
No worries! Slrpnk.net was down until a few hours ago, perhaps that broke the alt-text from showing up? Last time it went down, I noticed a banner and community icon I had uploaded from slrpnk to a community on a different instance broke. I was surprised to learn that it had been pulling those images from my instance the entire time instead of it being stored on the outside instance, so maybe the same thing happens with alt-text?
Currently a general strike in the US is planned for May 1st 2028 to coincide with the UAW's contract ending. Unfortunately that's 3 years away, and I doubt climate policy is going to be a focus of that strike.
Hopefully we can organize one sooner, but we'll see. Syndicalist unions independent of corporate control would be the most likely to initiate a general strike, so I'd recommend joining up and unionizing your job with them if you can.
- 🌍 Global: IWW (Français) - (Español)
- 🇦🇷 Argentina: FORA
- 🇦🇺 Australia: ASF-IWA
- 🇧🇷 Brazil: FOB
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: ARS, CITUB
- 🇩🇪 Germany: FAU
- 🇬🇷 Greece: ESE
- 🇮🇹 Italy: USI
- 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 Netherlands & Belgium: Vriji Bond
- 🇪🇸 Spain: CNT
- 🇸🇪 Sweden: SAC
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: UVW
I also hope the rest of the world pushes for their own general strikes.
It should already have a quite detailed alt text. Does it not display when the image is hovered over with the mouse?
I'm afraid that's quite outside my field of expertise. I can only report how my experience on XMPP has been as a user, though perhaps @poVoq@slrpnk.net, who hosts it, may be able to weigh in on that. Edit: ah, I see you already have 😄
Though from my untrained eye, it seems that Jabber.ru was compromised due to not enabling a particular feature on their server
"Channel binding" is a feature in XMPP which can detect a MiTM even if the interceptor present a valid certificate. Both the client and the server must support SCRAM PLUS authentication mechanisms for this to work. Unfortunately this was not active on jabber.ru at the time of the attack.
And it seems that hosting it externally on paid hosting service (hetzner and linode) left them particularly vulnerable to this attack, and tgat it could've been mitigated by self hosting the XMPP locally, as well as activating that feature.
Slrpnk hosts an XMPP/Jabber for our users, mods and admins to communicate. Its worked pretty darn well for the past couple years, with very low resource needs.
The clients are pretty slick now too, such as Cheogram or Monocles for mobile, and movim is an excellent web app with support for group calls.
I'd certainly recommend it over Matrix/element.
It's good practice to try and get as many signatures as possible beyond the 1m mark, as there can be invalid signatures that can bring it back down below 1m after they are counted.
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I agree syndicalism is not the answer today.
While I advocate for unionizing with syndicalist unions like the IWW, it's not going to provide a long term solution on its own. I see it as one piece of a larger puzzle.
It helps gain some people a bit of breathing room with something closer to living wages, helps educate people of the power they can wield collectively, and pushes the needle forward in regards to realizing a general strike.
I think what holds it back from being able to achieve victory on its own is that a lot if collective effort us expended toward simply gaining back what is stolen by corporations, and less on community prefiguration. It's also hard to keep members in such a politically diverse umbrella focused on revolutionary class warfare, instead of being satisfied at a certain point of reform or concession from the corporations.
It'd still a useful tool, and one method I haven't really seen tried or described, is the idea of a worker coop actively funding syndicalist unions for their capitalist competitors to make it easier to compete.
Many circumstances had to align for us to be graced with this trifecta of perfection, and I'm rather grateful to be counted amongst its witnesses.
I don't think he adopted a particular flavor, he seemed to be into standard anarchism, far as I can tell. Or at least, what he gathered from the anarchists he spoke to.
The VHS background hiss really just... 🤌
Brings ya back.
I guess the biggest difference this time is that the internet exists, and last time they didn't have a climate crisis that requires the abolishment of capitalism to survive. So, bad news is we're doing a repeat, but good news is the motivation and reasons to defeat fascism have never been higher!
