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'I'm sure that the absolute majority of Ukrainians do not support it,' writes the director of Ukraine's Institute for National Memory, marking a small, but significant, shift in Kyiv’s approach
I'm not interested in getting into a debate about whether Ukraine is fascist state (my official stance is "it's complicated"), but you should probably divide it cleanly into the period under a US-appointed neo-Nazi president and under a politically impotent Jewish president.
There isn't really a clean division, because while it's true that Zelensky ran on a platform of making peace in Donbas he was also bankrolled by Kolomoisky, who's the same guy that's tight with Azov thedailybeast.com/billionaire-…
In general, banderites and other far right groups continue to have a huge amount of political power there. Lots of top officials, like Zaluzhny, are very open about it too.
Ihor Kolomoisky, who’s been accused of ordering contract killings and is said to be behind the comic who may win Ukraine’s presidency, is being probed for alleged financial crimes.
It's still an important distinction. A state run completely by Banderites vs a state where Banderites have considerable influence. In the former case the instigator is the entire state apparatus, in the latter case it's dark forces within the state that need to be fought against.
Anything from before the election of Zelensky can easily be brushed aside, and rightly so, as a criticism of the past state of Ukraine.
The current state of Ukraine isn't fundamentally different. If anything, under Zelensky, opposition parties and independent media have been banned, and elections have been cancelled. Ukraine today is basically a dictatorship that's aligned with the fascist forces.
'Invading Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Libra, Vietnam, Syria, etc., engaging in genocide, coups, kidnapping, torture, operations Gladio and the like is totally not fascist!' - You
Ukraine has fascist elements, as does NATO. I don't think as a whole either are fascist but the US is overwhelmingly central to NATO and the US is 100% fascist (regardless of which party is in power).
NATO support for Ukraine is summed up by a mix of "Liberal Democracies desperate cling to Rules based International Order despite hypocrisies" and "European countries with long history of being invaded and terrorized by Russia oppose countries being invaded and terrorized by Russia"
This is Trump adapting his strategy of declaring bankruptcy to the political arena. He made a big deal about how skilled his is, in truth he's a moron and can't deliver, now he's washing his hands of it to avoid embarrassment.
Seems to me that Trump has skillfully outplayed the Europeans at every turn here, and managed to use the threat of Russia in Ukraine to make Europe completely dependent on the US economically. Europeans have now been cut off from cheap Russian energy and are forced to by increasingly large amounts of American LNG, Trump just forced an incredibly unequal deal on the EU, and the EU will be expected to invest close to a trillion into US economy in the coming years. On top of that, the US is actively poaching whatever industry is left in Europe. Eventually, Trump will make a deal with Russia, but Europe will be cannibalized before that happens.
Oh wow a shitty website has an article. Proof of absolutely nothing, congrats on that Ivan. Wtf is counterpunch? lol real reputable guy… Let me know when your president can’t change the constitution at will to serve for a lifetime.
More reputable than a random fash on lemmy that's for sure. Meanwhile, entire books have been written on the subject and it's documented extensively. The article links to numerous ones. Gold star for trying to make a counterpoint I guess.
Entire books on what? The US being fascist? Ok guy… gtfo, gold star for propaganda. There’s whole books written about how your country is now a dictatorship with a president who fakes elections and all they do is throw dissenters out of windows. Random fash, lol wow, you really got me there weirdo. How is Alexei Navalny doing in that super not a fascist country of yours? Maybe you guys will find someplace new to contaminate with radiation while trying to poison more people who disagree with your totally democratically elected leader. Tell me, are you guys still throwing people in prison to rot for putting antiwar stickers in supermarkets or protesting while holding up blank sheets of paper? How very free of you.
Of course nothing of substance to say, just ridiculous attacking of character, as usual. Good luck when you get sent to die in meat waves in Ukraine pal. Maybe your family will get a washing machine or maybe a hog for your efforts. Or you could always steal washing machine and maybe a toilet from Ukraine to send home, check around all the hospitals and children’s schools you guys bombed, you may have some luck. If you can get off the vodka, krokodil or mephedrone long enough to know where you are, of course. Meow meow Boris. Even Prigozhin started to understand what’s actually the reality in your homeland, but you fools just love claiming we’re non political, and don’t know anything. Because say it with me, you’ll be thrown in a cell if you publicly disagree with your dictator. But, yeah sure everywhere else is fascist.
Who is angry? Where am I being angry? Again, stop going off topic, and reply any substance to the discussion at all, but you can’t because you know I’m right. Cry me a river girl. How many accounts are you using to upvote your own post? Because u or be said nothing but empty insults that make no sense to the discussion. You bring absolutely nothing new to the conversation but name calling and nonsensical unrelated accusations because your entire argument is based off trying to change the direction of a conversation.
At any point feel free to respond to anything about your country being fascist and having a dictator, or any of the things I’ve said above about your country, but you never will because your entire state of being here is propaganda and nonsense. Ohh you’re angry, what a response, such a wonderful honest debater. More like a dishonest masterbater if you ask me.
I love how you screech about substance when you haven't said a single thing of substance yourself. Here's some more substance for you though:
Moyers: Bilbo said, “One drop of Negro blood placed in the veins of the purest Caucasian destroys the inventive genius of his mind and palsies his creative faculty.” Is it true that the Nazis thought the one-drop rule too extreme?
Whitman: They did indeed. They never proposed anything nearly as extreme as the one-drop rule. In fact the standard, the most far-reaching Nazi definitions of who counted as a Jew, matched the least far-reaching ones to be found in the American states. Virtually all American definitions of who counted as a black were far more draconian than anything found in any Nazi proposal.
Not only did Nazi lawyers reveal a deep interest in American race policies, the most radical of them were eager advocates of using American law as a model.
What in the absolute fu@k are you on about? Because some random writer had some moronic views you could find online, you believe what? That’s some type of American rule of law? You’re the walking embodiment of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels would be proud of the bullshit you spew. Oh wow you found someone who says America bad because of many years ago and its history, and racial treatments to people, now how many are there that say Russia bad? How about the Czars treatment of other Asian counties or Europe’s citizens? How about how Stalin treated the Jewish people of Russia? Your whole entire world view is made up bullshit based off cherry-picked readings. You’re the walking embodiment of what we call a douche bag.
The Holodomor, The Red Terror of the Bolsheviks, Stalins Gulags, Ivan the Terrible, and on and on... Yeah sure America’s history is so much worse, haha, you’re a clown.
Your shithole country was a literal model for the nazi germany. Your entire nation is built on literal genocide. You fascists butchered so many people that it cooled the planet bbc.com/news/science-environme…
Your founding fathers we literal slave owners and traded human beings like cattle.
Meanwhile here's some actual facts about USSR instead of your ignorant bleating.
