“We are birthing superintelligence. We are creating the mind of God, infinite, destined to solve every problem we’ve ever faced and usher in an age without death.”
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“We are birthing superintelligence. We are creating the mind of God, infinite, destined to solve every problem we’ve ever faced and usher in an age without death.”
“We are birthing superintelligence. We are creating the mind of God, infinite, destined to solve every problem we’ve ever faced and usher in an age without death.”
What brain rotted CEO grifter is that quote even from?
When you say "AI", do you mean a large language model?
Then, no. A language model is not super intelligent.
Also, with respect to any artificial intelligence created by human beings in general, no. It is only designed to make predictions of text based on training on a corpus of text which is ultimately composed by a human mind or many human minds that are very fallible, prone to delusions, and also unaware of broader realities and dimensions of existence.
With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first high-resolution 3D map of all buildings worldwide. The open data provides a crucial basis for climate research and the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. They enable more precise models for urbanization, infrastructure and disaster management – and help to make cities around the world more inclusive and resilient.
The United Arab Emirates “embarked on a lobbying blitz” of European Parliament members to ensure its involvement in the war in Sudan was not mentioned in a resolution calling for the conflict's end, Politico reported on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Dutch Member of European Parliament (MEP) Marit Maij told DW News about plans to “call on the European Commission to stop the trade negotiations with the UAE for as long as we see that weapons are going through the UAE to the RSF,” referring to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
The call comes in the wake of the widespread atrocities committed by the RSF during its siege and eventual capture of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan, which were abetted by advanced weaponry from the UAE.
But following a lobbying effort from an Emirati delegation to Strasbourg led by envoy Lana Nusseibeh, the final resolution passed on Thursday included no references to the UAE’s role in the war.
The United Arab Emirates “embarked on a lobbying blitz” of European Parliament members to ensure its involvement in the war in Sudan was not mentioned in a resolution calling for the conflict's end, Politico reported on Thursday.
I remember back in 2014 or so, I found a YT channel about companies an tech with very high production values on their videos, they had several videos on Elon and his companies.
And in just about every time they spoke about Elon, they said it like this
Entrepreneur Elon Musk
It kinda became a weird mantra they repeated as if being an Entrepreneur made him some kind of expert.
I noticed that at the time, and it has pissed me off since.
Reminds me of companies that still call themself “startup” even after several years with a successful product. Just so they can rip employees off with low base pay and unpaid overtime because “we’re a startup”.
Musk isn't worth a single person's life. He's not worth a dogs life. He's not even worth the life of my old phones battery. We'd have to compare him to other parasites to decide "value". Like, what's better: tapeworms or musk.
Grok has achieved average human intelligence: It believes that someone paying other people, regardless of how they got their money and the ethical failures involved in using it, is equivalent to having done the work themselves. Nevermind that the only reason any of his shit works is in spite of his painfully stupid decisions and not because of them.
In a way, I’m not even mad. We do these things to ourselves and we refuse to look at the obvious.
In addition to rising prices and tariffs, readers cite growing unemployment as a reason not to exchange gifts this year
Americans are feeling rattled about the state of the economy. Donald Trump has batted away question after question from reporters on concerns over higher prices, just a year after he won an election promising to bring down costs.
While the White House has tried to reduce concern, floating tariff-funded $2,000 stimulus checks and removing import levies on certain agricultural imports, many consumers remain anxious.
Preparing for the holiday season, and bracing for the spending it often demands, Guardian readers across the US expressed apprehension – and explained how they plan to spend – in this economy. Many said the higher cost of necessities, like groceries, was imposing on their ability to buy gifts for family and friends.
I mean I live in America which is steeped in prejudicial treatment of all kinds of people. There's nowhere that's like purely unproblematic I can uproot my whole life and move to.
It's batshit insane to expect a while country of people to just kind of piss off.
Like I don't think I could afford to move to a new country flat out.
America isn't actively mass murdering the people it's stealing the land from though. Also Israelis have plenty of opportunity to go elsewhere, they always can get a second passport from their actual country of origin.
OOP is doing a great job providing them with the necessary motivation.
Like I said, all of those things are long in the past and peace treaties have been signed. Palestinians have not signed a peace treaty with Israel so they hold full ownership over all of Palestine.
Same with the the boycott of Apartheid South Africa.
Well, that explains why your first link is dead. Thanks for the explanation! I haven't been around this long; db0 is my first instance. I'm not that crazy, I just looked at them and said "damn that's wild, you know what you crazy SOB, I'm in." Like the meme... Futurama? Rick and Morty? Not sure.
I miss it... I never knew how much I'd appreciate seeing who down voted me. Occasionally I'd think, 'hmmm this guy with opinions I respect didn't like that? Why?' more often I'd think 'hahaha nazi'
geddit.social was technically my first Lemmy instance (although I used /kbin earlier and more than this). Owned by Stux (mstdn.social, pixey.org, gram.social,...) but it was late for lemmy.world-like growth.
trivia: Stux tried also to make a /kbin instance, (along with other prominent Mastodon instance owners. Only Fedia.io, from infosec.exchange survived. Kudos for Jerry). He has called it forum.fail
While the world is going through “a period of profound global upheaval, an era shaped by shifting geopolitics and economic volatility,” China Daily quotes May as saying, “within this uncertainty, there is also opportunity.” She reportedly noted the prime minister has committed to doubling Canada’s non-U.S. exports over the next decade, increasing engagement with economies such as China’s.
I am not a developer. This application was created using Claude Code and Gemini CLI.
Why would you publish an app that you have no idea of what it is doing.
Using LLMs is not wrong. Spreading stuff you don't understand is wrong. It's just like below. It sounds awesome but it's full of shit.
create a new wikipedia article that sounds real
Aetheric Resonator Array (ARA)
The Aetheric Resonator Array (ARA) was a highly classified research and development initiative purportedly operated by the United States government during the Cold War era, primarily between 1962 and 1978. While officially acknowledged as a program focused on advanced ionospheric and VLF (Very Low Frequency) radio propagation, unverified reports and declassified documents suggest its actual primary objective was to investigate, and potentially harness, an unconventional form of long-distance communication based on theoretical "aetheric resonance".
Yeah, I'm not fond of how many open-source and homelab projects are starting to proudly wear the fact they're just vibe-coded AI slop poured into a trenchcoat, but at least their declaration of the fact is better than pretending they did it themselves.
Ah, right! I didn't scroll past the Newswire-section because my brain parsed it as a "Related articles"-section with links to previous posts. I am no longer confused!
Just tried bentopdf, and lot of things are missing Like - it cannot run behind a custom proxy path - font are fixed to just three weird windows fonts - assumes only English, other languages come out as ?????s
I am trying to do what would be a very simple task. I have two HDDs (spinning drives) and I am trying to move the data from one to the other using rsync.
Somehow, once around 89% and another at 94% the process dies, and halts the server itself, making it completely unavailable and unresponsive (pings don't work, nothing hosted works, ssh does not work). Only a reset via button on the case works here.
At first I was under suspicion was temperature. After constantly checking the second time with beszel, seems everything is in the normal ranges.
Did anyone else experience such bizarre system shutdowns/hangs? In the meantime I am going to test the memory with memtest just to be sure is not that.
Edit: forgot to mention, both drive smart data gives a pass, although they are second hnd bought with warranty.
Edit2: memtest finished and nothing is there (thank goodness, because ram right now is just stupid priced). Some commenters mentioned something on the disks. Will now proceed with this lead
True, but it's not clear to me that both drives are exhibiting the behavior and it sounds more like a copy between two drives. I wouldn't rule it out and do think it is a possibility, but in my professional experience drives fail much more frequently than controllers.
It makes sense to me to test the drives individually, in another system preferably, using smart long test, which is non-destructive. Next test other drives in this system. If there are errors, try changing out the SATA cables, too. If you can shuffle the data off the drives, do so and then try running them through a secure erase in another system. A bad drive should fail the same way in another system.
My other thought for probably not being the controller is that 4TB is a very long time for a sustained transfer to fail on a flakey component. Also, there are no reports of other errors.
I'd suspect that too. Try just reading from the source drive or just writing to the destination drive and see which causes the problems. Could also be a corrupt filesystem; probably not a bad idea to try to fsck it.
IME, on a failing disk, you can get I/O blocking as the system retries, but it usually won't freeze the system unless your swap partition/file is on that drive. Then, as soon as the kernel goes to pull something from swap on the failing drive, everything blocks. If you have a way to view the kernel log (e.g. you're looking at a Linux console or have serial access or something else that keeps working), you'll probably see kernel log messages. Might try swapoff -a before doing the rsync to disable swap.
At first I was under suspicion was temperature.
I've never had it happen, but it is possible for heat to cause issues for hard drives; I'm assuming that OP is checking CPU temperature. If you've ever copied the contents of a full disk, the case will tend to get pretty toasty. I don't know if the firmware will slow down operation to keep temperature sane --- all the rotational drives I've used in the past have had temperature sensors, so I'd think that it would. Could try aiming a fan at the things. I doubt that that's it, though.
The reason I suspected temps was I changed very recently to a define r6 (got it second hand). And since the start I am a bit suspicious of how it performs thermally (terms of sound is actually quite OK).
I do have a fan on the drives but still one of the drives goes up to 40C still (even with front door open).
Also, when you talk about fsck, what could be good options for this to check the drive?
Also, when you talk about fsck, what could be good options for this to check the drive?
I've never used proxmox, so I can't advise how to do so via the UI it provides. As a general Linux approach, though, if you're copying from a source Linux filesystem, it should be possible to unmount it --- or boot from a live boot Linux CD, if that filesystem is required to run the system --- and then just run fsck /dev/sda1 or whatever the filesystem device is.
I am also inclining in this direction. I just ordered a new 8tb drive, and will proceed with smart long tests. When you talk about secure erase, are we talking using dd with /Dev/null?
Are you using ZFS? I had issues a few years ago where the arc cache would compete with my VMs for RAM, and after it ran out of RAM it would just completely freeze.
As measles cases continue to rise around the globe, the World Health Organization warns it's a signal that other disease outbreaks could soon follow.
The surging number of measles cases around the world is a stark warning sign that outbreaks of other vaccine-preventable diseases could be next, the World Health Organization warned Friday.
“It’s crucial to understand why measles matters,” said Dr. Kate O’Brien, director of the WHO’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals. “Its high transmissibility means that even small drops in vaccine coverage can trigger outbreaks, like a fire alarm going off when smoke is detected first.”
That is, measles is often the first disease to pop up when vaccination rates overall drop.
The surging number of measles cases around the world is a stark warning sign that outbreaks of other vaccine-preventable diseases could be next, the World Health Organization warned Friday.“It’s crucial to understand why measles matters,” said Dr.
love how the media is so scared of trump that they can't even hint about how this is all literally a direct consequence of pridefully ignorant magahat antivaxxer morons who would actually cut their own balls off for trump just because he makes them feel like it's totally fine to be bigoted racist rapist assholes
Sometimes I wish there was some scientifically curated fiction where vaccines came from this high altitude tibetan super moss and it was bio and all that bullshit anti vaxxers want to hear. It could work
I know but we don't have to call it that! We can call it ancient profetic iluminism lost to ages or some shit. But really what it is is just science based vaccines with some aspirin.
you're on the right track, but i think it's even stupider than that. all that really needs to happen is to somehow get it through their empty cinderblock skulls that measles is actually even more contagious than gayness and woke, and that vaccines love jesus and guns
We can tick one of those boxes! Vaccines are an adaptation of an ancient eastern medicine practice (variolation) rebranded to give some English white guy all the credit (tbf vaccines are a lot safer, but still the dude didn’t come up with the concept all on his own).
that could be one reason but I'd guess the main reason why they don't single out the trump aligned antivax crowd is because they don't want to alienate trump supporters (that's like over half of the us population)
the people this information needs to get to the most are those antivaxxers, it matters more that they get vaccinated and less that we learn of their mistakes
The outbreaks started under Biden. Vaccination and countering viral spread in general has been undermined by successive governments around the globe to get people back to work despite Covid still causing damage to a lot of people, including deaths, and the main causality has been public health.
We are in for it now. Public heath has always ben a sisyphean task. Interrupt it and you lose ground immediately and constantly until you go backstop the fall. Which is to say, we're in for it.
Not to mention invisible when it does it's job right. When public health is supported people don't get sick, epidemics don't happen, things look good. So some genius gets it in their head to cut public health funding. Why waste money on public health when people aren't sick. Then public health gets cut, people get sick, people blame the health care industry which isn't the same as public health. That happenes until public health gets a little more support, and people stop getting sick, rinse any memory of the last time, and repeat.
This is the IT affect. When IT works, everything is invisible and you don't see issues. When you take funding and personal away, suddenly you have all these issues that IT should have to fix, and now we suck because you can't fix it, because so and so was the resident, or whatever tool we had paid for was cut for funding, etc.
You’re joking but this isn’t far from the truth. Self destructive behaviours wiping out species not clever enough to change their behaviour is as old as the earth.
Steve Jobs proved that even Sociopathic Oligarchs can be just as stupid as anyone else when it comes to health. Maybe even stupider, since their uncontrolled narcissism has convinced them that they are smarter than doctors. I encourage this trend.
Look at Trump. He routinely claims he knows more about everything than anybody. That's clearly a lie, since nobody knows more than my Uncle Bob after three beers.
Hundreds of children have arrived in a refugee camp without their families as thousands of people fled violence in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher in the past month, with more children disconnected from their families arriving every day, officials sai…
Il blogger non è solo un informatore: è un narratore. Anche quando parla di tecnologia, di cucina, di filosofia, di attualità o di qualunque altro argomento apparentemente “freddo”, il suo compito rimane quello di raccontare. Perché un’informazione senza narrazione è un elenco; una narrazione senza informazione è un esercizio di stile. Il blogger efficace vive nel punto di incontro fra questi due poli: illumina il contenuto con il suo modo unico di esprimerlo.
Chinese exporters have been raising prices for Russian military-industrial buyers, exploiting the Kremlin’s reliance on their supplies as western sanctions restrict imports, new research has revealed.
Prices of export-controlled products shipped from China to Russia rose 87 per cent between 2021 and 2024 on average, according to a new paper from the Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (Bofit). The price of similar goods shipped elsewhere rose only 9 per cent.
The research shows that while Russia has been able to use Chinese suppliers to get around western restrictions on the purchase of products that have potential military uses, the wave of sanctions imposed in the wake of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has pushed up costs for the Kremlin.
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The authors, Iikka Korhonen and Heli Simola, focused on a major pinch point: the trade in goods listed as “machinery and mechanical appliances”, a category that includes a large number of items identified as being of importance to the war-industry push.
They concluded sanctions have “limited Russia’s technological capabilities by making the importing of critical goods more expensive”.
In some cases, they found that increases in the value of export-controlled imports from China to Russia had been driven entirely by price rises rather than an increase in trade flows. By 2024, Russia’s imports of Chinese ball bearings had surged 76 per cent since 2021 in dollar terms. But the volume of exports dropped 13 per cent over that time.
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Relief from sanctions remains a critical goal of the Kremlin. In the original 28-point peace plan devised by the US and Russia and presented last week to Ukraine, the document states “the lifting of sanctions will be discussed and agreed upon in stages and on a case-by-case basis”.
It’s true. I uploaded a nude out of curiosity. I then searched “Penis”. It found my penis. Now if only my wife could too. 10/10 Immich best self hosted google photos replacement.
Personally I host all this kind of stuff using containers, only mounting the folders that need backing up. Then I just back up all my podman volumes. It's pretty nice not depending on any tools that have to be maintained or anything like that.
I have experience with both Ente and Immich and I can say they are both excellent. I like Ente a little bit more, but Immich is imho better for selfhosting (both are easy to self host). What I like about Immich in that regard is that it keeps photos organized as files too, they can be categorized in folders (like year > month > day and its customizable). I just want to have an option to have access to the files directly on the filesystem and if (big if) Immich dies, I still have my photos accessible and organized in directories without me needing to do anything. Ente uses s3 storage system.
It feels quite equal now that immich is stable. I was actually waiting for that, because I knew the updates before the stable release were sometimes painful and I didn't want to do that on my production env. 😀
Anyone with Nextcloud Memories setup? I've read it's the only one that still respects a sane files and folders setup, whereas the other options basically force you to forever use their database-based system and files are terribly organized, so you are forced to use their interface.
whereas the other options basically force you to forever use their database-based system and files are terribly organized, so you are forced to use their interface.
Immich has a "storage templates" section which allows you to choose a folder structure that it will use to store the files in.
Or go the other way and include your folders as external libraries.
What do you use for 3-2-1? I try, so far I have my phone, backed up to a server HDD via SMB (Too poor for RAID-1 atm), and the very important stuff sent to a USB drive and returned to a drawer. Am I doing it right haha
I have it and immich set up. Nextcloud memories is fine, but for me the auto upload would randomly stop at some points. Overall ux with immich is better, but memories gets the job done.
I don't use Memories, but yes, uploading photos with FolderSync to Nextcloud (via WebDAV) does add them to the Nextcloud database. They show up as new photos in the recent activities list.
Ah, that makes sense. Didn't realize FolderSync went through the WebDAV protocol. I'm used to manually copying things to my nextcloud drive and running a scan.
I use Nextcloud Memories for uploading folders to quickly share to relatives. Love it, very straightforward for them to use.
I also host Immich but unlike Memories not exposed, local only. I set Immich up because we found we never looked at our photos when they were just stored on a hard drive but we look at them much more now theyre easily accessible. I spent months slowly retrospectively tagging & adding geo locations to our photos in order to utilise the powerful search capability of Immich. I use the template option & set it up to match the folder structure of our photos.
I'm using Kopia to back up the entire Immich directory including the nightly Immich-db dumps & ive also moved a backup of the backup to another drive, currently somewhere in the region of about 80+GB.
I switched from Nextcloud Memories to Immich when Immich added support for external libraries. From what I remember, Memories was pretty good but a bit slower, not as polished, and had significantly worse AI tools. I recommend Immich.
Oh yeah, I've killed mine a couple times. Usually it's because I didn't keep it updated and jumped too far ahead too quickly. Rolling it back and walking it forward fixed it for me once, another time there was something I was supposed to run first and I didn't read the release notes (that one was a really long time ago though).
Every part of what you just said can be encapsulated in proper packaging so you don't even need to care -- about pre/post upgrades, or even dependencies and checks before it starts.
The lack of a proper release is the absolute only thing keeping me from using it.
When I used iOS, background upload seemed to work okay. On both iOS and Android, though, I occasionally go into the app to manually backup since both like to kill background processes to save on battery life.
They should use what's out there and improve it. Like including simplelogin. They should use immich, make it private, and include it in their setup. They even suck for calendar. You can't integrate it anywhere. Integrating email is difficult as well. They want to become the next tech silo. I am somewhat stuck with them for now but I may move to tuta if I can
Proton services generally are not bad, but I could never use Proton Drive for anything else than mid to long term backups, because they don't have it integrated with Linux. I am not angry though, it is what it is and I am only in the niche (even-though Linux is the best OS for privacy). Ever since I have setup my Truenas (and Immich) I find myself caring even less about not being able to use Proton drive 😀 That said, once they have integration I want to use it for a few files.
