Why more Singaporeans prefer their country to partner with China than the US
This is a big change: Singaporeans (who are traditionally more pro-West) now overwhelmingly favor China as a "strategic partner for security and survival" versus the US.
Half of the Singaporeans said they favor China, versus just 15% for the US.
Most Singaporeans rate China’s clout above US, prefer it as strategic partner: survey
More Singaporeans based in the city state and abroad believeJean Iau (South China Morning Post)
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Posted on South China Morning Post. Pretty obvious bias. If a Singaporean outlet would say the same thing, I would believe it, but I wouldn't trust a Chinese journal (or an American).
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You are right in general that SCMP is going to cheer on China, but MBFC is a stupid, question-begging, centrist website run by someone with no qualifications and spread around so centrists can use it as a "gotcha" in the style of an informal fallacy. I'm sure that others will have takedowns saved to share with you.
I think the article is good since it's just dryly reporting on a survey from what I can tell, I just sympathize with being wary.
What's the best way to search the fediverse?
I’ve had bad luck with the search function of both Lemmy and Mbin
What were you searching for? I found a few results using that
site:lemmy.dbzer0.com and all the other instances all the time
You can probably just use one large instance after the "site:". If an instance is large and old enough (and I think dbzer0 definitely is), it would have all the valuable content available elsewhere.
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It's technologically impossible for any search to cover all of the Fediverse. Like, absolutely 100% of it.
That's because it's technologically impossible for anything in or outside the Fediverse to be aware of the full extent of the Fediverse and know all its instances, all its actors, all its (public) content in real-time.
It would only be possible if there was a fully centralised search engine. And that search engine had been hard-coded into all Fediverse server apps for years so that even instances that haven't been upgraded in two or three years know it.
If Joe Übergeek spun up his own personal CherryPick or (streams) or Forte instance or whatever on his own Raspi, that instance would immediately have to announce its existence to that centralised search engine. Otherwise, the search engine wouldn't have any way of knowing this new instance exists. If Joe Übergeek sent his first test post into the void because he has no connections yet, it would immediately have to be pushed to that search engine. And if Joe Übergeek decided to turn off ActivityPub on his (streams) channel, his instance would immediately have to notify the search engine which would immediately have to list that channel as formerly but no longer available.
Now imagine such a search being decentralised, e.g. built into Fediverse server apps like Mastodon or Lemmy. In this case, all server apps would have to know all instances out there with Fediverse-wide search. And immediately so.
Imagine Mastodon had such search built-in. Imagine Alice started up her own personal Mastodon instance with this search at 10:30. Imagine Bob installed his own personal (streams) instance from source at 10:31.
In order for the search on Alice's Mastodon instance to actually cover 100% of the Fediverse, it would require Bob's (streams) instance to push all necessary information to it. In order for this to work, Bob's (streams) instance would have to know of the existence of Alice's Mastodon instance from the moment it's installed.
This couldn't be done via any form of discovery, for where would (streams) go look for search instances?
So an automatically-generated list of search instances would have to be necessary. It would have to be delivered with the code upon installation.
This means that Alice's Mastodon instance would have to add itself to the list of search instances in the streams repository (codeberg.org/streams/streams) as a pull request and then immediately merge that PR into both dev and release, the latter past dev, both without Mike Macgirvin's permission, so that Bob's new (streams) instance knows about Alice's less-than-a-minute-old Mastodon instance with search the very moment that Bob installs it, so that Bob's (streams) instance knows that it will have to report everything that happens to it in public to Alice's Mastodon instance with built-in Fediverse search.
Whenever someone spins up a new instance that has Fediverse search built in, this would cause a PR in the code repositories of all Fediverse server applications that adds this instance to the initial list of search instances, and it'd cause that PR to immediately be merged into all active branches with no consent by the maintainers. And each shutdown of an instance with Fediverse search would cause a PR and an automated merge because that instance would have to be removed from the initial list of search instances.
I guess it should be obvious what an outlandish idea this is.
