KumaSudosa
@KumaSudosa@feddit.dk
- Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order 2 days ago:
You and me both. Good luck!
- Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order 2 days ago:
Many places in Europe are wonderful. Generally speaking I think you’re quite fine when it comes to LGBT rights, especially in the Western countries, and metros and public transportation in general are commonplace, but I wouldn’t expect free internet and freedom of expression to be around in a handful years.
- Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order 2 days ago:
I’d expect it to be cracked down entirely within the next 2-3 years. The EU has wet dreams of absolute control
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 2 days ago:
The SVM government as a whole is huge on expanding surveillance and the police force - I don’t see that it’s just a small group of activists within the parties. I’m just glad other EU countries aren’t biting on this bs
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 3 days ago:
It’s not “Danish activists” but rather the government. As a Dane I know how horny these people are to create a fullblown police/nanny state. SVM (the name for the government) is terrible for all of us. Can’t wait to see their voter share drastically diminish at the next election, but clearly they can do a lot of harm first…
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 days ago:
LLMs are absolutely amazing for a lot of things. I use it at work all the time to check code blocks or remembering syntax. It is NOT and should NOT be your main source of general information and we collectively have to realise how problematic and energy consuming they are.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 6 days ago:
It’s only implemented in 4 countries and mine doesn’t even use Euro
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 6 days ago:
Don’t you tell me Russia hasn’t been waging wars. That’s an insane statement. Even looking past Ukraine, since the breakdown of the Russian Empire 2.0 (aka the Soviet Union) Russia has invaded Georgia twice, Transnistria, Chechnya twice, and Dagestan, as well as having upheld Al-Assad’s regime - don’t tell me that guy isn’t evil even if he stood up to Israel - and are now heavily involved in Burkina Faso, Mali, and the CAR. Now do you want to talk about all the shit Russia got up to between 1920 - 1991? Or the countless genocides of the Russian Empire as well as the continuous oppression of ethnic minorities in the Caucasus and Siberia, including using them as human meat shields in Ukraine?
The West deserves hate, but so does Russia. Don’t be a tankie idiot. No one is choosing Russia because Russia isn’t that important anymore. Others are choosing China and that makes sense.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 6 days ago:
You know what’s completely ridiculous? Your black or white view of the world. Reality is that there is no benevolent state or any kind of financially succesful entity that isn’t built on some form of exploitation. The Western system is evil. So is Russia for sure. China. UAE and the Saudis. You have India now rising by building strong ties with USA and Israel. There’s no geopolitical force that’s built on good. That you’re incapable of realising that and just go “West bad so everyone else good” is quite telling about you. Besides, Russian Jews - strongly overrepresented in the oligarchs statistics - traditionally have strong ties to the Israeli state and Zionism. Russia’s - like everyone else’s - current interests are only based on what they perceive to be the most gainful. If Putin could’ve benefitted from siding with Israel instead of the China-Iran-Assad axis he would’ve done so immediately. To even suggest that Russia is anti-Zionist out of benevolence is insane.
Besides you now say he has “Russian roots” but right before you were attempting to convince people that he was “Ukrainian”. So
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 week ago:
YSK that he grew up in Yaroslavl, Russia to Russian-speaking Jewish parents. Calling him “Ukrainian” just because he was born in Odesa during the Soviet Union is misleading. He had/has close ties to the Russian state and became wealthy off of Russian oil and aluminium deposits in the 90s.
So yes, you can blame “the Russians”, but you should rather blame the system.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 week ago:
It’s not just a “business decision”. It’s about control and they’re connected. You’re naive if you don’t see the bigger picture
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 week ago:
It’s the slowly boiling water, mate. You think governments give a fuck whether some neckbeards play incest video games in their mum’s basement? It’s about power and expanding the reach of what they can monitor and control. One day it’s porn games the next day it’s books. It’s a tiny step towards a more and more authoritarian world.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 week ago:
What is wrong with that? It’s not like actual democracies are a thing. The elites somewhat allow us to decide on “Western bullshit” topics such as killing games, gendered bathrooms, national dishes, and other issues that don’t affect their bottom lines. They don’t allow us to influence geopolitics. Sure you can yell about freeing Congo, and it should be… but ehh, if some people care about stop killing games then whatever. Anything positive is something - and I don’t even really play video games or care about this thing.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 week ago:
And what do you recommend paying with instead?
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 week ago:
No shit… you think it’d be fair to devs and creators if you could just buy the game, play it for 15 hours and then get a refund every time?
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
And payment infrastructure. Being dependent on Mastercard and Visa is no longer viable.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 week ago:
That’s a respectable age! Personally I’m 69 years old.
- Comment on Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder 1 week ago:
And likewise in a time with such a strong pushback against knowledge, science, and innovation… Oh the things humanity could achieve without these destructive forces!
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
Very disappointing indeed. Hoping to at least see continued work on digital independence, especially in governmental entities.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 1 week ago:
Don’t get me wrong, but why are matters of governmental surveillance and control inherently “right-wing” rather than a totalitarian policy not otherwise directly connected to wing politics? Extremists on both sides have a history of creating totalitarian, Big Brother states (which the UK is certainly headed towards).
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 5 weeks ago:
It’s insane how much music, art, theatre, television etc still comes out of the UK, and how little they’ve capitalised on it - letting the Americans take all the initiative.
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 5 weeks ago:
I’m (relatively) happy with Deutsche Welle (dw.com) and France24 as well
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 5 weeks ago:
I usually use Deutsche Welle actually. Generally happy with it! Also available in English, of course
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 weeks ago:
You know the price is naturally higher when materials are ethically sourced, right? That’s kinda how it works…
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 5 weeks ago:
Which owes to how gigantic the Chinese market is. They now have a 5% market share for new cars in Europe - which this article is about. It doesn’t matter if they top global sales just because there are so many Chinese buyers
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 month ago:
Brand recognition is important, but it’s a dangerous game operating mostly on government subsidies. Once you have established low prices it’s hard to reverse it
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 month ago:
I don’t know that they’re out to make money though. A lot of the Chinese manufacturers are now struggling due to the price war they instigated themselves. Huge production surplus but they pushed down the price so much they hardly make any money
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 month ago:
How common are these in Denmark? 😮 don’t feel like I’ve seen one, but then again it’s not like I study the make before I get in the bus
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 month ago:
Not even sure it’s that true though. Afaik BYD is only the 14th most popular car in Denmark, and European brands have risen from around ~28% last year to ~40% this year. Sure, Chinese carmakers have had some growth - but we’re talking in the order of something between 2 - 4% of the market. Might be more popular in other countrues
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 month ago:
Heard it can be hard / expensive if you need to order spare parts and stuff like that. Anything to that?