Let's hope we're able to learn from lessons of the past as we find new ways to save ourselves, and the people finally come out on top. We've a got a lot riding on it.
If I had time to redo it, I do think that revised order would be more ideal.
I would be pretty surprised if the current order will render it completely ineffectual at informing people of those concepts, and any who do flip it over and read the poorly named step 3 will find that it recommends building community for a general strike to be successful.
the 1920's and 30's were the height of Anarcho-syndicalism's popularity, culminating in an Anarcho-syndicalist revolution in the city of Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War.
All of the things in the comic are popular trends from the 1920's.
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Alt text: A meme of 3 panels. The top panel is Frodo from Lord of the Rings wearing an anarcho-communist hat, asking "So, what objective conditions need to occur for a ruling Communist party to introduce Democracy and direct worker self-management, instead of merely recreating the exchange system of capitalism?"
The second panel is simply a picture of Karl Marx, with the caption (silence).
The third panel is Frodo smiling glumly, responding "All right, then. Keep your secrets."
Unironically do love Art Deco aesthetics.
Clicking on the find a branch button brings you to a zoomed out map showing chapters around the globe, but I get what you mean where the preview is zoomed in on the US by default :p
That'd be a great version for anyone who wants to add two more of their own panels (or other panels from this community, like this No Kings one that Toaster posted) on the other side and make it a booklet! Thanks for makin' it Punksnotdead :D
It'll be interesting to see if we get an influx of users in the next few days!
I'm totally on-board with calling out the rugged ultra self-sufficient individualism, I just didn't want people to come away with the idea that industrial scale farming is the only viable way to farm based on her second tweet. But you're absolutely right that home garden's aren't the best use of resources though. I'd actually forgotten that section of the video, and only remembered the latter part that I linked to until watching it all the way through again just now.
Glad you also enjoyed the vid! He makes some cool stuff ^^
You can break that view of themselves through community efforts - like gardens, allotments, etc
That's precisely what the second page mentions, as well as information on how to find a local Food Not Bombs chapter. These topics are also discussed often on Slrpnk.net, which I encourage readers to take a look at and join, in the hopes of exposing them to more in-depth discussion of those topics and people who they can talk to about it.
The people who are already open to unions are already in them.
Again, in my personal experience in my area, I have met an astonishing amount of people who genuinely have no concept of what a union or general strike are, so for them, the lack of knowledge is most certainly a big barrier.


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> I put together a quick flyer for us to print out for tomorrow's Good Trouble Again protest. (Find events near you on the map at their website!) > > It was made in Krita (Scribus probably would've been better, but I didn't have time to learn it), using graphics from old IWW pamphlets. > > It recommends: > > * Collective action and Unionizing with the IWW > * What a General Strike is > * Building community with a link to the Food Not Bombs website (probably the weakest section) > * A section on Solarpunk with text from the manifesto, along with a link to slrpnk.net! > * Ends with imploring readers to talk to the people around them at the protest and form connections. > > The flyer is 2 pages designed to fit on a standard US Letter in landscape orientation to enable 2 flyers per page, and intended to be printed double-sided in long-edge mode. > > You can create a PDF of the 2 pages for easier printing in Libreoffice Draw (go to Page > Page Properties > Enable Landscape Orientation, and reduce margins to 0.25") > > Page 1 Double Flyer: > > ! > > Page 2 Double Flyer: > > ! > > If the double flyers aren't working out for you, I also have a single page version. (without the section imploring reader to talk to the people around them) > > Page 1 Single Page: > > https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/48eb821d-c3c7-481f-8cbb-029989fb18c8.png > > Page 2 Single Page: > > ! >


cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/24783048
> I put together a quick flyer for us to print out for tomorrow's Good Trouble Again protest. (Find events near you on the map at their website!) > > It was made in Krita (Scribus probably would've been better, but I didn't have time to learn it), using graphics from old IWW pamphlets. > > It recommends: > > * Collective action and Unionizing with the IWW > * What a General Strike is > * Building community with a link to the Food Not Bombs website (probably the weakest section) > * A section on Solarpunk with text from the manifesto, along with a link to slrpnk.net! > * Ends with imploring readers to talk to the people around them at the protest and form connections. > > The flyer is 2 pages designed to fit on a standard US Letter in landscape orientation to enable 2 flyers per page, and intended to be printed double-sided in long-edge mode. > > You can create a PDF of the 2 pages for easier printing in Libreoffice Draw (go to Page > Page Properties > Enable Landscape Orientation, and reduce margins to 0.25") > > Page 1 Double Flyer: > > ! > > Page 2 Double Flyer: > > ! > > If the double flyers aren't working out for you, I also have a single page version. (without the section imploring reader to talk to the people around them) > > Page 1 Single Page: > > https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/48eb821d-c3c7-481f-8cbb-029989fb18c8.png > > Page 2 Single Page: > > ! >
Efficiency of Home Gardens Compared to Farms: Could we realistically get to where at least a third of our food is produced in home gardens? Let's explore.

