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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please.

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Things like "it doesn't provide a rebuttal" are often said, and I don't find it convincing. There are ways to show the lies for what they are without directly arguing about it. Is the movie effective in doing that? It seems to depend on the viewer.

I haven't yet had the chance to see the movie, but based on what many reviewers have said I think there's a pretty good chance it isn't the pernicious Russian propaganda it's been made out to be. The synopsis from wikipedia seems representative of what is said to be its approach:

The soldiers depicted are often volunteers who say they went to the front for various personal reasons: vague patriotism, avenging fallen friends, protecting loved ones, preventing their children from going to war in the future, or, more commonly, for money. Soldiers are shown drinking heavily, and sometimes note the pointlessness "of it all". One notes that they return back only dead

It's easy to imagine some viewers missing the point and mistaking things the Russian soldiers in the film say for things the film is saying. Of course it's also easy to imagine that it really does align with Russian government propaganda. I feel like it's necessary to actually see it to find out which is the case.

Wikipedia says "the inner region has thermodynamically no entropy and may be thought of as a gravitational Bose–Einstein condensate" if that helps

Perhaps there will be an infinite number of steps, each of them getting smaller and smaller as the result asymptotically approaches whatever barely-functional sham version of federation is deemed most profitable for Meta Platforms Inc.

Threads uses can now "follow" fediverse accounts but "only if they’ve interacted with a post on Threads" and the posts "wont appear in your feeds."

Well played, Zuck. Hilarious.

On my system that consistently gets results around 10s and 5s so the difference is sort of interesting. Mine's a Ryzen 3600, maybe newer CPU features are of substantial benefit to xz.

The .tar.xz format decompresses more than twice as fast as .tar.bz2, allowing you to get up and running in no time

        $ time tar xjf firefox-134.0b3.tar.bz2 
    
    real    0m9.045s
    user    0m8.839s
    sys     0m0.450s

    $ time tar xJf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz                                                

    real    0m4.903s
    user    0m4.677s
    sys     0m0.510s


  

Nice! Presumably it'd be twice as fast if disk was infinitely fast or something. Unfortunately by testing this I've already used up a hundred times more time than I'll ever save as a result of it.

It's clear as to why the incoming US President wants heads of government to be considered above the law: Otherwise, he'd be arrested. I wonder what Poilievre's motive might be. Planning on committing some war crimes?

Claiming that the Nazis were socialists is something that historically only the Nazis have done, so it's not exactly reassuring to see Poilievre do it while we wait to see just how fascist he turns out to be when he ends up prime minister.

At best, maybe he's just trolling.

The attack we're warned about: Unstoppable AI-powered distributed adaptive quantum breach tools.

The attack that actually happens: Employees accepting bribes from ransomware gangs.

There are currently zero bluesky servers that aren't fully dependent on bsky.app.

the vast majority—up to 82%—of the links to false information in the dataset originated from conservative news domains.

I'm not sure what approach would work. As I understand it, it's designed around the idea that all messages get routed through a monolithic "relay" which needs to see every single event from every user in order for any of them to get routed between the PDS nodes where user data gets stored.

Probably best to just add ActivityPub on top of it, if they really wanted to federate with anyone.

Just a hunch, but I think no decentralised network is going to run ATProto unless someone other than Bluesky forks it and makes the protocol changes that would allow that to be practical. I guess it's possible, in theory?

Yeah, total energy according to 2023 EIA figures and to be clear what I meant to say was that tripling nuclear would mean adding an amount equal to 20% of the current total of fossil fuels. The higher efficiency of e.g. electric transport does make some difference there, but all the fossil fuel use does need replacing somehow (the article was explicitly talking about "net zero" goals) and in optimistic scenarios that's in large part through greatly increased electric generation.

It really does depend on how many those "many people" are. Too many to dismiss them as irrelevant, it appears to me.

When I looked at bsky it seemed to be about 60% pointing out stupid shit that Trumpists have recently said and done, and 30% self-congratulatory talk about how popular bluesky is this week.

You may be willing to cede the cartoon frog to the Nazis for their exclusive use, but many people aren't. If you assume that everyone you see using it is one you'll be vastly overestimating the number of Nazis in the world.

All the talk about the xz affair seems incongruous with the focus on automated scanners. Correct me if I'm wrong here but I don't think any of them are going to detect something like that.

the study suggests that individuals who deviate from their party norms are quickly treated as if they are a political enemy.

Is that "party" as in political party? Because I don't know about the rest of the world, but in Canada it seems like the main polarization is between the Conservatives who have their shiny new Conservative party on one side, versus everybody else who doesn't really have an official party they identify with all that much on the other side. It's not yet like the USA with its seemingly-eternal two-party system. I wonder if it looks like that if you view it through Twitter.