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Oh wrote, thank you for making comics and posting here!

Don’t worry too much about having to pump out content. Like, not to the point were it detrimental to your health instead of being fun.

I agree with the reasoning, that with “vegan ethics” as at the basis, easier to argue for other basic (human) rights and non-violence. If anyone deserves to live free of harm, then there’s less debate for racism, etc. You are right that non-veganism is hypocritical of leftists. I do comment on comrades’ lack of integrity. The same applies regarding queer-friendliness.

But how are you drawing the conclusion, that veganism should be at the epicenter? How would that be achieved? Isn’t it also hypocritical for vegans to not be activists for a broader spectrum of left political topics? Veganism definitely does attach to many topics, but it would be a bad center for them. How would a critique of media or militarism be stronger from a vegan-centric position?

In veganism, our perspective is from a position of power (to abuse animals), which we’re individually not boycotting. We are arguing that other people should voluntarily join us, or we’re trying to make veganism more accessible. However, many other super important left topics are from quite the opposite perspective: we are the oppressed, trying to take down the oppressors. We can’t just “argue with other oppressors”. We can’t just sit down with a cup of warm oat milk and say “oppression is immoral, please stop”. We need to get up and actively fight it, and I haven’t seen “vegan-centric approaches” that would be advantageous here.

It’s one struggle, one fight. Joining forces across the left spectrum is one of the most powerful things we can do, and I’d love to see us fighting jointly. It’s also what out adversaries fear the most! The FBI killed MLK and Black Panther Party leaders after they and their peers brought together distinct groups. But it seems uninformed to consider veganism as the epicenter. The epicenter should be a framework to understand, organize and lead the struggle. I’d rather have strong core values from which veganism concludes, than a center from which other struggles are merely touched upon but not actually addressed.

Hope to see a constructive discussion 😀

It wouldn’t surprise me if both are just happy to gave enjoyed each other’s show

It helps me to consider that many people have a lot of stuff going on in their lives, things that worry them, as well as things that are taxing on them (work, physical and mental health issues, care work, finances, etc). We all have to manage the resources we have, including attention. Going vegan requires quite some thought, some getting use to, some effort to break out of the habit. It requires mental effort to reconsider common prejudice and misconceptions, and it often leads to facing one’s own cognitive dissonance (meaning: if we ate animals or whole life and we now consider that to be wrong, we have to face having done wrong our whole previous life; addressing this dissonance can be mentally painful).

Personally I’d rather nudge people, than to appear as if forcing them. I like some low barrier offers, like bringing muffins or inviting them for dinner. It depends on how thoughtful and open minded the person is, many will just push back when feeling pressured. I remember that I didn’t go vegan overnight either.

Are you organized and do outreach work? Are you sad about “ignorant” people in general or family/friends in particular?

@dessalines@lemmy.ml being as sharp as always, thank you for sharing this! I somehow missed that essay in the past, and recently even had a discussion where I argued in favor of signal. His overview makes some great points that shouldn’t be dismissed offhandedly. The important point is to not make the mistake of shunning signal in favor of an even less secure alternative. Also the user’s threat model should be taken into account. Those who aren’t anticapitalists (yet) might need to worry less about the concerns.

Hmm, this is a topic that has been debated for years, I guess instead of writing my own summaries, it’s great to link you to some resources, outlining why modern AI (“LLM”/“GPT”) is controversial:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#Safety
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#Societal_concerns
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT#Limitations
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop

Note that some issues apply only given certain output (e.g. hallucinations), some depend on the usage (the decision to generate and publicize AI slop is made by human operators), whereas some issues are always present (e.g. huge environmental impact).

Regarding the there being a difference between good and bad AI or not: Some people argue that it’s always bad, some are bit more nuanced, some are competely blind/ignorant to the problem. Only those in the middle camp would necessarily see a difference.

You can expose your stuff to the internet, that’s not inherently frivolous, but it increases your attack surface. If you use cloudflared, you can tunnel it through cloudflared, which helps not publicly exposing your IP (but your services are still publicly exposed). You might be able to use cloudflared together with gluetun, but I prefer having the reverse proxy and cloudflared outside of the gluetun network.

I haven’t tried any out-of-the-box solution or setup script, so I can’t talk about them. if you go diy or want to edit any solution to have internet access exclusively over VPN (or not at all otherwise), I can recommend gluetun. Other than that, I just have a simple docker compose file and a reverse proxy. I recommend not exposing it to the www, but to keep it only accessible in your local network, or tailscale, if your use case allows it. Note: if you set up https, you might be leaking your subdomains in permanent certificate transparency records.

our hero! (Assuming the ratio keeps getting better)

They don’t let you export smut? D:

But please nsfw flag this

I can’t speak for myself, but I’ve seen some children/young teenagers with ADHD being already too focused on what’s next. Or they go to the toilet with a handheld gaming console or smartphone to begin with, and never diverted their attention except for the bare minimum required when going to the toilet.

Made me laugh!

But why is my first thought that this is a critique is the military industrial complex 😅

✨ Presenting the next gen of the IDF Caterpillar D9 ✨

now with integrated lasers, pew pew!

I attune your family has human identifiable faces? Do you have a machine learning service container running? If so and if its enabled, it should just work. Otherwise, maybe try tweaking the parameters?

Right down the memory lane 😭❤️ Love to Razor 0x777, their style and dedication is unmatched

Maybe she is in motion

the post already links to a summary, but tl;dr

the state seeks to charge Meta for supporting grooming of minors, because adding chat encryption obstructed law enforcement. Criminalizing the design decision to add encryption might deter all companies.

Some of the most damaging evidence in both trials came from internal company documents where employees raised concerns about safety risks and discussed tradeoffs. […] the rational corporate response is to stop putting anything in writing. Stop doing risk assessments. Stop asking hard questions internally. […] That makes everyone less safe.

That’s pretty wild 😉

At work I use kubernetes and quite like that (upgrading containers without downtime FTE), but I didn’t bother trying to set up the infrastructure myself. Some argue, it’s not with the efford for self hosting, I dunno.

What I do like to use is Dockge, to keep docker but also keep your sanity. It even offers a single button for “docker compose pull”, which is great of you don’t have to many compose files / stacks. Combine with a simple shell script to batch pull/build all stacks in one go, plus some backup solution, and it’s actually nice to use and does all that I need. I love CLIs, but I’ve had situations where the GUI came in very handy.

#! /bin/bash
# note: this will update and START all dockge stacks, even if you stopped them before
shopt -s nullglob
for proj in /opt/dockge /opt/stacks/*/; do
  echo "> $proj"
  docker compose -f "$proj/compose.yaml" up --pull always --build --detach
  echo ""
done

Gotta copy that, thank you!