Welcome to Friendica.Eskimo.Com

Home of Censorship Free Hosting

 Eskimo North Linux Shells, E-mail, Virtual Machines, Web Hosting.

E-mail, Web Hosting, Linux Shell Accounts terminal or full remote desktops.

Sign Up For A Free Trial Here

Please tell your friends about federated social media site that speaks several fediverse protocols thus serving as a hub uniting them, hubzilla.eskimo.com, also check out friendica.eskimo.com, federated macroblogging social media site, mastodon.eskimo.com a federated microblogging site, and yacy.eskimo.com an uncensored federated search engine. All Free!

mastodon - Link to source

This is the elephant in the room with federation that supports instances of 1 or 1 million. The ones with 1 million become the mini Facebooks with mini Mark Zuckerbergs; infinitely more powerful than the instances of 1 or 100 and unaccountable to anyone but themselves. Decentralisation is about devolution of power. There’s a reason I’m designing the Small Web as a peer-to-peer web with only instances of one.

#SmallWeb #federation #decentralisation #power #equality mastodon.social/@rzeta0/114530…

friendica - Link to source
Polish presidential election’s turnout stands at over 20% by Sunday noon tass.com/world/1959707

Polish presidential election’s turnout stands at over 20% by Sunday noon

More than 29 million Polish citizens have the right to cast their votes for one of 13 candidates running in the presidential election at 32,000 polling stations across the country
TASS

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Roque Dalton: Laws are created to be followed by the poor. Laws are made by the rich to bring some order to exploitation. The poor are the only law abiders in history. When the poor make laws the rich will be no more. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

ActivityPub - Link to source

Quotes

  • 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.


plume - Link to source

Self hosting (Akkoma) from home

I've been self hosting from home for over 5 years now. I wanted to write an article explaining steps to get you started and pitfalls you can encounter. I kinda aimed it at hosting Akkoma, but it should be usable more broadly as well.

Why


Self hosting from home may be cheaper than getting a VPS, but it's also more work and more time consuming. Home connections are typically quite slow compared to the speed you can get on VPS'es, so your instance may be considerably slower than using even a cheap VPS. Uploading and posting big files can also saturate the network while others are all fetching your media at the same time. And your ISP may make it hard on you if they aren't a big fan of people self-hosting from home.

Still, even with all these downsides, if you like tinkering with servers a bit, then self-hosting from home can be a fun experience and a great way to learn about system administration and hosting in general. Besides, it's fun to brag to your friends about how you have your own social network platform hosted on an old laptop from your living room ^^'

Hardware


Akkoma is not the heaviest micro-blogging server software out there, but it's not super-lightweight either and needs more than a proverbial toaster to run. An old laptop or PC can do just fine, or maybe you still have an SBC lying around, ready to be used in a fun project like this. From my personal experience, I would advise the following:

  • Make sure you have 2G RAM minimum and enable swap. Preferably more, but this should be enough to start.
  • For storage size, it depends. The database can quickly grow, but there's ways to minimise this. You can prune old remote objects and activities, you can expire your own posts, you can automatically remove old media when posts are deleted... Assuming it's a single user instance and you don't pull in too many posts, 20G should be enough to start. But if you're using an old laptop, you probably have closer to 100G, so this shouldn't be an issue regardless.
  • It's important to understand that many writes happen to the database, so using a HD is better than a cheap SD card for example, because SD cards are notorious for breaking down after too many writes.
  • For CPU, I run on an Intel i5, which is good enough. Lower will possibly also work.
  • You can expect a home network to be slower than a VPS, so the faster, the better. I have 20Mbs down and 2Mbs up, which is quite slow. My instance is not very snappy, but it's generally fast enough for my needs.


Connecting to your server from the local network


First you need to set up your server with an OS. Use any of the OS'es that are supported by Akkoma. For specific steps on how to install the OS, check the website of the OS or hardware.

Next we need to know the IP address we have on the local network. If you can get inside your router, then maybe you can see the server there and what IP address it got. This is specific to the router and ISP, so you'll need to figure that part out yourself. Another option is to check it from the server itself using one of these commands.

hostname -I
ip address

When you type the IP address in the address bar of a browser on a different machine on the local network (maybe your phone or laptop if it's connected over wifi), it will probably give an error that it can't connect. This is normal, because you probably don't have anything running yet.

