wheresmysurplusvalue

I noticed while creating a new post that if I provide a Thumbnail URL with an external (not hexbear.net) URL, then the original image gets used when viewing the post. I first noticed it on this post where I added a youtube thumbnail icon (check it in the browser console).

I tried researching if there's a bug for this in upstream Lemmy:

This one seems like it would have fixed it: LemmyNet/lemmy-ui: Update post listing to prefer local image when available

And see also this: LemmyNet/lemmy: Add initial skeleton of image proxy improvements for feedback

Unfortunately I'm not that familiar with the Lemmy codebase, but how possible would it be to proxy+cache thumbnails? I don't quite mean store it permanently in the database, just proxy the source image and cache it for performance reasons. Otherwise, maybe we should disable the thumbnail URL for now until this support is added upstream?

I remembered this song I hadn't listened to in years. Checked out the musician's page and saw that she's actively posting pro Palestine activism hard. Give her a listen!

In Russian they don't say "I love you" they say "пожирать плоть капиталистов" which means "we are one and the same" and I think that's beautiful

[Screenshot of google translate]

Query: Пожирать плоть капиталистов
Result: Eat the flesh of the capitalists

No clue what they're saying but I'm enjoying the instrument selection and dance

Recently I've been reading a lot about the topic of mesh VPNs (tinc, Nebula, Tailscale, ZeroTier, Netmaker, Netbird, etc) and find them pretty interesting. Is anyone here using these in some capacity at home or maybe at work?

My problem so far is that many of the options seem to be aimed at corporate use, understandably, so the developers can earn enough to keep doing it. This means the focus is on a centralized control plane, one server which knows everything about the entire network and manages firewall rules for all of it.

This is why I'm leaning towards Nebula, since I think the decentralized design just makes more sense. There is some centralization for issuing certs though. How do I go about setting up PKI? Is there some open source solution for managing certificates and automatically renewing them?

There's also the option of using vanilla WireGuard. This is my current setup, but I really like the idea of meshing, since it means I don't need to care if my devices are physically on the same network or not, the best connection will be used. Basically the layer of abstraction is a nice convenience that lets me think about hosts or services independently of the physical network topology.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this topic! What's your setup like and what do you use it for?

Original comic

Some keywords:

• adventurism
• restraint
• whatever shortcode is used for that guy with tape around his mouth

Considered one of the most important intellectuals in Latin American social thought, Ruy Mauro Marini demonstrated that underdevelopment and development are the result of relations between economies in the world market, and the class relations they engender. In The Dialectics of Dependency, the Brazilian sociologist and revolutionary showed that, as Latin America came to specialize in the production of raw materials and foodstuffs while importing manufactured goods, a process of unequal exchange took shape that created a transfer of value to the imperialist centers. This encouraged capitalists in the periphery to resort to the superexploitation of workers – harsh working conditions where wages fall below what is needed to reproduce their labor power. In this way, the economies of Latin America, which played a fundamental role in facilitating a new phase of the industrial revolution in western Europe, passed from the colonial condition only to be rendered economically “dependent,” or subordinated to imperialist economies. This unbalanced relationship, which nonetheless allows capitalists of both imperialist and dependent regions to profit, has been reproduced in successive international divisions of labor of world economy, and continues to inform the day-to-day life of Latin American workers and their struggles.

Written during an upsurge of class struggle in the region in the 1970s, and published here in English for the first time, the revelations inscribed in this foundational essay are proving more relevant than ever. The Dialectics of Dependency is an internationalist contribution from one Latin American Marxist to dispossessed and oppressed people struggling the world over, and a gift to those who struggle from within the recesses of present-day imperialist centers—nourishing today’s efforts to think through the definition of “revolution” on a global scale.