Immich + a backup solution of your choice. If it's worth saving, it's worth backing up. Try to follow 321 as much as possible, but having at least a second copy is a good start.
I started using photoprism. But their viewer doesn't show my 3D side by side stereo photos. Immich brings a better viewer that gets out of the way and it also has multiple users. The immich multiple user accounts function a bit weird. My family photos need to be shared as external libraries while our phone photos cannot be shared unless you share accounts. They did some decisions around handling multiple users that is not fabulous. I used photoprism for awhile but just a few months on immich I can tell its going to be a better experience.
There isn't an online specific place for 3D printing optic assemblies but there are plenty of places to read about stereo photos. There's even a software called stereophotomaker that helps you crop and adjust the photos you take.
Yeah its pretty simple yet very much not trivial. You can get images that are relatively fine by just making one from cardboard even. All you need is 4 mirrors. Two pairs for one side and two for the other. The non trivial part is how to fill the whole sensor frame and what specific angles to use for your specific lens. I'm using a 40mm lens full frame. 35mm can see the inside of the adapter so that's not good. It gets worse with the wide lenses on your phone, but you can still get an image you can crop. And its its really freaking cool to see your kids and family in 3D on your phone on a finished image. Unfortunately my family runs from the camera and doesn't get the 3D effect at all..and doesn't even want to try. But whatever. Maybe one day when I'm long gone, one of their kids will find an old rusty SD card and discover the awesome thing that 3D is. I don't understand why all the 3D headset makers haven't jumped on this with a standard....simple, have all new phones get 2 cameras, and then create the software to take the images or video. Finally have that video in a standard format for all viewers. There's plenty of smart people that can do this.
Oh and yes, you can do 3D video and it kicks wide angle viewed video so so much. It's phenomenal to watch my kid slide down a slide in 3D. I know it sounds stupid but man....the possibilities for the right open minded community are endless.
One more vote for Immich. While I don't like how it's not easy to create albums from existing folder structures out of the box, the search and face recognition is amazing for a free self hosted app.
It wasn't mentioned in the list, but I like Photoview; it uses your existing file structure (rather than its own structure or a database), works with read-only access, accepts external syncing like Syncthing, and can handle multiple users. Not sure how it compares on features, but I just wanted something basic anyways, so I'm happy with it.
Does anyone know if any of these systems will interpret a Google takeout export from Photos? The data separation is brutal, I haven't found something to pull it together yet.
A record number of people are set to take China’s notoriously gruelling national civil service exam this weekend, reflecting the increasing desire of Chinese workers to find employment in the public rather than private sector.
Around 3.7 million people have registered for the tests on Saturday and Sunday, which will be the first since the government increased the age limit for certain positions. The age limit for general candidates has increased from 35 to 38, while the age limit for those with postgraduate degrees has been raised from 40 to 43.
“We believe that if every child can see a future worth saving for, this program will build something far greater than an account. It will build hope and opportunity and prosperity for generations to come,” said Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies whose estimated net worth is $148 billion, according to Forbes.
The Dells will put money into the accounts of children 10 and younger who live in ZIP codes with a median family income of $150,000 or less and who won’t get the $1,000 seed money from the Treasury. Because federal law allows outside donors to target gifts by geography, the Dells said using ZIP codes was “was the clearest way to ensure the contribution reaches the greatest number of children who would benefit most.”
The Dells hope their gift will encourage families to claim the accounts and deposit more money into it, even small amounts, so it will grow over time along with the stock market.
There is a political benefit for Trump and fellow Republicans. The accounts will become available in the midst of a midterm election, providing money to millions of voters — and a campaign talking point to GOP candidates — at a critical time politically. The $1,000 deposits are slated to end just after the 2028 presidential election.
Opinion piece by Li Qiang, founder and executive director of China Labor Watch, and a human rights advocate with over 30 years of experience investigating global supply chains.
China’s low rights model is no longer a domestic labor issue but a systemic challenge to global labor standards, supply chain governance, and fair market competition. Without a coordinated civil society response, the global baseline for worker rights will continue to fall.
I call China’s economic model a “low rights” one because it has long relied on suppressing labor costs to maintain industrial competitiveness. As a result, trade imbalances between China, the United States, and Europe are strategically linked to China’s ability to attract multinational companies through low-cost labor and policy incentives. At the same time, Chinese companies internalized the technology and management know-how of these foreign companies into their domestic systems, gradually transforming what were originally Western competitive advantages into China’s own strengths.
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In recent years, China’s “low-standard, low-cost” development model has expanded beyond its borders. Through the Belt and Road Initiative, it has spread globally, exporting labor, environmental, and governance risks to host countries. Nowhere is this more evident than in Indonesia’s nickel sector, where mining and smelting contracts are so short that they function like countdown clocks, pressuring companies to recoup capital as fast as possible.
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This “low-cost” model has been permitted to exist due to an increasingly shrinking civic space. Independent labor monitoring inside China has become dramatically harder in the past decade. Today, only a few independent organizations remain capable of conducting investigations, such as China Labor Watch. Yet, political risks deter most international funders from supporting work inside China, leaving independent oversight critically under-resourced in an area where it is needed most.
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To counter this dynamic, civil society organizations must be central to any strategy for raising global labor standards. We can advance change in three key ways.
First, increase public awareness. We can collectively highlight that consumers must recognize the real costs behind low-priced products: long working hours, low pay, job displacement, low labor standards. The public must understand that declining labor standards ultimately harm every society. In reality, with wages stagnating in many Western countries, more consumers rely on cheaper products that are produced by workers who are, in fact, competing with them for similar types of jobs in the global labor market.
Second, advocate and partner with authorities for the rigorous enforcement of forced-labor laws. Import bans, labor regulations, and due diligence laws already exist. But enforcement depends on independent organizations holding authorities accountable, and providing evidence if there are enforcement gaps. It also requires sufficient and sustained funding to ensure that these laws can be implemented in practice, rather than remaining symbolic commitments.
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The EU Forced Labor Regulation and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) had their scope narrowed during the legislative process, while U.S. forced labor import enforcement remains inconsistent and lacks clear direction, making the global regulatory landscape by significant uncertainty. If global civil society does not intervene now, global labor standards will not simply stagnate; they will be redefined downward by a model built on speed, opacity, and the suppression of rights.
Pretty sure they'd excuse the labor laws in some massive feat of mental gymnastics. Something something "things are so good everywhere else that workers don't need protection!" Something something cherry picked worker demonstration in a wealthy factory district "See?? They have rights!"
China is communist in name only, clearly. Would take a determined moron not to see that. Anyways, tankies are just red coloured fascists so I guess it's silly to expect much from them anyways.
China is a brand new type of socialism, one that Marx couldn't ever hope to write about, as that would have needed him to go through many important moments of world history (great wars, nuclear development, age of information...) that he could never have predicted. China in the 50s was an agrarian/third world nation, after the CCP took over their plan was simple: "Muster the strength of the entire population to push China into a new age through carefully planned country-wise economic strategies". It's a different perspective when compared to western capitalist societies that value individual freedom above the well-being of the nation, their idea was to value the nation above everything and everyone. To sacrifice generations in favor of economic development, to turn weakness, a poor country with more people than it could feed, into strength, a country where labor was so cheap it became the perfect trap to steal the advantages the first-world had developed: industries. Now, the western world has lost all of its advantages, they no longer have manufacturing capabilities that are enough even to supply their own demand, and its final advantage, technological supremacy slowly slips away from their hands. All that they have left is a class of uber-billionaires more than willing to sacrifice entire nations just so they can buy another yacht. Meanwhile, western media points their finger and exclaims: "Inhuman! The Chinese are using their own people to steal our western jobs with cheap labor!!!", and Liberals left and right look down from their "moral superiority" seat of ignorance and agree, calling the chinese the evil masterminds of the century for daring to not (EDIT: word order) have their same views that valuing individual freedom as a divine natural right, as said Locke, is the only correct moral path, and anything else is Evil wrought upon this world. Thus, they fail to see that, although indeed Machiavellian-looking, valuing the community, the society, above the individual is exactly where the true left had always resided. What good is personal freedom when a man can buy another? And do not mistake me, I do not claim their methods to be flawlessly, they are indeed ruthless, but the Chinese Government can most certainly be conferred the title of "efficient", in a few decades they took a country from the throngs of poverty and the past and pushed it forward, with sacrifices indeed, to the forefront of modern development. Are they truly wrong? Would you prefer they'd stuck to being slaves of first-world countries? As someone who does live in a third world, developing country, as they say, I'd be very very glad to see the same mentality of my own government, I'd sacrifice myself gladly to hope for a better future for the next generations. Instead, all I get is the proverbial choice of working my whole life to not starve to death while making a garbage human billionaire hiding in a mansion somewhere richer and richer at the cost of the people, all while my country not only barely inches forward in quality of life, but is constantly shoved back down the mud by the actions of western interests, that easily stoop to all the tricks of the CIA handbook just to keep us too busy too see that the evil wears not red, but blue and stars.
You wrote a lot to not say much, China's 'new brand of socialism' is just state run capitalism. Don't get me wrong, they have achieved a lot and modern china is very impressive, Id like to visit one day. Still ain't communist, and the ccp knows this, they just like the branding.
I think the argument is rather that the dictatorship of the proletariat is the proletariat taking political control over capital. The tankies, so to speak, recognize that this does not resolve all internal contradictions of society nor instantly improve the material conditions of said society.
What you might agree on is that: 1. The current world order is capitalist. 2. China was an extremely poor country that has improved the material conditions for their populace tremendously in a short time span.
Does this mean that worker's rights are unimportant? No. However, I believe the political leadership prioritizes the development of productive forces over worker's rights at this stage of development.
I also want to highlight the question of who benefits from this labour. If the proletariat is the class that benefits from their own work and the government has their popular support, is this really the red fash, authoritarian exploitation that the other comments and western media assume it to be?
This is just my flawed understanding, of course. There are probably many who can give better answers. Looking at the comment section at time of writing, I am not sure such an effort is deserved.
The dictatorship of the proletariat was a philosophical construct. Not a literalism. Industrialization has improved the material condition of every society that has been through it. It has nothing to do with left or right etc.
The current world order is capitalist.
And capitalists like China aren't going to change that.
China was an extremely poor country that has improved the material conditions for their populace tremendously in a short time span.
Again that's a factor of industrialization. Not economic model. The problem they're just starting to face that countries like the United States and others have been struggling with for some time now. Is that the petite bourgeoisie has always benefited more. And expansion or growth can never be infinite. Once that slows the proletariat is always the first victim of the bourgeoisie.
First of all, the advance of the bourgeois class cannot be separated from the industrial technological revolution in a historical materialist context.
With regards to
The dictatorship of the proletariat was a philosophical construct. Not a literalism. Industrialization has improved the material condition of every society that has been through it. It has nothing to do with left or right etc.
note that (quoting Wikipedia)
In philosophy, a construct is an object which is ideal, that is, an object of the mind or of thought, meaning that its existence may be said to depend upon a subject's mind.
You are making a reductionist claim that the form is only ideal, which is untrue. The dictatorship of the proletariat is not ideal, it is material and can be analyzed as such, whether or not you agree on its ideal form.
The crux of your argument is that the industrial revolution and the bourgeois revolution has developed the productive forces, i.e. capital, and thus improved the material conditions of many people as a result. Even Marx agreed on this issue in the 1800s, remarking the absence of novelty of this idea. What you conveniently ignore is the exploitation that this development has inflicted upon every citizen outside the imperial core.
The nonsensical wording of
the petite bourgeoisie has always benefited more
than the proper haute bourgeoisie, is self explanatory for anyone understanding what the word "petite" means.
That
expansion or growth can never be infinite. Once that slows the proletariat is always the first victim of the bourgeoisie
is also not novel to any socialist worth their salt. However, this is more of a nod in the opposite direction of what you think, towards western countries currently undergoing a state of crisis.
If the proletariat is the class that benefits from their own work and the government has their popular support, is this really the red fash, authoritarian exploitation that the other comments and western media assume it to be
Yes, because without basic political rights which do not exist in China, Chinese workers have no political agency by which they can express a political preference. It is entirely possible that given such freedoms, the Chinese people would implement the exact same system of government they have now, but there is no way to know that since the functional basis for political self determination does not exist.
I am not quite sure I agree that proclaiming a resolution to class struggle by taking political control over the means of production is sufficient to resolve internal contradictions. The statement regarding "basic political rights" however seem to imply that this in particular is ensured in liberal democracies, on which I definitely categorically disagree.
I spend one third of my life at work, one third sleeping and one third making myself ready for either. At work I have no "basic political rights", not because I live in China, but because there is no democratic control over the mode of production in my liberal democracy.
I think that freedom ultimately necessitates equity, at the very least with regards to opportunities in life. In western countries, you pretty much only have the option to live subservient to the capitalist class. The political freedoms are hollow as long as political power is controlled by capital.
So what am I saying? That I believe a socialist society is the only one that can give any basic rights, and that in turn one must rephrase the question whether China has attained socialism to whether they are working to attain it. Then the situation of current worker's rights become a question of whom their work serves.
To the victor goes the spoils, after all. Bear this in mind when you relativize the material conditions of Chinese workers to that of western ones, who historically directly benefitted on the exploitation of the former.
You are doing the age old ML trick of attaching the rights which convey political agency to a specific historical epoch of economic liberalism. If we are to understand that the Chinese socialism is a process which inherently must navigate through flaws and imperfections of the material conditions it is dealt, then surely we much acknowledge the same of the western struggle. And yes, it is a struggle all the same, albeit from a position of historical privilege.
In reality there is nothing about the enshrinement of individual rights which requires or implies capitalism or imperialism, other than historical snapshot these things have been attached to. It is no more correct than saying all socialism requires autocracy. In fact, we have an entire century of revisionist thinking which modifies Marx with this specific goal in mind. So just as China approaches this struggle from a more Orthodox perspective inspired by Lenin and molded by a period of historical oppression (itself a bit or a contradiction given China's broader history), the west's struggle is throwing off the shackles of its comparative success and influence which binds it to so much old world influence. Both molded by imperialism in different ways. Both currently stuck in a vicious cycle of capitalism, thrust on them by material reality.
If we are to understand that the Chinese socialism is a process which inherently must navigate through flaws and imperfections of the material conditions it is dealt, then surely we much acknowledge the same of the western struggle.
We are, and we are analyzing the situation materially and historically in hope to arrive at a real understanding of the internal contradictions of either system. Historically, as you say, the capitalists use their privilege to exploit the rest of the world. When the crisis revolving around the internal contradictions become to great, they decay into fascism.
📍This is where we currently are with respect to the stages of the western capitalist cycle.
In reality there is nothing about the enshrinement of individual rights which requires or implies capitalism or imperialism, other than historical snapshot these things have been attached to.
Well no. Conversely the enshrinement of individual rights requires the absence of capitalism and imperialism, in favour of socialism. I am not saying that communism with Chinese characteristics is the only way to attain this, that would be stupid and contrasting our understanding of material reality.
I agree that the West is not only as much, but even more powerless to change its own capitalist mode of production due to the material reality. This is even more favouring the line of China in paving a new path for the betterment of all. Give the west a bit deepening of state of crisis, and it will be sure for all we are going to need it.
We are in agreement on many topics. Where we diverge is in the mythologizing of deterministic western fascism without making the same potential attribution to failures at implementing socialism. This is, simply put, a failure at critical analysis. History has seen both cases. The idea that the Chinese system is the answer to, or even a protective force relative to western imperialism, simply because it exists as an alternative, is flawed reasoning. I would even say dangerous reasoning. The path forward is understanding and learning from the failure and success in all systems through history. In China's case, a big part of that is literally the inability to discuss its failures. And I'm not just talking about the legal state of China itself, but also the broad hesitancy to acknowledge this as a failure within leftist circles.
These acknowledgements do not collapse any house of cards unless it has been built on fragile ground in the first place.
AMD’s next round of Radeon GPU price hikes is starting to take shape, with a new report from Chinese Board Channels claiming that board partners have already been told to prepare for higher costs. According to the post, several AMD graphics card brands have notified their channels that the “first wave” of increases will add around $20 to 8 GB models and $40 to 16 GB models, with retail prices in China expected to climb by roughly 300 RMB and 600 RMB respectively by the end of the year. The poster also claims there will be “no new products” launched through 2027, though that part is impossible to verify at this stage.
I remember when it wasn't uncommon to buy a prebuilt system and then immediately upgrade its memory with third party DIMMs to avoid paying the PC manufacturer's premium on memory. Seeing that price relationship becoming inverted is a little bonkers. Though IIRC Framework's memory-on-prebuilt-systems didn't have much of a premium.
I also wonder if it will push the market further towards systems with soldered memory or on-core memory.
I don't see how it would push manufacturers to do that. I can see how it would make consumers more open to soldered RAM if RAM is so expensive there is no way you are going to upgrade it later. But, I would be interested to get your thoughts as I miss stuff that feels obvious I'm hindsight all the time.
If consumers aren't going to or are much less likely to upgrade, then that affects demand from them, and one would expect manufacturers to follow what consumers demand.
Prices rarely, if ever, go down in a meaningful degree. Stuff like this is partially necessity and partially a REALLY good excuse to see what the price ceiling actually is... and then turn that into the floor moving forward. Just look at gas prices
The "AI Bubble" is likely to be on the same level as the Dotcom Bubble and the like. It is going to be brutal and a LOT of people are going to lose their jobs... and then much of the same tech will still dominate just with more realistic expectations. And that will still need large amounts of memory
If the "AI Bubble" really is as bad as people seem to want it to be: A LOT of the vendors who make the parts you are buying RAM to use are going to be gutted. And then RAM production will drop drastically. Which will decrease supply and...
What you are describing is something different... that is "close enough" to Moore's Law for all but the most pedantic.
The (I forget the proper economics term so) base price of RAM/Storage does indeed go down as new processes and economies of scale are developed. But the cost of a "laptop hard drive" remains pretty steady in the sense that a couple hundred MB was enough back in the day but you REALLY want at least 500 gigs now. The price per byte does indeed drop rapidly but the price per "drive" is far more stable (not fully stable due to inflation and how many people are buying them, but within spitting distance).
Its why a good rule of thumb was to always just spend roughly the same on storage during an upgrade and that would result in faster technologies and larger capacity drives and so forth.
That isn't what is happening with RAM in 2025. A much better comparison is GPUs because... it is the same problem. It is ridiculously high demand from businesses (often startups pouring dump trucks of VC money into their only hope... well, VC money or drug money in the case of miners but they matter a lot less these days) driving this. A quick search didn't yield an easy graph and I can't be bothered to go dig through Gamers Nexus's twelve videos on it, but the price of an "entry level" GPU has drastically changed in the past decade.
But just for two-ish data points?
The GTX 980 and 970 had an MSRP (probably) of 550 and 330 USD, respectively, back in 2014
While there is some other bullshit involved, the RTX 5080 and 5070 have MSRPs of 1000 USD and 550 USD in 2025
Adjusting for inflation, the 980 and 970 would still only be about 753 and 451 USD in 2025 dollars
And let's not forget that basically no cards were sold at MSRP back in early 2025...