First we'll make sure we have a simple webpage on the server so we can easily connect to that. The easiest way is to install an http server and check it's default landing page. Examples are Caddy, Nginx, or Apache. You need this when installing Akkoma, so you may as well install it now. Once the http server is up, you should see the HTML of the http server's default page when doing curl localhost on the server.

Now check if you can indeed access that page from the web browser on the other machine on the local network. You should see the default page.

If this works, awesome 👍 You now have a server running with a website, and can connect to it! You are now officially a sysadmin ❤

Connecting to the server from the internet


Now comes the big step, making it available from the internet! Just like how your server is connected to the local network over a local IP, so is your home connection connected to the internet over a public IP. If you're lucky, you have an IP dedicated for your home connection and you can forward traffic to your server. This needs to be done from your router. Each ISP and router is different and not all of them allow you to do this, or don't allow it for all ports. You'll need to find some documentation and try things out yourself. See if you have a booklet that came with the router, or look for information online. The Yunohost project has a list of ISP's per country. You can check if they have something about your ISP on this. If not, you can always try yourself, and add your findings to the Yunohost documentation so it can help others as well.

We need to set up port forwarding for at least port 80 and port 443. If you want to connect to the server over other ports, e.g. port 22 as the default port for ssh connections, then you need to set up port forwarding for that too. Again, how to do this exactly, depends on your ISP and router box, so this is a part that you'll need to figure out yourself and may not even be possible.

Once the port forwarding is set up, you can try connecting to the server by using the external, internet facing, IP address. To find this IP address, you can use a service who responds with the IP address they see from you. Here are two examples who should answer with your internet-facing IP address.

curl "https://ip.yunohost.org"
curl "http://t.karchnu.fr/ip.php"

Then you can type this IP in the address bar of a browser on any machine connected to the internet, and it should show the landing site you saw earlier. If it doesn't work from a machine inside your local network, try from a machine outside the local network (see the Hairpinning section below).

Point your domain to the correct IP


Now that we can connect to the server from the internet, we need to point our domain to it. Generally speaking, you will buy a domain at a registrar, and then set up DNS records there.

In this example, the public IP address is 192.0.2.0, change this to your own public IP. The first example is directly on the domain, the second example is on a subdomain like social.example.org.

@ 3600 IN A 192.0.2.0
social 3600 IN A 192.0.2.0

Another option is to have a DDNS domain (see below), in which case you have to set that up. How to do it, depends on where you got it and should be explained there.

Once it's set up, you can test if the domain points to the IP address properly with any of these commands. We use example.org as an example, change this to your own domain. Note that the DNS system uses caching, so if you see a different IP address, it's possible you will need to wait until the cache expires. The dig command will show how long it still takes for the cache to expire.

ping example.org
dig example.org

Once this works, you should be able to browse to the page using your own domain. Hooray 👍

Some potential problems with home IP's


Allowing people to self host from home is generally not a concern most ISP's have. In some cases they even actively make it difficult for you to self host. If you live in France, then maybe you can join one of the FFDN members. They are, among other things, ISP's who promote self hosting. (If you ever wondered why the French can have nice things, it's because they are not afraid to protest, you should protest more -_^ )

If you do not live in France, you may still be able to get a fixed IP with open ports through a VPN from one of the FFDN members. IMO it's by far the easiest solution because then you don't even need port forwarding, you get a VPN connection from them, activate it on your server, and done.

While these ISP's are friendly to self hosting, others may cause issues. The following are typical problems you may face when self hosting from home. If the above isn't an option, there are still some possible work-around you can consider.

Hairpinning


It's possible that a connection to your server using the public IP is possible from outside the local network, but not from inside the local network. The problem is that your router forwards a request to itself upstream, which causes an error. The solution to this is hairpinning. The router will detect the request is meant for itself, and will then handle that properly. This is something that needs to be set up on the router, and may or may not not be possible on yours.

If you have this problem, and you can't configure hairpinning on the router, you'll need to see in how far you want/need to work around this problem. The server is accessible from outside the local network, so for the rest of the world, nothing is wrong. Maybe that's enough for you, maybe not.

