Apple acquires Israeli startup Q.ai
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/apple-acquires-israeli-startup-qai-.html
Fediverse needs a Q&A (Questions & Answers) service before Quora runs out of money
Tech-savvy power user's experience exposes Quora being led like a sinking ship. Hundreds of millions of users are at risk of having to find a replacement. Fediverse to the rescue?
Quora has been going down for a while already:
slate.com/technology/2024/02/q…
I remember two downturns:
- 2012 stagnation of development about that time when the other co-founder was fired or something
- 2018 beginning of the gradual removal of valuable features, I assume to "save money on maintenance now, suffer consequences later"
There is Trust Café,
trustcafe.io/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Ca…
...as of November 7, 2019, [the founder Jimmy] Wales stated that he had just learnt about ActivityPub and was looking into it."Sounds interesting. Reading! Not likely to do anything like this soon as we are underfunded and just getting going. But it sounds interesting! [...] Ok. I am always interested in decentralization as a principle. I don't know of anything I could actually use in this case though. [...] Also, to be clear, I'm not being dismissive. I'm reading up on ActivityPub to see if there's a way to support it natively. If real tools are being built that I can interoperate with, that's a clear win all around."
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Faced with surging demand, Alberta broke housing construction records. Is there a lesson there?
Alberta broke housing construction records in 2025 and led the country in housing starts per capita — a massive upswing in homebuilding that comes after a period of similarly massive population growth.
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Some of Alberta’s advantage comes down to geography. Cities in Alberta tend to be a bit more spread out, said Moffatt, which means you can build outward more easily (though that can come with its own challenges, such as the need to build new water infrastructure to service far-flung suburban neighbourhoods).In Alberta, developers also don’t need to contend with provincial sales tax, he said, which makes it cheaper to build.
And, generally, development policy is also friendlier at a municipal level in Alberta, said Moffatt.
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Some federal policies and programs have also helped move the needle — both in Alberta and elsewhere — such as the federal government’s removal of GST on purpose-built rental housing, and a CMHC program that offers discounted mortgage insurance on certain multi-residential projects.
Video game giant Valve facing UK lawsuit over pricing, commissions
Are Your Health Records Quietly Being Used for Commercial Purposes? | The Tyee
An emerging model is quietly turning Canadian patient medical records, and patients themselves, into lucrative commercial assets — often without patients’ explicit knowledge or consent. The practice, documented in a recent Health, Tech & Society Lab analysis, urgent concerns about privacy, transparency and trust in our health-care system.
The sale of de-identified and anonymized personal health information isn’t new to Canada. In the conventional business model, data brokers act as middlemen, purchasing and pooling de-identified data from clinics. Brokers then conduct analytics for third parties or sell access to the data for research, marketing or product development.
A new “vertically integrated” model is expanding and changing this practice.
Instead of third-party data brokers buying de-identified datasets from clinics, for-profit companies that own chains of medical clinics have become data brokers themselves, with access to identified data and closer control over clinical workflows. The value of patient data held by these chains is valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Because this closer integration “internalizes” patient data within the same ownership structure, data brokers have direct access to patient data as the data custodians. When using this data to develop specialized tools — such as clinical decision support tools — for third parties, companies may avoid regulatory oversight otherwise applicable if data were shared externally.
The most financially lucrative application of this model comes from pharmaceutical companies which pay clinic-owning data brokers to develop algorithms that identify patients who may be eligible for their drugs. These algorithms, called clinical decision support tools, are then embedded into the electronic medical records systems used in broker-owned clinics, shaping how clinicians prescribe. This is occurring without the explicit consent of patients, relying instead on the permission of physicians and clinics alone. Many physicians may not fully appreciate the risks this poses.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/01/28/Your-Health-Records-Quietly-Used-Commercial-Purposes/
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How Big Tech Spearheads the US Threat to Canada | The Tyee
As Canada finds its sovereignty repeatedly threatened by the United States, it’s Donald Trump who plays the villain. The president seizes the spotlight by openly proclaiming the United States must dominate its geographic “sphere” that includes all of North America.
But it is Big Tech that truly rules the world and poses its own threat to Canadian sovereignty. And nothing the Mark Carney government has proposed to date is likely to blunt its efforts.
