This seems like a very ambitious project and a great learning experience for someone working on their own. For a similarly ambitious project, check out the Liberux NEXX. The project didn’t reach its crowdfunding goal, but they did make some progress before rolling up the rugs.

I don’t know if they’re looking for contributors or if you’re in a place to contribute, but most of the project is open source. You could probably get in touch with them and ask for any advice, successes and failures, and even if they have parts (such as their dev-board) that they can give you access to.

You don’t source them, you host them

Whatever the possibly good, but probably bad, intentions there are to this decision, it’s still courting disaster.

Let’s say your neighbor beats half of their kids and all of their kids’ friends. And this neighbor is not shy about it; in fact, they publicly brag about this. And let’s say that they tell you that your kids should come over to play some video games, but that you need to introduce your kids to them first, so that they don’t accidentally beat your kids.

You know what you do in that situation? You don’t let your kids visit the fucking child-abuse house!

Don’t let your government share your data with us. We’re definitely going to abuse your data, and we’re still gonna arrest you when you visit. We’re holding a burning fuse in our closed fist—don’t get closer to see if we’re gonna blow our hand off. Run away as fast as you can before you get our mess on yourself.

The Buchenwald memorial faced criticism last month when an internal document was leaked which described the keffiyeh as “closely associated with efforts to destroy the state of Israel”.

The director of the memorial, Jens-Christian Wagner, said subsequently that the document contained “mistakes” and would have to be reworked.

On the question of the keffiyeh, he told the NDR broadcaster last month that it was not per se “a forbidden symbol” at the memorial.

“However when it is used together with other symbols… to relativise Nazi crimes, then we would ask people to remove those symbols,” he said.

Emphasis mine

Arguing that the keffiyeh itself represents protest is already a false equivalence to one person trying to protest. This is absolutely generalizing to alienate an entire group of people. What if they said that all Jews needed to remove their kippot? If a Jewish person is devout enough to wear a yarmulke in public, they’re going to stand on the ground that asking people to remove their kippot is discriminatory.

But I take the most umbrage with that last part. To say that people can’t “relativise Nazi crimes” is to deny learning from the past. It’s essentially my community saying “it’s only a genocide when it happens to us.” We can’t own genocide and we really shouldn’t own the Holocaust. Just because 6 million of us were killed doesn’t allow us to prevent others from making comparisons. If only Jews can learn from the Holocaust, then millions more will die when we get to use our shield as a weapon.

That last sentence is phrased poorly because that’s exactly what’s happening right now; I just can’t think how to rephrase it right now.

Such good news. I love the idea of *checks notes* specific demographics not being able to learn how the majority of my Polish family died in the '30s and '40s. Boy, I would hate for people to be informed!

Hahaha, SLAAAAAAMM-

Oh shit! It’s real! Everyone get down!