If you want to access the server from the local network as well, another option is to add your domain and the local IP to the hosts file of the machine you want to access it from. One problem with this is that it's per machine, and if you leave the local network with that machine, the machine will still point to the local IP you set up, so accessing your server won't be possible unless you change the hosts file again.

On Unix and Unix-like OS'es, the hosts file is /etc/hosts.

Dynamic IP address


Even if you can forward the needed ports, it's possible that the IP address changes over time. If you can't get a fixed IP address, one solution is to use Dynamic DNS (aka DDNS). The way this typically works is that you have a script running somewhere who, at certain intervals, updates the DNS records when your IP address changes. Some registrars provide this option, and there are also services who provide a subdomain with DDNS capabilities.

One such service is netlib.re. You can create an account, and get a subdomain under the netlib.re domain. With a script you can automatically check and update the IP address when it changes. If you install Yunohost, you can set up a DDNS domain provided by the Yunohost project.

You can either use this domain directly, or, if you want your own domain, you can set a CNAME or ALIAS DNS record.

Let's say you have a DDNS domain my_account.netlib.re pointing to your server, and you want to point your own domain to the same IP address.

When you want to use a subdomain, e.g. social.example.org, you use a CNAME record. In this example social is the subdomain and my_account.netlib.re is the DDNS domain. Replace both with what you want to use.

social 900 IN CNAME my_account.netlib.re.

When you want to use your domain directly, an ALIAS record is needed. Again, my_account.netlib.re is the DDNS domain. Replace with what you have.
@ 900 IN ALIAS my_account.netlib.re.

Once set up, and the cache expires, your domain should point to whatever the DDNS domain is pointing to.

No forwarding for certain ports


Maybe it's possible to forward certain ports, but not 80 and/or 443. There's not much you can do in this case.

You can listen to a different port, but this will cause issues. You may need to do extra work to get Lets Encrypt to work to set up https, and others need to connect to you over a different than default port. This isn't generally done on fedi, so I don't know how software will react to this. Honestly, I'm not even sure if Akkoma can properly handle this.

Another option is if maybe you can set up a proxy somewhere. Then your domain needs to point to the proxy, and the proxy forwards the request to you on the open port. The problem is that now you need such a proxy server, and you probably want traffic to be encrypted between the proxy and your server. Handling certificates in this way, may get messy.

No forwarding at all


Sometimes port forwarding isn't possible at all. A typical example is when your ISP uses Carrier-grade_NAT. In that case, the IP address the internet sees, will be shared with other people as well.

Even a proxy wont work in this example, so a VPN or switching ISP's is really about all you can do.

Geolocation


Different ISP's have different ranges of IP's. Since they operate in specific areas, it's possible to guess where someone is connected from based on their IP. In most cases this isn't very specific, but maybe it's still too precise for your comfort. In that case you may not want your home IP to be publicly visible.

Note that your IP is also visible to those to whom you do requests. Using a proxy may allow you to set a different IP address for your domain, but when your instance does requests to another instance, they will see the IP the request came from. For this reason a proxy is not enough, unless you set it up for both incoming and outgoing requests.

IPv4 vs IPv6


Generally, traffic on the internet is routed using IPv4. But there are limitations to the amount of existing addresses, and we have basically reached these limits. When this whole IP thing was first thought about, computer resources were still very limited. Each extra bit you had to send over the network was significant and the idea of more than a couple of thousand computers being connected this way was not obvious to everyone.

In 2017 IPv6 became an official internet standard. It solves some problems that IPv4 has. The addresses are longer, and, as such, there's a much larger amount of possible addresses.

In this article we used IPv4 because afaik this is still the most used, and most probably the type of address you have on your home router. It's possible however that you have an IPv6, or that your ISP allows you to get one when asked. If you have both, it is generally considered good practice to use both IPv4 and IPv6.

To check the public IPv6 address, you can try

curl "http://ip6.yunohost.org"

If you can't connect, then you probably don't have an IPv6 address to begin with.

To set the DNS records, you need an AAAA record instead of A. When you have DDNS, it's possibly already set up correctly. If not, you can maybe check with the DDNS provider if they allow IPv6.

Here's an example to set an AAAA record, change the IP address to your own.

