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Cake day: November 19th, 2022

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  • the wife of a guy in our office said that they got a late night e-mail explaining this situation and said that all invoices now would be addressed to jordanian firms, but the outcome won’t change. there is not a single soul they wouldn’t slaughter just to get that sweet sweet dollar bills.

    and by the way, based purely on my real life experience, i don’t see people complaining about this. i have heard a lot of my friends saying “why did hamas do something like this knowing perfectly well that israel would behave this way?”.

    as a country, turkey has been a lost cause since the 1980 coup. october 7th just made everyone sure of that.










  • i’m all for periodic contributions through channels like open collective but bounties rarely get to the point of being persuading.

    for a couple of years now my favorite foss project has been blender bim addon and its community osarch.

    it has a unique aspect. the software stack it’s trying to be an alternative of includes giants like autodesk, nemetchek etc. although it’s a gigantic shoe to fill, it has been really really successful at doing what it’s doing. i have been using it for a year now and cannot fathom to go back.

    the community consists of experienced construction sector people and a decent amount of them are directly involved in the software development, be it coding, bug triage, educational content, technical support etc.

    i guess the thing that makes a project tick is having a working state software, the degree to which is not important, and being community oriented.



  • the inception of pkk was a very “weird” time for turkey. in 1980 there was a coup d’eta following a large scale years-long popular socialist uprising. this uprising was first followed by reactionary opposition. it was called right vs left but it was basically communists vs fascists. the coup government was very brutal. they spared most of the fascists and communists were subjected to unimaginable methods of torture, and executions.

    also after the coup, kurdish was forbidden, location names were changed and kurdish population was met with insane oppresion.

    in this climate, any force that countered that oppression would be welcome. that’s what pkk did. they are communists, but have swayed towards right. especially in syria (as pyd). they seem to want to become the government rather than become a socialist force now.

    this article is a nice summary. i don’t have pinpoint exaples, sorry.

    they always had their political parties banned and set up under a new name. until recently i voted for that party. i would still do but we have a decent communist party now with delegates in the parliament.