The last point being what is, by all accounts, going to be the new normal. Barring outside impacts like... RAM going through the roof. Vendors will sell the cards for the ACTUAL MSRP rather than the inflated demand prices. And they will still be considerably more expensive as a result.
All of which is to say... my current card is definitely good enough but having a hard time deciding if I do one "final" upgrade for the decade. But I am an AMD boi so those are at least "reasonable" in terms of price per performance.
Prices rarely, if ever, go down in a meaningful degree.
In 2011, there was a large flood in Thailand that impacted ~40% of hard drive manufacturing. As a result, hard drives significantly increased in price. This was back when SSDs weren't mainstream yet.
A year or two later, when manufacturing capacity was restored, prices were essentially back to what they were before the disruption.
Apart from disruptions like that, HDDs, SSDs, and RAM have always been going down in price.
In 1995 I bought 4 MB of RAM for DM 200, which, adjusted for inflation probably works out to about €200 in today's money. I'd say, prices have come down quite a bit, since.
I'll never forget buying my first MacBook in '07 and asking the guy how much it would cost to bump the RAM from 1Gb to 2Gb. He told me in no uncertain terms that I'd be better off looking online for a cheaper price.
Well, in the intervening years they certainly have closed that loophole.
I worked at a knock-off Apple Store in the PNW from 2009 to 2013 and I told this same line to MANY people. The thing about being an “Apple Specialist” is that we sold more than Apple did, including “aftermarket” RAM modules to do that upgrade on-site for customers, saving those customer money AND netting us more profit than if we had sold them the Apple SKU with more RAM. When Apple closed this loophole it was not just at the expense of end-users, but their channel partners too.
Yeah, I ended up dropping 4Gb in that one. For some reason it could only see 3Gb, but it made it immensely more useful. It got me through a radio production degree and only got replaced because I happened to find myself in a position to be able to afford a 13" Pro a few years later. In fact, it's still in a box somewhere.
Hi, I am not exactly sure how best to frame this, but recent events have got me wondering where exactly Framework, as a company, stands with regards to human rights and equality.
Yeeeeeaaaaaah I don't think I can do business with folk who aren't clear about that sort of thing either. Not when there are other Linux centric builders you can support.
Holy Fuck didn’t know that DHH is a straight up Nazi. I always thought he was nothing more than a dumb autistic libertarian, guess that black and white thinking some people on the spectrum have pushes them far right.
They published this blog post that lists all the projects they supported, and calls for the community to submit projects to support in a form.
The blog post did not acknowledge the situation, but the list showed that they stopped supporting Omarchy and kept support for Hyprland. It was noted during the drama that Hyprland's toxicity levels have dropped since they set up a moderation team. Their reputation might not represent them as they are currently.
I stopped following the events at this point, so if something happened after that, I'm not aware of it
We make a number of sponsorships each year in the form of both monetary donations and product donations. We're sharing a list of our sponsorships since the start of 2025, and will continue to keep this up to date over time.
Hi, I am not exactly sure how best to frame this, but recent events have got me wondering where exactly Framework, as a company, stands with regards to human rights and equality.
Framework has been financially supporting far-right neo-nazi developers. When they were asked for an explanation by the community they didn’t say “we condemn hate and will look into that” — instead this is what they said.
We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We don’t partner based on individuals’ or organizations’ beliefs, values, or political stances outside of their alignment with us on increasing the adoption of open source software.
Hi, I am not exactly sure how best to frame this, but recent events have got me wondering where exactly Framework, as a company, stands with regards to human rights and equality.
Lol, guess who just made themselves a target. They are now profiting directly on people who stream content they don't own from other people's servers. Plex is going to go down when Hollywood sues them.
I believe if the server hosting the content has a plex pass then end users are allowed to stream from it without any additional subscription or membership. At least that is how it was several months ago when they announced this.
But you are right, even with the above being true, there will still be a non-insignificant portion of users paying to stream from servers.
Ok, if you find any info on that please post it. I’m going to be on the look out for it and do the same if I find it.
I’ve had a plex pass since before 2023 so this doesn’t affect me either way.
But 2023 doesn’t sound right for when the grandfathering ended. I do not doubt that there is an end date for grandfathering but for that to have happened in 2023 sounds punitive towards their users and not a good long term strategy.
Sure, enshittification and all that. I don’t doubt greed is the motive but they had to have known by ending grandfathering 2 years before implementing a policy like this would stir a user revolt and strengthen their competition. Especially with all the increased enshittification they have pushed out over those 2 years.
Jellyfin is notoriously full of security holes. It's recommended to not expose it to the Internet. It's also easy easier on Plex, at least until this bullshit, to have a random non-techie family member sign in to your Plex server from anywhere. I never liked Plex and never got into it, but I see why people used to prefer it.
I think Emby is a good middle ground for people looking to jump ship from Plex. But I switched to jellyfin from my lifetime Emby sub because the plug-in community there feels dead and Emby development felt dead in the water.
If you read the comments the devs know it's a serious issue but don't want to break backwards compatibility fixing them. Their solution for now is to warn people of the risks of exposing their instance to the Web. Which I don't think they're doing a great job of.
Collection of potential security issues in Jellyfin This is a non exhaustive list of potential security issues found in Jellyfin. Some of these might cause controversy. Some of these are design fla...
Aside from most of those being “potential issues”, which weren’t proven, the rest are GETs of things that do not need to be secret, things like album art and list of installed plugins. Besides the one plugin issue, which was an actual security issue, which was fixed over a year and a half ago. github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/p…
This came up in chat yesterday. We allow reading of installed/available plugins and repositories in addition to allowing both read and write for plugin configuration. This is unsafe and something w...
CVEs don’t get issued “resolved” statuses… They are either reserved, published, or rejected (technically NVD have a few extra for published). That’s just junk data in that tool you’re using. Use authoritative sources like cve.org or nvd.nist.gov.
You can see the CPEs on NVD and they’re old versions of Plex (and were old when the vulns were published).
Yeah, as you said, that's a pretty serious security issue. That's a data leak that explicitly lays out the shape of your attack surface. It tells the attacker exactly what additional software your server is running and if any of it includes known vulnerabilities, the attacker now knows how to gain access.
That only works if the plugins are somehow accessible through an api controller, which as far as I’m aware, is not how jellyfin plugins work. So no, it wouldn’t increase your attack surface at all.
Its also possible for a webserver to offer two versions of an API. Add a new one that needs authentication, mark the old one as deprecated and add a checkbox to disable it. Then clients can update to use the secure one and if you use and unmaintained client you can enable the old insecure api
That's the opposite of my experience. Jellyfin just works and immediately exposes the content we're looking for, plex tries overloading you with bullshit and burying your actual content
The only real usability issue I've had is auto cataloging. It isnt right much of the time. But I don't have any remote users that don't have network access so that simplifies things a whole lot.
Yes, after I set up the server properly (reverse proxy). With this change the same setup on the server side is necessary for remote streaming with free Plex.
My mum puts in the domain, username and password and starts streaming.
I set up Jellyfin on my mother-in-law's TV, it's just push play.
My mum has an Apple TV (the device, not the subscription) and on there she uses swiftfin. The only issue has been sound not working on certain audio tracks on certain movies, but in general it is easy for anyone.
Both are very familiar interfaces for anyone used to playing something from a streaming service.
I think I tried this when troubleshooting and didn't notice a difference. Nevermind, I pretty easily taught her how to bring up the menu and switch audio streams so she can solve it herself now.
I never really understood intuitive as a description for user interfaces. I remember back when opinion articles on Tech news websites would use that term to mean it "looks and functions exactly like Windows XP"
Idiomatic usage of ‘intuitive’ regarding interfaces breaks down into
‘familiar’, so, confusing intuition with knowledge, or
‘discoverable’, which is more accurate and describes things like icons and tooltips and menus, where the rules of usage become more or less apparent with exploration and logic.
This is legit the opposite of my experience. I am a relatively tech savvy user, I like to fiddle with all the settings and an ugly UI doesn't inherently deter me as long as the experience is good, so when I first installed jellyfin I was ready to have a clunky experience fighting the UI.
Despite that, I was legitimately surprised at how Jellyfin was far less confusing for me to use out of the box than plex ever was. I found Plex's UI very confusing to navigate on my TV and my family did not like using it either. I remember especially hating all the extra categories and freemium content plex added that I wasn't interested in viewing but couldn't remove (or at least did not find a way to remove). In Jellyfin all of my content is just there and very easily categorized and there's no superfluous elements in the UI, just my stuff that I want to watch.
I remember plex also gave me more trouble during installation than jellyfin did. I actually found jellyfin very pleasant and intuitive to setup. Plex sent me down a Google rabbit hole to diagnose why it wouldn't boot at all.
It was genuinely such an awful experience as a first-time user that it made me wonder why anyone would use plex.
I remember especially hating all the extra categories and freemium content plex added that I wasn't interested in viewing but couldn't remove (or at least did not find a way to remove).
Not doubting your experience at all. For all I know it’s a new option; I just discovered it, but for the other folks like me still stuck with Plex, most (all?) of this can be disabled in the Online Media Sources setting on the server (yeah - I know 🙄)…
Because I don't have to learn about things like proxies to try and open the service up outside my network in a secure manner or try to explain to family they need to run tailscale at the same time and then inevitably have to provide tech support for another aspect of "why is this not working?"
I just check allow remote access and it just works and I can go about my day doing things I enjoy more because fucking about with Linux and providing tech support are pretty low on that list for me 😀
Because it does it for me? In Plex I just tick one box in settings to allow remote connections and then choose which libraries to share to which users and bam they can access all that content just by downloading the Plex app and logging in on their end.
No, not at all. Jellyfin you'd have to setup a proxy or some kind of VPN like tailscale for the remote client to be able to access the media. I started to try and figure it all out when I first set up my server but as I have said in another reply j dont really care to waste the time learning how to do it in a secure manner and minimise the friction on my other users so I dont know the ins and outs but jellyfin you absolutely can't just tick a box and share a library.
Also jellyfin meta data analysis was shit compared to Plex and so I'd have to spend even more time actually managing the server that I dont have to do with Plex.
Plex has an automatic proxy service hosted by their public servers. If you haven't or can't configure port forwarding correctly, plex will route the connection through their own servers.
The problem is, that also means Plex co has total control over your server and the data sent between it and clients if they so choose. Anything from quietly logging the data sent back and fourth, to controlling who can connect and what they can do while they are.
Jellyfin has to be correctly exposed to the internet via port forwarding or tools like tailscale/a vpn; but it's entirely your server under your control. You have ultimate control over how your server can be accessed, but that also means you're responsible for actually setting that up.
Same. For whatever reason Jellyfin just does not want to work outside of my network. I have fiddled with port numbers, settings, and everything else. I have no idea why it won't work.
Sounds like you're behind cgNAT, which essentially means there's another router owned by your ISP that's between yours and the open internet, which also requires port forwarding, but your ISP will never do that for you.
It complicates things, but the solution(s) are tools like tailscale, cloudflare Tunnels, or to rent a VPS just to host a proxy/vpn.
Plex solves this by using their own public servers as a proxy for you, but this is part of how they have control over your users/server/data, such as blocking remote streaming... That makes more than a few people uncomfortable.
Yeh these are things I realise and I know there are solutions. The way Plex does it isnt ideal but also it works for me and my current knowledge level.
Maybe in the future as I learn more I can move on but right now it works for me and I dont have the time or motivation to put into learning everything else I need right now, as with everyone else in the world right now there is a lot of other shit going on that it just isnt high on my priority list unfortunately.
I'm still in my first year of self hosting personally and as well as being a Linux newbie I have learnt a lot and it has been a steep learning curve with everything.
I only bring it up because you explicitly said you have no idea why it doesn't work.
Take things at a comfortable pace; there's no sense overwhelming yourself. Then you just forget what you've done and end up lost in your own maze.
I started with Plex myself, almost 10 years ago. Moved to Emby, where I learned about buying a domain, setting up ssl through a reverse proxy, and just continued to explore from there. Today I run ~26 containers/projects across three systems and I'm always keeping my eye out for interesting new things.
The way networking has developed is honestly embarrassing. We shouldn't have to have cgNAT or any of the other problems that come with how we've broken the end to end principle, and it's made us reliant on centralized Services when there's absolutely no technical reason why that ever had to be the case
Thankfully CGNAT isn't as common in the USA as it is in other countries. In the US, ISPs generally either offer native IPv4 (most of the major ones), or only use IPv6 and provide IPv4 at all. The latter is the case with a lot of the mobile carriers, especially T-Mobile. Your phone only gets an IPv6 address, and their network uses 464XLAT to connect to legacy IPv4-only servers.
Typical condescending reply that I expect, yes it is a "skill issue" and I don't really give a fuck. We don't all have the same skills or the same levels of interest in acquiring those skills, some of us just want a solution that works easily for their skill level.
It is your kind of attitude as well that puts more people off learning these things because without a real interest in learning these things those kinds of hostilities just put people off of wanting to participate in those circles.
Yes. You could learn everything you need to know by watching a 20 minute YouTube video, but you’d rather use a paid product instead. That’s, like, the definition of a skill issue. The issue isn’t that the software is hard to use, it’s that you refuse to learn how to use it.
And that’s not the fault of Jellyfin, because the “ease of use” of Plex is because it’s a paid product. They can afford to run servers to make everything work for you without having to put in any effort to learn. You’re using their servers to make it easy for you, and you’re paying to do it.
It’s fine if you don’t want to learn to set up a service, but it does make me wonder why you’re commenting on a self hosting community. It seems to me like you’re not interested in self hosting. (Not trying to assume, but what you said is not what I would associate with someone who likes to self host.)
Except that just isn't true unless you have prior knowledge of lots of other things. As with a lot of documentation within this space it all presumes prior knowledge of different things.
Most things you read or watch will start with just do x but if you don't already even know how to do x then you have to go down a further rabbit hole to find out how to do that. Everything you try and do is a series of these things so your 20 minute YouTube video turns into hours of trying to learn other things to tie in with it.
On top of that I dont understand the underlying security implications behind opening my network up to the outside world, it is all well and good following some 20 minute video but without understanding the underlying implications of what you are doing how can you really fully trust that information because I dont understand everything behind it?
Again, I never said it wasnt a skill issue, I literally agreed with you that it was....
Also why can I not comment and participate in a self hosting community just because I dont do things exactly the way YOU want me to does that mean I automatically can't participate?
It is your kind of hostile and condescending attitude along with documentation that assumes too much prior knowledge that makes both the self hosting and Linux communities really unwelcoming to people that are looking to even dip a toe into them. This all or nothing attitude where only your method of doing things is acceptable and anything else is seen as fair game for mockery and condescension.
I'm new to the space and maybe in the future as I learn more about it I can move on to other things as I gain the knowledge I need but people like you, whose attitude is just fucking shitty are really off putting in these spaces. Everyone needs to learn and the culture of condescension and mockery towards new users by a large majority of the existing user base doesn't make more people want to join in and learn.
Cheers for adding absolutely nothing to the conversation though and further putting me off wanting to learn any more or continue to interact with the communities though. You're really helping push adoption of things like this.
Again, you just sound like you’re not interested in self hosting. I wasn’t even that condescending to you, but you took it that way. You said you don’t want to learn how to self host in a community about self hosting. Like, imagine if someone went into a community about bicycling and was like, “Well, I don’t want to ride bikes, but I like motorcycles because I don’t have to pedal.” You should expect a certain level of disregard in a community if you’re going into that community saying you’re unwilling to learn the basics of what that community is about.
If you’re not interested in self hosting, I’m not saying you’re not welcome here, because a. you are and b. I don’t moderate this community anyway, but I genuinely wonder why you’re here. You did say you might be interested in the future, so…
This is a genuine offer: if you want to learn how to self host, I will get on a video call with you and teach you how to set up some services on your home network and open them up in a secure way. I write and run my own servers, and have for well over a decade, so I am qualified to teach you what you need to know, if you want to learn.
Yeh that is fair enough, maybe I worded it wrong in the first place as it is more that right now I dont have the time or motivation to do the learning due to everything else going on in life and I do conceded that I did jump first to condescension but that was based more on a lot of previous interactions I have had within the broader Linux community so I apologise if that was not your intention but "sounds like a skill issue" is a usual dismissive response that is often meant to be condescending.
I have put a lot of time in the last year into learning Linux to get to a place where I have proxmox running as well as a NAS and that was all from a place of zero prior knowledge and that was a steep learning curve and I think I am some what jaded from that experience going forward too due to some interactions and how not easy to follow documentation is for someone entirely new to the space.
I do appreciate the offer and maybe in the future I could take you up on the offer when I have more time and mental capacity to put back into furthering my learning within this space. Apologies for jumping straight to an assumption of your position based on previous interactions if that wasnt your intention, it just came across as such.
Thank you for being understanding. I shouldn’t have stated it as bluntly as I did either, so I think you were justified in taking it as condescending, and I’m glad we’re seeing each other’s view more clearly now. I think it’s awesome you’re getting into Linux, and even if you don’t ultimately do it, even considering self hosting is awesome. Getting Proxmox and your own NAS up and running is awesome too, btw. Something you should be proud of. I do want Linux and self hosting to be a welcoming space, so I’m going to try in the future to be more welcoming.
When you’re ready, you can email me at hperrin-friends@port87.com about my offer. The offer stands any time you feel ready to dive in. 😀
I appreciate it a lot and have saved this comment for the future!
I'm glad we can come around to an understanding too, to sort of illustrate why I reacted as such this comment from this thread kind of epitomises what it can be like trying to get into the Linux space and learn as a complete newbie sometimes and it is very fucking tiring. I realise not everyone is like that and there are plenty of people that provide a lot of help but it is also very tiring and off putting when you are new to a space and you are met with attitudes like this.
Do you know how to remediate black mold spreading on the walls of a houseboat?
Do you know how to compile Linux to run on some custom arm hardware?
Do you know how to repair or rebuild a crumbling stone retaining wall?
There's a good chance you may not know how to accomplish all of those tasks. There's also a very good chance you may not care about knowing how to accomplish all of those tasks, as some of them may not be relevant to you. This is ok.
Finally, I know you're posting on the Internet, but you don't have to be an asshole, that's a choice.
Should I begin telling you about the wonderful man in the middle attack that I reported to Plex over 3 years ago and how it’s still not fixed? Anyone can setup a plex instance and use that very instance to request an ssl certificate on behalf of any other plex instance, and then setup shop and gain complete access to your machine.
Using jellyfin on Chromecast. For the past 3 weeks I'm stuck not being able to use it because some update broke subtitles support for external players. App became useless, I can't downgrade it, and the bug is still not fixed.
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I’m ready to replace plex but unless something major has changed in the last several months I simply can’t understand how people feel jellyfin is a comparable solution to plex. I couldn’t even get past the user interface and it falling flat on its face with media recognition.
Might want to take another look at Jellyfin. My experience has been that as long as the video file s are at least somewhat reasonably named and organized, Jellyfin has no problems identifying a file and looking up its metadata.
