Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Revanced is the native YouTube app with free access to the features normally in Premium like removing pre/midroll ads and picture-in-picture, in addition to extra add-ins like Sponsorblock, Dearrow, the choice to either remove Shorts entirely or automatically play them in the regular player, etc. It also works with your YouTube account, so you can read and write to your regular playlists, view your subscriptions, etc., and any changes you make will be immediately reflected on your logged-in web browser.






  • To be a little more precise, it’s not that Lemmy “defends Nazis”, it’s that some of the mods on lemmy.world (and possibly the admins of lemmy.world) take a ridiculously extreme view of the rules on not condoning violence. According to some of these mods, even saying “[blank] should be punched” is against the rules, no matter what the [blank] is.

    It’s one of the reasons a lot of people recommend avoiding lemmy.world when possible, and sticking to more niche instances like sh.itjust.works, Blahaj, and the various national instances.



  • So, I just finished writing a rather lengthy comment about why you’re so obviously wrong to say it’s not about Gaza.

    But I did also add that there are other equally valid possible interpretations because it’s about applicability and metaphor, not direct allegory. Even so, I find your attempts here to compare it to China to be rather tenuous. The fact that the country produces “silk” and did a massacre is pretty much the only parallel. To me, the silk thing is more about adding to the obvious aesthetics of WWII French Resistance, with the silk thing tying in to France’s famous connection to high fashion. I’d say the fact that Tiananmen Square was crushing an internal resistance, while on Ghorman, as well as in both WWII France and in Gaza it’s outsiders seeking to invade and kill the locals, makes the Chinese connection especially weak.


  • They look pretty much the same in terms of skin tone. It’s not whites vs browns. They all just look Mediterranean

    Who? Israel’s dominant sociopolitical group are Ashkenazi. They’re white. Pretending it’s Mediterraneans vs Mediterraneans is playing into the Israeli lie that Jewish people are the true native people in Canaan and everyone else is an outside invader. When in reality some Jews are native to the area, just as the Palestinians are. But certainly not the 20th century neocolonial supremacist state of Israel.


  • The Ghorman Massacre was even in the new continuity as of (at least) the 2017 Rebels episode Secret Cargo.

    And in Andor, the aesthetics were obviously drawing on the French Resistance in WWII.

    But this doesn’t mean the parallels to Israel and Gaza were not there. The “history repeats” aspect might be part of it, but because this was the first time the Ghorman Massacre was portrayed on screen in current canon, they had considerable leeway in how they told the story, what events framed it, and what parallels they were trying to draw.

    There’s a reason they chose to rewrite Mon Mothma’s speech in the Senate from the one shown in Rebels, and that is that they wanted it to tell their message. They chose to frame it as a genocide that the overall population is wilfully ignoring. They chose to have disinformation campaigns coming from those in power which present the Ghormans not as the oppressed group of freedom fighters that they truly are, but as terrorists receiving aid from outside. They chose to show the Empire as willing to deliberately kill their own and have it blamed on the “terrorists”. Heck, they chose to place it in a place specifically called, as @Objection@lemmy.ml notes, the Ghorman Plaza.

    Still, even if it is directly informed by the Gaza genocide itself, it’s obviously not meant to be a perfect allegory. It’s meant to be broadly applicable to all sorts of freedom fighting against oppressive authoritarian states.

    To quote the grandfather of the very genre in which Star Wars as a franchise* sits:

    I much prefer history – true or feigned – with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

    La mort de l’auteur. The best literature can be applied to a wide variety of real-world situations, depending on what the audience’s personal history is and which elements of the art they choose to concentrate on. So the Zionists look at the WWII French aesthetics and cling to that desperate to ignore the parallels to the crimes they themselves are complicit in. The most literate audience brings their own perspective, but also opens themselves up to hear other perspectives, and thus sees that there are multiple possible readings. The narrow-minded audience picks their interpretation and uses it as a reason to reject others.


    * I would argue that Andor as a show is really a political thriller and science-fiction. But the core movies and most of the animated shows are fantasy.




  • In much simpler terms:

    Think of an IP address like a street address. 192 My Street.

    There might be multiple businesses at one street address. In real life we address them with things like 1/192 My Street and 2/192 My Street, but there’s no direct parallel to that in computer networks. Instead, what we do is more like directing your letter to say “Business A c/o 192 My Street”. That’s what SNI does.

    Because we have to write all of that on the outside of the envelope, everyone gets to see that we’re communicating with Business A. But what if one of the businesses at 192 My Street is highly sensitive and we’d rather people didn’t know we were communicating with them? @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de’s proposal is basically like if you put the “Business A” part inside the envelope, so the mailman (and anyone who sees the letter on the way) only see that it’s going to 192 My Street. Then the front room at that address could open the envelope and see that the ultimate destination is Business A, and pass it along to them.



  • If you do not configure anything, then Reitti will skip Geocoding and only display Unknown Place.

    Ah ok thanks. This is what I was wondering.

    Two follow-ups:

    Can you specify multiple COUNTRY_CODEs? (and if so, is the method

    environment:
      - COUNTRY_CODE=country_one
      - COUNTRY_CODE=country_two
    

    or

    environment:
      - COUNTRY_CODE=[country_one, country_two]
    

    or something else?)

    And is this something that can seemlessly be retroactively changed? For example, if I set COUNTRY_CODE=au and it works fine for Australia, but then I move to NZ, can I add (assuming the answer to my first question is yes) or change to COUNTRY_CODE=nz and have all the NZ locations work on the already-recorded data, even if I made that change to my configuration after I had been in NZ for a few months?