21Gramsci

joined 5 years ago
[–] 21Gramsci@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't get it, why would you have that? Seems like that's just increasing the number of failure points...

[–] 21Gramsci@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I don't know if that's the case, Jumble told me some time ago in a PM that they had crosschecked a few different users' feeds and the download URLs were the same for the same episode. Jumble's site doesn't mirror the media files, I can see that the download URLs for their feeds point to Patreon. In don't know if that's a risky way to go, but it seems to have worked for their site so far.

Also, the media files themselves are not always hosted by Patreon, sometimes it's an external service like Fireside or iTunes, in which case it would be hard for Patreon to track account sharing across platforms.

[–] 21Gramsci@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Yeah without having looked into it properly yet it doesn't seem like a particularly complex project, unless there's some trickery I haven't foreseen. I don't think you even have to mirror the actual media files, just the RSS feed with the signed download URLs. At least it doesn't seem like Jumble did that, I can still download the audio for episodes my podcast app has cached. They told me previously that they do some processing to anonymize the feeds by removing identifiable components, so that will take a bit of work, but otherwise this could be done with just a shell script in a cronjob and an NGINX file server.

I'm just wondering if it's worth putting the effort in the first place. Otherwise I'm just making a fancy mirror for the few podcast feeds I'm already paying for...

[–] 21Gramsci@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

What do you mean by this? Were there banners on the site? Or text posts in the individual feeds with warnings? My podcast app (AntennaPod) doesn't show text posts in feeds so I might have missed them, but I think all the feeds I sub to come from Patreon.

Either way right now the whole website is down. It might be that a few broken feeds took down the whole site due to bugs, but it's more likely that the VPS expired or something similar...

[–] 21Gramsci@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

He's one of the few cases of indie artists that I'm genuinely glad went big, because he fully deserves the reach and recognition he's getting. The only sad thing is that a lot of his humor and slang probably gets lost in translation.

Shit, I just realized I don't think I've read No Sleep Till Shengal yet... Thanks for the reminder, I'll go grab a copy!

[–] 21Gramsci@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Holy shit, I didn't know his comics got translated into English. This is one of the best ones, but Kobane Calling remains at the top for me.

[–] 21Gramsci@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think your logic is fucked frankly, it makes sense to me. The only thing I disagree with is that I think killing yourself is still giving the fascists a win. They don't want you in their world anyway, you ending yourself just saves them the work of doing it themselves.

I fully empathize with the lack of hope, for me mainly about the climate. On the fascism side I can cling to the historical precedent that fascists are eventually bound to lose, even if they'll cause untold damage in the meantime, but with the climate I don't have the same hope. I simply don't see the world having anything close to the level of collective resolve that would be needed to avert a complete catastrophe, and we're already maybe beyond the point of no return. Every year from now on that we spend battling fascism is one more year of collective effort not spend on avoiding irreparable damage to the world's ecosystems. We're waist deep in the rising waters, but we can't swim to safety because there's a guy coming at us with a knife, and by the time we're done fighting him the water will be at our neck anyway.

I don't really have any words of comfort for you here. I generally oscillate between the selfish and defeatist idea of just enjoying the little privilege I have while it lasts, and the idealistic one of going out fighting even if it's hopeless. The problem with the latter idea is that frankly I have no idea how to. It turns out that studying history a lot has prepared me well to recognize the rise of fascism, but not to know how to fight back. The material conditions we live in today are so much different than in past iterations of fascism that there's not a lot of actionable lessons I can learn from looking at past resistance movements. The grassroots activism I do feels increasingly pointless, and I don't see any serious organized resistance movement I could join anywhere.

It's bleak out here. The only real argument I can make against you doing it is, frankly, spite. Don't give them the win. Stay alive to spite them.

[–] 21Gramsci@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah India is rough for solo-travelling fems. Most fems I've met who've been to India without issues traveled with masc companions (partners / friends / travel buddies met on the road).

I can confirm that continental South-East Asia is a lot safer.

