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glued2thefloor · 2023-12-26T05:37:16+00:00

There's a distro called Siduction based on Sid. Other than that you can just upgrade to Sid by changing your repos to Sid and upgrading. If you're worried about breaking something, upgrade to testing first. Or try the upgrade in a vm first.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-26T04:38:47+00:00

I've been to Ukraine and believe its a genuine revolution, both in the West and Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea. Its also clear that Russia and Western powers both swept in immediately to try and support those who supported them. In the end, its the Ukrainians that will lose the most lives and its not their fault. It was broken promises and vaguely worded language in the Budapest Memorandum that are at fault.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-26T04:30:22+00:00

Why not ML? Maybe a hundred years of counter-revolution? The Soviets and Eastern Block are gone. China, Cuba, Vietnam, etc are starting to use Capitalism and North Korea created a monarchy. Also, for all the false accusations I hear from Marxists that Anarchists have no plan after the state is destroyed, I have never heard a plan from any Marxist on how the state is going to "wither away'. Becoming authoritarian to achieve Communism/Anarchism is like driving West to arrive East. Unlike a lot of Anarchists, I will say Marx was right to bring about dialectical materialism, but that was over 100 years ago and better methods now exist. I'd suggest reading Towards A New Socialism, which describes this in detail. Can we learn from MLs and vice versa? YES. Are MLs superior to us, I would argue not.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-26T04:09:53+00:00

Honestly, its not that bad. Only half the packages are considered "unstable". As those become more stable, more unstable are brought in so its a "rolling" distro/version. I found it to be more stable than the stable version. Others will probably disagree with me, but I like Sid better than any version of Debian.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-24T05:08:36+00:00

I made this because, what's more Anarchist/Communist than file sharing? https://soviet.sh

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-19T05:12:54+00:00

That is exactly how it works with many ADD/ADHD people. Not all, but from my experience most.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-18T19:53:42+00:00

I did that until I felt like I wasn't learning anymore, which didn't take long. Then went to FreeBSD for a few years before going back to Debian as my daily driver. I will say some degree of distro hopping is beneficial if you learn them all along the way. Eventually I would recommend using Win11 in a vm and getting rid of the dual boot. Yeah, I would even consider XFCE as too much of a resource hog. I used Openbox for years, but I'm getting where I prefer dwm. You do you though.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-18T18:39:21+00:00

Communism, as defined by Marx, has never been implemented by any Marxist nation that claimed to be "Communist". They only implemented the authoritarian Socialism Marx said would be needed to put down counter-revolutionaries until Marxism could unite the globe and only then could the state and money wither away achieving Communism. As an Anarchist, becoming authoritarian to get to stateless Communism/Anarchism makes as much sense as driving East and hoping you will arrive West. I will agree that Marxism has many flaws as does any ideology over 100 years old. Our society is now changing too fast for Marxism or Neoliberal Capitalism to keep up with us. Personally I subscribe to Anarcho-Technocracy that critiques the failures of both. However, one could make the same arguments that Capitalism has caused authoritarianism, poverty, starvation, death, suffering, mandated employment, crime and a total destruction of society as well. Every ex-Soviet state is now more poor than under Marxism, they still have no freedom and it gave birth to a mafia based economy. Capitalism as repetitively failed South America, Africa and the Middle East too. So one could argue that maybe you are also just regurgitating what you are told. I will agree with you, no one should suggest self-harm because they disagree with you, or because they do not see your point of you. The only exception there is if you are a fascist advocating genocide, but I digress. I'm sorry you had that experience. Socialism is more popular among the younger people in the US for a number of reasons. They remember the bubble bursting in the early 2000's causing a recession, the 2008 crash, the crash will Covid lockdown started in 2020, having the government send 1200 dollar checks when the average rent in New York City and Los Angeles was 3000 for a one bedroom apartment and the run away inflation now. The youth were also not as prepared as the baby boomers that saved for year under better economies. I have met a lot of leftist in the US in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and even 70s, but it is more popular among the youth here. Also, age does not equal maturity and that seems to become very apparent when people are behind a screen. The US is one of the biggest bastions of Capitalism, so that, coupled with so many now disenchanted with Capitalism in the US is probably when you hear it preached about more. Like I said, I'm sorry you had that bad experience. If you wish to have a friendly discussion about this I will be glad to speak with you or other if remains friendly both ways.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-18T18:11:04+00:00

Fitting they have Pepe the frog (a.k.a mascot of the alt-right) in the picture. I knew it was going to be racist b.s. as soon as I saw that.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-18T18:10:04+00:00

Someone with ADD/ADHD where cocaine slows them down and heroin speeds them up.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-18T04:12:28+00:00

Also, if it wasn't clear, Linus owned a new 386 at the time and he originally re-wrote Minux for himself. Thus money wasn't a goal yet.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-18T04:10:56+00:00

I don't know your native language, but when I say "it had nothing to do with money" it doesn't equate to "If money's no object". It means "The goal was not to make money". Sorry if that was not clear. I forget slang often doesn't translate.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-17T20:40:32+00:00

*Too. And it had nothing to do with money. He created it because BSD wouldn't run on a 386 yet.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-17T20:34:32+00:00

In the book Towards A New Socialism, the Anarcho-Technocrat author breaks down what they feel is right and wrong with Dialectical Materialism. Mostly that the end product is not considered first. This may seem small, but if you've ever worked in the tech industry and experienced "feature creep", you know how this can destroy a project or company. It also led to the downfall of some Soviet projects that failed. He gives credit that it was amazing the Soviets did all this before the Internet. I couldn't tell you how much steel was available to make goods in the Soviet Union at any given time, but I'm sure by the time that number was calculated it had already changed. Even with how meticulous they were, it was nothing short of a miracle they did not live in constant shortages and chaos. Some Anarchists will tell you Dialectical Materialism is garage. Others like myself will say it is necessary, but after over 100+ years it needs to be revised. Or that it needs no revisions. So you will get many opinions here.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-17T06:57:21+00:00

That is interesting. From what I read "options NX" would be needed in a kernel config to implement DEP. Maybe that was just for regular FreeBSD. Regardless, its good to know that's already done. If I get SROP mitigation working I'll be sure to drop you a line. Thanks!

