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This is peak corporate-speak. Is this real or satire?

Better have a smorgasbord of different apps, it's great if we can get a decent competition going.

A bit weird since they said they'll be supporting the current iteration till 2030.

I mean every community moderates itself, if you don't like what one of them does, you cut it out of your feed.

It sounds exciting, imagine if mods would have to compete for shares of a topic instead of a group gatekeeping a big community.

I guess we need open hardware for open drivers to be the norm.

This quite stupidly has some geopolitical implications as well, if "anyone" can manufacture decent GPUs, there goes the Western chip-making monopoly.

I once got a gigantic dinosaur storage array from a local university for 50 EUR. Check local stuff, it's like used furniture if you are in any bigger city.

One DDG search gave me this site, this offer seems reasonable, just check if it works first: https://www.trademe.co.nz/...

Watch out for noise and power consumption though. If you want to dip your feet in, OrangePi stuff is definitely a good place to start, set up some networking stuff like PiHole, they are nice projects and you are not saddled with a 30kg piece of metal that screams like a jet engine until you're sure you want to.

You just buy a big slab of meat, put it on a coat hanger on the patio, free smoked meat!

Man, China is not even siding with Russia. China is against the West, it's just looking to gain as much as it can from the situation.

It's as likely to annex Siberia as help.

Quick question, wasn't that true for the US as well for a while? I seem to remember them meeting the same criteria for a recession, but the White House just said "it doesn't count!"

One bad thing I could see is that this info could be sold to insurance companies, not just medical, who could charge and deny coverage based on that.

Or just look at Visa and Mastercard being a faux-moral jackass and not dealing with porn sites. Imagine if they were able to deny you service based on medical history with drugs and such.

In Russia, wrote the embassy, the journalist’s coverage was liable to land him a financial penalty, a prison term, or a period of forced labour.

In Russia holding an empty sign or being the wrong ethnicity, or just the wrong place at the wrong time can get you that.

I remember there was a whole saga about the original never making it to 64bit. I guess this is a remake, since the source was lost too IIRC

The thing I don't understand around it is that the people who are making the argument "trans people shouldn't be able to participate in sports" are usually also people who are not interested in the sport at all. As in are they upset because someone on the telly told them to, but they really don't care about the sport except in this very niche aspect which impacts a very slight minority of participants. I mean would half the US public be very interested in the deep technicalities of competitive high-school running?

Same with HRT. Why do I even have to know about it? It's a niche medical treatment for a comparatively small amount of people suffering from some very specific conditions. I can barely understand what the difference is between ibuprofen and paracetamol, and I'm sure most people are even less informed. Why is it not the sole interest of people affected by gender dysphoria (IDK if I'm even spelling or saying it right, sorry for my ignorance), and their doctors?

The thing that actually grinds my gears is that this culture war stuff takes over places and trans people have to get defensive over their existence, and a forum on fricking Bionicle gets full of trans memes. Don't get me wrong, if you're a trans person, or a Zulu, or IDK what niche minority, and you've made a Bionicle that uniquely represents you, I'm going to upvote that shit so hard since it's frickin awesome. But having the whole place be full of low effort "trans people are people" memes is about as funny or interesting as having the whole place full of "the sky is blue" memes.

People are getting outraged about what some socially disadvantaged minority is doing with their lives instead of actually contributing to society, because some idiotic grifter TV host told them to. Fucking lemmings.

Have you seen the drama over at r/sysadmin? TBH whether Reddit survives this or not (I'm assuming it will), I'd rather be over here. TBH the smaller user base is actually a plus.

I mean we're already pretty much at war with Russia. Let's finish this first. I'm sure China isn't going anywhere in the meantime.

The only thing I haven't seen AI take on successfully yet is liability. Who do you sue if your accountant AI loses a bunch of money?

I have seen huge corps buy stuff and employ a lot of people just to have scapegoats.

Man, as someone who grew up near a whole bunch of brutalist architecture, there comparison to lifeless corporate art is spot on.

Mobile platforms need an effective way to block data hoovers. There is a reason everything is an app now and that is that mobile platforms aren't safe.

Same is true for Russia. Except US corporate ghouls are already lining up to rebuild Ukraine. Who will do that for Russia? China? Don't make me laugh.

Nah, Russia attacked because they think they are still the Soviet Union instead of the world's number two gas station (behind the OPEC) in a world where oil is losing its importance.

Russia felt threatened in its sphere of influence by the fact that Ukrainian internal events made it align more with the west.

The reason the war didn't end yet is that no one wants to deal with Russia collapsing again. The oh-so-crucial weapons shipments are mostly stuff from the last century, and a bunch of stuff the West wants to battle-test.

Again, Russia exists because the West and China allows it. It will cease to exist when they demand it. Russia is not a superpower with an own sphere of influence, and would do better to accept that before more people get killed for its false delusions of grandeur.