Fire burns USFK warehouse in Busan, occupied Korea
Fire burns USFK warehouse in Busan
A fire Thursday night consumed a portion of the U.S. Army’s 55th Quartermaster Base Depot in Busan city, reports said.Stars and Stripes
New slop just dropped, from OpenAI
New slop just dropped, from OpenAI
How many wings does an airplane have? OpenAI's video generator doesn't know.Corbin Davenport (The Spacebar)
New slop just dropped
And I'm interested because you wouldn't make an article if it wasn't interesting slop, right? Right? (Insert Star wars meme here)
from OpenAI
Oh, nevermind then. Don't care.
It's easy to nitpick all the details in the video, but keep in mind that 2 years ago generative AI videos consisted mostly of shape shifting mosaics that vaguely resembled the things they were supposed to be. And now we're down to "in this frame the 10x10 pixel airplane has a third wing".
That doesn't excuse the use of copyrighted material to get to this point, mind you. But to claim that this tech is going nowhere is just a contextless circlejerk.
Im amazed at the quality leaps for output for new versions of chatgpt.
I dont rely on it for project structure and the vast majority of logic but its so fucking cool that i can now give specific instructions and receive a mostly working script, give it the resulting errors, and after a couple prompts i have working code.
Not very surprising that people sticking their head in the sand have no idea what they're talking about. Our methods of interaction and completeness of input are just as important as the capability of the model.
Germany’s chip ambitions hit after US tech group shelves plans for plant
Germany’s chip ambitions hit after US tech group shelves plant plans
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s industrial policy comes under attack following decision by WolfspeedFinancial Times
Leaked Report Finds Israel Targeting UN Troops in Lebanon, Injured Several with White Phosphorus
Leaked Report Finds Israel Targeting UN Troops in Lebanon, Injured Several With White Phosphorus
The confidential report says Israel attacked UNIFIL personnel on the Lebanese–Israeli border over a dozen times.scheerpost.com
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According to a confidential report prepared by a country contributing troops to the UN mission, Israeli forces forcibly entered a clearly marked UN base and are suspected of using the incendiary chemical white phosphorus, injuring 15 UN soldiers.
Also we have video of it happening. It's not that secret.
UN: "Israel, we recieved reports you are comitting war crimes, is that true?"
Israel: bombs UN soldiers with restricted weapon "How's that for an answer?"
Based on the highly fact-based and objective truths the liberals of Lemmy tell me, this qualifies as one of those famous “back against the wall” situations where the peacekeepers may return fire.
Or are PugJesus and gang gonna move the goalposts yet again in their endless support of the genocidal fascist apartheid state-sponsored terrorists known as Israel?
Welcome to the defense death spiral
Welcome to the defense death spiral
At the current spending rate, in another generation we will have a lot of rich contractors and no aircraft or Naval fleets to speak ofDan Grazier (Responsible Statecraft)
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Eisenhower was such a political animal / opportunist. At the same time as he's decrying the military industrial complex, he did his best to rev up the cold war, squash anti-colonialist movements, carrying out coups, government overthrows, and terrorist attacks in Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, the Congo, vietnam, and indonesia.
His foreign policy team was the Dulles brothers and Nixon, yet somehow he's convinced future generations that he was a folksy old codger who disliked the military.
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How do you (personally) IndieWeb?
@openmentions.com I IndieWeb by replying to things here. I think we use WebMention and ActivityPub. I might start my own blog one day.
post #IndieWeb #GettingToKnowYou
How do I IndieWeb? I just... be myself! I also post stuff on my blog and here on the Fediverse.
China semiconductor patent applications skyrocket amid US export restrictions — country sees a 42% increase in patent filings
China semiconductor patent applications skyrocket amid US export restrictions — country sees a 42% increase in patent filings
And amid a declining number of chip companies.Anton Shilov (Tom's Hardware)
Chinese SSD brands are in the top five in terms of market share — Kingston retains its spot as the largest SSD manufacturer in the market
Chinese SSD brands are in the top five in terms of market share — Kingston retains its spot as the largest SSD manufacturer in the market
The top five leaders in the SSD industry boosted their market share from 59% in 2022 to 72% in 2023.Hassam Nasir (Tom's Hardware)
But at what cost?
Oh. really? that’s a bargain!