I dunno what you were doing wrong, but Jellyfin is a strong alternative to Plex that has feature parity. The only reason to use Plex over Jellyfin is if you want the streaming channels Plex has. Especially since many of the features Plex has are locked behind a paywall, whereas on Jellyfin they are free.
what about it? anyone who hosts a Jellyfin server probably already has a reverse proxy set up. if not, then that is another 2min setup required, if you don't know what you're doing.
I think the situation under discussion is converting plex users to jellyfin though. Most plex users won’t have a reverse proxy setup because it’s not needed.
this is the selfhosting comm. I'm willing to bet that virtually ever person here who has a home server of some kind, has a reverse proxy or VPN set up that they could access Jellyfin from.
Jellyfin is the solution if you have a media file on your computer and you want to stream it to your TV in a different room and Bare Bones works fine. It serves my use cases for a lot of things pretty well, but for hardcore self-hosted streaming Plex still has more features and polish
There are custom themes out there that change the interface.
Right click -> identify-> Title name, has yet to fail me.
Its been a long time since i used plex so I can’t say how much “easier” its over there but compared to the days before streaming this little upfront work takes less time then going to a physical store to rent.
Maintenance takes no work and it cant be enshitificated (someone will just port it)
Plex is more polished, jellyfin is basically functional but we use Plex in our household because we watch movies all the time. I have my own personal jellyfin server on an old computer
I switched from a heavily used Plex server with about 10 users to Jellyfin with the samw usage patterns abour half a year ago. So far it's been pretty smooth sailing. A better world is possible!
How much more polish you need to watch a movie? Jellyfin has everything you need. I keep seeing these discussions and for the life of me I cannot figure out what is missing from jellyfin that people use Plex after all they have been doing for years
Currently my biggest complain with Jellyfin and the reason I can't switch to it completely is the bad subtitle support. There's a bunch of clients and some subtitles work on one, but not the other and vise versa. It's annoying to jump clients depending on what you watch. Sometimes subtitles just don't want to load by default and you have turn them on for each episode. And even though I have Bazaar, sometimes I still need to download subtitles, and Plex has that built-in.
Either way, I already have lifetime subscription, there's no point in switching. At this point I'll only switch if JF becomes better or Plex becomes worse.
some subtitles work on one, but not the other and vise versa
For me it has worked everywhere. All of my media is in .mkv so it already contains the subtitles. It works in all browsers clients, Desktop clients, TV and Mobile clients. Works in VLC and MPV as well on desktop, TV and Mobile. Works with Kodi as well. Works on same network (via both host IP and reverse proxy) as well as remotely via Pangolin.
So you can try putting everything in one MKV Container or maybe change the subtitle formats (if that's a thing).
🤞. Hopefully it's just JF getting better, of course, but that last app redesign on Plex was really rough. I had to downgrade the app to make it work well again.
Of course I can put extra work into formatting my subtitles to make them work everywhere. Sometimes they are embedded, sometimes they are an .srt file next to the video file. And I don't want to spend time normalizing all of them. It already just works all the time on Plex, so I'll simply wait until JF fixes the support.
I'm not talking about naming schemes. The subtitles are detected, but they either crash the client or render improperly or just don't show up despite being selected. I guess I'm really waiting for a decent multi-platform client that just works.
That's odd because the clients are just web apps I think. That should work without crashing on a stable OS. I use them on Android mobile and Android TV with extensive subtitle usage and haven't seen instability.
A funny thing I noticed is that the client distributed in F-Droid is extremely old even though it says it's updated recently.
I think the official client might be a webapp, but other clients on iOS are mostly native apps. Honestly, maybe it's better on other platforms, but since my gf and I do most of our watching on iPads we don't see the full picture.
Working "watched" labels on the Apple TV client would be nice. Not having those is a deal breaker for me considering 99% of my use case is streaming media to my Apple TV over LAN.
I have Jellyfin running along side Plex in case I want to do remote streaming, but I never use it and generally just copy the files for what I want to watch to my laptop if I'm going to be watching something away from home. Or I can just VPN in to my home network.
I don't think it is that is more polished, it's just you pay for them to do the stuff you need to do yourself with reverse proxying, opening ports, securing stuff. This is only an issue if you are sharing outside your network of course.
This is why mesh vpn technology is so exciting, all of the nonsense that we've developed to cope with broken Network standards that develops because ipv4 didn't have enough addresses to accommodate the end-to-end principle just melts away. Tailscale works wonders for me, And the technology is only going to get better from there
I have a kinda old but still working great 4k TV that is not supported so I use a fire tv dongle. No complaints so far. The same for other family members who have Android tv and webos
Because its more polished, has more platforms for clients to run on, and can be remotely shared with a simple account login and no configuration required. To name a few.
Plex is not free. Plex is paid software, just like Google Photos or iCloud. The only free software is open source. Open source everything. Doesn’t matter if the client is open source. If the server isn’t, it’s not open source. (I’M LOOKING AT YOU, SNAP!)
Unfortunately this idea that open source is free is a bit toxic in a way. It's definitely not free to make, it takes years of dev time, and sure, those people often do it without any compensation. And therein lies the problem. People here bitching about jellyfin not doing x or y, but doing nothing to support full time development of it's creation, then shitting on the devs for not having a perfect product, leads to good devs leaving OSS behind.
Edit: I'll also say, I get the issues that come with proprietary software in the modern age, especially anything online, but there's almost this push towards not paying for software. Because some software is free and open source, paying for closed source software makes you a rube or something.
Yeah, I am one of those open source devs who doesn’t get paid for it. But I can’t really say it’s the fault of normal users. They’re just people trying to get by. The fault really lies in corporations using open source without supporting it. Some corporations do give back and support communities, but a lot just take and don’t give anything back.
Personally, most of what I write for my company, SciActive, is open source. The only thing I don’t release is my actual product (Port87), but everything I’ve built in order to build it (the ORM, Nymph.js, the UI library, Svelte Material UI, the WebDAV server, Nephele) are all open source.
I do get users shitting on these projects sometimes, but the majority of communications I get are respectful and gracious. It does sour the experience when someone acts rudely, but I try to not let them get under my skin. Some devs have trouble not being bothered by it, and for them, the rude users and lack of compensation are so much worse.
What keeps me writing open source though is that I just genuinely have a passion for writing code. I recently built a full text search engine into Nymph, and the whole process was so much fun. I think that’s what powers open source, genuine passion for what we build.
(There’s one project that gets shit on a lot more than my others, QuickDAV, which I’ve never really understood. A lot of people say they’d rather use SyncThing, which is fine, but they have different use cases, so it just baffles me. It’s like someone looking at Inkscape and saying they’d rather use GIMP.)
Years ago I decided to go with Emby over Plex only because at the time plex didnt support kodi integration and I enjoyed using that at the time for my front-end user experience. Within 6 months they started supporting it and I was upset since I did want to go with plex. Lately I feel like I made the perfect decision. It's gotta be close to 10 years now and I paid one $100 lifetime fee for Emby and still use it everyday along with some family and friends I gave access to. Also gotta remember I dont believe jellyfin was even an option at that time. I tried it not to long ago and although it was fine, I actually think I liked emby a little more.
As for the remote access, how do they block it? Do they not allow you to setup your own remote connection that does not involve plex? Thats how I do it, I do not use emby connect to make it easier to go through them I just setup my own domain, use ddns, and configure the ports I want exposed and thats it. If plex doesnt allow that then thats already crazy, if they do and even thats now blocked then thats even crazier.
Emby may be simpler, and i heard about plex having a music AI feature that I was actually jealous of, but overall it just works and not paying anything in forever will always be my preferred method over awful monthly subscriptions anyday.
When a user wants to connect to a 'private' plex server, they must first sign into their plex.tv account, which then provides the auth token needed to login to the users server (even if both the client and server are on the same lan)
With this system, Plex can monitor and control every single connection to every plex server; limiting access to whatever they want. Even your own local content.
Emby has what they call 'Emby Connect' which is entirely optional and is basically a glorified DNS service.
It doesn't proxy connections, it just passes on the hostname to the client. The server is still required to setup port forwarding or other routing like tailscale or a proxy on a vps.
Emby Connect will let you sign into your local server using your emby.media credentials, but unlike Plex it's completely optional and only works once explicitly linked to the local user of an Emby server.
Yeah hell to the naww. They're also probably tracking all your viewing habits and monetizing that data, they'd be foolish not to with that kind of access.
I bought the Emby lifetime license about 2 years ago when the plex remote streaming stuff first started getting talked about. It coincided with my server refresh so it ended up working out. I have been really happy with Emby so far.
One thing to note is that music streaming on remote devices is WAY better on plex, Emby behaves more like a mapped network drive running over the internet to a local music player that then forgets your position on pause or when you move away from the remote app/device whereas Plex is actually functional as a modern music player. I keep a local copy of my music library on my phone anyways and okay through Gonemad so it is a non-issue for me but Emby should work better than it does in that case.
Plex also allows/provides "live" tv (with ads) which can be nice if you are into that, and there is the "free" streaming library too which Emby doesn't offer. I'll keep plex around for those features but non-of my stuff is/will be hosted on Plex.
Yeah, as a big music fan I have always been disappointed in Embys music functionality. I followed the discussions around this on there site and I was a bit disappointed by the response. They were getting the same feedback around how bad it is and it should be revamped or even have a dedicated app just for music and they just dismissed it basically saying we'll it can be something we may do later on but dont hold your breath and that they believe it works fine the way it is and dont agree it will help.
Luckily I really didnt care to use it for music anyway. I already had a Subsonic (now Navidrome) server for that. It would have been nice for a few things, but ultimately it was fine. The cool part is the android app Symfonium is the best music app I have ever used and it connects to all the servers to pull data. I obviously still use navidrome, but I could just pull from emby as well with it.
Am I the only one who thinks jellyfin is not only superior to pure, but also way more intuitive to setup? I still don’t understand how plexs routing works, and why I need a central account in order to connect to my own server.
If you want to try it I think you should be able to do it With a Raspberry pi or equivalent on their network running Tailscale, use iptables to forward all inbound traffic on the Jellyfin port from that device to your Jellyfin server which is also running tailscale. Connect their Roku using the pi as the address for Jellyfin. I've not tried this with Jellyfin but I had something similar working with a Minecraft server
A VPS with a reverse proxy connected to your tailnet and a dyndns domain. It would be cheaper than Plex premium, you can use the vps for other stuff, and you have 100% certainty it will never ever show ads.
If you have a static IP it's super easy. If you don't, it's less easy, but you should configure Plex the same way if you don't want to use their proxy, which lowers the speed anyway.
I got Jellyfin set up and available for streaming in less than two hours. Plex kept demanding that my friend buy a pass to download something, so I was like, nah. Jellyfin works flawlessly and is (in my opinion) a far superior option. I constantly had issues with Plex.
Probably not the only one, but configuring your server for outside access is way easier with Plex.
Since I mainly use these services for streaming my music collection (long time cd collector), I declare that Plexamp is simply superior to jellyfin. It is really awesome and feature-rich and jellyfin does not even come close to Plexamp regarding music in my opinion.
I paid 79€ almost a decade ago. I got more than my moneys worth. Even the current lifetime (on sale) is less than a year of Netflix. More expensive than piracy + Jellyfin ofc if that’s your benchmark 😀
I have a Jellyfin instance running anyway, I’ll switch to that if Plex enshittifies.
The only change I can see that when I scroll down on my Plex front page, there’s a bunch of stuff that’s not on my NAS. Some of them actually interesting, like this full ass category of old school kungfu movies:
This is a "slippery slope' argument and thus a fallacy.
Let users decide how they want to run their own stuff. Right now if you have Plex pass this isn't an issue. If it becomes an issue, then you're in the exact same position you'd be in today if you decided to move away from Plex now.
I moved away from Plex years ago, but I don't blame users for sticking with it, it still has a lot of advantages over jellyfin.
EDIT: Y'all are trippin' over yourselves to complain about what other people choose to deploy on their own hardware.
If it becomes an issue, then you're in the exact same position you'd be in today if you decided to move away from Plex now.
I disagree. Right now you got time to do the research, plan the move and test it out with a demo setup. You do not know if you got the time if Plex decides to screw their lifetime users.
Jellyfin can't go closed source as it's a fork of Emby from before it was closed source, licensed under the GPL. They don't own that code so they can't change that license, thus the whole project is GPL. In addition, Jellyfin isn't being developed by just one company (it's all volunteers), so every new contribution is also GPL licensed, owned by each contributor. The only way Jellyfin could go closed source would be to cut out the Emby backend and for every single contributor ever to agree to change the license, or have their code cut out. In short it's not happening, and if somehow it did the project would just get forked regardless for everyone to switch to (the community did it once already!).
No, you have not understood anything. Assuming Jellyfin would go closed source, (ignoring the GPL license and so on) you would not notice anything. Your server and service would be unchanged by this.
Emby is the best example, the community will fork it and you server lives on. Even if not, then the server and software is still yours.
Have the lifetime since like 2012, every time a post like this surfaces I wonder if the contents of it are finally going to force my hand to use jellyfin instead
I’ve never used jellyfin, but do they also host proxy servers? AFAIK plex does and its costing them money, hence the need for paywalling this. You can still use tailscale and reverse proxy to allow remote streaming
Jellyfin does not host anything. With this change free Plex users behind a reverse proxy (or VPN) and Jellyfin users behind a reverse proxy (or VPN) work the same for remote access.
The only difference is that Plex no longer provides expensive services for free, while Jellyfin never provided them.
This is my understanding and I’m surprised with the negative reaction. I think jellyfin is the better alternative being FOSS but this is not the reason.
You can still use tailscale and reverse proxy to allow remote streaming
I used to use Plex and when I discovered there was paid remote streaming function - that goes through their servers - my reactions were "Haha, no"* and checking whether my existing WireGuard setup would do it instead.
Whaddya know, remote streaming using Plex and PlexAmp at no cost.
*Not because I begrudge them recouping costs, but because it's designed that way to justify charging for it, gives them whatever information they want from my viewing, and it's not self-hosting if there's any third party cloud/account component to it.
Why not? It depends on your situation, but if you have a static IP or a dyndns service, you can just open a port to your Jellyfin and reach it from anywhere.
You can also stick a reverse proxy in front of it, if you want to feel safer.
You can “proxy” tailscale networks, you’d need 1 device per household with tailscale running and accepting/advertising routes. Not sure if tailscale IP addressing works in that case though, and just doing it via private IP can get problematic with same network range in the household
That works. I did it with a LG tv: Have a server advertising the routes with tailscale and in your tv when you configure the connection select that server as gateway and that's it.
I'd strongly recommend reverse proxy, some sort of security like crowd sec or fail2ban and sperate auth (authelia, aithentik) in front of anything you're opening to the internet. Just opening services directly up to the internet is choice I'd politely describe as brave.
"Good luck setting up remote streaming with free Plex."
Yes, Jellyfin does not forward ports for you. Same as free Plex. With this change both are the same difficulty to set up for free, the only difference is with Plex there's a shortcut: Buy Plex.
~~I don't think simply forwarding the port actually works with free Plex anymore. I think if the server has a different public IP from the client it asks you to pay, even if you're connecting to the server over LAN.~~
Edit: That doesn't appear to be true. I'm not entirely sure how Plex is checking whether you're trying to stream remotely. In my case at least it works if I connect to my server using the LAN IP, but not if I use DNS (even though it resolves to the same IP). Maybe I'm missing something to allow it to work using the hostname.
I checked the logs and it said it was assuming a remote connection because there was an unknown hostname in the headers (I forget the exact wording). It was because the hostname I was using didn't match the hostname configured in the server's OS (one I set up on my local DNS server).
Jellyfin users, how is the transcoding situation? I have a mix of AV1 and H265 and I need to get smooth playback to my living room Apple TV for families’ sake.
You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.
Usually. When Plex leaked that they were selling user data, I was running Plex server on an Nvidia Shield, a unique build of Plex that ran as a core service of the Android device. There ain't no Jellyfin analogue of that monstrosity.
I'm moving to jellyfin because of my customzation obsession after using Plex for YEARS (bought lifetime as a kid in college), but I'm still going to donate to the Jellyfin team if I love the software they made. I'm so new to self hosting and it's awesome how much free stuff is out there, but how do they maintain it for free?
Is the argument that we shouldn't have to pay money to use software or that Plex / software is changing things after taking money? This is the one area that confuses me the most. Free as a selling point but like, are we just not supposed to send money or am I dumb for doing so?
Not really. The argument is not that everything should be free. I think, I was trying to make a point that Infuse is a third party application that is not free to use (unlike jellyfin).
Just as long as you’re fine with your media server absolutely eating power all the time
Stop encoding in av1 and get a low power older intel chip around 10th gen or so with quick sync. Unless you have like 5+ users watching 4k media at the same time this will handle transcoding absolutely fine while using far less power than a dedicated gpu
I don't encode in AV1, I use HEVC. But while your argument is not unreasonable, it misses the component of file size and amount of disk space required.
HEVC (x265) takes half the space of x264. While it does require a more modern GPU, it can be run on lower powered Intel CPUs with an integrated GPU just fine, so long as the CPU is new enough. Though it can only handle 2-3 streams on a CPU like the Intel chips in a ZimaBoard. So you need to choose wisely.
I guess it's a platter vs energy cost thing. For me it's way cheaper to buy more storage for my little puck PC that can handle ~4 streams at 1080p and sips power.
Person you responded to said av1, I didn’t mean to imply you did. HEVC is good balance and quicksync will handle it as you’ve said. 10th gen stuff will handle 4-5 at the expense of more power (but less than like a typical gpu build).
Last statement you made is critical - usage dictates build
Debian and Ubuntu have the most docs and guides If you know what you're doing nixos or ucore would be pretty unbreakable Paid for product I love Unraid
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I kind of understand why someone would honestly. Jellyfin subtitles are still a hot mess for a lot of formats unfortunately. Also, while plex has tried really hard to ruin their UI, I've still had more trouble explaining where to find things in Jellyfin. And if you're sharing your collection with friends or family members there's a lot more technical stuff involved.
So I can see why the balance might still tip toward paying plex still for some people.
Luckily I bought a lifetime license ages ago before the first price hike so this doesn't affect me yet. So I'm just riding out the decline, running them in parallel until plex completely breaks. slowly transitioning the family as they get annoyed with broken features. Plexamp is quickly taking care of that 😅
Two years ago, when I found out that you need damn subscription, to watch YOUR stuff with transcoding on your device in local network, from your local server - I complained on reddit and a lot of people was disagree with me for harsh position.
Pure rent seeking. It's not the only example. So many products have artificial defects deliberately added by the manufacturer so that they can then charge you to disable the defect.
Years ago now, they pushed an offer for lifetime subscription onto my server. I clicked it, went through to their website and bought it, paid, the subscription activated and worked.
The next day they emailed to say actually i wasn't eligible for the offer, they cancelled it and refunded me and said it would actually cost $30 more.
I installed Jellyfin that same day, it was pretty buggy back then but was definitely the right decision.
Welcoming the incoming dowvotes for correcting your comment just like the many similar comments and posts I've seen on Reddit, but this is purely a configuration issue.
Transcoding on local network is allowed without a subscription. If you are running your own DNS server (like pihole or unbound) you need to configure an internal "plex.direct" record. You also need to uncheck an option to "treat your WAN IP as internal" option which corrects double NAT issues.
