AggressivelyPassive @ agressivelyPassive @feddit.de

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.... And they're able to make chips good enough for their military.

Russia's military is in large parts only slightly refurbished soviet gear. For a T72 or even T90, a 90s era chip is still good enough.

Why do you think they dismantled all those washing machines? The microcontrollers in there aren't high tech at all.

I mean, what's the positive spin on this?

We're so bad at intel/aiming that we have a 1:2 combatant/civilian kill ratio?

I mean this subtitle right here gave me a pretty good idea what's this initiative is all about already, but that's just me I guess

But what does that mean exactly? Fairphones with long support duration? Solar powered software developers?

I get a rough direction from that, but nothing else, but it's a headline, that's ok.

What really bugs me is that the body of the text doesn't really explain it either, but needs hundreds of words for that. It's just fluff for a press statement that should have fit into a tweet.

Also, keep in mind that people from different countries work on KDE, and English is not their first language, I don't know what are your expectations.. on how the writing should be...

Well, given that I'm from Germany and English is not my first language, and also given that I'm neither very good at it nor do I have a PR team, I would expect writing at least on my level, I guess?

But here's the thing, take a look at Google or MS posts about sustainably and being green, and you'll realize, truly realize how one could say so much without saying anything... this wall of text that you're talking about is full of insights

And these companies are the benchmark? I mean, can't we expect more from a nonprofit? There are some insights, yes, but they're drowning in the wall of text.

Just as an insight for you: a news article is supposed to increase in detail level from top to bottom. The headline shows the rough topic, subtitle slightly expands on that, the first paragraphs tell the actual story, the next paragraphs provide more and more context. The idea is, that a reader can stop reading if she feels like there's been enough context.

Look at the article here and ask yourself if it fits this description.

Torpedoes only work against ships, obviously!

Why would I not say that?

Clearly they can't get their point across. And I don't know, why people down vote me for that.

KDE starts a new initiative, and does so by creating a giant wall of text that says very little about the initiative itself. So little in fact, that people here obviously don't understand what they're actually trying to do. That is bad communication. Simple as that. And given that this is not a random blog post, but a press statement, I'm pretty sure a bunch of people read it before publishing it.

Epochs aren't that simple either.

First of all, local time can be relevant, so you have to store timezone information somewhere anyway.

Epochs are also somewhat iffy in regards to leap years or seconds.

And finally: write me an SQL to retrieve all entries submitted in 2022 using just epochs.

Timezones are annoying as fuck, don't get me wrong, but simply ignoring them isn't a solution either.

I'm not sure, if you're involved with the project, but if so: you really need to work on your communication.

You want hardware to last longer by providing software for it. That's it. Great goal, but you don't need half a bachelor's thesis for that, and you also don't need to tiptoe around the point.

I had a client whose clock was just a few milliseconds behind the server's, but due to timezone crap one hour in the past. And the signature was valid for one hour.

If the network just happened to be too congested, the validation failed. The next request went through just fine. Took us forever to find out.

You know, I have a hunch that neofascists and neonazis are not good people.

Seriously though, we've had the same discussion in the 80s about the Wehrmacht ("Wehrmachtsausstellung") and "it wasn't all bad!" is almost a meme at this point. And we will have the same discussion again very soon. Maybe some of the Jews actually were bad people and totally deserved their fate?

These are fascists. If there is any idea, person, historical period that reinforces their self-victimizing superiority complex, they will take it. And they will do what every conservative thinker does: stop thinking if the current result fits your ideology.

I have to say, patents are my only real concerns regarding GMOs.

Most of the other concerns can be tested/ruled out, but patents could absolutely fuck up entire continents and literally enslave millions of small farmers.

It's 100% within the realm of possibilities that Monsanto puts a gene drive in their crops so suddenly every plant in a 20km radius produces "patented" seeds.

Thing is, these guys have a very narrow view on "environment", but the conflict here is emblematic of basically everything regarding protection of nature.

Greenpeace is under the (not completely unfounded) impression, that every new technology is a wedge to slowly push the world towards doom. Just one more lane. Just one more gene changed. And so on. They are completely uncompromising, which is understandable to a certain degree.

However, the result is that perfect is the enemy of the good. Here in Germany we have conflicts between people who want to save the planet by installing wind turbines and people who want to save the local fauna by not installing wind turbines. The latter do have a point if you're very myopic, but they don't (want to) see that their actions will likely kill the entire species, not just a few individuals.

That's what's really confusing me: why add an expensive feature, that obviously doesn't work and even in the best case adds only minor improvements?

I mean, it's not another option like with Bing. It's the default. Every stupid little search will take up AI resources. For what? Market cap?

Without fail, every Linux installation I had destroyed itself after a while.

Be it a full boot partition, some weird driver compatibility, etc, etc.

My Windows installations (granted, all work laptops) never destroyed themselves. Yes, some bugs here and there, but it worked well enough for home usage. You can't discount that.

... And then something happens and they want you to install Windows again.

As much as I like Linux, compared to Windows and Mac OS it's high maintenance. Once in a while, things will bork themselves. And you need to have at least a rough understanding of what's happening to fix it.

Also (and that's not a Linux problem per se) people seem to think if Windows breaks, MS or they themselves are at fault, if Linux breaks, that weird nerd and his hacker stuff are at fault.

What else am I missing?

The fact that 90% of people don't give a shit about ads, privacy or their operating system in general. They want a machine to open a browser, that's it. If Windows comes pre-installed, they'll use Windows.

The only realistic chance we've got is that MS shoots itself in the foot once more by all that Recall crap and businesses drop Windows. But that's a long shot.

It does. Hype.

People and smaller investors are told that this company is the next big thing, so they buy it at high prices.

As I described above. The endgame is to either IPO and sell off the shares to the dumb public, or find someone who's willing to buy out the company because they hold a patent or have some interesting people on board.

The only way to stop a suicide with a gun, is a homicide with a gun.

We've had the same recommendations in Germany for decades. Food and water for several days, ideally two weeks. When these recommendations were renewed a few years ago, people lost their shit, even though nothing changed.

It's perfectly reasonable for a government to recommend keeping some food and water.

You can absolutely blame the schools, if so many other countries manage to do better.

You're basically blaming the children.