Yes, Carney has named the battlefront by declaring that Canada must have its own, sovereign, Canadian data infrastructure. What could that mean? That Canada has control over the chips, algorithms, data centres, models and data that comprise cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
There’s good reason for Canadian data infrastructure to be a priority. We don’t want a menacing United States snooping on our private information, and we don’t want our digital systems to be vulnerable to being scrambled or unplugged by a tantrum-throwing president.
Unfortunately, there are also good reasons that establishing data sovereignty has not yet become an actual project to be supported by the Carney government’s Major Projects Office. Many obstacles stand in the way.
Most major tech companies in Canada are U.S. owned and controlled and subject to U.S. laws. Sixty per cent of cloud capacity is owned by three hyperscalers (large-scale cloud service providers that operate massive data centres to offer vast computing power, storage and networking capabilities to large customers): Amazon Web Services or AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. A third of Canada’s nearly 300 data centres are U.S. owned.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/01/29/Big-Tech-Spearheads-US-Threat-Canada/
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A third of Canada’s nearly 300 data centres are U.S. owned.
Meaning that 2/3 aren't.
Canada also already has a coast-to-cost fiber optic backbone that is both Canadian owned and on Canadian soil. It has overseas gateways on both coasts already.
That is a good starting point to build further infrastructure on top of.
Stepfather of missing N.S. children facing charges involving adult
Daniel Martell, the stepfather of two Nova Scotia children who disappeared nearly nine months ago, has been charged with sexual assault, assault and forcible confinement, CBC News has learned.
Nova Scotia RCMP confirmed that Martell was arrested on Monday and is facing three charges involving an adult complainant.
Martell is due in Pictou provincial court on March 2.
Martell, 34, was living with Lilly and Jack Sullivan and their mother at the time of their disappearance from his family home in Lansdowne, N.S., last May.
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds | Google DeepMind
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can now try out Project Genie.Diego Rivas (Google)
After Trump Declared Gaza War ‘Over,’ Media Lost Interest
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/7485174
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/2346…
Since President Donald Trump declared that “the war in Gaza is over” on October 3, 2025, US news outlets’ interest in the occupied territory has plummeted. In a FAIR search of US-related news sites using Media Cloud, a news media database, coverage of Gaza post-ceasefire agreement averaged just 1.5% of the news hole—significantly less than the level of coverage before the agreement.From July 2 through October 1, 2025, mentions of Gaza appeared in 2.3% of news stories in Media Cloud’s US–National dataset, which indexes 248 online outlets. Starting October 2, the day before the ceasefire agreement, coverage in the next three weeks jumped to an average of 4.5%. For the following three months (October 23–January 22), that average dropped to 1.5%. That’s less than two-thirds the level of coverage it received prior to the agreement.
It’s also the lowest three-month average at any point since the current crisis began on October 7, 2023.
Weekly online news articles mentioning “Gaza,” January 2024–January 2026
Source: Media Cloud.org
As FAIR (10/21/25, 12/18/25) has pointed out—along with many others—Israel did not cease firing after signing the ceasefire agreement. It has killed more than 480 Palestinians since then, including more than 100 children. (Israel claims three of its soldiers have been killed since the agreement—Washington Post, 1/8/26.)
And despite the agreement—and multiple binding orders from the International Court of Justice—Israel has kept in place the near-total blockade of Gaza that perpetuates the genocide (Amnesty International, 12/17/25; UNRWA, 1/21/26).
Israel has treated the line it committed to withdraw to in the agreement—the so-called Yellow Line—as a license to kill Palestinians who cross it, thereby ethnically cleansing more than half of Gaza (Al Jazeera, 1/26/26). Israel has begun treating the line as a new permanent border (Drop Site, 1/23/26).
Gaza is at least as newsworthy as it was before the ceasefire deal was signed. The general US media decision to back off covering an ongoing genocide, apparently because Donald Trump declared the conflict over, is both cowardly and complicit.
