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- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
If you look away, you will have to watch another one
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
A few more years till they measure engagement via your camera
- Comment on I may have gotten the photo from this communuty. 3 months ago:
The true question is whether the guy lying down is black or not
- Comment on Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta Europe 4 months ago:
Let me first address the accusations of me accusing you being emotional and whatever. We’re having a respectful conversation I hadn’t hoped to have it in the first place. I don’t like your views, I may only sympathize with you. Thanks for that.
The hate you are talking about is not inherently inside Russia’s population. This hate is channeled by propaganda. As with Georgians and Turks: there were periods where everyone hated them, now they are friends. Fingers crossed the same will happen with ukranians soon, but I lost any hope that it will be reciprocal. Still, it is and will remain for decades a problem for the world.
how and when will russia change from its current state?
The current state is perpetual but silent war that exists, but somewhere far from themselves. The government finds this state to be the most favorable to them, but it draws a line between the government and the economic elites. I’d give it five to twenty years to resolve. No more than Putin’s lifespan, but also it should be resolved by the upcoming Third World War.
But the question itself contains a subtle implication. You think that Russia is a threat to the world or neighbors because how easy it starts the war with its neighbors and how violent its rhetoric. While I agree, I would also add to this the efficiency of Russian government, if by efficiency we define the government’s capability to save and multiply the resources of the very rich. My biggest fear is that other countries will implement the similar approaches.
- Comment on Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta Europe 4 months ago:
I’ve been recently banned for putting links that lead to russian sites, so I’ll reference the sources by name in italic.
On the quantitative side this is confirmed by various polling initiatives that use different methodologies (including in-direct polling with attempts to estimate preference falsification).
AFAIK it is neither confirmed nor refuted. I don’t know how one would interpret results where 91-93% just refuse to talk to a sociologist and 4-5% more abort the interview when asked about something related to the war. That’s the results by Russian Field, one of a few agencies that publish these numbers. They do interpretation of these results, but they differ from month to month: you can numbers from Feb 2024 to prove your point, I can put numbers from May 2024 to prove mine.
On the qualitative side, you can look at genocides committed in the last ~100 years by the russians (and there are several, includes less well known ones) and review the attitudes towards these crimes among various socio-political groups
That’s a bold point implying that history defines the attitudes for a whole nation for decades. There were a lot of atrocities made in the name of Russia in the Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine, towards Circassians, Germans, Tatar and Georgians (probably forgot something). But for some reasons, russians want to exterminate only Ukrainian identity, conquer Baltics and befriend Georgia and Germany. That’s a political/propaganda surface, not a historical one.
Talking about qualitative research, there’s a publicsociologylab group that conducts interesting narrative research. Their last project is concerned with the view on the war from a non-central city. They conclude that people do ignore the atrocities and view them as something that is alien to them. The only question they ask is whether it is worth it to go to war for $10k + $3k/mo.
I hope that I was able to draw a picture where Russia is not a country of pests that should be exterminated. It’s a complex evil system that could be built anywhere in the world, even in Ukraine or the US.
- Comment on Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta Europe 4 months ago:
C’mon, google works with China
- Comment on Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta Europe 4 months ago:
The vast majority of russians support imperialism and a majority hold genocidal views (they would never openly agree to this, but on an outcome basis they do support eradication of Ukrainian culture and not only).
That’s a major simplification. The fact that russians do not stand against a genocidal war doesn’t mean that the vast majority do support it.
- Comment on Take a gander at this 4 months ago:
He actually supports Jordan Peterson but feels bad about it
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Fourth Infrastructure audit completed by Cure53 4 months ago:
First world problems
- Comment on Absolutely diabolical 4 months ago:
He looks and sounds like a dark souls boss
- Comment on What a Hobby 4 months ago:
Copaganda
- Comment on Elsevier 4 months ago:
Djvu is also for books and similar.
I don’t know about div format much, but I remember that mktex was producing it as a side effect
- Comment on Elsevier 4 months ago:
Maybe for books. I’ve seen only pdf and PostScript widely used for papers in academia
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I have to wonder, don’t the majority of Russians pretty much know that their government is full of shit?
Let me offer my perspective,as a Russian. People do not want to lose everything like they did in the 90s. Yes, everyone understands that the government is full of shit, but they believe in the belief (google it, an interesting concept) that it’s virtuous to support a government.
It’s like a classic trolley problem. Yes, you’d probably push that lever, but you know of consequences and you just purchased a car and your wife is pregnant. You are caught in this unending circle, you simply do not want to deal with it because it doesn’t affect you. But when it does affect you, it’s always the west: shock therapy of the 90s, current sanctions, debit card ban, visa bans, etc.
- Comment on WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE?? 6 months ago:
Have you just googled billionaire?
- Comment on WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE?? 6 months ago:
Need? Nobody needs a billionaire who dresses in leather and enjoys close combat with mentally ill people.
- Comment on Always CYA 6 months ago:
In Russia, secret police plants Sims 3 and accuses you nevertheless
- Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl 6 months ago:
This is an engagement app. The goal of the app is to exploit your behavioral patterns to enforce your engagement; to force you open the app everyday. And as a by-product you may learn the language Or may not, I don’t know anyone who has learned a language using it among my ~10 friends who were trying to do so using this app.
- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 7 months ago:
opg.optica.org/ol/fulltext.cfm?uri=ol-49-6-1429&i…
You can read their previous papers
- Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl 7 months ago:
Evil corporate wants us to fucking birdwatch
- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 7 months ago:
Okay, let’s read and find out whether we can find something that we don’t know.
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There’s no paper, there is no letter, it’s a simple statement at the institute page. The way science is being communicated nowadays is frustrating.
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From the statement
However, alongside the commercially available C and L-bands, we used two additional spectral bands called E-band and S-band. Such bands traditionally haven’t been required because the C- and L-bands could deliver the required capacity to meet consumer needs.
So they indeed broadened the frequency range.
- They also did not say anything about limitations. They just pushed this bizarre number everywhere 🤷🏼♂️
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- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 7 months ago:
I don’t understand why, tho I do not have any kind of expertise here.
I suggest (Haven’t read it), this paper proposes to send much denser and broadened signals around one carrier frequency (they use single mode). Due to dispersion they
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Start to overlap with one each other. If you put more frequencies, you would have more overlaps and I fail to see how it won’t lead to errors.
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They all arrive at the broader time window, which again could be mitigated either by error correction, or by extending the time window.
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- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 7 months ago:
It is, but it compromises the speed exponentially with length/broadening
- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 7 months ago:
I’m highly suspicious about group dispersion over long distances. Today’s infrastructure was developed for a certain range of frequencies. Broading it right away wouldn’t be applicable that easy - we would need to introduce error correction which compromises the speed multiplier.
Too lazy to get the original paper though
- Comment on Professor meow meow 7 months ago:
Reject modernity, embrace tradition 😆
- Comment on Professor meow meow 7 months ago:
I suspect they were a rival of my co-author, that’s why they didn’t want it to be published. Or they didn’t want me to be published in this journal.
The communication is happening through journal’s editors, so they could not explicitly write that they don’t want ME to be publish papers.
- Comment on Professor meow meow 7 months ago:
The second referee once told us that our paper should not be published at all.
Eventually, it made it to the Editor’s choice section of the journal
- Comment on Professor meow meow 7 months ago:
That’s a long lasting tradition to use “we” even in solo authored papers. I believe even Newton did this
- Comment on How to open a textbook 7 months ago:
No flexing, was just wondering why
- Comment on How to open a textbook 7 months ago:
Grad school? This is for 4y bachelor studenat