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I fear we can’t have a fair and free market if people are so easily manipulated.
We can’t, certainly at least in the US. People falsely believe the government will protect them from exploitation by corporations, but corporations have long since proven they can and will manipulate the government into serving them.
Technically, they haven’t yet. In the past they’ve sometimes transitioned ownership of country-code TLDs over (like the Soviet Union’s .su to Russia). I think they just don’t want to wade into the debate over the Chagos Islands in general.
Come on. “No u” is all you’ve got?
It’s not “no u”, it’s “Israel is also committing war crimes and terrorism”. But you’re just an ideologue as well, and see everything in terms of one being right and the other being wrong.
with the intention of inciting a terrorist offence
which 100% matches Khan’s actions.
Bullshit. He did not attempt to actually incite people to commit terrorist actions, from anything I’ve read. You’re trying to play games with words, where “destruction” is (right now, you’ve decided) a direct incitement to violence, but “downfall” is just a vague ideological opposition. The word choice is not what matters, it’s the intent that does, and they did not show any evidence that he’s attempted to incite people to violent acts.
I don’t have to like the guy to oppose obvious bad-faith claims by the right-wing white supremacists running the Italian government.
like you are trying to somehow marry some old extreme-left anti-Western ideals with Islamofascim, which is absurd mental gymnastics
I didn’t do that, you did. I didn’t mention e.g. socialist calls for revolution or the like anywhere. But since you brought it up, it is important to point out that the logic used against him absolutely could be used against the Left in Italy. The whole point of the “First they came for…” poem is about not pushing back on fascism when it isn’t targeting you, or maybe even targeting people you don’t like.
And in case you want to claim this is fear-mongering, this is actually happening in the UK already, with climate protesters being charged as “terrorists” under a program (“Prevent”) that was originally meant to protect against especially Islamic extremism. [1][2]
You cannot be an advocate for the Palestinian people and at the same time support a group that oppresses Palestinians and has brought endless suffering over them even before this war that they started.
Now you’re just falling back on the “Hamas bad so Israel good better for Palestinians” shtick. Hamas is bad, but they’re certainly helping Palestinians more than Israel is. And their leaders being wealthy? You can largely thank Netanyahu for that, because he’s one of the biggest offenders siphoning them money to undermine the PA from making inroads back into Gaza. Also, using wealth disparity as some kind of gotcha against them as leaders is a hell of a line to use if you live in a Western country, since that’s true for their political leaders too.
Did you know that Israel is granting asylum to LGBTQ+ Palestinians from both the Gaza strip and the West Bank due to how heavily they are being persecuted?
That’s wonderful. It does not excuse their genocide, though. (See, I can actually hold a nuanced view that goes beyond “x good or x bad”.)
Hamas’ goals are indistinguishable from the likes of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
Once again, you are clearly incapable of understanding that not supporting Israel (or their right-wing supporters abroad) does not mean someone supports Hamas or their political views. But them being bad, and even the majority of Palestinians having what I believe to be harmful religious views, does not mean I’m okay with mistreating or killing them. Same way I don’t for religious Jews or Christians, who also have harmful views.
Here come the usual suspects…
Encouraging and supporting terrorism is illegal in Europe
Their support for Israel proves otherwise. It’s just a label they use to favor one side.
You can’t be living as a guest in a Western country and at the same time demand their destruction
Yes, you can. That’s what free speech means. Advocating that Westernism is bad and calling for its downfall is not the same as inciting direct violence. There is no requirement to be pro-West, to live here. This, “love it or leave it” Western Chauvinism is not something to be advocating on Beehaw.
He’s not pro-Palestinian, he’s just your run of the mill Islamist demagogue.
He is both, but he’s always been a right-wing Islamic demagogue. It’s only because he’s advocating for Palestinians that he’s now being expelled.
Bad people (right-wing neo-fascist Meloni) doing bad things (deportation) to bad people (right-wing homophobe cleric) Khan, for bad reasons (being pro-Palestinian).
Unfortunately the IANA decided to kill the TLD altogether, but the Chagos islanders have been asking to get control of it themselves so they can receive the registration fees. This was sort of the worst of both worlds: they could have given the Chagos islands it’s own TLD, or given control of .io to the Chagos islanders, but instead they just said, “you’re not sovereign, so you get nothing”.
edit: I’m reading elsewhere that it’s not yet decided for sure whether to kill the TLD, but no one seems to think it will be given to the Chagossians, unfortunately.
For people who haven’t been following this story, the Chagos islanders don’t want companies to stop using the .io domain, they want to receive the registration fees, which is much more important to them than having the TLD go away.
Unfortunately, because the territory is going to Mauritius instead of to the Chagos islanders, IANA is killing the TLD entirely (since Mauritius already has their own country TLD).
These groups face a hefty mandate: to use that federal funding to spur $150 billion or more of private-sector investment in climate and clean-energy projects
I love how our shitty system can only give money out to private companies to build Green infrastructure, instead of just, you know… using the money to build the infrastructure in the underserved markets ourselves.
Climate United also hopes that this first-of-a-kind financing of the pre-construction expenses of mid-size solar installations — a category of costs that includes permitting and interconnection fees and which developers now pay for themselves — will help other private-sector lenders “reduce the delta between actual risk and perceived risk in the market,” she said.
