China is winning in every imaginable way
China is winning in every imaginable way when it comes to energy and industry
The West is de-industrialising itself in the quest for Net Zero. The People’s Republic is notDavid Blackmon (The Telegraph)
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Question: Better Alternative than CC BY SA
I'm interested in copyright licenses, especially open source/creative commons. It's definitely a rabbit hole to sink into. Right now I'm reading up on a case wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/… It basically said, a CC-BY-SA will not be applied to a "collective work", where your art/asset are used in a "compilation" of some sort. Like a photograph in an album, the photograph can't be considered "derivative work" as long as it's not being modified.
One question arises, is there a CC-BY-SA with better coverage which also includes collective works?
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I struggle with the goal here. If you don't want hinder anyone from using your work in collective work, then its basically already covered in the sense that it is allowed. I see only a reason to cover that, if you actively want to hinder your project from distribution in collective works. With CC-BY-SA the license allows the distribution of your work in any collective work.
Can you describe a specific situation as an example you want to solve?
So you mean like GPL to enforce same license when reused? I don't think anyone using works licensed as CC-BY-SA is allowed to relicense it under a different license: creativecommons.org/licenses/b…
ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
CC BY-SA 4.0 is one way compatible with GPLv3.
It does mean that anything released under older CC SA licenses aren't, so they can't be used in GPL projects. And MIT isn't compatible at all.
Put simply this means you now have permission to adapt another licensor’s work under CC BY-SA 4.0 and release your contributions to the adaptation under GPLv3 (while the adaptation relies on both licenses, a reuser of the combined and remixed work need only look to the conditions of GPLv3 to satisfy the attribution and ShareAlike conditions of BY-SA 4.0).
Wow I read that. And it means one can take the CC-BY-SA 4.0 work and relicense it as GPLv3. Its' not just about being compatible in a project, it literally means re-licensing is allowed. But that is only for the adapted work. Meaning if you change something from his work, you are able to release your work as both licenses. While the original untouched work is still CC-BY-SA 4.0 only. So a collection has no rights to make changes to its original license.
And while you technically can't take the original, yeah, practically everything except "here is the image file alone in a folder" counts as modifying and a derivative work. Resize it, crop it, change a .png to a .jpg etc - all modify the original work.
Is your issue somebody profiting from including the work in a collection? If so non-commercial might achieve your aims. Just add a note that people can reach out to you directly for commercial use.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
You're overcomplicating production
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/21023181
Sharing some lessons I learned from 10 years/millions of users in production. I’ll be in the comments if anyone has any questions!
I hope some of the lessons in this series help people learn to adopt Linux directly into their stack as a simple tool that can be managed easily on a server.
I think Kubernetes has its value. It can be wildly complex but it also can be reasonable and clean. For my Homelab I like k3s as it is lightweight and gets the job done. I can setup automatic rollbacks and have all the features of Kubernetes without the complexity of the commercial providers.
I'm sure there are other Kubernetes distributions that do the same.
There is very little content here.
Could have boiled it down to modern CI/CD is over complicated, I'm going to talk about it. Then why not start talking about it with point 1 rather than just saying you will.
I have no idea whether the content will be meaningful or not.
More killer, less filler next time.
GIMP - Development Update: Closing In on the 3.0 Release Candidate
GIMP 3.0 is over 96% complete!
The GIMP team got sick at the Libre Arts conference over the summer, hence the setback to the release schedule but they are now back making good progress.
Along with non-destructive editing and a colour overhaul we've all been waiting for, longstanding critics of the UI/UX will be pleased to hear that GIMP are setting up a UX repository and are looking to build a dedicated team of designers to develop this.
All of these things look set to make the GIMP project feel a lot more current and dynamic. I can't wait!
And if anyone wants to help out it looks like testing/reporting, donations and updating the help manual are all welcomed by the project at the moment.
GIMP - Development Update: Closing In on the 3.0 Release Candidate
Update on 3.0 RC1 Developmentwww.gimp.org
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For me, the biggest thing was the program not running from a single window. IIRC there was actually a separate fork of GIMP that made it run in a single window called GIMPshop or something, and that made it into a single window. I'm not sure when GIMP itself got single window functionality.
It's a lot more usable these days.
For minor things it works alright. For slightly advanced things, like making making curved text, it's not intuitive compared to Photoshop. Though personally, even for minor things I found Krita more pleasant.
A UI designer made this little short about Gimp, which I think captures the sorta things that can be frustrating.
I'm extremely pleased to hear they will be taking UI seriously.
I find the UI completely fine. But I think a lot of people expect it to be a perfect and direct clone of photoshop that you don't have to pay for, rather than its own piece of software and are consequently upset when they have to learn how to use it. People forget that they had to learn how to use photoshop as well.