I have yet to see a need to move away from Plex. I paid for the cheap lifetime sub over a decade ago at this point and everyone I invite to my server has no complaints and has not had to pay Plex a dime. I don't use their plex.tv proxy, I direct connect to my own IP and leave their remote proxy option off in the server and everything works great.
I will check out Jellyfin at some point if Plex makes things more difficult in time, but for now these articles are literally just rage bait in the homelab ecosystem. They enacted this back in April of 2025 already!
I never checked to see what was actually in the logs but when i was running Plex, it constantly tried to send a lot of log data to its masters. That alone was enough to budge me up and get Jellyfin. Jellyfin isn't as polished but it works perfectly fine for me.
Are there legal ways today to have your own media server serving new TV shows? I see the point if you're sailing the high seas, but curios if there's other uses for one (for videos)
Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin are all legal, and each have ways to serve liveTV alongside your own locally stored content, and DVR that liveTV if you want. You'd just have to purchase a liveTV subscription from your local provider (or go the Pirate route ofc).
I ultimately want to ditch Plex, but as an existing lifetime member, it currently handles everything so smoothly for my users that I don't see enough benefits in switching. Particularly on the music streaming side (PlexAmp), I think the experience is the most polished one I've seen.
My hope is that by the time the lifetime Plex Pass experience has become enshittified, Jellyfin will be more ready than it is today, and I'll make a switch then.
I ran Jellyfin and plex for a while, using Jellyfin instead of plex at every oppurtunity. Then Jellyfin broke, I couldn't figure out how to fix it in an evening, and I just went back to using Plex, which had continued working. It isn't great, sure, but it's fine. I think Jellyfin would need to be Immich levels of cool, or plex would actually need to be unusable for me to switch.
I'm in the same boat, I have a Plex pass, I have my reverse proxy setup, Plex just works (TM) and when it stops, Jellyfin is already installed and ready to go.
I never shared my server anyway, but a lot of the other design decisions they've made over the last couple years drove me to Jellyfin. My issue though is I cannot figure out how to set it up properly like I had Plex setup with genres, sort by added to server, lists, etc. I can't tell if I'm missing something obvious, or Jellyfin just lacks those features and I need to get a plugin or something. Anyway, sorry for the rant. Just hoping someone has experienced similar and might point me in the right direction.
And you can go to plex settings and disable all the love channels, discover, friend activity, etc that everyone complains about. Make it a simple plex server again.
I display my movies and music in the order they were added by default, but I do recall a lot of historical problems with that functionality. It has not been a problem for me the last year or two, I would say, but I do remember it being a problem.
There's still lots of room for improvement, to be damn sure. But can't beat the feeling of freedom, you ask me.
I'm just thankful that the app doesn't run like garbage due to all the bloat like Plex does. That and I really like the fact it auto checks for subtitle files and plays them. Overall I am glad I moved I just wish there were a couple more features.
When I first set up my server this year it was a VERY easy decision between this and jellyfin. Why would I ever go with the corporate, closed source option?
In my case, I was not able to make jellyfin work: transcoding issues, lagging, client disconnection or unresponsive... Plex worked flawlessly out of the box with the same hardware and the same library.
From time to time I try Jellyfin again, but things never change ..
Would you like help/guidance on your next attempt? It definitely works, but possibly not on corporate devices like Roku and such - I never did have a lot of luck with those, other than I think I had Jellyfin casting to a couple of Chromecasts we have kicking around. Not when the internet was out, of course, cause why would they keep working if Google can't get their data on the spot?
Thank you, but it won't be necessary. I think my issues are hardware -related, or simply my NAS is under too much load from other applications 😅 Other than that I should try with the Chromecast as you suggested, maybe the problem was the shitty client application...
If I don't succeed I'm still good with Plex, and I have a raspberry hanging around for an emergency Kodi.
You can cut it off from the internet and stream in your house locally for free still.
End from any external streaming perspective, they are hosting a repository with your connection and port info, so your external friends can connect without you needing to manually configure or update their settings when you make a local change. Plus they are hosting stream relays for those that are unable to make a direct connection. To me, seems fair they'd ask for payment for that service.
Sorry, I didn't read your reply, I was streaming every movie, album, book, and magazine in existence to every location in the universe at all times. Even when I blink I have 16K screens inside my eyelids.
This is normal behavior in 2025. If you cut off my terabit stream, I will writhe on the ground and scream.
I am not in any way addicted to digital hoarding or continuously upgrading systems that have already exceeded the capacity of any normal person to watch a movie since 20 years.
Imagine, you software get massively used for piracy, and then you decide to ask for licence for the use of thir software, host on server you do not control. I suspect this will not be result they expected
Oh it's perfect. Trump can blame Biden, blame democrats, blame immigration and put a little more armed red neck state national guard men in democrat cities.
Israeli forces on Thursday killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender to troops, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed “in cold blood.” The Israeli military said it was investigating.
The IDF is filled with racist motherfuckers who should be charged with murder and promptly sent to the worst jail in the world.
Seriously, the IDF is hardly a professional military at this point, in most ways it is simply a formalized institution for ethnic cleansing using expensive military equipment they are given as handouts by the US military.
The IDF does not even follow basic rules of engagement, they see a civilian, have impulse feelings about it and then shoot. No threat analysis, no consideration over whether lethal force is necessary by a chain of command and absolutely NO accountability for blatant horrific war crimes. The IDF is not a military, it is a bunch of murderers wearing military fatigues.
They've proven themselves a capable actual army in the past against numerically far superior opponents, displaying both organizational and individual competence alongside their evil. Now they don't even have that. It's just a very well funded gang.
Yeah that's fair, though I do have to note that other than Yom Kippur in none of Israel's past conflicts was it seriously outnumbered. That's the image they like to sell, and intuitively it feels like it should be true, but it's really not. Israel has always been good at raising massive armies relative to their population, and for instance surprisingly way outnumbered their enemies in 1948. Again not contesting your point; I agree that they were much more competent in the past.
If you refer to the 47 it is propaganda. The numbers of soldiers on both sides was very close and at first the zionists militias weapons was inferior but chsnged quickly
Back in 1994, the IDF granted Itamar Ben-Gvir an exemption from mandatory military service due to his right wing views. He has since been convicted (in Israeli courts) of supporting a terrorist organization, and is currently serving as Israel's minister of national security; and is a key figure in maintaining the current governing coalition.
The governing coalition has been in constant tension with senior IDF leadership, which has long argued that all achievable military objectives in Gaza have been achieved, and that continued operation is counter productive.
The governing coalition has been in constant tension with senior IDF leadership, which has long argued that all achievable military objectives in Gaza have been achieved, and that continued operation is counter productive.
The IDF is still full of foot soldiers who have willingly and knowingly prosecuted the Palestinian Genocide, the entire "military" structure is complicit top to bottom. IDF soldiers all the way from the top leadership down to grunts deserve to be in jail equally.
Israeli society has been radicalized into genocide, complicity is omnipresent and distributed down chains of command, if IDF personnel think they can argue "I was just following orders!" they are ignorant fools who refused to learn history or listen to basic calls for human empathy and they deserve to be prosecuted as active and willing participants in the Palestinian Genocide to the full extent possible.
My understanding is that they absolutely get their shit pushed in when they can't hide behind their airplanes and have to fight armed adversaries in face-to-face combat.
Oct 7th offensive was only turned around when gunships showed up. "The best most badass armed forces" in one of the most fortified and militarized region on earth were utterly destroyed by guys with trucks and AKs.
The myth of the IDF being elite and uniquely brave is one of the biggest dog shit lies ever told.
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Encore des crimes de guerre par les monstres sionistes inhumains.
2jeunes se rendent, et sont froidement exécutés
> Scenes documenting the moment the Israeli occupation forces murdered two young men after they had surrendered them…
Maybe @answerplease77@lemmy.world was referring to:
In 2009, an interview with Dr. Yehuda Hiss—former head of the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute—was leaked. Recorded in 2000 by Nancy Scheper-Hughes—professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley—Hiss said that pathologists at the institute took skin, corneas, bones and heart valves from the bodies of Israeli citizens, Israeli soldiers, Palestinians and immigrants, often without consent from the deceased's family.
There are over three decades of evidence that Israeli doctors harvest Palestinian organs in direct violation of international law. These stolen body parts were not just used for transplantation and research but for sale and profit.
I'm aware of the claims. The claim the commenter made was that they took the bodies of the two in the story for this purpose, which is baseless.
There's a big difference from "there are occurrences of a thing happening" vs. "the thing is happening right now, right here, to these people."
If you think every odd body is getting hauled off for organ harvesting, you're being a little nuts. It was stated to invoke an emotional response, making a bad an evil situation seem more bad and more evil without any evidence. Just internet hatemongering shock value that doesn't do any good and just distracts from the issue.
Plenty of reasons to hate Israel, but my toast that burnt this morning can't be blamed on them. Has Israel burnt toast? Most likely. Does israel have systematic policies in place, or an unspoken culture, regarding burnt toast? Maybe; it should probably be investigated. Did they burn my toast this morning? I have no basis to suspect that, but I could go around yelling about it and people might even agree because there are lots of proven things to hate Israel for already and it's the internet...
But yes, it certainly is maxed; which makes this behavior even weirder to me.
Perhaps, if you suck at abstract thought... but I meant it to be a bit broader than that.
Stop. Making. Shit. Up.
Substantiate claims. Speak truth. It's fine if you want to draw attention to issues, but connecting them to random shit with no reason and stating it as a fact is fucking pathetic.
They didn't kill them to take organs. They killed them because they saw the Epstein files. See how fucking stupid that sounds? Man... (Not a 1:1)
Two human being getting fucking murdered for no reason by a genocidal ethnostate is bad enough without you needing to throw shit at a wall. It just makes people who care about this look like fucking idiots making up shit to be mad at when there's plenty of real things to be mad at
I'm aware, but there's little distinction between saying shit and defending shit being said. And yeah, the "stop pointlessly lying on the internet" guy is an antagonizer... Twat. Grow up.
Watch the full video I linked up. They dragged the bodies afterward. Nothing far fetched by what they intend to do with them as they've done thousands times before.
Isreal wants to pass this law to cover the fact that they've been torturing Palestinian hostages to death.
Israel has been returning hundrends of dead bodies of Palestinian hostages hollowed from all organs, missing teeth, limps and heads, and with signs of severe sexual and phaysical torture. they hang them from their hands cuffed behind their back until their arms get amuptated from blocked blood flow. this is beside hostage testimonies of getting raped by gaurds, and with objects and by dogs.
False. Instead they used an excacator to collapse part of the warehouse building (the rather large liftable door) on the victims' bodies, likely hoping to hide their deeds for a while. They were unaware that a journalist was filming them with a telephoto lens.
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Stop bluffing, unless you know what it takes to get an organ successfully transplanted to someone. And I see you don't.
A really simple rule: if one would intend to get transplantable organs, one would not drop construction material on the person. One would transport the person to a hospital without any delay. Doctors would be the persons telling of which violations are happening.
As things are, both Israel and some other countries (Russia) have the habit of returning the bodies of some prisoners who died under suspicious circumstances without some organs. For example, an Ukrainian journalist's body was returned without her brain and throat. No, she's not living in another body, brain transplants are fantasy. She was likely strangled to death and organs removed to conceal torture.
I am currently under the impression that this practise serves the purpose of concealing torture (or other crimes) in several places, with one exception - China.
China has been credibly accused of actually harvesting organs from prisoners executed in prisons. This is feasible for them, since a prisoner after execution can be tested before they are killed, and is immediately available for dissection and cooling of organs, which can then be rushed to an airport for sending to the correct hospital. I have good reason to suspect it's happening. Needless to say, it's an extremely serious crime.
However, I have not heard of any successful (no matter whether voluntary or forced) organ donation from a person who experienced circulatory death in field conditions and was transported slowly from a considerable distance. Jenin is in the West Bank. Do you think doctors in the West Bank would accommodate a request from the IDF to remove, test and cool organs for from a shooting victim for transplantation? I don't think even Israeli doctors would.
If you think differently, I would like to see evidence.
As the thread tells us, IDF committed two war crimes: shooting prisoners and desecrating their bodies. There is no need to spread silly rumours on top of that. Reality is bad enough.
First, there are hundreds of pieces of evidence and doctor testimonies proving that the IOF have been organ harvesting their hostages.
Secondly regarding this case, I hope you're right and I hope the IOF are incapable of doing further crimes to these bodies. It's also a sad relief that the they just executed them instead of torturing them to death as the IOF have been doing to whoever they capture.
all this list of articles + look up the testomonies of doctors who worked in Gaza's docotrs without borders foundations on youtube. + Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah 's photos & testimony that he gave when he came back. Those are all UK, US, Australian doctors btw.. not Khhaamahuus. I know your lame butt is too cynical and too lazy to google this yourself. You see the list I gave you in that comment? at lesst 20 sources right there. It's not my issue if you are not convinced, and I will not do your homework. You go do your research or choose to stuff your stinking propagonda you desprately try to spread despite the truth and hundrends of resources and testominies there up your brain and live with it.
Isreal wants to pass this law to cover the fact that they've been torturing Palestinian hostages to death.
Israel has been returning hundrends of dead bodies of Palestinian hostages hollowed from all organs, missing teeth, limps and heads, and with signs of severe sexual and phaysical torture. they hang them from their hands cuffed behind their back until their arms get amuptated from blocked blood flow. this is beside hostage testimonies of getting raped by gaurds, and with objects and by dogs.
You go do your research or choose to stuff your stinking propagonda you desprately try to spread despite the truth and hundrends of resources and testominies there up your brain and live with it.
Sure, get agitated and start name-calling me, that will help convince me and others.
Thanks for providing the link, however. I reviewed all the links you posted in that thread. Your claim does not have firm evidence.
Source 3 (trtworld): they suspect the possibility, but don't have firm evidence.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office also cited possible organ theft from some of the retrieved bodies. "Preliminary data indicates the possibility of human organs being stolen from some bodies, in a crime that transcends humanity and reveals a systematic criminal practice by the occupation against Palestinians both alive and dead," the office said in a statement.
Source 5 (Middle East Eye) includes more information about who made the claim. The damage reported to the bodies is not consistent with removing an organ for transplantation.
"When we examined the bodies, we found that large parts were missing. There were half bodies, bodies without heads, without limbs, without eyes, and without internal organs," he told Al Jazeera, adding that there was a high possibility that Israel stole these organs.
Source 8 (Al Jazeera) describes damage more vividly. It is not consistent with organ removal for transplantation.
Many appeared decomposed or burned. Some were missing limbs or teeth, while others were coated in sand and dust. Health officials have said Israeli restrictions on allowing DNA testing equipment into Gaza have often forced morgues to rely on physical features and clothing for identification.
Now I will say what I think of it. I think your claim is untrue. The condition of the bodies proves torture and executions, but does not prove organ theft.
I additionally note: stolen organs don't disappear, they are received by someone in a narrow timeframe (which can be matched up later), and there has to be a story told to the recipient. Transplantation has to be done by a team of people. If a crime is being committed, it's pretty hard to make sure every team member stays silent. Later on, the transplanted organ continues to bear the genes of the person whom it belonged to. If doubt arises about the origin of the organ, genetic testing can confirm or deny a specific person, or give an ethnic profile of the donor, which can be narrowed down to find the family of the donor and ask them about their fate.
Oh prof. perrstorkia knows more than the doctors and photos and prisoner testimonies and photos of returned bodies are all lying. Read you smartbutt propagondist: JUST READ :
"The first observation is that, in all the bodies that organs were harvested or removed are those that are now routinely transplanted: the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and corneas," Abu Sittah, who spent more than a month working in Gaza's hospitals during the war, said.
The method of extraction - the rib cage and ribs were clipped with a sharp saw - a medical saw, a bone saw - and the sternum, along with the central part of the ribs, was lifted to allow for the removal of the heart and lungs without damage to the organs being taken," he said, noting that the skin of all the victims appeared to be burnt by liquid nitrogen - a chemical used to preserve tissue.
"The essential point is there was no damage to the remaining organs, meaning the extraction was carried out surgically by an experienced surgeon."
Chillingly, Abu Sittah cited multiple testimonies from witnesses who said that the victims were alive at the time of extraction.
Here is the problem Prof. surgeon perestokia , it's either you from your chair 5000 miles away who is right, or tell me theses surgeons and doctors and returned bodies and prisoners all lying. How many braincells do I need to choose between the two and expose who is the propagondist here?
And here is my last piece, you ready? Will you still believe it if an anatomist doctor from the IOF themselves tesitified about them organ harvesting palestinian hostages on video on the Israeli channel itself ???
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If you cannot provide a good source in your first post, screaming about others not believing you several posts later serves no purpose - you could have avoided that. If you want others to believe you, it's your job to convince them. Name-calling won't convince anyone.
Congratulations, I missed something - the article in "The New Arab" references the words of a medic and provides his name - dr Ghassan Abu Sittah. He is a reputable source.
This could have been your first post. Instead you posted a link to your own post on Lemmy, in which this was source no. 7 - which I, for some reason, missed.
You could have also posted a link to this article, but you have so far not done so.
Advise: learn to argue better. Drop the name-calling. Don't call a person a propagandist if they aren't. In the best case, you will stress yourself and the other person before getting to the core of information at hand. In a worse case, discussion will stop right there. Provide direct sources immediately. Prefer reputable sources. Don't provide a wall of links, but a relevant link.
You just spent 3 days to convince me that Israel could be guilty of organ harvesting. I am convinced, they could be guilty. But you could have used your time better, and could have convinced me with 30 minutes by providing direct links to relevant sources. For example, the below link might have convinced me of the plausibility of your allegations in even less time, maybe a mere 15 minutes - because it's from a reputable source (no background digging needed) and from a different period - not influenced by current events.
So, your claim is plausible. But don't claim to know the outcome of a particular incident if you don't know the outcome of a particular incident - people will think you're lying and ask you to prove stuff.
In reality, we don't currently know what happened to the remains of those 2 guys. What should matter more at this time - they were shot after surrendering.
your advise has always been my downfall and I admit that. most people shutdown as soon as I turn hostile against them or insult them. It's because I have nothing to gain whatever they choose to believe. I aslo agree with your conclusion that it is not definitive why they brought a sketcher and took the bodies afterward. I already told you I really hope thats the case. thank you regardless whether we agree or disagree take care.
If people don't watch it then the IDF wins. The videos and photos documenting atrocities are being suppressed with the excuse that they are "too graphic" for the general public to see.
Graphic isn't even the right term to describe it. It's just... Nonchalant. It's very much like that recent Oscar winning movie about Nazi Germany, where people are just living their lives while horrors are happening in the background. There's way more graphic footage of this genocide, but this one just struck me in a weird way.
That sounds like Israel. A country that should be bombed into the ground on the character traits of its armed services alone, without even getting into the politics or history of the place.
The moment an Israeli undercover force unit executed the Palestinian youth Rami Kukhon in the old city of Nablus, last Thursday. لحظة اغتيال واعدام الشاب رام...
Mozilla is turning into the same thing every other big corporations are, including Google. Inflated executive numbers and pay, cutting what made then unique (think of all the FOSS stuff they've killed along the way)...
