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pablochacon via Privacy

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pablochacon
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Against Decay, We Build: DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) Protocol

This is DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) Protocol:

Not a token, not speculation.
It’s infrastructure, deployed on Ethereum mainnet.

We’re watching the same pattern everywhere:
Postal systems collapsing.
Parcels lost, broken, stolen or seized.
Increased surveillance, ID requirements, more decay.
Less reliability, less privacy, less dignity.

The institutions that were supposed to protect our right to communication are failing, even though privacy of correspondence is guaranteed under UN Article 12 and ICCPR Article 17.

So instead of being stuck in surveillance and Inefficiency-As-A-Service, we have to build parallel systems immune to centralized control.
Systems by us for us, in the spirit of the Fediverse:

community-powered

decentralized

permissionless

protocol, not platform

no corporations

no bosses

no surveillance

no extraction

DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) is not a token, not a scam, not a VC product, not a walled garden.
It’s a rail, an open delivery settlement layer anyone can build on.

What it does:

Every parcel is an NFT with a lifecycle

Escrow is automatic, trustless, and transparent

Anyone can create an NFT-Parcel

Anyone can carry parcels while they’re already on the move

No fleets, no gig exploitation, no “shadow wages”

Zero extra CO₂, use the movement people already make

Protocol fee is immutable (0.5%), so nobody can rug / extract

Privacy is natively built in.

Fully MIT-licensed & open-source

It’s not a startup.
It’s not a marketplace.
It’s not a company.

It’s the peoples infrastructure for physical logistics.

Because if we want a free world, we can’t outsource critical communication infrastructure to decaying governments, surveillance corps, or gig economy parasites.

If you want to understand the philosophy behind it, here’s the full manifesto + artwork:

Medium:
medium.com/@ekarlsson66/dede-t…

If you want to poke around the contracts:

DeDe Protocol GitHub (MIT):
github.com/pablo-chacon/dede-p…

DeDe Quik-Start Templates GitHub (MIT):
github.com/pablo-chacon/dede-t…

No pressure to “like crypto.”
DeDe is just a tool.
Use it, fork it, ignore it. All up to you.
More decentralized civilizational fundamentals, means less dependency of collapsing control systems.
We must have working alternatives when the centralized systems break down.

Against decay, we build.
That’s the spirit of the fediverse.
That’s the spirit of DeDe.

GitHub - pablo-chacon/dede-protocol: DeDe Protocol, Neutral, Trustless Settlement Rails for P2P Crowdshipping

DeDe Protocol, Neutral, Trustless Settlement Rails for P2P Crowdshipping - pablo-chacon/dede-protocol

^GitHub

#privacy

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irmadlad

in reply to pablochacon • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Not to be hypercritical, I'm not a published dev so take this in that light. I always find it sketch to happen upon a GitHub repo that has no description in the right column. The software may be tight, but in the back of my head I'm wondering, why didn't they take 5 minutes and provide a description?

About
No description, website, or topics provided.

On the other hand, it's always comforting that it is being actively maintained:

7b8fc3b · 42 minutes ago

Just random thoughts from the old head.

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pablochacon

in reply to irmadlad • 2 settimane fa • •

Actually I never thought about it. That's a good idea. Thanks. =)
But all the data about the project needed is in:
1. README.md
2. WHITEPAPER.md
3. DeDe-FAQ.md

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lattrommi

in reply to pablochacon • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

If it is deployed on Etherium mainnet, that implies there's a monetary/crypto based cost right?

From the Medium article:

DeDe allows:

Commuters
Cyclists
Students
Gig workers
Travel enthusiasts

…to earn money by delivering parcels along the path they were already taking.

...

It simply turns existing human movement into an economic engine.

Those statements sound like a person is actually transporting stuff physically. I'm not sure I see the connection. I tried reading the github too but it got more technical than I can understand.

Is this a courier service for physical packages that pays the couriers with crypto by doing shipments paid with crypto? How would that be trustworthy? A courier could simply open the package at the risk of non-payment for potentially stealing valuables. Or is this digital packages only? But if that's the case, what would physical activity be needed for? What's to stop this from turning into that Black Mirror episode where people are cycling in place constantly, to pay their electric bills?

Just trying to wrap my head around this and I think I'm missing something.

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pablochacon

in reply to lattrommi • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Here is a clearer explanation. DeDe is not a courier service and not a gig app. It is only infrastructure, a smart contract protocol.

DeDe is not an app, not a marketplace and not a company. It is a tiny delivery settlement rail that sits on Ethereum, similar to how Bitcoin sits under money transfers and Matrix sits under messaging. Those systems do not provide apps or account systems, they provide rails. DeDe works the same way but for physical delivery.

This is what the protocol actually does. Anyone can register a parcel on chain as an NFT. The sender deposits the parcel value into escrow, because the escrow amount represents the value of the item/parcel/delivery. Anyone who wants to can pick up a parcel and deliver it. It is completely voluntary and there are no assignments, no scheduling and no forced routes. The smart contract holds the escrow until both sides confirm that the parcel arrived. When they agree, the contract releases the payment to the carrier and takes a 0.5 percent transaction fee from the escrow. It is a transaction fee, NOT a parcel fee. The remaining 99.5 percent goes to the carrier.

If someone builds an app or a marketplace on top of DeDe and decides to charge an additional service fee, that fee belongs to that external service. It is outside the protocol, outside the smart contract and outside DeDe entirely. For example, if a carrier receives 95 percent of the parcel value, DeDe still only took 0.5 percent as the transaction fee, while the other 4.5 percent would be the fee of that particular app or marketplace. DeDe does not define or control those business models.

There is no app, no login system, no surveillance layer, no tracking and no central operator baked into DeDe. Those things, if anyone wants them, are built by others. A future marketplace built on top of DeDe becomes a kind of free for all UPS or DHL where senders and carriers meet, but all settlement still flows through the trustless contract. That part is the only responsibility of DeDe.

Carriers can choose any parcel they want. If a parcel matches their daily route, it is efficient and reduces the number of trucks in cities, but they can also deliver completely unrelated parcels if that is what they prefer. with what kind of transport they prefer. Everything is voluntary.

The trust comes from the smart contract. It does not track or identify anyone. It simply releases money when both sides confirm delivery. That is the entire mechanism, a neutral settlement layer for physical logistics. Everything above that, including apps, marketplaces and business logic, belongs to the people who build on top of it.

If anything is unclear I can explain more.

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lattrommi

in reply to pablochacon • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Fedex and UPS deliver almost anywhere, and can do insured packages. Here in the U.S. there's also the postal service, which also can deliver across a wide geography, beyond that of the U.S. borders. These cost a trivial amount of money and if one has a post office near them, they can pay with cash and avoid revealing their identity.

It sounds like you want people to use a form of cryptocurrency to pay a stranger, whichever stranger comes first, to deliver a physical package, then paying the deliverer once the package is accepted, using that same cryptocurrency.

Even if the protocol doesn't track or identify anyone, if the ledger is available for anyone to see or even if it were limited to package deliverers, a tracking mechanism would be trivial to create.

This does not guarantee any level of security for the package, only the payment, which is only theoretically secure because I haven't taken the time to check.

If it somehow took off as a solution people needed, once a package is put on the chain, there could potentially a mad free-for-all of deliverers, all fighting tooth and nail to get that package.

The entire trip delivering would also be fraught with dangers potentially, as deliverers who weren't fast enough might simply rob or kill the winning deliverer, take the package, then deliver it themselves. If they wanted to...

If the payment for a package is high enough, one might wonder just what was so important to warrant such a payment. Drugs? Guns? Biological weapons? Black market organs for transplant? Actual cash money?

Don't forget that computational costs electricity, which costs the environment until the world gets off of fossil fuels. Potential users would have to ask themselves if the package delivery is more important than climate change.

This sounds like a way to try and make crypto money, for doing absolutely nothing, by inserting crypto into a market that doesn't need it, to do a job already handled just fine by companies that already have the infrastructure in place, with no real problem being solved that needs solved.

