I don’t think this is a reasonable comparison between X and Bluesky. i also believe it’s fomenting strife where it doesn’t exist. Finally using AI to generate memes removes any possible value a meme can have, and that is a critical thought produced by a human using an entertaining image. AI destroys all of that.

Don’t use AI.

Saudi Arabia is absolutely bad. I’d go so far as to call them the EA of Countries.

Ultimately your concerns stem from the philosophy of privacy, but you are weak on what practical privacy means. You have to give up a certain amount of privacy to participate in society at all. This is the case regardless of any technology. Once you decide you need a cell phone, you now have a tracking device on your person that can be used by anyone that wants to track you, specifically. You cannot prevent this regardless of what you do. Assuming you are not a person of interest for a nation-state, this exchange of privacy for convenience is rational.

There are things you can do in-order to increase your privacy in any un-trusted network though. For example: MAC-address randomization. DNS Proxies, VPNs, Privacy focused Browsers block-lists no-script etc etc.

Not all of these are relevant in all situations, and all of them can be made moot as soon as you login to some place. i.e. logging into a lemmy instance means that you now are uniquely identifiable and information can start being collected about you.

Now the question of “trust.” i.e. you don’t “trust” your friends network? Why not? Any argument that you can make about not knowing their network applies 10-fold to the cell network that you have absolutely chosen to trust. So the measures that you take with your own device to protect it from the public phone network, are equally effective on any wireless network. And that is where privacy advocates start getting squirrely.

tl;dr, if you have already taken the above steps, all untrusted networks should be treated the same according to your personal privacy envelope.

This is a great example of someone who has a lot of fear in their life that stems from ignorance, but tries to pass it off as something else. But make no mistake, you have a large gap in knowledge, and that knowledge gap combined with the paranoia of what you read from “privacy advocates” means your life is much harder and more insecure then you realize.

As a senior Network engineer, Macbook Pro is my goto. Jack Black Label is good, but I still prefer Lagavulin 16yr or founders All Day IPA.

“Beat China” at what?

Can you give an example of one of those websites?

Cars are the problem. I am agnostic to whether the car is powered by steam, diesel, gasoline, or electricity. Tail-pipe emissions are a very small part of the overall pollution from a car.

Sounds like they finally have a solution to the palestinian prisoner problem.

I don’t think you should let Nazi’s win the war of language.

I can’t believe the NYC Mayor Elect hasn’t single-handedly dueled all 40,000 NYPD officers in honorable mortal combat. Some leftist he is.

Analog computing is a lot different fundamentally then digital. While the transistor is the fundamental building block of a modern CPU, the Operational Amplifier, or Op-Amp is the building block of an analog computer.

https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/opamp/opamp_1.html

As for the pros and cons of each, I’m sure a whole disseration could be written on the topic, but I’d say “real-time” applications would benefit from analog computers. Think feedback loops.

I fully support millions of people not having to work anymore. Obviously we must implement GMI, Universal Healthcare, and employee a giant army of federal workers to run the hospitals, and staff to expand all of our other federal institutions.

Reminder: The Capitalists won the Civil War.

I guess 4chan-uk llc better watch out.

From my perspective more damage has been wrought to British culture by the Disneyification of Winnie-the-Pooh (big fan of EH Shephard here) than by 4Chan.

This is definitely a more important point then the existence of websites.

I had no idea Madagascar was a French colony. TIL. Welp hopefully they become a secular workers collective and not just another flavor of fascist.

If you identify as an “antifa expert” you are at best a liberal, but more likely an american conservative. Fuck off the fewer of you here the better.

The only “antifa” i care about are dead ww2 soldiers, or modern strictly-anti-capitalist marxists.

I mean room temperature superconductors would be phenomenal for transmission lines, compact electronics, etc. When I was doing my Electrical Engineering degree many years ago, there was a fundamental issue that superconductor were running into, but I cannot remember what it was. Ever since I talked with my professor about it, I’d kind of erased it from my mind. Sounds like they haven’t progressed much since the 80’s unfortunately :/

I’m thinking very new AAA releases like GTA6, Buldurs Gate 3, Hollow Knight, as well as minor developers that may not have linux releases. Though I acknowledge the difficulty of creating a linux version is getting smaller.