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by spoiler | 2025-10-08 10:12:29+00:00
I meant more generally, that the ruling/politico class is the same everywhere. They'll weaponise ideology they think will get them more votes. They're basically just wealthy and powerful reprobates playing us all for emotional fools.

As for the concentration camp thing you brought up, I know it's hollow words on the Internet, but I'm sorry that it's happening. I live in the UK and tend to avoid news halfway across the world that I can't do anything about. It tends to make my (already precarious) mental healthy worse.

As for the Twitter thing... I think Twitter (or any privately owned social media platform) is free to ban people. I think going to jail for hollow comments made on the Internet is not okay though.

But also, these things are kind of orthogonal anyway.

And for context, I'm what most people on the right would call a libtard: gay, neuro divergent, and the cherry on top is that I'm also a filthy immigrant. So it goes without saying that I strongly disagree with a lot of the stuff said by the"hard right", but silencing/cancelling people won't help improve the situation. It just breeds more contempt and leads into authoritarianism. And it makes the people in the middle question why is the other side so afraid of oppositing ideas.

Authoritarian systems are bad whether right or left leaning. I come from a country ravaged by left leaning authoritarianism that's still recovering from that aftermaths (economically, politically, etc) even if I was born after it.

The zeitgeist changes, so just because it's in my "libtard" interest right now, it doesn't mean it will always be. The left becomes right and vice versa. It's happened before, and it will happen again.
by lambdaone | 2025-10-08 10:13:16+00:00
Lifting heavy weights with a crane (or up a hill with a train) is unfortunately a very expensive way to store energy compared with pumped-storage hydroelectricity, which does effectively the same thing but with far lower cost and greater scalability.

This can be seen from the fact that while lifted weight storage is ridiculously easy to build with existing technology - it's a train or a crane, after all! - it has never caught on as an economically fieldable system, whereas pumped-storage hydro has wide adoption.
by Zak | 2025-10-08 10:13:24+00:00
Ad hominem is an argument that a claim should be rejected because of something about the person making it. "This source has a history of bias, so you should assume this article is biased" is ad hominem.

"This source has a history of bias, but this article is accurate" is the opposite; it tells the reader not to draw an ad hominem conclusion.
by dspillett | 2025-10-08 10:13:24+00:00
> Ten year old CPUs were plenty fast already,

That depends on the CPU… Some are optimised for power consumption not performance, and on top of that will end up thermally throttled as they are often in small boxes with only passive cooling.

A cheap or intentionally low-power Arm SoC from back then is not going to perform nearly as well as a good or more performance oriented Arm SoC (or equivalent x86/a64 chip) from back then. They might not cope well with 2.5Gb networking unless the NICs support offloading, and if they are cheaping out on CPUs they might not have high-spec network controller chips either. And that is before considering that some are talking to the NAS via a VPN endpoint running on the NAS so there is the CPU load of that on top.

For sort-of-relevant anecdata: my home router ran on a Pi400 for a couple of years (the old device developed issues, the Pi400 was sat waiting for a task so got given a USB NIC and given that task), but got replaced when I upgraded to full-fibre connection because its CPU was a bottleneck at those speeds just for basic routing tasks (IIRC the limit was somewhere around 250Mbit/s). Some of the bottleneck I experienced would be the CPU load of servicing the USB NIC, not just the routing, of course.

> far more than enough even, to power an NAS device.

People are using these for much more than just network attached storage, and they are sold as being capable of the extra so it isn't like people are being entirely unreasonable in their expectations. PiHole, VPN servers, full media servers (doing much more work than just serving the stored data), etc.

> There must be more than that, another explanation

Most likely this too. Small memory. Slow memory. Old SoC (or individual controllers) with slow interconnect between processing cores and IO controllers. There could be a collection of bottlenecks to run into as soon as you try to do more than just serve plain files at ~1Gbit speeds.
by cloudflare728 | 2025-10-08 10:13:47+00:00
Profit or loss is out of the equation.

Somehow Facebook getting a huge amount of money. They are distributing that money to a million people (directly or indirectly to employees, share holders, employees of 3rd party partners). Some people are getting billions and some are getting $100s.

Instead of handful of people in Facebook management deciding to be humanitarian, you now have a million people deciding what to do with their portion. It is that simple.
by curseofcasandra | 2025-10-08 10:13:49+00:00
> I'm not convinced that this is any sort of neutral analysis

Did you actually read the article? Nowhere does it suggest that anyone is claiming that China is the origin of Homo Sapiens. This million old skull discovered in China is not Homo Sapien, but related to Denisoven. It’s scientifically interesting since it suggests two things

1. Homo sapiens have existed longer than we previously thought.

2. Homo Sapiens may have come out of Western Asia, not Africa. But China is not in West Asia…

Please find other articles to fit into your the-Chinese-are-supremacist narrative. This one is not relevant.
by baobun | 2025-10-08 10:14:27+00:00
Hmm, I couldn't find a source for that elsewhere, just slop rereporting in loops.