Professor of Economic History, Robert C. Allen, concludes in his study without the 1917 revolution is directly responsible for rapid growth that made the achievements listed above possible: web.archive.org/web/2020011904…
Study finds that the steady increase in quality of life during the Soviet period (including under Stalin). Includes the fact that Soviet life expectancy grew faster than any other nation recorded at the time: jstor.org/stable/2672986?seq=1
A large study using world bank data analyzing the quality of life in Capitalist vs Socialist countries and finds overwhelmingly at similar levels of development with socialism bringing better quality of life: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…
This study compared capitalist and socialist countries in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development and found socialism produces superior results: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/243090…
Another study shows that unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during restoration of capitalism in the 1990s, causing around 7 million excess deaths. The first quantitative analysis of the association between deindustrialization and mortality in Eastern Europe: academic.oup.com/cje/advance-a…
You keep on making a clown of yourself though, it's adorable. You're a walking embodiment of an ignorant fascist.
The US’s history of racism is fertile ground for fascism. Attacks on the courts, education, voting rights and women’s rights are steps to toppling democracy
Ahahaha, u mad bro? Your country killed more people than Nazi Germany, and it was actually formed and voted into power to reject Russian Communism to begin with. My shithole country is the reason with lend lease that you’re not speaking German you dirty revisionist.
That’s what Stalin said, direct quote “without machines from lend lease we would have lost the war.” That’s right guy, lend lease from the US saved you and your country. Cry me a river.
Ever since the Cold War, many Soviet and Russian politicians and academics have downplayed the role that U.S.-provided weapons and supplies played in the Red Army's ultimately victorious campaign against Hitler's Germany.
Nah I'm not mad, and I'm certainly not your bro. It's hilarious how you keep exposing yourself as an ignoramus though. Really living up to the whole stereotype of the ignorant burgerlander. Sorry you had the misfortune to grow up in a land where there's no education. Here's what a book produced by your own army has to say on the subject. Read and weep loser.
And what did your dictator at the time say? Do tell crybaby? I don’t care what whatever book you’re claiming to be from the US says. I know what Stalin PERSONALLY said though.
But sure keep telling me what some brigadier general said from a publication 4 decades later. That book was published in the 80’s. Hahaha
It’s from 4 decades later guy, what did Stalin say at the time you disgusting waste of human life? Go ponder over that while you use your outhouse you backwoods Krokodil addict. Stop melting your brain with that mephedrone Boris. Let me know when your vote is actually counted you dirty dress-up trollop. You’ll have the same President forever because you have no rights. Go complain about your dear leader in public, go hold a sign bad mouthing him. Oh right you can’t. If you did they’d send you to a Siberian prison to die like they did Navalny. Go on and tell the world how everyone else is the fascist again.
Ah yes, because historical knowledge magically disappeared 4 decades later. The book war produced for by your army for the point of educating ignoramuses like you who join the army. Adorable attempts at insults by the way, they really help highlight your intellectual capacity.
p.s. love how you were raging and had to edit your reply like 5 times cause you realized the book was real and that you are indeed an ignorant sack of shit. You keep on coping there my little chud.
Oh no, could it be there’s a reason for the edit button!? The horror! Don’t act like you haven’t been editing post directly after posting too guy. So what did Stalin say about it? Because if Putin were to say the same thing, right now you’d have to agree publicly or be jailed. So go on, what did Stalin say? Because you know in Russia only one opinion matters, and the guys who mattered at the time of WW2 said what I said he said. The guy who wrote that book was never my leader. Back to the outhouse to think again for you, lucky it isn’t winter I guess. Tell me, when will you guys figure out running water? Take a break and inject some of that famous Russian mephedrone or Krokodil while you’re out there to ponder your shit life in Russia before dear leader sends you to meat wave in Ukraine, you waste of oxygen.
p.S. I bet you do love it, you silly weirdo, but no thank you, I have no reason for rage, I’m very comfy with no missiles or bombs of war hitting my country, careful, I hear they throw your kind talking all that love stuff to guys off roofs in Russia, soo free…
Aww look at you using multiple accounts to give yourself extra votes, so Russian of you. Your Dear Leader would be proud. Gold trophy for you. What a loser.
oh look another wall of text from a stable genius who'd totally not raging here, hilarious how you lost redditors always think anybody here cars about votes
So stop faking them then freak. Don’t know what your on about Reddit, but ok… oh look, not a single substance response again, I’m noticing a pattern. So no running water ever huh? And if Putin said it, as Stalin surely did than I guess it would have to be true since you can’t disagree publicly. Hahaha
Everywhere else is authoritarian but I can’t publicly disagree with the old grandpa. Makes sense.
So what did Stalin say again about lend lease? And how many people did he kill? And what did he do to the Jewish population in Russia? And how many people did the Czars kill?
What was it like 11 or 12 million starved to death, and 60-70 million starved but survived? Hah, go on, tell me how many Americans are starving… Should we even bother going into Nicholas II and the 30 million he starved too? How about the Russian 90’s should we talk about the starving in Russia then? How about the starving Russian troops in Ukraine?
See here you go exposing yourself as an ignoramus once again. I don't hold it against you given that you were educated in burgerland. They breed you to be stupid there. The reality is that famines were a common occurrence before the revolution. In fact, they were one of the driving factors behind it. Meanwhile, during the 1932 famine, the USSR actually sent aid to affected regions in an attempt to alleviate the famine.
While the leadership did not stop exports, they did try to alleviate the famine. A 25 February 1933 Central Committee decree allotted seed loans of 320,000 tons to Ukraine and 240,000 tons to the northern Caucasus. Seed loans were also made to the Lower Volga and may have been made to other regions as well. Kul'chyts'kyy cites Ukrainian party archives showing that total aid to Ukraine by April 1933 actually exceeded 560,000 tons, including more than 80,000 tons of food
Some bring up massive grain exports during the famine to show that the Soviet Union exported food while Ukraine starved. This is fallacious for a number of reasons, but most importantly of all the amount of aid that was sent to Ukraine alone actually exceeded the amount that was exported at the time.
Aid to Ukraine alone was 60 percent greater than the amount exported during the same period. Total aid to famine regions was more than double exports for the first half of 1933.
According to Tauger, the reason why more aid was not provided was because of the low harvest
It appears to have been another consequence of the low 1932 harvest that more aid was not provided: After the low 1931, 1934, and 1936 harvests procured grain was transferred back to peasants at the expense of exports.
Tauger is not a communist, and ultimately this specific article takes the view that the low harvest was caused by collectivization (he factors in the natural causes of the famine in later articles, based on how he completely neglects to mention weather in this article at all its clear that his position shifted over the years). However, he has the intellectual integrity to admit that the Soviets really did try to alleviate the famine as best as they could.
Meanwhile, USSR doubled life expectancy in just 20 years. A newborn child in 1926-27 had a life expectancy of 44.4 years, up from 32.3 years thirty years before. In 1958-59 the life expectancy for newborns went up to 68.6 years. the Semashko system of the USSR increased lifespan by 50% in 20 years. By the 1960's, lifespans in the USSR were comparable to those in the USA:
Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s. CIA data suggests they ate just as much as Americans after WW2 period while having better nutrition: cia.gov/readingroom/document/c…
Can't wait to see more clown shit in your reply. I bet you don't even realize that Russia isn't communist anymore being the genius that you are.
