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@ RedWizard @lemmygrad.ml

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  • Chinese shipyard unveils plans for world’s first nuclear tanker powered by cutting-edge molten salt reactor

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  • Lol.

  • The Department of Temporal Investigations is on the case

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  • This is why you have Time Traveler weekends.

  • Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive

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  • Something a union could solve...

  • Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same

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  • Fucking stem lords.

  • Rest in P*ss bozo

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  • Nobody tell them you can say p*ss on the internet.

  • Purely based on aesthetics, what's your favorite Hammer and Sickle variant?

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  • My understanding its from 1938.

  • Purely based on aesthetics, what's your favorite Hammer and Sickle variant?

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  • Purely based on aesthetics, what's your favorite Hammer and Sickle variant?

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  • Lincoln was an avid reader of the New York Tribune, and as a result was reading Marx.

    “Labor is prior to and independent of capital. [...] Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

    Marx wrote him a letter after he won his second term.

    "Sir, We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a large majority. If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery. [...]"

    Lincoln was such a enemy to capital interests at the time that they had him assassinated.

    If you were to invoke any US president along side communism it would be Lincoln. Was he a socialist? No, he still believed in the wage labor system even as he made attempts to reform it, but there is a reason his face was used in the 1938 photo I posted. It was because he courted socialist and engaged in class struggle in the form of the antislavery movement.

    Who can say what his aditudes would have been if he wasn't assassinated.

    Edit: As an aside, found this gem on the reddit post attached to the image.

    Their profile is full of comments about white genocide.

  • Purely based on aesthetics, what's your favorite Hammer and Sickle variant?

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  • I've never liked the gears for some reason. I liked when Lincoln's profile was part of the iconography.

    It could just use some Americana in it, whatever that might be.

  • Voyager, a lemmy client inspired by the apollo reddit client

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  • I've been bouncing between Jebora and Boost for a while. I like boosts interface but really would rather use a FOSS app, so this definitely covers both for me. Just started using it though. I did change the layout to "Android" and change the theme to Dracula.

  • Israeli army executes an elderly Palestinian after using him in propaganda campaign about its ‘safe corridor’ in Gaza

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  • Manifest Destiny even!

  • I am just so tired

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  • And sometimes we must seek alternative pathways to success, and recognize them as such. Data stopped trying to play to win and found success in playing to not lose. He rejected the stated objective in favor of his own goals, and in turn was rewarded with new perspectives and greater understanding.

    Sometimes the stated objectives can confine us to narrow thinking and obscure other possibilities. One man's draw is sometimes another man's victory. It is all a matter of perspective.

  • Johnson: We're Not A Democracy, We're A "Biblical" Republic And Separation Of Church And State Isn't Real

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  • Its only been a thing since, what? The 30s? So not always.

  • Johnson: We're Not A Democracy, We're A "Biblical" Republic And Separation Of Church And State Isn't Real

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  • You both are saying the same thing. Wake up.

  • The Senate just unanimously adopted a resolution condemning pro-Palestine student protesters as "in solidarity with Hamas" and anti-semitic. 🤡

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  • Any way to anonymize Podcast downloads?

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  • Ok now that I've read your Edit:

    Podcasts no longer have RSS feeds that simply link back to an mp3 file that you directly download. Any podcast that is running canned ads (not ad reads that the host reads) is using what's called Dynamic Ad Injection. This requires the podcaster to supply their distribution vendor with a key file that marks break points in the podcast that the system will use to slice the raw podcast file into parts, and then inject X number of ads into the break, and then reform the mp3 file for delivery. I imagine this can be done dynamically or as part of an automation that cranks out thousands of variations of the podcast file.

    The reason this information is important is because it means that the PODCAST FEED itself is betraying you and your data. The feed is controlled by an ad delivery network, which works in partnership with the podcast, to inject dynamic ads based on demographic information the ad delivery network has, and they use metadata about your connection (such as IP address) to match you against a shadow portfolio of your data, or at least a pool of data that hits your demographic.

    Now, one other thing here that is betraying you, is your flatmates. It doesn't matter how much you protect yourself, because you are likely connected to your wifi, along with the other flatmates, and they're likely not taking the same measures as you are to ensure anonymity online. So you could have received that ad not because of data collected about you, but because of data collected about everyone who uses your ISP-provided address to connect to the internet, even if they're not listening to this specific podcast.

    A VPN can mitigate most of that, as well as using a FOSS Podcast reader like you are. But if you have to listen to the podcast through Spotify, it's still moot because the IP addresses you get via the VPN will become attached to your data profile from Spotify, which will then find its way back into the existing data on you which includes your apartment's IP address.

    The reality is Podcasts are big businesses and all the feeds for all the popular podcasts are owned by ad networks that collect data on listeners and then pair that data up with other data they collect from data brokers.

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  • Spotify has podcasts, but I don't use it for that, so when I read "analyzes the RSS feeds I subscribe to" I imagine they're talking about through Spotify since that is the root of the conversation.

  • Any way to anonymize Podcast downloads?

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  • If you use Spotify as your podcast app, a VPN isn't going to protect you. You should look for a FOSS Podcast app, especially if you subscribe to most of your podcasts via RSS.

    Then the VPN layer would kick in, allowing you to download them anonymously.

  • Can your feet get ... smaller??

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  • Fat, in my feet? Ridiculous.

  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Delaware town seeks to give businesses right to vote

    thehill.com /homenews/state-watch/4063055-delaware-town-give-businesses-voting-rights/
  • Late Stage Capitalism @lemmygrad.ml
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    Delaware town seeks to give businesses right to vote

    thehill.com /homenews/state-watch/4063055-delaware-town-give-businesses-voting-rights/
  • Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml
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    Eternal September 2.0?

    lemmy.world /post/385078
  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Cross Instance Interaction

  • Socialist Music @lemmygrad.ml
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    Jesus Does the Dishes (folk punk playlist)

    open.spotify.com /playlist/0rHVfAh84b7wb7fqiYRxMo
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Pokemon is driving me to want a Plex Server.