias du monde entier.
L'organisation Zaka a été visée par plusieurs accusations de viol, de maltraitance et de détournement de fonds dès 2021. Pourquoi les autorités israéliennes ont-elles envoyé de tels illuminés, intégristes religieux et mis en cause par la justice, pour «identifier les victimes» ?
Un membre d’United #Hatzalah, un groupe de "secouristes, urgentistes et ambulanciers" a raconté dans les médias américains : «Nous avons vu un petit bébé dans un four. Ils ont mis, ces salauds, ces bébés dans un four et ont allumé le four». Cette information qui a fait le tour du monde a elle aussi été démentie par plusieurs journalistes israéliens.
Même question : il s'agit d'une organisation bénévole. Pourquoi ne pas avoir envoyé de professionnels des secours sur les lieux, pour décrire la scène aux médias ? Pour faciliter la production de #fakenews ?
🔴 Les israéliens tués à Gaza
"Tous trois étaient torse nu, l’un des personnages portant un bâton avec un drapeau blanc de fortune. Le soldat […] a immédiatement ouvert le feu et crié "terroristes !" aux autres".
C'est le témoignage d'un militaire israélien à Gaza en décembre 2023, après que trois otages israéliens aient été tués par leur propre armée. Ils avaient pourtant crié «au secours» en hébreu, disposé des draps avec écrit SOS, mais avaient tout de même été abattus.
Les soldats se sont rendus compte de leur méprise en voyant que les défunts ne «ressemblaient pas» à des palestiniens. L’un d’eux est roux à la peau claire. La hiérarchie leur a donné l'ordre de tuer tout ce qui bouge à Gaza, il n'ont pas réfléchi. Une commission pourrait enquêter sur ces ordres génocidaires, qui ont eu pour conséquence de tuer même les captifs israéliens.
Parmi les otages, de nombreux autres ont pu être emportés par les frappes israéliennes qui ont pilonné Gaza à une cadence infernale. Il est établi que Netanyahou a délibérément saboté les tentatives de négociation, de cessez-le-feu et de libération de captifs, malgré la demande des familles et des manifestations massives à Tel Aviv. Combien d'israéliens ont été tués entre-temps sous les bombes de l'aviation israélienne ?
Enfin, depuis l'attaque terrestre de Gaza qui a débuté le 29 octobre 2023, la presse estime qu'en moyenne deux à six soldats ont été tués chaque semaine par des tirs amis. Le 16 mai 2024, un char d’une unité de blindés israélienne a tiré deux obus sur un bâtiment où étaient rassemblés des soldats à Jabalia, tuant 5 d'entre eux et blessant les autres.
Encore une question sur laquelle une commission d'enquête parlementaire aurait pu se pencher. Mais toutes ces zones d'ombre, extrêmement troublantes, qui pourraient jeter un discrédit encore plus profond sur le gouvernement israélien, ne seront pas traitées par une commission d'enquête parlementaire.
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