Like you, I've asked people to give a specific example of something that is clearly bad about GIMP and either don't get a proper answer, or they name something from an ancient version.
Where to Find Statistics on Lemmy Communities and Post Activity?
Yeah because first of all, content had to be spread out across 562826 different communities for no reason other than that reddit had lots of communities, after growing for many many years. It started with just a few.Then 99% of those were created on Lemmy.world, and every new user was directed to sign up at Lemmy.world.
I guess a lot of people here are younger than me and didn’t experience forums, but we had like 30 forum channels. That was enough to talk about anything at all. And I believe it’s the same here, it would have been enough. And then all channels would have easy to find content.
Hey everyone! I'm curious about the number of communities on Lemmy and the activity levels within them. Specifically, is there a reliable source where I can check the total number of communities and the average number of posts per month? It seems like the number of communities might be quite high, but I wonder how low the post activity is across most of them. Any insights or links to resources would be greatly appreciated!
Maybe it’s the bot communities that repost all the Reddit posts that inflate the number so high
That's probably it. lemmit.online should give you some more stats
What is Sharkey? A fork of Misskey, which I also don't know. I imagine Sharkey does much the same things as Lemmy? It is almost as large, and seems to have grown rather quickly.
Is there someone who can provide background for these?
And why is Mastodon so huge? Are they including Threads as a part of it?
No Sharkey/Misskey is more like Mastodon, but with more playful features like emoji reactions and animated text.
Threads is not included, but Mastodon had a lot more Twitter refugees.
What is Sharkey? A fork of Misskey, which I also don’t know. I imagine Sharkey does much the same things as Lemmy? It is almost as large, and seems to have grown rather quickly.
Misskey and Sharkey are micro blogging platforms, more similar to Mastodon and Twitter rather than Lemmy.
Mastodon is much older than Lemmy. Not sure if they count Threads
Hamas says Al-Sultan Brigade Commander was also killed alongside Sinwar in Gaza
Hamas says Al-Sultan Brigade Commander was also killed alongside Sinwar in Gaza
Hamas announced, on Friday, evening that Mahmoud Hamdan, also known as “Abu Yusuf”, who served as the Commander of the Al-Sultan Brigade in Rafah, was killed alongside the group's slain...Middle East Monitor
Hey cool, so they can stop now right? They did what they destroyed families and killed 10s of thousands of Palestinians for? So they can leave? Help rebuild?
...or plan on doing more settling, that's the same thing I guess.
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Netanyahu's Likud party issues invitation to event titled 'Preparing to Settle Gaza'
The event, scheduled for next week, is part of an initiative by the Nachala movement, which is known for establishing illegal outposts in the West Bank. Several ministers and MKs from Likud and Otzma Yehudit are expected to attendNoa Shpigel (Haaretz)
This week in Plasma: hardware is hard
This week in Plasma: hardware is hard
At this point we’ve addressed most of the nasty regressions people found in Plasma 6.2. Thankfully most were not widespread, and were instead related to people’s diverse hardware setups…Adventures in Linux and KDE
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Paris SUV driver charged with murder after cyclist run over
Ian Brossat, a former Paris councillor and now a senator representing the French Communist party, called for SUVs to be banned in Paris. “This is not the first incident of its kind, and the dangerous nature of SUVs has already been pointed out on several occasions. We owe it to this young man to realise the scale of the problem and draw all the consequences,” Brossat told the Nouvel Obs.
Paris SUV driver charged with murder after cyclist run over
Motorist accused of deliberately targeting 27-year-old Paul Varry in road rage incidentKim Willsher (The Guardian)
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You seem to have misunderstood what I was saying. I was saying the article just says SUV. But what does it mean by SUV? Full size SUVs? Because the little SUVs over there are really small and may notnbe what they are talking about. I was commenting on it being unclear, I wasn't supporting the use of SUVs. Maybe try to piece it together before you insult someone?
Edit: example- a 2022 BMW X1 is 300mm shorter in length than a 2022 BMW 330xi. So if you ban that SUV, do you ban cars too? What's the proportions they want to ban?
Cuba forced to ‘paralyse economy’ amid desperate energy crisis
Facing US sanctions, Cuba has long relied on subsidised Venezuelan oil, but that supply is increasingly precarious as Venezuela grapples with its own economic woes. And Venezuela's allies Russia and China, have failed to send enough aid to fill the gap, despite expressions of political solidarity.
