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Because their app is essentially a website. News, videos, photo galleries. WP REST API is useful for writing a front-end using a different language than PHP while keeping the very convenient admin interface that most content managers are familiar with.

That's why I like it) Simple, accessible, big buttons, high-quality icons. Personally I use KDE when on GNU/Linux, but I definitely see what in GNOME would appeal to people sharing a computer with grandparents or children, or people who value design aesthetics more than extra functionality.

Pine64 doesn't ship to some countries, specifically neither Ukraine nor Russia. Occationally I see ads from someone buying one when in EU and then selling it here at multiple times the original price.

I do blame few EU citizens coming to help fight against the empire, for Ukrainians and Finns etc having to carry almost the entire weight. This isn't a matter of conscription however, fuck conscription due to all the abuse it involves. International volunteer effort is needed.

Looks like a good starting point for municipalities implementing live bus location maps.

It's like they don't understand the reason for this success is how different their road taken has been compared to all-in on AI companies.

Remembered that I made such a tool for myself ten years ago. Dusted off a backup, updated dependencies (and replaced some), refactored somewhat, changed license to AGPL and uploaded here: https://codeberg.org/nykula/imgie

Should be very easy to install because the backend is just ImageMagick and SQLite.

Beware of a 250M node_modules, though. My code is less than 1K lines in the initial commit, but the linters, bundlers etc are the same as I use for big projects.

Note: Lufi encrypts uploaded files and lets one share a link containing a decryption key. It doesn't let one expose images for other websites to embed. Thus a good tool but not for OP's purpose?

Slink might be easy enough to set up with Docker: https://docs.slinkapp.io/getting-started/02-quick-start/

Upd 22:04: tried setting it up with Podman instead of Docker, and the instructions didn't work, first because of missing directories and then a permission issue. However, this can be because I tried on WSL rather than a dedicated GNU/Linux box.

Thanks for a detailed response. It feels weird that in a globalized world an attack on a people isn't felt by others as an attack on someone they know, with whom they or their friends directly talk online, whose loss would personally affect their projects and friend circles. I admit I also don't know many names from African countries, for example, or from Palestine, or even from some EU regions. Inequality of recognition and, as a consequence, a lack of personally felt solidarity, is definitely a weakness of the world-system we live in; well, not for the system itself but for the invaded peoples.

I understand your position, despite disagreeing with it, as it was once mine as well. Would you mind answering two questions on a related, but different topic, closer to OP? First, when a more authoritarian party comes to rule in your country, are you confident they'll keep conscription more-or-less volunteer, or will one of the first things they do, besides stripping minority rights, be making refusal punishable, canceling alternative service options, widening the recruitment age range and making most people with disabilities not "serious" enough serve as well? Second, since the war on Europe has been ongoing for twelve years, why wait until your country is invaded, and not go here to help defend so that it doesn't get to the point when your state or a neighboring state of yours is invaded?

The existing protections for minorities, if we trace them to Stonewall and the Civil rights movement, are won by minorities organizing self-defense and causing enough ruckus when discriminated that the state starts worrying about its monopoly on violence. Then, when the state, against the discrimination by which the minorities have successfully organized, has a cultural and economic hegemony, the won rights slowly "trickle down" to some (but not all) of its allies, but are quickly rolled back at a whim when their leadership changes if there's no functioning self-defense remaining and widely supported.

It's very important not to disband the self-defense after any concession, and to organize it even, especially, when achieved peacefully. I'm from an Eastern European country where LGBT people don't currently have self-defense, instead trusting the police and NGOs who started promising them protection because European integration requires that. Their promise is an utter lie; there are hundreds of attacks by boneheads (who are not the masses, but rather an extension of the state's arm of violence) every year and the police does next to nothing, with the NGOs urging the attacked people and their friends to limit themselves to petitioning their representatives, who also do nothing.

What I'm trying to say is, the minorities have to protect themselves whether the state exists or not, and where the state exists, the defense has largely to be targeted against the state discrimination, the police violence, and the religious and press propaganda supported by the state. Once a group is able to protect themselves and their friends, it starts being respected by the majority of the people, so the despotism of the masses is not a threat, unlike the states, who have illegalized and then starved or otherwise killed minorities en masse numerous times. There are states where the situation is at the moment better, but that's in such contrast to what states in general have done in the past that I can't help but realize that the protections are temporary and under threat of a rollback at any moment.