I don’t know, what do you say as you colonize land in that Ukraine that the people there voted to leave and secede the last time your country fell apart?
After I posted about all the times people starved in Russia, you really posted a copypasta that famine was common in Russia thinking you copy pasted an argument back against the people of Russia starving. Hahaha… you fool… haha lay off the Ai bot buddy…
Maybe you can share what your Ai bot thinks about it. Maybe it will tell us why so many countries think they need to join a defensive pact against your country? Or why everyone that could, fled as soon as it fell apart.
Yup, you got me, I've literally changed my whole sleep schedule and put up a huge ruse just for you. In fact, this whole lemmy instance exists with the sole purpose of tricking you. Everybody here is a Russian bot, and our sole purpose in life is to confuse innocent Americans. You're not suffering from narciscism at all.
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – China's emissions-cutting pledge is poised to take center stage at a United Nations climate meeting Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering -- if predictable -- broadside against the science surrounding planet-warming fossil fuels.
Some 118 nations will outline plans to curb global warming, which is driving disasters worldwide -- from catastrophic floods in Pakistan to raging wildfires in Spain -- even as many continue expanding oil and gas operations.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang will open the gathering at UN headquarters in New York.
His country -- responsible for about 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions from its factories, power plants, vehicles and more -- is expected to deliver a crucial update: its 2035 emissions-cutting target.
China has never committed to reducing carbon dioxide outright. Instead, it pledged to peak emissions before 2030 -- a goal it appears set to meet five years early thanks to rapid growth in solar energy and electric cars.
Most wealthy nations, historically the biggest contributors to warming, peaked decades ago but still lack credible plans to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
"All eyes will be on China," Li Shuo, an expert at the Asia Society think tank who is well-connected in Beijing, told AFP.
He expects a "high single digit to low double digit" percentage reduction commitment over the next decade, similar to the pace the United States and European Union achieved in the ten years after their own peaks.
That trajectory would fall well short of what is needed to limit warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels -- the target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement to avoid the worst climate catastrophes.
Still, presenting a target ahead of COP30, the year's main climate gathering in Belem, Brazil, will signal China's commitment to the international process even as the US under Trump champions fossil fuels and the EU struggles to unite around its plan.
In any case, Li Shuo warns, focusing too much on the figure risks obscuring the fact that "China has already become the green tech superpower of the world" and is widely expected to under-promise but over-deliver.
For this UN summit, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres invited only countries ready to present or announce a new 2035 climate goal.
Under the Paris accord -- which nearly every country is part of, except Iran, Libya, and soon, the United States -- nations freely set their own targets but must strengthen them every five years.
Most are behind schedule, notably the European Union, where several states fear moving too fast could hurt industry.
France, for example, faces shaky finances and political turmoil, and wants more clarity on investment frameworks before committing to deeper decarbonization.
"There's a current shortfall in ambition demonstrated by the countries that we traditionally look to for leadership (which) are acting more like climate laggards," said Ilana Seid, ambassador to the UN for Palau and chair of the Alliance of Small Island States.
The UN is trying to strike a balance between warning of catastrophe and maintaining hope.
On one hand, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told AFP last week that chances of limiting warming to 1.5C are on the verge of "collapsing," a view echoed by climatologists, with current temperatures already about 1.4C above pre-industrial levels.
On the other, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell insists the Paris process is working.
"Without UN climate cooperation, we were heading for five degrees of heating -- an impossible future," he told a gathering at the annual Climate Week in New York earlier this week. "Today we are closer to three. Still too high -- but bending the curve."
Part of that progress stems from China. A decade ago, three-quarters of its electric mix came from coal -- a figure now down to half. Its booming exports of solar panels, batteries, and electric cars are cutting emissions abroad as well.
China's emissions-cutting pledge is poised to take center stage at a United Nations climate meeting Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering -- if predictable -- broadside against the science surrounding planet-warming fossil…
Deleting or overwriting the title and content on ml seems to propagate sometimes, but not always.
Don't hit, I really like the idea of the Fediverse and Lemmy in particular--I guess I already sort of knew that things worked this way, but, well, I'd be lying if I didn't say this spooked me a bit.
EDIT: I'm usually pretty good about not rageposting or whatever, so there's not a whole lot of stuff I want to expunge from the record, but there are some tech support type questions that I've asked in the past that now seem to me unbelievably and embarrassingly dumb that I'm not sure I want to have out there!
~~EDIT EDIT: I'd also be lying if I didn't say my eyes were wandering a bit towards raddle.me at this point...~~
EDIT EDIT EDIT: (sorry, feeling kinda punchy over here after too much early-morning ☕️) This reminds me of something from back in the pre-Snowden days, when everything was still mostly htttp and while websurfing I had Wireshark open and saw "http://www.nytimes.com/lifestyle/how-to-get-the-most-enjoyment-from-watching-clown-porn.html" flashing past.
Seriously tho, this is back when I, along with just about everyone else I knew, would say things like "well, yeah, you know, Google, Facebook, the internet, etc., everything's out there in the open, but what can you do?" And then there's the feeling you get when you actually see identifiable stuff like this going out across the wires and you're like "...oh..." 🙁
Not unlike the time when my boss asked me if I liked to listen to Rush:
Me: I haven't really listened to that much of their stuff, although I really like Power Windows.
Yep. When federating with so many instances, nothing is truly deleted unless every single instance honors its removal. That’s just the reality. The nice thing is that as an instance owner, I can see the mod log of everything from the places I federate with. So admins at least have a point of reference to work together. I also have the ability to restore comments and things that were deleted. I’ve never used it because I prefer to stay in sync with everyone else, but I’m 1 person. There are many instances and mine is microscopic.
EDIT: Ok, what I wanted you to respond was something like: "The yachts themselves are nothing more than shiny floaty slow-moving food tins that, when gently pried open, are often found to contain many delectably rich (in more ways that one) juicy humans with ketamine-spiced blood, chomp."
When posting or saying something in public, there's no way to retract it.
There's no difference from posting something on "the Fediverse" or Reddit. Just because you delete your post, does not guarantee that it's gone. Reddit most likely keep a copy of it anyway and there's sites that save everything that's posted on Reddit. so the "issue" is not exclusive to Lemmy.
This isn’t particular to one Lemmy instance, nor even to Lemmy, but to ActivityPub as a whole and federated architectures in general.
This is not a private platform; it’s a public, pseudonymous one. Any person or web scraper, including the Internet Archive, can see all posts and comments.
That's the downside, if you want to call it that, of one entity not having control of everything. If there's something you want removed, you have to talk with everyone to remove it.
However, in conventional social media what's to stop anyone from archiving it, taking screenshot, an AI scraping it while it's available or just someone remembering it? Reddit etc. can hide/obfuscate stuff but you can presume it's not really gone.
So as I've said in similar threads, in terms of failure modes, Lemmy leans towards preventing censorship over trying to be private or have full control over content. "Perfect" privacy/ability to remove would require an invasive level of access to other people's servers and devices that wouldn't be appropriate.
