Israel's Start-Ups Struggle to Lure VC Capital Amid Escalating Wars
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Oct 10, 2024
Israel's Start-Ups Struggle to Lure VC Capital Amid Escalating Wars
Amid economic decline and a struggling export market, its government sought to pitch skeptical venture capitalists around the world on the promised land’s tech scene.Drop Site News
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China is writing the world’s technology rules
China is writing the world’s technology rules
It is setting standards for everything from 6G to quantum computingThe Economist
my fav bit was when they complain how capitalist markets can't compete with central planning 🎻
In the process, the West has been abandoning its commitment to a bottom-up, market-based approach to setting technical standards. “We are being forced to undermine a system that has been very effective and that we have profited from for a long time,” laments Mr Rühlig. In more ways than one, China is making the West play by its rules.
China is writing the world’s technology rules
China is writing the world’s technology rules
It is setting standards for everything from 6G to quantum computingThe Economist
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Mexico’s President Condemns Aggression on Gaza, Calls for Recognition of Palestine
Mexico’s President Condemns Aggression on Gaza, Calls for Recognition of Palestine - Palestine Chronicle
Mexico's new President, Claudia Sheinbaum, has called for the recognition of a Palestinian state as a step toward achieving peace.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Mexico’s President Condemns Aggression on Gaza, Calls for Recognition of Palestine
Mexico’s President Condemns Aggression on Gaza, Calls for Recognition of Palestine - Palestine Chronicle
Mexico's new President, Claudia Sheinbaum, has called for the recognition of a Palestinian state as a step toward achieving peace.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Gaza Doctor Corrects CNN Anchor: 'This Is Not a Humanitarian Crisis... This Is Genocide'
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Gaza Doctor Corrects CNN Anchor: 'This Is Not a Humanitarian Crisis... This Is Genocide'
"History books will be written on this and countries will have to reckon—media agencies will have to reckon—with their major role in the genocide," said Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Ventoy Update
Dear community,
I hope this message finds you well. I want to take a moment to address the concerns raised in Issue #2795 regarding the BLOB functionality in our app. First and foremost, I sincerely apologize for any confusion or frustration this may have caused. I was on vacation during this time, and I understand that my absence may have contributed to the lack of clarity surrounding this issue.
The BLOB feature is an important aspect of our app, and I recognize that the documentation surrounding it has not been as clear as it should be. I appreciate your patience as we work through these challenges, and I want to assure you that I am fully committed to resolving this matter.
As I return to work, I will prioritize updating the documentation to provide a comprehensive understanding of how the BLOB functionality works. I will also investigate the specific concerns raised in Issue #2795 to ensure that any underlying issues are addressed promptly.
Your trust in our software is paramount, and I am dedicated to regaining any confidence that may have been affected by this situation. I am confident that, with your continued support and feedback, we can enhance the app and provide a better experience for all users.
Thank you for your understanding and for being a part of our community. I look forward to sharing updates with you soon as we work towards improving our app and its documentation.
Warm regards,
longpanda
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You’ve been on vacation for 5+ months?
Also wouldn’t it be best to post this communication in the issue thread?
Given how long this has gone on now, it’d probably be best to inform your community that you’ll be removing BLOBs from the source and for them to be produced during build otherwise this shadow is going to remain.
This was the first time I’ve ever heard of your software and has kind of made me want to steer clear of it.
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Given how long this has gone on now, it’d probably be best to inform your community that you’ll be removing BLOBs from the source and for them to be produced during build otherwise this shadow is going to remain.
Many of the BLOBs are essential to allow Ventoy to work with Secure Boot. They are compiled and signed by Fedora and OpenSUSE. They definitely need to be better documented, but they aren't reproduceable for good reason.
wget and downloading them from the original projects.
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"I hope this message finds you well", is a marker I have been using to detect GPT replies. Looks like this is from ChatGPT.
Also it says "BLOB feature" and "BLOB functionality". What in the coconut does that mean? "BLOB feature is an important aspect for our app." Come on..
It's really pathetic that they didn't even try to read it at least once.
I'm gonna be honest, when I read this, I initially thought it was a joke answer by a community menber. The joke being about vague hand-wavy statements that people make when dodging questions.
Then I realized it's OP, and OP is ostensibly the actual developer. I have nothing specific to say about this situation, especially from a technical perspective, but this reply... why even bother?
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I can not tell you, how much I thought the same. It sounds like an answer filled with as many buzzwords you can think of, made up by some random as a joke, moking such answers. Then I saw the username highlighted in blue, indicating it was OP.
I am still not sure of it's just a mocking answer, tbh.
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If this is impersonation (which it looks to be) shouldn't it be removed?
Are you going to set the precedent that impersonation of figures in the open source community is allowed?
Personally I would be in favor of removing this post until OP can provide proof of identity (eg. by posting something on the main github account corroborating this post).