Deere Announces New Layoffs Amid an Industry-Wide Downturn in Equipment Sales
Deere Announces New Layoffs Amid an Industry-Wide Downturn in Equipment Sales
John Deere is reporting new layoffs this week amid a general downturn in ag equipment manufacturing due to lower farm income and high interest rates.Dan Miller (DTN Progressive Farmer)
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Goodbye from a Linux community volunteer
Official statement regarding recent Greg' commit 6e90b675cf942e from Serge Semin
Hello Linux-kernel community,I am sure you have already heard the news caused by the recent Greg' commit
6e90b675cf942e ("MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance
requirements."). As you may have noticed the change concerned some of the
Ru-related developers removal from the list of the official kernel maintainers,
including me.The community members rightly noted that the quite short commit log contained
very vague terms with no explicit change justification. No matter how hard I
tried to get more details about the reason, alas the senior maintainer I was
discussing the matter with haven't given an explanation to what compliance
requirements that was. I won't cite the exact emails text since it was a private
messaging, but the key words are "sanctions", "sorry", "nothing I can do", "talk
to your (company) lawyer"... I can't say for all the guys affected by the
change, but my work for the community has been purely volunteer for more than
a year now (and less than half of it had been payable before that). For that
reason I have no any (company) lawyer to talk to, and honestly after the way the
patch has been merged in I don't really want to now. Silently, behind everyone's
back, bypassing the standard patch-review process, with no affected
developers/subsystem notified - it's indeed the worse way to do what has been
done. No gratitude, no credits to the developers for all these years of the
devoted work for the community. No matter the reason of the situation but
haven't we deserved more than that? Adding to the GREDITS file at least, no?..I can't believe the kernel senior maintainers didn't consider that the patch
wouldn't go unnoticed, and the situation might get out of control with
unpredictable results for the community, if not straight away then in the middle
or long term perspective. I am sure there have been plenty ways to solve the
problem less harmfully, but they decided to take the easiest path. Alas what's
done is done. A bifurcation point slightly initiated a year ago has just been
fully implemented. The reason of the situation is obviously in the political
ground which in this case surely shatters a basement the community has been built
on in the first place. If so then God knows what might be next (who else might
be sanctioned...), but the implemented move clearly sends a bad signal to the
Linux community new comers, to the already working volunteers and hobbyists like
me.Thus even if it was still possible for me to send patches or perform some
reviews, after what has been done my motivation to do that as a volunteer has
simply vanished. (I might be doing a commercial upstreaming in future though).
But before saying goodbye I'd like to express my gratitude to all the community
members I have been lucky to work with during all these years.
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It's weird how you somehow managed to single that one thing out, even though my comments already included it. That's so silly. It's almost like you have some sort of agenda or something...
Pretty sure what I said was CRYSTAL clear.
Where should they move to? Countries that aren't sanctioning Russia right now are likely to be... problematic? in other ways. But I am also pretty ignorant about which countries are on that list, and I would like to know more.
Maybe they need to become pirates on international water...
Linus chose to move to the US as well to become a US citizen.
To be fair he never claimed to be an idealist.
Also he is anti Russian himself as he made clear in his first comment in the thread. So being forced to remove them is probably a bonus for him.
Honestly must be incredibly stressful managing a project like the Linux kernel. Governments constantly wanting changes made for their own purposes, companies leeching off the work of volunteers, neck beards losing their minds over some change they don't like.
I don't envy them at all. This sort of change was inevitability going to piss people off - it could have been handled better but I think it was going to be lose/lose no matter which way it was done.
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The senior maintainers of arguably the most important FOSS project trying to operate secretively on something like this has shattered my trust in them, as well as many others.
Basically, my stand on this.
And that it was dismissed like it was "no big deal" by Linus and some of the other senior maintainers.
But seriously, Linus's comment regarding this was... just... I have no words... he basically put every Russian in the same basket, called them trolls and added a racist comment on top of that, I mean... yeah, I lost all respect for him. At least his previous fits were about code and only if someone fucked up something, this is completely different.
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Exactly, that's also my view. In Serge's thread somebody else said Linus used to be his role model but now he is questioning his own beliefs. Sums up my feelings perfectly.
It sucks so bad, Linus really screwed up big time, and GKH dropped the ball as well. What kind of a hellish timeline is this?
Sums up my feelings perfectly.
Mine as well.
Not that invested that much, but I seriously, I thought Linus was better than this... I wouldn't expect this even from Stalman to be honest, this is new level of low if you ask me.
What kind of a hellish timeline is this?
I have no idea... if everything is dictated by corps and governments (at least ones that we can't trust with simple things, such as healthcare), I really have really lost all faith in humanity as a whole... not because they're less human individually, but because no one sees anything wrong with this, in general...
But seriously, Linus’s comment regarding this was… just… I have no words… he basically put every Russian in the same basket, called them trolls
There are a huge number of online Russian trolls. That part of his response was not hyperbolic. They do have troll factories there to influence public opinion.
The problem is this still leads to questions about transparency about the project in general and how this decision was made and whether it was made by those involved in the project or was an order from the US government.
They do have troll factories there to influence public opinion.
In the Linux kernel? No. Definitely not. Maybe you'd like to see what happened after they got removed from the maintainers list, it was spam and trolling, and that is not OK in any scenario.
The problem is this still leads to questions about transparency about the project in general and how this decision was made and whether it was made by those involved in the project or was an order from the US government.
My personal belief is that it was an advice by the lawyers and they went with it balls in because
who would care about a few Russian maintainers, right 😒. Linus probably probably put GHK to it, as to not be him that does the PR, split the heat that may come their way, which it did.
I coldheartedly believe that Linus meant what he said since there was no apology afterwards. Russians are bad in general and they all think the same, they support Puttin.
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Yes, this is exactly my same thoughts.
This is terrifying.
I don't like what the Russian government is doing and Putin is cruel and evil, albeit intelligent (which makes him even more terrible).