What problem does this solve? How does this make package delivering any better?

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pablochacon

in reply to lattrommi • 2 settimane fa • •

Thanks for the thoughtful critique. Some clarification to help:

DeDe isn’t trying to replace FedEx/UPS/USPS.

DeDe is not a platform or an app.
It’s a protocol, closer to TCP/IP than Uber.

It handles one function only:

escrow -> pickup -> dropoff -> finalize

Everything else (matching, identity, trust, messaging, routing) is off-chain, by design.
That separation is what preserves privacy and prevents metadata leakage.

What problem DeDe actually solves

Not postal logistics, those require fleets, warehouses, and fixed infrastructure.

DeDe addresses the centralized crowdshipping model used by Uber/Doordash/Amazon Flex:

• zero privacy
• centralized control
• data extraction and surveillance
• wage manipulation
• platform lock-in
• mandatory identity
• opaque matching

DeDe gives communities the same underlying mechanics of crowdshipping
without a corporation in the middle collecting or exploiting sender/carrier/destination data.

No tracking, no identity, no metadata

Parcel NFTs only encode:

• parcel ID
• escrow amount
• lifecycle state

No names, addresses, routes, timestamps, or identities.
All sensitive information stays off-chain.

DeDe doesn’t broadcast parcels, seek couriers, or coordinate delivery.
It only settles funds trustlessly.

No token, no speculation

• no governance token
• no staking token
• no inflation
• no “earn crypto for nothing”
• no VC angle

Ethereum is used strictly as a neutral, permissionless escrow layer.

In short

DeDe is a tiny, open, neutral settlement rail for P2P delivery,
just infrastructure communities can use or ignore as they like.

Regarding environmental footprint:

Blockchain environmental impact depends on how electricity is produced, not on the existence of computation itself.
Electricity demand has been rising for decades, long before blockchains or AI, and will continue to do so.

If critical economic infrastructure depended on abundant, cheap green power,
it would create a strong incentive for energy producers to scale sustainable sources faster.
The largest investors in green energy today are still heavily tied to fossil fuels,
so shifting economic incentives can help accelerate the transition.

ZkhqrD5o via Linux

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ZkhqrD5o
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Have Nvidia drivers on Linux gotten worse over later generations?

I just saw the GamersNexus benchmarks and I wondered to myself, why do they have so many problems with Nvidia on Bazite? I've used PopOS with my RTX 30 graphics card and I've essentially had performance parity with Windows.

Do you guys think they misconfigured something in the background or do you think that the driver has just gotten worse? What are your experiences?

#linux

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IcePee

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I think the biggest issue they had was with consistency of frame rate.
Maybe the graphic drivers have matured more for the RTX 30 than the later versions.
Are you using the proprietary drivers, or the open source ones?

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ZkhqrD5o

in reply to IcePee • 2 settimane fa • •

I have always used what PopOS bundles. It used to be the proprietary driver, but ever since a certain driver version, they have switched to the Nvidia-made FOSS driver. Because nvidia stopped developing any sort of proprietary components in the driver and just made the FOSS driver instead, which became the "official" Nvidia driver in May 2025 i think.

Edit: Correction, only the kernel modules are all FOSS, while the userspace modules such as CUDA for example are still proprietary.

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MyNameIsRichard

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

No, but then I have quite an old graphics card. Even for my card, the open source drivers are recommended.

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custard_swollower

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

It’s a bazzite issue. Many people share that the drivers are pretty reliable on other distros.

From experience, they got pretty good over last 2-3 years.

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artyom

in reply to custard_swollower • 2 settimane fa • •

Does Bazzite make their own Linux drivers?

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Eggymatrix

in reply to artyom • 2 settimane fa • •

No, bazzite does some weird stuff that does not interact well with the linux nvidia drivers

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artyom

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I think most likely the performance isn't as similar on your system as you think it is.

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CronyAkatsuki

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I have a 5060ti 16gb version and don't experience any issues with frame pacing and stuff like that on nixos, while when I tried bazzite I was experiencing some issues with the gpu.

It's most likely a bazzite specific issue, especially if you use something like the steamos interface.

For example my monitor is a 160hz monitor that support's gsync, but if I enable global gsync in any wayland compositor the bottom part of my screen is cut off and experience weird vissual bugs, but if I make them only enable gsync on my steam games when they are fullscreen I don't experience that issue. The steamos session inside of bazzite doesn't have that feature, so when it enables gsync I experience that same issue of cut off part of the screen with weird visual issues.

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Eggymatrix

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

All this is ironic, bazzite is often chosen for gaming, but as all these niche distros they have problems in stability which in this case reflects on exactly their core feature: gaming performance.

Stands yet again in demonstrating that gamers don't actually care about performance, just in claiming that they have a top spec pc, if that thing does not perform like it should but just gives a workable experience it is actually fine

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Dran

in reply to Eggymatrix • 2 settimane fa • •

I just went to repurpose some old hardware for my nephew (4790k + 32gb ddr3 + rtx 3050) which I thought would make a very passable bazzite box. I put 2 drives in the test rig, one with bazzite Nvidia + kde and one with win11 running with the rufus tpm bypass hacks.

CS2 ran at ~40fps in bazzite with no sound once you got in game, win11 ran at ~100

Helldivers2 ran at ~50fps in bazzite with constant frame drops even after letting it precompile shaders. On windows it was a very playable 70fps.

I mainline Linux myself and I wanted bazzite to be the set-and-forget answer but it really wasn't. I can't in good faith hand that build over to an 12 year old with bazzite and that was super disappointing.

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typhoon

in reply to Dran • 2 settimane fa • •

Problem is not Bazzite or Linux, problem is Nvidia. If we need to be honest, we should avoid Nvidia.

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FauxLiving

in reply to typhoon • 2 settimane fa • •

None of the problems that they're describing are caused by using an Nvidia card.

The default proton is bad, using GE-Proton will often improve things.

CS2 getting 40fps and no sound. A quick trip over to protondb.com/app/730 will show that this is a problem with CS2 as it happens on every graphics card. Setting SDL_AUDIO_DRIVER=pipewire resolves the issue for a lot of people.

Helldivers 2 low FPS: Protondb has people with both graphics cards reporting the low fps issues. Setting a framerate cap will reduce FPS variance, using GE-Proton10 fixes HDR issues. In my experience disabling vsync improved performance significantly, this is true of a lot of games if you're using adaptive sync.

I see this all the time in the Linux communities. If someone is having an issue with a game and they use an Nvidia card then community responses are often to do the blame Nvidia meme rather than troubleshoot the issue.

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Dran

in reply to FauxLiving • 2 settimane fa • •

Appreciate the recommended fixes. I did find similar and was able to work through some of the issues with CS2 but I did that on instinct, and it wasn't until I was halfway through troubleshooting game 2 of 2 attempted that I realized it wasn't where I needed it to be for a remote support hand-me-down.

I did briefly entertain the idea of setting up rustdesk on it but the atomic nature + Wayland made unattended (read: "help I broke it and I can't log in") not really viable. By the time I got to "hrm, I could probably set up a reverse ssh tunnel into my homelab for persistent support?" I decided windows was probably the play here.

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Dran

in reply to typhoon • 2 settimane fa • •

Like the other guy said I think this is a bazzite-induced problem. I have other Linux systems at home. My daily driver and my wife's daily driver are both highly custom Ubuntu server derivatives, we both have Nvidia GPUs (3050, 5070), and neither of us have similar issues.

The reason I wanted to try bazzite was that I didn't want to remotely support something super custom.

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typhoon

in reply to Dran • 2 settimane fa • •

Do you think you would have those issues that you are reporting if you were using AMD or Intel GPUs?

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Dran

in reply to typhoon • 2 settimane fa • •

I suspect the difference in experiences is more due to x11/pulse(my custom systems) vs Wayland/pipewire(bazzite) than it is any particular GPU vendor or driver branch. Which I guess is a roundabout way of saying

Maybe? Probably?

Judging by the protondb entry on CS2 I strongly suspect I would have at least the audio issue regardless of gpu.

