Any one with a somewhat working democracy, and decent social freedoms.

What is an example?

What is an example of an extant state that isn’t “ultraauthoritarian” in your view?

I’ve never seen it once. People love making stuff up apparently. Like “Ultra-mega-hyper-super-authoritarianism!”

Peculiarities:

• Comparison of Lemmy instances contains Hexbear but not lemmy.ml

• Fediverse Observer contains lemmy.ml but not Hexbear.

We’ve all been there

It’s the devs’ test instance.

The devs are Marxist-Leninists. They’re the admins of the instance. Therefore the instance has nuanced-to-positive views on Actually Existing Socialist (AES) states, and allows for criticism of Democrats from the left.

It’s been defederated by instances whose admins aren’t wiling to critically examine their lifetime of capitalist programming and are accustomed to Reddit’s universal condemnation of AES states.

He didn’t call Hexbears, libertarians, comrade; he said he prefers them over libertarians.

Hexbears have disdain for libertarians^[1], so we certainly don’t pretend to be them.

Qubes OS

The default transcoding profile uses ffmpeg’s veryfast preset, which is the third fastest of the ten available presets, and already leaves a lot of quality to be desired IMO. Using a different transcoding profile requires the use of server plugins, as would the ability to set the profile per channel or video. I haven’t checked to see if a plugin exists which allows the user to select a profile, but it’s something I’m also interested in myself. I’m also not sure if using a different profile makes a transcoding job any more or less likely to fail.

All VPNs are blocked on my university’s network

I live off campus, thankfully, but it sucks that I can’t have any privacy on my laptop while on campus.

Sit back and relax.

You can sync user and daemon UIDs across machines with LDAP and SSSD.

And even if you don’t do that, keeping the information is useful when restoring to the same machine

Name four Spice Girls

It’s certainly the agenda being pushed.

Are you referring to Nordstream, or another Baltic pipe?

It looks like the Polish train accidents are no longer blamed on Russia.

Polish authorities initially believed Russian sabotage was afoot.^[1]

But after investigations were carried out by Poland’s Internal Security Agency, it seems that local radio enthusiasts using amateur equipment managed to copy the brake signal used to override the manual functions of the train operator and force the trains to stop abruptly, causing the accidents.^[1:1]

I no longer take any of the accusations from Western intelligence at face value (i.e. without evidence), because I believe they’ve lied about Russian culpability so many times in the past.^[2] I don’t discount the possibility though—the Baltic Sea cables one seems to have a plausible motive at the very least, if they were used for NATO communications.

the Russian sabotage going on

What happened?

“To any Westerners losing sleep over the situation in Ukraine: Just pretend it’s happening in Africa.” —Sergei Lavrov (paraphrasing)

Would this only apply to servers hosted in Mississippi (or wherever)? Or any server with users registering from Mississippi IPs?

Edit: I’m guessing it’s the latter.

That’s a relief. I’m guessing the admins have to remove the instance from the block list first?

It’s bullshit cowardice.

Yes. It’s in their database init code:

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/f3e863d277932b55a15b1fe5043d750994fb8c14/app/cli.py

            banned_instances = ['anonib.al', 'lemmygrad.ml', 'gab.com', 'rqd2.net', 'exploding-heads.com',
                                'hexbear.net',
                                'threads.net', 'noauthority.social', 'pieville.net', 'links.hackliberty.org',
                                'poa.st', 'freespeechextremist.com', 'bae.st', 'nicecrew.digital',
                                'detroitriotcity.com',
                                'pawoo.net', 'shitposter.club', 'spinster.xyz', 'catgirl.life', 'gameliberty.club',
                                'yggdrasil.social', 'beefyboys.win', 'brighteon.social', 'cum.salon', 'wizard.casa']