I understand that this is supposed to spur private entities to invest their own money into these projects, but they don’t actually cite anywhere in the article that this works. It also mandates a US-centric supply chain, which (while good) also means that the actual cost to the government/ public is being hidden by subsidies already being paid to those companies.
The closest the article gets to saying this works is:
This kind of climate lending has a track record to build on. Over the past 12 years, green banks — government-backed and nonprofit entities now operating in 17 states, which provided the model for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund — have enabled nearly $22 billion in public-private investment.
but that doesn’t specify the breakdown of public vs private. The goal for this fund is $20B public, to spur $150B private, but color me skeptical that will actually happen.
Main backlog I actually want to play currently:
If you can’t tell from Isles of Adalar and Monomyth, any game that looks like a Morrowind knock-off is a high priority for me. :P
In reality though, I’ll just play more Avorion and Starsector.
One of the worst and most predictable outcomes of Marxist-Leninism is the meshing together of the post-revolution counter-counterrevolutionary force, with the single-party state.
Marx never intended for there to be a central government wielding authority to combat counter-revolutionary backlash, this was supposed to be a continuation of the proletariat revolutionary movement, that served both to prevent society from sinking back into top-down control during peacetime complacency, and to keep the productive, positive, unifying spirit generated in a freedom-seeking revolutionary movement from dying out once the revolution was complete, and seeing the proletariat become divided.
When Lenin (and drawing on Lenin, Mao) murdered the whole “stateless” part of Communism, that counter-counterrevolutionary force became a tool for justifying suppression of the proletariat by the State, because the state was (not actually, of course) the revolutionary force. This also insulates the state against ever dissolving into the actualized stateless society that MLs still claim to totally be moving towards, because anyone seeking to dissolve the state to that end is, in the state’s eyes, indistinguishable from other counter-revolutionary forces seeking to dissolve the state to return to Capitalism/ Feudalism/ Monarchy/ etc.
*After all, how can the single-party State know if the proletariat are actually good Communists, or whether they’re actually counter-revolutionaries? Only by maintaining constant surveillance and vigilance (and continuing the State)!
Haha, yeah I just updated my answer a second ago after realizing this was c/foss and not c/technology.
Check out MusicBee. It’s my go-to for Windows now, and it has most if not all the things you asked for.
(Note: upon looking into it, MB is not OSS, if that is a deal-breaker for you)
This is for people who want (and can afford) at least 4K with ray-tracing in the latest games and all of this at triple-digit frame rates
Sure, but are there really enough people who fit into that category to justify these cards? Based on the 4080 series sales, it seems not, but they’re still coming out with even beefier, more expensive cards anyways.
I know this is going way off-topic
In a similar vein, I grew up around IT because my mom worked on mainframes. I remember lots of nights of sitting under her desk at 3am because she got called in as Production Support when jobs would ABEND. When I was in high school, wanting to learn more about mainframes I set up Hercules, a mainframe System3xx emulator (looks like it supports z/OS now as well), and managed to find boot media for System370 and MVS. The desktop computer I was running the emulator on (a Gateway, showing my age), was more powerful than the original mainframe hardware.
I’m running a 2080 in my desktop, and I haven’t run into a game yet that I need a better card to run (at least, not with my 1080p monitors, which I prefer over higher-res ones). I also got a Framework 16, with the discrete Radeon 7700S GPU, and everything on it runs butter-smooth.
Point is, I can’t see justifying something that is $1600 just so I can run Starsector at the same 60 FPS I already get. It would take some truly groundbreaking game to come along to force me to consider upgrading to these ridiculous cards, and I don’t see that happening given the current consoles out there.
One thing I’d push back on in the article is:
That cost-per-user doesn’t decrease as you add more customers. You need more servers. More GPUs.
This is assuming constant use, which is not the case. If I have a server handling LLM prompt requests, and for illustrative purposes each request uses 100% of the single discrete GPU in it, and I only have 1 customer, but that one customer only uses it 5% of the day (which would actually be pretty high in real terms), I can still add additional customers without needing to buy additional servers. The question is whether the given revenue of a single server outweighs its cost to run.
And when it comes to training, that is an upfront cost, that you could (if you get a model to where you want it) stop having to pay whenever you want. I’m pretty surprised they haven’t been really leaning into training models for medical diagnoses, because once you have a model that can e.g. spot a type of tumor with n% accuracy beyond a human, you don’t really have to refine it further if you don’t want to (after all, it’s not like the humans can choose to do it better themselves at that point, like they can with writing prompts).
Directly killing several million people with bombs is actually pretty tough. Killing many millions with famine is much simpler.
Israel manufacturing their very own Holodomor as the world looks on…
To me, it’s why Right to Repair laws are incredibly necessary. Repair parts, manuals, everything needed to operate and maintain a sold product should be mandated as “must be available to buy from the patent-holder, or the patent expires and the part is legal for anyone to manufacture”.
Netanyahu just full-on pushing Israel into a regional war to stay in power. Sadly, the US is probably going to help him.
Can’t wait to see the Israel apologists start arguing that Israel flattening city blocks in other countries is justified, but other countries attacking Israel in response at all, is evil and unjust. Looks like at least one is already here…
I’m the weirdo that thinks FF8 was the best one. Squall actually grew as a character, matured from an angsty emo teen into an adult who assassinates authoritarian leaders (or at least tries to)… And don’t forget that Rinoa launches her dog like a wrist-mounted crossbow, as an attack. Best FF game.