Wouldn't they just use a VPN? I know they're technically illegal in China but from what I've heard lots of people still use them regularly.
If you mean communists that support capitalist states like China, then yes, unfortunately. Better than being around nothing but liberals or anti-communists though.
Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China
#mastodonsocial and #lemmyml are both blocked however
Funny if true.
ScrapyCL: The web scraping framework for writing crawlers in Common Lisp.
The web scraping framework for writing crawlers in Common Lisp. - 40ants/scrapycl
New web scraping framework from Alexander Artemenko/svetlyak40wt. Meant to be a CL alternative to Scrapy. Considering we have the great lquery and plump libraries in Common Lisp, building up to a fully featured alternative shouldn't be all that surprising.
You can but it won't be respected. It will continue to default to their included Noto fonts despite whatever font you select. You can test this yourself. I'm sure they do it for some "privacy reason" but if I wanted that trade off I'd simply use the Tor Browser or one of those hardened firefox profiles.
Librewolf doesn't respect your choice in system fonts if you uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above". I don't use it for that reason.
I don't think a federated wiki is solving any of the problems of wikipedia. You've just made a wiki that is more easily spammed and will have very few contributors. Yes, Wikipedia is centralized, but it's a good thing. No one has to chase down the just perfect wikipedia site to find general information, just the one. The negative of wikipedia is more its sometimes questionable moderation and how its english-centric. This has more to do with fundamentally unequal internet infrastructure in most countries than anything though. Imperialism holds back tech.
I agree that it might be fine for niche wikis but again, why in the world would you ever want your niche wiki federated? Sounds like a tech solution looking for the wrong problem.
It's really weird to see how almost infantalizing the Israeli minister is towards the ambassador. Like he's correcting a child or something. I suppose when you're commiting genocide you carry that attitude with you everywhere.
Are there really almost 2m Lemmy users?
From https://fediverse.observer/stats
Which seems to not at all come close to representing what you might actually see on Lemmy, not that Lemmy is tiny either.
Has there been any attempt to measure the total active Lemmy userbase? This would depend on the definition of Active but any working definition would be more useful than counting account creation. Something like "posted at least once this quarter".
I hate that projects name themselves "fed" as that word is permanently associated with, well, feds.
"Welcome to the Fediverse, we got pigs of all kinds"
by Kilmor and John Albert To read and download in PDF, click here. Dedicated in remembrance of Nicholas Heyward Sr., a fierce fighter in the struggle against police violence. Nicholas Heyward Sr., …
Just finished reading issue #1 of Kites Journal and thought I'd share this piece. I know it's long but you'll find it readable. Covers the O22 coalition, an organization that was created through a united front effort though with strong leadership from the Revolutionary Communist Party (before they devolved into a weird cult of personality thinktank) to confront police violence. Of particular interest is the fact that while organizing against police violence, O22 recruited family members of those who were killed by police to be the face of the organization and the actual leadership. It's in stark contrast to the style of orgs these days which operate more with a service style.
What is the general vibe on here towards actually existing socialism as well as the ideas towards reformism?
I can only speak for myself but so-called AES is just capitalism. It can be capitalism that is far far better than the U.S or other imperialist countries, but I'm not a communist that cheers for improvements to Capitalism. And what is there to speak of with "reformism"? It's a dead end that doesn't lead to Socialism and is the norm.
As an aside, both Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad are largely full of what I'd called revisionists, meaning simply the refusal to acknowledge that Socialism has been defeated and supplanted by state capitalism where it once briefly existed. The actual communists (i.e they at least agree with Leninism) in imperialist countries are largely revisionists so it's not surprising that's what you see online among English speakers. However, Lemmygrad is a dogmatic echo chamber. If you want to hear nothing but pro-AES sentiment and walk on dogmatic egg shells, that's the instance you want. Lemmy.ml is ran by good people (the developers) and seems to have decent moderators despite my political differences. I at least come across a variety of positions and whatnot.
The main thing that has prevented me from using Logseq is the general slugish or delayed feeling of the GUI. It's not significant but enough that after using it for 2 months I swapped back to org-mode in Emacs. Even though I love org mode for general project planning, task management (gtd) and such, I have never found a comfortable workflow for actually writing non-code/non-markup in Emacs. The logseq experience of writing notes was immediately comfortable for me. Just wish it was fast.
This is an episode of the defunct podcast The Weekly REPL. It features Peter Seibel's talk from ILC 2010 in Reno, Nevada: "Common Lisp Standardization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". The talk ha
A fantastic talk about Common Lisp and its possible future, using history of CL's standardization process as a historical backdrop.
Appreciate the clarification.
Not a great answer but I suspect this is Windows being crap. Lisp and windows have never been that great of an experience. Drakma works fine on my Fedora box.
Also, wrap your code in tick marks:
`(setf drakma:*header-stream* *standard-output*)`
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(setf drakma:*header-stream* *standard-output*)
Individual blogging as a possible feature for Lemmy?
Would Lemmy be a good fit for adding individual "blogging" as a feature? What I mean is the ability for a user to create posts tied to their account instead of a specific community. The default Lemmy Frontend/webapp has all the basic features that would normally make up a blog: ability to make posts, markdown editor, hell even replies that you normally need to disable on blogs because of spam. I can imagine adding a section next to the "Communities" button that says "Blogs" where you could browse users blogs. Not sure if you'd want to federate the blogs but something I'm thinking about.
Not asking this as a feature request on the part of the developers. This should be something I implement myself. But I thought I'd throw the idea out in the wild and see if folks could either tell me "why not" or point out what might be problematic with this.
Anti-government protests gain momentum in Swaziland
> On Tuesday, April 12, “Defiance actions’’ were organized by the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) across Swaziland. The date marks 49 years since King Sobhuza II, father of the current monarch, took absolute power in 1973. The key demand of the protests was an end to the absolute monarchy as well as the creation of a people’s government with a multiparty democracy and democratic ownership of the economy.