Still, the issue would be to find all instances of all Fediverse server applications.
I mean, the idea was to cover the whole Fediverse with that search. Literally everything.
Like, imagine I spin up my own instance of Forte on a home server to try it out and see if it already works.
How's a Fediverse search engine supposed to know about my brand-new Forte instance? Clairvoyance? Hah. A crawler? Yeah, right, as if any crawler out there was fast enough to discover a brand-new instance of something that doesn't have a running instance at all yet. At least not beyond enclosed, experimental instances detached from the rest of the Fediverse.
I mean, instead of Forte, I could also install what Forte was forked from, namely something colloquially referred to as (streams). Something that intentionally doesn't have a name, doesn't have a brand identity, doesn't have a unified server identifier. Unlike Mastodon whose instances all identify as "mastodon" and Lemmy whose instances all identify as "lemmy" and Hubzilla whose instances all identify as "hubzilla", (streams) instances don't all identify the same. That field is customisable. And it has been customised for as long as (streams) has been around. You can't reliably crawl (streams) instances. Instead of "streams", they can identify as "y" (because Y is not X) or "get ready to rumbly" (public instance actually) or "bunny of doom" or "diversi spiritus".
In fact, crawlers would have to be able to identify any kind of Fediverse server software. Even if someone has only just forked something, a crawler would be able to recognise it as Fediverse server software. If you hard-code server identifiers into the crawler, it'd be out-of-date as soon as someone decides to fork Mastodon or Misskey or Firefish or Sharkey or whatever again. And, as mentioned above, you can't crawl (streams) instances by identifier.
It simply is impossible to discover and index the whole Fediverse by crawling, Google-style. And if a Fediverse search engine can't discover a (streams) instance that identifies as "y", it can't index the content coming from the man who created (streams) and Forte and still occasionally develops both. The man who created the oldest still existing Fediverse project, Friendica, as well as the Swiss Army knife of the Fediverse, Hubzilla, and the very concept of nomadic identity. One of the most competent and experienced Fediverse devs ever. A crawler couldn't find him.
Still, the search engine needs to know all Fediverse instances, right?
Well, if crawling fails, and crawling does fail, there's only one way to achieve that: Each instance would have to announce its presence to anything that's supposed to be able to search the Fediverse.
But in order to be able that, each instance would have to know everything that can search the Fediverse. And all instances of it. Every single one of them.
And if it shall announce its existence when it spins up for the first time, it will have to know all these search instances immediately before spinning up.
How can it possibly know them all before even going online itself?
Two options. Either a centralised list of all search instance that's being updated as soon as a new one is spun up.
But you said, "federated." As in not centralised.
Or the list would have to be built into the source code as it's being git pulled from the code repository. In fact, the list would have to be git pulled from the code repository immediately before the server spins up so that it's up-to-date when the server spins up. This would mean that the whole server software would have to be updated before start-up.
Of course, each Fediverse server software project that's started from scratch would have to implement this list, otherwise its instances couldn't be found.
But how is this list supposed to be kept up-to-date?
I mean, let's suppose what has been spun up here is something that has Fediverse search built in. It itself would have to be added to this list so that other new instances can announce themselves to this new instance, so that it can find them and index their content.
So how is this new search-equipped instance supposed to be added to the list of search instances?
Shall it add itself to the list by manipulating the production code of all Fediverse server applications that have Fediverse search built in? Past the maintainers and without their consent?
Perfect search that covers 100% of the Fediverse has to rely on lists of some kind, that's clear. The Fediverse changes too quickly to be crawlable. It's too diverse to be crawlable. And it has server software which itself is inherently uncrawlable because it's undiscoverable by design.
But such lists are impossible to always be kept up-to-date, too.
I'm not even only talking about a 24-hour lag. I'm talking about parts of the Fediverse never being discovered at all. After all, the Fediverse doesn't have a centralised DNS of its own in which all instances are registered but only them, where a search crawler could simply look them up.