Easy! Just don't log in! It's all public, so you don't need an account for anything. The loss of up/down voting is offset by the number of comments that will not later be used by the FBI to convict you of thoughtcrime.
Well, the reason I got an in the first place, when I saw US News & Politics. I knew, if I had an account, I could block that. If I log out… I don't want to go back to unfiltered. Imagine all the US that would rule my feed…
Since the 1960s, China’s population has more than doubled. Despite having more than twice as many mouths to feed, the amount of food it produces per person has increased dramatically.
Al tavolo ministeriale l'azienda di e-commerce ha aperto alle trattative sulla procedura di licenziamento collettivo aperta per i 211 lavoratori tra Milano e Bologna.
FINALLY someone wrote something about my job. This is EXACTLY what I've been doing for the past year and I make more money doing it than I did as a regular freelance/consultant dev.
Seriously people, if you're a dev learn and get good at code reviewing. And honestly you don't even have to be THAT good at it because the slop that is puked out by the likes of Claude Code is so god damn easy to find. Deal with the bullshit that is LinkedIn and start advertising yourself as someone that is a sort of "digital janitor" for AI. you'll get clients.
A buddy of mine that was laid off by a company saw what I was doing and decided to be even more ballsy than I was and actually go BACK to said company and offer them assistance in cleaning up the mess they created by laying him and other devs off. He went back as a freelancer, charged them a premium, and now is "working" for them again but making MORE than what they were paying him and now he gets to work on his terms for doing less work.
These places fucked up, they are now learning how much they fucked up, so take advantage of their fuck ups and fuck them even more. I got ZERO sympathy for ANY company that leveraged AI for their builds and tossed their dev teams to the side. But make no mistake, I charge these places an arm and a leg and they deserve it.
This is super interesting! I don’t know if you have a platform for this but you should write an article about this. Maybe talk to the likes of 404media and see if they have interest in the story.
There are a few people who have posted on Hacker News about it but I figured the pay probably sucked. It sounded like it would be treated as a menial job.
Yes, it'll usually be treated like a menial job, because so many of the folks who fell for AI code wholesale are assholes. Non-assholes often have a friend who tells them when they're fucking up that badly.
But the pay tends to be very good, anyway, because assholes are usually desperate for any help they can still get.
it's very menial/easy. BUT you charge a premium for the service because as /u/pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip put it these places are very desperate to fix their fuck ups and fix them quickly. Like I'm talking builds or projects that could be months along and suddenly...nothing works. or something breaks. or nothing can be added. or more common than anything the AI claimed it had added something when it reality it either didn't or simply made a #todo comment and vibe coders continued on.
But yes the pay is good. I essentially get paid to tell a company how much they fucked up and what it will take to fix. There is always the very slim possibility of refactoring but i'd say 8 times out of 10 the only clear path forward is to start from scratch and that generally means hiring devs again.
FINALLY someone wrote something about my job. This is EXACTLY what I’ve been doing for the past year and I make more money doing it than I did as a regular freelance/consultant dev.
Are you serious? I'm good at code review but figured that this slop fixup stuff was a fiverr type of job that paid crap. If there's better money in it, maybe I should look into it.
Machine translations (natural language) used to be way worse than they are now, and I've spent some time cleaning those up for my own personal use. It's not that annoying to do. Maybe it would get annoying after a while though.
Very serious. I kinda fell into it myself when one of my clients reached out to me late last year about needing help with some project they utilized Claude Code and a vibe coder to build from end to end. After that I thought "huh, wee bit o money to be made here".
It's a menial/easy job for sure but man you charge a Premium for it. These companies have no idea what they're doing I mean hell they put their entire company on the back of a 20 year old junior dev and an Anthropic subscription. I generally charge double what I would normally charge for dev work and it's always less work, thus I'm able to take on more clients to fix this stuff which means I'm making much more for less.
Like I said a friend of mine simply went back to the place he got laid off from and told them he'd fix their fuck ups and nickle and dimed them to do so. I and others simply go on LinkedIn and call out the bullshit from tech bro posts and then say we'll fix it. the thing is YOU have to be the one to advertise your service because companies still aren't going to admit they fucked up and post ads asking for help. Trust me they ARE looking for help they're just won't openly admit to it.
"Seriously people, if you're a dev learn and get good at code reviewing"
It's a useful skill, even outside of the context of cleaning up AI code. It seems to be universally the case that it's easier to write code than it is to read it (which is why I sometimes find myself so baffled at my own code that I end up rewriting it again from scratch (good comments are a gift to future-You)).
I've been trying to get into contributing to open-source code recently, and it's been a useful exercise in learning to understand other people's code. It's also been making me a more skilled programmer, because reading lots of code helps me to understand how things are typically done in a way that textbook learning can't. It's been especially useful to understand how large code projects are structured, given that most of my experience in writing code that's used by other people has been in smaller, ad-hoc scientific contexts (e.g. writing a script that adds hydrogens onto the protein structures found in the protein database — by default, they're not included, because it depends on the pH of the environment the protein exists in)
I mean, it wouldn't be impossible that they still save money even while paying you more if they have fired more people. If they fire 3 people and hire 1 code-reviewer for double the salary they are still having to pay 1 less wage.
This was exactly the concern of the TV and movie writers who went on strike. Instead of being paid writers' wages they'll be paid much less as editors to clean up AI slop, while effectively doing the same job because what it writes is so bad.
Il team dell'Università di Oxford, della Yale University School of Medicine e dell'Università di Cambridge ha monitorato oltre mezzo milione di adulti e ha scoperto che il rischio di demenza aumentava costantemente con un maggiore consumo di alcol , senza effetti protettivi derivanti da un consumo moderato di alcol, sfidando le ipotesi consolidate su un livello "sicuro" di alcol per la salute del cervello.
Lo studio è molto interessante per il rigore metodologico e il tentativo di eliminare le possibili distorsioni statistiche dei soggetti osservati, come spiegato nell'articolo di TR
A combined genetic and observational study of more than 559,000 people found alcohol consumption consistently raises dementia risk. Even a few weekly drinks increased risk, overturning the belief that moderate drinking protects brain health.
Ormai siamo arrivati al punto che persino bere un bicchiere d'acqua è diventato problematico, fra il fatto di sapere da dove provenga, i residui detenuti e se l'acqua frizzante faccia bene o male, stiamo inguaiati. Facciamo quindi un po' di chiarezza.
The United Nations believes it has solved the mystery of why an escalator abruptly stopped shortly after Donald Trump stepped onto it on Tuesday - his videographer may have accidentally triggered a safety mechanism.
U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said a readout of the escalator's central processing unit indicated it "had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered at the top of the escalator."
He said Trump's videographer had been traveling backwards up the escalator to capture his arrival with First Lady Melania Trump.
Il mondo del cinema piange la scomparsa di Claudia Cardinale, leggenda assoluta del grande schermo. L’attrice si è spenta ieri, 23 settembre 2025, all’età di 87 anni, nella sua abitazione di Nemours, vicino Parigi. Con lei se ne va una delle ultime dive dell’epoca d’oro del cinema italiano e internazionale.
