tenebrisnox

tenebrisnox , 2 hours ago to UK Politics in Over 75k Call for Public Investigation Into Israeli Influence in UK Politics

I don't disagree with you about how weak fascists are in actuality (especialy before grabbing state control). I'd be really interested to know where in history the "strength in numbers" has defeated either fascists in ascendancy or fascist regimes. Seems that guerilla warfare (or however you want to label it) has been far more decisive. The "workers united will never be defeated" slogan has proved to be... defeated.

tenebrisnox , 21 hours ago to UK Politics in Over 75k Call for Public Investigation Into Israeli Influence in UK Politics

It's a noble sentiment that I'd love to support but historically if you look at countries like Chile, fascists will round up masses of people. I've always not understood why anti-fascists don't plan for contingencies like having to go underground - especially as we can see the way things are travelling in places like the UK.

tenebrisnox , 1 day ago to Open Source in how do you browse and collect art digitally?

In terms of saving art you find, take a look at sef-hosting Pinry. I've run it for 4+ years. There are plugins for Firefox and other browsers.

tenebrisnox , 2 days ago to Books in Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? - Monthly Review Press

What a weird response. Glad you read more into my comment that I did.

tenebrisnox , 5 days ago to Books in Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? - Monthly Review Press

This has been a repeated acusatiom on the left for many years: that the Frankfurt School was a means of undermining Marxism and actual revolutionary groups. It probably wasn't needed as Stalin and his gang were doing pretty well in doing that on their own.

tenebrisnox , 8 days ago to United Kingdom in ‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rain

It rains in the UK. When the Romans invaded they noticed how cloudy and rainy the place is. Still is.

tenebrisnox , 9 days ago to UK Politics in Revealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripled

Yes, you are correct. And I'm also not being accurate in that the second vote was for the University's constituency rather than two in the home constituency.

tenebrisnox , 9 days ago to UK Politics in Revealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripled

Oxbridge graduates double votes only ended in 1950. 2021 for the last major cash for honours scandal. Not so long ago really.

tenebrisnox , 10 days ago to UK Politics in Revealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripled

It's noticeable how many right-wing grifters have found Jesus over the last few years. Top of the list is James Delingpole (who at least has the sense to so obviously satirise his whole Christ-believing-comspiracy-theorist send-up).

tenebrisnox , 10 days ago to UK Politics in Revealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripled

Shocked Pikachu face: British political system is corrupt? It wasn't that long ago that rich people had more than one vote if they had houses in different constituencies and would travel across the country to vote many times. Or that graduated from Oxford or Cambridge had two votes. Or not long before that that candidates could round up voters take them to the pub and buy them drinks and then to cast their votes. And that's before all the cash for honours scandals...

Surely people don't believe that there was ever a time when parliamentary politics was ever honest.

tenebrisnox , 11 days ago to Selfhosted in If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?

That's one of the other big issues. I have the same worries about how digital-only gaming has become. My kids seem to prefer digital downloads and really don't believe me when I warn them that they have absolutely no control over what they "buy". But they look at me like one of those crazy old-timers who just doesn't understand the modern world.

I started with Logseq and then quickly moved to Obsidian (which I think is great). Over the last couple of months I've started using Emacs with Org (partly for the challenge and partly because it seems to be able to do pretty much everything).

tenebrisnox , 12 days ago to Selfhosted in If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?

I did make the jump... into unemployment. But still much happier. I love teaching and would join an authentic, child-centred school at the drop of a hat - but not willing to be complicit in the toxic horror show that's current UK education.

tenebrisnox , 12 days ago to Selfhosted in If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?

Former English teacher here. My self-hosting origin is that I had 20 years or so of teaching materials I'd collected in OneNote over that time and simply wanted to have offline copies so that I could feel that if ever something went wrong with Microsoft like getting permanently locked out of my account, then I had a means of restoring everything. Microsoft makes it practically impossible to export to a working backup.

After spending a LONG time trying everything to get back ownership of my materials, I understood the need to move my digital stuff away from big tech. I bought a Synology NAS, learned how to use Docker and then took more steps. About the same time I started using Fediverse apps and learned a great deal from the discussions and links there. My greatest "learn" has been keeping notes in plaintext files (and not getting seduced by nice shiny new apps that are actually horrors that want lure you into a future subscription).

tenebrisnox , 12 days ago to United Kingdom in Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK

Thank you. That was actually weirdly interesting in terms of the specificity (while also being quite broad). I can't imagine how many hours and meetings and people were involved in that.

tenebrisnox , 12 days ago to United Kingdom in Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK

Have the courts come to an actual definition of what (animal) milk actually is? Last I read, neither EU or UK could define it. Milk's content differs so much from brand to brand and there's no set standard. Presumably other than it comes from an animal of some kind.