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I don’t know what that means, sorry.

So there is no forced arrest and re-education to “convert” them?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03068374.2019.1672433

And there is no forced sterilisation either?

https://newlinesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Chinas-Breaches-of-the-GC3-2.pdf

You have provided a lot of statements with absolutely no sources to back up any of it. Why should anyone trust you over sources that can be looked up?

I understand there is a lot of propaganda, but you have to understand that you are not immune to propaganda either. How can you be sure the things you read aren’t just propaganda too?

Without sources, we can’t read and judge for ourselves. I hope you value critical thinking over groupthink.

I realise not a lot of people will read this far down without downvoting and moving on, because I’m challenging the narrative I must be the enemy and a Leftist In Name Only. I want to make it absolutely clear that I’m not making any judgements about whether China is “worse” than the US or anything of the sort.

Such a comparison is wrong because they’re independent events. Just because the US’ list of human rights abuses is long, doesn’t mean it’s okay for China to add to their list.

It’s also not necessary to defend China, because even if everything we can read about the Uyghurs is true, that doesn’t change the fact that there are benefits to the Chinese way of running their country (100 year plan vs “until next election” 4 year plan, to name one) that we can strive towards.

Let’s be honest; if we as leftists got a magic wand that could change the world, we wouldn’t (shouldn’t) use any country currently in existence as the perfect template, because no country and no current political system is perfect.

Because there are some signs the bubble might be about to burst. Some of the purchase orders have either been rescinded or downsized, and - ironically - thanks to capitalism AI is becoming unaffordable for some businesses. As popularity increases, AI companies are raising prices and this is leading to human labour once again becoming cheaper than just vibe coding everything.

Sources:

• https://peq42.com/blog/openai-canceling-many-large-purchase-orders-ram-price-is-dropping/ (original article on Yahoo Finance is paywalled)
• https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economics-ai-tokens-crashing-down
• https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

Do you never leave the house for any period of time where you might want to bring some of your media?

In short; do you never travel?

Plex charges for downloading your own media through your own local network onto your own local devices.

I’m not talking about remote streaming. I’m not talking about downloading media while you’re already out of the house. Nothing about local downloads to local devices should require Plex’s servers, so it should come at no cost to them, which makes it a pure cash grab.

So yes, Plex does charge for local use :)

Federation doesn’t fix the problem, at least not in its entirety. I posted a longer comment in another thread but the long and short of it is that accounts need to be portable if it’s going to work for a git hosting solution.

The comment: https://lemmy.zip/comment/26430897

The problem is, I have an account on lemmy.world but switched off during a time it had major problems with downtime and broken images. When I wanted to switch to another provider, my account was not portable. I hadn’t posted or commented an overwhelming amount, but it’s still not associated with this account.

So let’s say someone creates a federated Git hosting platform and feature matches GitHub with Actions/CI etc, so there’s no reason not to switch. Let’s then say git.world starts acting up, but you can create an account on git.zip instead.

Now you have given up your commit history and any commits you make from your git.zip account is not neatly linked with your git.world account.

I’m sure this problem can be solved, but it’s vastly more important for it to be solved before federated Git hosting can replace the “security” of GitHub. We do have to consider the fact that some people point to their GitHub profile when job searching, so git contributions and commit history is more valuable than Lemmy posts.

Thank you ❤️

Thank you ❤️

Do you have an archive of the archive? archive.is seems to be captchablocked as it is impossible to get through the captcha, it just reloads every time I solve it.

It’s funny coming from the Plex thread into this; ~100% of people who keep using Plex do so because it’s centralised and it makes sharing their library with their network of family and friends easier.

The truth is; a lot of us feel like we need more internet accounts about as much as we need genital warts. Part of the reason GitHub got successful was the fact that you only needed to register once and you had access to fork and PR all the repos on there.

Decentralisation is great for self hosting things for, well, yourself and your household, but it’s got hefty downsides. Account creation is a friction point for others to join and collab.

Isn’t that kinda exactly what the OP was saying with their comment about MBAs realising they have non-paying users?

I don’t run Plex so I don’t know, but from your comment it sounds like the Plex Pass isn’t “all past, present and future premium features”?

Or were you theorising about a future where they do ask you to pay more?

My mother also worked at a switch board. When she moved into hospitality, and the guests needed to make a call, the switch board operators immediately clocked her as having worked there. My mother presented the information about the outgoing call request exactly as the operator preferred to hear it to quickly make the connection.

I feel you about wishing you had more time with your grandmother. I was far too young to even know what questions I could have asked, and it would have been so interesting to hear about the occupation during WW2 and the early post war years.

Not to mention the fact I miss her in general, she was the sweetest lady a grandson could ever ask for ❤️

This is the most sane take I’ve read in this entire debacle. Between arguing the semantics of attestation vs verification and whether we need five hundred forks and PRs, I’m glad to read this.