That being said, in the US, government agencies can order a company to do certain things, put in certain code, or whatever and then issue a gag order as part of that preventing disclosure. And although there's a limit to how much that can screw over open-source software users, we do not know what exploits nation-states have, we don't know what backdoors are in different chipsets or closed-source firmware.
If a developer writing open source code can be blacklisted so easily without transparency into the process, it suggests the company is being ordered to do certain things and not disclose them by the US government, which is a government that still engages in torture.
Notice how they are not coming out and saying "We were not ordered to do this by any government agency."
Could the foundation be forced to elevate a developer with government ties who then is able to "accidentally" put in an extremely hard to detect exploit into linux that won't be detected at first and only patched later?
I really wish companies associated with linux were not in a country that lacked transparency with government regulations and in which gag orders were not possible.
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I, too, do not want to be deleted out of existence by the US government/military and so i, too, comply with sanctions.
We have reason to believe Linus and the kernel team are not filling the kernel with government back doors (for the thing, there's a high chance someone notices and makes it public that such code was put into the kernel by one of them). Linus has talked about refusing to do this in the past. However, it's no surprise they're not willing to risk the whole project for a handful of people working for Russian weapons manufacturers.
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It's pretty hard to be open and transparent when 2 men with guns and black suits are sitting at your kitchen table.
We don't know if that happened, but given the speed this happened and the us being the us...
If it breaks that they had a long runway of knowing this had to happen, then sure bring out the pitchforks, but imo we should default to this happening under heavy pressure to act immediately.
neck beards losing their minds over some change they don't like.
Ughhh, it was so infuriating hearing that guy rant about how Rust was bad and was trying to take over at that conference. I felt so bad for the speaker.
Not ridiculous. Majority of U.S propaganda is based on dehumanising people.
Also I read somewhere that this ban only applies to folk that work in companies that are sanctioned. So might not be straight up racism.
But I do agree with you. Who tf is U.S to sanction others while it's formed on a genocide and still committing another one.
It is quite a beefy and roided dispute, imo.
My issue with the dispute is that it has jack shit to do with Linux, Foss or the open source community and the consequences felt aren't against the people persecuting.
It's a missed shot. The Russian fuckarchy doesn't care if they get to contribute to Linux, or if they ever get to again, if they even know or care to notice in the first place.
The entire Linux community in Russia gets to suffer so a disapproving man in the Netherlands can wave his finger disapprovingly.
Is it worth it? Worth what? No one gets anything.
But folks who work for US companies building weapons for Israel are totes okay?
Who here said this?
What are you even trying to say here?
Do you think you've unraveled some massive conspiracy simply by learning about the existence of Western hegemony?
Here's an idea: don't invade sovereign nations unprovoked.
(Can't wait for the inevitable "whatabout America?!" reply. Yes, America is shit too and we deserved to be punished for Iraq... Unfortunately there wasn't really any international authority that could do it)
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There are plenty of Russian names on maintainers list remaining.
I still don't think something so important should be beholden to the whims of one company (Linux Foundation) or their country's laws (USA).
I would strongly prefer to use an operating system that didn't have this problem. Do any even exist?
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I still don't think something so important should be beholden to the whims of one company (Linux Foundation) or their country's laws (USA).
Exactly my thoughts.
I would strongly prefer to use an operating system that didn't have this problem. Do any even exist?
I was contemplating using FreeBSD, but then I found about the kernel switch to forbid Russian or Chinese usernames and... well, that's not an option as well IMO.
Sorry, but the US is almost certainly the main culprit here. They're loosing power in every aspect and they want to reinstate that power in every way possible. As any human being, letting go of a position of power is hard. They just can't accept the fact that someone could be better than them in capitalism then them, which the Chinese proved they can.
It served them well when they were 1st, but it's no good when someone else does it.
Not just the USA. Certainly at least the EU as well. I belong to neither.
Not sure what better world you want where we are not “beholden” to laws though.
The GPL is certainly “beholden” to laws as well, including a total lack of developer freedom which I personally disagree with.
For precisely when we disagree, there have to be laws.
By "lack of developer freedom", do you mean "lack of ability to take the freedom you got with the code away from the next person?"
Because that's the primary restriction with the GPL.
The GPL is certainly “beholden” to laws as well, including a total lack of developer freedom which I personally disagree with.
A lack of freedom from being screwed over by companies stealing your code.
And this isn't a purely theoretical scenario as it has happend with other open source projects before.
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Let’s just say this properly ok so that 70 percent of the commenters here might better understand.
Association with some of the people previously on the kernel maintainers list was putting the Linux kernel at risk. The risk was that European, American, and other users may be prohibited from using it. The risk was that entities such as the Linux Foundation could be held in contempt of sanctions and sanctioned themselves. That could mean financial damage or even a full stop to operations.
If the kernel were sanctioned, every entity, individual or company, could be put at risk.
Association with sanctioned individuals put every other maintainer at risk. Being listed together in the maintainers file put many innocent people in extreme jeopardy.
So, let’s say this properly ok…
Some of the maintainers were removed to defend the Linux kernel and the many, many entities ( individual and corporate ) that use it. They were removed to protect the other maintainers and the people and companies that they associate with.