Fennec and Cromite is always outdated compared to their upstream. If you care about security it is quite problematic. I recommend just install UBlock on Firefox then use Arkenfox, or Betterfox on it. It is a bit more complex to do on android, but it is possible. If anyone is interested here is a tutorial
If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection.
Brave (the company) has a long history of doing dodgy stuff. They are just trying to do what Google did (directing clicks to their own shit), but they're using privacy as their marketing spiel.
Vivaldi. The tab management is unparalleled, and the chrome extensions I depend on still work. I’ve been using it for many years now and have no regrets. I also use NextDNS and see no signs of it doing anything unexpected.
It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!
I swear Brave ran a very successful guerrilla marketing campaign and it succeeded on Reddit. If you so much as question it or suggest an alternative, you get dogpiled on by Brave bros. I don't trust it one bit. I'll stick to FF and its forks.
Exactly. Same with Opera GX whatever, which is just a weird chinese spying chrome, with nothing to do with Opera from the good old days when it was still Norwegian (Vivaldi is made by those guys still).
It sold out on it's privacy promise years ago. Brave Browser CANNOT be trusted if you are someone who must ensure Privacy Preserving featurs must remain on at all times.
I recommend the Tor Browser. DO NOT USE THE TOR BROWSING CAPABILITIES OF BRAVE! YOU WILL BE DEANONYMIZED! Likely anything you'd be using Tor for, you don't want your browser slipping up and leaking anything.
Personally I use a blend of hand-hardened Firefox (Via plugins), Librewolf and Ungoogled Chromium (for very rare cases where the site is actually trusted and requires Chrome to function predictably)
It does block some tracking and ads that Chrome alone allows or explicitly adds. But it simply shifts that tracking to Brave. The idea was that you'd still get the benefits of that tracking by giving all of your data to Brave instead. I honestly never was convinced by this considering your data is still being sold, just by a different company so it doesn't sound much better to me. Supposedly, according to them, Brave is more trustworthy and gives you more control over what they track and sell, but I don't trust that business model. There's no real incentive for them to do what they said they would.
It's a shame this is necessary, to be honest. It's the same argument with Windows users: "you can just run a debloater and fiddle with the registry to disable tracking". It shouldn't be needed in the first place.
I don't think you can say the same as MS plays shitty cat and mouse games and is constantly patching the workarounds. And the changes required are much more involved than just toggling a switch. And Brave won't randomly toggle it back on after an update or just blatantly ignore it altogether.
Depends on what you mean by "private". I would not trust it much, but it's not a bad Chromium based browser when you need one. Use something like LibreWolf for much more privacy out of the box.
Yeah, doing any kind of digging into Brave will immediately send up warning flares that the privacy claims are pure fluff. Just use Firefox or Librewolf.
Don't a lot of browsers by default have pings set up to track usage? Check the privacy section. There is usually a check box about sending daily pings to whatever company made the browser to track usage.
Any browser does it, it is needed for several reasons, every browser need to know the amount of users it has to calculate it's market share. But statistical telemetries are not a privacy issue, it's like an employee which count the amount of cars and trucks on a highway, to know if it is needed to enlarge the highway or not. A browser need to know it for its capacity of servers and sync, if they offer it. Normally the telemetries includes in which OS is used the browser and in which country, all this is legit and not a privacy problem.
Bad only when it also include logs and profiling of user data and activity, as Chrome and EDGE do, and worse if this is sold to third parties. Decent browser don't do it.
I use Vivaldi, it's IMHO the only decent Chromium browser, apart European, with a good privacy, no logs, no tracking no third party investors. great services and community.
I've never really had a comfortable feeling about Brave. I have no substantiating evidence, it just seems a bit squirrely. Besides the Tor browser, LibreWolf, Waterfox, and FireFox are the only acceptable browsers as far as I'm concerned, tho I don't come down on those seeking an alternative to Google Chrome.
General practice, I do not use my phone as a compute platform. I realize others cannot do the same all the time. I do run firefox and a VPN which has an adblocker as part of it's tool set.
Far as I remember any browser in iOS is a scam anyways because Apple forces any browser in their platform to be based off of the same engine as Safari.
AFAIK at least in the EU because have to admit also browsers with a different engine as WebKit. WebKit is same as Blink a fork from the KHTML engine by KDE, butway less advanced as Blink or Gecko, who outscore WebKit in modern webformats. This is why Apple don't want other browsers which make Safari obsolete. Anyway, sooner or later Safari will be the next IE.
Librefox has been awesome. Once you get the hang of enabling cookies for specific sites it mostly just works. Although Fastmail keeps logging me out for some reason
I find it quite interesting those who protest being woke. The word 'woke' has a long standing meaning to the Black community. The usual suspects using the word 'anti-woke' are almost always American Republicans, and their track record of racial animosity has preceded itself for generations like the stench of a rotting corpse. Given the choice between being woke or asleep, I'll take woke any day.
It boggles my mind how people still recommend Brave as a good browser for privacy. The entire point of Brave from the beginning was their own Crypto currency that they wanted to shill. In their early days they offered a bunch of Tech YouTubers some crypto (via affiliate links) in return for them shilling brave.
Brave is basically just yet another Chromium reskin with custom branding, extra tracking and crypto bullshit bolted to it. No, the builtin AdBlocker does not make it "worth it". Stop recommending this pile of crap.
even tho most low level searches and recommendations gonna point towards brave as the private browser, all you need to just look at the options. its datafarming, its running in the background randomly, its an nftbro chrome.
Brave Software was founded in 2015 by Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and former Mozilla CEO who left the organization after coming under fire for his support of eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry [...]
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In August 2016, the company had received at least US$7 million in angel investments from venture capital firms, including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund [...]
Should tell you everything you need to know.
I'd say being 'privacy focused' is just a stick to get non-tech savy/gullible people that want to protect their privacy to use it, without thinking about it twice. Personally, I believe there is 0% chance they don't sell (or simply give) all data they can to Peter Thiel and Palantir.
Yes, it's proprietary because some script parts are. It's not so easy to go full OpenSource for an Chromium browser which is more an online suite than a simple browser, because Google and M$ will kill to be able to fork it for Chrome and EDGE, which will have catastrophic aftermaths for all other Chromium browsers, include Vivaldi. Way easier to be OpenSource for simpler Chromium or Gecko forks. Anyway I think in a market saturated with browsers (over 100 different), beeing OpenSource isn't in the main interest for the user anymore, prevailing more the ethics and transparency of the manufactor, 100% given in Vivaldi. Apart, as say, it's the only decent browser from the EU on level eye with the US big Brother browsers. Alternatively there is Mullvad, butit is , apart of the privacy features, a very basic browser, more an platform for the Mullvad VPN, no own sync, only with Mozilla, Konqueror with the KHTML engine by KDE is discontinued, same as sadly the French UR browser. Thats it.
Yes, a lot of people believe it, FF devs discuting in Google groups, Vivaldi in a own Mastodon instance. Mozilla since time is an Google pet which can't survive without the support from Google. - news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4… - groups.google.com/g/google-web…
It's not the engine which use a browser, all engines are 100% FLOSS, it is important what you do with it.