Even if someone developed a Web search crawler much like the Google Bot, something that crawls the entire WWW looking for Fediverse instances, how is it supposed to tell Fediverse instances from websites that aren't Fediverse instances?
I bet the first two proposals for solutions wouldn't work with (streams).
The first proposal would probably be to go for the instance type, like "mastodon" or "lemmy" or "mbin" or "akkoma" or "misskey" or whatever. This, however, would require valid instance types to be manually added to a kind of config file from which the search crawler could look valid instance types up. This, in turn, would only work if this list was constantly kept complete and up-to-date.
This means: Whenever someone launches a new project, the identifier of this project will have to be added to the list. Whenever someone forks something into a new project, ditto. Now let the devs of the crawler have as little time as the Plume devs or as the sole Firefish dev early this year, and the list of Fediverse instance types will spend months outdated with new projects missing, and the crawler won't recognise the instances of these new projects as Fediverse projects.
Oh, and it wouldn't work with (streams) at all. See, (streams) is intentionally without a name, without a brand identity and even without a unified, pre-defined, fixed instance type. It isn't like all instances identify as "streams" or "(streams)". Some identify as "streams", but many others have unique types. The crawler wouldn't know these identifiers as valid Fediverse instance types (how is that crawler supposed to know that "bunny of doom" is a Fediverse identifier), and thus, it wouldn't be able to identify (streams) instances as Fediverse instances.
Now you could say that (streams) is so tiny that it wouldn't hurt to sweep it under the rug. Nobody would notice.
But that'd exactly be the problem. One of the (streams) users is the guy who created (streams) and everything before it all the way back to Mistpark in 2010, the one man who developed more Fediverse protocols and server applications than anyone, the man who invented nomadic identity and magic single sign-on: Mike Macgirvin. He is on one out of only two instances that identify as "y" (because Y is not X).
He is one of the few people in the Fediverse who actually post about what's possible in the Fediverse that goes way beyond Mastodon. Not only possible, but readily available right now. He started advertising (streams) in the wake of the mass-migration of Twitter users to Mastodon. And if his most recent creation, Forte, manages to take off, he'll probably advertise that. If (streams) wasn't caught by crawlers, nobody would read his advertisement except those who already follow him, and I guess half of them already know his creations and what they can do.
Hard-coding the custom identifiers of (streams) instances into the list is a stupid idea, too. The instance type is not defined upon installation in a config file. It's an admin-side free-text field that can be changed anytime with no consequences for connections, just because the admin feels like it.
Okay, so here's the second proposal: Go for nodeinfo. The problem this time: Mike has also intentionally removed almost all nodeinfo code from (streams). He didn't want (streams) to participate in that eternal rat race between Fediverse projects and Fediverse instances for the best stats on FediDB, Fediverse Observer and The Federation. In fact, (streams) is entirely absent from all three. This, too, is intentional.
If anyone has a better idea, I'm all ears.
France set to miss €3B mark for Ukraine aid
France set to miss €3B mark for Ukraine aid
The French government is under pressure to make cuts in spending to rein in deficits.Laura Kayali (POLITICO)
Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux
Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux
It will have been supported for just over 10 years.James Bentley (PC Gamer)
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You think the US govt will let MS drop 2/3rds of US citizens laptops from support?
I think some senators will hold a hearing to grandstand about security and forced obsolescence and MS will be shamed into extending the support window a couple more years.
They only switched from XP what, less than 10 years ago?
I think the hospital my mother works at was using XP for all of their computers until like 2018-2019
Windows 10 is over 10 years old at this point. Microsoft learned from XP It can’t live forever.
Businesses typically lease their machines for 2-3 years so they all support 11. And do you really think the government cares about regular citizens? lol.
Meanwhile the US govt:
says nothing because it has its mouth full of corporate cock
I'm waiting for Microsoft to inevitably be forced to keep supporting 10 for free1 longer than they planned, because 11 uptake just isn't fast enough.
What happened with 7 will happen with 10, and they'll end up supporting it for another year or two.
