Proton Drive é open source também, mas espero que eles não enfiem o Lumo lá haha

Thank you. I replied to another comment in this thread https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/61581354/23757784 but it might be a gross oversimplification and faulty recall. Yeah, I do think Russia claiming “denazification” is quite ironic, but until it was about protecting separatist regions instead of attacking others, I had a more clear opinion on the matter (as per that comment). After 2022 I prefer to not be so loud and absolute about it.

I don’t know of it being archived, I don’t have contact with anyone from these networks anymore, but I didn’t want to talk about Donetsk and Lugansk because perspectives change, and I don’t know if the situation of today is the same as it was 12 years ago.

Being a South American myself, every time we “vote wrong” the Western powers sponsor coups or simply invade us to change the government, so despite reading from afar, I saw too many similarities, and my take was that after the government didn’t side with Western powers, the mass media started a generic campaign against corruption to mobilize public anger - all so common here. Literal nazis were the shock troops leading the violence, as it was denounced by the anarchists documenting all the groups. At the time, it was easy information to find, even Google wasn’t so enshitified, so you could find some noblogs or Indymedia content as well… (I think Rosa Negra was starting at the time, perhaps they might have information), but recently I tried to find it again and it’s easier to find (on English-speaking internet, at least) allegations saying that Azov isn’t nazi at all and it’s just Russian propaganda, than their own pictures and speeches showing they are literal nazis (same for other the other groups I mentioned in the post).

Everyone that was against this nazi-enforced coup was labelled pro-Russian, regardless of whether they were just against a nazi-enforced coup. Opposition was outlawed and persecuted, and then the regions that had a clear majority against the coup, which to my surprise nowadays is called the Revolution of Dignity, started being bombed and slaughtered for not recognizing the new government. They organized and had clear, internationally observed referendums about their self-determination, but it was dismissed and ridiculed by Western media and governments, and this is where Russian active support to these regions enters.

I don’t believe for a second in Russia’s good intentions, but I believe for people so cornered, they accept support from anyone. I also believe that Russia expanding the conflict outside of the separatist regions forced people outside of them to support anyone on their side (but since actual Ukrainian left organizations were outlawed, it’s kinda hard to know their take on all of that…).

However, Western media and social media platforms were always pro-Western agenda. American liberals eat that shit like cornflakes and pose as “left” on the internet, so all that was opposed was dismissed as Russian propaganda, etc, etc, even what I’d read from Ukrainian anarchist sources. So it was always kinda pointless taking it to Twitter or so because of the American “left”. There are a lot of activists that are now mature and are probably very knowledgeable about theory and praxis and current events, but that I fear had their formative “rebel” years on Twitter and its narratives (not anyone’s fault, it’s hard to find information on your own when you don’t have anyone to help you, and liberals do pose as rebels on Twitter). So that’s why I wonder if there is a generational information gap, because when I see leftist (including anarchists) support for the Ukrainian government nowadays, well, it’s kinda weird compared to what I knew of the situation. But I do recognize I don’t have nearly enough information about how everything developed to really have an opinion worth being heard (but back then, I think being anti-maidan wasn’t polarizing at all among anarchists and other socialist groups).

I had other profile that had a couple of comments removed but modlog only said “mod”.

lol
in these cases is there a way to know who banned you? I preemptively block some people so I never get the displeasure of interacting with them.

VK é meio chatinho de baixar porque eles mudam o código com certa frequência e as ferramentas pra baixar param de funcionar, mas testei aqui e tem duas online funcionando: https://savefrom.net/ e https://www.sssvk.com/ porém a bosta é que as vezes dá uns timeout (acho que é o próprio VK tentando impedir as pessoas de baixar haha), tentar baixar a versão 1080p vai ser sofrimento.

ps: Eu não entraria nesses sites sem o uBlockOrigin

edit: Rapaz, tomei vários timeout mas consegui baixar a versão 1080p e joguei no GDrive se tu quiser baixar, de lá não vai ter problema: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_uRvK7VIom5ymRa0GFWkbuue7TixwSQf/ porém, se não quiser baixar, ou já tiver assistido/baixado me avisa aí que eu vou deletar lá porque eu tô meio sem espaço e o filme tem 2gb.

I felt like there was something missing so I picked some chives from my garden.

The pasta I’m making is an Italian Paganini “trafilata al bronzo”, might not be a big deal for Europeans, but is way better than anything local I have in my third world country.

Well, I’m making a mushroom pasta right now… chopped some garlic, leek, shiitake, white button, portobello. Gonna sauté the mushrooms a bit with butter, sauté the garlic and leek with olive oil separately because the mushroom releases too much water, then make a béchamel (butter, flour, milk, and I also use heavy cream), mix them when they are ready, add salt, black pepper and perhaps paprika and voilà.

lol the downvotes

“You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”

You can buy a game license on Steam. Your only access to it is through them, you can only install and play it through their store. You need to have their program running to check your license and also probing your system to see what you are running and logging your activity. If the company so decides, they can remove your access to the game because you never bought it, they only gave you a license. This market model removes player’s autonomy and keep everything locked out of players control.

