Hirom @ Hirom @beehaw.org

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Bolloré's private company is exploiting African countries, that much is obvious.

It's more complicated when it comes to recent military operations that included french troops. The original Serval military operation in Mali was requested by Mali's government at the time, and was a joint Africa-lead operation that involved multiple African and European countries.

Operation Serval followed the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2085 of 20 December 2012 and an official request by the Malian interim government for French military assistance.

Both African and French soldiers died while fighting terrorist groups threatening Mali during these operations.

France's government certainly has some afterthought when they decided to interviene, the most obvious is the desire to have influence in the region. But it's not comparable to colonial times as the headline imply.

Algorithmic moderation was never going to be effective.

The article is light in new information. He's basically saying let's continue to support Ukraine.

Please enforce this for console games as well. Digical games and DLCs are typically more expensive than both new and used physical games. Physical games prices usually decrease few months after release, digital one rarely do.

It's obvious that vendors rely on digital restriction (aka DRMs) to kill the used market and sell older games at higher price. I'm avoiding digital games and DLC because of this, and I'm reluctant to buy a new console given the hard push toward digital games and attempts to kill the used market.

This comes after an order to evacuate a city with >0.7 million inhabitants within 24h without preparation, with broken infrastructure and broken government, with a treat of invasion.

There's no way this happen without panic, and without people being left behind.

I fear we're going to hear more horrific stories as the dust settles.

If they don't know what they're going to use it for, I'd focus on practical things most non-technical people use laptop for:

• Fair battery life to carry it around.
• Operating system that does auto-updates, needs little to no administration.
• SSD so the thing feels fast, and starts quickly. May not need a large storage capacity.
• Built-in webcam for video calls with relatives, etc.

The rest can be done on the software side:

• To browse safely, install security tools (antivirus, browser extensions like privacy badger) and verify auto-udate is on.
• Install an office suite (et Libre Office). Even if they don't write documents, they'll probably need to read them.
• If using Windows, tweaks settings to disable abnoxious things like ads, telemetry.
• Backup software. Ideally with automatic remote backups. Window's built-in backup sucks.

YouTube does have the advantage of scale, I wouldn't expect a federated solution to match their condition, but I'm hoping it can become good-enought as an alternative.

PeerTube isn't going to provide a solution, they explicitly state this in their FAQ. But there's no reason why other platform couldn't handle monetization AND federate through AgtivityPub (or its successor). If Nebula or Patreon wanted, they could join the federation and make some videos accessible this way. The one holdout would be video that are only accessible to paid subscribers, they wouldn't make them freely accessible via a federation.

From the PeerTube FAQ:

the uploader can display a support button under the video [..]

We did not go any further, as we refuse to tie our code to a particular content funding method, that might not fit all communities and deter others. It's the reason why we encourage developers to use the PeerTube plugin API to create their own monetization system.

I wish more publishers and creators could move away from YouTube, and stop relying (indirectly) on YouTube's targeted ads.

There's no silver bullet today, but a mix of alternative platforms (PeerTube, Nebula, Patreon...) and different way to get a revenue (subscription, donations, sponsors and non-targetted ad segments). I believe no alternative solution is feature-complete yet. Hopefully viewers will put some resources on alternatives, not just on AdBlock technologies, and follow creators who move away from YouTube.

Rewrite the application to be less greedy in the number of requests it submit to the server, make (better) use of caching. That'll probably lower the number of concurrent request that have to be handled.

People who want to destroy democracy are influenced by their brain too. But they do react more extremely than others.

The thesis here is consistent with people believing political violence is justified, with human brain's tendency to form a "us vs them" mentality. But it doesn't explain why some act more extreme and violently.

People react differently because of multiple factors, such as living through different circumstances, different cultures, being more or less subject to cognitive biases, seing more or less misinformation, ... For instance if you see more misinformation about polical adversary being evil, AND your biases and culture makes you more likely to believe it.

That isn't an excuse for any violence. Understanding these mechanisms may help prevent reduce violence or hate. That's a worthy goal even if some groups have a much greater responsibility for political violence.

To quote the video: "Your brain is stupid" (mine too) [..] "our brain are not able to process the amount of disagreement we entounter on the social Internet"

The video includes an ad near the end. Like most video on YouTube, its creator rely on sponsors. Unfortunately they also placed the same ad at the beginning of the description. It's kind of repulsive if the first thing you look at is the description.

I wish I could scrub or remove the ad from the description, but it's automatically imported and I don't see how to remove it.

I always take several years for new storage technology to go from the lab to public computing devices, if it even makes it out of the lab.

It's safe to bet that 3/4 of new tech advances of that sort have serious limitation that are deal-breakers. And the rest takes at least 5-10 years to become mature and cheap enough so that it's accessible to average folks.

That's true. It's because the name is misleading. So-called Data Loss Prevention (DLP) features are really Data Leak Prevention features.

I assumed Google Cloud and Drive had the same availability garanties. Searching "Google Drive availability" on Google return the cloud availability page as 1s result. But you're probably right, there's never a SLA for free services.

If looking at the page for Google Drive's paid version one can see some features and claims about the storage's quality, emphasis mine:

Store, access, and share your files in one secure place

With centralized administration, data loss prevention, and Vault for Drive, you can easily manage users and file sharing to help meet data compliance needs.

https://workspace.google.com/products/drive/?hl=en

I suspect users believe they don't need to backup because of Google's claims of high data availability.

On top of that, Drive don't necessarily keep local copy of data, which is unfortunate if you loose (access to) data in the cloud.

Drive is cloud-native, which eliminates the need for local files and can minimise risk to your devices.

it suffers from a chicken-and-egg problem: Airlines don’t want to buy SAF because it can be several times more expensive than standard aviation fuel

Only because we refuse to tax carbon, and increasingly subsidize fossil fuels.

Clean alternatives will be much more competitive once carbon is properly taxed, and we stop subsidizing polluting industries.

Or the opposite. One could say it's filtering out the vaccine which they falsely claim people are shedding.

Took me a second to understand.