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stuner

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I have 3080 and I've seen significant performance issues too (e.g. in Cyberpunk 2077, KCD2). I think it depends a lot on the games you play. Apparently DX12 (via vkd3d) doesn't perform well on Nvidia cards.

My next GPU will probably not be an Nvidia card.

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Matty_r

in reply to stuner • 2 settimane fa • •

When I upgraded my GPU last I tried for the first time since ATI was a thing to leave nvidia and go AMD. I tried to get a 6900XT but just had endless issues with drivers, which I was surprised about because if you believe a majority of Linux users it should have been flawless - it was not. I had endless issues with drivers and games running badly. I caved and returned it for a 3070ti - trust me I tried a lot of things.

Anyway, I've since tried AMD again and upgraded to a 9070XT and the transition this time has been absolutely flawless, even keeping the same install (CachyOS has a guide to swap from nvidia to AMD).

This is all to say, don't believe the hype around AMD but at least give it a try and don't feel too bad if it doesn't work out for you. Ultimately both nvidia and AMD have been improving significantly over the years

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utopiah

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

No idea, I've been playing "normal" games and VR games with my NVIDIA card for years now on Debian and... it just works. It just keeps on working. Maybe people are hardcore tinkerers that mess with specific options but me, I just play and I'm happy with it.

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typhoon

in reply to utopiah • 2 settimane fa • •

I feel that "works" is a very broad term. It can work but doesn't mean that it will perform even or better in a good amount of games compared to Nvidia on Windows or AMD in Linux or Windows. Issues depends on specific games that one plays, one may be playing games that aren't prone for those issues reported.

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utopiah

in reply to typhoon • 2 settimane fa • •

Sure, but FWIW I play from AAA to indies and it "works" as in no bug, no noticeable visual glitch.

I don't benchmark from my driver version to the previous one on Windows or Linux or a price point equivalent with AMD hardware, I just play. I don't think anybody gain much from checking performance benchmarks before playing a game, at least I can say for sure to me that's not part of the fun.

I would notice if something was blatantly wrong e.g 50% performance hit, but I wouldn't if it's 5% hit. I don't really care for it as it doesn't affect my gameplay. Like I said, it's from a casual player, not a pro player nor a game tinkerer.

Working "better" on Windows means nothing to me. Either I can play and I'm happy or I can't (which never happened) then I'd be disappointed and potentially check why.

PS: I'm also a developer of XR content so I'm relatively confident I'd spot any significant problem.

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NapKat

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

The problem for me is that its so damn back and forth. One driver will be perfectly fine, and then the next will introduce some random new issue. Rn 580 has caused elite dangerous to crash with some out of memory error, and VR is completely broken. Im really considering switching from Nobara because I want a distro that has a built in tool to easily downgrade nvidia drivers.

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jazzkoalapaws

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I haven't noticed.

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Zimno

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

In the past (2021-2022) I remember that Nvidia drivers were really pain in the ass and installing them always ended for me with black screen. For right now everything is working for me in debian-based distributions and arch-linux.
Yesterday I was looking for new linux distros, I wanted to try Fedora and OpenSuse but drivers didn't work there at all. In Fedora this Nouveau driver was okay but in OpenSuse even open-source driver wasn't working.

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billwashere

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

Well being it’s all vibe coded now yep that tracks.

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utopiah

in reply to billwashere • 2 settimane fa • •

Source please

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billwashere

in reply to utopiah • 2 settimane fa • •

Just take a look at their workflow and you tell me. NVIDIA uses an AI-powered code editor called Cursor. It is a fork of VS Code that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) directly into the programming environment.

Here a quote from this article:

A high-profile endorsement from NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang in late 2025 underscored Cursor’s rapid ascent – calling Cursor his “favorite enterprise AI service” and noting that 100% of NVIDIA’s engineers now use AI assistance with a remarkable boost in productivity.

digitalstrategy-ai.com/2025/11…

In late 2024 and early 2025, CEO Jensen Huang explicitly stated that "every single software engineer at NVIDIA uses Cursor."

dataconomy.com/2025/10/15/jens…

And then there is this article:

fortune.com/2025/11/25/nvidia-…

So it’s kinda obvious they use a lot of AI in their code. Now there is no direct proof they use it in their drivers but they obviously do given the CEO’s stance.

‘Are you insane?’: Billionaire CEO Jensen Huang blasts Nvidia managers who are ‘telling their people to use less AI’

Huang said Nvidia employees should be using AI everywhere they can, "because we have the power to do so."

^{Dave Smith (Fortune)}

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utopiah

in reply to billwashere • 2 settimane fa • •

No doubt NVIDIA is peddling AI as they are financially depending on it now.

Now from claiming something is powerful and even used to actually shipping code on something low level and benchmarkable like (GPU) drivers I have doubt. I imagine they can say they use AI there to rephrase comment and it would "technically correct" but beyond that I'm still skeptical.

Regarding chip design, AI has been used for decades ... if you consider routing to be AI. It's not generative in the modern sense, it's not using LLM, but it's automated a process.

To me it's the typical Harvard Business School playbook. C-suite repeat keywords they read in their peer most popular magazine, they aggregate in a document they call "strategy" they lower down the chain of commands people "execute" that because they must, thanks to KPIs.

I'd love to hear it from an actual engineer working on drivers but I imagine it'd be hard to get a honest opinion with NDAs and all.

Thanks for providing all the sources!

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SpaceScotsman

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

The drivers run OK, but because they were not built for my distribution with the right flag, when I sleep and resume my system, I need to log out and back in to the desktop or else it bugs out.

Is this the drivers fault for not having that be a default flag? The maintainers fault for not using the correct flags? Waylands fault for not interfacing with the driver right on resume? My fault for having the audacity to want to use the sleep function?

I have no clue, but it doesn't happen with the open source nouevau drivers, so I'm inclined to place a fair bit of the blame with nvidia.

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FauxLiving

in reply to SpaceScotsman • 2 settimane fa • •

If it's the same bug as what I'm seeing, I just wrote a script that changes the display settings and sets them back then bound it to a hotkey.

Any monitor that stays blank after waking up is fixed if you adjust the display settings (tricky to do with blank monitors, hence the script).

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IngeniousRocks (They/She)

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

The only thing I know for sure in regards to why nvidia kinda blows on linux is that system RAM sharing doesn't really work the way it does on windows or with AMD cards on linux. This means that particularly VRAM intense workloads will suffer. Unreal 5 games in particular suffer because of this.

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Gary Ghost

in reply to IngeniousRocks (They/She) • 2 settimane fa • •

I just bought Avowed. Splitegate 2 has been running great on my 3060 but splitegate 2 is also very plain looking. I hope Avowed runs well too

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Gary Ghost

in reply to IngeniousRocks (They/She) • 2 settimane fa • •

This might explain why Manjaro waits so long in between updates for Nvidia. A really old driver didn't have as many problems until 580.82.90.

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SmoochyPit

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I’m on Arch, with Hyprland as my Window Manager. I use an RTX 3070.

For Wayland specifically, the driver was next to unusable for a while. I jumped ship from Windows in Sept. 2023. Beginning with driver 560 iirc, it got a lot better, plus their engineers pushed a lot of changes across the Wayland ecosystem to implement explicit sync support (a net positive, but before this, Nvidia was too stubborn to implement implicit sync, so bad screen tearing was unavoidable). Also there’s been a slow migration to using the GSP processor on newer cards. They claim it can improve performance, which may be true, but I also recently learned it helps them keep some more parts of their code closed-source, which is likely why it’s required to use the open source kernel modules.

At this point, though, it does feel very smooth and I can play games like The Finals at competitive framerates!

But relative to my performance under Windows, it’s still worse, mainly in average framerate. Like others have said, DX12 games seem to be hit hardest. I sometimes have to run lower settings to compensate. Also, if my VRAM gets filled, Xwayland apps all break, so I have to be very careful with higher quality texture quality especially.

