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  • Not sure it matters

    Hope so

    Lol. But on a more serious note, I don’t think it’ll happen until we reach the tipping point of non-tech people getting on it. I had a friend who tried it years ago and it was all just tech nerds so he eventually fell off of it. Yes the business and personalities side of it is big too, but I don’t think it’ll happen until people are joining because their irl friends are on it

    Mastodon needs more angsty teens making relatable meirl depression memes




  • cult@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.mlGithub alternative ?
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    2 years ago

    Let’s do em all!:

    • GitHub: most mature/reliable
    • GitLab: the most popular and mature GitHub alternative. Generally seen as a more ethical alternative since it’s not owned by MS and is open-sourced, but is still criticized for it’s open-core business model
    • Bitbucket: the “third party” of the bunch that’s no better than the first
    • GitTea: the “fourth party” that’s actually cool but kinda not quite there yet. Worth keeping an eye because it’s the most likely to integrate with ActivityPub soon
    • Gogs: great, but you need to self-host. GitTea is just a community hosted fork of Gogs
    • SourceForge: wow, they’re still around?
    • Codeberg: centered around open-source projects only. Managed by a non-profit org
    • Launchpad: run by Canonical (Ubuntu), has a lot of other features/goals than just hosting code
    • GitBucket: a self-hostable GitHub clone written in Scala
    • NotABug: another “liberated” version of Gogs
    • Radicle: imo, one of the most interesting alternatives to look at. It’s unique in that it’s build on p2p technologies. Unfortunately, it seems quite coupled with many projects in the web3 space
    • Pagure: RedHat developed git forge that can be selfhosted
    • Phorge: community fork of Facebook’s internal Phabricator forge tool which was deprecated in 2011 but got a lot of things right that GitHub is often criticized for
    • Heptapod: Gitlab modified to work with Mercurial
    • Fossil: self-contained small team collaboration tool doing its own thing entirely
    • Kallithea: git and hg web frontend with code review functionality (community fork of Rhode code)
    • RhodeCode: git and hg frontend (original codebase where Kallithea forked off)
    • Sourcehut: email centric git frontend

    Would love to see other people’s one-liner blurbs on these as well

    EDIT: added additional alternatives and comments (thanks @poVoq@slrpnk.net especially)



  • Eh. Probably a good way to limit spam and commercial influence that plagues most attempts at building review sites. I think this is one of the few valid uses of the technique though I’m sure there are other routes they could’ve taken. But things like reputations and trust systems are a big engineering feat to accomplish and get right





  • I’ve studied alternative voting systems a lot (even made a website that lets you compare about 2 dozen of them at once). I’d love for us to switch to an Approval system. But if there’s one thing I’ve concluded from studying them it’s that you can’t fix a system of exploitation through “reform” without directly addressing the underlying power structures. I do believe these systems can help us break the duopoly, but, if anything, smaller parties can be even more susceptible to corporate takeover




  • cult@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    Well for what it’s worth, a more recent publication from that source you posted is this:

    https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/can-russia-continue-fight-long-war

    However, Russia itself built many of its strategic and operational concepts around short war assumptions. Though it has demonstrated the ability to expend resources at scale so far, the question of whether Russia has all the underpinnings of a state capable of continuing to fight a long war deserves further examination

    Russia probably benefits from having stockpiles capable of sustaining combat operations for several years, as well as the capacity to manufacture more at scale. Other capabilities such as tanks and armoured fighting vehicles will, however, need to be regenerated, given the levels of attrition Russia is taking. A key consideration here will be how Russia’s major manufacturers function in the absence of Western components – which, notably, they have failed to substitute in the last decade. After the post-2014 sanctions on defence exports, Russia was able to achieve effective substitution of Western goods in seven out of 127 categories of equipment identified as priorities for import substitution.

    It concludes with

    To be sure, Russia can cut corners – by excluding the need for refresher courses for militarily experienced individuals, for example. Moreover, its enormous stockpiles in areas like artillery shells mean its military machine will not grind to a halt any time soon. Its military will, however, undergo a progressive devolution in qualitative terms should this option be chosen. Alternatively, Russia could opt to replace lost capabilities with qualitatively comparable materiel and personnel for a second offensive – and will probably succeed in some categories. It will not, however, be able to replace the capacity it is shedding at scale. Given a pause, it can potentially generate enough combat capability to, in conjunction with its remaining pre-war capabilities, enable a subsequent offensive. Its ability to do this depends on whether the Russian system is given the breathing space to conserve existing resources, given its limited ability to replace human and material assets at scale.

    So basically Russia needs a pause to be able to withstand this. But given that NATO funding doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon, how much will that really help? The source you posted pointed out Lockheed Martin could easily go from it’s current production of 2,100 missiles a year to 4,000 in a couple years





  • cult@lemmy.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.mlAny criticisms of Stalin?
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    For which part? The bit about Lenin’s warning is from Lenin’s Testament[0] in the post-script:

    Stalin is too coarse and this defect, although quite tolerable in our midst and in dealing among us Communists, becomes intolerable in a Secretary-General. That is why I suggest that the comrades think about a way of removing Stalin from that post and appointing another man in his stead who in all other respects differs from Comrade Stalin in having only one advantage, namely, that of being more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and more considerate to the comrades, less capricious, etc. This circumstance may appear to be a negligible detail. But I think that from the standpoint of safeguards against a split and from the standpoint of what I wrote above about the relationship between Stalin and Trotsky it is not a [minor] detail, but it is a detail which can assume decisive importance.

    Also in the testament he said of Stalin

    I think that Stalin’s haste and his infatuation with pure administration, together with his spite against the notorious “nationalist-socialism” [Stalin critised the minority nations for not being “internationalist” because they did want to unite with Russia], played a fatal role here. In politics spite generally plays the basest of roles.

    Also there was 21 members and 10 candidate members of the Central Committee at the time of the Revolution in 1917. You can look up the history of each of the members and see that, for the ones who made it through till Lenin’s death, Stalin had them executed in order to consolidate all power. These members include Zinoviev and Kamenev who represented the “left wing” of the party. Trotsky was the only original member that survived but he was banished and never returned to Russia. Stalin would use him as a scapegoat for many years afterwards; using alleged involvement in “Trotskyist groups” as an excuse to imprison or kill other members of the party.

    [0] https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/index.htm