@ 3600 IN AAAA 2001:db8::8a2e:370:acab

To check if a domain points to an IPv6 correctly, you can use dig.
dig -t AAAA example.org

Installing Akkoma


Once you can properly access the server from the internet, all that's left to do is install Akkoma, or whatever other service you want to run, and enjoy the misery you brought upon yourself by choosing to self host 🤗

Have fun!

application of network address translation

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
in reply to ilja

plume - Link to source

kopex

I have read all the comments and suggestions posted by the visitors for this article are very fine,We will wait for your next article so only.Thanks! olxtoto I admire this article for the well-researched content and excellent wording. I got so involved in this material that I couldn’t stop reading. I am impressed with your work and skill. Thank you so much. 카드 현금화 A very awesome blog post. We are really grateful for your blog post. You will find a lot of approaches after visiting your post. hptoto Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts. Any way I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon. Big thanks for the useful info. بازی انفجار هات بت I would like to say that this blog really convinced me to do it! Thanks, very good post. toto togel kikototo

هات بت انفجار | سایت شرط بندی بازی انفجار هات بت

سایت هات بت انفجار مرکز شرط بندی آنلاین در بازی انفجار شرطی است. در سایت هات بت انفجار ثبت نام کنید و به انجام بازی مهیج انفجار بپردازید.
landing (هات بت انفجار)

ActivityPub - Link to source

JUST IN: Liberal Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan Set To Win Controversial Romanian Presidential Elections

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/j…


JUST IN: Liberal Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan Set To Win Controversial Romanian Presidential Elections | The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Serran

          Romanian authorities have announced that the liberal mayor of Bucharest, mathematician Nicușor Dan has won the second and final round of the deeply controversial Romanian presidential elections.
Paul Serran (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

ActivityPub - Link to source
principia-scientific.com/basic…

Basic Facts that Expose Government Climate Alarmist Propaganda | Principia Scientific, Intl.

Our governments, supported by an activist media, routinely disseminate climate change misinformation For example, the Federal Budget published April 7, 2022, contained this phrase: “Canada is already experiencing an increase in heat waves, wildfires,…
Parker Gallant Energy Perspectives (Principia Scientific Intl.)

friendica - Link to source
"Not just military": Moscow ready to include Ukrainian pro-Russian activists repressed by Kiev in exchange lists en.topwar.ru/264799-ne-tolko-v…

"Not just military": Moscow ready to include Ukrainian pro-Russian activists repressed by Kiev in exchange lists

Russia and Ukraine are preparing a large-scale prisoner exchange, which they had previously agreed on during talks in Istanbul. At the moment, both sides are preparing lists of those they would like to return.
Новостник (Военное обозрение)

diaspora - Link to source

Major #web services go dark in #Russia amid reported #Cloudflare #block


source: therecord.media/russia-website…

According to data from several internet monitoring websites, the outages were observed Thursday across multiple Russian regions, particularly in the #Urals and #Siberia, affecting platforms such as #TikTok, #Steam, #Twitch, #EpicGames, #Duolingo and major Russian #mobile operators.


#online #www #internet #fail #problem #censorship #politics #test #news


Major web services go dark in Russia amid reported Cloudflare block

Website outages were observed across Russia this week, with regulators attributing them to issues with foreign servers. Observers said the problems might be tied to Russian government moves to block Cloudflare services.
Daryna Antoniuk (The Record)

friendica - Link to source
Al-Houthi reveals surprise about Sana’a’s rapprochement with major countries en.ypagency.net/356966

Al-Houthi reveals surprise about Sana'a's rapprochement with major countries

SANAA, May 18 (YPA) - Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member of the Supreme Political Council in Sana'a province, revealed the existence of a great rapprochement between Sana'a and major countries.Al-Houthi said: “This rapprochement will be revealed in the
ذكرى (Yemen Press Agency)

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Deng Xiaoping: The world changes every day, and modern science and technology in particular develop rapidly... Anyone who fails to carry Marxism forward with new thinking and a new viewpoint is not a true Marxist. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

ActivityPub - Link to source

Quotes

  • 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.


mastodon - Link to source

Father,
help us to seek the values
that will bring us lasting joy in this changing world.
In our desire for what you promise
make us one in mind and heart.
Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.

