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mim,

Russia invades a neighbour who dares to attempt to have stronger ties to the west.

West supplies neighbour with weapons to defend itself.

Tankies on Lemmy: “oh no, Russia is being oppressed”

mim,

I would say most leftists (specially the libertarian type), are not on the side of Russia on this.

Tankies have just been really loud with their mental gymnastics lately.

mim,

Funny how living standards in the ex-soviet countries have improved considerably since joining the EU, but that has not been the case for the ones that chose to be kept under Russia’s sphere of influence. 🤔

Looks like the EU is really bad at looting, they should learn from Russia.

mim,

So, why didn’t Belarus improve at the same rate as the Baltic countries?

They both started from the bottom, right?

mim,

I don’t have the time for the classic tankie “reply with a wall of text and deflections”, I actually have a real job to attend to. But some main points.

Do you know that the Russian Black Sea Fleet is based in Sevastopol? Did you know that it’s an incredibly important strategic asset? What do nation states do when an incredibly important strategic asset is threatened? Do they defend it?

Do you also know that Russia took Sevastopol from Ukraine back in 2014?

Tell me, do you also support Israel’s claims on Palestinian territory?

Do you know what the Russian Federation’s stated causus belli for the invasion is?

Yes.

Do you know what the causis belli for the US’s invasion of Iraq was? Are you stupid enough to believe that one as well? Or does believing causus belli only applies to whatever country is not an ally of the US?

What do you know?

I know you should get a gold medal on mental gymnastics and double standards.

mim,

Because the Black Sea Fleet is station in Sevastopol and Sevastopol is a vital strategic resource? Are we speaking the same language?

So if the US has a fleet statinoned in another contry’s territory, should they just be allowed to take it?

Non-sequitor?

What don’t you follow?

Do you also support US-backed countries to take territory as they see fit? Or does that only apply to countries you like?

Okay so you know that UA was shelling Donbass and killing people for years, and the Rada was very openly hostile to the Russian speaking Ukrainian minority, right?

A Russian-backed separatist group starts a conflict and Ukraine responds.

Does Ukraine not have the right to defend their territory?

Could I get a sticker instead?

You can get some crayons to munch on.

mim,

Eastern European countries that opened to western trade and diplomatic relationships improved significantly.

Eastern European countries that became Russian puppets didn’t.

Explain that.

mim,

Does anyone have access to your machine (local or remote)? This sounds every odd.

mim,

The fact that you’re getting downvoted means that you’re on topic.

mim,

Thanks for the heads-up.

Routing my Lemmy mobile app through orbot from now on. Seems to have fixed the issue.

mim, (edited )

While that is true, it does divert peoples’ clicks.

Imagine you wrote a quality tech tutorial blog. Is it ok for OpenAI to take your content, train their models, and divert your previous readers away from your blog?

It’s an open ethical question that it’s not straightforward to answer.

EDIT: yes people also learn things and repost them. But the scale at which ChatGPT operates is unprecedented. We should probably let policy catch up. Otherwise we’ll end up with the mess we currently have by letting Google and Facebook collect data for years without restrictions.

mim,

Those ublock lists are interesting. Will definitely be stealing them for my searxng config.

Thanks!

mim,

Added to the filters. Thanks!

I would already not click it when searching for news, might as well automate it.

mim,

In SearXNG you can redirect, or block domains (but you still need to define them). You need to enable the “Hostname replace” pluging in the setting.yaml


<span style="color:#323232;">enabled_plugins:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  - 'Hostname replace'  # see hostname_replace configuration below
</span>

And then define the rules like this:


<span style="color:#323232;">hostname_replace:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#   My redirects
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  '(.*.)?reddit.com$': 'old.reddit.com'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#   My filters
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  'slant.co': false
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  'dailymail.co.uk': false
</span>
mim,

hnrss.github.io

mim,

Python for its versatility.

Rust for its strictness and speed.

mim,

By versatility, I’m also including the ecosystem. Julia doesn’t seem to be anywhere near python on that.

However, I’ve heard good things, it’s on my to-do list.

mim,

Thanks! Would you be able to elaborate a bit more?

It was my understanding that this is not the same thing as running an exit node.

mim,

Thanks! I’ll check with my vps provider.

However, this proxy does not seem to be “within” the tor network itself, right? I’m just connecting someone to the first entry node on the system, correct?

