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maynarkh,

The lovely thing about (Eastern) European politics is that it’s very easy to drive division with stuff like this, as at some point everyone was genociding every given people.

I mean genocide is serious, but maybe get through the currently ongoing genocide and stop that instead of getting in the way of doing that by wallowing in the old genocides. We can’t save those people anymore, but there’s plenty we can save now.

'They are beaten, bitten by dogs, their money taken away, their phones destroyed': Migrants fight for survival on Polish-Belarusian border (web.archive.org)

The Polish NGO Grupa Granica accuses the Polish border guards of not accepting asylum applications from migrants. “They don’t let them apply, even if they speak English and show their papers,” says campaigner Anna Alboth.

maynarkh,

While you’re right that no one deserves to die in a forest in the middle of nowhere, the problem is that whatever the Polish would attempt to do to be more humane, Belarus can just funnel more people into the system to overburden it.

There is no disputing the fault of Polish politicians who have refused cooperation with the broader EU for brownie points with their own far-right, but if the only thing that changed was that the Polish would go softer on immigrants, it would maybe cause some relief in the short term, but would deepen the problem substantially afterwards, when even more people show up.

I’d also argue that Poland has the right to demand people ask for visas at consulates abroad or by mail instead of showing up at the border or even illegally crossing it trying to force a fait accompli.

maynarkh,

Not really, and it’s not that big of an issue in general. Most of Europe has laws against the non-educational/historical display of authoritarian symbols for example.

Also on point to the topic, the municipality of Amsterdam runs its own Mastodon instance which is read-only.

maynarkh,

Sie können es als „Funktion“ für alle Betriebssysteme oder sogar für die Datenspeicher-Firmware vorschreiben.

maynarkh,

That’s definitely true, but it also means only profitable opinions get “boosted”.

maynarkh,

Good question, but I'd say that the same train of thought went through dedicated physics cards. I'd guess that an AI card should have a great value proposition to be worth buying.

For compatibility, they could e.g. offer a cloud based subscription system.

I'm not sure where you're going with this, but it feels wrong. I'm not buying a hardware part that cannot function without a constant internet connection or regular payment.

maynarkh,

I wonder if the performance difference is offset by either lower power consumption, price or heat generation, so that it has uses beyond a tech demonstrator or a national security asset for China.

More competition in the largely duopolical GPU market would be great.

Is there anything preventing Metax from directly competing with Nvidia/AMD?

maynarkh,

That graph is interesting. Wonder what exactly caused the sudden labor cost increase in 2020. I can imagine it either being the "great resignation" or some other pandemic effect, but it would be great if someone with more insight could say something.

maynarkh,

Yes, but a fine does not exempt you from compliance. If they are unable or unwilling to comply, the EU can ban them.

And I'm not talking cutting off EU user access, it's cutting off money dealing with EU customers, adverisers, etc.

maynarkh,

This article is brain-melting.

"Algorithm" seems to have taken a meaning of "social media content recommendation and moderation system" by the media's idiotic dumbed-down language that's always catering to the lowest common denominator.

maynarkh,

EEE does not work by outperforming the OSS alternative. The extensions will be proprietary, and won't be able to be ported to Lemmy.

maynarkh,

Word is literally extended with intentional bugs, extensions will be arbitrary.

We can't add those capabilities, because they will also be proprietary and under copyright or patent. If you try, Meta will just sue you for the lolz.

EEE is not about outcompeting someone.

maynarkh,

Wonder why being called a Luddite is nowadays an insult

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (web.archive.org)

Fediverse can only win by keeping its ground, by speaking about freedom, morals, ethics, values. By starting open, non-commercial and non-spied discussions. By acknowledging that the goal is not to win. Not to embrace. The goal is to stay a tool. A tool dedicated to offer a place of freedom for connected human beings. Something...

maynarkh,

And THIS is why it's totally sensible to defederate from Meta stuff once they implement ActivityPub in any way.

maynarkh,

It would be weird to shoot down friendly helicopters and launch cruise missiles at friendly formations just to make a big feint.

Ukraine just needs to take the land bridge to Crimea, I don't see they have any incentive to go inwards towards Russia.

maynarkh,

Well, here's some footage with a shot down C&C plane. I mean it still could be not Wagner, but it would be an awful coincidence.

I mean we still don't know shit beyond the fact that Ukraine is holding strong and slowly reclaiming territory. The thing about this story is that it shows that the Russians are divided, and that's not a picture you want to show in a war, especially to your people. These events are costing the Russians dearly in one way or another.

maynarkh,

Kinda stupid way to do that, I mean they shot down multiple attack helicopters, sent cruise missiles against their own troops, and moved a lot of troops off the front during the Ukrainian counteroffensive.

It's infighting and shows Putin's weakness no matter how many layers of bullshit is under this.

maynarkh,

I mean he’s not wrong.

