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This channel frustrates me to no end, the guy who runs it will be incredibly based and then randomly throw in "and that is why I hate those commies" or try to talk about radicalism and "resistance" and then denigrate Marxism.

Here we have him claiming that Marxists "impose" modern values on food riots of the 18th century by seeing them as displays of "proto-proletarian class conscious"......no elaboration on why that is incorrect.

Does he think proto proletarian means "proletariat but before 1850"? Or that class consciousness means a someone who has read Marx and Lenin? He is effectively saying "no these are not a transitionary class lashing out at the results of capitalist development and alienation in a haphazard way along class lines they are not fully aware of yet. It is just a transitionary class lashing out at the results of capitalist development and alienation in a haphazard way along class lines they are not fully aware of yet."

He acts like Marx invented the idea of classes as actors and that nothing before Marx can be the result of class contradictions because there are factors "of the time" like bitch those are called material conditions!!!!

I am pretty sure he did this before by calling the Lost Cause myth and neoconfederates the same as Maoists but seemed to have far more vitriol for the ones actually fighting for survival.

Honestly the idea of framing history as "resistance" is so weak. The throughline there is just whoever is resisting, not why they are resisting, not the development and progress of the forces that are making disparate groups have to resist. It is radlib mindset to the highest degree.

The same dumb shit comes up with libs when you mention any historically progressive cause. "ummm aktually Bolivar was not a Marxist-Leninist so why are you commies interested in him?" "lol Spartacus never declared he would free all slaves everywhere so why are you inspired by his struggle?"

These people do not want to engage in the fundamental reality of what historical materialism actually is, and thus think any examination of class must mean you are saying that the Sans-Culottes are factory workers and not....yeah know the progressive class that lead their revolutionary moment.

FFS Marxists view capitalism as a progressive force in a materialist sense. This shit is so easy to understand if you make an effort.

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The chairman of a top British university failed to declare a role advising the pro-Beijing leader of Hong Kong.

Victor Chu, a senior businessman born in China, is chair of council at University College London (UCL) and oversees the institution’s leadership and strategic direction.

Mr Chu is also a member of a “high-level advisory body” to John Lee, the chief executive of Hong Kong criticised for repressing pro-democracy campaigners on behalf of Beijing.

The role at the Chief Executive’s Council of Advisers (CECA) was not disclosed on UCL’s register of interests.

Prof Michelle Shipworth, an academic at the university who last year accused it of silencing her over criticism of China, said: “I was deeply disturbed when I discovered that the head of UCL sits on the Hong Kong government’s Council of Advisers.

“This is a regime that criminalises dissent, even from overseas. UCL’s many Chinese and Hong Kong students are especially at risk. His role is impossible to square with UCL’s duty to protect them and uphold free speech.”

It comes amid widespread concerns about Chinese influence at British universities and the Government’s failure to act on the issue.

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UCL currently has around 1,300 students from Hong Kong – the largest number of any university in Britain. It is also home to the highest number of Chinese students at a UK university, with around 13,500 enrolled last year – making up around a quarter of its students.

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Mr Chu, who lives in Hong Kong, became UCL’s chairman in 2019.

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He was appointed to the CECA in 2023, the same year it was established to act as a “high-level advisory body” to Mr Lee.

Although his UCL register of interests includes 48 other positions, the CECA role is not mentioned.

All UCL council members are required to declare any potential conflicts of interest, and senior staff must not “put themselves under any obligation, financial or otherwise, to other individuals or organisations that might seek to influence them in the performance of their duties”.

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Prof Shipworth said that his failure to disclose the CECA position “could be perceived as insufficiently robust to [Chinese] pressures” given the “increasingly illiberal and punitive nature” of the region’s leadership.

Mr Lee is widely regarded as pro-Beijing and has pushed Hong Kong closer to Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, since taking office in 2022.

A former senior police officer, his tenure as the territory’s secretary of security included the implementation of a highly controversial national security law in the city in 2020.