Microsoft is trying damn hard to not care about consumers, but the consumer market still matters, so I suspect angry customers will force their hand.
- They already plan on charging money to keep supporting 10 past it's end-of-life date, but I suspect this will have a lot of angry pushback that will result in at least a year or two of free updates. ↩︎
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Eh, I'd say the biggest learning curve is updates and how they're generally password protected.
It's actually not straightforward to a new Linux user how to bypass entering your password every time there are updates, and with how often Linux updates, this can create headaches and confusion for new users.
Especially with coming from Windows and being used to Microsoft arbitrarily forcing updates in the background. They are confused because Microsoft gave them zero control, while Linux actually gives them full control, and that can be confusing when you're used to updates being forced on you in the background.
Linux expects you to be an adult and handle this shit, and does a lot less hand-holding for the casual user, and this can be overwhelming for some new users, because it's a lot of extra personal responsibility they formerly didn't have to think about. Some people just don't have the extra mental energy to dedicate to it all.
Win10 gets Copilot as well. Pushed without consent. Likewise if you use a program like InControl to lock W11 to 22H2, you can keep copilot at bay. For a time.
Switching to any other platform is better though. Screw them.
There are many many business customers that can't use copilot. They are not going to tell them to just lock into an old insecure version. You'll be able to disable it, at the very least, on a Pro license using Group Policy.
Like everything else Microsoft does that has legal implications regarding PII.
Are these the same person or is there two Chris Tituses
I'm so confused :(
I got this joke lol
Edit: the images weren't showing up for me at first and were just a bunch of numbers so I thought you were making a joke about memory adresses
Completely bullshit, garbage clickbait title.
Windows 10 is near EoL, however that's for Home/Pro/Enterprise versions, you can move to one of those for more time:
- Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC - 2027
- Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC - 2032
To be fair I don't really believe that Microsoft will kill it when they say they will. And even if they do it, porting security updates from those LTSC versions into the regular ones might be doable.
Now on Windows 11:
You can just disable copilot and all the other garbage using group policy, now that hard and you'll end up with essentially Windows 10.
xda-developers.com/how-disable…
They hated him because he spoke the truth.
porting security updates from those LTSC versions into the regular ones might be doable.
The way will likely be to just adjust some registry keys to force Windows Update to pull from the LTSC update channel. That's been the solution for ages, no "porting" needed.
Group Policy
I've lost count of how many of these articles have been posted on Lemmy screaming that the sky was falling over something you can switch off with three clicks and a scroll (Start, Settings, Personalization, scroll to the bottom and click the final switch). Group policy may be beyond the general skill level, which makes the constant Linux suggestions even more laughable.
Like you, I regularly direct people to group policy (and even how to safely activate Windows with a fake Pro license so they can get Group Policy). Fighting an uphill battle.
Group policy may be beyond the general skill level, which makes the constant Linux suggestions even more laughable.
Ahaha yeah, I've said that SO MANY times. People have issues setting a few toggles on a point-and-click UI but then it is okay to suddenly move to a entirely different OS that most likely won't have the software they're used to and requires terminal skills to deal with most things. Laughable indeed.
requires terminal skills to deal with most things
Have you actually used linux? Terminal is optional. Most linux users use it because it's rad, not because it's necessary.
Digging through the registry or searching ad laden websites to find where a new setting or old menu is buried is more time consuming than typing man <command> or tldr <command>. The latter is to improve my system and the former to prevent a private company from making it worse.
As a former Windows user: this is true, you can disable most of the features you don't like. I was doing that for many Windows versions, from 98 to 10.
However it was indeed fighting an uphill battle: there was more and more BS with every update, I felt that I couldn't trust my computer, I had to check forums in order to know what's the newest thing to turn off.
I am happier now without Windows, even though I had to learn a few new apps.
Glad to hear that. After trying to linux and not having a great experience, I am forced to comeback to Windows. Will try these out next time.
On that note, do we have some good Windows forks/builds which remove the bloat for us? I heard about lot of them, not sure which one is actually worth trying.
