sxan

This is exactly what establishment Democrats and AIPAC were afraid of. Not Mamdani himself, as mayor of NYC, but a normalization of more progressive candidates.

I love it. Be prepared for the massive media campaign though. If we thought the smear against Mamdani was bad, if he wins the general it's going to be a frenzy.

My recommendation is to put all of the variables in an environment file, and use systemd's EnvironmentFile (in [Service] to point to it.

One of my backup service files (I back up to disks and cloud) looks like this:

[Unit]
Description=Backup to MyUsbDrive
Requires=media-MyUsbDrive.mount
After=media-MyUsbDrive.mount

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/backup/environment
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/restic backup --tag=prefailure-2 --files-from ${FILES} --exclude-file ${EXCLUDES} --one-file-system

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.timer

FILES is a file containing files and directories to be backed up, and is defined in the environment file; so is EXCLUDES, but you could simply point restic at the directory you want to back up instead.

My environment file looks essentially like

RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/mnt/MyUsbDrive/backup
RESTIC_PASSWORD=blahblahblah
KEEP_DAILY=7
KEEP_MONTHLY=3
KEEP_YEARLY=2
EXCLUDES=/etc/backup/excludes
FILES=/etc/backup/files

If you're having trouble, start by looking at how you're passing in the password, and whether it's quoted properly. It's been a couple of years since I had this issue, but at one point I know I had spaces in a passphrase and had quoted the variable, and the quotes were getting passed in verbatim.

My VPS backups are more complex and get their passwords from a keystore, but for my desktop I keep it simple.

I hope this isn't a step towards replacing the native app with an SPA.

I mean, you're not wrong. I don't think it's as simple, and again it's because of AIPAC. Money greatly influences elections in the US, and AIPAC has a bunch of it, while the anti-genocide group coughed up relatively none. Politicians are going to be scared of AIPAC threatening to throw all their money into their opponent's war chests. It's a kind of "hate the game, not the player" situation, except that I don't really believe that slogan: politicians should have stronger ethics. But when it comes down to brass tacks, and you believe that you're going to sacrifice a seat to Republicans by digging in your heels on Gaza because a well-funded special interest group is going to side with your opponent, it's not a black and white decision.

It should be. It should be more simple, but it won't be as long as money plays such an outsized role in politics.

Who cares about neighbour kidnapping.

Probably all those people who voted. And now, as a consequence, we still have genocide and also deportation of anybody who isn't white, normalization of violence against minorities, and a convicted felon and molester for president.

Your argument doesn't agree with my preconceived opinion that supports my self-centered world view, so I'm going to ignore it and look for another comment that does and upvote that one.

I'm afraid to vote for who I want to, like I'm afraid to not pay my taxes, or afraid to dive 60mph in a residential neighborhood. Does make it a dictatorship? I think the paramilitary abducting people off the streets and deporting them without due process is more of a bellwether for dictatorship than the fact that our system of voting - FPTP - means that you have to vote strategically if you don't want the worst outcome.

Yet Democrats for some mythical reason refuse to change their stance. (corruption)

This strategy worked pretty well for Republicans.

Things are fucked up. I see progress; I fear it's too slow, and we'll be in a dictatorship before we can repair our democracy.

Yup, agreed.

We're making progress in the US. IRV is slowly gaining ground at the grass roots, which I believe is a wise strategy; my concern is that it'll take too long. With proportional represention and balanced voting, and eliminating the electoral college, many of the issues we have will be mitigated. IRV isn't the best, but it's a huge step towards getting out of the cycle of voting for the lesser evil, the need to appeal to the base, and the inability to elect anyone who doesn't toe the party line. We still need to address the issues introduced by Citizens United, and the outsized influence in politics of special interests like AIPAC, which I suspect is behind much of the pussyfooting around the genocide; RCV won't solve that. RCV won't solve congresspersons doing inside trading.

But even if we fix some of the processes, I'm still concerned about the fact that enough people voted for a convicted, unrepentant felon and traitor that it was possible to believably fudge the election enough for him to win (if you believe some of the questions about 2024). It's conceivable that with IRC someone more leftist than Harris could have won, but I doubt it. The scales are too unbalanced; the votes in the center of the country count more than the votes on the coasts, and there's too much opportunity for voting shenanigans that go entirely unchallenged by the left/progressives/liberals.

I agree that we have important disagreements, but I also think that as long as the left is divided, they stand no chance of winning, which means the greater evil always wins.

I feel as if there's a concerted effort to spread internecine conflict and sectarianism within the liberal community - to divide.

However, I have to agree with you here: words matter, and it's not a good look for Bernie to skirt the issue, deflect, and thereby sugarcoat what's happening.

"Horrific" is a weaker word than "genocide." It's absolutely sugarcoating to call genocide by a weaker word.

He hasn't used the term "war crimes" yet, either, has he? Thing is, as long as he avoids using these terms, he gives a legal and moral pass to the people perpetrating the crimes.

This seriously got an out-loud chuckle from me. It's funny, because it's true! Thanks!

Sourcehut also supports Mercurial, so you also have an option to the herd mentality.

Sourcehut also has zero, or almost zero, JavaScript in the interface, so it doesn't suck

Sourcehut is also componentized, so you can mix and match the pieces you want or need:

• VCS hosting
• masking list management
• issue management
• build server
• man server

Sourcehut is by far the best hosted VCS option at the moment. The Mercurial support alone puts it miles ahead of the others, which are all hobbled by tight coupling to git.