What browser should I use on mobile? I use Librewolf on desktop since it runs fine, and the vertical tabs are great, and it looks nice.
On mobile though there's a lot of problems with the browser space:
Chrome: runs great but is obviously not good for privacy
Firefox: what most people recommend, but it has terrible performance, looks not great, and doesn't even have more than basic fingerprinting protection, and literally includes ads by default. It's also less secure on Android because they don't do per site process isolation, and the memory allocator is worse.
Brave: people tend to dislike brave here, but it runs well (since it's chromium based) and has at least better fingerprinting protection.
Tbh firefox performs great and works for me, and its issues can be fixed with extensions and settings, both on desktop and mobile. I never looked for anything else myself. I also like to use a browser that is not chromium-based, I do not want google to have the monopoly.
maybe I am just not picky, but if you need more privacy than what can be achieved with a hardened firefox config you might be better off using TOR at that point.
Maybe somewhat later the Helium Browser (still not for mobile, in Alpha version), ungoogled Chromium, if not, Vivaldi, for all platforms, even as automotive app, (the only one)
Oggi ti proponiamo un viaggio scomodo, non per la destinazione, ma per la verità che esploreremo. Di fronte a malattie come il diabete, siamo abituati a pensare che le soluzioni attuali siano le uniche. Ma ti sei mai chiesto se gli interessi economici possano offuscare la ricerca di alternative che potrebbero davvero cambiare la vita dei pazienti? Questo articolo ti porterà a scoprire il delicato equilibrio tra scienza, salute e profitto, e a domandarti se il vero interesse per il paziente sia sempre al primo posto.
The host’s monologue noted that the suspension of his late night programme had ignited a national debate over free speech
Jimmy Kimmel returned to air on Tuesday night, calling government threats to silence comedians “anti American”, as he broke his silence about the suspension from ABC which ignited a national debate over free speech and outcry over the bullying tactics of the Trump administration.
“This show is not important” Kimmel said during his first monologue since Disney, which owns ABC, suspended his late-night show from the network last week under pressure from Trump officials over his comments on the shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. “What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.”
Kimmel’s comments come one day after Disney, facing backlash from Hollywood stars, unions, media hosts and even Republicans such as Ted Cruz, allowed Jimmy Kimmel Live! to resume production.
Sto continuando a leggere Sailor Moon, per farmi forza con la realtà terribile del nostro mondo reale e, nel mentre che (sull’altro blog) sto tentando anche di scrivere a riguardo dei vari capitoli, nell’8 una robina mi ha attirato l’attenzione… La scrivo qui perché nel contesto dell’altro articolo non centrava tanto, e comunque non lo […]
sailor moon vs ragazza magica octt che sono io (nessuno ci crede e siamo entrambe fritte)
Sto continuando a leggere Sailor Moon, per farmi forza con la realtà terribile del nostro mondo reale e, nel mentre che (sull’altro blog) sto tentando anche di scrivere a riguardo dei vari capitoli, nell’8 una robina mi ha attirato l’attenzione… La scrivo qui perché nel contesto dell’altro articolo non centrava tanto, e comunque non lo volevo allungare più del dovuto solo per approfondire una lore che non è quella del manga in questione, bensì della mia persona. 😼 Si sapeva già che io sono abbastanza simile a Usagi… dormo, zzz, non sento la sveglia, pure a metà giornata sono assolutamente fatta drogata di sonno, e così via… e poi ok, a scuola non ero troppo ceppona, ma all’università si, quindi il cerchio già così si chiude quasi. La gran differenza sta nella nostra caratterizzazione come ragazze magiche (così come la differenza tra lei e le altre guerriere sue alleate, naturalmente), perché per ora io non ho sbloccato alcun potere psichedelico stupefacente, e piuttosto tutte e sole le magie effettive, dimostrabili, che io riesco a fare riguardano il software… ma non è questo il punto. 😳
Io e Sailor Moon siamo, al di là delle differenze individuali, esattamente sulla stessa barca… Come lei è stata in realtà messa dov’è a causa del suo essere una guerriera predestinata — non dico di più sia perché a questo punto della storia ancora la cosa non è totalmente chiara, e comunque qui non voglio fare spoiler — io anche evidentemente, dopo essere stata concepita in un’altra galassia, sono stata poi deportata e costretta a vivere sulla Terra — per giunta con un assetto corporeo di base sconveniente, e che alla fine dei conti io devo farmi il mazzo per sistemare, ma questa è tutta un’altra questione — per motivi a me però ancora non chiari… Sicuramente a me qualcuno voleva fare qualcosa che chiamare dispetto è poco, però a pensarci bene non può essere solo questo… ci deve essere qualche altra motivazione che io ancora non ho scoperto, no? 😵💫
Ma, ciancio alle bande, il dettaglio allo stesso tempo sia molto triste, che a suo modo rassicurante, è che… Come praticamente nessuno crede alla mia lore, solo perché è ancora relativamente imprecisa e senza prove — come se fosse colpa mia se non esistono tracce già scritte della mia storia e io non riesco a fare più di quello che posso, e che ogni tanto con questi post faccio, per rimediare — trattandomi da mezza scema, così fanno con Usagi. Ed ecco quindi che suo padre, in questa vignetta, le ha risposto proprio tipo come mi risponderebbero i miei genitori, quando capita che ribadisco le mie origini ultraterrene. Poi certo, Sailor Moon è un po’ fritta se si alza un’ora prima del dovuto solo perché si è svegliata, anziché rimanere a letto finché non suona la sveglia come invece faccio sempre io, e si giustifica con la storia dell’alter ego… però, noi non ci meritiamo tutto questo. 😶
E allora io mi chiedoquali magie ancora mi spettano da imparare, quali dimostrazioni di capacità devo ancora dispensare, quali prove inattaccabili devo presentare, per farmi valere esattamente come sono, e non semplicemente come “una ragazza stramba, dice sempre stronzate del tipo che viene da un altro pianeta, boh“… Ma purtroppo, se credo che 12 volumi basteranno e avanzeranno perché le Sailor riescano a risvegliarsi completamente su ciò che sono davvero, a me le illuminazioni sono estremamente rare e fin troppo parziali… serviranno decenni, se va bene, però a quel punto più che una ragazza magica sarò una zitella magica, che decisamente non è la stessa cosa. Sigh!!! ☠️
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Forbes Breaking News (YouTube): 'Let Me Just Read That Again': Hawley Reads Shocking Actual Conversation Between AI Chatbot & Child
“During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) spoke about Meta's internal guidelines regarding its AI Chatbot's interaction with children.”
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
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I've tried 2 different Windows cracks I found -- the FileCR 2023b crack, and the AppDoze 2025a crack. Both look legit to me but in both cases I get the exact same issue: With my computer offline, following the readmes, I mount the iso, run setup.exe, select "I have a File Installation Key", enter said key, and get this error: "Unable to load product files. Product files must be in the same folder as the input file. For help getting the product files, see the installation documentation on MATLAB Answer" which links to mathworks.com/matlabcentral/an… which is clear as mud.
