laverabe @ laverabe @lemmy.world

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All of those problems are because of political corruption, not raw money in/out. The US spends 3.5% of GDP on military, a lot, but not the most. Ranked #10 globally for military spending per GDP. Russia spends more than the US.

US is not Rome, at least not yet, or anytime in the immediate future.

ok like 90% of Lemmy uses Linux. We know we all use linux, so when someone comes along and says something like "Windoze sucks, you should install Linux and free the penguin", 90% of your downvotes are coming from those Linux users who are facepalming at the futility.

It's like walking into a bar and yelling at the top of your lungs that everyone there should try alcohol, that it's way better than water.

so are users, are you volunteering? Moderators don't get paid, they're literally just users who occasionally hit the delete button when some makes a post that in general summary looks something like "FCK U ASRHLE, U SCK BLLZ!", stuff that doesn't contribute to the public good.

How does a person who knows nothing about programming edit a code base? I wouldn't know where to start. I could edit a text file, that's about it.

for better or worse LW is the largest instance, so joining another instance always poses the 'risk' of being defederated.

the federation model definitely has some weaknesses

Yes I know a lot of people on .ml are not tankies but .ml admin is repeatedly banning anti tankie discussion. See my other comment above. Look at the modlogs and you'll find people being banned for critical thinking. I blocked the instance because Lemmy <> lemmy.ml . The code can always be forked.

User accounts can be migrated to new instances with version 19

I've seen multiple posts from people who were banned from .ml and I looked at the removed comments and modlog myself, and people are being banned for even mild general discussion of topics debating the legitimacy of totalitarian communist policy.

https://lemmy.world/post/12875282

.ml is terrible. They actively ban people who aren't tankies. Reasonable discussion is not allowed there. If there is one instance that should be defederated it is .ml

It's no covert secret that Russia benefits from chaos in Israel/Gaza. Russia is 100% amplifying the coverage of the conflict to their benefit.

I never said the bill was perfect. It is a good first step. Ideally all social media should be held accountable, but they are the ones who make political donations, so the chances of major overhaul are not all that great.

They want to ban Chinese ownership of the company because it's politically popular, but it does also have merit. China can and will exert it's influence to it's advantage.

Tiktok might be a good service right now (...debatable) but it's threat comes from being able to push China's authoritarian agenda.

And insults have no place in reasonable discussion. Who's mind are you going to change by calling them insane?

The ban is a good thing because China is an autocracy. Freedom of thought is not acceptable there, otherwise you wouldn't know what I mean when I say the great firewall of China. Their influence is already vast.

The US isn't a beacon of democracy, but the distance between a flawed democracy and an authoritarian regime is massive. The US Congress is largely ineffective, but this is one thing they've gotten right.

TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network, instructs its moderators to censor videos that mention Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or the banned religious group Falun Gong, according to leaked documents detailing the site’s moderation guidelines.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing

lol

I believe they do use just as much RAM as current tabs, it's just computers are better at handling it now.

Mozilla makes reference to them eating RAM, but I'm not 100% sure.

Use fewer tabs

Each tab requires Firefox to store a web page in memory. If you frequently have more than 100 tabs open, consider using a more lightweight mechanism to keep track of pages to read and things to do, such as:

Bookmarks. Hint: "Bookmark All Tabs" will bookmark a set of tabs. Save web pages for later with Pocket for Firefox. To-do list applications.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources

This is a good thing, but just as a pet peave - why do people keep so many tabs open on desktop web browsers? Every new tab uses more memory. Computers were not designed to have 100s of tabs open. There is no way anyone actually actively uses 100 tabs, and I see people all the time with so many tabs you can hardly even see what is there. There is a thing called bookmarks and folders for storing commonly visited sites on a computers hard disk rather than temporary RAM...

But I do think it is good firefox is adding the capability, as grouping can be useful if done right in moderation. But it's just kind of funny the person asking for the feature admits to having huge amounts of tabs open.

SearXNG - the fediverse of searches

It's due to the war (obviously). War does that to society. Look how much Americans and Germans hated each other but 70 years later there is not one bit of hate between the cultures.

It will take time but if the war in Ukraine ever ceases, a few decades from now people in Russia and the west will eventually make amends. That is of course if a non authoritarian government succeeds in Russia. Which doesn't seem all that likely.

along with the war in Ukraine

What exactly do you mean?

I don't understand why this is the prevailing sentiment here. Almost everyone here is computer savvy and more than likely most people here either work in high tech high paying industries, or at least decent paying and probably use computers somehow. So why is everyone saying you need two jobs? That might be true for the population on average but it would seem not to apply to people here.

Plus less lead doesn't hurt the odds.

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