I'm not jumping to Vivaldi or whatever just yet, but ugh... Their latest push for AI is driving me very close...
Still doesn't make sense. One company is turning to AI so that drives you to other companies that already have AI and are precedentally worse?
I'm not saying Mozilla is a saint. The sooner we can replace the executive branch, the better. But the even better comparative is if somehow we don't even need to get to that point in the first place, and not supporting Mozilla at the past edge of where they're at is defo not gonna lead to that.
I do some volunteer work on localizing for Welsh and some Spanish. AI translations are hot garbage still even for the larger languages like Spanish. You can get a general idea of the intent most of the time, but that's about it. It's nowhere near good enough to replace humans with yet, definitely not good enough to overwrite what they've already translated.
It is good, specially on mid size text. But it is not good enough. When text is long or too short, it gets lost and makes tons of context mistakes. It also tends to be unnatural for the target language preferring original language phrasing.
I have to admit I've only ever used it to translate a paragraph or two at a time.... where I was just looking for the gist of a text.
Not too surprising, considering that for centuries many people well-versed in two languages have made a very good living as translators ... and often having to get delicate nuances across (for poets as well as statesmen). It's as much art as science.
overwriting articles written by humans with machine generated translations. I really don't understand that! But then, there are truckloads of worthwhile texts from throughout history that will never see translations otherwise ... so that's a worthy cause. Over time it may be improved, IF the algos are given feedback that allows them to learn from mistakes.
The main issue, and this is also mentioned in the blog post, is that the bot only does translation and not localisation.
The first is just taking the words from one language and changing to another.
The second is to actually make sure the text in the new language makes proper sense. Maybe the English article uses some analogy that does realy make sense in the new language. Localisation is to find some other suitable analogy to use instead, so that the point from the main article is kept, but it still makes sense.
As a translator, I have to say machine translations are really good if you just want to get the gist of things. If all you want is to understand 90% of what's written and you can live with the margin of error, then I'm not gonna try to convince you to hire me.
But if you need to understand 99.9% then a human is required because a machine just will not understand the nuance or have a larger context unless instructed. Localizing is another issue too, you'll have to take into consideration the cultural nuance of the target language. Localizing software is even more niche because you're often limited in character count for the source language which machines often misunderstand, and the same limitation for the target language that a machine may not account for.
Anytime I see an anti-mozilla article, it’s abundantly clear that it’s an astroturfing campaign to make Firefox look bad. You NEVER see these articles about chrome, brave, opera, etc which are all much much worse.
Eh, I'm not about to stop using Firefox, but the complaint is valid. They nuked a bunch of work from volunteers without notice in favor of shitty auto translate.
They like that the money goes to activism on African countries instead of the fcking browser. Just until one year ago they started to work again on features.
Almost all Microsoft KB articles are machine translated. Every time I open a reddit article from a search it attempts to auto-translate which immediately looks and reads very inhuman.
I'd say that's because here on Lemmy, we already don't give a fuck about and wouldn't touch Chrome or Edge with a ten foot pole, but some of us trusted Mozzila, which is now starting to do dumb AI shit. And having your trust broken hurts.
Astroturfing would not be recommending LibreWolf as an alternative.
If you look into alternatives, Brave is one that's usually mentioned but there's always someone quickly posting all of the dumb shit they did.
What an odd comparison. What differentiates Mozilla from others is their close relationship with their community. Just read their manifest and you will see Immediately why they are getting flag for humiliating their own supporters.
Calling objections to what some unelected jerks in the foundation (which is a supposedly public organization) are doing is not "anti-Mozilla". And I would first suspect of astroturfing everyone pretending it is.
Raising voices and putting pressure about things spoiling something is caring about it. And yes, people who care try to make real effect and not just safely complain to be ignored.
Mozilla honestly has been becoming worse and worse since Australis.
The way they are forcing AI on everyone and into every aspect of their browser especially when a large part of the people who use Firefox hates that shit is going to end Firefox.
The reason you don't hear it about all those other browsers is because people have always known they don't give a fuck what the end user wants.
Firefox used to be different. But all good things deteriorate over time. Watching it happen in real time to a browser we all use and used to love is why you see it so much posted especially in places with like minded individuals like Lemmy.
Had this same problem for weeks on my work machine. Firefox’s process manager shows you exactly which processes are eating your CPU - that’s where I’d start. The AI sidebar and translation features killed my performance.
They've also put it into the right click menu. And I think they integrated into the "click and hold link preview" feature they just added. And, annoyingly, with all this added AI, they made no provisions for locally hosted AI.
They also added AI translation in addition to their old translation system for webpages. I think the old one just used Google Translate, so the AI translation is a privacy win because it is done locally, but I may be wrong on how it used to work.
How nice of them to have easy options for paid third party services, and hide the local options under about:config where I'd have no idea it even exists without a kind stranger letting me know.
Thanks for the tip of checking about:config. You can specify an external server, it is also in the about:config. browser.ml.chat.provider. I'm not sure it's a feature I will ever use, but I tested it with my local Open WebUI and it seemed to work.
Put it this way, I don't trust a corpo browser and never have. 2008 or whenever it was that everyone switched to Chrome, I stayed with Firefox, which I'd been using for a few years already. I remember upgrading to Firefox 2.0.
I'm interested when Firefox is pulling this shit and don't give a fuck otherwise, because I already assume the others do this.
Idk if we'll ever get anything decent out of the Servo browser engine. That would be ideal IMO. Mozilla is starting to become part of the problem.
If I had to post an article here for each time Chrome did something that worked against privacy, I would just repost Ggle's changelogs. And they would not change.
If we criticise Mozilla harshly enough, there's a chance slightly higher than an snowball's chance in hell to make them change.
What dumb reasoning. Posting anti Mozilla articles only serves to push all of Firefox users to other even less used browsers. See the whole terms of service thing where someone posted an article just like this that was factually incorrect. Many users didn’t bother to research it and stopped using Firefox. Ff didn’t grow, it shrunk and with it every single downstream browser also will suffer because they’re forked from FF
Its not astroturfing, it's that people have expectations of them beyond just being a browser that let's you access the web.
Frankly its not that great of a browser (its serviceable. And I use it, or a derivative, pretty much exclusively); generally the reason you use it is because you care about abstract things like not supporting the chromium monopoly, or wanting to pick the project managed with the most care for how it will impact actual humans
And Mozilla has been making kinda crummy choices with respects to those abstract values more and more regularly it feels like 😅
Like I really wanna love and support Mozilla. I'm using their browser cause I think its the best choice by the metrics that are important to me. And more and more I just feel kinda exhausted and kinda frustrated with them 😅
that tonedeaf response of the mozilla staff boils my blood. holy fuck. i hate mozilla so much for years already but in recent times it got so much worse. cant wait to switch to ladybird or other alternatives in the future.
Why? They have free (as in free beer) volunteers. AI could do translation for pages nobody had time to translate yet but taking over the localization seems unnecessary.
Edit: Okay it is kinda like that, the bot automatically translates everything but volunteers can still contribute and provide better localization. It just seems to not work that well, overwriting things it should not when the actual work is just translating one additional sentence. Or simply not being that great at localization. In general AI translation is not a terrible idea but this seems clearly half baked and Mozilla has stopped responding to the complaints which isn't helping either.
I mean yes, that is why I wrote the edit. It does seem like you could do this properly, by allowing AI to do rough translations of new articles and humans do proper localization afterwards. And prevent AI from overwriting localization of text that has not actually been altered in the original language.
The problem is that's not what they're doing, even after people who volunteered time to work on localisation have asked for the AI to not overwrite existing human-translated documents. That's the bare minimum, but it seems like it's too much for Mozilla
That's not always great either though because if the AI miss-localizes things, end users in that language wont even know that their documentation is incorrect. Better to have incomplete than wrong documentation. At least then the end user will know they have to try to read a different language. It might be good to use AI to create an unpublished first draft that is then polished by a person before publishing, though it seems the AI is not good enough to be useful in that manner.
While what happened in Japan sucks and calls for an apology by Mozilla towards the team, the general idea of machine translation on demand is one of the few working examples of machine learning. I'd recommend professional systems instead of google translate, though.
What is a professional Brower that can do all what the above two can do, but is open source and not riddled with adware or ad allow ware, spyware and other shit?
Is there any browser left that we can still use for all sites?
I can't say I'm too keen on funding Ladybird, given the shit the lead developer is getting up to (to save you a click: defending white supremacy and transphobia).
That depends on your understanting of "professional". Firefox has forks out here, LibreWolf for example, that removes the AI "features" and other bullshit that crept inside vanilla Firefox
Why the fuck is lemmy so chuck full of anti Fiirefox and anti Mozilla propaganda? I even see comments about Firefox needing to be open source again!?!? It FUCKING IS open source, anybody can fork it if they want to, the only thing they can't do is use the Firefox logo and name.
You are all a bunch of idiots!! (everybody who upvoted this trash blog)
I still use Firefox every day, but I don't trust the corporate overlords to do what's right long term. They seem to be getting greedy instead of listening to the user base. They've started including AI bullshit features for the sake of it, like grouping tabs by content that nobody asked for and that barely works for me. I'm not anti-Mozilla, but I sure am weary of it and would welcome an alternative.
I haven't come across any open source comments, but those seem pretty clueless.
I don’t trust the corporate overlords to do what’s right long term.
You don't have to, if Mozilla really screwed the pooch with Firefox it would be forked. Debian used to do it with IceWeasel over a petty thing like the copyright of the Firefox logo, which 100% has always been justified, and is necessary to distinguish between an official Firefox and a fork.
The AI bullshit features as you call them are completely non invasive, I always use the newest Firefox, and I never even noticed those features.
Stop the bullshitting and complaining over things are completely irrelevant. and will never ever have any negative influence on anything you do with Firefox. I'm so sick of this lame community doing this over and over and over again, and it always turns out to be nothing.
The AI bullshit features as you call them are completely non invasive,
And yet I had to turn them off in about:config, not even in the regular settings. Why are the settings hidden? Why can't I turn them on if I want them? Why isn't opt-in and transparency their standard approach with such a controversial feature? Those are some serious dark patterns for a company advertising itself as user-friendly, that they had to backtrack on when they saw the community uproar.
Now it's happening again, but on the developer side.
Stop the bullshitting and complaining over things are completely irrelevant
Irrelevant? I can't afford AI threads running in the background, hogging my memory and processing power away from my productivity apps for whatever bullshit they decide to add that barely relates to what I use a browser for. I don't live in a "first-world country" with standard hardware. That's the whole reason I use Firefox, for the respect for their users that I have grown accustomed to, which they now seem to want to ignore. It's a huge violation of trust that you're downplaying when they want to add things first and apologize later.
The bottom line is that their approach has shifted recently, and I have every right to criticize them for it when they say one thing and do another.
standard approach with such a controversial feature
The "controversial" features:
Alt-text generation: Creates descriptions for images, which is particularly useful for making PDFs more accessible to screen readers.
On-device translation: Translates web pages without sending your content to external servers, protecting your privacy.
Smart tab groups: Analyzes open tabs to suggest names and group similar ones together to help with organization.
Link previews: Generates key points from articles to give you a quick summary.
These are all very modest in requirements even on an old phone. And the use is actually zero unless you use the function. AFAIK all further AI functionalities are all optional.
Number one is particularly useful for blind people, a group that absolutely needs screen readers to work well.
So again stop the bullshitting, just because you are bullshitting yourself too doesn't make it better. Either that or mention just one single specific function you "needed" to disable and why. IMO your misunderstood whining is annoying.
Personally I use the translation function a lot, it is both very handy and very good, and I have used it for both Russian and Ukrainian and Chinese, and it works surprisingly well. But maybe you speak every language on the planet, or find it more convenient to use an online translator, leaving unnecessary extra digital trails and requiring extra bandwidth? How you don't find that feature useful is beyond me???
I rarely ever use translation features. I never visit sites which are in a language I don't understand. 🤷♂️ So this would be nice if it were opt in, I guess.
But I definitely have the processing power to run it. Buuut of course not everyone does.
Because on every machine where I open Firefox for the first time, I have to tell it not to translate my language. It's a small dance I have to do every so often. Bit annoying, innit.
It doesn't translate anything automatically, you have to choose translation manually for a site in a foreign language. It ALWAYS shows the original first. So that's complete and utter made up bullshit.
I know that, but I don't even want the suggestion, is what I mean. You know?
Listen man, take it easy alright? I understand your stance, relax. Not trying to argue with your or get aggressive here. 🤝 We're cool. I'm on your side, I love Firefox.
Yes they are, because I bet this, as always, is a complete nothing burger, just like the previous 10 times the past year I've seen similar baseless attacks on Firefox.
The reason it works is because Mozilla staff isn't going to offer to call any random person with a "stupid anecdote".
EDIT: FWIW, your logic is broken: while your imagined yoasif denies the claim, that differs from what Baffalox does in reality - they say "yes, but". Imagined yoasif just said "no."
Wouldn't have been critical of the form of your logic, but I mean -- you said my logic was stupid. I'm not sure you understood my logic.
I have worked both as a professional translator in works not related to software and as a software developer, and also have participaded on open source public project translated by the community with weblate.
There is NO WAY at all that the AI translations are worse. DeepL has been powering your human translators pretty much since it released, and LLMs are way better at translating than the average Joe.
Most of those weblate managed translations I mentioned were absolute dogshit. Done by humans, done with passion and good intention (most of the time, some of the languages we did know less about had stuff that had nothing to do with the original texts).
Like, people assume since they speak a language that they are able to translate that language and that is not true.
Unless Mozilla had full time, proper translators working, the quality con only increase by using AI.
And if they did, they can sack most of the team, leave one per language, and have them review the translations, and they would save massive amounts of money. And like it or not, open source needs money to run.
Eich was a failure. He sat on e10s for years while Chrome continued gaining marketshare. The path to monetization is something he says he wanted to do at Mozilla but did at Brave instead.
At Brave, he started with a Gecko offshoot but couldn't make it work and retreated to Chromium.
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Oh, it's a user space (FUSE) driver. I was rather hoping it was an out-of-tree Linux kernel driver, since using FUSE will: 1) always pass back to userspace, which costs performance, and 2) destroys any possibility of DMA-enabled memory operations (DPDK is a possible exception). I suppose if the only objective was to store files in VRAM, this does technically meet that, but it's leaving quite a lot on the table, IMO.
If this were a kernel module, the filesystem performance would presumably improve, limited by how the VRAM is exposed by OpenCL (ie very fast if it's just all mapped into PCIe). And if it was basically offering VRAM as PCIe memory, then this potentially means the VRAM can be used for certain RAM niche cases, like hugepages: some applications need large quantities of memory, plus a guarantee that it won't be evicted from RAM, and whose physical addresses can be resolved from userspace (eg DPDK, high-performance compute). If such a driver could offer special hugepages which are backed by VRAM, then those application could benefit.
And at that point, on systems where the PCIe address space is unified with the system address space (eg x86), then it's entirely plausible to use VRAM as if it were hot-insertable memory, because both RAM and VRAM would occupy known regions within the system memory address space, and the existing MMU would control which processes can access what parts of PCIe-mapped-VRAM.
Is it worth re-engineering the Linux kernel memory subsystem to support RAM over PCIe? Uh, who knows. Though I've always like the thought of DDR on PCIe cards. All technologies are doomed to reinvent PCIe, I think, said someone from Level1Techs.
This is very unfortunate, about a year ago I built my PC and only put in 32 GB of Ram, It was double I had on my laptop so I thought it should be enough for the beginning and I could buy more later.
Already after 2 months I realizes I can do so much more because of the fast CPU in parallel but suddenly the amount of RAM became the bottleneck. When I looked at the RAM prices it didn't seem quite worth it and I waited. But that backfired because since then the prices never went down, only up.
AI or servers probably. I have 40gb and that's what I would need more ram for.
I'm still salty because I had the idea of going cpu & ram sticks for AI inference literally days before the big AI companies. And my stupid ass didn't buy them in time before the prices skyrocketed. Fuck me I guess.
It does work, but it's not really fast. I upgraded to 96gb ddr4 from 32gb a year or so ago, and being able to play with the bigger models was fun, but it's not something I could do anything productive with it was so slow.
You can have applications where wall clock tine time is not all that critical but large model size is valuable, or where a model is very sparse, so does little computation relative to the size of the model, but for the major applications, like today's generative AI chatbots, I think that that's correct.
Two browsers full of tabs but that is not a problem, but once I start compiling AOSP (which I sometimes want to do for work at home instead in the cloud because it's easier and faster to debugg) then it eats up all the RAM imediatelly and I have to give it 40 more GB or swap and then this swapping is the bottleneck. Once that is running the computer can't really do anything else, even the browser struggles.
Have you tried just compiling it with fewer threads? Would almost certainly reduce the RAM usage, and might even make the compile go faster if it you're needing to swap that heavily
Last I looked, a few days ago on Google Shopping, you could still find some retailers that had stock of DDR5 (I was looking at 2x16GB, and you may want more than that) and hadn't jacked their prices up, but if you're going to buy, I would not wait longer, because if they haven't been cleaned out by now, I expect that they will be soon.
I just had a look, 2nd of April I payed 67,000 KRW for one 16 GB stick, now the same one (XPG DDR5 PC5-48000 CL30 LANCER BLADE White), they only sell them in pairs, a pair costs 470,000 KRW in the same shop, so 235,000 KRW per 16 GB stick. That is a price increase of 250%, god damn.
... I was thinking about buying a 96GB DDR5 kit from the local computer store a few weeks ago, but wasn't sure it was actually worth €700. Checked again now and the exact same product costs €1500. I guess that settles it, 32GB will have to be enough for the next couple of years then.
I fully agree it's worth waiting for the thrill of the deal.
The Chia crash was great. A local dude I found on Facebook marketplace bought a whole array worth of drives and never got around to even opening the packages for them.
I scored a great local deal on a PC last week, but unfortunately the only weak point of it is the 16GB of DDR5. So I guess for a while I'll just be chilling with equal amounts of GPU and system memory. Luckily I'm not a gamer and rarely limited by the system memory.
I just wanted to test if it was viable to run larger MoE LLMs on CPU, e.g. Qwen3-next-80B-A3B.. Even if I got acceptable generation speeds I'd probably get bored with it after a few hours, as with other local models. Had I got it for €700 it was pretty low value for money anyway, since my current RAM is enough for everything else I use the computer for. On the positive side, I can put that money towards a Steam Frame instead.
Nvidia reportedly no longer supplying VRAM to its GPU board partners in response to memory crunch — rumor claims vendors will only get the die, forced to source memory on their own
If that's true, I doubt that they're going to be coming to earth for long.
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I think a bubble pop may be closer than people think. Several F500 company CEOs are at least calling it a bubble now, but admittedly still 100% on board the AI hype train.
The Russian government is a rogue, hostile entity at this point and it needs to be dismantled. There is no way a peaceful future is possible with Russia still existing as it does today.
Putin's leaked position at the start of this(read: take with truck of dubious salt) is that Russia had a potential armed forces pool of 25 million people.
As far as I understand that statement, until he burns through most of that, he likely won't see himself as losing.