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After Trump Declared Gaza War ‘Over,’ Media Lost Interest
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/2346…Since President Donald Trump declared that “the war in Gaza is over” on October 3, 2025, US news outlets’ interest in the occupied territory has plummeted. In a FAIR search of US-related news sites using Media Cloud, a news media database, coverage of Gaza post-ceasefire agreement averaged just 1.5% of the news hole—significantly less than the level of coverage before the agreement.From July 2 through October 1, 2025, mentions of Gaza appeared in 2.3% of news stories in Media Cloud’s US–National dataset, which indexes 248 online outlets. Starting October 2, the day before the ceasefire agreement, coverage in the next three weeks jumped to an average of 4.5%. For the following three months (October 23–January 22), that average dropped to 1.5%. That’s less than two-thirds the level of coverage it received prior to the agreement.
It’s also the lowest three-month average at any point since the current crisis began on October 7, 2023.
Weekly online news articles mentioning “Gaza,” January 2024–January 2026
Source: Media Cloud.org
As FAIR (10/21/25, 12/18/25) has pointed out—along with many others—Israel did not cease firing after signing the ceasefire agreement. It has killed more than 480 Palestinians since then, including more than 100 children. (Israel claims three of its soldiers have been killed since the agreement—Washington Post, 1/8/26.)
And despite the agreement—and multiple binding orders from the International Court of Justice—Israel has kept in place the near-total blockade of Gaza that perpetuates the genocide (Amnesty International, 12/17/25; UNRWA, 1/21/26).
Israel has treated the line it committed to withdraw to in the agreement—the so-called Yellow Line—as a license to kill Palestinians who cross it, thereby ethnically cleansing more than half of Gaza (Al Jazeera, 1/26/26). Israel has begun treating the line as a new permanent border (Drop Site, 1/23/26).
Gaza is at least as newsworthy as it was before the ceasefire deal was signed. The general US media decision to back off covering an ongoing genocide, apparently because Donald Trump declared the conflict over, is both cowardly and complicit.
From FAIR via This RSS Feed.
Israel Is Turning the Yellow Line Splitting Gaza into a Physical Barrier
Last month, the Israeli military began constructing earth berms in areas along the yellow line, physically cutting off Palestinians from the Israeli-controlled zone and the rest of Gaza.Forensic Architecture (Drop Site News)
After Trump Declared Gaza War ‘Over,’ Media Lost Interest
Since President Donald Trump declared that “the war in Gaza is over” on October 3, 2025, US news outlets’ interest in the occupied territory has plummeted. In a FAIR search of US-related news sites using Media Cloud, a news media database, coverage of Gaza post-ceasefire agreement averaged just 1.5% of the news hole—significantly less than the level of coverage before the agreement.
From July 2 through October 1, 2025, mentions of Gaza appeared in 2.3% of news stories in Media Cloud’s US–National dataset, which indexes 248 online outlets. Starting October 2, the day before the ceasefire agreement, coverage in the next three weeks jumped to an average of 4.5%. For the following three months (October 23–January 22), that average dropped to 1.5%. That’s less than two-thirds the level of coverage it received prior to the agreement.
It’s also the lowest three-month average at any point since the current crisis began on October 7, 2023.
Weekly online news articles mentioning “Gaza,” January 2024–January 2026
Source: Media Cloud.org
As FAIR (10/21/25, 12/18/25) has pointed out—along with many others—Israel did not cease firing after signing the ceasefire agreement. It has killed more than 480 Palestinians since then, including more than 100 children. (Israel claims three of its soldiers have been killed since the agreement—Washington Post, 1/8/26.)
And despite the agreement—and multiple binding orders from the International Court of Justice—Israel has kept in place the near-total blockade of Gaza that perpetuates the genocide (Amnesty International, 12/17/25; UNRWA, 1/21/26).
Israel has treated the line it committed to withdraw to in the agreement—the so-called Yellow Line—as a license to kill Palestinians who cross it, thereby ethnically cleansing more than half of Gaza (Al Jazeera, 1/26/26). Israel has begun treating the line as a new permanent border (Drop Site, 1/23/26).
Gaza is at least as newsworthy as it was before the ceasefire deal was signed. The general US media decision to back off covering an ongoing genocide, apparently because Donald Trump declared the conflict over, is both cowardly and complicit.
From FAIR via This RSS Feed.