Would I be transmitting unencrypted data? In other words, would an outsider be able to tell that I’m transmitting something illegal to a person accessing tor?

mim,

I’m just gonna sit back and enjoy the tankies from lemmygrad denying or trying to justify this one as well. 🍿

mim,

That’s true.

However, I feel like the ones from lemmygrad are slightly more unhinged.

mim,

Imagine defending Russian and Chinese imperialism because “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.

mim,

Imagine thinking Chinese workers own the means of production, or not even knowing where the term “tankie” comes from.

mim,

No, I was suggesting that tankie came to describe USSR supporters (which modern apologists project onto Russia, as if the wall never fell). I am aware of the origin of the term.

My comment was a reply on people supporting whatever Russia and China do. It takes a jab at both.

mim, (edited )

No, it started that way? Do you mean started to be more all encompassing?

So, didn’t the term come to describe people who support the USSR imperialist practices by rolling into countries with tanks?

Anyone who has researched the USSR enough to cut through capitalist propaganda knows Russia is now a neolib-ish bourgeois democracy.

Have you ever seen anything written by the average lemmy tankie? They will defend Russia because it’s not the US.

If the US invades a middle eastern country because of “terrorists”, the true motive is oil (which I don’t disagree with). But if Russia invades Ukraine because they could potentially become a competitor petrol state in Europe more aligned with the EU, then it’s actually “nazis”.

mim,

Ok I’ll ask. What am I missing here?

mim,

Hope not.

Hosting videos is very expensive. It would probably make it unfeasible for regular people to host their own Lemmy instances.

heyfrancis, to asklemmy
@heyfrancis@mastodon.social avatar

What can we do to keep the web open?

@asklemmy

mim,

Shout-out to Librewolf as well (basically Firefox with better privacy focused configs).

People don’t care enough about using browsers that reduce Google’s influence on web standards (i.e. non chrome-based browsers)

mim,

I keep brave or chromium installed for cases like this (if I really have to access that website).

Regular use it’s just Librewolf. No point in adding to the chrome’s stats, and still sending data back to Google on top of that.

mim,

Ubuntu or Linux mint are good options. There are other newbie friendly distros out there, but I only tried these 2.

Yes you can dual-boot. When you start your computer, it will show you a menu where you can choose between Linux or Windows.

mim,

They also have staff that needs to maintain / improve the IT infrastructure. And those workers also need a salary raise to keep up with rising inflation.

Do you think the songs just magically appear on your device?

mim,

Artists do definitely get shafted when it comes to royalties. But let’s not pretend they don’t need to raise prices at this point. The last one was in 2011, which means that they were probably burning investor’s money to be able to afford that.

mim,

There is 0% chance this man is neither on drugs nor having a severe mental breakdown.

mim,

He’s not even good at using his puppet.

mim,

github.com/FiloSottile/age

mim,

Have you actually used age?

Unlike gpg, encryption of the private key is not default (or straightforward). It also doesn’t have a key management system

Is there anything actually useful or novel about "AI"?

Feel like we’ve got a lot of tech savvy people here seems like a good place to ask. Basically as a dumb guy that reads the news it seems like everyone that lost their mind (and savings) on crypto just pivoted to AI. In addition to that you’ve got all these people invested in AI companies running around with flashlights under...

mim,

I don’t think the comparison with crypto is fair.

People are actually using these models in their daily lives.

mim,

And yet, people still don’t use crypto in their daily lives. How many years has it been?

mim,

It depends on what you’re interested in.

If you’re into tech, I recommend this hnrss.github.io

mim,

Interesting, thanks!

I’ve been meaning to host something like this. Tried to do it with wallabag, but couldn’t be arsed to set-up and SMTP server just for the confirmation email.

Belgium also bans TikTok on government phones (www.politico.eu)

"TikTok is a Chinese company that currently is mandated to cooperate with Chinese intelligence services,” Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said in a statement. The Belgian ban is based on a risk analysis by the country’s intelligence services and recommendations by the national cybersecurity center.

mim,

China to allow every US based social network when?

Oh who am I kidding.

mim,

Tried searching it using my searxng instance, and I can still find it (still indexed by duckduckgo, yahoo and Alexandria).

Don’t know if has been fixed, but I guess it’s an argument for using metasearch engines: get some redundancy, don’t rely on just one source.

mim,

It was also posted 2 years ago.

mim,

Perfect is the enemy of good.

mim,

The non-mainstream social media options will always be the ones with people with more extreme political views (on both sides of the spectrum).

Lemmy has a great deal of tankies. They seem less prominent now, because the influx of people from Reddit diluted them.

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