skaffi

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[–] skaffi 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just to avoid catching ire for adding nuance, I want to preface everything by stating that the nazi regime was obviously a criminal scourge upon humanity, and it's perpetrators entirely irredeemable. If the nazi regime was ever falsely accused of anything, it will always just be irrelevant little details, in the face of the sheer bulk of provable horrors committed by them, their collaborators, and the weight is on the shoulders of everyone within their borders, who was of legal age and sound mind, and who didn't do anything to resist.

With that out of the way, the descendants of the Allies should stop swallowing the propaganda of their forefathers raw, and instead try to take an honest, critical look on this part of their past.

The fact of the matter is, the Nürnberg trials were a farce, more a show trial and a kangaroo court, of Victor's parading around the defeated, conducted on a legal basis that didn't exist, with many punishments (executions) being violations of the inalienable human rights that were soon after proclaimed by the victors, as an encodification of the core values that they claimed to espouse.

The trials were a mockery. Surely, it would have been possible to prosecute and punish anyone deserving of it, by the laws of the pre-1933 Weimar Republic, which, contrary to popular belief today, was not abolished in a legal manner in the first place, and so would still have jurisdiction.

Anyway, the Nürnberg trials are an awful ideal to shoot for - especially when we today finally (and fairly recently) have managed to establish a proper International Criminal Court, with authority and legal basis to dispense real justice against the perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Recognise that court, and insist on it carrying out justice. When you ignore thst court in discourse, and choose to hold up an 80 year old mock trail as the standard of justice, that just makes it all the easier for any future victor to quickly carry out their own kangaroo courts, executing based on what's politically convenient, while slowing the path towards a legal world order.

[–] skaffi 2 points 8 months ago

Me too! So much so that I have sworn to name my first secretary Kate.

[–] skaffi 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I mean, a country with minimal military spending (or, one that doesn't have their own encrypted satellite network) can get a commodity device that gives modern connection speeds with very modest latency.

But the empowerment it obviously gives to an underpowered military is phenomenal.

Indeed, that's how it was sold. But that's not what it ever really was. What it really is, is a big fat on/off button in the hands of a private corporation, and the nation where that corporation is based. It's generally a bad idea to put the on/off button of your entire military into the hands of an outside power, as is made abundantly clear now.

This kind of technology isn't really feasible for smaller nations to establish on their own. The only countries that should ever rely on Starlink, or it's equivalent, are countries that either control it, or countries that are already vassals of countries that control it.

Not like Ukraine exactly had a lot of options at the time, of course...

[–] skaffi 10 points 8 months ago

So you had an egg in these trying times, did you?

[–] skaffi 4 points 8 months ago
[–] skaffi 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Fantastic! Good show, Jerry! :)

I love the familiar, efficient interface; the lighter resource use; and it even turn browsing Lemmy through Lynx into a pleasant experience.

I see most instances link their alternative frontends on the their sidebar, so that people know they're available. You could consider the same.

EDIT: I see you also just added modbot. Great to see good tools like that added! I'm sure /c/crypto is going to be off to a great (re)start, now.

[–] skaffi 5 points 8 months ago

Adding this as a comment, instead of soap boxing my own opinion from the post body:

I think we should sign it. Personally, I would appreciate Infosec.Pub defederating form any Fediverse instance run by, or affiliated with companies/corporations that have a stake in the data business or AI development.

[–] skaffi 2 points 8 months ago

Yup, it's much appreciated!

[–] skaffi 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Awesome, thanks jerry!

Welcome to the party @Natanael@infosec.pub - glad you want to take care of !crypto@infosec.pub! I hope you'll be able to convince a decent chunk of your community to come with. :)

Perhaps look into finding a decent cross-post tool, and start cross-posting any posts made on /r/crypto to /c/crypto. Well, I suppose you should give OP a short amount of time to also post here, in case they already have an account, but otherwise, you should do it. No one will migrate, or start being active here, if there isn't already some activity.

[–] skaffi 15 points 8 months ago

The problem here is that those are filters, and the newcomer will usually still be faced with several options, which will still make them scratch their head.

A wizard is a good idea, with simple questions, rather than filter buttons.

But it needs to end up telling you "here you go, this is the one you want!", giving you just a single instance. Doesn't matter that multiple will probably match the answers given - then just pick one at random. Chances are, they will be equally happy on either, and if not, well, it isn't very hard to switch to a new instance later on, when they have become regular Lemmists.

[–] skaffi 1 points 8 months ago (25 children)

I think you would be a most perfect fit here. I think a lot of people on this instance would be excited to have a vibrant crypto community here.

The crypto community we have here isn't so much "lower quality" as it is just dead. There's been just three posts there in the last year. I was going to suggest you ask the owner of it if you could take over, but it looks like they haven't been active for two years.

I think you should just ask @jerry@infosec.pub or @shellsharks@infosec.pub if you can take over. There's no reason to have two crypto communities, if one of them is dead; you get to keep your old identity of being called "crypto", instead of "cryptography", or something else; and there are presumably a lot of the subscribers of /c/crypto that would very much like to have an active crypto community show up in their feed.

Welcome to Lemmy, and to Infosec.pub - I hope to be able to say the same to your community!

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