The Fediverse is made by altruistic people, or at least people whose primary motivation is not to make as much money as possible on their creations. Facebook is not that, and is incapable of not being that, so a lot of caution is warranted.

maynarkh,

I think the problem about the discussion is that there is a false dichotomy being pushed that if you don’t like Facebook, you are “anti-corporate”, thus you are a socialist, thus you are a Stalin-sucking tankie.

I’m not “anti-corporate”. Corporations are a great tool when used correctly. The problem is that Wall Street owns Big Tech, and it’s a great tool in their hands. Ask yourself the question why Wall Street might be interested in getting an “in” to the Fediverse.

And to be honest, it’s not hard to be specifically anti-Facebook when they have enabled multiple genocides and have served as weapons in an information war against most of the democratic world.

maynarkh,

The point made is that it would be bots used by Reddit to trigger tracking specifically to inflate stats.

maynarkh,

Good riddance I guess.

maynarkh,

Sentence is correct, but the article title sire does pussyfoot around the word rape.

Fun anti-mod bot conversation on Reddit 🇫🇷 Jesse #1 HEXAGON FAN (@[email protected]) (fedi.cpluspatch.com)

Apparently someone got into a debate with a bot in Reddit. Maybe it's not a surprise that the bot was anti-mod, pro-Reddit admin. Make sure you scroll down in the comments to see the second screenshot (it's a screenshot.of the same conversation but in dark mode).

maynarkh,

This is an utter shitshow.

maynarkh,

It would help if the article in some way could indicate which part of the world the snail invaded Broward county is.

I imagine it's Australia with megapests and English language, right?

maynarkh,

Well, whether Reddit likes it or not, mods were a department of specialists working on some unique aspects of their business.

That whole department got told to get bent, in essence fired, but they don't even have contracts in place preventing "disgruntled employee" stuff.

This is what happens.

maynarkh,

I am starting to realize it's not "work" I want to get away from, it's Wall Street.

I mean it's not my boss or their bosses who are saying that my work won't help cancer patients unless they pay a 100 bucks for something I can make for 3 bucks, it's the Wall Street investors who bought the company.

And it's not the corporate hierarchy at Reddit that tells me that they need to blast ads in my face and make me argue with bots, it's the Wall Street investor valuing its IPO.

maynarkh,

I mean he didn't shoot it down, he had it shot down. It's the first A2A kill of the F-22, he could at least acknowledge it.

He's on point with foreign policy for now. Humiliating world leaders is never not good.

maynarkh,

Yeah, I was a bit of an edgelord there.

maynarkh,

Doesn't matter since they don't and also can't retain control over the network, and the network by and large all defederated lemmygrad.

Lemmy kinda belongs to its users now.

maynarkh,

I mean they are?

You can host an instance, and if the instance is doing something you don't like, you can certainly change it and prevent it from doing it. If the main Lemmy devs put stuff in most people don't like, the software will just get forked, and most instances will use the non-shitty version.

Lemmy is what the majority of users want it to be, since everyone can just start a competing site that's not suffering from the "outside-the-walled-garden" effect, with a different featureset. Users will move to the instance with the best featureset for themselves.

EU member Hungary is not letting diplomats visit Ukrainian prisoners of war transferred from Russia, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry says (web.archive.org)

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, and other involved bodies of Ukraine continue to take steps towards bringing eleven Ukrainian POWs back home after Hungary had received them from Russia without notifying the Ukrainian government or any international human rights...

maynarkh,

Look, with the state the country is in, it's totally possible they actually lost them, or there is no one to answer the requests. Don't underestimate Hungarian governmental incompetence, especially now that the government is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.

Though my bet is that they are trying to see what they can get for them, using them as bargaining chips in a quite disgusting way.

maynarkh,

It would actually be an incredibly huge boon for the EU to get Ukraine as a member. It would benefit the EU in unique ways while the challenges Ukraine faces are hardly unique within the EU.

It would benefit both Germany's agenda of making the EU's center move a bit east, and France's desire to gain more geopolitical independence. Ukrainian gas would decrease reliance on US and Russian gas even in the short term as pipelines are by and large built already.

There's the catch though, I think the US' interest in a separate UA from the EU, with both depending on the US for either rebuilding or gas and other raw materials. While we are fighting the war against Russia, we will probably be fighting the peace against the US, and I hope Ukraine will prevail together with the EU.

maynarkh,

Same thing Hungary did, point is to thematize the election with the talking points the government wants, and to get around laws preventing campaigning on ballots.

It’s the bog-standard but still disgustingly effective authoritarian tool of using the power of the government to help out the party in government.

maynarkh,

Es ist einfach old.reddit nur für uns, nicht aber für die Admins unzugänglich zu machen.

maynarkh,

Well, that's enough internet for today.

I dare you to crosspost this to lemmygrad though.

maynarkh,

This again? Can this just die already?

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