blobjim [he/him]

Hadn’t even heard of Orinoco Tribune. Seems like a pretty good outlet. Also Venezuelan, like a lot of teleSUR broadcasting.

Their only good coverage is Palestine. The rest is what you could expect from a weird country like Qatar. Just western propaganda.

Nuclear JDPON to ensure MAD against the West.

This stuff has been said in public statements why does it need to be “leaks” lol.

It’s just insane how big of a dropped ball non-Western software development seems to be. If they’re not going to write and use their own software for everything, then don’t even bother using software! Even some outdated insecure system developed in the 80s would be better than using the latest US software for any kind of infrastructure.

I get why it’s still an issue, because it’s really hard to make an entire country of 1.4+ billion people all get on the same page about best practices on anything. Imagine getting American software developers to adopt stringent security practices. The last company I worked at we were still adopting TLS transport within the company VPN. So if there is a current push in the US to adopt modern security “hygiene” (security standards that the US created), then I can imagine how much harder it is for other countries. And there are a lot of things required to use the latest stuff. You have to have a good software development and release process so you can stay on top of security fixes. And that requires its own infrastructure. And that infrastructure requires its own infrastructure. And managing security-related stuff is a pain in the butt.

I often feel like server software is just a mistake in general and running software on devices other than personal computers should be kept to a minimum. Which is the opposite of how the software industry has developed. But maybe in the future, there will be some kind of acknowledgement and transition to more “local-first” software. Even free software enthusiasts fall into that trap because their expertise comes from the industry they work in which is all server-centric.

Email, for example, should be replaced with something more similar to Signal messaging system. More end-to-end encryption, etc. and most servers should act as simple routers or always-online caches of data in transit.

Servers are such a liability and the whole ecosystem is so messy and complicated. At least with desktop/phone programs it’s a bit easier to reason about their security (in some ways).

bit of a “rest of the fucking owl” thing going on with phase 1 there.

thanks for the correction!

Russians Somalians Navy Seals Downing a Black Hawk.

It seems crazy to even use a helicopter in a war like this but I don’t know anything about war so

I remember Tom Tanuki on YouTube did a video about or mentioning the ones in Australia.

$4.15bn to boost economies and strengthen democratic institutions in developing countries

I guess half of it was just imperialism.

Just saw some statement from China that they didn’t actually sell air defense systems. So they won’t even do weapons deals apparently https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3317538/china-denies-giving-iran-air-defence-systems-after-conflict-israel

it’s just weapons deals lol not like this is altruism or something.

Translated by Yandex:

Caracas, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, called on the American people to stop the madness of his government to get involved in the war that Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran are fighting today. June 17, 2025 | 22:16 When participating in the Workshop of the Seven Transformations (7T) with the elected deputies on May 25, in the Ríos Reyna room of the Teresa Carreño Theater Cultural Complex, in Caracas, the ruler assured that “only the people of the United States can stop this madness.”

I am calling on the American people, do you want another war, do you want the United States to be involved in the slaughter, in the destruction of Muslim, Iranian and Arab peoples? Maduro asked.

They want the United States to be marked as the initiator of the Third World War, he added, noting that this is the call he makes from “pacifist and Bolivarian Venezuela.”

The president called for that, from the streets, from all corners, from North to South and from East to West, in the American nation “a single voice be raised, no to war!”.

Maduro recalled the destruction and death every time the United States gets involved in a conflict in the Middle East as happened in Iraq, where a million people lost their lives, as well as in Libya and Afghanistan.

The head of state urged the countries that are powers in the region and the world to “sit down and force the Zionist state of (Benjamin) Netanyahu to stop its attacks and respect international law.”

I call on all the governments of the new powers: China, Russia, Turkey, the countries of the Gulf Council, the nations of the Global South, but especially the Muslim countries, to “support and accompany the Islamic Republic of Iran in its struggle for peace,” he emphasized.

"That has to be the way, not the way of escalation of violence, of deaths, of bombs, no,” he reaffirmed.

He also reiterated his call to the Jewish people to stop the war and to Netanyahu to “stop this madness of hellish war with all neighboring countries and of wanting to conquer and colonize the entire Middle East and Western Asia.”

It is a Hitlerite, supremacist and Nazi idea, which must be defeated by the Global South, he stressed.

About the 7T Workshop, the ruler proposed the creation of a Latin American and Caribbean Parliamentary Political School, named after the Venezuelan revolutionary David Nieves Banchs.

The objective of this center would be to contribute to the formation of political leaders, he said, and he called on revolutionary parliamentarians to prepare to become “a sounding board for People’s Power.”

seems like a lot of wish casting about other BRICS members doing or caring or saying anything about this. But I agree that whatever plays out with Iran is what the rest of the BRICS members have in store. So far it seems like the rest of the world will just fold to the US as usual. Since most of the world is run by capitalists who only care about their own wellbeing.

Not selling to Israel could make all the other right-wing countries they sell to nervous. But stuff like this from China is such a betrayal. About as much of one as Vietnam buying arms from Israel. It sucks that the only principled countries are the ones that are the most targeted by the US, and have the least capability to help others (although they certainly do what they can, like the Cuban doctors program, or Yemen keeping Palestine close).

Pretty much no consequences for anyone supporting and allowing the genocide to continue. With Russia-Ukraine, they obviously didn’t want to piss off either side, because they’ve got customers on both sides they want to sell to. But every ruling class knows that there are no consequences for getting in on the action killing Palestinians. And Palestinians aren’t a market they can make a handsome profit in.

the Houthi-run health ministry reported

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The article’s framing is kinda orientalist. I think the point is to whitewash the mass murder by the US, by making it seem less severe. Basically no mention of civilian suffering. And reducing the entire nation to “Houthis”. But if you keep that in mind, it’s a pretty interesting article.

woulda been cool if they said this last century too lmao, but that woulda prevented them from getting american dollarydoos

rip bozo