You should not trust those builds. Everything you need to know is documented here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wind…
Windows 10/11 Enterprise is recommended as that's the version where Microsoft can't fuck up.
Probably gonna keep my desktop running win10 by then because I'll hopefully have a new desktop by then that I can easily set up Linux on. Got too much on my desktop to move over and I certainly don't know any tools able to make the process any easier.
Probably gonna just use it as an experimental PC that I can test out server related things on.
I'd love to, but I am too dependent on my VST Plug-in library on Reaper. Running them through Wine/Carla doesn't cut it.
I played with the idea of getting a Mac for music production, and installing a Linux distro on my desktop for gaming and video editing. But I couldn't really justify dropping 1000-2000€ on a laptop with inferior performance to my desktop.
Looked into used specimen, but getting a 3-year old model only gets you a couple more years of software support.
So Windows 11 with a local account and many policy modifications it is.
(I haven't tried it myself so I don't know how well it actually works)
"learn Linux"
there is nothing to learn, KDE and GNOME are easy to use GUIs and there are distros that require no configuration
System will work, but it will gradually get less and less secure, which can get quite bad.
There is an insane amount of ways to break Windows XP and even Windows 7, it's basically script kiddie's level of knowledge.
And there are real exploits out in the wild that target such systems specifically - while the pool of potential victims is smaller, they're very easy to target unless they are competently firewalled.
The loudest voices shouting about how bad W11 is are always Linux users, especially on Lemmy
If we had nothing to complain about, we'd still be using Windows. It's why we aren't.
Go to any tech community and most of the questions are "how do I get this to work?"
It's why they made an account. Go to any Steam game community page, lmao. Linux isn't exclusive on that one. They wouldn't be posting if they didn't have a question? It's why they showed up.
Do people go to Microsoft forums to hang out with their buddies?
I know how good Linux is, it's why I use it. I won't be trolled out of using it because it's too hard for you. I use it every day. I'm using it rn.
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Or just the LTSC versions. Or the enterprise-versions where you can tell it what you want or not.
It's party marketing, yes, but it's also Quality of Life features. Windows either has a setting you can find by farting around in the settings or it doesn't work. Linux can have every setting, but most of them need CLI work, research, and the wherewithal to unfuck whatever you fucked.
If CLIs could be listed, explained, and parametrized in a simple GUI, it would make learning them 10x easier. More default scripts for unfucking things would also help (like Window's old troubleshooting wizards). More status checking and better error messages, so one can tell when something is broken without manually inspecting every module.
It's gotten much better, and will certainly improve by necessity if more average users pick Linux up, but it's a step that has to be taken before Linux sees a major marketshare, regardless of marketing.
Linux has limited marketshare because of its Marketing.
I think Linux has limited market share because "will software X work on it?" and "are there drivers for hardware Y?" are legitimate questions.
Alas my game PC is going to stick with Windows due to bad state of VR in Linux :/. And therefore one day it might need to update to Windows 11.
In particular if you have a headset that is not Valve Index, though apparently with Meta Quest one can use ALVR, as long as you get the actual games running.
I tried VR on Windows 11... it lags more than on Windows 10
So I installed the buisness version of Windows 10, which lasts longer afaik
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It's not learning linux for me; I've worked with it professionally for over a decade at this point and started with old distros on floppy at home (with poor success; it got better once I got gentoo and broadband).
The pain of switching is non-zero, but it's also not high. By this I mean just the process of moving data around, settings, etc.
Finding replacement apps can be annoying.
There are some things that still bother me, though. Certain games still won't work or aren't stable. This impacts some people more than others depending upon the type of game. For me, it's still being gun shy because updates have caused me huge headaches including requiring a reinstall even in fairly recent times. I've had to fix one windows update problem in that same period of years and it did not require a full reinstall.
I have a full-time job, house/yard maintenance, and a small farming business. I require reliability with security (so not updating is not an option) and don't have time to spend diagnosing and solving issues. I also can't not fulfill orders, etc. because of an issue bother from a customer retention standpoint but also because when selling farm goods, those are mostly fresh produce with a limited TTL.