If they had insider leaks I would imagine they mentioned that aspect so it's possible that this part is derived from speculation.

I just went ahead and editorialized the title with the insertion of an "allegedly" since the sales drop part is unsubstantiated.

> if they say that sales plummet without actual proof it becomes poor journalism

Proof is a high ask. Evidence would be great. But here yeah, waving the premise of the article away with "some reports say" is hardly journalism.
by onli | 2025-10-08 10:15:15+00:00
It's a little bit harder. The problem is that the SPD will also talk about democratic socialism and does indeed just mean social capitalism with that. And depending on who you talk with at the left, there is still the idea to use the power of capitalism, just to remove the negative aspects with various means.

But indeed, the program now does distance itself from social capitalism specifically and gives further reasoning to why. I wasn't aware they spell it out so clearly now. We can still argue about how much capitalism would be left when following their program - like when the means of production are owned differently, but used similarly - but I have to give you a point there. My comment as written was not correct.
by DaSHacka | 2025-10-08 10:15:29+00:00
> MIT/Apache2 is the default in the Rust ecosystem, and so the authors selected it because they didn’t care that much, and so going with the community default makes sense.

This is exactly the issue most of us have with the rust ecosystem and these 'rewrite in rust' projects, though.

By making everything licensed with the absolute bottom wrung restrictions, you're just made it even easier for corpos to have free pickings of any given tool on the internet to incorporate into their own tools and have never-ending Amazon and Elasticsearch situations.

Obviously the community wouldn't even be here to begin with if it wasn't for Linux going with a GPLv2 license. Going forward, with everything becoming more MIT/BSD licensed, I wonder to see how the community/ecosystem will fare.

I suspect, should there come a time in the future where we realize that this may have been a critical error, it'll be far too late to correct it.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-08 10:15:53+00:00
I'm not convinced of the existence of executives who wouldn't do this. It's just like ads. Someone is bound to notice that money is being left on the table. Once it becomes known, they'll either do it or they'll be replaced by someone who will.

We have to start making open source hardware that we can fully control. It's the only way to be free. Corporations cannot be trusted. Any goodwill they build up eventually becomes a resource for them to capitalize on.
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-10-08 10:16:11+00:00
This IS eu trying it since late 2021. The original proposal was adopted by the lead european commissioner Ylva Johansson in May 2022 and the commission has been trying to find support for it in the council ever since.

‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content (https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the...)

Undermining Democracy: The European Commission’s Controversial Push for Digital Surveillance (https://dannymekic.com/202310/undermining-democracy-the-euro...)

1. maladministration: Ombudsman regrets Commission approach to access to documents request concerning EU legislation on combatting child sexual abuse (https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/news-document/en/189565)

2. maladministration: Decision on how the EU Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) dealt with the moves of two former staff members to positions related to combatting online child sexual abuse (case 2091/2023/AML) (https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/decision/en/200017)

Please keep yourselves informed, don't spread an incorrect message, because this is an important issue to fight and needs accurate information.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-08 10:16:14+00:00
In my case, Synology has worked fine. Reliability is a big deal for non-backup RAID (not the same as "backup," but does the trick, 90% of the time).

It's entirely possible that their newer units are crappier than the old workhorses I have.

I don't use any of the fancier features that might require a beefier CPU. One of the units runs a surveillance station, and your choices for generic surveillance DVRs is fairly limited. Synology isn't perfect, but it works quite well, and isn't expensive. I have half a dozen types of cameras (I used to write ONVIF stuff). The Surveillance Station runs them all.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-08 10:16:15+00:00
I've been at a couple of places where I've had similar experiences and I get to the point where I'll explain it once, and if they're not listening or discard the suggestion without really considering it, then I'll just wait for them to figure it out themselves.

I get paid either way.

I'm generally looking for another job when it gets to this point. It's not healthy to stick around when things get to that point.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 10:16:25+00:00
Sure, I have painted the incident, let‘s paint the norm. Just two ministers of the last government have sued 1400 people using 188 StGB [1]. An FDP politician sues 250 people this way in a month alone. We have seen an increase of lawsuits using this paragraph of 215% in the last three years.

[1]: https://verfassungsblog.de/ehre-wem-kritik-gebuhrt/
by varispeed | 2025-10-08 10:16:43+00:00
Fair point - but that’s mainly a reflection of how power defines language. The word terrorism was never limited to bombs; it was coined during the Reign of Terror in revolutionary France to describe state violence used to intimidate the population.