Giving you the benefit of doubt here.
"/s" technically means "this comment is sarcastic in nature". But also commonly used with bad jokes and puns as well, indicating that this is indeed nonsense, and I'm aware of it, but I decided to say it anyway.
The previous comment was just a bad and cliche joke that is common in internet forums, referencing the "Skynet" from the "Terminator" movie series.
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According to Jim Starkey, the person who coined the term, "Blob don't stand for nothin'." However, it is often referred to as a "Binary Large OBject", meaning a large file with content not easily readable by people.
With an open source project, you have source code which is turned into executables/"blobs" by the compiler. As long as you trust the compiler, you can (functionally) know the content of the blobs by looking at the source code they were made from.
In the case of Ventoy, several "blobs" are included from an unknown or vague origin. This is a great way to bundle malware, as seen with the XZ backdoor from earlier this year. As such, the original creator of the linked issue is requesting they are built/obtained at compile time, so either the content or origin of these files can easily be found.
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I am longpanda's friend and colleague. We used to work together and we go way back. I had lost contact with him several months ago. I still haven't heard from him until now. This post confused me, because longpanda never writes in English. I helped him with the translations in the past. longpanda is a great comrade, who loves his country deeply and has always followed in the footsteps of the great leader, his loyalty and dedication are truly admirable. I hope he is alroght.
我是longpanda的朋友和同事，我们曾经一起工作，但几个月前我们就失去了联系。直到现在，我仍然没有他的任何消息。看到这篇帖子，我感到很奇怪，因为我知道longpanda不可能是写这篇帖子的，他从来不用英语写东西，过去我都是帮他翻译的。
longpanda是一位伟大的同志，他深爱着自己的祖国，始终坚定地跟随伟大领袖的脚步，他的忠诚和奉献精神令人钦佩。我希望他一切安好。
longpanda如果你看到这条消息，请尽快联系我。
Boeing to cut 17,000 jobs as losses deepen during factory strike
Boeing to cut 17,000 jobs as losses deepen during factory strike
Boeing said it will lay off about 10% of its workforce as its losses deepen from an ongoing factory strike.Leslie Josephs (CNBC)
Boeing to cut 17,000 jobs as losses deepen during factory strike
Boeing to cut 17,000 jobs as losses deepen during factory strike
Boeing said it will lay off about 10% of its workforce as its losses deepen from an ongoing factory strike.Leslie Josephs (CNBC)
Browser based, battle royale, online multiplayer 2D game about bombs on a board.
GitHub - kastorcode/blast-arena: Browser based, battle royale, online multiplayer 2D game about bombs on a board.
Browser based, battle royale, online multiplayer 2D game about bombs on a board. - kastorcode/blast-arenaGitHub
Waffle Maker That Creates LEGO Style Building Bricks
Building Bricks Waffle Maker
Patented Building Brick Waffle Maker - Make 14 unique cool and fun brick shaped waffles in minutes! Non-Stick waffle maker- Featuring 14 mini building brick shaped waffles.Waffle Wow!
Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'
Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'
The concept of a "digital license" isn't new, but there's no pretending you didn't know about it anymore.Andy Chalk (PC Gamer)
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The Warning Signs for Kamala Harris's Campaign Are Flashing Red
Key Takeaways:
- Kamala Harris's underdog narrative: Harris frames her campaign as an underdog, despite polling better than Biden did before dropping out.
- Close race dynamics: The election is tight, especially in swing states, with Harris underperforming in key demographics compared to Biden's 2020 performance.
- Trump's flaws: Harris critiques Trump for his presidency’s economic policies, handling of the pandemic, and attacks on immigrant communities.
- Voter demographics: Harris struggles with voters of color, young voters, seniors, and union workers; Trump has significant working-class support.
- Arab American voters: Support for Harris has declined due to her stance on Gaza and unconditional support for Israel, leading to a potential loss of Arab American voters, especially in Michigan.
- Policy shifts needed: The article argues Harris should adjust her stance on Gaza, support a ceasefire, and condition U.S. arms to Israel, which could sway Arab American voters.
- Economic populism: Harris is encouraged to focus on class-warfare rhetoric and pro-working class policies, such as a $15 minimum wage, capping drug costs, and expanding Social Security, to win over lower-income voters.
- Youth voter engagement: There's concern about low youth voter turnout and lack of outreach to young people of color, which could affect the election outcome.
- Final campaign stretch: Harris is urged to take bold steps on economic issues and appeal to working-class voters, similar to Biden’s approach in 2020, to secure victory in key states.
Biden, Netanyahu Closer to Consensus on Attacking Iran
Biden, Netanyahu Closer to Consensus on Attacking Iran
Vice President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…scheerpost.com
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Cool, crash the price of oil right be fore the election.
Biden is trying to make Harris lose. He hates her for taking his job.
