[-] maynarkh@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

CSTO is dead in the water, Russia has officially denied military aid to member states at war. Kazakhstan is warming up to China and the EU. Russia lost more than 2000 tanks. A sizeable portion of its navy is defunct. It has had to mobilize conscripts. No matter how they put nice numbers out, it does cost Russian society a lot. Even if you don't count anything else, even by conservative estimates, 50000 Russian men are dead.

Saying that the war barely cost anything to Russia is an affront to their memory. Those are 50000 people with families, dreams, kids who will never see them again because Russia apparently needs a "sphere of influence".

Also, the EU is not in recession, Germany is by some counts, other states are doing fine. The war is not in the top 3 discussed issues in my EU country right now, it comes right after farmer subsidies, housing prices and whether we can all continue working from home.

Also, just to put it in perspective, Russia's economy is around the same size as Italy's. It can grow a lot until it will be a match for Germany, let alone the EU or the US.

[-] maynarkh@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Same is true for Russia. Except US corporate ghouls are already lining up to rebuild Ukraine. Who will do that for Russia? China? Don't make me laugh.

[-] maynarkh@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago

uplevel the search-and-discover experience for both brands and our users by tapping into our differentiated value as a hub for actionable conversation

This is peak corporate-speak. Is this real or satire?

[-] maynarkh@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The only thing I haven't seen AI take on successfully yet is liability. Who do you sue if your accountant AI loses a bunch of money?

I have seen huge corps buy stuff and employ a lot of people just to have scapegoats.

[-] maynarkh@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I mean every community moderates itself, if you don't like what one of them does, you cut it out of your feed.

It sounds exciting, imagine if mods would have to compete for shares of a topic instead of a group gatekeeping a big community.

[-] maynarkh@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

A bit weird since they said they'll be supporting the current iteration till 2030.

[-] maynarkh@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I remember there was a whole saga about the original never making it to 64bit. I guess this is a remake, since the source was lost too IIRC

[-] maynarkh@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I guess we need open hardware for open drivers to be the norm.

This quite stupidly has some geopolitical implications as well, if "anyone" can manufacture decent GPUs, there goes the Western chip-making monopoly.

[-] maynarkh@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Quick question, wasn't that true for the US as well for a while? I seem to remember them meeting the same criteria for a recession, but the White House just said "it doesn't count!"

[-] maynarkh@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You just buy a big slab of meat, put it on a coat hanger on the patio, free smoked meat!

[-] maynarkh@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I once got a gigantic dinosaur storage array from a local university for 50 EUR. Check local stuff, it's like used furniture if you are in any bigger city.

One DDG search gave me this site, this offer seems reasonable, just check if it works first: https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/computers/servers/servers/listing/4170528497

Watch out for noise and power consumption though. If you want to dip your feet in, OrangePi stuff is definitely a good place to start, set up some networking stuff like PiHole, they are nice projects and you are not saddled with a 30kg piece of metal that screams like a jet engine until you're sure you want to.

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