We’ve since normalised it to mean only non-state actors with weapons, while the organised psychological violence of governments gets rebranded as “policy.” The fact it’s done by men in suits, with forms instead of grenades, doesn’t make it less coercive - only more efficient and socially acceptable.

If a law deliberately instils fear in civilians to secure political obedience, it meets the core definition. The method evolved; the principle didn’t.

Also part of the reason it doesn’t feel like terrorism to many is bias. We’ve been conditioned to picture terrorists as outsiders with explosives, not officials with conference badges.
by myself248 | 2025-10-08 10:17:01+00:00
> Most camera sensors already detect in the IR range, you just need to remove the filter.

Yes, but no. "Infrared" is a very wide range, and you're talking about different things here.

"Just off the red end of the visible spectrum", aka near-IR is typically considered 700-1400nm, which is what your normal visible-spectrum camera becomes sensitive to when you pop off the filter. That's fun, and you'll find lots of cool things there. Remote controls use near-IR typically in 850nm, flowers often reflect vividly in this range too. Notably, near-IR passes through most materials that're clear in the visible spectrum, which is how bugs are able to have eyes that see it to locate those flowers. Also, plastics and glasses, so NIR-capable optics are cheap. (NIR windows are often dyed to look dark-purple or black to the visible spectrum, because these dyes are transparent to IR.)

However, "thermal infrared" is much longer -- rocket exhaust can be seen with a mediumwave-IR sensor in the 3000-8000nm range, but warm bodies only start to show up in longwave-IR, 8000-15000nm. Sensors for those are mindbogglingly harder to make than near-IR. And these wavelengths don't pass through normal materials. Plain old glass, for instance, is totally opaque to thermal wavelengths, so if you take a thermal picture (a thermograph) of a window, you don't see the warm bodies inside, but rather the temperature of the glass itself, combined with whatever outside objects are reflected off its surface -- it acts like a mirror, not a window.

This means making lenses for thermal cameras is also difficult and expensive. The materials are awful -- Zinc Selenide is one of the most common, despite being expensive and toxic so it's difficult to machine. Pure Germanium works, but it's even more expensive. Sodium Chloride is amusingly transparent to LWIR but it tends to dislike getting rained on.

Removing the hot-mirror from a visible-light camera is a neat party trick and does legitimately see into "the infrared", but that's not the same as thermal infrared, which does still require specialized equipment.
by PoignardAzur | 2025-10-08 10:18:24+00:00
No, I don't.

First, Israel has consistently denied journalists access to those distribution sites, so the only video evidence we should expect to find are from civilians. Civilians who are in the middle of a stampede and getting shot at do not, as a general rule, stop to bring their smartphone out and film whoever is shooting at them (usually footage of shootings is filmed by people in buildings, obviously doesn't apply here).

The best video I could find is this one, showing people cowering and shots landing between them: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/7/15/video-sho...

That's a really tight crowd, and bullets are clearly landing very close to them. Even if we assume nobody was hit by a stray bullet (which I find very improbable), that's still an egregious breach of the Geneva Conventions. Also, it seems similar to a pattern Aguilar described: IDF soldiers shooting at sand mounds, not realizing/caring that their bullets had enough penetration to go out the other side and kill people.

As for non video evidence, we have: photos of wounded people being taken away from GHF sites, testimonies of Gazan doctors who treated people of all ages wounded/killed by 7.62mm M80 bullets, testimonies of international doctors saying the same thing, a video published by Aguilar where we hear a SRS contractor bragging about hitting someone during a distribution, whistleblower testimonies, Gaza Health Ministries statistics (which the IDF treats as reliable, according to IDF leaks), UN statistics, and a mountain of testimonies from Gazan residents.

But if the only "actual" evidence you accept is video evidence in an area where the IDF is forbidding journalists, then the best I can give you is the link above.

Also, I'm stopping this discussion here, because the bullshit asymmetry principle is at play here: it took you 10 seconds to write your "there's no evidence because I say so" comment, and it took me one hour to sift through the media reports to write this rebuttal.

(Though for what it's worth, I do wish the evidence was better collected, and not scattered across MSM reports. In particular, I wish Aguilar had published a full dump of all the photos and videos he took.)

EDIT: This site aggregates social media reports related to the Gaza war. Some of them include footage of dead people near GHF sites, though none I could find that included the moment the person got shot.

https://www.info-res.org/project/israel-gaza-war/
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-08 10:18:33+00:00
> Well, that's hyperbolic

It's also a bit misleading because if you included every company that holds onto pre-paid customer money as the denominator, Starbucks may be be way lower down.

My energy company at some point managed to get four-figures of my money in their bank account as "credit" before I could get it back.

Games companies where you buy "tokens" for in game use also must be sitting on huge reserves. And any business that sells you "packages" up front, from hairdressers to IVF (probably individually quite small, though).