The Linux Foundation, being American, may have been particularly at risk. But “moving” the kernel does nothing. The contributors and maintainers are still wherever they are. Linux users are equally economically dependent on the US and Europe regardless. The issue are the international sanctions. My country has issued them too ( neither American or European ). And blaming the counties that issued the sanctions, instead of blaming Russia, is a very interesting morale position to take ( not getting into that here ).
My first reaction was to have a problem with how this was done. However, once you acknowledge the association, any interaction, collaboration, or communication becomes even more problematic as you KNOW that you are working with sanctioned individuals. So, doing it simply and succinctly was probably best.
It's not about nationality. Here are the facts:
- LF is USA based (headquarters in California), as such they're subject to USA law
- USA imposed sanctions on companies that are directly involved in supplying Russia with weapons.
- To have business, including receiving help, from those companies would open LF to legal repercussions in the country where they're based.
- Baikal Electronic JSC is on the sanctioned list.
- Serge Sermin public GitHub profile listed Baikal as their employer
Therefore to not remove Serge from the maintainers would open LF to legal repercussions.
You might not agree with what was done, I certainly don't, but I understand it.
There have been more people removed than just the ones with .ru.
The commit also reads this:
Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. They can come
back in the future if sufficient documentation is provided.
Which is great that we're not talking about groups of people, but national lines on a map
We are actually talking about a group of people - banned from contributing to open source for being Russian. Read the post again before embarrassingly framing your sentences like a smartass.
One of the people directly involved, who at least somewhat adheres to the agreements.
Simply sad that everything but really everything has been corrupted by the Russian troll factory.
No this has nothing to do with the USA right now.
Here's you making excuses for removing all the Russians from the contributor list: "Russia invaded a sovereign nation...but that's a petty dispute...are you sure you're on the right instance? Sounds like you need to recreate your account here on ml..."
Your logic, if you can call it that, is that if the country you're from invades a sovereign nation, it makes sense to get kicked off the list. Guess which country invades sovereign nations every 3-6 years.
To make another point, of course the US is relevant, its government is the one making this exact thing happen.
No more excuses, champ. Gotta look reality straight in the face.
It's a strawman to whip out the "but the USA" card.
lol no it isn't.
Russia has sanctions
Yes we all know this.
they invaded a sovereign nation
The US has invaded at least 4 sovereign nations in the last 21 years. It has bombed far more in that time, including couping Libya, turning it from the highest HDI country into a failed state with open air slave markets.
and are willfully targeting civilians
The RF has been comparatively less harsh on civilians. Look at what the US, NATO, and Israel do to civilians. They bomb residential buildings, pharmaceutical factories, hospitals, schools, buses, civilian infrastructure. Millions died in Iraq, about half children, in the 90s due to the US systematically destroying civilian infrastructure and then coordinsting tight sanctions.
And do you know what preceded the RF invasion? Ukraine ramping up its civilian shelling campaign in Donbas.
They're fully against the west at this point
Given what the West does with its power that is a smart position to take.
allowing them continued access to help build tools the west uses,
Yes and? You're just admitting that this is a chauvinist political move headed by the United States.
is not only against the current sanctions, it's also a dumb security risk as well.
It's not a security risk at all, the Linux team has tight review procedures and all of these people have been making contributions as maintainers. There were zero concerns raised about their code.
PS the US is not entitled to the world and every international project.
Not for being Russian. For being IN Russia. Jackass.
If an African immigrant were there, he'd be banned too -- If a chinese guy were there, he'd be banned too - it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with nation and location.
I linked the mans github, which SAYS he's in Russia, and mods deleted it.
Here's you making excuses for removing all the Russians from the contributor list: "Russia invaded a sovereign nation...but that's a petty dispute...are you sure you're on the right instance? Sounds like you need to recreate your account here on ml..."
Where is that a excuse? I was pointing out that it's not a petty dispute, russia is trying to wipe out Ukraine....the fuck.
Your logic, if you can call it that, is that if the country you're from invades a sovereign nation, it makes sense to get kicked off the list. Guess which country invades sovereign nations every 3-6 years.
Ooo oo, I know this one....is it....whataboutism again for $400 alex?
To make another point, of course the US is relevant, its government is the one making this exact thing happen.
Yea...no it's not, russia is doing that on their own.
No more excuses, champ. Gotta look reality straight in the face.
Ok. Reality, russia is a fucked up authoritarian state that willfully sends it's people to rape, murder and commit war crimes, like it got its war plans from the viking era. How's that for some reality. Champ.
lol no it isn't.
Yea...yea it is.
Yes we all know this.
Sweet....are we getting somewhere...
The US has invaded at least 4 sovereign nations in the last 21 years. It has bombed far more in that time, including couping Libya, turning it from the highest HDI country into a failed state with open air slave markets.
Ahhh nope apparently not....still humping about the USA.
The RF has been comparatively less harsh on civilians. Look at what the US, NATO, and Israel do to civilians. They bomb residential buildings, pharmaceutical factories, hospitals, schools, buses, civilian infrastructure. Millions died in Iraq, about half children, in the 90s due to the US systematically destroying civilian infrastructure and then coordinsting tight sanctions.
Hahahhaha holy fuck...o wait you're a tankie...