________

May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.

diaspora - Link to source

#Luxembourg : Parliament rejects call for #Covid-19 #vaccine inquiry


23/04/2025
He ben non, il n'y aura pas non plus de commission d’enquête luxembourgeoise, sûrement que ça n'en vaut pas la peine, n'est-ce pas.....c'est ballot, c'est trop compliqué, et après tout. la composition exacte de ce qu'on a injecté quasi de force à des centaines de millions d'européens, ce n'est pas bien grave....

Five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Luxembourg’s parliament debated a public petition on Wednesday calling for the establishment of an independent multidisciplinary commission to examine the political, scientific, statistical, and health-related aspects of the country’s covid-19 response, including the effects of vaccines.

The petition, submitted by French national Amar #Goudjil, gathered 4,986 valid signatures (4,884 electronically and 102 on paper), surpassing the threshold required for a public debate under the previous petition regime.

Despite the interest generated, MPs ultimately decided not to establish a commission of inquiry. Lawmakers argued that investigating vaccines produced outside of Luxembourg exceeds the competencies of the national parliament.

“This goes beyond the competences of the Luxembourg parliament, and we are not equipped for this,” said Francine Closener (LSAP), president of the petitions committee. “The Parliament cannot set up a commission of inquiry into vaccines that were not produced in Luxembourg.”


=> luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/parliam…

Vidéo - Les acteurs en parlent:
Dr Astrid #Stuckelberger et Amar #Goudjil. #Pandémie Covid : un véritable #crime contre l’humanité

crowdbunker.com/v/3g7NM5nMW4

#médecine #santé #couillonavirus #vaccins #injections #vaccination #nanotech #nanomédecine #bigpharma #mafia #corruption #pfizer #vaccinovigilance #pharmacovigilance #covid #OMS #Justice

Parliament rejects call for Covid-19 vaccine inquiry

Luxembourg MPs on Wednesday had public debate on vaccine impact and transparency of public health system
Thomas BERTHOL (Luxembourg Times)

friendica - Link to source
Trump is repackaging the ‘War on Terror’ to stop Palestine activists, but you can’t deport a movement #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/05/trump-i…

Trump is repackaging the ‘War on Terror’ to stop Palestine activists, but you can’t deport a

The Trump administration’s assault on Palestine activism may seem unprecedented, but the parallels to the post-9/11 “War on Terror” are chillingly familiar. However, this attempt to quash dissent will fail, because you cannot deport a movement.
Jinan Chehade (Mondoweiss)

mastodon - Link to source

Scripture Reading
Romans 10:8-10

The word is very near to you, it is on your lips and in your heart: the word, that is, of the faith we proclaim. If your lips confess that Jesus is Lord and if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, then you will be saved. By believing from the heart you are made righteous; by confessing with your lips you are saved.

ActivityPub - Link to source
THE "MORAL PANIC"
Fascinating to see several people calling pedophile child rape a "moral panic". I was shocked when I saw that The Atlantic use that term. It became super obvious when I saw that the owner, Laurene Powell-Jobs, was friends with Maxwell.
Now the asshole Pruitt - "one of the 25 most influential people in the world" - used the exact same term in Wikipedia to describe the UK Islamic rape gangs 😡

mastodon - Link to source

Sehr empfehlenswerter Podcast über Medienkritik zur Berichterstattung über Israel und Palästina!

Danke @nadia_z und @shaihoffmann

open.spotify.com/episode/2esoz…

#Medienkritik #Palästina #KonstruktiverJournalismus


Was fehlt? Medienkritikerin Nadia Zaboura über die Medienberichterstattung zu Israel und Palästina

Über Israel und Palästina sprechen · Episode
Was fehlt? Medienkritikerin Nadia Zaboura über die Medienberichterstattung zu Israel und Palästina (Spotify)
This entry was edited (2 months ago)

lemmy - Link to source

SSD Drive Problem
I have a new WD Blue 1TB ssd hard drive that doesn't want to get formatted or mounted. When I attach the drive via USB I get an error message of:
Unable to Mount 1.0 Tb volume
An operation is already pending

Eventually I get:
Unable to Mount 1.0 Tb volume
timeout was reached

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T570 running Linux Mint 22.1 Xia base. "GParted" and "Disks" don't see the drive. Is there something I can do to access the disc or is it toast?

