Comradeship // Freechat ksynwa • Now • 100%

Dear fellow Global South users, how does your mainstream media cover Israel's genocides?

Here in India, media is a tool of the fascists. I am ashamed to say it but the concept of journalistic standards is alien to the audience here. The media literally parrots the IOF line, to such a degree of precision that makes me think that I underestimated the sheer evil that can exist in the heart of human beings. But India is a kind of a special case in the Global South, since its an Islamophobic Hindu fascist state and the preposterous IOF talking points slot well with the racist talking points. But I am wondering what the situation is like everywhere else. Please fill me in.

Palestine ksynwa • Now • 100%

⚪ <- okay, 🟤 <- not okay

Meanwhile Canada continues to be a parody of itself: 

Left Piracy ksynwa • Now • 100%

Can someone help me find this movie? The Disciple (2020)

IMDB link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11423784/ All public torrents I have found are dead. Anyone knows a place where I can find this movie in decent quality? (At least 1080p.) Thanks.

Anyone tried it? Thoughts? ::: spoiler spoiler Looks like it is gonna be your typical Persona type game with element based turn based combat and social links. Don't mind that though. Always welcome fresh Persona slop. There are some mechanic changes which seem nice. The game kinda turns the concept of fantasy around where the protag holds dear a fantasy book, but the fantasy is essentially a story of our (human) world. And the powerful boss monsters in the game are called humans. Personally I don't like this. I find it a bit immersion breaking. But maybe it will grow on me. And yeah the performance on my laptop feels a bit lacking. Only a gtx 1650 and i5 processor but the game cannot consistently maintain 60 on low or intermediate graphics. I will try it on PS5 later and see if it runs well. :::

I downloaded it a few days ago. My first impression is good so far. I don't like strategy games because of monke brain but with this one I've been having fun. The battle system is novel as far as I know. At first I was a bit disappointed that you don't get to control individual characters but I've grown to like the system since then. I am playing on "tactical" difficulty and I retried the first battle three times to get it "right". It has the usual JRPG (a little bit nauseating) pro-monarchy premise which TBH I don't mind in fantasy settings, but it feels tired and uncreative. But I have been able to look past that because the rest of the game is fine. The animations look really nice without needing much sophistication. The English voice acting was a bit cringe so I switched to the Japanese one. I don't know if the game will be able to grab me till the end (unlikely because of commitment issues) but it is a nice surprise to be sure.

Technology ksynwa • Now • 100%

Indian startup (DotPe) that provides digital menu and ordering service for restaurants serve sensitive info over a fully public API

News article: https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/google-backed-dotpe-s-apis-expose-sensitive-data/ar-AA1ra3xx This startup provides a shitty digital menu for restaurants. You scan a qr code that takes you to a terrible website where you submit your order. Once its ready the waiter brings it to you. Someone opened their ordering webpage on a PC and looked at the API calls being made using their browser's dev tools. Turns out the entire API is public. This person was able to order on behalf of another table and view records of all the sales that took place at the restaurant. The funniest thing is, instead of disclosing this to DotPe, the person instead wrote a blog post and posted it on Hacker News for the updoots. While describing this situation as a "vulnerability" feels extremely charitable, I think he should have covered his bases to avoid lawsuits.

The Dredge Tank ksynwa • Now • 100%

Why won't the white man save the savage asiatics from themselves?

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=41633823 Truly a conundrum. Us Westerners are just sitting with our hands folded as large swathes of Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and Palestine have been rendered uninhabitable over the last half century for reasons unknown to man. The white man's is truly a heavy burden to bear.

Technology ksynwa • Now • 100%

Thoughts on Firefox forks?