Israel Is Turning the Yellow Line Splitting Gaza into a Physical Barrier
Last month, the Israeli military began constructing earth berms in areas along the yellow line, physically cutting off Palestinians from the Israeli-controlled zone and the rest of Gaza.Forensic Architecture (Drop Site News)
After Trump Declared Gaza War ‘Over,’ Media Lost Interest
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/2346…
Since President Donald Trump declared that “the war in Gaza is over” on October 3, 2025, US news outlets’ interest in the occupied territory has plummeted. In a FAIR search of US-related news sites using Media Cloud, a news media database, coverage of Gaza post-ceasefire agreement averaged just 1.5% of the news hole—significantly less than the level of coverage before the agreement.From July 2 through October 1, 2025, mentions of Gaza appeared in 2.3% of news stories in Media Cloud’s US–National dataset, which indexes 248 online outlets. Starting October 2, the day before the ceasefire agreement, coverage in the next three weeks jumped to an average of 4.5%. For the following three months (October 23–January 22), that average dropped to 1.5%. That’s less than two-thirds the level of coverage it received prior to the agreement.
It’s also the lowest three-month average at any point since the current crisis began on October 7, 2023.
Weekly online news articles mentioning “Gaza,” January 2024–January 2026
Source: Media Cloud.org
As FAIR (10/21/25, 12/18/25) has pointed out—along with many others—Israel did not cease firing after signing the ceasefire agreement. It has killed more than 480 Palestinians since then, including more than 100 children. (Israel claims three of its soldiers have been killed since the agreement—Washington Post, 1/8/26.)
And despite the agreement—and multiple binding orders from the International Court of Justice—Israel has kept in place the near-total blockade of Gaza that perpetuates the genocide (Amnesty International, 12/17/25; UNRWA, 1/21/26).
Israel has treated the line it committed to withdraw to in the agreement—the so-called Yellow Line—as a license to kill Palestinians who cross it, thereby ethnically cleansing more than half of Gaza (Al Jazeera, 1/26/26). Israel has begun treating the line as a new permanent border (Drop Site, 1/23/26).
Gaza is at least as newsworthy as it was before the ceasefire deal was signed. The general US media decision to back off covering an ongoing genocide, apparently because Donald Trump declared the conflict over, is both cowardly and complicit.
From FAIR via This RSS Feed.
After Trump Declared Gaza War ‘Over,’ Media Lost Interest
Since President Donald Trump declared that “the war in Gaza is over” on October 3, 2025, US news outlets’ interest in the occupied territory has plummeted. In a FAIR search of US-related news sites using Media Cloud, a news media database, coverage of Gaza post-ceasefire agreement averaged just 1.5% of the news hole—significantly less than the level of coverage before the agreement.From July 2 through October 1, 2025, mentions of Gaza appeared in 2.3% of news stories in Media Cloud’s US–National dataset, which indexes 248 online outlets. Starting October 2, the day before the ceasefire agreement, coverage in the next three weeks jumped to an average of 4.5%. For the following three months (October 23–January 22), that average dropped to 1.5%. That’s less than two-thirds the level of coverage it received prior to the agreement.
It’s also the lowest three-month average at any point since the current crisis began on October 7, 2023.
Weekly online news articles mentioning “Gaza,” January 2024–January 2026
Source: Media Cloud.org
As FAIR (10/21/25, 12/18/25) has pointed out—along with many others—Israel did not cease firing after signing the ceasefire agreement. It has killed more than 480 Palestinians since then, including more than 100 children. (Israel claims three of its soldiers have been killed since the agreement—Washington Post, 1/8/26.)
And despite the agreement—and multiple binding orders from the International Court of Justice—Israel has kept in place the near-total blockade of Gaza that perpetuates the genocide (Amnesty International, 12/17/25; UNRWA, 1/21/26).
Israel has treated the line it committed to withdraw to in the agreement—the so-called Yellow Line—as a license to kill Palestinians who cross it, thereby ethnically cleansing more than half of Gaza (Al Jazeera, 1/26/26). Israel has begun treating the line as a new permanent border (Drop Site, 1/23/26).
Gaza is at least as newsworthy as it was before the ceasefire deal was signed. The general US media decision to back off covering an ongoing genocide, apparently because Donald Trump declared the conflict over, is both cowardly and complicit.
From FAIR via This RSS Feed.