And do you know what preceded the RF invasion? Ukraine ramping up its civilian shelling campaign in Donbas.
And a russian apologist....man this is just hilarious...you really are following the .ml tankie guidelines.
Given what the West does with its power that is a smart position to take.
Lol for all the west's faults, we're still not even half as murderous as the authoritarian dictatorships you love.
Yes and? You're just admitting that this is a chauvinist political move headed by the United States.
Yea no...
It's not a security risk at all, the Linux team has tight review procedures and all of these people have been making contributions as maintainers. There were zero concerns raised about their code.
Because it's easier to just use sanctions as the reason. The idea that a authoritarian state wouldn't force their devs to create backdoors for their state is hilariously naive, but you won't see it that way because you're a brainwashed tankie.
PS the US is not entitled to the world and every international project.
Yea no shit? Who said they are?
Here's an idea: don't invade sovereign nations unprovoked.
That is a great idea! Unfortunately, not everyone has a say in that, especially mere mortals... you know, people like devs.
Unfortunately there wasn't really any international authority that could do it
There is, the UN, but they silent, as always... at least regarding the US. We all know why...
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Where is that a excuse? I was pointing out that it's not a petty dispute, russia is trying to wipe out Ukraine....the fuck.
You just repeated the excuse. Right there, lol. And Russia has caused far less damage to Ukraine and its people than the US has to its targets. You are simply inconsistent and don't believe your own logic. Your true motivations are elsewhere.
Ooo oo, I know this one....is it....whataboutism again for $400 alex?
Oh, am I not allowed to point out your inconsistency because you have a term for doing that?
Yea...no it's not, russia is doing that on their own.
This post is about a thread where the people who removed Russians from the list did so under pressure by the US federal government are: their sanctions policies. It is literally exactly what I said and not at all what you said.
Please do your best to speak the truth.
Ok. Reality, russia is a fucked up authoritarian state that willfully sends it's people to rape, murder and commit war crimes, like it got its war plans from the viking era. How's that for some reality. Champ.
It's you distracting yourself through repetition because you cannot honestly respond to my points. So it is the opposite of facing reality, it is evasiveness.
Yea...yea it is.
Nope
Sweet....are we getting somewhere...
No it is just trivially the case.
Ahhh nope apparently not....still humping about the USA.
Because they did the thing that you agree deserves kicking out their citizens from the maintainer list. And they did it more.
Hahahhaha holy fuck...o wait you're a tankie...
Are you laughing at the mass civilian bombings or the starvation of children?
And a russian apologist....man this is just hilarious...you really are following the .ml tankie guidelines.
It seems you are afraid of basic facts that contradict your beliefs.
Lol for all the west's faults, we're still not even half as murderous as the authoritarian dictatorships you love.
The West's civilian death count is orders of magnitude higher than the RF invading UA.
Yea no...
You did, accidentally.
Because it's easier to just use sanctions as the reason. The idea that a authoritarian state wouldn't force their devs to create backdoors for their state is hilariously naive, but you won't see it that way because you're a brainwashed tankie.
Ah yes, the thing you just made up that hasn't happened and calls every developer in the country "their devs" is surely more correct than decades of code review practices and individual track records.
Re: brainwashing, you will notice that I am not the one running away from inconvenient facts at every turn. I am not afraid of such things, but they are clearly a threat to your way of thinking.
Yea no shit? Who said they are?
I quoted what I was responding to and that sentiment permeates it.
I feel a little bad encouraging the what-about-ism here but: Genocide actually does not have majority support in the US. Most polls show a majority of the public opposes genocide and what Israel is doing right now.
It's a minority that supports it.
With that said, that's not really related to the situation with the Linux kernel developers.
You’re right, it has shifted. I looked at the polls week overall it’s split into thirds. 1/3 for, about the same against and the balance not sure or don’t know
However I think a majority of older adults still support the crimes, as well as more conservative voters.
But that is ordinary people. Government and defense firms are pretty dirty right now.
US is even looking at TSMC and selling chips to China cause the equipment TSMC uses to make chips is made by American companies.
We had a nice run where everyone was working together or are last tolerating each other, it was peaceful. But the US Russia and China are drifting further apart and becoming less reliant on each other, which sadly means it’s not going to be as peaceful going forward.
At which point was it "peaceful"? The US invaded 3 countries around then and bombed and couped many more. Millions were killed.
Also they are not going to tolerate each other as much China Russia already have their versions of Linux distorts just imagine there might be more differences in the future.
Yes this will eventually lead to forks due to the US forcing decoupling. It is a highly aggressive terrorist state.
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This isn't about them being kicked out, this is about the fact we don't know the process that resulted in this. Was this a decision Linus made after a night coding and thinking about the world? Was the foundation ordered to do it?
It lacks transparency into the process even if the outcome is fine and the way it was done doesn't feel transparent, even if it makes sense not to include Russian coders in the project.
Simply sad that everything but really everything has been corrupted by the Russian troll factory
Let's say that this company pays the best $$$ and that you really need money for... whatever... now, let's reverse the roles and this person is working for a company that has contracts with the US military during the time of the invasion of Iraq.
See my point... there would have been nothing wrong with that, but all of sudden, it's a problem if Russians do it 🤨...