Yesterday I accidentally wiped my Firefox profile. Upon creating a new one I was hit with the realisation of just how many shit defaults Firefox has. This made me consider using a fork which un-enshittifies Firefox. There is only one that I know of, LibreWolf. Thankfully it seems actively maintained. So on Windows I have started using that for now. On Linux I still use Firefox because the enlightened repository maintainers don't allow any Firefox/Chromium forks and I don't wanna use Flatpak or pacakge it myself. Are there any other forks worth considering?

shitposting ksynwa • Now • 98%

Lemmy developer exposed

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3460175 > Damn, that sucks. The French should have taken up Louverture on his offer instead of backstabbing him, then. > >   > > As it turns out, the Wikipedia page is shockingly wrong/misleading. The new Haitian government specifically carried out a vengeful campaign against the *French* whites including the poor “Petit-Blancs” who didn’t own slaves but largely supported slavery and white supremacy throughout the colony’s history, at some points even more fanatically than their rich counterparts (there was genuine threat of a mass revolt from them when the colonial government wanted to grant more rights to free mixed-race Haitians). Polish soldiers who assisted the revolution and German farmers on the island were spared, as well as non-French nationals (a common if unverified story is a white Frenchman who survived by pretending to be American). > > This isn’t to say genocide under any circumstance is “okay” but I’m don’t think anyone is under any position to lecture people who were put under the sheer inhumanity of Caribbean sugar cane plantation system in particular or Transatlantic slavery in general. To say nothing of the depraved lengths the French, slave-owning or not, went to to preserve slavery in the revolutionary war (such as, as some in the comments point out, reprisal massacres, mass rapes, feeding prisoners to dogs, etc). It’s also inaccurate to say this was done only out of revenge when the fear of white French petitionining to have France reinvade was very real (as had happened). Even then, Dessalines’ mandate was far from uncontroversial or even universally-enforced. As with other things, this falls solely on France which has not even pretended to pay back the damage it has done to Haiti before, during and after the revolution. > > Also, though rightoids and fashies like this guy are expected, it’s funny to see more liberal whites pearl-clutch over the 1804 massacres but somehow handwave the rest of the period as “simply another time”. You’re sure to find them under any post about the Haitian revolution bringing it up but if you bring up the fact that the American Founding Fathers were slave-owning, genocidal hypocrites on any post commemorating the 4th of July, you’re suddenly a party-pooper who doesn’t understand history. > > [Link if you hate yourself](https://x.com/codet_t/status/1834883650841677999)

Illegal stuff has been happening on Telegram since forever. Don't get me wrong. I am not saying that I've discovered the true machinations behind the arrest. Just bouncing my ideas.

A good read on how Canada cultivated its "nice" image at first and how its ghoulishness has now inevitably bared its face.

Technology ksynwa • Now • 100%

Nearly half of Nvidia’s revenue comes from just four mystery whales each buying $3 billion-plus

fortune.com

I hope this bubble bursts soon I'm getting real tired of it.

Physical Education ksynwa • Now • 94%

Where do you get your workout (lifting) routine from?

I am going back to the gym tomorrow morning so you all better cough up some answers by then. I know there are some commonly suggested routines. Like stronglifts 5x5, then there is 6-day PPL program that is suggested often on reddit too. I also know that once you are experienced enough you can customise your program according to your requirements and liberties. But I would like some suggestions for some intermediate-level programs. It has been a while since I followed one so I would appreciate anchoring myself to something definite rather than just doing what I like. Thanks. Any suggestions are welcome.

mronline.org

**CW: SA, murder, terrible shit** Don't know if you folks are aware but the conditions around the lack of safety for women in India is getting a lot of attention lately because a rape-murder case has generated major outcry because of the sheer brutality. Following this aforementioned case, the media has begun to report more on cases of sexual violence against women and minor girls. It is a very depressing situation because women are incredibly unsafe in the country but no one has any answers to fix this. Protests and activism try to find solutions within the existing political and economic framework which simply do not exist. The result is that this righteous anger materialises into screaming into the void until the energy dissipates. Some time passes and another terrible case happens again, after which the cycle repeats. In fact, there was a similar outcry against another horrific case some years ago the details of which are too tragic for me to repeat. The ruling party, BJP, is well known for harboring and protecting rapists. This aforementioned high profile case, like the others of its kind, are merely being used by opportunistic poltical parties to sling shit at each other rather than trying to find a solution, not that it surprises me even a little bit. This current case for example has turned into a boxing match between BJP and TMC (Trinamool Congrees, West Bengal's fascist ruling party) slandering (using this term very liberally) each other. Times like serve as a sad reminder for me that I see no way out of the mire of reaction the country is bogged down in thanks to the political system that was "handed over" to us from the British. And I say this as an optimistic person. Nevertheless I respect those who struggle.