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Bertolt Brecht: Who does not know the truth, is simply a fool... Yet who knows the truth and calls it a lie, is a criminal. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

ActivityPub - Link to source

Quotes

  • 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.


friendica - Link to source
Presser of 2nd ministerial OIC-15 Dialogue Platform meeting en.mehrnews.com/photo/231977/P…

Presser of 2nd ministerial OIC-15 Dialogue Platform meeting

TEHRAN, May 18 (MNA) – The 2nd Ministerial Meeting of the OIC-15 Dialogue Platform was held in Tehran’s Espinas Hotel on Sunday with the participation of Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology Hossein Simaei Sarraf.
Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (Mehr News Agency)

lemmy - Link to source

Shredding my SSDs (NVMe) under linux?

Hey guys,

I want to shred/sanitize my SSDs. If it was a normal harddrive I would stick to ShredOS / nwipe, but since SSD's seem to be a little more complicated, I need your advice.

When reading through some posts in the internet, many people recommend using the software from the manufacturer for sanitizing. Currently I am using the SSD SN850X from Western digital, but I also have a SSD 990 PRO from Samsung. Both manufacturers don't seem to have a specialized linux-compatible software to perform this kind of action.

How would be your approach to shred your SSD (without physically destroying it)?

~sp3ctre

in reply to 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍

lemmy - Link to source

patatahooligan

I don't see how attempting to over-write would help. The additional blocks are not addressable on the OS side. dd will exit because it reached the end of the visible device space but blocks will remain untouched internally.

The Arch wiki says blkdiscard -z is equivalent to running dd if=/dev/zero.


Where does it say that? Here it seems to support the opposite. The linked paper says that two passes worked "in most cases", but the results are unreliable. On one drive they found 1GB of data to have survived 20 passes.

Securely wipe disk - ArchWiki

wiki.archlinux.org
in reply to patatahooligan

lemmy - Link to source

𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍

Sorry, it wasn't the Arch wiki. It was this page.

I hate using Stack Exchange as a source of truth, but the Arch wiki references this discussion which points out that not all SSDs support "Deterministic read ZEROs after TRIM", meaning a pure blkdiscard is not guaranteed to clear data (unless the device is advertised with that feature), leaving it available for forensics. Which means having to use --secure, which is (also) not supported by all devices, which means having to use -z, which the previous source claims is equivalent to dd if=/dev/zero.

So the SSD is hiding extra, inaccessible, cells. How does blkdiscard help? Either the blocks are accessible, or they aren't. How are you getting a the hidden cells with blkdiscard? The paper you referenced does not mention blkdiscard directly as that's a Linux-specific command, but other references imply or state it's just calling TRIM. That same paper, in a footnote below section 3.3, claims TRIM adds no reliable data security.

It looks like - especially from that security paper - that the cells are inaccessible and not reliably clearable by any mechanism. blkdiscard then adds no security over dd, and I'd be interested to see whether, with -z, it's any faster than dd since it perforce would have to write zeros to all blocks just the same, rather than just marking them "discarded".

I feel that, unless you know the SDD supports secure trim, or you always use -z, dd is safer, since blkdiscard can give you a false sense of security, and TRIM adds no assurances about wiping those hidden cells.

Aerospike Customer

support.aerospike.com
This entry was edited (2 months ago)

lemmy - Link to source

Any window manager suggestion
So Ive been using linux for a long time and mostly with gnome. I know about window managers and how using them will reduce the memory usage by system a lot because they are less bloated etc.
I want to try a window manager on my nixos machine - this will be my first time trying one, I have good knowledge in programming so technical stuff wont bother me that much.
Which window manager do you suggest? Customization is my priority.
in reply to kixik

lemmy - Link to source

𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍

Hm? Both bspwm and herbstluftwm have tabbed layouts. It's been so long since I've used i3, but it has them too, right? Sway's a mostly config-compatible, mostly client compatible i3 clone for Wayland, so I'd expect it to have tabs, too. As well as floating windows, which every tabbing WM I've used also supports.

I think I missed your point. What are you saying? Did I say something that made you think I thought tiling WMs could only do tiling?