Anyways, to answer your question, I think an average gamer doesn’t notice the degraded performance, without benchmarking or comparing framerates back to back— it still runs pretty smooth and framerates are still pretty high. If they aren’t happy with it, they’ll drop quality settings or resolution, just like they’d do under Windows.

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Eyck_of_denesle

in reply to ZkhqrD5o • 2 settimane fa • •

I could barely launch games on Wayland 2 years ago. I have been gaming on Wayland now, no problems. So if anything, it has massively improved.

geneva_convenience via Palestine

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geneva_convenience
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Israeli forces carry out attacks in Gaza, breaching ceasefire

Israeli forces carried out attacks across multiple areas in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in breach of the ceasefire agreement, according to Wafa news agency.

Israeli troops conducted intense shelling and aerial attacks from helicopters east of al-Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza. Israeli warplanes also carried out six air strikes east of Rafah, in southern Gaza.

In Khan Younis, Israeli forces shelled a house in the town of Bani Suheila. There were no immediate reports of casualties in any of the attacks.

Israeli forces carry out attacks in Gaza, breaching ceasefire

^{Middle East Eye}

#Palestine

Camille_Jamal via Asklemmy

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Camille_Jamal
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I'm new to lemmy, came from reddit. What's the lemmy etiquette like? How different is it from reddiqutte?

I'm new as in this is my first day using lemmy. I don't know anything about lemmy etiquette and don't want to do anything bad

thanks and have an amazing day! also plz be kind 😁

#asklemmy

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Gerudo

in reply to geneva_convenience • 2 settimane fa • •

Yes, but a new user needs to know the instance they join has pros and cons. Like another user stated, they joined .ml after lemm.ee closed and didn't know why several communities they had subscribed to weren't showing up.

Let's be real for a second, lemmygrad, .ml and. hexbear are well known for blocking and being blocked on Lemmy. Users should know Lemmy isnt like reddit where each user can potentially see 100% of content, it's dependent on your instance.

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geneva_convenience

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Lemmygrad an Hexbear sure. Nobody will recommend those as servers to start off.

.ml however is a pretty general server which is federated very broadly. It's not a bad place to start off.

jankforlife via World News

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jankforlife
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Ukrainian terror plot to bomb gas pipeline outside Moscow foiled – FSB

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has thwarted a Ukrainian-sponsored terror plot to bomb a major gas pipeline in Moscow Region

^RT

#Worldnews

like this

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Hyper_red [she/her, she/her]

in reply to jankforlife • 2 settimane fa • •

When Russia kills civilians >🙁

When Le epic wholesome Ukraine does it 😀

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Saapas

in reply to Hyper_red [she/her, she/her] • 2 settimane fa • •

Russia could stop this all by stopping the invasion tbh.

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radiouser

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Don't engage with trolls or bad faith arguments.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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These aren't trolls or bad-faith arguments, this is the standard Marxist position. Labelling your opponent as a "troll" or "bad-faith" is just a way to terminate any discussion before it happens.

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radiouser

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

Ah, I respectfully disagree with you.

A serious position deserves a serious presentation. If you (or anyone) want to discuss media bias or comparative morality in war, start that discussion. The original comment didn't come close.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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The original was a joke, meant to highlight double standards at play. Not trolling or being bad-faith.

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radiouser

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Thanks for explaining that to me.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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No problem!

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cfgaussian

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The Kiev regime could stop all this by accepting Russia's demands.

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Saapas

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Russia stops the invasion, nothing changes for Russia. Ukraine surrenders, no more Ukraine.

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RiverRock

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Where are people getting this Lord of the Rings-ass idea? Russia doesn't want to absorb Ukraine because

A) They do not want to be responsible for tamping down decades of Banderite insurgencies, and

B) Doing so would mean that they now share a vulnerable border with a NATO member which is, and I cannot stress this enough, most of the reason they went into Ukraine in the first place.

What they actually want is a buffer zone in the form of a demilitarized Ukraine. The Donbas Republics have voted to join the Russian Federation, so they're not going back to Ukranian control, but western Ukraine is far more strategically beneficial to them as a rump state.

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Saapas

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"Nah they don't want to take over, they just want to make it into a weak country they totally control"

Lmao that's great I wonder why Ukraine doesn't go for that

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RiverRock

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Totally control

Did you read anything I said? They do not want to be responsible for dealing with the shambles that Ukraine has become. It benefits them far more to let that be Europe's burden

It doesn't matter what the Ukranian government wants or doesnt want, they've lost the war. If you don't like it, take it up with the nazis in charge or the Americans who put them there in the 2014 Maidan coup and told them they could win. The Ukranian people overwhelmingly want peace. There were so many offramps before this point, and the US puppet government refused all of them, so now here we are learning an object lesson in why diplomacy is preferable to belligerence.

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Saapas

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Tsundere Russia, it's not like it even wants to control Ukraine, baka.

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RiverRock

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You have an eleven year old's idea of how and why wars happen, and a fourteen year old's habit of retreating to moody sarcasm when you realize you're out of your depth in an argument.

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Saapas

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Don't be upset, it was just a joke

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RiverRock

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If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

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Saapas

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I mean at some point it makes sense to recognize that the conversation isn't going anywhere

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RiverRock

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Yes, it stopped going anywhere the moment you decided to stop it. I brought facts, you brought snide cope and deflection disguised as jokes🤷‍♂️

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Saapas

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I can't say I agree about the factuality of your statements tbh.

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RiverRock

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Of course you don't, you live in unreality

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Saapas

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That sounds like some fantast movie place

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cfgaussian

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If the war keeps going there will be no more Ukraine. Peace now on Russia's terms is the only way to preserve it.

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Saapas

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If the war keeps going there will be no more Ukraine

Fucking grim what Russia is doing. It's like Israel to Palestine.

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RiverRock

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Ukraine and Israel are allies

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Saapas

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I'm not sure you got the comparison...

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RiverRock

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I did it's just a nonsensical comparison that borders on genocide denial

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Saapas

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If the war keeps going there will be no more Palestine. Peace now on Israel's terms is the only way to preserve it.

I've definitely heard people say that

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RiverRock

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You have not.

"Israel" has no terms and has offered no peace other than annihilation. Russia has offered peace deal after peace deal for ten years. You know these things are not comparable, and to insist they are for the sake of your pride is to whitewash the zionist entity's genocide.

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Saapas

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washingtonpost.com/opinions/20…

It's not exactly a rare sentiment from pro-Israel side. And it's easy to recognize how bullshit it is. Which is why it's such a good comparison.

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cfgaussian

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It's actually the exact opposite. It is the Ukrainian Nazis who think and behave exactly like the Zionists, up to and including their systematic use of torture, their brutal execution of captives and civilians "sympathetic to the enemy", and their penchant for assassinations and terrorist attacks on civilians.

It is not a coincidence that they openly say that they want to turn Ukraine into a "larger Israel". Or that they help Zionist backed terrorists in Syria and the Sahel.

It is these Banderite fascists, who have illegally seized control of Ukraine and now brutally repress the population, who have a fanatical ethnic hatred of Russians and who want to ethnically cleanse Ukraine of everything Russian like the Israelis want to do to Palestinians.

The Russians don't and have never reciprocated this hatred. They consider the Ukrainians their brothers. The liberated territories are full of Ukrainians who now live as equal citizens of Russia. There are millions of Ukrainian refugees who chose to go to Russia.

If and when Russia completely absorbs Ukraine, the Ukrainians will still be living on their land, just as peacefully as any of the other 150+ ethnic minorities in the Russian Federation. The same cannot be said of the Palestinians and their stolen land.

The Kiev regime is Israel. The ethnic Russian people of the Donbass are the Palestinians. Only unlike the Palestinians they were lucky enough to have a neighboring country willing to step in to protect them and liberate them from the genocidal Western-backed fascists.

Russia is doing in Ukraine what the collective Arab world should be doing in Palestine: eradicating a Nazi regime.

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Saapas

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There's a shitload of hatred towards Ukrainians by Russians online. Saying they just consider them their brothers is laughable, some absolutely hate Ukrainians and want to eradicate them and erase their identity (and saying how they're just Russians while also saying they're pigs or something(?))

