lemmy.ml is not a general-purpose instance. We have community standards. To quote from that post, linked on our front page:

If you dont like the way lemmy.ml works, thats okay. Federation exists exactly to solve that problem, let different groups have their own instances, with their own rules and political views. You can see the list of existing instances, and instructions for setting up a new one on join-lemmy.org.

lemmy.ml, as a community, don’t tolerate posts advocating the invasion and genocide of Gaza. Why should we? There’s no value in their offensive post whatsoever. There’s no societal benefit in allowing it just because, there’s no reason in some abstract liberalist tolerance of everything, we are an anti-bigotry community and our moderators have an obligation to our community to kick that junk out. So why should they be allowed to say it?

And I think it’s harmful to frame this as being about “opposing views” or “disagreement”. It’s about kicking out someone who wants innocent people, including some members of our community, killed by a proudly-genocidal ethnostate’s imperialist invasion. That’s not merely an opposing view or a disagreement! That’s not even some abstract what-if or some reasoned critique, that’s simply endorsing a threat to our community. If you want to see that stuff, for whatever reason, then you’ll need to look somewhere else. We don’t platform trash here.

(And, in case you need the cherry on top, they’ve also made another post supporting rape as a war crime ^[link])

Anyone wondering about the grep for balls results around 11:40, it looks like Spotify uses zxcvbn as a password strength checker, which contains some dictionary lists of common words people put in passwords, in order of how common they are.

Hackers will use this as one main technique for password guessing (as opposed to a simple brute force, like “0000”, “0001”, “0002”, … , “9999”, it will probably be faster if we start with “1234”, “1776”, etc.). When I say ‘dictionary’, I don’t just mean English words; the name of zxcvbn itself is an example of a common pattern, one that people think they’re really smart for choosing and super easy to remember and type, but one hackers will obviously be aware of too, just like turning password into P455w0rd1!.

https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn for general info

https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn/tree/master/data has the .txt files

Sure, pity he’s an edgy shit who caters to nazi scum, but I really don’t see how it matters to this situation. Pointing out that Nazis like Linux too is like pointing out Hitler endorsed vegetarianism - that’s not “bad PR” for vegetables, Linux isn’t some corporation paying for celebrity endorsements as a reputation. All that really matters, as far as I see, is that Pew made a large and diverse audience turn their heads away from Windows and Mac towards Linux for half an hour, it’s a rare good thing, and I still don’t like them or really care about them. I’m definitely not going to be sad or think we need to stop this, I’ll just make sure to continue rejecting any reactionary scum who show their faces in the communities.

For quick little clips I sometimes use ffmpeg like that, but if I want to do anything more complicated like optimizing file size (without a known target), I often jump to Handbrake, a graphical interface to FFmpeg.

That script seems pretty neat, I’ll copy it. Gotta love an 8MB copy of Shrek 2.

Thanks, I didn’t realize that was the context.

When you think about it, the Viet Cong cheated by not using loud bomber planes and napalm.

Honestly, we shouldn’t assume they’ll always do stupid things, but they will do stupid things.

How they handled this training exercise rlly maeks me think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

edit: and then I scrolled down and saw people already discussing it lol

Eh, one can’t really make a decent analysis using vague abstract ideals like ‘liberty’ and ‘security’.

In some ways, security is liberating! For example, some religions have anonymous (private) confessionals and electoralism has anonymous private ballot booths to encourage freedom in voting. I don’t know if I’d be as honest online if I knew people with too much time and money could track my posts back to my real identity and harass me. And without security, these privacies would be merely illusions (see: deanonymization)

And obviously, on the other hand, state security understandably sees certain personal liberties (like downloading bomb-making guides and then buying fertilizer) as a risk beyond the liberty they’re willing to permit. Corporate security might see user anonymity techniques as a legitimate fraud/bot risk. I’ve picked diverse and good-faith examples to demonstrate, there’s plenty of midground and abusive examples of both, don’t worry, I know. (I left reddit many years ago partly for privacy reasons, no need to preach to the choir).

I guess my point is, security and liberties don’t necessarily contradict. But if you have governments and corporations run by the owning class, they have a material interest in suppressing your liberties for their own security. To make that appealing and tolerable, they have an incentive to rebrand this as being about your security. I’ve been in protests that obviously wouldn’t harm a fly and the police presence is consistently absurd. It’s clearly not actually about any of our security, or even the security of property owners, but rather the security of the bourgeois owning class and their way of life.

Yeah I realized my reply was a bit silly so I retracted it, I’m guessing I was a bit late and you’d already replied.

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“America First!” -> garbage $600,000,000 bribe to Greenland citizens

[edit: whoops, you’re right, I left off three 0s]

Don’t be silly, no-one knows what a library is these days! They’re all stuck on that internet thing.

There are shopping channels in many countries (or at least paid cable television) which are literally just ads. In classic cyberpunk style, it’s a reflection of the dystopian present.

Same, for quick-and-easy hobby work, it’s a great tool. Sometimes I will be surprised by looking up a video effect and seeing it can be done in kdenlive.

A few years back there was a bug with my set-up where it would crash when moving clips a certain way, but once that was solved, kdenlive has been smooth sailing for me.

Thanks for sharing the channel, I checked one of those tutorials (I can’t watch more rn) and it’s very well made, putting the end result right at the start, bringing up special considerations like watching for lighting changes or cloud movements in background footage.

By the way, what kind of “TikTok effects” are you talking about? Dynamic transitions and shaky-cam effects, or other things too?

I’m so glad that most imported products in my country are no longer made in the USA. I’m not even a strong believer in the effectiveness of consumer boycotts, this is just a health consideration at this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmvMyptrxo

Avoiding them is how you get a Nazi bar.

(Sorry for linking an article about tweets, just skip to the images)

There’s a big leap between a website publishing Tesla owners’ information and assuming that people with older cars are included (in fact, I only found Tesla dealerships and DOGE employees from a quick look around), and from there assuming any activists using that information are being uncritical and just attacking any car they see. Even in this post there are people explaining how to identify older models.

I’ve seen plenty of articles and social media footage of Tesla cars being sprayed, burned and smashed and all of them I’ve seen were cybertrucks and dealership lot cars.

There’s been 2 attacks on CEOs since

List 'em pls