Israel Is Turning the Yellow Line Splitting Gaza into a Physical Barrier
Last month, the Israeli military began constructing earth berms in areas along the yellow line, physically cutting off Palestinians from the Israeli-controlled zone and the rest of Gaza.Forensic Architecture (Drop Site News)
Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent
Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent
More than half its profit came from emissions credits as sales fell 8.6 percent.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt visits Utah to urge regulations on 'amoral' AI companies
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt visits Utah to urge regulations on 'amoral' AI companies
Golden Globe-nominated actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt appeared at the Utah Capitol to urge lawmakers to support a bill regulating artificial intelligence companies.Bridger Beal-Cvetko, KSL (ksl.com)
For potential future reference, if I were to use Tiny 10/11 on an old computer, would I be able to easily install GPU drivers?
Edit: I just realized that there might be some users that don't know what Tiny10 and 11 are. They are modified (and highly unofficial) versions of Windows 10 and 11 that removed most of bloatware and unnecessary system requirements from them. I've only ever used them from a virtual machine but I have seen some videos of people using them on real hardware, so I was curious about them myself.
My laptop has an SSD that I'm not currently using and I want to use it but it currently has a copy of Windows 10 installed to it. I usually use Linux from an external hard drive and keep the preinstalled copy of Windows so that I can use it as a secondary computer when/if I buy a new one. This has been fine but along with being able to use the SSD just in general, I'm having an issue with one of the games I tried playing and I want to test the game with an SSD to see if the issue is still present with faster storage.
Since I can't really just buy an external SSD, I thought about just using the one I have now but this would require removing Windows, preventing me from using it in the future. I know that I could just clone the drive and archive it for later but I'd rather not waste space on it and just use Tiny10/11 if possible. So I'd just need to know if I can install GPU drivers in Tiny10/11.
I currently have a dual boot between Windows and Linux but I'm thinking about removing Windows. Would I need to do anything to Grub in order to continue use Linux Mint?
As a sort of follow up to the post I made on my alt account, would I need to do to anything to Grub to continue using Linux Mint after removing Windows or would I still be able to boot into Linux Mint without having to do anything? As stated in the previous post, Windows is installed onto an SSD and I want run games from that SSD but I'd need to reformat the SSD in order to use it.
Edit: I don't need help with this anymore but because it seems like there is some confusion, I'm including the fact that I have Linux installed onto an external hard drive and Windows was installed onto the SSD which is in the laptop. I've already remove Windows from the SSD and reformatted it to ext4 so I can run games from it.
For potential future reference, if I were to use Tiny 10/11 on an old computer, would I be able to easily install GPU drivers?
Edit: I just realized that there might be some users that don't know what Tiny10 and 11 are. They are modified (and highly unofficial) versions of Windows 10 and 11 that removed most of bloatware and unnecessary system requirements from them. I've only ever used them from a virtual machine but I have seen some videos of people using them on real hardware, so I was curious about them myself.My laptop has an SSD that I'm not currently using and I want to use it but it currently has a copy of Windows 10 installed to it. I usually use Linux from an external hard drive and keep the preinstalled copy of Windows so that I can use it as a secondary computer when/if I buy a new one. This has been fine but along with being able to use the SSD just in general, I'm having an issue with one of the games I tried playing and I want to test the game with an SSD to see if the issue is still present with faster storage.
Since I can't really just buy an external SSD, I thought about just using the one I have now but this would require removing Windows, preventing me from using it in the future. I know that I could just clone the drive and archive it for later but I'd rather not waste space on it and just use Tiny10/11 if possible. So I'd just need to know if I can install GPU drivers in Tiny10/11.
sudo update-grub
You don't need to do anything, it'll work without Windows, and grub should auto update with your distro when you do a major update (such as Kernel update)
You might want to manually update grub to remove the Windows entry just to keep it tidy. On mint it's as simple as:
sudo update-grub
It'll scan your installed kernels and other OS. If windows is gone, it will no longer be detected and disappear from the boot list after running this.
If you've set up a default OS at boot (like Windows) you might want to update the grub config files. Thats as simple as editing /etc/default/grub and setting:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
Where 0 is the first boot entry.
You can also use:
GRUB_DEFAULT="saved"
which will remember the last selected item and boot that. Bit redundant if you're going down to 1 OS.