The biggest mistake the original PR did was not make it more clear it’s not directly because of the laws themselves, it’s to support higher level systems that may want to or need to comply. Systemd is no more complying with any present or future laws than a keyboard manufacturer is violating the law if the user uses it to type racially motivated hate speech.

There is absolutely nothing of worth in that article.

First of all, the team size is irrelevant. Even if the maintainers all end up in plane crashes or whatever, all that would happen is packages would “revert” to core Arch when a newer version is released.

Secondly, Secure Boot is a Microsoft-controlled technology that is not FOSS, and should not be considered mandatory like the author implies.

Lastly, the author conveniently doesn’t offer any evidence as to what exactly about Cachy’s “culture” (whatever that means) encourages AUR usage. The only thing I can think of is the fact that an AUR helper is preinstalled.

Not a single claim that isn’t incorrect on its face actually has any sources backing it up.

Can you elaborate on which part of this article has more worth than your average AI slop article?

You skipped over the fact that getting vanilla Arch installed is often what trips people up, and also what makes people who run vanilla Arch feel like they accomplished something and truly built something - because they did.

You’re also glossing over the fact that a lot of people run the CachyOS kernel even on vanilla Arch because of the performance gains from having a kernel specifically compiled for instructions your CPU supports.

In other words; I don’t think the convenience of a proper installer, nor even just a 5% gain in performance, is just “marketing”.

Bias disclaimer; I run CachyOS btw

I’m gonna give the original image the benefit of the doubt by saying that all I think they intended was to say that using heroin and snorting cocaine from an unsanitary location are both unhealthy activities.

I understand what you’re saying and I think the concept of “war on drugs” and the way pretty much every country in the world handles drug policy is backwards, but I don’t think the original image intended to disparage drug users.

Can you please elaborate on how someone died “because of this” in the context of the rest of your message? I am genuinely curious, because 100% of stories I’ve heard of loss of life involving the concept of transgenderism has been teenagers/young adults committing suicide as a result of having their entire support system taken away overnight because they express themselves differently than their assigned gender at birth.

I would also challenge the concept of anyone “pushing” transgenderism on children, because I have seen exactly 0 evidence for this, but I also understand that “pushing” is a subjective term, not a scientific one.

I’m gonna challenge two parts of your post;

1. Not participating in something does not make someone anti that thing. I don’t play or watch sports, I’m not anti sports. I don’t participate in or watch operas, I’m not anti opera. Etc. Saying “anti-veganism” implies vegans face the same kind of persecution as minorities do.
2. It is not the responsibility of the consumer to fix supply chain issues. You can believe there is no way to “ethically” raise livestock for meat and that’s fine, but what happens at “meat factories” and slaughterhouses is not the responsibility of the buyer any more than you are responsible for the child labour that went into the t-shirt you’re wearing.

Since you were so overly aggressive in your post, I’ll permit myself a tiny snoot of “whataboutism”; do you care the same amount about the clothes you wear? The electronic devices you use? The energy you consume? The non-animal products you consume?

Every. Single. Thing. you as a modern person buy has supply chain issues somewhere, and taking such an aggressive stance on one thing but not the others would make someone a massive hypocrite.

What I’m ultimately saying is this; everyone has their own line in the sand for what makes someone a morally good person. Or rather; what supply chain issues are “acceptable”. For you, that line is clearly the consumption of animal products. For others, it’s different. It may be more extreme than you, making you the same horrible monster in their eyes as meat eaters are in your eyes. Are they wrong? What makes your particular line the One True Line?

Believe me, I understand the fire you feel about this issue because I feel the same way about other issues. I understand that for you, it’s the most obvious and easiest thing in the world to be a vegan. This is not true for everyone, and it does not make them “fucked in the head”.

Because Americans claim they need the second amendment and all its school-shootey downsides in order to protect themselves against a tyrannical government.

Then a tyrannical government appears, and said government also starts executing your citizens in the streets.

Maybe it’s just my leftist bubble of woke protecting me from the truth, but I have heard exactly 0 cases of armed resistance from the people referenced in the first paragraph of this post.

To be honest I think Final Fantasy might be a bad example. FF16 feeling so weird and being so divisive isn’t because it’s AAA slop, it’s because they always experiment with something in each entry.

This time, they experimented with doing a dark, gritty and punishing word that had basically no levity in it. Even your home base had nothing but NPCs either being quietly depressed or LOUDLY depressed, emphasis on the loud. There was nowhere to go where you could take an emotional break from the impending end of the world. Every chapter of the story up until the very final cutscene did nothing but make the world more depressing.

Rebirth proves that they can create a world that feels massive but not empty, that they can create a gritty story without being emotionally oppressive, and that they can create a game that feels like the classics but in the modern age.

I don’t believe the source material is the only reason they made Rebirth as good as it is. Yes, they knew they couldn’t fuck this one up or else it was the end as a relevant company, but if they had truly lost their soul, they wouldn’t have been able to rise to meet that challenge.

In other words; I won’t write off new FF games unless FF16 becomes the template rather than an experiment I personally choose not to replay.