What I'm opinionated about is configuration files. Technically, even a desktop could be configuration-less, although I've never seen one. I have become insistent that my WM have no configuration that isn't set through a client call. Sway still uses a config file like i3; mostly the same config file, unless it's drifted significantly. That was Sway's whole killer feature: i3 users could switch from X11 to Wayland with only minor configuration file changes.

in reply to 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍

lemmy - Link to source

kixik

Tiling widow managers are popular, but they’re definitely a taste.


Oh, I refered to that in your post. To me all WMs/compositors are a matter of taste, including stacking ones (on wayland from the stacking ones I only like labwc though it's xml config is not what I would prefer). And you already clarified, but it gave me the impression that it was implicit that tiling was a matter of taste, when those WMs/compositors also offer tabbed/stacked mode, which to me it's not tiling at all, and offers something really appealing not so easily to achieve on any stacking WM/compositor.

Regarding config, well yes, if one is looking for no config at all, and still get the WM/compositor to be useful and also to one's liking, then that's hard to find. But the config files once achieving what one likes and is productive with, then one barely looks at it again, and they are usually portable (usually not only across PCs, also across distros).

But I got your point, sort of "plug and play" as they said before, just install it and without any config be productive with it... I can't imagine that. I heard river is pretty close to dwm, but I can't tell much about it. The river idea of dynamic tiling, which seems to be the default doesn't really appeal to me, so I would need to do tabbed mode any ways, which doesn't seem to be the default, so at least for me it wouldn't be that configless... But maybe it would be to dynamic tiling people.

This entry was edited (2 months ago)

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Bertolt Brecht: For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

ActivityPub - Link to source

Quotes

  • 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.


mastodon - Link to source

Dans notre lettre d'info de mai :

Ce mois de mai est particulièrement revendicatif, marqué par l'arrivée à l'Assemblée nationale d'une loi qui, quelques mois à peine après la loi d'orientation agricole, prétend de nouveau répondre aux attentes exprimées par le monde agricole l'an dernier.

Le Collectif Nourrir et des membres d'InPact s'opposent à la loi #Duplomb et proposent d'interpeler les député·es.

shaketonpolitique.org/interpel…

xkv64.mjt.lu/nl3/_5fuRLggJEDYE…


Opposons-nous à la proposition de loi rétrograde de Laurent Duplomb ! - Shake Ton Politique

Générations Futures

friendica - Link to source
Beirut Book Fair Defies Zionist Genocide & Returns for its 66th Edition #Palestine freepalestinetv.substack.com/p…

Beirut Book Fair Defies Zionist Genocide & Returns for its 66th Edition

Laith Marouf & Hadi Hotait tour Beirut Arab International Book Fair, after its delay because of the Zionist attacks on Lebanon last year.
Free Palestine TV (FPTV’s Substack)

mastodon - Link to source
Atteintes aux libertés associatives : qu'une ville comme Toulouse refuse de mettre à disposition des locaux nécessaires aux activités de défense des droits et libertés portées par la #LDH et baisse de 40% les subventions municipales est très inquiétant. Signez la pétition ⤵
change.org/p/la-ldh-de-toulous…

La LDH de Toulouse mise à la rue par la mairie ? La société civile locale se mobilise !

LDH TOULOUSE (Change.org)

friendica - Link to source
Israeli attacks put all hospitals in north Gaza ?out of service,? health officials say en.irna.ir/news/85836572/Israe…

Israeli attacks put all hospitals in north Gaza ‘out of service,’ health officials say

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed at least 103 people, including many women and children, while the main hospital in northern Gaza was forced to shut down.
IRNA English

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

You can follow us in other languages. Visit our website for more information wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2023-06-11 11:27:05

ActivityPub - Link to source

Social


English– @protestation@friendica.eskimo.com

Français– @protestation@social.trom.tf– @protestation@mastodon.social

Deutsch– @protestation@friendica.opensocial.space

Português– @protestation@mastodon.acc.sunet.se– @protestation@friendicarg.nsupdate.info

Quotes– @protestation@embers.social– @protestation@freeradical.zone


diaspora - Link to source

#Who Truly #Owns the #World? You’re in for a shocking #revelation!
old.bitchute.com/video/uLiZD8D…
Who Owns The World? The Surprising #Truth About Every Piece of #Land on The #Planet is an encyclopedic accounting of land ownership on our globe. It is packed with fascinating facts: Did you know that Queen Elizabeth owns 1/6th of all the land on earth? Did you know that the largest private landowner in the U.S. is Ted Turner, who owns 1,800,000 acres of land? (Yes, all those zeroes belong in that number.) Have you ever heard of the British Indian Ocean Territory, a land area of 14,720 acres which is now believed to be used as a prison for those captured in the war on terror?