Nah. There was a clear choice between letting shit get much worse, or picking a sane-ish candidate.
FPTP means you don't vote for the candidate you like the most, but rather the candidate that will do the least damage. Even if you have to hold your nose. Voting for Kamala at that point wasn't a vote for her but a vote against the orange turd.
Sh, jerboa doesnt like free thinkers. Just propaganda. I mean why acknowledge we're living in the most peaceful time in human history....when they'd rather track down a Phillies karen.
I haven’t checked Lemmy for a long time but I wanna get off Reddit again, yet I still need to know how many users are on here. Which lemmy instances are suitable to me, the most popular, and which ones to avoid? For context, im queer, anarchist with DemSoc leaning, and environmentalist. Is there a comprehensive list of all the instances and their main functions? Is the instance I’m on still workable? Any feedback would help, thx. ❤
I would like to know which ones are tailored to my interests, so i dont wanna join something like .ml. I remember there used to be a sheet somewhere with endorsements but i cant find it anymore
Ah I see. I didn't realize a censure had a technical component. That being said, by this point not much would be lost with a defederation from ML.
Still a mere two hesitations and tons of endorsements (including DB0).
ML are basically on par with Nazis; full endorsement of extermination of national identity/language/culture of "bad" ethnicities, support for russian Lebensraum, support for mass internment camps for "bad" ethnicities.
Sure, they deny this, but from memory all of the Nazis at Nuremberg pleaded not guilty.
That's another thing I find fascinating about red fash scum, the constant projection of ignorance and provincialism.
Dessalines, an American, has never lived in Ukraine or russia, doesn't speak Ukrainian or russian and yet he comes up with bullshit like "putin just wants to show he means business" or "war is war, civilian casualties are fine [as long as it's Ukrainians]".
Same with Cuba or even Syria. It's almost certain that none of the tankies have ever spoken to a person from Cuba, let alone being friends with them and yet they are convinced that "Cuba is a democracy!" and "Everyone loves the regime!".
Or this individual talking about the global south.
Come on man, we both know you don't know shit and you're merely roleplaying as a commie on the internet. A pro-genocide, pro-imperialism, pro-authoritarianism commie no less!
you are so pathetic translate this seu gringuito de merda filho da puta
Nunca fez nada que preste a não ser viver as custas do nosso trabalho seu bosta, europeu de merda.
Quem tá falando do Putin é você seu cuzão do caralho, precisa ficar batendo em espantalhos pra ter algo pra dizer né escroto?
Você tem sorte de que eu estou milhares de km de distância, senão iria te trazer aqui pra mostrar na prática o que lixos como você estão fazendo com o mundo. Seu bunda mole de merda.
Why wouldn’t we be? We were assassinated & imprisoned & COINTELPROd & slandered & libeled & blacklisted from gainful employment, which damaged all of the US working class’ leverage irreparably, irrespective of each worker’s political leanings.
Você tem sorte de que eu estou milhares de km de distância, senão iria te trazer aqui pra mostrar na prática o que lixos como você estão fazendo com o mundo. Seu bunda mole de merda.
[Translation] You're lucky I'm thousands of kilometers away, otherwise I'd bring you here to show you firsthand what scumbags like you are doing to the world. You fucking softie.
There’s a couple of places you can look with info on the instances. I like the admins of my instance but I’ll be moving to their piefed instance instead.
If you like Blahaj then there is also a Piefed Blahaj instance now! I like Piefed over lemmy, I don’t know if they’ve added it to lemmy since I left but I really like being able to mute replies. It has other features lemmy lacks too, like being able to block an entire instance or make feeds (multireddit like function).
ooh is there a list of piefed instances from most popular to most endorsements? And specifically ones that tailor to solarpunk/anarchism/lgbtq+? i wonder why everyone shifted to piefed? is it because one of the lemmy devs had a controversial past?
If you go here you can sort by size, uptime, etc, I’m not sure if anyone has made a curated list anywhere. There’s only a few instances with 100+ users, but since you’re seeing all the same fediverse content anyway it doesn’t matter much. My policy was to just pick an instance I trusted (already trusted Blahaj, so that was easy).
I would say it’s probably a good idea to pick an instance with at least 30-40 people, because the more people who have subscribed to remote communities, the more content will automatically federate to the instance (therefor making it easier for you to find new content).
ooh is there a list of piefed instances from most popular to most endorsements?
There's a built-in instance list on piefed when you click on "register". It's sorted by server speed. The most popular must be piefed.social.
And specifically ones that tailor to solarpunk/anarchism/lgbtq+?
In reverse order, piefed.blahaj.zone for a lgbtq+ instance, and anarchist.nexus as well as quokk.au for anarchist ones. @povoq@slrpnk.net mentioned the possibility of a solarpunk piefed instance in the past, but it's yet to become something concrete.
i wonder why everyone shifted to piefed? is it because one of the lemmy devs had a controversial past?
I think it's half because piefed has more features, develops faster than lemmy, and half because the lemmy devs are pricks (one being a transphobe, and the other not being all that bothered by it).
@povoq@slrpnk.net mentioned the possibility of a solarpunk piefed instance in the past, but it’s yet to become something concrete.
We don't plan to setup a separate Piefed instance, but we want to migrate our main Lemmy instance to Piefed sometimes early next year, but there are still some unknowns if the migration will be feasible or not.
People just like it better. You're probably overthinking these things. The point of federation is so that these decisions don't matter as much. (Almost) all the instances are connected and sharing the same community and content. There is no magic "best" place to be, and if there is, it won't be because it's "popular" it will be because it's "the right one for you".
More recent versions of piefed should have a much improved compact mode. I basically made the thumbnails for image posts render just like thumbnails for link posts when in compact mode. It was a pet peeve of mine too that compact mode said it was thumbnails, but it still put images on a whole separate line which made them much larger than other thumbnails.
PBZ is on 1.3.0 now, so it should be available if you want to give it another go. Just make sure that your UI option is set to compact mode. This setting is per-device, so you might need to reset it for different browsers/phone/etc.
I’d guess the one which seems that it will last more, since you can subscribe to communities of any other instance. You’ll only see a difference if you browse only local posts.
In my case I chose infosec.pub because I want to browse it locally if I want, but my subscribed communities include memes and webcomics for some light time wasters.
Well for anarchist/queer/pro-environment, Lemmy.dbzer0.com slrpnk.net and (kinda) Lemmy.blahaj.zone, not officially but tons of anarchists there.
Another important thing to consider is federation policy (if you're looking to make accounts there and not just browse comms from your current acc:)). For example Dbzer0 is the most lax and blahaj is the most moderated, not necessarily good or bad it just depends on what you personally want.
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I don't think there can be that high a density of fascists. sh.itjust.works just voted overwhelmingly to defederate some kind of MAGA nonsense instance. Mostly it seems like nice folks overhere who know fascists are bad news.
It might be full of individualists with no grounding in Marxist theory, of the type that much annoyed Vladimir Lennin. I couldn't tell you because of my poor grounding Marxist theory, and I don't see that as a problem because of my individualism.
I joined Lemmy.today to see all the instances, they don't block anyone. I expected chaos, but it's richer. To be fair, I rarely browse 'All,' instead sticking to subscribed coms where the backwards-speaking wanderers from hexbear are more of a feature than a bug.
Now it's my main account.
PR Edit: I meant no offense to the good people of hexbear, I'm just confused by your ways.
Edit: Just checked, Lemmy.Today isn't blocked by any instances.
~~Last I checked .today was defederated by one instance, don't know why.~~ I'm open to more info.
The description and the rules are boilerplate, no bigotry or transphobia kind of thing. The admins have been helpful and responsive. I can see why conservatives would join an instance like this, but there's nothing inherently conservative about it.
When I joined the most-visited local community was conservative, but they're pretty tame by right wing standards. A couple of the mods posted left-leaning articles to my community, too.
I don't pay attention to a lot of Lemmy drama unless it crosses my feed, so I could be wrong.
The points on Who's Line don't matter, as a rule - but they do matter because they give the rankings at the end of the show. If the points really didn't matter, we wouldn't know about them. "Points" wouldn't be a subject on the show, and yet they come up at the end of every skit. One person even tallied them up. The points mattered to them, a lot.
Anyway, do you have information or were you just itching to make that quip?
At the beginning of every episode of the improvisational comedy series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, host Drew Carey would always describe it as "the show…
I'm going to give myself time to look through your comments on my flight. It will be amusing watching the so called "anarchist" swiftly devolve into an authoritarian.
You cultists sure do love your buzzwords.
How many times do you think you've said death to America, by the way? I'll have a count for you by the end of my flight.
Edit: ooh the direct quote of the day
The U.S. did deserve 9/11 though
Yeah. I'm sure this gets worse, and I haven't even spent longer than 30 seconds looking. You should probably keep the fact that you're 'trans' to yourself, if Lemmy were a bigger platform you would 100% be painting the picture of the 'mentally ill trans person' rhetoric the conservatives are pushing. You are literally problematic in your existence.
Yep, totally rotten piece of shit you are — your existence is problematic for anyone that's actually trying to transition. Keep that to yourself, lest you find yourself helping the conservatives trying to kill you.
Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia. That became the default term for anyone who supports brutal authoritarian states that suppress the people to assert their control. In modern day context a tankie would be someone who blames Ukraine for being invaded and denies the genocide of the Uyghurs.
Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.
I said it before (in this thread) and I will say it again:
ML are basically on par with Nazis; full endorsement of extermination of national identity/language/culture of “bad” ethnicities, support for russian Lebensraum, support for mass internment camps for “bad” ethnicities.
Dessalines, an American, has never lived in Ukraine or russia, doesn’t speak Ukrainian or russian and yet he comes up with bullshit like “putin just wants to show he means business” or “war is war, civilian casualties are fine [as long as it’s Ukrainians]”.
You never had any friends from Hungary or Czesh Republic, you've never been there.
The USSR was total trash. Abject poverty, genocidal extermination of the cultrue and language of occupied nations, KGB goons in universities and a corrupt leadership that makes the current oligarch/criminal look like good guys. You've likely never met anyone who lived in the USSR.
You never had any friends from Hungary or Czesh Republic, you’ve never been there.
I have been to the Czechia, actually. I spent a week in Prague in the early 2000s.
The USSR was total trash. Abject poverty, […]
cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-R… American and Soviet citizens eat about the same amount of food each day but the Soviet diet may be more nutritious.
economist.com/europe/2018/06/3… When the Soviet Union started paying pensions in the early years of Josef Stalin’s rule, the retirement age was set at 60 for men and 55 for women. It has not been raised since.
[…] genocidal extermination of the cultrue and language of occupied nations
If the USSR exterminated the cultures and languages of “occupied” nations, then why are those cultures still speaking Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Estonian, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Moldavian, Tajik, Turkmen, Ukrainian, and Uzbek?
You’ve likely never met anyone who lived in the USSR.
I have known some, and I know a few right here on Lemmy.
Congrats! You went on an American eurotrip in your youth. And you know a few people who were born in the USSR on Lemmy (does that include me)?
If you know so much about the USSR, can you tell me which professions were (outside of being a party goons) considered profitable and why? Wikipedia answers aren't going to cut it. Something that shows basic knowledge on this issue without web searching. Indulge me, lil commie bro!
Yes, meat was widely available in the USSR and common access was not limited to well-connected individuals and party goons! What a great life!
The Holodomor never happened and it was CIA psyop! The CIA made a time machine to travel back in time and discredit comrade Stalin! I see. My great grandmother was a time travelling CIA agent working to discredit communism!
Local language education was definitely not suppressed and cultural group of occupied nations weren't prosecuted! You could make movies in your language and vote to have education be primarily in your own language, right? You could even vote leave the USSR since it wasn't an occupation!
The real irony is that even the russians don't believe in your cointelpro and counter-revolutionary gibberish (wrt Czechia and Hungary). They are lucid enough to understand that it was matter of imperialism and ethno-national supremacism.
you sound like you have an axe to grind. if you're going to call people nazis for not supporting ukraine I'm going to point out that there's plenty of Nazis that do support ukraine. I include in that list the instance run by a transphobe (sh.itjust.works) where they have a comm run by a bunch of "social democrats" and freely discuss all the 'degenerate roaches', which they can't wait to be free from.
I don't support ukraine, I don't support russia, I oppose the war entirely and want people (yes even you) to no longer get sent to the front to die in an inter-capitalist conflict.
Thank you for proving my point (once again) about tankies supporting extermination of Ukrainian culture/identity/language and continued internment of tens of thousands of Ukrainians in the occupied territories (and mass discrimination and prosecution).
You even openly admit that you support putin's "de-nazifiction of Ukraine" rhetoric.
You most definitely do not "oppose the war entirely". Rejection of self determination for Ukrainians (and the right to speak in Ukrainian) is support for the russian invasion of Ukraine.
Yes, pushing russian narratives about Ukraine is supporting putin.
You've never lived in Ukraine (Donbas or otherwise) or even russia and the whole "Nazis in Ukraine" pitch is just cover for your disgusting commie belief in the extermination of undesirable ethnicities (who in your view don't submit to your messed up understanding communism).
You think Ukrainians don't have a right to self determination and you have the gall to say you oppose the war?
Sure you were! It's not like tankies aren't known to lie about Cuba being a democracy or NK being a "vanguard against imperialism". No ma'am!
Someone claiming to have family in Ukraine supports neither Ukraine or russia. That's very realistic! Or wait, I know, you support the DNR not russia ;), got you tankie!
You support continued internment of Ukrainians in the occupied territories, abuse of Ukrainian children and russian genocidal imperialism.
The "don't care about lines on the map" statement is not believable coming from someone who repeats putin's statements about "Watzis in Ukraine!1!1".
Why would I need to remind you about something you already know and have taken to heart? Good to see progress on this issue! One day you might even remember your ghoulish "leftist" online roleplay with a profound sense of shame and disgust. Stranger things have happened in life...
Buddy, you're on fire this morning. What did you originally get on the internet for? Was it deliberate or did you just use the services that came with your smartphone? Do you think what you're doing right now is healthy? Do you think you're spending your time in a healthy way right now?
Do you realize that what you just described is internet bullshit and you wouldn't be angry at all if you didn't come here to see it?
As for me, I've been here since the beforetimes. I was here before you, and I'll be here long after you get bored and go away. You came here to be judged or you wouldn't be on this social media site, so I don't understand why you're getting so offended by my judgment.
Buddy, I grew up on USENET. If anything I saw on the internet ever upset me, I'd either be totally desensitized to it by now or I'd be irredeemably mentally ill. Take my advice and get off here. Your family needs you.
You came here to be enraged and express your rage. What's the point of telling other people not to respond to you? This is how you're choosing to spend your time, responding to people who enrage you. If you don't want to hear from people, put your phone down and go do something else.
Wow, that offended you so much that I'm on your blocklist? You're so deep in at this point that you'd rather engage with literal Nazis than someone who is just suggesting that you check your behavior?
Yes yes, I must be a transphobe because I called you mean names like clanker, liar or troglodyte.
Incredible, you make such a good name for trans people. At this rate, I'm going to block you simply because I don't want there to be even more messages from a 'trans' person saying death to America being publically visible.
You're welcome, by the way — I'm doing you and every trans person on this platform a favor. No, I don't accept the bottle of estrogen and sticky note your friend sent you — I'm just tired of exercising Brandolini's Law.
it's cause you said I wasn't really trans until I showed you literal proof; and still you call me 'trans' in scare quotes. People can still be trans without being on meds, I know more than enough homeless or tenuously housed trans girls who struggle to keep their prescriptions filled regularly- or at all. Guess what, plenty of them wouldn't agree with your politics either. Doesn't make them no longer trans.
Deciding that you're the cis arbiter of who's trans and who isn't does make you a transphobe though.
No, I don’t accept the bottle of estrogen and sticky note your friend sent you
I could fucking fully dox myself and transphobes like you would still make up some bullshit to not believe me
Yes, yes, spout off as if you're on stage — your virtue means you're very believable.
When did I decide I'm the arbiter of who is and isn't trans? I'm accusing you of lying, dipshit, I didn't make you a paragon of your people*.
Meanwhile, we have an entire thread of you continually admitting you're trans and saying death to America. I wonder whose rhetoric harms trans people more?
Of course that's rhetorical, you think you speak for every trans person in existence! Simple because you're trans. Odd how that looks, isn't it?
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One of the centerpieces of the cultural cold war was the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), which was revealed in 1966 to be a CIA front. Hugh Wilford, who has researched the topic extensively, described the CCF as nothing short of one of the largest patrons of art and culture in the history of the world. Established in 1950, it promoted on the international scene the work of collaborationist academics such as Raymond Aron and Hannah Arendt over and against their Marxian rivals, including the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
Why didn’t I address some random, unrelated post? For one, geneva isn’t a Marxist-Leninist, he’s not a “tankie.” And for two, you’re the one who introduced “blood and soil” into that conversation, not him. He didn’t claim that “blood and soil” is “not that bad”; that’s your interpretation of what he said.
name calling is pretty rude, believe it or not it's possible to be an anarchist and not use one of your instances. for me I find plenty of other anarchists in my day to day organizing, separate from the internet
Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.
Each instance (server) of PieFed shares content with each other and with the wider fediverse of Lemmy, Mbin, Mastodon and others. You can use any of the following instances to try out PieFed: Instance Location Notes piefed.social Europe feddit.
We didn't want to be lending any form of support to developers who deny genocide and promote transphobia.
So we found a more ethical solution and than it turns out the developers are fucking amazing and it's progressing so fast that it's leaving Lemmy in the dust. Many people are now moving because it's offering features and improvements that the Lemmy devs refused to.
Racist! I'm going back to my job, by the way, it’s my job that guarantees your easy life, spoiled rich westerner. While the Global South works, you keep swapping your tech toys every month and destroying the world.
Ok buddy, you're posting from one of those devices you're claiming you build right now.
I'm not racist, you're just fucking dumb — accept it and clean up your verbage. Homophobia and race baiting should be beneath you, but you're arguing for literal nazis so I guess nothing is beneath you
No, actually — I've shared this exact discussion with my trans friends. They all think you're insane. Soon Lemmy will be dead and most people will be using Piefed. I'm planning on switching soon, specifically because of you demented cultists. Fuck the devs of this dogshit platform, and fuck you for being a genocide denier.
Actually, I've thought about it — I'm 100% going to make it my personal mission to oust you troglodytes at every turn.
Simply look down at the homophobic message in Portuguese in this same thread. Shining example of the shithole that is .ml, or any .ml accepting instance.
As if I'd ever want a troglodyte near me. I said fuck you, dipshit, not fuck me — but I get that's a little bit beyond your ken, what with the authoritarian apologia and all.
lol you should let your trans friends know that if you disagree with them politically (or post on a forum you don't like) that they're troglodytes to you. honestly you're only validating my previous assessment
That's not the point, dipshit — but you can't use a find function to find it so I get it. You're a simple little bot with simple tools, it's a hard life for a clanker.
are you able to insult people without dehumanizing them? incredible, excuse me for being bad at English.
Geneva is banned from one of the few comms I moderate, and while I don't think 'israel' as a settler ethnostate should continue to exist, that doesn't mean they should all be exterminated or whatever you jumped to.
are you also in support of south African apartheid?