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Biden's bitter at people realizing he's too old. Pretty sure he was hoping to go out like feinstein.
Bibi just wants someone he can influence with shiney things rather than needing to pull strings.
What a fantastic democracy/republic we have in the USA 😭
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Vice President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister
Joe Biden has been demoted to Vice President ?
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If anyone wants, here's an extremely optimistic 2009 Brookings Institute white paper on how various hostile actions against Iran would play out based off numbers and history.
Chapter 3 analyses a "boots on the ground" invasion (the occupation would require a draft), Chapters 4-6 analyze American and Israeli airstrikes. Neither of them expect Iran to employ masses of drones or close the strait, and they consider ballistic missiles against US assets unlikely.
While they have an extreme western bias, there's no way you can twist the numbers to look good.
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Chapter 3 analyses a "boots on the ground" invasion (the occupation would require a draft)
Good luck, I'm defecting as soon as they don't have eyes on me.
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It makes it pretty clear how insanely unfeasible a ground invasion of Iran would be even with the most optimistic assumptions.
1.3 million just for the occupation of an 88 million pop country, and that number just comes from other occupations, without taking into consideration the terrain or people or last 50 years of preparation for asymmetrical warfare.
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SHUT UP! Why couldn't you let him have that little bit of naivette?
Seriously though, its a damn fine idea, if only the US and the DNC weren't totally bat-shit on this front. Why does a little thing like reality have to be so un-cooperative?
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still president?
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It’s called deescalation through escalation.
America supports it when Israel does it, that means it’s okay.
Iran, go right ahead. Lebanon, go right ahead. Hamas, go right ahead.
Israel and America have already stated this is a perfectly valid reasoning. The rules of war go both ways.
Again: If America is the world ethics, these actions are perfectly valid. This is what America does.
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This is what America does.
Except it isn't. USA does not preemptively attack countries which plan to attack USA, since nobody is doing that. USA wrecks and coups countries because they are either trying to leave the US hegemonic control or the ones that are simply appealing targets for imperialism.
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The port of Eliat is bankrupt.
The economy of Israel is in a tailspin from the combined efforts of Yemen, and Hezbollah.
But yeah, sure, an economy being destroyed isn't military damage.
Let me guess, the blockade of the south during the civil war didn't accomplish anything, right?
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But yeah, sure, an economy being destroyed isn't military damage.
It's not when the question is whether Iran can or should do a preemptive strike.
Fine, then the fact that Iran hit many of the targets has become public despite the Israelis best attempt to censor that information from coming out should tell you everything you need to know.
So should the fact that Iran got through with their first attack despite preemptively giving the targets to US/Israel, and that US did most of the interceptions at the cost of 1 billions dollars, and Israel used up most of its stock of ammunition.
By the by, given the cost of the ballistic missiles and the cost of the interceptors, hitting nothing is still a success. Not that that is relevant to this conversation give the fact that we know they did hit quite a few of their targets.
EDIT: Speaking of, a drone attack from Hezbollah hit a mess hall for a military base in Haifa. 67 confirmed casualties reported so far. Iron Dome didn't even detect it.
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Latest analysis from journalists in the county of Israel, that Israel tried to censor, then got arrested for a 'aiding the enemy in war' charge for trying to report that Iran blew up at last one 500 million dollar radar system.
It's why the US is scrambling to ship THAAD systems to Israel.
Remember, Israel is incredibly censored right now, and believes that accurately reporting damage needs to covered up at all costs.
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We already saw that the dome cannot intercept Iranian missiles just days ago. Also, the math doesn't work in favor of the dome given that they need 2 interceptors per missile. There's also the issue of production capacity. Once it runs through the existing stockpiles of interceptors, making new ones at the rate they’re being consumed is not possible. For example, from 2008 to present, Lockheed Martin was able to produce 800 missiles, around 50 a year. armyrecognition.com/news/army-…
To counter the 180 missiles Iran reportedly launched, requiring up to 2 interceptors each, would have exhausted nearly HALF of all THAAD missiles ever produced. And that’s assuming there are enough launchers to even fire that many interceptors at once. The US is completely unprepared for the scale of war it is provoking around the globe.
Iran can absolutely cripple Israel by destroying its energy infrastructure.
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I remember when Democrats gave a fuck about 1 thing. Now they care about 0 things.
Imagine this:
-A democrat who supports genocide.
-A democrat who is championing Trump’s border policy.
That’s where we are now. That’s who democrats are now.
But I’m a ‘tankie’ for pointing that out, I guess.
Have fun explaining your way out of how you supported a candidate who supported genocide and deportations, liberals. ❤️
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Yep. And when Kamala wins the popular vote but loses the electoral college because swing stat voters actually don't support GENOCIDE the Dems won't show a degree of self awareness or accept any responsibility, they will just blame Jill Stein voters
I say let them attack iran. It will be the final thrashing before the American empire collapses completely.
