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- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 days ago:
WTF? blocked.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 days ago:
Authoritarian means it is NOT a democracy, which was the point.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 days ago:
That’s completely irrelevant, the argument was democracy.
You seem to have some sort of attention problem. - Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 days ago:
If you are referring to South Africa you are a moron.
Because South Africa was very much an authoritarian leadership, and ruled by a white minority by force.
WTF is that reference supposed to show that does anything but support democracy? - Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 days ago:
No that all the problem you mention are worse in totalitarian countries.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 days ago:
Why do you first support my point, and then call me a moron?
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 days ago:
Again with USA as the example, no other democracy had slaves like USA did.
On the other hand comparable stories to Stalin can be found in multiple autocratic systems.
Where USA is the exception as in exceptionally bad among democracies, what Stain did is commonplace among autocracies. - Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 days ago:
Please read my edited post.
And no I’m not anything remotely like a tankie, I am one who favor ACTAUL democracy, where among the best models we have running currently is the Scandinavian model.
A 2 party system can never be accepted as a functional democracy, also the level of corruption in elections is undemocratic. preventing people from voting and gerrymandering.
All those things detract from USA as a democracy.You are delusional and create strawmen and then you think you have a superior view based on your delusions that have no basis in reality.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 days ago:
Compared to genocide by Stalin, ICE is peanuts.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 days ago:
My issue is the claim that such atrocities don’t happen in democratic institutions.
But that’s the point, they don’t.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 6 days ago:
Welcome to the 1%. 😋
Yes there are some that switch, and also kudos to those who try, even when they find it’s not for them.
I’m just sad that the problems with Windows isn’t enough for more to abandon it? I simply don’t get “normal” people. - Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 6 days ago:
Backlash is actually losing business, what they are really getting is a lot of whining from people who never do anything anyway.
It was the same with Windows 95, XP, then Vista, then 8 and 10 and now 11.
Very few who are used to Windows will abandon it just because it’s becoming a surveillance hellscape of forced updates, advertising and other annoyances.
Microsoft is posting record profits on their way down, just like Intel did 10 years ago.
That said Microsoft is still in a better position, and while Windows may lose relevancy, Microsoft has way more revenue coming from other sources than Intel had without X86. - Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 1 week ago:
AFAIK nobody has died in a Waymo, and they have a very low accident rate, lower than human drivers. Calling it a suicide carriage is just not reflecting reality in any way.
- Comment on Chinese EV maker Xpeng to launch robotaxis, humanoid robots with self-developed AI chips 1 week ago:
Although in-car computing is not the highest end of chips, these are not for learning, but for execution of what was learned by way higher end server systems.
Still this shows that there is market share to be lost for American companies in the mass market of AI clients. And the logical step is to evolve these chips to server grade 5 to 10 years into the future.
The irony is that the Chinese industry actually wanted to use leading American chips, but USA has prevented that, forcing China to develop as much and as fast as they can to replace American chips. It was always the Chinese government that tried to encourage local Chinese development and use of AI chips, while most of the industry was reluctant.
But recent developments have made it clear to the Chinese industry that they have to have a homegrown option, because they can’t trust USA to deliver, despite China pays full price, and it helps American companies to stay ahead to supply to China too, as it helps pay for the necessary R&D. - Comment on Are you friends with any AI bots? 2 weeks ago:
Nope, not even acquainted.
- Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities 2 weeks ago:
I think the point is to make money.
- Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities 2 weeks ago:
The won’t is irrelevant because they can’t, the American anti terror law, gives major rights to any American security agency and even ordinary police to demand data. The only hurdle is a court order. And the agencies have their own anti terror courts that ONLY work with the agencies and only get their info from same agencies, because they are supposed to work in secret it can’t be taken outside.
Faced with such a court order, the company is forced to keep it secret too, and they cannot defend themselves, except to the secret court that works closely with the agencies!And it’s the same for Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and any other American company. Microsoft has just admitted it, which isn’t even necessary since this info was revealed by Edward Snowden just over a decade ago.
- Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities 2 weeks ago:
And demand telemetry removed from all US services and products.
As it is now it’s illegal to collect on children, but it should simply be completely illegal. - Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities 2 weeks ago:
No they can’t, they never could, and it’s way way overdue for EU to finally wake up to the reality that all US owned cloud services are factually illegal for any European authority to use, from kindergartens to courts and everything in between.
It is also illegal for any private company to hold any user/customer/personnel data on servers owned by American companies.I’ve been saying this for more than 8 years now! Because this became apparent already under Obama, that the US government can demand, any data in any country held by any American company, to be handed over. Furthermore they can do this in secret under anti terror laws. And the companies affected are not allowed to mention anything to anybody, under regulation of steep penalties.
This was what Obama claimed was a balanced approach!!!
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 weeks ago:
Normal one and zero transistors can hold their state for a while only needing refresh cycles at intervals.
Seems logical to me that it’s harder to hold values of greater variance, which is probably also why everything works with binary systems, and not a single vendor has chips that use bits with for instance 3 or 4 states.
What would be most obvious if this wasn’t a problem would be to make a decimal based computer. There’s a reason we don’t have that, except by using 4 bits which wasting 6 values, which is very wasteful. - Comment on Nvidia reveals Vera Rubin Superchip for the first time — incredibly compact board features 88-core Vera CPU, two Rubin GPUs, and 8 SOCAMM modules 2 weeks ago:
All three components will be in production this time next year
OK we will see then how good they are.
Pretty awful pictures, hard to see if the monster in the center of the board is a single chip or chiplet design? But it looks like a single chip, so guaranteed to be insanely expensive to make.Let’s hope AMD or others can break into the compute market with some more competitive products.
- Comment on Rant on technology 2 weeks ago:
After the latest Android update, When I turn on the torchlight on my phone, I get a notification with a blingeling sound.
I often use the torch when going to bed, and the audio notification is EXTREMELY annoying since I’m trying not to wake my wife.For fucks sake, a notification for tuning on the torchlight? I would think it’s kind of obvious since first I pushed the button to turn it on, and for fucks sake it a TORCHLIGHT, how could I miss having turned it on?!?! That notification is insanely moronic, and I can’t find anywhere to disable it???
Fucking stupid Android updates.
PS:
My phone is a Xiaomi 13T Pro. - Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 3 weeks ago:
For me I have a brother, and the family resemblance for both of us to our father is pretty obvious.
I also have never detected any inconsistencies in anything my parents have told me about when I and my brother were little. - Comment on Best general ebook reader for Android? 3 weeks ago:
You suggest librera instead of librera???
Also linking a download link directly instead of the page that describes it is bad form.
Librera reader on F-Droid:
f-droid.org/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/ - Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Women are as different as men are.
You may still meet someone who is right for you.
But you probably need to adjust your attitude. - Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 3 weeks ago:
Why would you do it with people you don’t trust?
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 3 weeks ago:
But you could work together with other people, and you could be many people that each checked his/her part for malicious code.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 4 weeks ago:
It not only gave way, it actually paved the way.
Brainwashing about American individual freedom ideals, have become idolization of billionaire sociopaths as the ultimate expressions of individual freedom. - Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 4 weeks ago:
No need for social darwinism or sketchy eugenics-flavored arguments to explain this.
Oh for fucks sake with the strawman arguments. u/freedom never stated anything indicating support for eugenics. But apart from that you are totally wrong about the social Darwinism, it’s just not genetic but Memetic as Richard Dawkins has defined it, bad ideals spreading like disease. As in the idolization of personal freedom and money resulting in idolization of sociopathy as the ultimate expression of individual freedom.
So u/freedom was more right than you, it’s just not genetics driving this problem, it’s cultural insanity. - Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 4 weeks ago:
That’s a conclusion you pulled out your ass, and is not supported in what he writes.