In China, almost every restaurant and shop has a membership program where you get discounts for topping up certain amounts. When you have 500 in the account and your meal is 145.63, there's often a small interest-free loan to the business sitting there.
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-08 10:19:22+00:00
Buybacks are essentially dividends. The cash went to investors who did something with it.

Did they park it in bonds over the past 10 years? I doubt it. Interest rates were ~0, VC funding was crazy, the money taps were open. They would have been less open without these buybacks.

It's not necessarily 1:1, it seems people are more willing to spend the cash on AI than they were on other things. But it's not 1:0 either.
by glenstein | 2025-10-08 10:19:31+00:00
I actually considered listing them as additional examples, but I had to stop somewhere and they had their own distinct wrinkles.

I think the major difference in their respective cases pertain to the ideological dynamics of the particular strains of communism that manifested in those countries. What they lack is a fixation on the purity of national heritage as a primary source of moral truth and a foundation for a self conception. Instead they tended to regard themselves as part of universal, international struggle and understood conflict in economic and ideological terms. What they had in common was the sense that conflict with this chosen enemy necessitated authoritarianism.

There's more than one path to authoritarianism, and they overlap. Different mechanisms don't disprove one another, they exist side by side.
by rhetocj23 | 2025-10-08 10:19:38+00:00
One thing I don’t get - If you spend much of your time reviewing, you’re just reading - you’re not actually doing anything - you’re passive in the activity of code production. By extension you will become worse at knowing what a good standard of code is and become worse at reviewing code.

I’m not a SWE so I have no interests to protect by criticising what is going on.
by zwnow | 2025-10-08 10:19:42+00:00
Absolutely. If the knowledge is verifiable. Kurzgesagt recently uploaded a video about this, its a lot harder to verify statements due to AI. Not easier. Here is the video in case you are interested: https://youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?si=_17KU8l2wDjGUYA5
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 10:20:10+00:00
> By your own definitions the USA isn't a capitalist economy due to regulations and their social welfare policies. If that's where you stand then any further discussion is going to be pointless.

Those are not my definitions.

> It's a straightforward logical inference. Your definition of capitalism excludes every capitalist economy that has ever existed

No. A social market economy is capitalism with rules and safety nets, like strong labor protections, healthcare, and pensions, to make sure people are protected from big hardships. The U.S. mostly has free-market capitalism, with fewer regulations and weaker social support. So the main difference is that a social market economy tries to control capitalism to protect people, while the U.S. mostly lets the market run on its own.
by dspillett | 2025-10-08 10:20:33+00:00
> most NAS purchasers know that hard drives are a commodity/standardized and won't pay a premium for ... no benefit.

Also, some will deliberately mix drives from various manufacturers to reduce exposure to potential “bad batch” problems where multiple drives fail in a short space of time (possibly extra failures while rebuilding an array after the first failure, rendering the whole array untrustworthy or entirely broken). This is not possible if you can only purchase from one manufacturer.
by godelski | 2025-10-08 10:20:33+00:00
Size can mean multiple things.

Here's some quick facts comparing population and area

- There are 17 European countries >100km2 but 37 US states are - 13 states (only one of those is <100km2) has a population density <= Norway. - The most population dense state is Jersey, at 488 people/km2. 5 European countries are more dense than that. - 10 US states have >100 people/km2 but 25 European countries do (I'm rounding Albania up) - California, the most populous state, is smaller than Sweeden, but larger than Germany in area. It has half the population of Germany. 90% of CA's population lives in 5% of the area (near SF and LA) - Driving North-South through California takes a bit over 13hrs but if you add 30 minutes you'll only hit one of those areas. - Driving East-West across Texas takes 12 hrs and you'll only go through 2 major cities. You are likely to see more tornadoes than cities and definitely more cows than people (I know from experience)

Most of the US population is in the East and West coasts. With far more in the east. Most of the US is just empty, but also the land is not nearly as nice as in Europe.

I don't think it is hard for Europeans to imagine individual state sizes, but likely won't imagine how empty it is. Hell, even Americans aren't good at that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_and_population_of_Europea...
by jrflowers | 2025-10-08 10:20:36+00:00
That is a good point. If we analyze this article called “Tolerance Isn’t A Moral Precept” with the understanding that it is arguing under the assertion that it actually is a moral precept and then imagine in our minds an enormous number of people that have no concept of “clear and present danger” at all, it is very troublesome indeed. In a vein that has very similar relevance to the article and discussion at hand, the fact that there is a Popemobile in Cars 2 means that the failed 1981 assassination attempt of Pope John Paul II didn’t just theoretically happen in the Cars universe, it objectively happened in the Cars universe. Now, it is clear that we do not know if that pope was man or Car but we must posit tha
by Olivia8 | 2025-10-08 10:20:38+00:00
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