Fair note: A lot of these comments are under the assumption you are using the os_prober feature in grub to detect the windows install. While this is usually the case, if you have ever supplied a manual entry for windows in /etc/grub.d to specify where your windows install is (I was forced to do this because os_prober refused to see my windows system after recreating my EFI partition), you will need to delete that entry again in order for the windows option to disappear on grub.
It would still boot your Linux mint, but you would have a windows entry in the boot menu that didn't go anywhere.
You can clone it with clonezilla, or with dd if you’re feeling particularly ballsy.
If your boot sectors are on the m.2 and you clone to it then you’ll overwrite them though, which is no bueno; and I’m not entirely sure how to fix that, but I’m sure there is a way.
EDIT:
You can use grub-install to do it, from a live USB.
I’d make a full clone of your SSD to a third drive (external?) and then try adding boot sectors to your SSD, then set it as the boot device in your BIOS/UEFI. If it boots successfully, you’re good to clone it to the m.2. If not, restore that backup and do some googling! (Hell, I’d do it anyway just to verify my advice…)
If this is meant for the other user, you replied to the wrong comment.
If you meant to respond to me, I don't need this. I've already removed Windows from the hard drive and I plan on using either Tiny10 or Tiny11 on this computer when I get a new computer to run Linux on in the future.
you can just remove windows and reformat the ssd and the bootloader will update at the next kernel update or with sudo update-grub.
it will work to test your game but it's better that your main os be on an internal drive for longer term use though, preferably an ssd.
also on modern computers, the windows key is commonly on the bios itself meaning you can probably just reinstall it.
I know it would be better to move Linux Mint to the internal hard drive but I'm keeping it on the external hard drive just because I don't know how stable the SSD is. On top of the fact that I've heard that SSD are less stable than mechanical drives, I don't know if the hard drive was replaced when it was refurbished and if it wasn't, I don't know how much it was used. I also want to prioritize my slower external hard drives so that way I'm not potentially stuck using these older hard drive, or even my much slower USB storage devices, several years from now.
Also, I ran a benchmark test on the SSD and it's nowhere near as fast as I though it would be. The read speed is only around 520 MB/s and the Write speed is around 470 MB/s. This isn't much faster than my current external hard drive which has somewhere around 300 MB/s for both, it's been a while since I last tested it.
SSD are less stable than mechanical drives, it's probably the other way around.
that's not true at all, maybe when they were new 15 years ago. the very fact they have no moving parts makes them inherently much more reliable.
update its firmware, and smart test it if you are in doubt. you can also tell the % of it's life cycle and many statistics about its lifetime use through smart. meaning smartctl or equivalent tool.
520MB/s vs 300MB/s
those are sequential speeds. real world use is represented by the random read benchmarks and seek latency. on those scenarios every ssd will be an order of magnitude faster than any hdd.
you would feel and measure a huge difference in real world performance over a painful usb hdd. which can be prone to connection issues, causing all sorts of problems.
i'd probably leave it for easy distro-hopping with if you are new to linux and enjoy messing with it.
I don't know what most of those numbers mean but most of them are 0 and the overall assessment says "Disk is OK", so I guess it wasn't used much in the past two years. "program-fail-count-total" has a value of 94669670143499 but I'm not sure if that's actually bad or not because "program-fail-count" is 0.
Also, as I stated before, I'm still going to prioritize my slower hard drives so I'm not stuck with them if the SSD fails before I can buy a faster drive.
ssds are hardy even if you don't take good care of them. i've used a few for a decade and they still have 90% of their lifetime writes.
format it 10% smaller than its capacity, get updated firmware, don't let it get too hot, avoid hitting swap and it's lasting you long. maybe use power saving modes if you are really worried.
The global south is developing partially with the assistance of the PRC, yes, but there's also general south-south trade and alliances, like the Alliance of Sahel States. The PRC isn't imperialist, it isn't plundering the global south. BRI has been enourmous for win-win economic development, compared to western enforced austerity and plundering.
Vassals of the empire include western Europe, Israel, Austrailia, etc, imperialist powers that don't outweigh the US Empire but still benefit from imperialism. The global south aren't vassals, they are imperialized (but breaking free). The new geopolitical paradigm will be marked by a rise in the global south, having escaped underdevelopment, and the decline in single hegemonic powers like the US.