I have 12 months to reassess things, but I'm not liking my current position. It doesn't help that a lot of the software for the Japanese side of things (tax office, accounting, etc.) do not have cloud versions and require Windows to work. I'm not sure if any of those work under WINE or similar at this stage.
I’ll be downvoted to hell for saying this. But in this event I think it’s better for you to upgrade to Win 11 or maybe even move to MacOS (mac mini is pretty cheap), though I don’t know if you’ll find your replacement apps.
I use Win for work (no choice there) and Ubuntu at home (just browse the net, and only browser applications).
Similar history including gentoo and distcc to speed up openoffice and x11 compiles with a pile of old computers.
Put linux on a PC laptop and it just so happens the NVMe controller in conjunction with the kernel driver has some glitch that causes the hard drive to fall off the bus forever. No big deal...
It's great seeing a bunch of nvme nvme0: I/O (number) (I/O Cmd) QID 10 timeout, aborting then reset controller then removing after probe annnd data loss. Didn't have the patience to figure out the bug in the driver right now. Maybe someday.
Even i started to effing hate w11. It started nice with the hdr and such, but the startmenu alone made me go nuts. Bought the one from stardock, didn't satisfy me, made my own.
If they don't rudder back with their obnoxious ui in w12, I'm probably leaving and only dual booting for optimal gaming.
I'm not troubled by the whole consumer annoyances coz I'm in a local domain with a lot of group-policies. Also global ad-/telemetry-block and firewall.
Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer
Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer
The research team, led by Wang Chao from Shanghai University, found that D-Wave’s quantum computers can optimize problem-solving in a way that makes it possible to attack encryption methods such as RSA.Gyana Swain (CSO Online)
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Very rare the Palestinian victims are named.
Sha'ban was a teen and therefore a child victim.
Mozilla hit with privacy complaint over Firefox user tracking
STOCKHOLM, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against Mozilla accusing the Firefox browser maker of tracking user behaviour on websites without consent.
NOYB (None Of Your Business), the digital rights group founded by privacy activist Max Schrems, said Mozilla has enabled a so-called “privacy preserving attribution” feature that turned the browser into a tracking tool for websites without directly telling its users.
Mozilla had defended the feature, saying it wanted to help websites understand how their ads perform without collecting data about individual people. By offering what it called a non-invasive alternative to cross-site tracking, it hoped to significantly reduce collecting individual information.
in reality, it would be ideal if everyone was willling to boycott anything (maybe everything ) for any amount of time ( possibly up to a max of infinity )
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It's OK dog. The thing is, you figured it out. You're better off than those that never figured it out. Now you just gotta move on from where you're at.
Choices - we make them, chances - we take themSome are mistakes, some we celebrate them
We don't look back, cause so much we facin
I always stay proud of myself, I'm yelling, ""
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but:
It's ok.
You took action to remedy the immediate problem. That's a huge step.
Now you're grieving for the current state and how it could have gotten this bad. It's ok to cry and accept that your past self made mistakes, when you're able to you should forgive your past self. Take as long as you need to do that.
What comes next is getting to your feet and just fix it up a little. Doesn't have to be a lot and it won't all get done overnight. All that's needed is just 1% everyday. It's ok to take a break, it's ok to go slower, but a little progress everyday and you'll get there.
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I hate when people call everything AI without any reason or looking into it. It might be by the original author, or just a person imitating their style.
Don’t blame yourself for systemic societal problems that require systemic societal solutions. You’re playing into their hand when you do that.
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The Salary Needed To Afford America’s 50 Biggest Cities
The Salary Needed To Afford America's 50 Biggest Cities
Pondering a move to one of America's fastest-growing big cities? You should probably make sure your salary is growing fast enough, too. GOBankingRates has done some of the research for you --...J. David Herman (GOBankingRates)
This is certainly what they want you to think.
