Dr. Moose @ drmoose @lemmy.world

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As someone who wrote their CS thesis on networks I find starlink infuriating. Its such a terrible option that basically persists through memes and highly niche use anecdotes.

You can literally cover entire landmass of earth with fiber and cell towers for pennies on a dollar what low orbit satellites would get you.

Not to mention is objectively better technology which we would have to setup anyways if we want low latency networks and why wouldn't we want that in the future? There are countless benefits to reduced latency so it's really unavoidable. Now some want to prioritize worse technology when it's at peak cost. It's so fucking stupid.

Oh it's definitely possible. Its also just firefox so you can apply all firefox styling things like Chrome.css edits. I have mine setup so it's completely borderless like qutebroeser unless you press ctrl+l to open the location bar for extension gui controls etc. With local client extension it can also communicate between firefox windows so you have global tab list across just like qutebrowser too! It's very well made.

For automated bans I can tell you why - social media fingerprinting and anti-bot is really hard and it scales in favor of banning.

I working in anti fraud software development and the browser and apps give you incredible fingerprint that can identify anyone. However it has many false positives simple because the datasets are huge and peoppe use social media in weird but legit ways (cafe wifi etc). Generally big important systems like banks can alleviate that with support and KYC systems (know your customer) but social networks don't want/can't really do that in a scalable way.

Then, there's misalignment of incentives. The anti bot team does not care about false positives and these are almost never reported to the upper management so false bans become common and in the big picture not that big of a deal. Thats why you see so many websites use cloudflare anti bot when they are clearly losing sales when A|B tests are evaluated but the site admits never know that because cloudflare only tells them about successes not failures.

Finally, real bot developers are really fucking good. Wirh proper funding you just hire real people with real web browsers / real phones and thats why large scale bot operations like those of governments are almost impossible to defend against. Thats why Russia, China, India etc are investing so heavily in internet trolls - it's super effective and it's a hard problem to fight as it's easy to hide behind "xenophobia" and just deny everything. Any forensics would also implicate the social media hosts so the incentives all align for a perfect propaganda machine.

That's what really drives me - if all fails you can always become a Cynic and live in a cardboard box country 🙂‍↕️

Seems like size clearly correlates with citizen happiness in contemporary world. Small European countries as much faster and have much happier citizens than large empires like russia, USA, China.

Everyone's knows this and looking back to something that happened 200 years ago trying to make it relevant to today's politics is laughable to say the least.

China is clearly showing its imperial ambitions. Remember Tibet? Somehow tankies convenient forget it even with monks literally burning themselves to get attention they get none.

Its an alliance not Walmart

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_and_rights_in_China

In 2014, China received an E out of possible grades A, B, C, D, E, F, G on World Animal Protection's Animal Protection Index

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_fin_soup
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Meat_Festival
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_zoo_scandal
Etc. Etc.

That being said, I do think Chinese government is at least trying to drag the culture into reality.

The panda zoos were meant to spearhead the change in animal perception but it didn't really trickle down to other animals and is widely considered to be a failure in that regard. Though there's a big law proposition right now but it's stuck since 2009:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_protection_law_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China

So China is still good 50 years behind the developed world when it comes to animal respect if not more.

Glad to expose it to more people - it's truly great!

Its incredible how you can give a man all the power in the world and he still feels small. The smallness was inside them all along huh

This has happened a lot through history. In fact that last Hamas shitface tried to escape in one and I think he actually died in it lol

Lmao the little beach shorts

Nah Chinese culture is very well known for this. Have you been living under a rock?

Chinese treatment of animals is beyond anything else I've ever seen. There's just fundamental lack of education and respect for non-human creatures. It's trully something else and I'm not being xenophobic here as it's an objective truth.

Even for a country with strong Buddhist and taoist presence it's almost impossible to find vegetarian food unless you go to "sùshí restaurants (special vegetarian restaurants near temples) and outside if that you'll get straight up mocked for eating vegan.

Seriously, my least favorite thing about China. Even worse than whole censorship thing. It's just so incredibly disrespectful to our fellow creatures to the point where it feels intentionally cruel.

Qutebrowser and Firefox depending on what I'm browsing as qutebrowser is nicer but firefox has better adblock and addon support. Firefox with tridactyl is really good these days and very close to qutebrowser ux quality. Chromium for web development as chrome devtools are still unmatched unfortunately.

Bet that linux vs windows performance video did it in. The exec who thinks linux desktop doesn't even exist saw this and immediately shat their pants in rage.

If anything the zodiac contributes to misunderstanding of animals. It's like saying in the west we understand the buffalo because we have Taurus as a horoscope.

The developer better avoid driving any cars lol

Just going to install the game to leave a negative review because if anyone deserves a review bomb it's this.

Most contemporary python tools like flask or uvicorn do exactly this and require an explicit entry point

I'm not sure the answer is as easy as that. Multiplayer games are just so hard now as everyone expects endless content, progression and e-sports.

I used to be very opinionated about programming languages but now I just really love all of them.

Sure some might not be the best tool for some jobs but maintaining a language is insane and just such a mind-blowing endevour.