You Should Know About Radio Free Fedi!
Radiofreefedi.net is a super cool internet radio with a couple stations that plays music from fediverse artists, along with a "words" station that plays non-music stuff like podcasts or other kinds of spoken programming
I've really enjoyed it and only learned about it cause someone here on lemmy mentioned it in passing, I thought I'd share so other folks know about it as well :)
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Thought I'd comment to add: if you're on android and enjoy using F-droid apps Transistor, and URL Radio are two great apps for listening to internet radio stations like radiofreefedi
I think URL radio is just a fork that was updated to material design 3, but transistor seems more actively maintained :)
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google captcha that will 100% fail the first time no matter how careful I am, sorry I can't do it anymore, especially if I don't know what I'm opening
and hasn't it be established bots can solve those now and it's just about the money?
For those interested in getting into listening to internet radio, see also: dir.xiph.org (Icecast network) and directory.shoutcast.com (Shoutcast network), both of which have been around for ~25 years at this point if the domain registry is anything to go by. Definitely in their current forms for over a decade.
Caveat: Lots of commercial content and stations, which is, of course, antithetical to Fediverse ideology. Still worth a look if you can't (yet) find what you want in the Fediverse.
(There's also radio.garden which has a very pretty interface but has multiple negative points: in-browser only, needs a lot of JavaScript access to station-associated domains on a per-station basis, is HTTP(no S)-only and may not work for stations outside your own country.)
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The three music radio stations have been, but the words channel has not yet.
I'll probably go take another look at adding it at some point but it seemed like a pain on mobile
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I was really surprised how much I liked some of the stuff that came on, there were some seriously cool tracks that played and I had a great time jamming out to it
Thanks for sharing links for folks to contribute!
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Left parties in India protest arms exports to Israel
On October 21, left-wing parties in India held a protest and sit-in outside the Adani-Elbit factory in Hyderabad, Telangana, demanding an immediate ban on all weapon supplies to Israel. The protesters, carrying flags and banners depicting Israel’s massacre of Palestinians, chanted slogans condemning Israel’s Zionist regime and its collaboration with India.S. Veeraiah, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Telangana, addressed the protesters, saying that while India has historically supported Palestine, the Narendra Modi government now stands by genocide. He urged opposition parties, including Congress, to unite against imperialist attacks.
Adani Defense and Aerospace (ADA), an Indian company, has allegedly been supplying large quantities of arms to Israel, violating international law and India’s stated position on Palestine. ADA’s joint venture with Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems, Adani-Elbit Advanced Systems India Limited, is a supplier of Hermes 900 drones, reportedly used in Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
Critics claim India’s abstention from voting in favor of the UN Human Rights Commission resolution in April this year, calling for an immediate ceasefire and arms embargo, was due to its arms exports to Israel. Having supported a Gaza ceasefire at the UN General Assembly late last year, India’s position remains inconsistent.
Left parties and civil society groups oppose the Modi government’s policy shift on Israel-Palestine, including alleged arms deliveries which have helped to prolong the Israeli genocide in Palestine. They held a press conference in August, criticizing India’s growing ties with Israel and distancing itself from its historical support for Palestinian resistance. Nationwide protests were also organized by the left on the anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s genocide on October 7.
Modi’s pro-Zionist stance has sparked government crackdowns on anti-Israel protests, with arrests and detentions of protesters and the criminalization of Palestinian resistance symbols.
India was one of the first countries to recognize the Palestinian state, supporting a two-state solution and viewing the Palestinian liberation movement as an anti-colonial struggle. However, since the rise of the Hindu-supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014, India has grown closer to the Zionist regime, developing defense and other partnerships.
While the government has not confirmed or denied supplying arms to Israel, numerous national and international reports indicate it is doing precisely that. Last month, India’s top court dismissed a petition to halt weapon exports to Israel – filed by a group of retired diplomats, academicians and activists – arguing that foreign policy is the executive’s domain.
Additionally, India has facilitated the recruitment of thousands of Indian workers for low-paid jobs in Israel, following the ban on Palestinian workers from occupied territories since the war began. Despite opposition from left parties and civil society, the government calls these jobs a “golden opportunity” for Indian youth.
Left parties in India protest arms exports to Israel : Peoples Dispatch
Left parties in India protested the export of weapons to Israel, accusing Narendra Modi's government of complicity in the ongoing genocide in GazaAbdul Rahman (Peoples Dispatch)
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Leaders from India, South Africa, and Sri Lanka opted to attend a meeting in Kazan instead of the Commonwealth gathering hosted by King Charles III and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Samoa.
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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and King Charles III head to the Commonwealth summit to talk climate change and growth. Not all their friends will be there.Dan Bloom (POLITICO)
As China urges global financial reform, Global South ties more crucial: analysts
With arms wide open to Global South nations, Beijing is growing increasingly louder in calling for a bigger role in multilateral financial architecture, analysts say as they point to China’s slow progress in securing a bigger voice in the Western-dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund.Their assessments were underpinned by President Xi Jinping’s strongly worded speech on Wednesday at a Brics summit in Kazan, Russia, where he spoke out against stalled reform of the global governance system while trying to rally the efforts of key emerging markets to “push forward the international financial system to better reflect changes in the global economic landscape”.