The fact is that "both sides" (sorry) are selling a pill for doom. The fire meme above is whatever Trumps latest scary/dumb thing he said, or it's 40 network cameras focused on a 100 SqYd patch of a city that wants to be on the news.
It's whatever will mobilize you to donate, click, watch, buy, and yes, vote.
We only got the fire meme because we don't understand fire.
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I cannot disagree.
Turning my brain off to global affairs once or twice a week is essential to my sanity.
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There is a list of people I have radicalized, actually.
And obviously this is not an echo chamber. Tell people not to vote for a blue team genocider and libs freak out.
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Course not, that's why I always tell people to read theory and join an org like PSL or FRSO.
I know for a fact I have gotten a few dozen people to read at least a little bit of theory, converted a few to Marxism-Leninism, and helped encourage at least one comrade to join an org. The numbers are low, yes, but that's important nonetheless.
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You can always go back to reddit. First of all, to even consider .ml "left wing echo chamber" you need to be more far right than Hitler*, since even open genocide support argued by a lot of people here** is "left wing" to you? Difference is, .ml admins arent US govt bootlickers unlike reddit admins and you can't just scream for them to shut us communists like you people did on reddit.
*Oh, an .worlder, figures.
**Mostly .worlders and such, the fact such a genocidal proaganda isn't banned on sight is a visible testament to .ml not being an echo chamber.
I'm glad you did what you want with your own life. People should block instances/people/subs instead of complaining about them. I think the people who complain actually want to grandstand their own beliefs. You have become what you hate dipshits!
Block/mute, move on. It's your life. It's your lemmy. Use the tools at your disposal instead of trying to get other people to do what you want!
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I don't want 10,000 anime posts on my all page but they keep popping up lol
Do you know if there's anything I can do to stop it?
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This is a fair assessment. I actually like politics, but I have still blocked numerous political communities because the users spam variations of the exact same 2 articles over, and over, and over, and over again.
It's either going to be:
1. Trump be stoopid
2. Israel be bad
The first few times were interesting, now it's just effing annoying. Blocking these communities has definitely improved my Lemmy experience.
I just remember, in the very early days of these kinds of online communities, that people would actually try and organize to do shit. Like, you'd have folks on /r/Houston talking about a bunch of redditors going down to the Houston Food Bank to volunteer. Or you'd have some serious fucking shit out about a landlord with folks offering to come down and help out. I even caught a "my car is broken, I don't know what to do" with a "don't worry, I can help out" and a final "omg, its fixed, thank you so much!"
Now its all talk. Nothing is real, its all just fucking ads and Mr. Beast style stunts. Nobody has any kind of trust or empathy for anyone else online. The closest you get to a material social network is people on Nextdoor screaming about how a strange car drove down the street and desperately asking everyone on the block to call the police and report it at once.
Shit fucking sucks.
It works, in no small part, because the community is small and people have known each other by handles for years now.
But the flip side is that a few of the mods on Hexbear can be just as draconian in their administration policy as anyone on old-school Reddit. So you periodically see otherwise friendly and active members vanish from the site.
British rapper Lowkey on resistance to Israel’s genocide
British rapper Lowkey on resistance to Israel's genocide : Peoples Dispatch
Lowkey underscored the legal basis of people's right to resist occupation and Israel's genocidal war, and the need for the peoples of the world to stand with Palestine and speak out against imperialist propaganda which seeks to justify Israeli-US cri…Peoples Dispatch
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Human sense of smell is faster than thought, new study suggests
In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors within a fraction of a second, working at a level of sensitivity that is “on par” with how our brains perceive color, “refuting the widely held belief that olfaction is our slow sense,” a new study finds....
The new findings challenge previous research in which the timing it took to discriminate between odor sequences was around 1,200 milliseconds, Dr. Dmitry Rinberg, a professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Langone Health in New York, wrote in an editorial accompanying the study in Nature Human Behaviour.
