I used to look at Reddit every day, several times per day. Anymore, it is once or twice per month. And never very long, becaues the experience has fallen to a terrible low. My only disappointment in Lemmy is that a lot of the niche subs I used to use on Reddit are not here or are very small.

I can recognize abuse of a human. I can recognize abuse of an animal. I have no idea what abuse of a computer program looks like.

Eventually the US auto market will be eaten alive. Lower cost vehicles cannibalize US manufacturers revenue and their business model requires large revenues, even when profits are low or nill.

The reason to be concerned is Chinese vehicles are equipped with all the sensors necessary for a distributed spy network. I don’t think there’s any way to guarantee data stays in the US. Chevy, Ford, etc will use this for reason to not change, given the government has an interest in keeping out Chinese vehicles.

Does this community permit doxxing in this type of circumstance?

I get it, but one also has to preserve their own character so to avoid becoming what we detest in others. For me, telling the lie would not be compatible with who I wish to be.

Budgie might be easier for someone who isn’t a technical user.

It depends how it is done. Instead of denials, it could be used to “approve without review” all the easy cases and then forward to a human all the rest. This would speed up approval for lots of situations and focus human effort on more difficult cases.

Aside from direct vandalism or persuasion, is there something I can do to combat the Ring cameras on nearly every door in my neighborhood?

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Did he remove his microphone? That’s the first thing I do with every new computer, physically remove the microphone. Microphones pick up much more data than cameras.

the code required to move the taskbar to the top or sides isn’t actually in Windows 11, because Microsoft created the new taskbar from the ground up

Funny, I run a script on my work computer that let’s me move it. I like it on the top.

I’ll be honest, I do not know, but I’m always more worried about where it’ll end-up over where it is right now. Even if it is all local for now, it is a small tweak for that to change. Just a small decision by a few people and everything changes. I don’t have enough trust to believe that decision won’t be made.

The unforeseen effects should be enough to give us pause.

What’s the difference between big software companies and drug cartels? No, this is not the opening line of a joke.

Quin Dynasty ceded Taiwan to Japan in 1895. It remained part of Japan until 1945 when Japan surrender to the United States at the end of WW2. It was then handed over to the Republic of China in 1945 and remains with that government through today. The people living in Taiwan have their own government, history, and sense of nationalism that’s many generations separate and distinct from anyone else.

When I want AI, I use this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo+AI+Chat&ia=chat&duckai=1

My worry about AI built into my browser is that it’ll be turned into data mining, training, and revenue generation resulting in exploitation and manipulation of me.

I started using Linux as my primary computer about 7 years ago. After a few months of distro hopping, I landed on Solus because it is stable and rolling. I didn’t want to deal with breaks during major upgrades. My system is still going and I have no complaints. I’m just a regular computer user, personal and work (non-tech job). I have to wonder why Solus doesn’t get more attention.

US debt is in US dollars and the US is not constrained on the issuance of dollars. There will be no default. Inflation, yes. Default, no.

Ukraine maintained every part of the Minsk agreement reasonable to keep while Russia was in blatant violation of the agreement. Russia agreed to a withdraw of military forces from Ukraine (including the Dombass region) and refused to do so after signing the agreement. This constrained what Ukraine could reasonably do under the circumstances. To Russia, the agreements were a hiatus in a bigger fight.

The LPR and DPR are not recognized as legitimate entities under the Minsk Agreements. They were added without consent by Ukraine after Ukraine had already signed the agreement.

Russia, what they gain is security

Yes, now bombs fall on Russian cities, power plants go dark, and refineries are on fire.

if this is for “vainglory,” why limit it to the Donbass region

Russia has already expanded their territorial claims beyond the Dombass.

Russia has proven capable of fighting an attrition war that Ukraine cannot

Neither side is doing well. If Russia was capable, they’d be gaining more than a few meters every day.

Russian population benefiting massively from strengthened ties with China

Russian demographics are in the toilet and friendship with China isn’t going to help.

Russia has been strengthened economically

A wartime economy produces encouraging economic figures but cannot be sustained and, when the war produces this kind of strain, the post-war economy is economic collapse. The war has to end someday and it will be ugly for the Russian people when that happens.

I gather that English is probably a second language for you, so I assume you have confused terms. Balkanization is not a color revolution. Balkanization is when a larger country breaks apart into several smaller countries. For example, if a political crisis resulted in a power vacuum within Russia sufficient for the Buryats to declare an independent republic, along with the Yakuts and several others. That would be Balkanization. These new nations would be weak and would be vulnerable to political or military capture by China. The US does not want that. A color revolution, on the other hand, could be a number of things, but most likely a change in the leadership in Moscow without producing a plethora of fracturing states. If the current political regime in Moscow was replaced by one more friendly to liberal, democratic, and market-oriented institutions, that’s one the US would favor, especially if it prevented Balkanization.