Alphane_Moon
@Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.
- Iconic Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX hits 20 years old today — PS3 GPU forbearer was 'graphics champion' of performance and efficiency in its daywww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 16 hours ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Russia prepares to get rid of WhatsApp and possibly Telegram: Parliament passed a law pertaining to a national messaging app 3 days ago:
The world isn’t that simple. It’s possible that things could have changed since the regime formally took over VK.
- Comment on Russia prepares to get rid of WhatsApp and possibly Telegram: Parliament passed a law pertaining to a national messaging app 3 days ago:
I would be surprised if they banned Telegram.
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- Comment on Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks 3 days ago:
The nature of these discussions and the fact that MS described AGI as “an LLM service that reaches $100 B per year in revenue” is evidence that much of marketing around “AI” is basically fraudulent.
Clearly LLMs specifically and ML models in general have many powerful use cases, but that doesn’t mean the people involved aren’t running a scheme to profit off the hype.
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 5 days ago:
Funny how the author immediately decided to shut everything down when he realized the number of peer/torrents still sending requests to the domain.
- Comment on Taiwan adds China’s Huawei, SMIC to export blacklist 1 week ago:
I am really surprised your account wasn’t from ML. This seems very similar to the usual degenerate word salad you hear from the tankies.
Although, I will give you points for originality, this is a somewhat new type of word salad.
- Comment on Director General Grossi’s Statement to UNSC on Situation in Iran | IAEA 1 week ago:
I am no supporter of the aytollahs, but I highly doubt nuclear facilities are for civilian use only. They would be stupid to not use them for military programs (perhaps in an indirect manner).
This doesn’t change the fact that attacking such facilities is dangerous, but we should differentiate when countries truly use nuclear power for peaceful purposes only.
- Comment on Understanding the impacts of generative AI use on children 1 week ago:
I initially read the title as “Understanding the impacts of generative AI use on chicken.”
- Comment on Free NetBSD server user account only for educational purposes 1 week ago:
When I read “open shell account server” I thought this meant you anyone get access programmatically. This sounded like a disaster.
But turns out, at least with the respect to this NetBSD specific offer, you have to send out an application.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 1 week ago:
Google disagrees. In fact, the company tells the BBC that AI Overviews have been good for the web, and AI Mode will be no different. Google insists these features send users to “a greater diversity of websites” and the traffic is “higher quality” because people spend more time on the links they click.
However, the company hasn’t provided data to back up these claims.
This is how we know they are lying.
- Comment on Power Without the Price – Atari TOS 1.x + GEM 1.x – GUI Wonderland 1 week ago:
Very cool article (and series).
Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald] 1 week ago:
No shit, he said he was wrong after the full scale invasion began. It would be very strange for him to claim that “the invasion” is not happening after russia invaded.
Before that he was openly parroting russian narratives about how US intel was incorrect and how the invasion wasn’t happening.
xcancel.com/Snowden/search?f=tweets&q=ukraine&sin…
16 Feb 2022
Many times. Want me to say it again? “Russia should not invade Ukraine.”
The reason I don’t say it more is because it’s a non-statement: everybody agrees with it, even Russians. The only people who think slogans solve the problem are people who don’t understand the conflict.
Lying about russian attitudes. 85% (with adjustments for preference falsification) of russians support the annexation of Crimea; the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine.
15 Feb 2022
I want to see an end to the conflict in Ukraine, and frankly, I think all reasonable people share that position. The question nobody seems to want to contend with is whether amplifying official claims made without evidence are reducing hostilities, or are in fact provoking them.
3 Feb 2022
TIME paints here a very different picture of the Ukraine crisis, reporting that it is a drive to censor and criminalize the domestic political opposition—a drive encouraged by the White House—that has brought some to believe war is the only option.
He even uses the russian term “Ukraine crisis” and blames Ukrainians for russian aggression (ironic considering how “open” politics are in russia).
He routinely promotes Glenn Greenwald (who said all Ukrainians are Nazis) and David Sachs, both of whom are openly supportive of russian genocidal imperialism.
I highly doubt you’ll change your opinion on Snowden. Generally speaking, it would be difficult for Snowden fanboys to admit that their hero isn’t the paragon of virtue that they claim he is.
- Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald] 1 week ago:
I gave you a specific example. Do a search for his tweets before Feb 24 2022 regarding Ukraine. Note how he was parroting russian official channel claims that the full scale invasion is not happening and ridiculing US security services (that correctly predicted that it is happening). Now do a search for official russian statements on this issue for this period.
You can do the searching yourself or feel free to assume that I am lying in order to discredit your little angel.
Secondly do lookup on who he promotes and what kind of things they say about Ukraine. This includes individuals claiming that everyone in Ukraine are Nazis and that Russia invasion was justified by security concerns. Both messages are openly promoted but the russians.
- Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald] 1 week ago:
Snowden messaging is directly aligned with russian security services and their key propaganda narratives.
Look at his messaging before the full scale invasion; until the invasion he was distributing russian propaganda about how “the invasion is not happening” and some world salad about NATO and BATO.
He routinely promotes messaging supportive of russian imprialism and spreads known falsehoods.
Snowden does not critize the russian government. Don’t lie.
- Comment on 'Fortnite' Lobbies Can Now Have Up to 92% Bots - Players Are Furious Over Supposed OG Season 3 Update 1 week ago:
Elmo “Pedo Guy” Musk is merging Twitter with Fortnite. So the Twitter bots will now be playing Fortine while spamming Elmo propaganda in chat.
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- Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald] 1 week ago:
Did you read the article?
Can you explain the arguments without a web search?
Of course not, because you are just reciting online roleplay bullshit.
Give something that would shows you’re not just a random degenerate lying about things you don’t understand.
This shouldn’t be difficult.
Don’t even bother aggressively googling for random shit. I will of course see through it because … wait for it … I lived in Russia during the 1996 election and I speak russian.
- Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald] 1 week ago:
Fuck off. You have no proof for this. You’re just parroting random copytext.
I lived in russia during the 1996 election (and I speak russian unlike you).
You’re lying and parroting russian revanchist victimhood narrative propaganda blaming scapegoats for the actions of the russians.
- Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald] 1 week ago:
This is some degenerate propaganda.
Turns out Greenwald works for Peter Theil (via Rumble).
It is likely Greenwald is likely to trying to have his cake and eat it. Extract money from both sets of marks.
- Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald] 1 week ago:
What does this have to do with anything I said?
There are millions of people who fight freedoms all around the world and don’t back down when the going gets tough.
Snowden immediately started supporting russian genocidal imperialism. Look at his posts pre full scale invasion in Jan and Feb 2022. Complete alignment with russian propaganda about how they are not going to invade.
Hope Snowden and his family (wife and child) get to experience what they wish for Ukrainians in russian internment camps in the occupied territories.
- Comment on Russia's State Duma passes bill to create state messaging app as it considers blocking WhatsApp 1 week ago:
For those that don’t know russian, this would come off as an escort service app. )
- Comment on Russia's State Duma passes bill to create state messaging app as it considers blocking WhatsApp 1 week ago:
Touché
- Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald] 1 week ago:
We’ve crossed it a long time ago.
Out of the ~1.6 million russian men who took part/are taking part (dead, wounded, currently fighting) in the full scale invasion of Ukraine, how many were children in 2014 when the invasion started?
While adults russians are clearly responsible, when are you fighting the russians you cannot put your head in the sand and wish away the fact that there is a ~65% chance a russian child will grow up as an open supporter of genocidal imperialism and another 20% chance (for a total 85%) that they will be supporters of imperialism but perhaps not open supporters of genocidal aims.
P.S. Just an FYI, standard critiques about polling numbers are not relevant here, as these numbers exclude preference falsification (i.e. someone being afraid to state their true view), the “nominal” results are even higher.
- Comment on Russia's State Duma passes bill to create state messaging app as it considers blocking WhatsApp 1 week ago:
Not blocking telegram though. 😄
- Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald] 1 week ago:
I was curious about this and it turns out it is true. Greenwald is employed by Rumble (in a prominent position) which seems to be a video platform for pro-oligarch and pro-crikr Americans.
Rumble is funded by Peter Theil and JD Vance.
He really is a lowest common denominator shill.
- Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald] 1 week ago:
I did edit it, but I didn’t mistake Ukrainian for Uruguayan. I merely added some more content.
Confusing Pakistani and Palestinians is not a typo.
You clearly don’t care about the Palestinians and a merely using them for your aesthetic purposes (extremely common among fake leftist Americans).
I am done here.
- Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald] 1 week ago:
Wonderful irony that you can’t even get the term Palestinian right (the individual initially said Pakistani).
- Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald] 1 week ago:
Sashs and Greenwald are russian shills and support russian gencidal imperialism.
Neither of them speak Ukrainian or russian (and have never lived in Ukraine or russia) and are merely reciting russian propaganda narratives (at times directly sourced from russian security services).
There is a beautiful irony in you chimping out about “echo chambers” and self-censorship when you can’t even read Ukrainian or russian.
If you could read russian, you would find that their doctrinal work on propaganda (from the 90s no less) especially cites idiots like you and shills like Sachs as core area for foreign propaganda distribution.
- Comment on Palantir Exposed: The New Deep State [27:27 | JUN 10 2025 | Glenn Greenwald] 1 week ago:
While I genuinely understand where you’re coming from, his kid will almost certainly grow up to be a russian genocidal imperialist.