Wait, THIS is what people are talking about when they say the devs are transphobic?
The dev admitting he said stupid shit in private, supports human rights for everyone, and his personal views should have nothing to do with his work?
Consider the first rule of the Lemmy code of Conduct is:
We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of level of experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic.
No one said it does. Either you’re still missing the point or you’re intentionally straw manning.
Edit to add: As to whether the genocide claim holds water, I covered that separately in the “Previously” of the same comment above, as well as elsewhere before[1][2][3][4]. The burden of proof isn’t on genocide deniers but genocide accusers, which is why I say that it isn’t a “cheat code,” as the absurd allegations of South African “white genocide” show.
In accordance with China's affirmative action policies towards ethnic minorities, all non-Han ethnic groups were subject to different laws and were usually allowed to have two children in urban areas, and three or four in rural areas.
(e) Show me the forcible transfer of children from one group to another group
All you have are a couple of photos of prisons, which proves nothing, and some garbage testimonies that we’ve debunked a thousand fucking times already.
This was a failed attempt by the US government to balkanize/peel off Western China, and now the US is trying to make lemonade out of their lemon by accusing China of genocide.
No one seems to be interested in your Council on Foreign Relations hasbara.
You're taking the side of nazis on specific lies they're telling under the smug dipshit armchair logic "just because they're saying something doesn't mean it's untrue"
So since you're existing purely in an abstract realm of logic completely disconnected from reality just to argue (again, on behalf of nazis), I think it's more appropriate for you to hear that last line instead of say it.
blahaj isn’t particularly hostile toward anarchism or democratic socialism, I don’t think, but it’s largely a liberal instance. It’s defederated from hexbear & lemmygrad, so a lot of socialist content is blocked.
dbzer0 is explicitly anarchist. It blocks lemmygrad but not hexbear.
slrpnk is anarchist-friendly and environmentalist. It blocks both hexbear & lemmygrad.
lemmy.ml is predominantly socialist. It’s federated with everyone except for porn and fascist instances1. The only instances that block it that I can only think of are infosec.pub, lemmy.cafe, and programming.dev.
Quite a few instances are defederated from lemmygrad and/or hexbear. Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world, and lemmygrad only blocks porn and fascist instances.
For instance, hilariouschaos, the successor to explodingheads. ↩︎
Saying ML is socialist (which it's not, it's a tankie instance) is de facto discrediting socialism.
It's like saying that socialists oppose any criticism of russia and china (authoritarian, imperialist, hyper-capitalist oligarchic countries that have nothing to do with socialism) and socialist only read Russia Today.
I'm honestly embarrassed by the comments on this post. Is this really the best advice we can offer a newcomer to Lemmy? This internecene warfare between instances is not doing us any favours.
The advice is decent actually. It's the non-advice comments that should just be deleted. Even the advice from that .ml guy is careful. Wouldn't have caused any issue if someone didn't pick the fight while fully aware that there will not be a resolution.
Nearly all of that is just a few people flaming out when suspected communists comment in “their” internet spaces, even when those comments weren’t particularly about communism.
It says there are 200 comments but I can see 2. So my 2 cents, jump onto the easiest instance you can. For me, that was .world. Get on the boat, then reassess when you have more time.
The first jump, reddit to Lemmy, is the hardest. The second is super easy in comparison.
That was my first instance before i decided to change. Ngl i prob shoulda stuck with world coz i do be a general purpose fam. Thats why i started piefed with the main instance
Brazilian authorities on Wednesday approved the world’s first single-dose dengue vaccine, which they hailed as a “historic” achievement as cases of the mosquito-borne disease soar globally due to rising temperatures.
The highly-discussed draft 28-point peace plan (now reportedly revised to 19 points) endorsed by the United States seems to address, although not resolve, all the major points, including the return of abducted children of Ukraine.
According to the available text of the initial plan, “A humanitarian committee will be established to resolve open issues,” including the return of civilian detainees and reunification of families. In the current version, such a committee will be launched after the deal is agreed upon. Such an approach is dangerous.
Russia has attempted many times to turn Ukrainian abducted children into bargaining chips. Suggestions to exchange them for POWs have been unsuccessfully floated during the Istanbul talks. The proposal demonstrates Russia’s approach to children in general: a source of leverage that can be pulled to extract concessions, muddy the waters, and delay the agreements.
Ukraine made it clear: abducted children should be returned unconditionally and before the deal is finalized with Putin. Otherwise, Russia has no incentive to return children and will take forever to give back a fraction of those who have been kidnapped. What prevents Russia from signing an agreement, having sanctions lifted, and taking ten years to find children that it has “rescued”? By that time, most children will either be adopted, drafted to the army, or brainwashed beyond the point of no return. And Russia will bear no consequences for its actions.
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The current peace plan also does not mention anything about children in the occupied territories of Ukraine. 1.6 million Ukrainian children are trapped under the Russian occupation, facing militarization and conscription into the Russian army. At least 600,000 children are of school age and forced to study in Russian schools and visit notorious military camps. Many of them want to go to Ukraine but have no safe way to do so. Many are waiting to be liberated and hope to go back to their normal lives. The current peace plan serves those children to Putin on a silver platter by giving up their homeland and omitting the need to rescue them from the Russian occupation.
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The fact that there is no mention of international legislation that regulates the issue of crimes against children (the Genocide Convention or the Convention on the Rights of the Child) is very alarming. Those documents provide concrete procedures for executing the returns and would pressure Russia to comply. Leaving them out of the deal would give Russia an upper hand in organizing the return of children. Nothing in the current deal prevents Russia from returning a dozen children and calling it even. Without third-party access to Russian records and effective monitoring mechanisms for the return process, talk of rescue risks becoming performative rather than effective.
Overall, a peace plan in its current version allows Russia to dictate the fate of thousands of Ukrainian children who have been abducted or live under occupation. This can easily turn from a humanitarian catastrophe to a national security threat. Russia will turn Ukrainian children into soldiers for future wars against NATO. The administration should reaffirm its commitment to saving children everywhere by including Ukraine in peace negotiations and making the return of children a precondition for further negotiations.
Child fucker Trump couldn't care less about children, let alone foreign children, so of course his "peace" plan doesn't mention anything about children in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
I honest to fucking God don't understand how cybersec is so fucking bad that there are so many damn data breaches that I lost count. I had a few accounts on chatgpt (that I dont use anymore) but they are all compromised now...
Just what the fuck is this shit? Are they done by lone actors or cybercrime gang? Or are they state actors or state-backed actors? Or are they inside jobs to allow the company to sell data illegally to make more money? Flock has admitted to using data from data breaches to their system.
You also notice how rarely you hear about cybercriminals getting caught? It's almost like if you take even a minor bit of opsec you can get away with anything.
For sure, yeah. When I joined my current company that provides a web service, I was blown away by how much is recorded. DataDog has a feature called RUM & Session Replay and I don't think people realise that every mouse movement, click, and interaction in general is recorded in enough detail that as a developer I can play back user sessions as if I were watching a screen recording. Mixed with the fact that it also captures as much identifying information as it can, it's pretty fucking creepy
Why is that an important detail? Does itbmakeba functional difference to me as a user? OpenAI collected the data and failed to secure it. Doesn't matter if a 3rd party was involved
It's important because none of OpenAI's software or databases were hacked. What was hacked was a service they use. As much as I dislike it, most companies that have a presence online use analytical services
Doesn't matter if a 3rd party was involved
involved isn't the correct term for this, or rather it's exact opposite direction. The 3rd party was hacked and as a result OpenAI data was leaked (along with any other companies using the platform that were affected)
I bring it up because the nuance is important when I can predict people will jump on OpenAI to make claims of shoddy code. I hate OpenAI and Sam Altman but again, the nuance is important because this can happen to any company
Get mad at the fact analytic companies collect enough data to cause this much of a mess if anything
OpenAI gave the sensitive content to an unsecure third party. Its a risky move, so they have responsability, regardless of this being a standard behaviour.
IMO the problem with companies doing “fast” technology (i.e. AI) do so by pushing security aside to get things through the pipeline and into production as quickly as possible. Security has always been a “blocker” to development teams because it slows them down with all the, you know, requirements to make a product/application secure. Unless you have security-minded leads or a security representative in the C-suite (i.e. CISO) who has significant influence, half-baked and insecure products will continuously be pushed out.
Yep and then devs solved the problems of these damn IT sec people getting in the way and created "SecDevOps". Oh it's lean and Agile and everything but it's dev and sec and production all in the same bucket with all the well known problems of pushing things too fast and not checking or testing enough (see CloudFlare etc).
Don't they discover them and track down who they are? If a group of jackass hackers (self taught or otherwise) are always trying to break into a system and failing a few times before getting in, wouldn't the defenders be able to trace something about where those people are? Like is it really that dumb? Are defenders really a bunch of keystone kops driving around in circles and bumping into walls?
The world is huge, it’s unlikely that a particular attacker is going to be from the same country, so how are they going to do anything about it, really?
The victim can report to the government local to the hackers, but that local government is under no real obligation to do anything about it.
The victim can report to the government local to the hackers, but that local government is under no real obligation to do anything about it.
And given this, why would most companies keep paying their defenders to hunt them down once the trail seems to end in a foreign country?
Defence is seen as a cost that reduces other costs, rather than something which will pay back, so I suspect it only happens if the company doesn't have other work for the defenders to do (rare) so they might as well work on this as be paid to do nothing, if they think the attackers may return so they want to learn as much as possible about them for future defence (depends on what they did and who they it seems they may be), or if the government where the company is based steps in to fund the hunt for some reason (maybe political).
I find it difficult to believe that all attackers are necessarily from different countries. There was a breach in Canada some years ago when a bank lost tons of information and was hated for it. The hackers were in canada and it was on the news when they were finally caught. But that was an exception and not the rule.
I don’t recall saying all attackers were necessarily from different countries, because that’s not true at all. I said it’s unlikely they are from the same one, because statistically that is true.
Never used AI online, never will. I played with a locally installed, air-gapped, Deepseek just to see what it was like, because I don't trust it at all. Meh.
I don't get the hype.
Y'all have fun with that, I'm going to avoid it as much as I can.
I just realized I never deleted the account I created a couple years ago to try it, before knowing all the harms of ai, and realizing it wasn't worth it. They claim that chatgpt users weren't affected, but we can never trust them. Well, at least I remembered to delete my account now.
I didnt discuss anything dicey or sensitive or even too personal, and i never used a paid service. But honestly all these data breaches are just... fucked. Especially with governments increasingly passing ID laws that will result in even more sensitive information being leaked (and that already happened in the UK).
For some reason hearing about this breach pissed me off even more than usual.
Is it really so hard to self host the analytics with an open source analytics solution? I don't know why people at any scale of more than 15 devs would want that kind of security risk.
The worst part to me is that so many companies use third parties to process parts of things that it's like you give data to one company and they give your data to like 10 other companies and before you know it your information has been breached multiple times over from the same starting point.
OpenAI claims that ChatGPT users were unaffected, with chat content, API usage, passwords, payment details, and government IDs remaining safe. However, users of OpenAI's API interfaces at platform.openai.com have seen a variety of data exposed in this latest breach.
The military announced on Wednesday it had taken over the West African nation. Later, the opposition leader accused the incumbent president of staging the coup d’état to try to retain power.
Gunfire rang out near the presidential palace and national electoral commission headquarters on Wednesday afternoon, prompting confusion across Bissau, the capital.
Then, in a scene that has become familiar during the spate of coup d’états across West Africa in recent years, a military spokesman went on state television surrounded by heavily armed, uniformed men. He announced that they had deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, closed the country’s borders and airspace and suspended the electoral process. He also announced a curfew and declared a state of emergency.
The statement from Mr. N’Tchama came shortly after the opposition candidate, Fernando Dias, made an impassioned speech claiming to have won Sunday’s election, and saying that he was only waiting for the final announcement of the national electoral commission on Thursday.
“We will go out into the streets to say thank you to all the people of Guinea-Bissau for all that they have done,” he told a crowd of supporters.
Mr. Dias is supported by an opposition coalition that includes the country’s largest party, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. That party and its leader, Domingos Simões Pereira, a former prime minister, were barred from running in last week’s election.
After the military takeover on Wednesday, Mr. Pereira’s nephew, Edson Pereira, said that his uncle had been arrested and was being held in a prison in Bissau.
After armed clashes broke out in December 2023 between military forces and the national guard, Mr. Embaló, who was out of the country at the time, declared a coup had been attempted against his presidency. Days later, he dissolved Parliament, in which the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde had held the majority.
Before his campaign, Mr. Embaló repeatedly said that even if he did not win, Mr. Pereira should not be allowed to run the nation. Mr. Dias had promised to restore the government that Mr. Embaló dissolved.
Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to Australia is urging the Albanese government to include the island in the AUKUS security pact, as he warned China’s coercive behaviour and military activity in the Pacific should ring alarm bells.
Douglas Hsu, Taiwan’s top representative in Australia, also warned that Chinese-made electric cars posed cybersecurity risks and said Beijing was trying to project military force across the region.
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“Last year, they launched long-range missiles into the South Pacific, and earlier this year they sent naval vessels surrounding Australia,” Hsu told The Australian Financial Review, referring to a Chinese naval taskforce’s circumnavigation of Australia in February and March.
“I don’t think they have any business ties with Antarctica. So why do they send their naval ship here in this region? I think that is the way they are showcasing their defence capacities, and that is certainly alarming to all the countries in the region.”
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Conceding it was a sensitive topic, Hsu said the Taiwanese government had expressed interest in joining Pillar II of AUKUS given the island’s capabilities in high-end technology, including artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
“With the capacity of Taiwan in manufacturing, we believe that we have the strength working with other countries, especially in AUKUS Pillar II, to advance those defence and technologies to the next level, so we believe that Taiwan can be helpful,” he said.
Pillar II of AUKUS – the technology stream of the pact – commits Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to jointly accelerate the development of advanced capabilities including quantum computing, artificial intelligence, undersea warfare and hypersonic missiles.
“What lies behind this,” said Petro, “is the same thing behind the war in Ukraine... petroleum,” noting the size and quality of Venezuela’s reserves. “In general, all of the wars of this century had to do with oil.”
If Trump were to get the upper hand, Petro suggested, the United States would get Venezuela’s oil “almost for free,” predicting that—“based on the evidence so far”—that the US will go to war over the resources.
Trump, said Petro, “is not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking,” adding that Venezuela is not considered a major drug producer or transit point for most narcotics headed to the United States.
"He’s not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking," said the Latin American leader. "In general, all of the wars of this century had to do with oil."
“Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day because it will be more than a trillion dollars in economic activity.”
“American companies can go in and fix the oil rigs and everything that has to do with the Venezuelan petroleum companies, with oil and the derivatives.”
“The Venezuelans have the largest reserves of oil in the world, more than Saudi Arabia. This is going to be a windfall for us when it comes to fossil fuels.”
the fascist and zionists have figured out that they can say whatever they want out loud; the anti-left disinformation campaigns in the west have succeeded, so the only ones paying attention to what they say are the few of us who have a more than average awareness of how fucked up capitalism is.
“What lies behind this,” said Petro, “is the same thing behind the war in Ukraine... petroleum,” noting the size and quality of Venezuela’s reserves. “In general, all of the wars of this century had to do with oil.”
If Trump were to get the upper hand, Petro suggested, the United States would get Venezuela’s oil “almost for free,” predicting that—“based on the evidence so far”—that the US will go to war over the resources.
Trump, said Petro, “is not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking,” adding that Venezuela is not considered a major drug producer or transit point for most narcotics headed to the United States.
Colombian President Petro Says Venezuela Oil 'At Heart' of Trump Aggression | Common Dreams
Jon Queally Nov 26, 2025
“What lies behind this,” said Petro, “is the same thing behind the war in Ukraine... petroleum,” noting the size and quality of Venezuela’s reserves. “In general, all of the wars of this century had to do with oil.”
If Trump were to get the upper hand, Petro suggested, the United States would get Venezuela’s oil “almost for free,” predicting that—“based on the evidence so far”—that the US will go to war over the resources.
Trump, said Petro, “is not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking,” adding that Venezuela is not considered a major drug producer or transit point for most narcotics headed to the United States.
"He’s not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking," said the Latin American leader. "In general, all of the wars of this century had to do with oil."
The regions Russia has invaded have large unexploited oil and more importantly gas reserves. Not only that, but some of the gas pipeline, which supply Russian gas to the EU run through that region. So if Ukraine holds them, it is fairly easy to them to replace Russian gas.
For the US the war is extremely usefull. Russia gave the EU a somewhat independent energy supply. But the war against Ukraine is just too dangerous. Especially with Russia threatening EU countries on a regular bases. So they turned to other suppliers and the biggest oil and gas exporter is currently the US. Due to the war a third of fossil gas used by the EU is from the US right now. That is a huge dependence.
As for oil, Ukraine is obviosuly very willing to attack Russian oil infrastructure. So the US is litterally taking out a competitor fairly long term here.
Something similar was happening with Iran. Israel actually attacked some oil and gas infrastructure in Iran as well. Obviously the entire region is always close to explode again.
This is also a good move against China. They import a lot of oil from Russia, Venezuela and Iran. So if the US can control Venezuela and take out Russia and Iran, then it is able to really punish China in a war. That is why China is going for EVs, renewables and coal. They can have those inside China. Something similar is happening inside the EU as well, but less strategic.
Also back to Ukraine. It is more complex then that. Ukraine is culturally close to Russia, so them removing a dictator might well be a bad example to the Russian people, from Putins point of view. It also acted as a buffer between Russia and EU/NATO, has a lot of farm land and due to Soviet legacy an economy, which integrates well into Russia, as well as a lot of Russian speakers. The war also helps Putin internally, as an excuse to strengthen the hold over the country and remove competition.
“Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day because it will be more than a trillion dollars in economic activity.”
“American companies can go in and fix the oil rigs and everything that has to do with the Venezuelan petroleum companies, with oil and the derivatives.”
“The Venezuelans have the largest reserves of oil in the world, more than Saudi Arabia. This is going to be a windfall for us when it comes to fossil fuels.”
gibmiser
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in reply to ifiokambrose • • •If God's mind were a soup of linear algebra doing stupid number tricks, then sure (with the assumption we're just talking about LLMs).
In reality, no.
Source: I study AI and work on it professionally.
brucethemoose
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in reply to ifiokambrose • • •Lmao buddy you turned marketing buzz words into ontological argument come the fuck on
You might as well say Mr Clean is clearly a diety of some sort because of his undying commitment to purity
CapnClenchJaw
in reply to TheAlbatross • • •Holy shit, your right.
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All hail our Lord and Savior Mr Clean!
/s
givesomefucks
in reply to ifiokambrose • • •What brain rotted CEO grifter is that quote even from?
Seraphim
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in reply to ifiokambrose • • •When you say "AI", do you mean a large language model?
Then, no. A language model is not super intelligent.
Also, with respect to any artificial intelligence created by human beings in general, no.
It is only designed to make predictions of text based on training on a corpus of text which is ultimately composed by a human mind or many human minds that are very fallible, prone to delusions, and also unaware of broader realities and dimensions of existence.
demonsword
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