Excessive for my threat model, one more thing which could break something (even if by no fault of its own).

I like it as a concept, but many of my devices don’t use it.

Send an email to their webmaster if you haven’t already. The more of us, the better.

Despite my disagreements with local anarchists, they are objectively helping people and are lightyears above the Online Left. I will take comrades of almost (almost!) all tendencies over the Online Left.

Why not Debian directly instead of MX?

Debian requires more config out-of-the-box to get a nice desktop/laptop experience. This is ready to go.

I’m only used it as installed onto a USB, and in fact I chose it for that reason, so my experience isn’t ideal because of that USB drive speed but it’s a great lightweight OS that looks nice out of the box. Lightweight doesn’t have to look clunky or feel strange or unfeatured. I recommend it if there are reasons that lightweight is important (old hardware, low-end hardware, portable OS, … )

Yep, it’s presently a hard ultracapitalist oligopoly dominated by four companies, with the last two presidents impeached, the first of the two was groomed by a cult.

But this is the Sixth Korean Republic. After the initial US military dictatorship, there have been many cases of SK military dictatorship, the most recent one being 1979-1987 I believe.

IDK, this post says “GPT-5.3-min” which is not an open-weight model AFAIK.

They claim it’s not being used, it’s really using a local model, which is inline with their anarchist ethos so I’m leaning towards believing that, and that the GPT reference is an in-joke. I do think it’s unprofessional to write something like that, even as a joke, but it’s not the first time I’ve seen unpaid mods make dumb mistakes like that.

Specifically asking for political classification is a little bit weird though.

Out of context, yes.

In context, dbzer0 is an explicitly anarchist instance - the users of the instance have shared political values, and their instance rules ban certain politics (such as fascism) - so it’s a legitimate part of the moderators’ job there to assess politics and ban any which break their rules. Their users don’t want to see certain politics.

It wildly depends on the articles/topic, but yes, it’s generally not trustworthy. Especially anything politics or corporate, but sometimes articles on objective topics can have issues.

Speaking as a Marxist who sees the PRC and the CPC as a current progressive world force - why are all your posts so aggressively-ridiculous strawman slop, as if its aimed to alienate working people? It’s the flavor I see in dirtbag-left online circlejerks and never among communists I’ve seen in real life, and I’ve met thousands of us.

Perhaps even hockey with referees replaced by boxing refs. (yes, it’s impossible to find that video without loud music)

Gotta love the veto votes. Peak democracy.

To be honest, and it wouldn’t work here, but I sometime enjoy the cryptic nature of iceberg memes at the lower ranks. It’s like a scavenger hunt.

To be fair, you can’t say they’re wrong.

Most of them are. Some of them are even plain old factually wrong, not just condescending or exaggerating.

It’s important to understand that many of these instances were raised by people who didn’t like reddit’s widespread US-defaultism (including people claiming reddit is left-of-center because it swings Democrat) and its tolerance of bigots and trolls. Now if someone wants to set up their own instances to clone reddit and keep all the bad parts, sure, all we can really do is ignore them or get ignored by them. But when those people complain that this is “a bunch of 14 year olds” with “vote bots” or a “political echo chamber”, that’s just plain old ignorant, or shocked that they’re suddenly in a place with a different culture and struggling to believe it’s mostly just normal nerdy people like reddit is.