This handed China sweeping powers over Hong Kong and effectively banned pro-democracy protests in the territory. It has also been used to jail government critics, including Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai.

Mr Lee beefed up the legislation after becoming Hong Kong leader, introducing a new security law last year called Article 23, which allows for closed-door trials and hands the police the right to detain suspects for up to 16 days without charge.

Critics have warned it will further erode civil liberties in Hong Kong, with Human Rights Watch, a global campaign group, saying the measures would push the region “into a new era of authoritarianism”.

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Academics told The Telegraph they were concerned about Mr Chu’s undeclared role following allegations that UCL has stepped up efforts to woo China in recent years in order to cement a vital revenue stream.

Mr Chu hired Michael Spence as Provost of UCL in 2020, and the pair have since launched a major push to deepen ties with China.

The number of Chinese students at the university has more than doubled under their watch, and now makes up half of its foreign students – up from less than a third in 2019.

The Telegraph has seen multiple videos posted online by UCL of Dr Spence speaking in Mandarin, alongside offers of a “video chat with the provost” for pupils thinking of applying to the London university.

Dr Spence was previously the vice-chancellor at the University of Sydney from 2008 to 2020, where he faced criticism for his stance on China.

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5699302

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The UK’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell before taking up his current role co-hosted and attended events with a Beijing think-tank with experts linked to China’s intelligence agencies, according to western analysts.

The Grandview Institution (GVI), whose experts met Powell on at least four occasions when he was head of his peace negotiation consultancy Inter Mediate, is privately incorporated and says it is “independent”.

But according to research from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, corroborated by publicly available information, a number of GVI’s senior staff have current or past links with China’s Ministry of State Security, the country’s primary foreign spy agency, and to military intelligence.

“GVI has remarkable convening power for an unofficial think-tank, arranging meetings for government and military delegations from around the world with senior Chinese government and party officials,” said Bethany Allen, head of China investigations at ASPI.

The links of some of GVI’s personnel to civilian and military intelligence organisations were “not normal for an unofficial think-tank”, Allen said.

ASPI’s research comes amid heightened anxiety in the UK about Chinese influence and espionage. A high-profile case against two Britons accused of spying for Beijing collapsed last month and UK domestic spy agency MI5 warned on Tuesday that China’s intelligence services were targeting people who work in parliament.

The research also highlights the multiple roles played by Chinese think-tanks, which include acting as important channels of communication between foreigners and Beijing policymakers while also promoting Chinese Communist party agendas.

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UK officials pointed out that Powell had worked on China-related matters since being involved in negotiations on Hong Kong 30 years ago, and that people working with Beijing were well aware Grandview was an “interlocutor” for the Chinese government.

“The idea you can engage with China without speaking to people with close links to the CCP is not a serious position,” one UK official said.

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GVI was founded by Ren Libo, a former reporter for China’s state media agency Xinhua, according to his biography on the GVI website. But Aspi’s Allen said Ren’s role appeared to be more as a convener for other key figures at GVI.

GVI’s academic committee director Zhang Tuosheng has had a long career with People’s Liberation Army academic institutions and served in China’s UK embassy, according to his publicly available biographical details. He has also chaired the academic committee of the China Foundation for International Strategic Studies (CFISS), which western analysts say is PLA-affiliated. Zhang said he left CFISS several years ago and said the foundation had no relationship with GVI.

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GVI’s academic committee deputy director Ouyang Wei has also been a director of the China Association for International Friendly Contact, according to publicly available biographical information. CAIFC’s website says it is controlled by the foreign and civil affairs ministries, but western analysts and a 2011 US congressional report have said it is a front for the PLA’s international liaison department, which collects intelligence and conducts Chinese propaganda and perception management campaigns.

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A former vice-president of GVI is Tian Shichen, whose long military career before retiring included stints in intelligence and at the Central Military Commission, the PLA supreme leadership body, according to his publicly available biographical information.