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cfgaussian

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Why are there millions of Ukrainians living peacefully and happily in Russia alongside Russians, if Russians hate Ukrainians? Why do so many of these Ukrainians living in Russia support Russia and the SMO?

Is it maybe because the only Ukrainians who the Russians actually hate are the Nazis who have hijacked the country of Ukraine, turned the country into a prison from which no one but the rich can leave, and brainwashed the people into hating Russians? Brainwashed them into hating themselves in fact, since a majority of Ukrainians are native Russian speakers...

Should the Russians love these extremist fascists who murder and torture Ukrainians and Russians alike and commit terrorist acts against civilians?

I'm not saying every single Russian is perfect or that there aren't any who make stupid generalizations about Ukrainians, but clearly the mainstream Russian opinion and most importantly the government position, is that Ukrainians are brothers (literally, so many families have relatives on both sides of the border). The ethnic hatred hasn't been elevated to the level of state policy there. The extremists in Russia haven't been empowered like they have in Ukraine.

And weren't you claiming that the Russians are doing to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Gaza? Now you say they just want to "erase their identity". Do the Zionists just want to turn the Palestinians into Israelis? Do they believe that Palestinians are just Israelis who have been led astray? No. They don't even see the Palestinians as humans. They want to physically kill or remove them from the land.

In Mariupol, Russia has rebuilt for free the local residents' homes that were destroyed in the fighting. When is the last time Israel allowed Palestinians to even return to their homes at all, let alone rebuilt their homes that the Israelis demolished?

Why is Ukrainian an official and protected language in the Donbass and Crimea and is even taught in schools there, if the Russians wanted to erase Ukrainian identity? Why are there streets named after Ukraine in Moscow?

Meanwhile in Ukraine the Russian language is banned, even though it is the native language of most of Eastern Ukraine. They literally punish children for speaking Russian in schools. They burn Russian books. The Russian Orthodox Church is being attacked. History books were rewritten to glorify Nazis and vilify the Soviet liberators (many of them were Ukrainians btw). Streets and towns with Russian names were renamed, and many now bear names of Nazi collaborators. Who is trying to erase who's identity?

Why is it that after nearly four years of conflict involving millions of combatants in Ukraine, the conflict has one of the lowest civilian to combatant casualty ratios of any modern war? Why are there are nowhere near as many civilian casualties in all these years as there were in just the first few months of the Gaza genocide?

Why is it that every time Israel drops a bomb they kill a dozen Palestinians, but when Russia launches entire salvos of hundreds of drones and missiles it is rare to have even one or two civilian casualties? Is it maybe because the Russians do not want to mass murder Ukrainians like the Israelis want to do to the Palestinians?

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Saapas

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There's a lot of Russians who live(d) in Ukraine. Those of course are going to be welcomed in Russia. And there's Ukrainians who support Russia over their own country, those are going to officially be well received too. So there's really not big disconnect between the hateful attitudes and official proparanda.

And sometimes they treat Ukrainians as "brothers" in the sense that they're denying their whole identity as Ukrainians.

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cfgaussian

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There's a lot of Russians who live(d) in Ukraine

So every Russian-speaking Ukrainian is just a Russian? It seems it's you who is denying Ukrainian identity.

What exactly constitutes a Ukrainian in your opinion? Is it just someone who hates Russia? If a Ukrainian speaks Russian as their native language and likes Russia do they cease to be Ukrainian?

And sometimes they treat Ukrainians as "brothers" in the sense that they're denying their whole identity as Ukrainians.

So which is it? Do they hate Ukrainians or do they think they are one and the same?

And if they are denying Ukrainian identity, why does Ukrainian language have officially protected status in the new Russian regions, why is it offered to be taught in schools, unlike Russian language in Ukraine which is heavily suppressed? Again, who is trying to erase who's identity?

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Saapas

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So every Russian-speaking Ukrainian is just a Russian?

Nobody claimed this

What exactly constitutes a Ukrainian in your opinion?

I trust their own identity and view on this one.

So which is it? Do they hate Ukrainians or do they think they are one and the same?

Both happen. And denying one's identity is a pretty hateful act.

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cfgaussian

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I trust their own identity and view on this one.

So you can't even tell them apart, is what you're saying.

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Saapas

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I'm saying I'm not trying to define their identity for them. I'm happy to just go with this

I wouldn't be able to tell Portuguese and Brazilian people apart either. I hope that doesn't erase their identities.

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BrainInABox

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Not really; Russia grants citizenship to the people in annexed territory, compared to Israel ethnically cleansing them to replace with Settlers.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Ukraine surrenders, the war stops, and the already pro-Russian seperatist regions get to go where they want to go. The pro-Kiev regions of Ukraine stay with Ukraine, and no more killings on either side will happen.

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Saapas

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It's a generous deal, surrender and become a subjugated buffer state. Gotta love imperialism

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Cowbee [he/they]

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It isn't imperialism, Russia is intervening on behalf of the seperatists in Donetsk and Luhansk that have been fighting Kiev for a decade. Kiev is losing, they do not get to dictate terms, just try to negotiate for better. It's in Ukraine's interest to try to negotiate now, rather than continue to lose what bargaining chips they have through millitary defeat.

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Saapas

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Invading other countries, conquering parts of them and adding them to your country and creating butter states isn't imperilaism

Hah yeah right

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Donetsk and Luhansk broke away from Kiev, and requested Russian support, then voted to join Russia. Kiev has been at war with Donetsk and Luhansk for over a decade, and are majority pro-Russian. Imperialism isn't sinply annexing territory.

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Saapas

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Invading, annexing, creating buffer states, that's pretty much the typical shit imperilaist countries do

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Sure, imperialist countries do that too, but Russia isn't an imperialist country. It holds a tiny amount of global financial capital compared to the west, has no colonies nor neocolonies, and does not function by exporting capital to super-exploit the global south.

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Saapas

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Russia of course does what people complain about imperialist countries do, but you see, Russia is too poor to count. It's just sparkling hostility.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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People correctly attack imperialist countries for plundering the global south, setting up comprador regimes, bombing and destroying anyone that tries to go against that. Russia doesn't do that, though. Russia is sticking to the areas in Ukraine that seceded and voted to join Russia, the Donbass region, after a decade of Kiev murdering ethnic Russians in said region. Russia isn't plundering the global south because it can't, and isn't in a position to do so.

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Saapas

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Now Russian imperialism doesn't count as imperialism because most of Russia's hostility and imperialism is happening too close to their borders. Amazing.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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You haven't once explained how it's imperialism, though. Annexation isn't imperialism.

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Saapas

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I posted two very common definitions above and it's imperialism because it fits the definition. It shouldn't matter if you support it, it's not a reason to not consider it imperialism.

Russia is invading countries, annexing land, creating buffer zones. That's like run of the mill imperialism.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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There's no colonization going on. You're confusing the measures imperialist countries use with the actual process of imperialism. Imperialist and non-imperialist countries annex territory, that doesn't mean all annexation is imperialism.

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Saapas

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Even if we use this liberal, vibes-based definition, Russia isn't imperialist. Russia is responding to the requests of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics for support, and they voted to join Russia. Russia isn't establishing hegemony, nor an Empire. You're confusing the measures imperialist countries use to maintain imperialism with imperialism itself, which is a form of international plunder.

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queermunist she/her

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

You're not vibing hard enough.

If the US responded to the "requests" of separatists for support, and then those separatists voted to join the US, the imperialism would be pretty obvious. How do you explain to liberals that there is a difference?

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Cowbee [he/they]

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The US is the world's Empire and does super-exploit the global south for profits, ergo we need to understand the manner with which it props up seperatist groups are to service thode ends. Russia does not have the same economic forces at play. This is before you look into the origins of these movements and their history over time.

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queermunist she/her

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We can't understand any of that if we use the liberal, vibes based definition of imperialism. As far as they're concerned you're just doing mental gymnastics, imperialism is just when countries do empire stuff like annexations and invasions.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to queermunist she/her • 2 settimane fa • •

Yes, and I've tried to explain how they confuse methods common to imperialist countries with imperialism itself, even explaining how imperialism is driven by export of capital for foreign plunder. They've obstinately reduced imperialism simply to a preference of foreign policy, rather than an economic process.