Cuba forced to ‘paralyse economy’ amid desperate energy crisis
The island was hit by a nationwide blackout on Friday, but prime minister says country ‘not yet in a bottomless abyss’.Al Jazeera
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Moldova’s Election Commission blocks European observers ahead of crucial EU accession referendum
Moldova’s Election Commission blocks European observers ahead of crucial EU accession referendum - EU Reporter
As Moldova approaches one of the most significant moments in its modern history — a simultaneous presidential election and a referendum on constitutional amendments for European Union accession — the transparency of the process is under serious scrut…Colin Stevens (EU Reporter)
[Windows] bluetuith-shim-windows: A shim and command-line tool to use Bluetooth Classic features on Windows.
Hello Lemmy,
This is an extension of the bluetuith TUI Bluetooth Manager project, which was initially developed for Linux, and is now being ported to Windows as well. This will allow the TUI to manage Bluetooth on Windows. Note that this is just a shim, the TUI will be ported to adapt with this shim later.
This tool offers a simple command-line interface and a socket-based interface (as an interprocess communication layer) to control Bluetooth Classic based functions, like:
- Getting adapter information, performing device discovery, setting power states
- Getting device information, pairing/unpairing a device
- Connection to a device using various Bluetooth profiles
- The supported profiles are A2DP, MAP, PBAP and OPP
- Each connectable profile appears as a subcommand of the connect command
- Every subcommand has multiple functions. View the documentation for more information.
This is currently alpha stage, so do expect bugs. Any bugs can be reported in the issue tracker.
I hope you enjoy this release, and any constructive feedback is appreciated.
GitHub - bluetuith-org/bluetuith-shim-windows: A shim and command-line tool to use Bluetooth Classic features on Windows.
A shim and command-line tool to use Bluetooth Classic features on Windows. - bluetuith-org/bluetuith-shim-windowsGitHub
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US-backed, Kenya-manned police mission in Haiti is struggling
"Another armed foreign intervention in Haiti will not result in the necessary Haitian-led transition to a democratic government, rather it risks further destabilizing the country, endangering more innocent people, and entrenching the current, illegitimate regime," several members of Congress wrote in a December open letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.Manpower and lack of planning are not the only challenges. A long history of American meddling and propping up corrupt regimes in Haiti's politics also casts an ominous shadow of doubt over the Biden administration's claims that its strategy even aligns with Haitian interests.
Haiti's 2010-2011 presidential election looms particularly large. After interfering in the election on his behalf in November 2010, the U.S. imposed sanctions on former president Michel Martelly this August for charges related to drug-trafficking, with one American official citing the role he and other figures have played in "perpetuating the ongoing crisis in Haiti."
US-backed, Kenya-manned police mission in Haiti is struggling
Experts say the addition of 600 more officers is unlikely to make a dent in the gang violence and instability there.Sam Bull (Responsible Statecraft)
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in reply to JohnDClay • • •95% approval rating of the government over 15 years (studied and reported by Harvard)
Multiple autonomous zones wherein a non-Han culture controls major aspects of society including religion, language, social norms, etc. Children are educated in their native tongues and official business is conducted in those languages. Compare this to language and religious erasure in the USA and Canada.
The protests in Hong Kong were violent... That is to say the protestors were throwing fire bombs at the police, but the police allowed the protests to rage for weeks and did not violently repress them. Compare this with the decades of police riots in the USA most recently the protests against racially-motivated extrajudicial killings by the police.
Greater home ownership rates in China than the USA or Canada. Lower homelessness rates in China than USA or Canada. Lower death rates from COVID in China.
The human rights to food, shelter, health, a government that responds to the needs of the people - all of these are better in China.
Child separation of immigrant famili
... show more95% approval rating of the government over 15 years (studied and reported by Harvard)
Multiple autonomous zones wherein a non-Han culture controls major aspects of society including religion, language, social norms, etc. Children are educated in their native tongues and official business is conducted in those languages. Compare this to language and religious erasure in the USA and Canada.
The protests in Hong Kong were violent... That is to say the protestors were throwing fire bombs at the police, but the police allowed the protests to rage for weeks and did not violently repress them. Compare this with the decades of police riots in the USA most recently the protests against racially-motivated extrajudicial killings by the police.
Greater home ownership rates in China than the USA or Canada. Lower homelessness rates in China than USA or Canada. Lower death rates from COVID in China.
The human rights to food, shelter, health, a government that responds to the needs of the people - all of these are better in China.
Child separation of immigrant families and use of solitary confinement on immigrants, including infants which causes permanent brain damage.
Apartheid and ghettoization domestically and support for apartheid and ghettoization globally.
That doesn't even get into the military. China lacks all of these, but they feature heavily in the USA:
The USA has an absolutely abysmal human rights record compared to China.