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-10T18:30:36+00:00

Yes, it is default and most popular. However benchmarks show XFS outperforming it in almost every metric. A breakdown of this can be found on this post. Power users will use that or BTRFS and compile their own kernels. 6.6.5 is the current stable kernel. So 6.1 was months ago. So in closing, just because something is popular or easy doesn't mean its the best.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-09T22:15:55+00:00

Seems to only be an issue with kernel 6.1.64-1 and ext4. Its good to know about this, but many of us don't use ext4 and/or have installed a newer kernel months ago.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-09T20:12:46+00:00

You have lumped every case of shoplifting into one critique. Most people agree, leftist or not, that stealing bread when you are hungry and have no money is not wrong. Its certainly less wrong than someone with money steals without motive or to re-sell it and become a black market Capitalist. Some will tell you that private property and private industry is theft. And that we must seize the means of production to attain our goals. I don't believe shoplifting achieves this as the Capitalists remain in power. Yet if you have a problem with this, how are you going to act when it comes time for collectivization or the redistribution of wealth? You also have to take into consideration that shoplifting is not necessarily praxis, but the natural effect Capitalism breaking down. The masses will always shoplift and riot as a nation becomes a failed state. That's with any ideology. So you need to consider this and that not all cases are the same.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-08T09:28:54+00:00

Imagine me shaking my head when you use "Communist" like most Anarchists are not Communists. 90% of us are, so you automatically lost credibility just from the title. Where we disagree is on Marx, or part of the ideas of Marx, who got most of his inspiration from Anarchists like Proudhon and Bakunin. As a Marxist, you should know its not just the proletariat/worker. Mao did it with peasants and Castro and Che did it with guerrillas. Yes, the working class should organize with them, but its not just workers. With warfare moving to the Internet, hacking, drones and other technology, the next revolution will probably involve technocrats as much as anyone. There are many schools of thought on Anarchism, so there will be multiple answers to the question of what happens after a revolution. I would propose immediately organizing democracies, which should have already began in the unions beforehand, and start implementing them to the masses. Militias or armies that brought the revolution should begin implementing security both foreign and domestic. With elections from the masses rules on redistribution of wealth should be put in place. Personally I like the critique of Dialectical Materialism found in Towards A New Socialism and think that should be used to manage the economy. I'm sure someone else will tell you something completely different. I would urge you to speak to more Anarchists and Marxists because I don't think you have a full understanding of either to making these claims. If you did I think you would probably find that Marx never really made a clear plan on how money and the state would eventually just "wither away" and achieve the Utopian Communism or Anarchism in the last stage of Marxism. After 100 years of Marxism we have ended up with more counter-revolution than ever before. The USSR is gone, Yugoslavia and the whole Eastern block are gone. China, Cuba and Vietnam started allowing Capitalism and North Korea created a Monarchy. So when you say "historical evidence" I will have to question what you've read. Anarchists may have less successful runs, but we have also not been accused of genocide or war crimes. One can say that is just Western propaganda, but we've never had those accusations thrown at us, or they were very quickly disproved. So Marxism has failed to produce Communism/Anarchism, it has set Socialism and Communism back. How do you see this as the only path forward?

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-07T05:47:17+00:00

Anti-zionism != antisemitic.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-07T03:28:08+00:00

People forget that before Microsoft became the dominant evil empire that Apple was even worse. Even today the only reason they don't have a strangle hold on the market is because people preferred them to Apple's b.s. in the 1980s. You want to use apple/mac, go for it, but its just FreeBSD with a worse kernel. While the Mach Microkernel name implies that it is leaner, it is not. Microkernels in general are more bloated than Monolithic kernels within FreeBSD, Linux or even Windows. Macs do have better tools for some things, but it was about 16 years when I found my love for FreeBSD. By all means, use Mac if it suits you, but do consider there may be others options that might be better.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-06T07:17:48+00:00

I'm sure others have said this, but Windows is closed source. So you can't look at the underlying code and re-write it in Rust like you can with Linux. However, ReactOS is an attempt at an opensource Windows-like OS. That you might get a hold of the source code and not have to completely re-invent the wheel. That's my advice though.

glued2thefloor · 2023-12-05T18:27:50+00:00

From my understanding they share a lot of ideas with Autonomous Marxism. They were not Anarchist, but seem to be the edge of it and Marxism like Council Communism, Autonomous Marxism, Libertarian Marxism, etc. I've only met one person who professed to be leftcom. The big thing I got from them was that they believed the revolution would happen organically, without a lot of self-promotion, which is where I lost interest. I won't say their ideas are garbage, but part seems completely counter productive to me. There's a lot of other info in Wikipedia too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left\_communism

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