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I put together a quick flyer for us to print out for tomorrow's Good Trouble Again protest. (Find events near you on the map at their website!)
It was made in Krita (Scribus probably would've been better, but I didn't have time to learn it), using graphics from old IWW pamphlets.
It recommends:
- Collective action and Unionizing with the IWW
- What a General Strike is
- Building community with a link to the Food Not Bombs website (probably the weakest section)
- A section on Solarpunk with text from the manifesto, along with a link to slrpnk.net!
- Ends with imploring readers to talk to the people around them at the protest and form connections.
The flyer is 2 pages designed to fit on a standard US Letter in landscape orientation to enable 2 flyers per page, and intended to be printed double-sided in long-edge mode.
You can create a PDF of the 2 pages for easier printing in Libreoffice Draw (go to Page > Page Properties > Enable Landscape Orientation, and reduce margins to 0.25")
Page 1 Double Flyer:
Page 2 Double Flyer:
If the double flyers aren't working out for you, I also have a single page version. (without the section imploring reader to talk to the people around them)
Page 1 Single Page:
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/48eb821d-c3c7-481f-8cbb-029989fb18c8.png
Page 2 Single Page:
In a recent interview in iPolitics, David Suzuki stated “it’s too late” – that we have lost the fight against climate change. In this piece, Seth speaks to the reality of certain losses and the fact that all of us who work on climate have long walked a razor’s edge between hope and despair; the last
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I read a few posts from a few years ago that they suffered from some sort of ring crash bug frequently.
If you're currently on either of those cards, how is the stability nowadays? Any hiccups or problems, or is it 100% in gaming now?
Bonus question, does the Mesa driver allow you to access the VCN video encoder on the gpu?
EDIT: Thanks for all your responses, everyone! The consensus clearly shows they're pretty balin', and definitely worthy of switching away from Nvidia to. :D
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I’ve been using Linux for a long time. The first distribution I ever installed was Ubuntu 6.06 ‘Dapper Drake’, on which I ran a phpBB server for my school friends. Security was poor. But shortly after, as I learned about Linux desktops (and first daily-drove a Linux laptop around 2...

This is a super interesting project, and the video is really well presented and explained, if you prefer that format.
I think this method could be brought even further by using 'thin clients' (a cheap laptop or used office mini-PC), making it possible to access the main gaming rig from any room in the house as long as you have access to a good network speed.
Utilizing a 'dummy' HDMI or Displayport stick, which simulates a monitor for the GPU, you could then remote into the gaming rig from a thin client-like PC through Moonlight/Sunlight, allowing you to use it as a fully fledged gaming or workstation PC.
If anyone decides to go that route, be aware that AMD GPU's have pretty notoriously bad encoders, so I'd recommend sticking with Nvidia (Pascal/1000 series or newer) or Intel GPU's/Integrated Graphics (6th generation 6000 series or newer) for the Host machine. It's a little less important for the client, I think.
EDIT: AMD did actually improve their encoders in recent years, starting with the Raven Ridge integrated graphics APUs, and the first generation Navi cards (RX 5700 onward, the lower end cards don't have it).
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