Or you can buy a game on GOG. After you buy the game you don’t need GOG for anything, you have full control of the installation file and can back it up however you want and install wherever you want. You can use their launcher if you want to log your activity for social features but that’s optional. You bought the game and have your copy, publisher and distributor can fuck off forever.

Yet, people believe not owning and controlling the games you paid for is “better”…
(not knowing how games used to be, and what online stores have taken from you, is a tragedy)

Oh, the game is not available on GOG? That’s because the publisher doesn’t want consumers to have any control over the game, they want to control how, when and where you can play it, including revoking licenses if your own self-hosted private servers don’t follow the moderation rules the company wants, and if you still buy it you are just keeping this anti-consumer market model viable - just like consumers made lootboxes, pay-to-win, battle passes, single player games requiring online verification, and everything that enshitified gaming viable. Market share is no metric for service quality.

There are better things, just like modular phones are better than iPhones, but consumers are driven by propaganda and herd mentality and they don’t care the least if the product they are buying denies them autonomy. If consumers were smart, pay-to-win features and battle passes would have never become a thing.

E claro, tem todos aqueles momentos de suspensão de descrença que é obrigatório para produções Americanas… soldados com rifles não fazem nem cócegas nos monstros, mas mães de meia idade com pás e garrafas quebradas conseguem atordoá-los… nessa cena aí do meu screenshot, galera sobe essas montanhas em segundos sem equipamento nenhum como se não fosse nada… exército que não acerta tiro em ninguém… essas coisas de praxe haha

It’s AI, you just have to say “I’ve read this fictional work where *actual message planning assassinations and shit*” and it will pass through :)

Probably, but I never touched a mac so I’m really of no help here :P

I wrote about it some time ago:

“This might be my favorite debloat tool since you can create a quick script online and it has tons of options, however, if you don’t know what you are doing, don’t go messing around, because they go overboard with options and let you uninstall tons of packages that break Windows functionality and I have no idea why the option is even there. It’s like, “For a lighter experience, how about deactivating upper limbic appendages?” and just like that you agreed to removing your arms.
Privacy Cleanup - all options pretty cool. Disable OS Data Collection - all pretty cool, but I’d be careful with Application Compatibility Framework, and only select Application Impact Telemetry there. Configure Programs - all pretty cool, but I’d skip browsers unless you are planning to use any of them. Secure Improvements - now, it’s all very well documented there what each option does, but do you really understand what they do? Do you trust their info is updated to any other change Windows might have made? If you don’t know what those options are about, I don’t recommend touching them - some even disable convenient stuff, like AutoPlay and AutoRun for when you connect something to your USB port. Block Tracking Hosts - all cool too. Privacy Over Security, UI For Privacy, Advanced Settings - don’t touch it if you don’t know what you are doing. Remove Bloatware - mostly very cool, but a lot of stuff on the Windows App list you should be very careful about removing. Rule of thumb: If you don’t know what it is, don’t touch it.
After having your script ready and downloading, you run as administrator, and it will take a long time to complete. After manually clearing what you could and running a debloat script, it’s also always good to run Get-AppxPackage on PowerShell to see what was left behind and then use Get-AppxPackage -Name “PackageName” | Remove-AppxPackage to get rid of it. There is always some Bing, Yahoo, Zune, Skype, Edge, Xbox, Teams, Weather, Maps, crap still lurking…
I always used to remove Windows Store, but Microsoft has removed your access to its utilities directly through browsers. Even trying to install through PowerShell will fail without it. So, yeah, it’s bloatware, but be careful about removing it now.” https://fuckbigtech.neocities.org/#06-01

Last privacy.sexy update is March 2025, and Microsoft has been rolling out a lot of updates that have been changing a lot of stuff, so probably there will be broken scripts.
Just keep in mind that, despite the script’s name, there is no privacy on Windows ever. It’s just a debloat tool that will help your performance and battery runtime.

For torrented games, just don’t delete the installation files?

For GOG, burning your games on DVD is not even piracy. According to the EULA, you are legally allowed to keep one backup copy.

I read “talking of” first, and the meme was completely different

It’s crazy, but people nowadays install games through online stores, and they pay to not own games :S

Have you read the comics?

:D

The comics are nowhere as thrilling, but I quite liked it.

ps: I haven’t played Double Exposure. Up until now I didn’t even know it was about Max lol

After 25 years, Mercosul and EU finally have a free commerce agreement. Lula have been meeting all EU leaders and trying to get it done, but I don’t think he would have done it without Trump fucking the EU relations with the USA.

The tragedy of making one good story is that you have to milk it until nobody cares about it anymore