[–] 21Gramsci@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Nah, Egypt has too close a relationship with Saudi Arabia to meaningfully change their stance towards Iran.

[–] 21Gramsci@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

Marx referring to himself in third person is a good bit

[–] 21Gramsci@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah it pretty much does mean "I don't give a shit", the level of rudeness is the same though

[–] 21Gramsci@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

I NEED that image, badly

 

MAINbe this is the wrong comm for this but I just wanted to say I've never found an online space that has as deep of an internal culture as this one. This place has the 21st century equivalent of a fucking oral tradition. This place has heroes and myths and legends. New youngling users are told the stories of heroic posters from past generations. Memes live and die a thousand inane lives until any memory of their origin is lost. PIGPOOPBALLS has always been and always will be.

Every now and then I see someone reference the volcel-police and I have a moment of existential dread as I realize I've lurked this space or its various iterations for a significant portion of my lifespan. I tear up as I remember that the first time somebody here called me a LIB and told me to read theory was many years ago on a different site. I light a candle for the posters martyred in the fight against slaveowners.

Anyway whatever I'm drunk and having a nostalgic moment. Death to the tank comms and long live c/main. You can use this thread to remember the posters of ages past (unless they've returned).

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by 21Gramsci@hexbear.net to c/music@hexbear.net
 

Was feeling nostalgic for late '00s eurotrash antifa ska-punk, so here you go.

Death to America.

 

As the US elections draw near, I must once again bitch about being subjected to US cultural hegemony.

It's so fucking exhausting folks. Please, God, somebody invent the "Mute America" button. I would genuinely get one of those brain chips implanted in my head if it would allow me to smoothly silence any content about US politics.

As a weakling who only speaks two languages, I am cursed to either suffer my home country's discourse (which, trust me, is just as brainrotten as the US's if not more), or to stay in the anglophone media space where America reigns supreme. Nowhere is safe. There is no dark corner where I can hide from Trump's dementia-ridden quotes, or Gamers4Harris, or whichever way Musk is embarrassing himself this time, or the general attitude of people regularly forgetting that the world - and more specifically their online audience - does not all live in the US.

The world should institute a reverse Great Firewall to contain American discourse within the physical boundaries of the 50 states, like the dangerous infohazard that it is.

Please. I beg for mercy. We have suffered enough.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by 21Gramsci@hexbear.net to c/history@hexbear.net
 

It's a glorious day. Henry Kissinger, former thief of oxygen and current polluter of soil, is dead. Unfortunately, death won't stop him from claiming more victims.

During the Vietnam war, Laos was officially neutral and engaged in its own civil war between the monarchic Royal Lao Government and the communist Pathet Lao forces. Its territory also hosted parts of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a crucial supply route for the North Vietnamese army. The US, in order to both combat the spread of communism and stop the flow of weapons into South Vietnam, started the so-called "Secret War": a years-long bombing campaign in which they dropped more ordnance by weight than in the entirety of the second world war. A planeload of bombs was dropped on Laos every eight minutes for nearly a decade. It's called the "Secret War" because it was largely kept secret from the US public. While Kissinger didn't himself start the Secret War, he vastly expanded its scope, to the point of personally picking or approving targets for bombing runs.

If the title of "World's Most Bombed Country" wasn't enough of a burden to bear, the sheer amount of ordnance dropped means that to this day, half a century later, the Lao PDR still has a massive problem with UXO. People still die today from bombs dropped by US planes 50 years ago. A large portion of the bombs dropped were cluster munitions, each of which could contain hundreds of bomblets (called "bombies" here in the Lao PDR). Between 10 and 30% of bombies used in those years failed to detonate on impact even in ideal conditions. They are the size of a tennis ball, if children find them they will often pick them up and play with them. Thousands of kids have died or been maimed this way since the war. Once again, to drive the point home: Kissinger is responsible for these deaths.

If you feel like celebrating the old bastard kicking the bucket by doing a good thing, there are organizations you can donate to that are working to undo the damage done by him in Laos. UXO Lao and MAG International are running projects to either directly clear the land from UXO, or support affected communities.

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