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in reply to freagle • • •The HK cops absolutely were violent, it was just unfathomably better controlled than American cops, because they didn't kill a single person despite the huge scale of the protests and reasonably long time period. Literally the only living being who I have heard about their actions killing was a cat that got caught in teargas (whose owner brought it to the protests like a moron). Meanwhile the HK protestors, in a deliberate and targeted manner, immolated a civilian for aiding the police (I think he opened a gate for them or something), along with abuses that were less serious, like beating up the odd pro-mainland HK civilian or less-targeted, like when they negligently bricked that old man and he died.
Edit: I hope that's not just an incomprehensible pile of anecdotes.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Than that's a different freedom than freedom of expression.
Do you think Chinese media outlets are able to effectively criticize the government?
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in reply to OurToothbrush • • •Xi Jinping February 2016.
chinadigitaltimes.net/2016/02/…
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in reply to JohnDClay • • •GarbageShootAlt2
in reply to JohnDClay • • •Taking the quote completely at face value:
So it's now censorship of freedom of expression if the state is not actively sponsoring, advertising, and distributing criticism of itself? I should try writing to NPR about how we need a proletarian party controlling the government so I can say that they've "censored" me when they obviously don't invite me on to talk about it.
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in reply to pancake • • •you're having it so good. here in the periphery of the capitalism we are just putsched whenever a marginally leftist party gets elected, with active help from the department of state.
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in reply to JohnDClay • • •When fairly compared, yes absolutely.
What do you think of the human rights of the millions killed and deprived by the US and its allies on a near-constant basis?
Oh, that's right, that discourse doesn't even exist as the topic is framed exclusively in a racist and self-serving way. True Human Rights Violations only come from the nonwhite periphery region, everything else is just sparkling accidental collateral damage for Freedom and Democracy.
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in reply to JohnDClay • • •Certainly compared to the settler imperial core responsible for virtually every war and the racist status quo of systemic deprivation. It is not a serious discussion to imagine otherwise.
I kind of already said that.
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in reply to TheOubliette • • •We are comparing the current state of countries, yes? Do you think Norway for example currently has an imperialist settler core?
What would you call China's ambitions regarding the nine dash line and Taiwan if not imperialist?
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in reply to JohnDClay • • •No because what I described is part of a systemic process and is ongoing, has precedent, and has its supporters for future depravity.
Norway is a subimperialist petrostate of the imperial core. It does the bidding of its masters. It is, primarily, irrelevant, but it does sometimes act as a hanger-on in militarism and it certainly loves to pump the price of oil, e.g. supporting American sanctions on Venezuela that CEPR estimated to kill tens of thousands yearly. But naturally, that skips Westerners' human rights discourse entirely, they pretend sanctions aren't civilian-targeted dispossession. In addition, Norway just uses loopholes to hide its role in weapons sales, including to Israel.
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No because what I described is part of a systemic process and is ongoing, has precedent, and has its supporters for future depravity.
Norway is a subimperialist petrostate of the imperial core. It does the bidding of its masters. It is, primarily, irrelevant, but it does sometimes act as a hanger-on in militarism and it certainly loves to pump the price of oil, e.g. supporting American sanctions on Venezuela that CEPR estimated to kill tens of thousands yearly. But naturally, that skips Westerners' human rights discourse entirely, they pretend sanctions aren't civilian-targeted dispossession. In addition, Norway just uses loopholes to hide its role in weapons sales, including to Israel.
Getting off-track, aren't you? Or in your mind would you declare any imperialism you can find a human rights violation? If so, hoo boy is my thesis correct.
I'll entertain those two questions when they can be seated coherently, I.E. we have resolved the actual topic and can discuss what imperialism is, as those questions suggest you don't know.
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in reply to TheOubliette • • •So it is comparing the current state, yes? Taking into account how history shapes it sure, but the current state.
You'll need to do more to connect oil why pricing oil is racist. Because it competes with other countries like Venezuela?
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in reply to JohnDClay • • •I already answered, "No".
I didn't say that pricing oil is racist.
Pushing for sanctions from the superpowee is a funny thing to call competition.
Please do your best to engage in good faith by reading and addressing what I say. At least, if you're going to respond. This last response was mostly reading incomprehension, which normally, sure, no biggie, but the amount you didn't respond to in order to do that? No bueno.
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in reply to JohnDClay • • •The nine dash line is open to negotiations as recent ones with Vietnam have shown. "Taiwan", actually called the Republic of China, is the rump state of the losing side of the chinese civil war. It only exists because the US interfered. It considers itself China, the PRC considers it China. Only you ignorant people don't. It is a wholy internal matter of the chinese people.
There is no state called "Taiwan", get it already.
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in reply to JohnDClay • • •holy shit crack a history book
like literally learn the first fucking thing about the situation
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in reply to JohnDClay • • •::: spoiler Poverty rates in China
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::: spoiler Under every income group.
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Homeownership rates in China
Reached 90% in 2018
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