CriticalResist8

it's funny because prolewiki has been called every kind of contradictory terms, all from people who've never seemed to actually looked through it themselves. Apparently we are trotskyist maoist hoxhaist anarcho tankie dengist bolsheviks woke fascists. Yes, these are all terms I've heard before.

In a way it sharpens the contradictions. We live in the time of our very own steam engine, the question is can we seize the moment.

These ghouls should not even be giving speeches at any educational facility in the first place; it's because the US associates being rich with being educated/intelligent that they get any place in the spotlight (and the huge speaking fees the college is probably all too happy to pay).

This is what happens when economists think they know anything outside of their field. In the socialist republic they will be reminded of their place daily: you just crunch the numbers, that's it.

I think KeePass is basically the only other one that's consistently recommended in actual organic guides

Should add lofi beats to chill and burn flags to lol

Comrade the same could have been said of coal back in Marx's day, or even its use today in the global south. And refusing to think about it or entertain contemporary questions doesn't solve them, it's putting our heads in the sand (the ostrich technique) and hoping the rolling storm passes over us unscathed. LLMs are means of production, many professionals are using them already in many different ways. Whether they lower the socially necessary labor time and rate of profit is not entirely calculated yet, but this isn't necessary to count as MoP. And AI has entered our relations of productions already.

I have an essay here on the question https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Essay:Intellectual_property_in_the_times_of_AI.

Honestly I'd forgotten how obnoxious windows was with its updates. Linux never bothers you with a pop-up or takes hours to restart after updates

Oh just as easy, for games you just need lutris (install vcredists in your system wine first). Other stuff you don't need to pirate because there are very good Linux versions now - for example I used to have a copy of abbyy ocr to ocr book pdfs on windows, but I ended up finding a python package called mineru that uses a small neural network to do it, it's open source, free, and works just as well if not better.

Only stuff I haven't been able to replace fully yet is photoshop and cohort (I'm a designer, gimp just doesn't cut it lol) but you can install winboat which installs a windows virtual machine very easily. Then you have an actual windows copy, albeit without access to gpu and with lower specs than your machine.

On the contrary, I think it's never been easier to get into linux because LLMs made it so easy. They've saved me from a guaranteed headache twice already in just a few minutes of troubleshooting.

As for systemd it is what it is haha, every distro uses it now.

I timeshift every hour now since it's incremental, but I have had issues that timeshift couldn't fix - there's other tools though for that (like booting in recovery kernel) that llms can help with.

Oh yeah bonus : on the backup/playground laptop, I set crush on it to fix stuff that wasn't detected (like F keys functions) and do a whole bunch of customising/performance. We ended up shaving off another 200mb of ram at idle, getting down to 500mb. I would only recommend doing this on a brand new install that you can always redo if need be.

Ha, Linux doesn't even need to restart the computer to apply updates. The first few times I used zorin's graphical helper for updates, eventually I just set security updates to install automatically in the background (with unattended-upgrades) and just run the command for the other updates myself every once in a while.

It's a question of trust with what they're gonna do with it. China may not have strong privacy laws (you can easily get medical data to train an AI model with for example, I assume it's anonymized) but you also trust the government not to use it against you.

Some people would be surprised at how free the chinese are to just yell at police or government.

Can't say the same in Europe or north America where they need to pay ads to tell us we have freedom of speech, while the police punches you in the face for protesting for Palestine.

I don't mind if one gets my info, either it doesn't do anything or its even beneficial to society.

I do mind that the latter however knows as little about me as possible, because stuff they know about me today can bite me in the ass 5 or even 10 years from now.

China only needs to ask if they want to know something about me.

Europe can pry the tiniest bit of information from my cold dead hands.

Basically lol.

I would try Anna's archive, working URLs are kept up to date on its Wikipedia page.

lol the funny part is this is all something a friend sent me unprompted over discord yesterday. It just happened to coincide perfectly.

In the meantime, China has been admitted to the World Trade Organization. Thanks to this, and the Asian country’s prodigious economic development, the commercial ‘nuclear weapon’ has been neutralized. But this does not mean that the arsenal of commercial weapons at Washington’s disposal is empty. If China wishes to be recognized as a country with a market economy (and thereby in one way guaranteed against the threat of protectionism), especially if it wishes to have the technological embargo it remains subject to, relaxed, it is exhorted to make further concessions of the kind we have already noted.
We know that, like other countries with an anti-capitalist and anti-colonial revolution behind them, China finds itself having to confront two different inequalities: global inequality and domestic inequality. Hence, it is as if Washington addressed Beijing as follows: if you wish to clear the obstacles that impede overcoming the first type of inequality (with the abolition of the rules that prevent or impede access to the most advanced technology), you must make concessions that actually aggravate the second type of inequality (dismantling the state sector would entail reduced capacity to intervene on behalf of less developed regions and thereby make the struggle against regional inequalities more difficult).
In theory, China could avoid such pressures and conditions by embarking on a more or less autarkic road of development. In reality, as the Communist Manifesto had already explained, the economic and technological lag cannot be overcome in isolation from an ongoing process at a global level, which sees ‘old-established national industries’ replaced by ‘new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe’. In other words, the development of a country that has made an anti-capitalist or anti-colonial revolution is inconceivable if it does not hook up with a world market still largely controlled by the bourgeoisie. There is no real alternative to the option of dancing with wolves.
We may draw a conclusion. If we wish to understand the terms of the class struggle in China correctly, we must bear in mind the role of the Western, and especially the US bourgeoisie. Its offensive is not restricted to the state sector of the economy and, more generally, the leadership role of political power in the economy. It is a politico-ideological offensive that seeks to demonize Mao on the basis of an absolutization and decontexualization of his unhappiest years in power. In the case of a leader who died in 1976, and who governed the whole of China from 1948 and more or less extensive areas of it from 1928 onwards, only the years of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution are taken into account. What gets repressed is the essential thing. Taken as a whole, the ‘social achievements of the Mao era’ were ‘extraordinary’; they involved a marked improvement in economic, social, and cultural conditions and a significant increase in the Chinese people’s ‘life expectancy’. Without these premises, we cannot understand the prodigious economic development that subsequently freed hundreds of millions of people from hunger and even from death by starvation.

(Losurdo, Class Struggle, 2013)

oh yeah, there's apparently a picture of the cadre laughing with each other when the motion to expel trotsky from the party passed, but I'm not sure if someone just made the backstory up lol. By that time he was pretty widely hated, huge individualist and did not feel party procedure applied to him. this is not someone you can have in any important positions - imagine making him party secretary. he would have been what trotskyists say stalin was.

he seems like the kind of guy who kept falling upwards as we say throughout his life. as you said he kept trying to split the party, was warned repeatedly over it, and even with consequences he kept doing it. there's no proof Stalin or even the USSR sent the assassin after him too, it's just an assumption we all make. It's certainly probable especially as other attempts had been carried against Trotsky before, but just as possible that Mercader acted on his own/mostly on his own. Either way everything that ties it to Stalin came from well after the fact from witnesses and conspirators, in the late 80s and early 90s, when it was trendy to hate on Stalin and anyone with some story to sell was trying to sell it (understandable tbh in the economic conditions).