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GVI’s senior research fellow Li Wei also serves as the assistant to the president of China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, according to GVI’s website. CICIR is a think-tank under the MSS, which runs the country’s spy agency, Chinese state media has reported in the past.

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While think-tanks everywhere sometimes employ former members of the military and intelligence services, in democratic political systems they can still be independent from the governing political party, analysts say.

In China’s one-party state, by contrast, particularly under President Xi Jinping, who has called for “think-tanks with Chinese characteristics”, the room for public debate or independent policy outreach is highly restricted.

“We must uphold the Party’s leadership,” Xi said in an article on building a “new type” of think-tank in 2014.

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Peter Mattis, president of the Jamestown Foundation and a former counter-intelligence analyst at the CIA, said Chinese think-tanks typically had two main external uses: cover for espionage and “to provide an alternative way to convincingly deliver talking points”.

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Since October 2023, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) unleashed tens of thousands of bombs likely containing payloads of Polish-made TNT, resulting in the destruction of as much as 80 percent of Gaza’s buildings, including civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, schools, and refugee camps. “Based on information provided by the bomb’s U.S. manufacturer, General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, the Polish company Nitro-Chem, and U.S. government databases, we can conclude that there is a high probability that a significant proportion of [Mk 84s] that Israel dropped on the Gaza Strip since October 2023 are filled with Polish-made TNT,” the report found.

I'm new to Docker, but I'm trying to deploy some containers that will need to read and write to a network shared volume. I'm hoping to run things like Navidrome, Immich, and an Arr Stack. The containers are on Ubuntu and my network volume is on a qnap machine. It is discoverable from Ubuntu without issue.

Do I need to mount the shared volume in Ubuntu or can I just refer to it in the Docker Compose file?

I know I need to mention the location of the volume in the Docker Compose file, but I'm not sure how to write that. How do I include the un/pw information for the NAS?

I read about bind mounts in Docker's documentation. Is that what I want to use? Again, how do I include the un/pw information? I'm not sure how to use the commands.

The volume path for the navidrome folder is //tiger-nas/music/music for example.

I appreciate any help.

He's probably going to get eaten by a cat because he's a useless weenie

Around the same time, Cloudflare’s chief technology officer Dane Knecht explained that a latent bug was responsible in an apologetic X post.

“In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack,” Knecht wrote, referring to a bug that went undetected in testing and has not caused a failure.

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/37149930

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I've been trying to learn a new language (Vietnamese) and a thing that has been driving me crazy are all these instances of letters being randomly pronounced differently in different words sometimes. If you don't think about it too much, it's easy to go "this language is dumb, why do they do this?" But then I think about English and we have so many examples of this or other linguistic oddities that make no sense but which I've just accepted since I learned them so long ago.

So I wanted to generalize my question: For all the languages where this applies, why are there these cases where letters have inconsistent pronunciations? For cases where it sounds like another letter, why not just use that one? For cases where the letter or combination of letters creates a new sound not already covered by existing letters, why not make a new one? How did this happen? What is the history? Is there linguistic logic to it beyond these being quirks of how the languages historically developed?

Small island states and major economies are urging a fair fossil-fuel phase-out as climate negotiations enter a critical juncture. Climate-friendly trade and improved climate finance are among the main flashpoints.

Ministers from around the world crowded the podium at the UN climate conference in Belem, Brazil, united in calling for a rapid and equitable phase-out of the fossil fuels largely responsible for driving climate change.

Flanked by representatives from countries including Germany, Colombia, the UK and Kenya, Tina Stege, the Marshall Islands' climate envoy, evoked the spirit of Mutirao — a Portuguese word of Indigenous origin meaning 'collective effort' — in calling for a "roadmap" to transition away from oil, coal and gas.

Colombia is leading the charge of around 80 countries backing the inclusion of such a roadmap in a final COP agreement this year, according to negotiators. It advances a commitment first made at COP28 in Dubai, but with greenhouse gas emissions at a record high and warming accelerating, some fear the talks between nearly 200 nations lack urgency.