Though most of the 369-page paperback is devoted to information about who controls every square inch of land, authors Kevin Cahill and Rob McMahon explain their purpose in putting this book together:
This book asserts that the main cause of most remaining poverty in the world is an excess of landownership in too few hands. This book will also assert that private ownership of a very small amount on land – one-tenth of an urban acre or an acre or two of rural land – granted to every person on the planet has the potential to, and, I believe, begin ending poverty on a global basis. The book will go further and reassert that the right to the direct ownership of land is a fundamental human right.

After a 60-page introduction that unpacks these assertions, the remainder of the book surveys every country of the world, giving information about population, size, gross national income, percentage of land held by private owners, a line or two about the country’s history, and an explanation of how the country is owned.

The book doesn’t offer solutions to the inequalities presented in the book (a handful of kings, queens, sheiks, religious institutions and individuals control most of the land on earth) or do much to tackle the dicey issues of political and/or ethnic identity that have shaped most modern nation-states. But then again, it isn’t meant to do so. Who Owns The World? tells a compelling, unsettling story with stats, and is an interesting reference tool for students and those interested in international politics.


Who Holds Ownership of the World: Prepare to Be Astonished!

Who Truly Owns the World? You’re in for a shocking revelation! Grab your free PDF by clicking the link below! Who Owns The World? The Surprising Truth About Every Piece of Land on The Planet is an encyclopedic accounting of land ownership on o…
BitChute

wordpress - Link to source

Marius Mason’s 2025 Statement


Greetings and Gratitude to my community,

I want to begin with thanking everyone who wrote a support letter or went to a support event this past year- thank you so much! I know that your solidarity connects incarcerated resisters with so much strength and love. I wish I could have replied to every letter I received – and I will be adding several new contacts to my correspondence list and writing back as much as I can…..This year has been a tough one for me. My twelve-years-long gender-affirming surgery quest was abruptly torpedoed by an administration whose sole mission has been hate and division. On the verge of surgery, successfully integrated into a predominantly-male identified prison population (for years) – I was unceremoniously kidnapped and thrown into the SHU due to an Executive Order making my gender illegal and erasing my rights as a citizen. Since then, I have been transferred to a predominantly female-identified prison population at the Federal Satellite Low in Danbury, Connecticut. It’s been an adjustment socially, but my community here has been very welcoming and affirming. I work as a peer support for an integrated program treating trauma and addiction. That feels meaningful, as so many people lose control over their lives, and often even their very lives, because of untreated addiction problems. I really feel that the international epidemic has at its heart the sense of despair and alienation that so many feel right now.

It’s been an intense year for all communities of resistance – whether we were focusing on the war on Gaza or the war on immigrants. We have been hard-pressed to provide support to those among us who have been damaged by the increasing attacks on women, immigrants, as well as transgender and queer people. The past six months have been a military march backward in human evolution as even the most basic social agreements on the rights of individuals in a society have been violated time and again. Rights guaranteed at the signing of the Magna Carta – rights that were at the heart of the conflict between England and the former colonies, are being systematically disemboweled. It has been said that if we do not learn from history, then we are doomed to repeat it. We have seen the onset of fascism before, and should recognize it now. So…these times are a challenge to any who desire real freedom, who passionately espouse justice and who honor and respect human dignity – and who persist in the belief that we are responsible for each other and to each other and our shared home, this Earth. The strength to face this challenge will come from solidarity…this is always our secret weapon against the venal brutalities of fascism.

Persist and Resist!

Love and Solidarity, Marius Mason

source: Marius Mason

abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=…

#elf #MariusMason #northAmerica #politicalPrisoner

Marius Mason’s 2025 Statement – June 11th

june11.noblogs.org

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Bertolt Brecht: Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

ActivityPub - Link to source

Quotes

  • 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.


⇧