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queermunist she/her

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I've actually heard liberals say defining imperialism as economic is specifically a Leninist definition of imperialism, just so they don't have to engage with it. Lenin was just trying to confuse us! Everyone knows the USSR was an empire. 🤡

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Yep, the reason I'm trying to engage this way is because trying to explain Lenin's analysis just leads them to saying that changing the name of something doesn't change its nature, which is correct, and is why I try to focus more on even using their liberal definition they are wrong.

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queermunist she/her

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

Does it work?

I've found some success in turning the focus back on the West. The NATO bloc has put Ukraine in $100 billion in debt, has made all of its aid conditional on the exploitation of its energy and mineral and agricultural resources, and is intent on fighting to the last Ukrainian. It makes Western imperialism in Ukraine pretty obvious, even if I don't touch on Maidan being a coup that installed a neonazi banderite regime run by Western collaborators (because they'll dismiss that as Russian propaganda).

My angle has always been that the West never wanted Ukraine to even win, they just wanted it to be a millstone around Russia.

Defending Russia's actions seems impossible. As we see here, to the liberal mind, whoever swings first is the bad guy. That's it.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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I can normally get people to see at least how NATO is bad, but they inevitably see it as preferable over Russia, which is a better position but not great.

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Saapas

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Attacking a country, annexing parts of them, creating a buffer zone out of country and trying to be the predominant country in the area is definitely not extending power, expansionism and trying to be regional hegemon

The struggle to just not call duck a duck reminds me of this meme

It's especially strange since you seem to be fine with all of the very imperialistic actions Russia are doing, you just don't like it being called imperialism.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Again, you're confusing the measures imperialist countries use to perpetuate international plunder, ie imperialism, with imperialism itself. Annexation can be done by imperialist countries in order to set up or protect their systems of international exploitation, or it can be done in non-imperialist fashions, such as when seperatists that are being ethnically cleansed by Kiev request to join Russia, and Russia obliges.

Countries do not simply "exert power" for the sake of it, but as a means to an end. Russia's acceptance of the requests for support from Donetsk and Luhansk against the far-right regime ethnically cleansing them is different from the US Empire engaging in brutal sanctions on Cuba for nationalizing industries owned by Statesian capitalists. The latter is an example of the methods used by imperialists to protect their plunder, as the Cuban revolutionaries kicked out the Statesian colonizers.

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Saapas

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You've clearly seen the common definitions used for imperialism and choose to define it in a way that excludes Russia. I guess at that point not much else can be said that sure it doesn't fit your definition but it does fit those very common definitions. Can't go anywhere there if we just can't agree on the definition to use.

I just find it strange to try and deny them being imperialist if the horrible things imperialists do are still fine. If you are fine with invasion, annexation, buffer state creating then being opposed to being grouped with other countries that do that seems minor.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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It doesn't fit those liberal definitions, and I explained why. I'm okay with Russia responding to the requests of seperatists being ethnically cleansed by the far-right Banderite regime. More than that, imperialism is an economic construction included in your definitions, as Empires necessarily function by extracting vast sums of wealth from their colonies and neocolonies. Russia isn't doing that, it's engaged in a fight against a far-right state that has been ethnically cleansing ethnic Russians since 2014. It isn't trying to create colonies or protect its colonial holdings, like the US Empire is currently doing with Venezuela.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

You just rephrased the exact same actions in a different way. The reality is that Russia invaded Ukraine, annexed land and is trying to create a buffer state. Russia's actions fit the definitions beat by beat, you just feel like using nicer sounding language about the exact same actions changes things when it just doesn't.

Here's the definition for a refresher

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

Wrong.

In 2014, the west backed a far-right coup, placing Banderites in charge of Kiev. They started suppressing ethnic Russians in the Donbass region, resulting in Donetsk and Luhansk seceding and forming their own breakaway states. These states were at war for a decade, which Russia tried to patch up with the Minsk agreements, which Kiev broke both times. Finally, the DPR and LPR requested Russian intervention, and Russia accepted in 2022. Afterwards, a referendum was held, and both the DPR and LPR voted to join the Russian Federation, rather than continue to be ethnically cleansed by the Nazis in Kiev.

The definition you give doesn't apply to Russia's actions here. The part about expansionism in your definition is in service of maintaining empire, an economic status. Russia is not an Empire, nor is it becoming one, because it is not creating colonies nor plundering from them. Annexing territory is not imperialism, what would be imperialism is the US Empire forcibly annexing Hawaii to serve as a millitary base and to harvest for minerals after couping Liliʻuokalani against the wishes of the people.

Imperialism is an economic relationship that is maintained by the measures you listed. Imperialism is where one country exports capital and leverages this to extract vast sums of wealth from imperialized countries. Imperialism is maintained by hegemony and expansionism. Russia annexing groups that voted to join Russia without setting up any colonies doesn't at all meet the definitions of imperialism. Posting your same definition that's already flawed and vibes-based and yet you still misunderstand will not prove any point to anyone here.

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Saapas

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The definition you give doesn’t apply to Russia’s actions here. The part about expansionism in your definition is in service of maintaining empire, an economic status.

Empire-building links back to imperialism. I'm sorry but you can't just add in new requirements until you are satisfied with the results. It doesn't work like that.

I should've also included this part earlier with all the talk about colonies

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Russia is clearing Kiev's forces out of the DPR and LPR. You have not explained how this is in service of empire-building or colonialism, which are economic relations.

I'm not adding requirements, I'm going off of your own requirements.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

You call their invasion and annexation "clearing out Kiev's forces". You don't see how changing the language doesn't make what's actually happening any different?

And no, the definition didn't include your additions. You are taking the definition, adding more requirements and still claiming it is the same requirement. Not how it works.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

Do you support the rights of Donetsk and Luhansk to escape ethnic cleansing, and establish their own territory?

Secondly, no, I'm not adding. What do you think an empire is? What is colonization? You're reducing all of these to mere political preference instead of economic relationships, cherry-picking vague summaries and sticking your head in the sand when it comes to parts of those summaries that explain the economic factor that you are keen on erasing.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

My support doesn't have any bearing on the definition of the word or what is actually happening. I'm flattered you think it does though.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

It absolutely has bearing. If you recognize the right of self-determination for the people in Donetsk and Luhansk, then you recognize their right to join Russia. Consensual joining of territory is absolutely not imperialism, and Kiev trying to prevent the ethnic Russians it has been slaughtering from leaving its grasp is closer to what Israel is doing to Palestinians.

Secondly, no, I’m not adding. What do you think an empire is? What is colonization? You’re reducing all of these to mere political preference instead of economic relationships, cherry-picking vague summaries and sticking your head in the sand when it comes to parts of those summaries that explain the economic factor that you are keen on erasing.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

If I'm in support of their invasion, annexation, expansion and creation of buffer state it doesn't change anything about the actual actions. And it's the actions and not the language that makes one an empire.

Secondly, no, I’m not adding.
parts of those summaries that explain the economic factor

I'd be happy to see you point out those parts in the actual articles. As a matter of fact, the imperialism article even has this addition about colonialism

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

Annexing territory is not imperialism itself. It can be a part of imperialism, if you relate it to how it's in service of economic extraction and the setting up of imperialized subjects. If you support the people in Donetsk and Luhansk as having sovereignty, then Kiev's Banderites are invading their territory and thus Russia is clearing out the invading force. That's why I asked if you recognize the right of self-determination for the people of Donetsk and Luhansk, because it seems you support Kiev's right to ethnically cleanse them.

Secondly, colonialism is different but related. Colonialism is the direct subjugation of one country under another, with formalized occupying forces and states, like what happened in Algeria. Imperialism on the other hand is the more general process of exporting capital and plundering the global south. The methods of expansionism and colonialism are means by which to maintain imperialism.

