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let’s not go too far though… the holders of h264/h265 did put a lot of money and effort into developing the codec: a new actual thing… they are not patent trolls, who by definition produce nothing new other than legal mess

wake up, time for some SYN 😈

and also the flip side: who the fuck cares if it’s flat and the government is lying about it?

add tailscale and you’re golden

as a linux professional, congrats you’re a junior and have a lot to learn about the world

and literally literally means literally but now we use it to mean figuratively

turns out language is about use, not origin

are as likely to die from covid, as unvaccinated elderly people

and that’s the bit of grey that some people seem to latch onto: some vaccines (like the COVID vaccines) don’t prevent disease: they reduce the likelihood or severity of disease. that doesn’t mean they don’t work, it just means that they only work most of the time… which is a whole shit load better than none of the time

depends which “you” you’re talking about

makes no sense for slovakia in the next few years that’s for sure

but for fico…

if he can get political points by spewing russian BS that russia then backs up (both directly and indirectly) then that helps him personally politically

and who knows if he’s getting something compensatory from russia for it

honestly outside of israel and palestine it’s worrisome that anyone considers either side their team

its a super complex situation and both sides are fucking monstrous, but inside either country it becomes real simple: the other side legitimately might end specifically my life through nothing but random misfortune

outside of that, i don’t see how anyone can think there’s 1 side that’s in the right

probably best not to say “given their initial claim” given that the source is a friend who didn’t say where they’d seen the info

so you may have misinterpreted what they were saying (someone claimed rather than reliable israeli sources claim), they could have misinterpreted what the source was saying, the source could have been exactly like this post and subject to similar accidental misinterpretation, or it could be just straight up misinformation: either accidental or intentional

given the amount of misinformation swirling about the whole situation, i’d probably go with “i had heard” or “i think someone mentioned somewhere” etc

or just classified in general… there’s plenty of blame to pass israel; let’s not give anyone ammo to say it’s all just bias

well, they did say “human nature” and “unfortunately”

i don’t think they’re judging?

also (somewhat ignorant myself), possibly useful to distinguish between palestine and hamas… palestine the state might be more amenable than hamas

… but idk

they’re faster in certain circumstances than even a direct fibre afaik (light in a vacuum travels faster than through air so at a certain point you overtake the fibre)

but also, i’m not sure it counts as “avoiding building infrastructure” when it includes things like the australian outback: https://benandmichelle.com/mobile-internet-australia

those places are so remote that we have signs when you enter some of the roads advising that you should not continue alone, that you should have backup fuel, water, and communication… because if you get stuck out there you ain’t gettin phone coverage for probably days on foot!

similar is probably true for many arctic regions

it also happens that by the merits of rich counties paying for most of starlink, developing countries suddenly get access to relatively cheap, fast internet in remote areas - something they’d struggle to provide on their own, given that even electricity can be problematic (and electricity you can fix locally with solar, etc but internet by its very nature requires some kind of backhaul)

afaik this is only reddit activity, so they’re going to be able to track anything and everything no matter what privacy addons you’re using if you’re logged in

yes and no… we don’t have revenue goals, but we have goals for the fediverse and we have the social media critical mass problem: you have to hit a critical mass before you become indispensable… if people try the fediverse and there’s not enough content, they tend to just leave rather than stick with it

mastodon can do default instances because they have the account migration process… i totally agree this is a great solution: get people in with sane defaults, and then let people move once they know how it works

there will be plenty of people that don’t move (or maybe that’s solvable too: analyse your toots and suggest a more niche instance after 2mo?) but i’m not sure that’s a huge problem if your “default instance” is more of a random choice from a list of sane defaults

it’s kinda vaguely similar though… a fediverse instance is moderated by the instance admins, just like a discord server (though discord has a level of admin above server mod/admin i’m not sure that distinction matters for the general user)

adopt new rules? they don’t even follow the ones they’ve got already!

just because it’s shit doesn’t make it untrue… what cdf12345 said isn’t wrong: conservatives challenged and rolled back previous debt forgiveness… they’d absolutely try and do the same with pretty much anything progressives do, so everything has to move in baby steps

blaming republicans for lack of progress is not their only play: you can be frustrated by the minimal progress, but to say they do nothing at all is incorrect and only helps conservatives move the US backward