I’m very proud of it, it’s a great example of the strengths of a big tent org like DSA where factions and ideologies actually work together on synthesizing something together, rather than have it be an arena of struggle to win. Can’t wait to table with physical copies of it.

every time I’ve joined the dsa, I’ve run into an older man who constantly reminds us that the dsa was formed to work within the Democratic Party

The strategy here is called Realignment and was advocated for by Michael Harrington in the post-Socialist Party DSOC years into DSA. It was successful in that it allowed DSOC members to have minority say and input into the 1976 Democratic Party platform which was then disregarded entirely by Carter, so it really has nothing more to show despite decades of attempts with it into the Reagan and Clinton years. Since the org’s rebirth post-2016, DSA’s long since moved on, our current trajectory is that of a proto-party and we’re aiming to act more and more like an independent party despite using their ballot line and primary process, to prepare ourselves for an eventual break from the Democratic Party.

There’s few people left in the org that argue for realignment, it’s a dead end.

I still think the version without it doesn’t properly constitute abolition.

This version is the working draft that wasn’t published?

To achieve this future, our class must organize. The Democratic Socialists of America is building a party whose goal is a democratic society of the working class. Our enemies are not just individual bosses, but the entire global system of capital; not just this or that cop, judge, or president, but the entire anti-democratic structure of our society. We are workers fighting to transform society: to win the battle for democracy, draft a new constitution, and create a democratic socialist republic.

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Establish public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries to ensure democratic control and accountability to the people.

Curious, this isn’t enough to meet that critique? I don’t see them advocating continued imperialism in this quotation, nor them not mentioning nationalization of industry.

Demilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services as steps towards fully abolishing the police and prison system which protects the rich and jails the poor.

This is in the final program, this isn’t the word “abolition”? Are police and prisons not “the carceral state”?

They’ve been featuring this on their show for over a week, including asking Karl Rove to comment on it!

Edit: just remembered that the largest rightist faction fought against abolitionism since they feared it would be alienating to the working class who aren’t ready for it

This isn’t true, abolition was included in a draft copy of the program (both the word and the theory) and a faction of DSA leadership added text to make it more explicit in one section.

DSA passed a resolution at the 2025 Convention to create a program committee to retire old strategy and program documents and work on writing a new program for 2026 and beyond, this is the result! The members on the mass call I linked mention this in the middle of the video, but it was a big-tent approach to writing a program with DSA members from across the political and organizing spectrum contributing to this document.

We used to run firewalls running Fedora at work, works fine. Issue is you’re only getting 6 months of updates, best to look at Rocky Linux for something that doesn’t change much if you do anything beyond a single program.

Previous blogs have mentioned K-9 is just being rebranded as Thunderbird for Android once the Android app is closer in features to the desktop release. The iOS release will be new entirely as I don’t know of an existing iOS email app they can rebrand.

You aren’t the primary customer for RHEL, or user here they’re trying to get money from. Businesses run this primarily on servers and have used CentOS historically (now Rocky/Alma) to help expand beyond the RHEL they pay for, if they pay for it. They think businesses will pay up for RHEL now, rather than just move to Amazon Linux or another distro entirely like Debian.

Not sure how many desktop customers RHEL has to he honest. Don’t know of any businesses of scale that they would buy RHEL that use Linux on the desktop

Have to also add to the voices recommending Debian stable. I’ve used it now for ten straight years after I stopped distro-hopping for my servers and desktop, and I cannot imagine using another distro. It’s incredibly stable, but the best part of Debian is the absolutely expansive repositories that even the Arch User Repository can’t beat. Very rarely do I ever need to use Flatpak (ugh) for packages, or look to add in new external repositories.

Samsung Galaxy S10+, use LineageOS on it and have replaced the battery earlier this year after it finally started to last less than a day. Hoping to get another few years out of this phone before I lose support from Lineage.

Sonic Frontiers. Didn’t want to pay full price for it and got it during the 20% off sale. Plays perfect on my Steam Deck and on my desktop and it’s basically Death Stranding meets Sonic. It’s so stupid, I love it.

Other than that picked up some other games on my wishlist like Metal Hellsinger.

Don’t think it’s forgotten as much as it’s intentionally left to the side, like IRC. It’s showing it’s age

I don’t think you’re disagreeing with the point the author made in their article.

It is, I believe Lenovo has the patent on it, and Dell/Toshiba either license the patent or have their own implementation to get around it. Unicomp used to ship a track-point like pointer on some of their keyboards but it’s not as smooth or accurate compared to the Thinkpad ones.

It’s listed as “medium difficulty” due to newer hardware in the laptop not being fully compatible with the kernel shipped in that old version of Ubuntu. I believe 22.04 is compatible out of the box.

I had to use a Debian sid nightly installer to set up Debian on my laptop, no big deal for me but for someone new to Linux I can see why that might be off-putting.

I haven’t used emacs for mail but I was a huge mutt user back in the day before I surrendered to using Outlook at work (employer blocks IMAP on our Exchange Online instance and I didn’t want to go through the hassle of getting it permitted for my personal mailbox). I’d check that out, the config is pretty easy and you can search github/gitlab for other people’s configs to get you started.

I had multiple mailboxes mapped to the function keys, F2 for primary mail, F3 for work, etc., it worked beautifully.

The author mentioned this at the end of the article, specifically around those counter examples you raised.

While there are cases where having a mouse would be useful, (Gaming, 3D Modeling, etc.) but for most people, with some change to their workflow, they can become completely obsolete.