It is not a police state, nor does it have global ambitions of hegemony.
Lol okay. What world do you live in?
but is not acting like world police like the US Empire
Because it is too weak right now. It's waiting for the US to make more mistakes. When the time is right it will take Taiwan and solidify control over the east and south China sea.
That you think China is different from every great power in history is the odd take. Power centralizes and seeks more power. It's a tale as old as time. China literally modeled it's rise after the Golden Era of American industrialization from the late nineteenth to early 1920s. America went from a backwater to a serious power in a generation. China did the same thing. It now plans to capitalize on it's capitalism. (e.g. geopolitical dominance in the East and satellite control on the fringes of it's empire.) China is a little America in everything but name.
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China is socialist, the large firms and key industries are publicly owned and the working classes control the state.
Bahahhhahahha I'll take whatever you're smoking.
I don't smoke. I'm not sure which you believe is funny, the idea that the commanding heights of industry are publicly owned in large SOEs, or that the working class controls the state, but both are factually true and easily verified. For example, when looking at publicly owned industries, we can see the following:
Even checking Wikipedia, data from 2022 shows that the overwhelming majority of the top companies are publicly owned SOEs. This is China's strategy, they've been honest about it from the beginning. The private sector is about half cooperatives like Huawei or farming cooperarives and sole proprietorships, with the other half being small and medium firms. As these grow, they are folded into the public sector gradually. This is China's Socialist Market Economy.
As for the state being run by the working classes, this is also pretty straightforward. Public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, and the CPC, a working class party, dominates the state. At a democratic level, local elections are direct, while higher levels are elected by lower rungs. At the top, constant opinion gathering and polling occurs, gathering public opinion, driving gradual change. This system is better elaborated on in Professor Roland Boer's Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance, and we can see the class breakdown of the top of the government itself:
Overall, this system has resulted in over 90% of the population approving the government, which is shown to be consistent and accurate. If you want to learn more, while not nearly as in-depth due to time limits as Roland Boer's work (and mostly focused on the Xi Jinping era), Red Pen's A Summary of Xi Jinping's Governance of China can be a good primer! There's also This is how China's economic model works: Explaining Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Geopolitical Economy Report.
Support for government in China: is the data accurate?
Some have questioned the survey results. Are the skeptics right?Jason Hickel
Because it is too weak right now. It’s waiting for the US to make more mistakes
LOL trust me bro
China literally modeled it’s rise after the Golden Era of American industrialization from the late nineteenth to early 1920s. America went from a backwater to a serious power in a generation.
They did it with pure imperialism, looting countries and wars. And they still do.
China did it purely on their own.
What world do YOU live in? Who has been putting dictatorships EVERYWHERE in the global south, who has bombed Yugoslavia, southwest Asia and North Africa, Vietnam? Who has kidnapped the president of Venezuela? Who has been carrying out genocides against indigenous people and terrorizing black and other POC, and now even white liberals?
Edit: typo, I'm drunk lol
so you really don't understand what is being talked about here.
you wrote it off but is somehow still here.
Though, I don't blame the writer.
I'm convinced they did it in purpose to highlight what a dumbass Caesar is. He verbatim says dialectics makes it inevitable that the NCR is destroyed by him, which is just so incredibly stupid. If you read enough of Hegel to write Caesar talking about Hegel as he does, then you've read enough to know that would be about the dumbest you could say.
Look the only critique I can leverage at new Vegas is that there isn't a communist or anarchist ending where the courier unites the disparate communities and makes something that lasts until after the courier dies. I want to be the Stalin of the wasteland.
Edit: After getting the Lee Kuan Yew speeches on my Instagram reels I also realise Houses "give me 20 years" speech is taken from there. The people behind the game were very politically aware.
Also apparently fallout 1, 2 and new Vegas are based on a tabletop game the designers played? Arcade Gannon was Josh Sawyer's character
Having seen a documentary about the production the designers wanted the game to be about "letting go of Old World Blues". All the factions cling to the past, to systems that led them to where they are today. I take it they were a bit better than regular US radlibs, which is why there isn't any left-bashing, but they probably see communism as part of that old world blues too. It would also go against their goal if there was an obvious "good" ending.