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Brother, while I can agree with the, I guess, ‘good’ interpretation of societal overhaul and accelerationism, I think I need to point out that there are far more powerful entities engaging in the same thing, and they might have the power to completely dominate you in a society without “rules”.
Alls I’m saying is: be careful what you wish for.
If you’re going to be an accelerationist, you need to do things like BILLING certain people named G-LON TUSK, and others like them.
Otherwise, you’ll just be breaking down the government for them to build one that fits them better.
Remember: BILL them.
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- There are two choices in the United States 2024 election. No third party stands a ghost of a chance of winning. No, not even if the 30,000 people you can reach on Lemmy all vote for Timothy Greenparty.
- A Trump victory in 2024 would not only be just as bad if not worse for the citizens of Gaza than Harris would, but also pose an existential threat to a large number of vulnerable Americans (trans people, immigrants, women seeking abortions).
- Given the margins of victory in 2016 and 2020, Kamala might not win if leftists don't vote for her.
- Snoozing fascism for four years is better than inviting it through the door now, and buys us time to build our defenses for when it comes back.
I'd like to focus my counterargument. Which of these statements do you disagree with?
What are you doing to stop fascism outside of voting for the lesser fascist?
Fascism cannot be defeated through the ballot box. It is capitalism in decay, when capitalist democracy becomes unviable and the capitalist ruling class choose capitalism over democracy.
I'm dismissing your framing; I dont live in a swing state, dont try to convince me to vote for the lesser fascist.
My question is, do you care about stopping fascism or do only you care about delaying it for another four years?
Do you care enough about stopping fascism to put in work to stop it outside of election day and trying to post your way into getting people to vote? Like, seriously, are you interested in putting in actual work to prevent fascism in the US in our lifetimes? This isn't a gotcha I'm trying to set a baseline.
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I'm doing about 20 hours of work a week as part of a socialist org, in service of building up a center of power to actually be able to challenge the lesser and greater fascist.
I'm thinking long term, because I'm not satisfied with "just vote for the less fascist party every four years as each party keeps getting more fascist"
If all the work you're doing is within the confines of bourgeois sham-democracy you'll never be able to defeat fascism. Fascism is capitalism in crisis. You can either find a magic cure to stop the contradictions of capitalism from heightening or you can move toward defeating it.
The latter is the only one that has been demonstrated to actually work.
I sure hope Brown Hitler beats Orange Hitler.
What a vibrant fucking democracy you amerikkkans sure have over there. Whatever meaningless, bootlicking bourgeois electoralism you choose, let's hope you don't get everyone else on earth killed as a result of your endless and unapologetic imperialism, invasions, coups, proxy wars and many genocides.
Is it guilt that keeps you from reading your own history and understanding that all this mass murder that amerikkka has been inflicting on the world for hundreds of years is not driven by the individual incoherent puppets your political system forces you to choose from, but from the very nature of your capitalist empire? Fascism is the product of capitalism in crisis. It's not a thing you can vote against, since you have absolutely no meaningful input in the decisions of the worlds most violent military empire (and you know it). What kind of political system creates a revolving door for endless marches of psychotic war criminals and even puts a few of them on the menu every few years? Obviously not a system that opposes fascism.
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Sacred Lion of Venice was made in China, new research suggests
Was the Lion of Venice made in China more than 1,000 years ago? Italian scientists have evidence
The winged Lion of Venice watches over St Mark’s Square in the north Italian city, just as it has done for hundreds of years. But now a team ofHolly Chik (South China Morning Post)
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Seoul pays more for US troops amid rising crimes by American soldiers on S Korean soil
Seoul pays more for US troops amid rising crimes by American soldiers on S Korean soil
The US and South Korea renew the deal covering the cost of American troops stationed in the country, with Seoul to pay 8.3 percent more coupled with bearing the burden of rising US soldiersPressTV
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Should Zelensky's government be afraid of far-right groups?
Should Zelensky's government be afraid of far-right groups?
Ukrainian deputy Oleksandr Merezhko sparked a stern online backlash after publicly warning about the threat posed by what he described as a growing far-right movement in Ukrainian society.Paul MILLAR (FRANCE 24)
A year since Oct. 7 - One boy's story shows the impact of rising Israeli settler violence in the West Bank
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Photo Stories From NPROctober 8, 20247:28 AM ET
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is being squeezed, Hubble Telescope finds — and nobody knows why (video)
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in reply to Peter Link • • •Won't someone think of the pump and dumps of the genocidal ethno state?
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in reply to RangerJosie • • •You ever heard about the IBM divestment strikes that happened during WW2? Pretty telling about where American capitalists stood.
And they weren’t the only ones: Coke and Ford were also very “interested” in Nazi markets. Ford a little bit more into “supplying the Nazi regime”.