Reading 2 short paragraphs on Wikipedia and thinking you know enough to understand what imperialism is and the mechanisms it operates by is the peak of liberal hubris.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

Krhm. I said, I’d be happy to see you point out those parts in the actual articles. You didn't do that. But interestingly, the article on imperialism does include this

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

It doesn't say Russia is imperialist, it says it has been accused of neo-colonialism and described as neo-imperialist. Both of those are true, it has indeed been incorrectly accused and described as such, as we have proven here.

Further, Wikipedia is extremely western, liberal, imperialist biased. The editors are overwhelmingly western and liberal, and as such present such a view. Prolewiki is a Marxist wiki, that openly has its own biases, and has this to say of Russian "imperialism:"

It only has 4 of the top 100 corporations in the world and 6 of the top 500. 82% of Russian exports are raw materials, including 58% oil, 11% metal, and 6% food. In 2017, Russia imported $106.2 billion worth' of machine goods and only exported $12.8 billion. Russia does not have any of the top 100 corporations in terms of capital export, and most Russian capital export is capital flight to tax havens. Russia only controls 0.7% of the world's wealth and has much less wealth per adult than the United States ($8,843 vs $336,528). Russia has intervened militarily in other countries such as Yugoslavia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Syria, but not to seize natural resources like imperialist countries do.

It also has this to say of imperialism in general:

Imperialism is the most recent evolution of the capitalist mode of production that began in the late 1800s to early 1900s, in which monopolies and cartels become the dominant economic force of society.[1] It involves the merger of banking capital with industrial capital to create the greater finance capital and a fundamental distinguishing character of export of capital instead of export of commodities.
It is a global system of economic, political, and military domination, with the imperialist powers using a variety of means, including economic sanctions, military interventions, and cultural influence to maintain their dominance over other nations.

So your biased view doesn't work. When we take your definitions at face value, and apply them to the facts on the ground, we can see that those accusing Russia of neo-imperialism and neo-colonialism are wrong, and we can also see that leftists don't think Russia is imperialist either.

Again: Do you support the rights of Donetsk and Luhansk to escape ethnic cleansing, and establish their own territory?

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

You claimed the definitions I posted had those additional requirements and that the articles agreed with you. Now you are having a big issue with the definitions and the articles. I was fine with you using your preferred definition so I'm not sure why you even had that particular fight.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

I used the definitions given by the article, and expanded on what it had laid out, like empire-building. When you displayed a separate article trying to give analysis, not just a definition, I explained how using the definition you gave, the analysis is incorrect. The reason I bothered with letting you cherry pick a definition is because you are correct about one thing, that changing the name of something doesn't change the actions. That's why I've focused on proving your own definition inapplicable, and asked you over and over again:

Do you support the rights of Donetsk and Luhansk to escape ethnic cleansing, and establish their own territory?

I take it you don't at this point, it seems you're in favor of Kiev's stance that they have the right to ethnically cleanse the Donbass region of ethnic Russians.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

You could post the "cut off" parts here so we can see that they are indeed in the articles as requirements and not additions as I've said.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

They aren't cut off in the literal sense, I misspoke, they are just not expanded upon, like the concept of maintaining an Empire. At this point though, it's clear that you think ethnic cleansing is legitimate.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

So they are not in the articles but you just feel like those are included, even though they don't actually include it in words.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

"Imperialism focuses on establishing or maintaining hegemony and a more formal empire."

This is what you ignored, over, and over, and over, and over, and over again, and which I answered over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. Russia isn't establishing or maintaining hegemony or a more formal empire, you focus on the fact that the Donbass voted to join Russia as evidence of their "expansionism," and stopped thinking there when that's not even the focus of imperialism or what constitutes it.

This is all in addition to your support of ethnic cleansing, of course.

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

Russia is clearly trying to create a local hegemony and using rhetoric from their imperialistic history. Well put here:

There's also a whole article

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_…

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

These "analysts" are wrong, as I've explained already. Wikipedia doesn't even try to pretend these are facts, but accusations. Why are you so insistent on Wikipedia, and defending ethnic cleansing?

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

I know you disagree with the analysts. I was just posting this to show that maybe the view on Wikipedia doesn't align with you after all, in actual words or in "cut off" extra definitions.

Wikipedia is a very popular site that usually uses very common definitions as their basis. That's why I originally used it.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

I've already explained, using the definition Wikipedia gives, Russia does not fit that. Wikipedia is not written by a single person, nor do the analysts that claim Russia is imperialist write the definitions given by Wikipedia as their claimed definition. It's also possible for someone to give a definition, have that definition not apply to something, yet still have that same person incorrectly apply it. Moreover, Wikipedia is saying some analysts, not even taking a definitive stance itself.

Wikipedia is indeed popular in the west. So is Fox News and CNN, NYT, etc. That doesn't mean they are correct or valid.

Why do you dodge the question of sovereignty for Donetsk and Luhansk?

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Saapas

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa • •

You don't think it fits, but the sources in the article certainly do.

Moreover, Wikipedia is saying some analysts, not even taking a definitive stance itself.

Wikipedia uses that sort of wording pretty often

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Saapas • 2 settimane fa • •

The analysts are wrong, as I explained. Wikipedia does indeed refuse to take a stance on most things, it's a terrible source for political history and current events. Sometimes the sources can be nice, but often they are terrible.

Why do you dodge the question of sovereignty for Donetsk and Luhansk?

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Saapas

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Your disagreement with the analysts and the articles has been noted. I don't think there's anything else to do here than agree to disagree.

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Why do you dodge the question of sovereignty for Donetsk and Luhansk?

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It's a gas pipeline. That's a valid military target

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Morbidly curious how many Ukranian attacks on random countries it will take for US liberals to admit they've been had. My prediction: infinity attacks on other countries or one single attack on the US.

While I'm here, I'd like to officially put down my prediction for 9/11 Two: This Time it's Banderites

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Turkiye stood by Ukraine and welcomed Ukrainian refugees and this is how it is rewarded?!

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Thousands of protesters gather as German far-right party sets up new youth organization

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Thousands of protesters gather as German far-right party sets up new youth organization

Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in the western German city of Giessen as the far-right Alternative for Germany’s new youth organization is set to kick off its founding convention

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Venezuela denounces ‘colonialist threat’ as Trump orders airspace closed

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Sat 29 Nov 2025 14.47 EST

The Venezuelan government has responded defiantly to the heightened pressure by the US government, including Donald Trump’s recent statements on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety.
In a statement, the Venezuelan government said Trump’s comments are a “colonialist threat” against their sovereignty and violate international law. The government also said it demanded respect for its airspace and would not accept foreign orders or threats.
Trump on Saturday, in a Truth Social post said: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”

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Venezuela denounces ‘colonialist threat’ as Trump orders airspace closed

Sat 29 Nov 2025 14.47 EST
The Venezuelan government has responded defiantly to the heightened pressure by the US government, including Donald Trump’s recent statements on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety.
In a statement, the Venezuelan government said Trump’s comments are a “colonialist threat” against their sovereignty and violate international law. The government also said it demanded respect for its airspace and would not accept foreign orders or threats.
Trump on Saturday, in a Truth Social post said: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”

Venezuela denounces ‘colonialist threat’ as Trump orders airspace closed
President made declaration in a social media post, after FAA last week warned airlines of ‘worsening security situation’
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Trump is incredibly talented at making other world leaders look way better than they should. Like how I look cuter when I stand next to a goblin.

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Kick the empires ass Venezuela!

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Venezuela denounces ‘colonialist threat’ as Trump orders airspace closed

Sat 29 Nov 2025 14.47 EST

The Venezuelan government has responded defiantly to the heightened pressure by the US government, including Donald Trump’s recent statements on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety.
In a statement, the Venezuelan government said Trump’s comments are a “colonialist threat” against their sovereignty and violate international law. The government also said it demanded respect for its airspace and would not accept foreign orders or threats.
Trump on Saturday, in a Truth Social post said: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”

Venezuela denounces ‘colonialist threat’ as Trump orders airspace closed

President made declaration in a social media post, after FAA last week warned airlines of ‘worsening security situation’

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Does anyone have banking app recommendations for Australia?