That said it would have done wonders for the political awakening of a bunch of people if there was one. Or, at least, if it was made clear the courier was likewise constrained by their environment, so the reason a post-post-apocalyptic spartacist movement isn't possible is because the courier and like individuals can't think like that. The red scare has long tendrils.
Or at least a yes-man ending that wasn't going all "great man" theory about the courier, where everything revolves around them and their presence.
But what if it’s a slow burn instead of a bang?
Also, remember how eastern Roman Empire kept going, on an unrelated note, Canada’s economy is actually doing decent compared to the US.
Mandated Constitutional Convention every 200 years wouldn’t be a bad idea. Rewrite the whole thing.
Maybe also mandate the execution of the 1% at the same time. A solid reset.
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i think they haven't been an empire for just as long as it had existed?
they were settlers first, right? with the indigenous genocide and all.
more like imperialist and settler ideology are subsets (variations?) of a bigger settler-colonial mindset, but different in the sense that one is mostly genocide, and the other is mostly enslavement.
ie. when the us coups bolivia, they don't want to annex the land, but rather enslave it's people through their imperial machine. when israel invades palestine, they don't want to make palestinians their vassals but rather just kill everyone and keep the land underneath their feet. these are mostly similar but different things.
i'm not that well versed about north america before the europeans but it's safe to say there was societal organization before they came, but they decided to settle that land instead of making them european vassals.
edit: to bring this closer to my mentality with this: i'm from a colony and i find what they do to palestinians, or what they did to native americans qualitatively different to what they do to us.
I see this meme all the time, which is an oversimplification. The 250 year time frame that people ascribe to is usually assigned to a country's lifetime, but really, the time frame is the average length of a golden era of a country, not its existence. Rome lasted for 2,000 years and China today still exists. When the Chinese talk about this "250 year" thing, they would refer back to how long certain dynasties ruled, not China's existence. Same with Rome having had its peak come and go while it existed until 1453. France also has had several golden ages as the bigger power in Europe from middle ages to Napoleonic era.
America won't cease to exist, but it will not be the power it once was, and that's okay (except for the ultranationalists). It's okay to be humble.
i'd say the end of ww2 cemented them as the empire. the monroe doctrine was hemispheric domination as the precursor to global domination.
every other strong world power was weak from the war and they just swooped in and claimed the actual victory and all the spoils to themselves.
I would say probably the Spanish-American War.
Remember: the Maine was a pretense for continued expansionism.
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Why does nobody care that the PC leader for years, and even recently, was a US citizen?
The same fucking loser who faked being an insurance broker, that's even lower than real estate agent.
Some cared, I sure did.
I think most Canadians were in denial about the USA being our enemy or that the CPC were turning into MAGA loyalists at the time he was in charge on that party.
No shade to Eby but it doesn't take a lawyer to understand that water is wet.
Since he's a lawyer though, he should know there's more than enough to convict them of attempted treason, conspiracy, or any other inchoate crime thereof. Unfortunately it looks like neither provincial nor federal prosecutors will go after them for it.
That's only in the military, it's just a life sentence in civilian court.
Relevant law that hasn't updated to HIS Majesty
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I live a block away from the tavern where the trial of the bloody assize was held. Traitors friendly to the US in 1814 were put on trial, then brought to Burlington to be fitted for custom hemp neckties. Then, their heads were cut off and placed on pikes and paraded around Ontario villages. We didn't have a traitor problem since then.
These cosplay cowboys are all foreign agents and if they were supported by China everyone would be freaking out.
Why do you think Canadians have a worse view of China than America?
We're raised hating the US, China is just an afterthought.
Just the ones led by Democrats and Republicans right?
Or are you a Zoomer? Surprisingly they seemed to like the Americans.
Yes. Obviously.
Albertans need to make it personally painful for any politicians that do this.
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You gotta love the names of traitor groups like these. It's the same in the US, and it's always something super duper positive, something that sounds like wisdom, but it's always a shiny turd
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in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •So it sounds like they’re doing something in AI integration at the hardware level for audio?
Q makes me think of “cue” - could they be providing live translated descriptive text tech?