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Israel is turning northern Gaza into a killing cage
With the full support of the Biden administration, Israel is waging a merciless war of extermination against the 400,000 Palestinians remaining in the northern Gaza Strip as the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly considering a plan to annex the territory.
No food, water, or medicine have entered the north since October 1 as Israeli forces have conducted a campaign of intense airstrikes and ground forces have invaded and encircled much of the area.
As it orders residents to flee the north, Israel has intensified its attacks on Deir Al-Balah, a city in central Gaza that has not suffered the vast scale of destruction unleashed by Israel in other parts of the Strip.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled to the city in recent months. In the early morning hours of Monday, Israel bombed a crowded tent encampment for displaced people on the grounds of Al Aqsa hospital, engulfing civilians in a massive ring of fire.
Video from the scene showed patients—some of whom appeared to be in beds attached to IV cords—being burned alive as others in the encampment tried desperately to extinguish the fires with small buckets of water.
Israel is turning northern Gaza into a killing cage
With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign to obliterate the Palestinians of GazaJeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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“I swear to God I saw people burning in front of me. By god, no one could do anything. The man, the woman and the little girl burning in front of me, I swear to God. In front of me they burned, in front of me. Their souls left in front of me, in front of us, in front of all our eyes,” said Saleh Al-Jafarawi, an independent Palestinian journalist who filmed the massacre. “No one was able to do anything, no one was able to advance and get them. We tried, but we couldn’t, the fire was so strong that no one was able to advance and pull them out of the fire. They were burned alive. Their bodies were charred. This is a crime that we have never seen and no one has seen like it,” he added in a video posted on his Instagram account. “I swear to God the scenes that will remain in our memories, will remain in our hearts forever. We will never forget the scene that I witnessed today: The scene of the child and he is burning in the heart of the fire and no one was able to help him.”
This is what American tax dollars are funding. And neither of the election candidates proposes to stop it.
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You're not wrong, but the other candidate has criticized Biden for being too soft in foreign policy and urged Netanyahu to "finish the problem." Plus, with him you get a fascist autocracy at home.
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Right, so nobody should support either genocidal candidate, but especially the one actually doing genocide right now.
Re: fascist autocracy, this doesn't really describe the MAGA political class, which remains fundamentally liberal, just openly reactionary instead of pandering and politely reactionary. You'll notice that the Biden-Harris administration has continued many salient "fascist" policies from the previous admin and even tried to flank from the right on immigration.
Fascism is a historical development that uniquely opposed an ascendant leftism during liberal imperialist crisis. The conditions in the USA do not qualify.
Stop arming their genocide.
Sorry your liberal mind is too lost in hyper reality to understand that.
Historically and globally, liberalism is the dominant political ideology of capitalism. It supports capitalism against all other economic systems, whether that is feudalism or socialism. While it has framed itself as liberatory and egalitarian, and is arguably so in Europe for Europeans when compared to the feudalism it displaced, it has also always been in the context of colonialism, slavery, genocide, and imperial war, so it is not exactly inherently progressive or the "good guys".
Both the Democrats and GOP are liberal parties. They explicitly support capitalism. Liberalism established the race rules that both the GOP and Democrats internalize and propagate, of course the the GOP being more openly racist and Democrats hiding behind euphemisms and forms of oppression that they normalize, e.g. funding the shit out of cops and going all-in on nationalism. They are just different flavors of the same dominant ideology and they gladly join hands to crush the left when it threatens to gain political power by any means.
Of course! I enjoy explaining things. It helps internalize them and to make sure whether I really know something or just remember the key takeaways. Sometimes I have to say, "I don't know" and go re-read some books...
Let's keep fighting the good fight!
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in reply to passepartout • • •Assuming nominal voltage of 3.7, that's about 60Wh. For comparison, the 14" MacBook has a 70Wh battery.
That's not good battery life but it depends on what kind of usage they're assuming with that 7H number. I'm not sure a MacBook runs that long under high load. If it's 7H on a heavy load, that's respectable.
Edit: not sure what class of device is the best comparison here. Laptop? Tablet? Phone? 🤷
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