I just got a message on my app forcing me to agree to let the app look at when I scroll and scan what apps I have on my phone, in the name of "preventing hackers" which kinda sucks. Any banks that actually respect your privacy in Australia? or does anyone have tips to make banking more private?

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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39660377

Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
archive.is/FDm1Y

He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.
At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.

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2025-11-30 03:04:16

The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine

Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
archive.is/FDm1Y
He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.
At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.

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Inucune

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So the issue in Venezuela was never about the drugs.

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dreadbeef

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have you not paid attention to US politics for the past 50 years?

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floofloof

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They happen to have more oil than any other country in the world, but I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.

aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/4/ve…

Venezuela has the world’s most oil: Why doesn’t it earn more from exports?

Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves, more than five times more than the United States.

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... which is more evidence of Trump's pathetic nature

USA is a hydrocarbon exporter . We literally extract & refine more than we can use, snd sell the excess at profit.

This doesn't get USA more oil; it removes a competitor from the market.

Fucking gas station run by the mob

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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39660377

Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
archive.is/FDm1Y

He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.
At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.

Peter Link

2025-11-30 03:04:16

The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine

Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
archive.is/FDm1Y
He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.
At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregion/honduras-hernandez-drug-trafficking.html

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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39660377

Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
archive.is/FDm1Y

He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.
At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregion/honduras-hernandez-drug-trafficking.html

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TBH this isn't entirely on trump since obama/hilary put this guy in power with a fash coup.

The exploitation of latin america is a "bi-partisan" plan.

aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/…

Memories of a Honduran coup

How the events of 2009 in Honduras shaped my worldview.

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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine

Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.

archive.is/FDm1Y

He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.
At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregion/honduras-hernandez-drug-trafficking.html

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Gaza 'stabilization force' fails to launch as nations unwilling to commit troops: Report

Several nations that previously committed troops to the US-led occupation force have 'backpedaled' amid fears they will have to kill Palestinians

^thecradle.co

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Tm12

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Can they commit to holding Israel accountable at least?

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gustofwind

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I think they’ve committed to doing the opposite

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wurzelgummidge

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the US-led occupation

Well there's the problem

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cool-retro-term: a terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

GitHub - Swordfish90/cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display... - Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

^GitHub

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china🇨🇳

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It looks really cool however it's really not usable, maybe because I never used actual cathode display but I think no one actually uses it. (omg it has 25k star)

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oh you can tune the effects in it not to be overbearing

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Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says

Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoys

^{Jason Burke (The Guardian)}

#Palestine

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Dominican Authorities Arrest Journalist Ralph Laurent at Santo Domingo Airport

Dominican Authorities Arrest Journalist Ralph Laurent at Santo Domingo Airport - Haiti Liberte

As we go to press on the morning of Nov. 26, Dominican authorities have been holding a popular Haitian-American journalist in an immigration detention facility for almost three days without charges, although he is a U.S.

^{Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)}

#Worldnews

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Ireland refuses to rename park named after previous president of Israel

#ireland

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Nanook

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Not current, father of the current.

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geneva_convenience

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Good catch, didn't notice his first name not being Isaac.

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via Gaming

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A 76-Year-Old Gamer Plays Much Better Than Most of You, Takes Out an Entire Opposing Team in Counter-Strike

A Russian Twitch streamer delivers phenomenal gameplay in the shooter Counter-Strike at the age of 76.

^{Johanna (Mein-MMO)}

#gaming

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Venezuela denounces Trump’s airspace remarks as ‘colonialist threat’

Caracas has denounced United States President Donald Trump’s announcement that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be considered closed “in its entirety”, as tensions between the countries escalate.

In a statement on Saturday afternoon, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said Trump’s statement earlier in the day amounts to a “colonialist threat”.

“Venezuela denounces and condemns the colonialist threat that seeks to affect the sovereignty of its airspace, constituting yet another extravagant, illegal and unjustified aggression against the Venezuelan people,” the ministry said.

Trump had written on his Truth Social platform on Saturday morning: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY”.

Venezuela denounces Trump’s airspace remarks as ‘colonialist threat’

Venezuelan Foreign Ministry slams US president’s ‘colonialist threat’ amid weeks of escalating rhetoric from Washington.

^{Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)}

#progressivepolitics

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Tunisia arrests prominent opposition leader to enforce jail sentence

A prominent Tunisian human rights activist has been arrested in order to enforce a 20-year prison sentence, following a mass sentencing of government critics in a controversial trial.

Chaima Issa, an activist who took part in the 2011 protests that ousted longtime ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, was taken by police on Saturday afternoon at a protest in the capital, lawyers said.

On Friday, dozens of opposition figures were sentenced on appeal to prison terms of up to 45 years on charges of "conspiracy against state security" and "belonging to a terrorist group".

Tunisia arrests prominent opposition leader to enforce jail sentence

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}

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A Gripping Finale

#funny

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Solus 4.8 Released

We’re nearing the holiday season, and what better way to kick it off than by releasing new Solus ISOs? This release is called Opportunity, for all the new opportunities that are open to us. A lot has happened since we released Solus 4.7 at the beginning of this year, so let’s go over the changes.
General Epoch jump In October, we made the jump to a new epoch, the final chapter of our “Usr-Merge” saga. With the new epoch, we started using a new package repository, named Polaris, after the North Star. This unlocked our ability to remove “Usr-Merge” compatibility symbolic links from packages, update our systemd package, and more.

Solus 4.8 Released

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funkajunk

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I thought Solus was dead

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Peter1986C

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I switched to it (KDE version) earlier this year (away from Fedora) and apart from a few minor things (e.g. there was no firewall, so I installed firewalld) it has been running pretty well.

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malfisya

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Clearly, it is alive 🙂

geneva_convenience via Manufacturing Consent

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"Eliminated the suspects to remove the threat".

#manufacturingconsent

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A very responsible person

#funny

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Zelenskyy faces ‘mini-revolution’ as Yermak’s fall reshapes Ukraine’s wartime power system

Exit of Zelenskyy’s most powerful aide could also have impact on Kyiv’s negotiating position in talks over ending war

^{Shaun Walker (The Guardian)}

#Ukraine

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Zelensky's ex-chief of staff Yermak says he's 'going to the front' after resigning amid corruption probe

"I'm going to the front and am prepared for any reprisals... I am an honest and decent person," Former Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak said.

^{Tim Zadorozhnyy (The Kyiv Independent)}

#Ukraine

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limer

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He will have a safe assignment, probably

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via China, 中国

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China home to over 7,000 advanced smart factories

China home to over 7,000 advanced smart factories - China.org.cn

China has built more than 7,000 advanced smart factories and become the world's largest intelligent manufacturing application base, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced on Thursday.

^{www.china.org.cn}

#china

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Is there a way to mount/unmount network drive as needed [SOLVED]

I've 2 network drives on one subnet (nfs and samba). I would like to access them only if computer is connected to particular ssid (subnet).

I'm using gnome primarily. And files stops responding if mount points can't be accessed. There is no real way to recover from this apart from connecting to network, unmount and then change network.

I would like those drives to be accessed by system only if they are reachable.

[EDIT][UPDATE]:
Following suggestions from comments. I've tried systemd and autofs methods both of them don't work the way I've setup access to mounts.
If mount point is in home OR bookmarks in files app, it would hang up as soon as network is disconnected.
It works well when mount points are not visible by default (for e.g. /smb/share1). Currently using autofs <- easy and short to setup with mount points under /smb and /nfs

#linux

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rando via Linux

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Is there a way to setup audio renderer (sink) [SOLVED]

I use volumio but that's dedicated OS installation and it's limiting in the sense of what other things can be done.

I'm looking to setup streaming to HTPC. What r my options?

I found uPnP is not advised due to security risk, however I didn't see any other recommendation.

[EDIT]
[UPDATE]now I understand why information was so lacking - because solution was just that simple. 😑

In gnome settings -> sharing -> enable media sharing.

Don't need extra app or setup.

#linux

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