I tried 0ing out the key and confirmed that it recognizes when you give it a bad key, so the key in the crack is still detected as a valid key, that's probably not the issue.
Thank you to any fellow pirate who can help a poor cuttlefish out o7 ❤
I should be able to use the installer (once logged in) to download files without installing, then go offline and use the file installation key. However, the option to download files without installing is all greyed out.
That looks super cool but I do think I specifically need Matlab since that's what I've prototyped some ideas in already (I have an old crack but there are some new specialized toolboxes I want to use or at least try out which require a new version of matlab which these cracks claim to have and I don't see an equivalent in SciLab).
Basically, if I can get a new crack of Matlab working to use the new toolboxes, I can rapidly iterate through and test some ideas. If not, I was going to have to dig into some other open source tools which is going to be way more effort.
Or Python. Nobody uses MATLAB because they will basically sequester your research data and experiments behind a pay wall.
These days you look for a new device for your lab, experiment or production and you look for the Python interface. No Python interface? GTFO then good luck selling anything.
Exactly. And employers never want to buy enough seats. There is always someone using it. Matplotlib will make the same MATLAB graphics. I am a MATLAB ninja and my Python sucks, but MATLAB can eat a dick for the aforementioned reasons.
OK the toolboxes can be difficult to find 1:1 replacements for, but you can find plugins for most things in SciLab so you don't need to reinvent the wheel. The general workflow is very similar to MATLAB, but not identical so there is of course a learning curve. Everyone I know is more or less weaning off MATLAB because it's just too damn expensive and locked to their platform.
What are you doing specifically? When I got my engineering degree I was able to do everything I needed in Python, including a replacement for simulink.
It's for a musical project. I wanted a very specific effect applied to some vocals I sang. I couldn't find any tools that did what I wanted, asked on various forums over the years but every pre-built tool someone recommended failed to achieve the effect I was imagining. Out of frustration I ended up writing something myself in Matlab to postprocess a vocal line I recorded and I quite liked the results! (And I know I could have used Python for that but I like Matlab.
Up to this point Matlab was just a personal preference. But then I decided I wanted to experiment with applying that effect in real-time, which would mean creating my own audio unit and throwing it into my DAW, and went looking for ways to make one. Turns out Matlab's got a command for it since 2022b! mathworks.com/help/audio/audio… so if I could get my hands on it, that would be by far the easiest and quickest way to experiment more with it.
I learned a couple days ago that there are open source tools designed for making AUs -- Cabbage, Faust -- but I've never used them. Since I already have the Matlab code and am familiar with Matlab, I thought it would be nice to just use that toolbox for a quick first pass. It probably wouldn't take long to port it to pyhon, but I've found no Python libraries that can generate an audio unit (without wrapping around what's in the next sentence, which is extra work). There's a C++ library called JUCE that can but I find C++ frustrating and don't have a good dev environment set up for it anymore.
The musical project, by the way, is a mix of a shitpost and a passion project and will never see a cent of earnings, so I cannot justify paying Mathwork's high prices.
I specifically want the audio processing toolbox. I actually still don't even really understand what Simulink is, I don't get the concept of "graphical based programming" since to me programming is typing text that tells a computer what to do.
Also, if you can code in Python, the matplotlib library can get MATLAB graphics for you. I have decided to learn Python since it costs $0 and employers never want to buy enough MATLAB licenses.
Scilab is free and open source software for numerical computation providing a powerful computing environment for engineering and scientific applications.
Interesting. Many people reporting similar problems with that one, but someone in June claims to have had success with the very version of 2025a I tried!
It appears Matlab took down their installers for every version of Matlab other than 2025b. I wonder if that's why now I can't install these. But I don't understand, it's supposed to work offline.
While Carr complained that Democrats interpreted his comments as a threat to Disney, he didn't mention that his comments were also interpreted as a threat by several prominent Senate Republicans. Disney suspended Kimmel's show last week after Carr said ABC affiliates could have licenses revoked for "news distortion," but reinstated Kimmel yesterday after facing backlash from the public. Kimmel will be back on the air on many ABC-affiliated stations, but not those run by Nexstar and Sinclair, which have replaced Jimmy Kimmel Live! with news and other programming.
So, starting now, Google started mandating full JS for YT, effectively breaking all third-party clients and locking the site to their official client.
This reeks of DRM.
UPDATE: Installing Deno and installing yt-dlp through PyPi fixes yt-dlp but the very idea that Google is mandating JS to lock down YT in an attempt at pseudo-DRM is still crappy.
UPDATE #2: inv.nadeko.net is working again for now.
Beginning very soon, you'll need to have the JavaScript runtime Deno installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its built-in JavaScript "i...
I doubt it. Bandwidth and storage costs for distributed video on the scale of YouTube isn’t going to happen without some kind of monetisation beyond stray donations.
Places like Nebula have better operating models but they’re also very niche.
That's precisely the trick. Don't try to copy Youtube. You're gonna lose. And it's not the Peertube intended use case anyway.
Instead, Peertube and other such platforms should work as cross-indexing domain-specific, configuration-specific video galleries. A retro videogame video archive does not need 4K 120fps Dobly 14.3 audio; they can just encode most of everything in 480i 30fps and their storage costs will go down significantly. A news report / news reel archive can save some costs by encoding as SDR (or even lower) with ~80kbps mono MP3 audio or somesuch, since most of everything past the intro jingle is human voice.
Play to your advantages. Trying to break into a monopoly game where the rules are broken, the only other player is broken, and the entry fees are broken is self-defeating.
should work as cross-indexing domain-specific, configuration-specific video galleries
Yes indeed - this is great idea and probably the only way a "web scale" distributed video service can work - unfortunately this doesn't quite exist yet. Even mature implementations like Mastodon have hard time dealing with "global" free text searching (or any kind of taxonomy). But maybe that's the idea that starts a truly free web!
A news report / news reel archive can save some costs by encoding as SDR (or even lower) with ~80kbps mono MP3 audio or somesuch, since most of everything past the intro jingle is human voice
Opus would have MP3 beat for speech at lower bitrates as per the HydrogenAudio KB, Opus is transparent for speech at 32kbit/s with stereo speech being transparent at 40kbit/s. Beyond that, a typical bitrate for Opus audio on YT is something like 150kbit/s and that codec is transparent for music at 160-192kbit/s. Point being if one works in spoken word and they want to save as much space and bandwidth as possible while still sounding reasonable, 40-48kbit/s Opus would be the ideal audio codec for that as it would give transparent speech at half the bitrate of the 80kbit/s MP3 that's quoted here.
To directly quote the HydrogenAudio KB article on Opus:
32kbit/s CELT encoding gives you: Essentially transparent speech plus moderately good stereo music
40kbit/s CELT encoding gives you: Essentially transparent mono or stereo speech, fairly good stereo music
48kbit/s CELT encoding gives you: Essentially transparent mono or stereo speech, reasonable music
You're getting basically transparent speech at a bit over half the bitrate of 80kbit/s MP3 or less, and even with music, Opus like I said is transparent for music at 160-192kbit/s according to the same KB article I'm quoting, while MP3 needs 320kbit/s CBR for transparency for music, although if I'm transcoding FLAC files to Opus, I normally just max out the codec at 510kbit/s where MP3's transparency bitrate of 320kbit/s is also the bitrate it maxes out at.