The speech also sent a strong message to the World Bank and IMF, which are holding annual meetings this week that have brought hundreds of officials from across the globe to Washington to discuss the state of the global economy, public debt and financial risks. The gatherings also serve to reflect on institutional reform as the Bretton Woods system turns 80.
China, which accounts for around 17 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product and annually contributes to around 30 per cent of global growth, is often regarded as under-represented in the two key institutions – its voting power in the IMF, for instance, is now 6.08 per cent, compared with 6.14 per cent for Japan and 16.49 per cent for the US.
“It’s likely for China’s voting power to be raised. But we should not take it too seriously,” said Chen Fengying, a senior researcher with China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, explaining that there are some institutions in which China simply would not be given a leading role.
Beijing’s policy circle and researchers typically point to tensions with the United States fanning a wide range of worries, from dollar weaponisation to threats of financial sanctions.
Traditionally, presidents of the World Bank are from the United States, while IMF managing directors are from Europe. Some Chinese now hold high positions such as deputy president or deputy managing director.
At an event hosted by Renmin University last weekend, Chinese academics continued to push for de-dollarisation, and also for cross-border settlement among Brics countries, an association comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and some other emerging economies.
In Wednesday’s speech, Xi mentioned that a slew of cooperation networks will be set up within the Brics framework, and he emphasised the importance of empowering the Shanghai-based New Development Bank (NDB), in which China holds an 18.98 per cent stake – the same as Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa.
China is also the largest individual shareholder of the Beijing-headquartered Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), with a voting power of 26.6 per cent.
The nine-year-old AIIB has expanded its membership to 110, becoming the world’s second-largest multilateral development bank after the World Bank Group, in terms of membership.
“China is not looking to build a new world order from scratch,” he wrote in an article in Enhancing Global Governance in a Fragmented World, an open-access book published this summer.
Instead, it “emphasises reforms to dispute-settlement mechanisms under existing rules, especially within the framework of the UN and the WTO”.
China’s call for global financial reform is a loud message to West, Global South: analysts
With arms wide open to Global South nations, Beijing is growing increasingly louder in calling for a bigger role in multilateral financial architecture, analysts say as they point to China’s slow progress in securing a bigger voice in the Western-dom…Frank Tang (South China Morning Post)
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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and King Charles III head to the Commonwealth summit to talk climate change and growth. Not all their friends will be there.Dan Bloom (POLITICO)
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Indian PM Narendra Modi and South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, two of the most powerful Commonwealth heads of government who would normally be in attendance, both plan to skip this year’s summit in favor of BRICS — a separate gathering of major developing nations hosted by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Kazan, where Chinese President Xi Jinping is also in attendance.
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"Had he sent up the Atreides banner, he'd have had to live by what that meant. Too many observers about. He could've signaled with the Harkonnen flag on his staff -- a flat declaration that'd have been. But, no -- he sends up the ~~CHOGM~~ CHOAM rag. He's telling the people up there . . . " Gurney pointed toward space. " . . . where the profit is."
Russia Pushes for BRICS Clearing, Depository System to Sidestep the West
Russia has set out proposals for a unified depository and clearance system for BRICS countries, as it seeks to persuade member nations to deepen financial cooperation without the involvement of the West.President Vladimir Putin is hosting the first summit since BRICS expanded to nine members in January, with the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia joining Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa in the organization. He said Wednesday that the group’s development showed that a “multipolar world” is emerging, in a challenge to the existing US-dominated global order.
While it’s technically feasible, there’s little sign most BRICS members beyond sanctioned Russia and Iran are interested in joining a common depository, said Oleg Vyugin, a former top Bank of Russia official.
Russia has a clear interest in developing alternative financial structures to bypass unprecedented sanctions imposed by the US and its Group of Seven allies after Putin ordered the February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Alternative payment systems “may not provide the immunity from sanctions that is anticipated,” said Tom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Finance and Security at the Royal United Services Institute in London. “With the US — and increasingly the UK and EU — developing sanctions and export control mechanisms that have extraterritorial reach, Western sanctions could still have an impact.”
Officials from central banks of BRICS states next plan to discuss the unified payment system in December, according to the person familiar.
While the process is challenging and slow, as individual countries have different technological and security protocols as well as laws and financial regulations, a partially integrated payment system is a possibility and could boost trade between BRICS members by 5%-7%, the person said.
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While it’s technically feasible, there’s little sign most BRICS members beyond sanctioned Russia and Iran are interested in joining a common depository
And that's why I don't mind the talks of more western sanctions on China. They'd have more incentive to go through with this that way.
Sanctions on the other member states like India and Brazil would probably hurt their working class too much though...
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Maybe a total boycott of Russian economy would've had some domestic response, but in reality the only people sanctioning the Russian economy are the US and EU, which in itself represents a fraction of the world population and its economic output. The vast majority of the world's countries continued trading with Russia as usual, if not encouraged trade as Russia offers more favourable deals that the US and EU are unwilling to counter.
