Denys Nykula

u/nykula@piefed.social
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Institutions with monopoly on violence or companies that they deal with don't care whether software is released as MIT or AGPL, they just take it and build on it. (Maybe that's exactly what you mean though, I'm not sure.)

Fedorov is a tech bro who oversaw implementation of hypercentralized, Russia/China-like e-ID systems, promises to put AI into everything (or rather, first blockchain, and now AI), is notorious for looking down on cybersecurity, and is sleazy enough to be on good terms with Elon Musk. For some reason this makes him quite popular with young people. And his opponent is very unpopular despite there not being much difference in their (lack of) explicit views, similar to how Poroshenko and Zelenskyi were pretty much the same right-wing liberals ideologically but had different vibes. Fedorov is very good at marketing, he was the person trusted with running SMM bots in Zelenskyi's presidential campaign.

I think these protests are a way to have young people let off steam in a socially acceptable method. Lots of Ukrainians are upset with extremely low wages, decline of medicine, education, transport, increasing taxes on working people, mass layoffs in the public sector, increasing workloads, growing police and surveillance apparatus, and torture in the parts of the military where undesirables/"ukhyliants" end up. But grassroots protests, and in some places spontaneous riots, for these reasons are either ignored or ridiculed by centre-right media influencers; Facebook/Instagram shadowban or literally ban organizers inviting people to go there, and messages about them don't reach Western media. Only centrist (pro-privatization, pro-"meritocracy" etc) and right-wing (anti-immigration) messages are allowed to reach wide audiences.

What I can say for sure about our history curriculum is that, despite being in a lot of ways nationalist / national statist / great man theory, is that we were taught that Poles are allies with a long story of initially hostile but gradually improving relations over multiple centuries, practically an example of a nation that, through its own series of tragedies, successfully and irreversibly renounced imperialism - optimistic, friendly example!

My friends see Inicjatywa Pracownicza, Lewica and Razem as valued partners. I'm happy to work with Polish freelance clients. My brother learns Polish out of interest, and I see Poles learning Ukrainian in my casual language game league - bidirectional influence is cool, it's how internationalism is supposed to work.

Just one criticism about your text. Right-wing extremists not being personally present in the moderate but totally right-wing parliament is a thought-terminating device used by the state institutions to silence people complaining about the continuous increase in right-wing street violence and targeted hate&harassment campaigns. There's a lot of power being wielded outside the legal government structures.

Yes. I actually delayed joining the Threadiverse until a viable alternative to the Lemmy ecosystem emerged. The communities moderated by Lemmy developers seem to rejoice every time anything bad happens to Ukrainians.

A couple years ago I would've posted about a Lviv vegan activist assaulted by boneheads, standing to fight alone against multiple attackers. The police tried to accuse him of terrorism. The Black Flag collective (Чорний Стяг) stood in solidarity with him and they backed off. The police did nothing against the boneheads though, because they never do. In fact, this is how the state "solves the problem" of leftists and "annoying" environmental and LGBTQIA+ activists here - quietly - boneheads have free pass to do anything they want, no investigation no charges. Most people who posed real street opposition to boneheads are in the military now, including the vegan activist; that's great from the ideological standpoint but a serious tactical mistake IMO.

YNH ease of installation for everything is unrivaled, but upgrades even of popular apps such as Synapse broke on me repeatedly, backups didn't want to restore, and my domain with it kept getting banned by Google Safe Browsing without explanation (fuck Google, but I didn't have much success getting "normal" users to share that view). Other servers with manually written docker-compose files caused much less friction.

If needed, I can make Yoself show recent RSS from Mastodon

Added tonight, ^1.1.0 on npm. Set another INCIDENT=https://example.org/@mastodon.rss environment variable for it to work. Looks like text + date link at the top of the page. Fetches once every 10 minutes; shows toots from last 48h in static html. No demo for this feature because I don't currently have an incident history account.

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Same. Would be cool if Nextcloud could also act as a LDAP server for apps that don't support OIDC.

Thanks for checking! Meanwhile I found the instructions on adding more scrapers for making documentation of other libraries and tools available offline if one wants to write them. Idk if it makes the docs available in Kiwix automatically, but Kiwix community seems to base its offline documentation packages on indexing this project.

Pretty much every major libarary and framework I work with has offline docs

Library, as in every library from npm that you import directly? Are Preact, lodash, MDN JS and Tailwind docs included in that collection? If I'm making a library, do I need to do anything specific to ease offline reading (and searching) of its website and readme along with other libraries if anybody finds it useful? All docs currently fit in these two pages.

I can make a Docker image, like the one I made for Lanquiz. It's not high on my to do list, though. Before that, I want to update integration tests (working draft still not committed), and store data under system-specific paths not in repo subdirectories (breaking change).

I don't. Browser extensions automatically close tabs that I haven't touched in a while. If something's important to have read by a deadline, I paste the link to my planner. If it's for uni, I have an org-mode file for each discipline, where I create one todo for each topic I need to pass, under which I paste relevant links and write notes from them later.

According to Vaganov, most of the accusations boil down to the idea that if a person disagrees with the current authorities, they must necessarily “want to overthrow the political system.”

Seems queer people have no other choice but to become the force that the government portrays them as. When a regime actively wants you dead, you must kill the regime before it kills you. Trying to play safe and apolitical may buy some time, but unless that time is spent organizing for power, not for tea parties, the results will be very sad.

I don't blame people for emigrating, but I hope they don't, and that they radicalize instead. They are much stronger than NGO heads and other politicians made them believe.