The only good reason IMO why one should use MP3 in 2025 when better codecs exist, both lossy and lossless, is when the device they're targeting is so old or crappy that it can't support anything better than MP3.
Thank you! Ffs, I was just sitting here thinking, I am not paying ticketmaster a damn dime, even if I have to miss my childhood heroes before they die. People whore themselves out and it fucks all of society constantly. Can't watch videos because of content monopoly, can't see a concert without getting fucked on exorbitant fees, can't go to the hospital because holy fuck, can't go to school without crippling debt, can't watch TV without supporting terrorists, etc. Like bloody hell the corpos have monopolized and ruined everything. They can go to hell. I'll play my shitty guitar, sing to myself, do home surgery, and go outside or stare at a wall. Fuck this shit!
I whore myself out and pay for the family plan, but I have a good reason.
My dad watches YT almost exclusively so I told him if he shared his password with me I can add him to my plan so he doesn’t see any ads. He fell for it. Now I login into his account ever so often and mark “not interested” on any red pill bullshit I see. It seems to be working.
Vinegar is a Safari extension that replaces the YouTube player with a minimal HTML video tag.
It removes ads, restores picture-in-picture, and keeps videos playing in the background.
I don't think Brave has any special magic that other browsers don't.
My understanding is, all the workarounds in use recently work or fail depending on the IP address you have.
I don't know anything about this change but it seems to simply require a JS engine in your client. Any browser has that, so the browser addons probably aren't effected by this change.
However, it's clear that YT is waging an incremental campaign here. Today it's yt-dlp, next week... who knows.
Again, I think it’s mostly because it’s iOS - but Brave seems to be the only browser that allows both Picture-in-Picture and background play while also blocking ads.
Both Safari and Firefox display ads, and struggle with PiP.
Reminds me of when people say "product" instead of "shampoo" or "conditioner" or whatever it is they're actually putting in their hair. Capitalism-coded language.
Yeah Android. Desktop client (Linux flatpak) was working late into the night too. I haven't checked again today though.. will test when I get home from work
Slightly over dramatized. This happens basically every month or so. They break it, we fix it. For me newpipe and yt-dlp havent even stopped working despite not updating anything.
I just downloaded MKBHD's iPhone Air review, and it played perfectly. 1920p whatever that means (somewhere north of 1440p but not quite 2160p... or 2160p/4K but slightly letterboxed). AV1 (Ay-Vee-Wun, not Ay-Vee-Eye), 30fps... looks and sounds great.
Glad to see the community fixed it fast.
I use jdownloader2 which probably uses yt-dl on the back end. But it also downloads from a metric fuckton of other sites, too. It's like the Swiss Army knife of downloaders. And it's Java, so it runs just as well on my Mac as it did on Windows back when I used that. (Wish they had an official dark theme that was easy to set up though. I know how to do it manually but can't be arsed.)
I’ve been trying to maintain Invidious for months, eventually google blocks my IP or ASN which leaves me troubleshooting for hours until the realization settles in.
While Carr complained that Democrats interpreted his comments as a threat to Disney, he didn't mention that his comments were also interpreted as a threat by several prominent Senate Republicans. Disney suspended Kimmel's show last week after Carr said ABC affiliates could have licenses revoked for "news distortion," but reinstated Kimmel yesterday after facing backlash from the public. Kimmel will be back on the air on many ABC-affiliated stations, but not those run by Nexstar and Sinclair, which have replaced Jimmy Kimmel Live! with news and other programming.
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The White House claimed that Dr. Andrea Baccarelli has found a "causal relationship between prenatal acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders of ADHD and autism spectrum disorder." Not true.
A recent Secret Service raid uncovers an insane network of SIM cards—along with the oddest piece of hardware I’ve ever seen. Here’s the deal with the SIM bank.
ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" returns Tuesday night, but Nexstar and Sinclair are keeping the show off their affiliate stations.
Four Democratic lawmakers are opening a probe into Nexstar and Sinclair, two major TV station owners that are refusing to air Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show amid criticism of his on-air comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
In a letter, first obtained by NBC News, the lawmakers asked the corporate heads of both companies for more information about their decisions to pre-empt airings of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and “how those decisions may relate to regulatory issues pending with the Trump administration.”
“If you suspended a late-night comedian’s show in part to seek regulatory favors from the administration, you have not only assisted the administration in eroding First Amendment freedoms but also create the appearance of a possible quid-pro-quo arrangement that could implicate federal anti-corruption laws,” the lawmakers wrote.
Checklist I make sure that the issue is NOT a duplicate of pinned issues I make sure I am using the LATEST version - check here I understand that issues with limited impact, such as those occurring...
Are you logged in? I'm using PipePipe right now and it's working, but on app startup I did get an announcement message saying logged in streams are broken and to log out, so I did.
The Finnish economy has been hit hard by global economic turmoil and uncertainty stemming from the war in Ukraine, with trade with neighbouring Russia drying up and export companies hampered by the subsequent energy crisis pushing up costs.
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The Burrell High School Marching Band performing "Feed The Machine" during the 2025 Norwin Band Festival at Norwin Knights Stadium in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
All of these photos are available under a Creative Commons license, free for you to use as long as you give me photography credit. Burrell High School 2025 Norwin Band Festival Photo Credit: Kevin Gamin You can find all of the edited photos from this and other events on my Flickr site. Burrell High School 2025 Norwin Band Festival Photo Credit: Kevin Gamin You can find all of my photos on my Smugmug site. Burrell High School 2025 Norwin Band Festival Photo Credit: Kevin Gamin
Fidarsi è bene ma non fidarsi è meglio. Danny combinaguai da una parte dice "l'economia russia è al tracollo", dall'altra poi son strette di mano e "grandi amici", "Israele ora basta, stai esagerando", dall'altra "hanno diritto a fare quel che vogliono".
Potrebbero sostituirlo già con un'ai, considerato le allucinazioni
considera che SharePoint è ormai ancora uno standard di fatto della gestione documentale militare nei paesi occidentali. Già ha ricevuto una sberla improvvisa con la falla emersa di recente, ma soprattutto sta vivendo un periodo di crisi reputazionale con l'attuale andazzo statunitense. La sostituzione di SharePoint con Alfresco o Docunentun sarà il prossimo passo dell'emancipazione di qualche forza armata europea dal monopolio Microsoft?
Comunque la Difesa italiana ha intrapreso quella stessa strada nel lontano 2015 (e lo so per certo perché gli ho fatto settimane di formazione su LibreOffice all'epoca ;) @Suoko
A 13-year-old Afghan boy survived a perilous stowaway attempt by hiding in the landing gear compartment of Kam Air flight RQ4401 from Kabul to Delhi (Airbus A340-300 reg. YA-KME).
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