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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

Here: https://dmpwn.info/

I am not 100% convinced, hence the "may".

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Even if that happens (which is not an inevitability, since China historically has been doing things quite differently from the US), it is no worse than status quo. Until then, unless you are an active threat to China, and are planning on visiting it, you don't have to worry about it.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Sooo, same as right now, but with way less possibility to be used against me? Sign me up!

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

It can provide you some information that looks similar to what you'd want. Whether it is correct is another question.

RAG can help to a degree but hallucinations still happen quite a bit.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Stop using Github! codeberg.org is right here. Or if you're into simpler web 1.0-like things, there's also git.sr.ht (but it is ran by someone who may be a pedo).

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It still works without proxy for my family (as of earlier today), except for calls. I don't know if this is telegram doing some block evasion or the block hasn't kicked in fully yet.

In any case, unless they ban like 80% of outside internet, there will still be a few obfuscated VPN servers & tor bridges working. Everyone who knows their stuff will be able to access the outside, same as in China.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 days ago (4 children)

They tried (and failed) before the war too. Telegram has no privacy, poor security, but they are really good at evading blocks.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Ok, so this makes the most sense to me. This would indeed need to be handled, I think the best solution is for EU to come up with a set of dispute resolution procedures and pass it as a law for everyone to follow. That way, disputes would be resolved the same way regardless of what network or bank you are using, which sounds the most reasonable to me.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Marxism is the objective truth. It's not some random cult, it's a well-established and studied economic theory that predicted many developments of capitalism when it was still in its early stages.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 37 points 5 days ago

USSR had a lot of issues, but was a lot better (for the working class) than what was before and what came after. The reason for red scare was to prevent the western working class from overthrowing the oligarchy.

Right now, China is surpassing western neoliberal nations by carefully mixing socialist and capitalist modes of production, guided by Marxism-Leninism with further theoretical developments.

You gotta go out and read some books dude.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Aha, interesting. I never had a credit card because it would be too stressful for me to take out micro-loans for stuff. Still weird that it's visa/MC money and not your bank's though.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Zurab Mikeladze is a Georgian name/surname, not Russian. Given both are fairly popular names in Georgia, I'm assuming there are way more than one person with such a name combo.

Here are some more people with the same name:

If anything, I suspect that "Leonic Leonov" is a typo or misreading of "Leonid Leonov", a common Russian name/surname, but there would also be hundreds/thousands of people with that exact name.

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Yeah sure, this movie with 1.3 rating and 5 (out of 100) metascore, with only 50k ratings, is the #1 movie this week. The algorithm is really transparent and trustworthy, clearly there's no manipulation going on.

(for those who don't know, IMDb is owned and operated by Amazon)

 

This is my daily driver at the moment - X201s modded with a 51nb motherboard with i7-10710u (a.k.a X2100). A lot of geo nerd cred to whomever can guess the location by the mountains :)

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33203710

Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.

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Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32177363

Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.

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Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31830215

I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)

This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.

The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.

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I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)

This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.

The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31459711

Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.

 

Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.

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