If the EU/US bloc was genuinely interested in anything other than a forever war to boost their military industrial complexes, they'd have put some of their economic power on the line to support global adoption of sanctions, but instead it is backfiring as BRICS slowly (but very surely) becomes a truly independent economic order of its own creation.
Turkey strikes in Syria and Iraq after attack on defence firm near Ankara
Turkey has launched airstrikes against suspected Kurdish militant targets in Syria and Iraq after blaming the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) for a deadly attack on the headquarters of the Turkish national aerospace company on Wednesday that killed five people.
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization said it had targeted numerous “strategic locations” used by the PKK, or by Syrian Kurdish militia affiliated with the militants, the Anadolu Agency reported.
“Over the past hours … a new wave of [Turkish] attacks on northern and eastern Syria” killed 12 civilians, including two children, and wounded 25 others, a statement from the US-backed SDF said.
Turkey strikes in Syria and Iraq after attack on defence firm near Ankara
Airstrikes launched against suspected Kurdish militant targets after PKK blamed for Tusaş attackPeter Beaumont (The Guardian)
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What is Israel's 'Generals' Plan' and what does it mean for the war on Gaza?
The core of the plan is to stop humanitarian aid reaching northern Gaza; and using starvation as leverage. It has two stages.
- The first is the "evacuation of the population from the northern Gaza Strip". This has been part of the thinking of the Israeli military even before the Generals' Plan. In November 2023 the army announced that 95 percent of northern Gaza residents had moved south and were not expected to return.
- Moving south, the Palestinians will cross the Netzarim Corridor, an Israeli-created military zone which runs east to west and cuts the Gaza Strip in half.
Second stage of the Generals' Plan
- Once Palestinians have been removed from northern Gaza, which the plan anticipates will take a week, the second phase can proceed: the transformation of northern Gaza into a closed military zone.
- Anyone remaining will be treated as a combatant. The plan's YouTube video states that the Hamas operatives who remain can choose to "surrender or die of starvation”. After that, "it will be possible to enter and cleanse the area of Gaza City with almost no enemy”.
The Gaza Strip plan, according to Matania, "will be carried out with a broad transfer of the population southward, the occupation of the area between Gaza and the southern Gaza Strip, its isolation and then the complete destruction of the city." The article has since been removed from its website.
What is Israel's 'Generals' Plan' and what does it mean for the war on Gaza?
Israel’s war on Gaza has now killed more than 42,000 Palestinians in 12 months, with no end in sight. In Israel, there has been discontent at the lack of progress, with hostages still held in the Palestinian enclave and a second front opening up for…Nadav Rapaport (Middle East Eye)
This article is almost two weeks old so it's not entirely news.
But is becoming very relevant as the plan is clearly being executed right now, and northern Gaza is being fully ethnically cleansed.
Lemmy Federate updates: Mbin support and federation mode option
I've been rewriting Lemmy Federate for the last 3 days and finally finished it. While there are no changes on the frontend, many things have changed behind the scenes.
Mbin support
After several requests, I have added Mbin support to Lemmy Federate. It is currently in experimental state. I may improve it in the coming days.
Currently, Lemmy-Mbin connection is off by default. You can enable it by activating the "cross software" option in the instance settings.
::: spoiler how it works?
Since Mbin has OAuth support, the tool creates the client with OAuth instead of creating a bot user directly. Theoretically, you should be able to activate the tool simply by creating a OAuth client from instance settings.
But unfortunately, I couldn't try it enough because I'm not an admin on an Mbin instance.
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Federation mode option
I added this option for small/single user instances. If you select federation mode as seed only in the instance settings, your instance will not follow other instance communities, but other instances will follow your communities.
Although I am not a fan of this option, I think it will work for instances like under 100 users.
Here’s example settings page:
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Seems quite active, they release every few weeks.
Fedia.io if you want to have a look
Would seed-only mode still be acceptable for an instance larger than 100 users? Asking because another instance admin is concerned about the possible ethical issues that might arise if larger instances use this. They haven't used the tool up to now due to concerns of increasing storage and disrupting/affecting the natural All page by federating many new communities automatically, which is why seed-only mode was being considered.
(If I misunderstood something or got something wrong I apologize)
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But you should move to North Korea and see with your own eyes what paradise it is.
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in reply to PolandIsAStateOfMind • • •Good one, but you can go outside anytime you want and proclaim that sleepy joe is an asshat.
Now do that in North Korea about dear leader.
But no worries, as soon as Trump gets elected, it will be eerily similar to North Korea.
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in reply to Franconian_Nomad • • •Wow i didn't know he's that based to largely sucessfully solve most the necessities problems while being under decades old embargo and literal military siege, following genocide of 20% population and destruction of 85% infrastructure, following forcible balkanisation of country, following decades long occupation!
But i guess we are going way too far in the future, we can compare after US will get decades long occupation, forcible balkanisation, genocide of 20% population and destruction of 85% infrastructure, and then decades old embargo and literal military siege, else that wouldn't be very comparable.
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in reply to PolandIsAStateOfMind • • •Ah yes. So many bad excuses for a murdering dictatorship who has to take families hostage, so that the very few people they send abroad don’t flee. And those people still try.
But if you like to worships some dimwit dictator, you do you I guess.
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