There is a massive functional difference to anyone with two braincells to rub together.
There’s a massive cognitive dissonance, certainly. And your brains are practically smoking, trying to juggle the contractions.
The only reminder of the triad’s existence is infiltrator trolls who make alts on other instances to post bad-faith arguments glazing the core devs.
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A special irony in it, because the “no we won’t help” crowd is calling the dev base Russian shills.
But they’re still using the “Russian” service? Even though they poo-poo Yandex for also being a “Russian” service?
Lemmyites are just as baby brained as the Reddit community they fell out of. Absolutely embarrassing.
I love to mock people who use the library by shouting “If you’re not the payer then you’re the product!”
Westerners are so baby-brained on this shit. Kagi can take your money and still spy on you. Yandex can not take your money and still not bother caching your search history, because there’s no good way for them to monetize it. Nevermind GitHub or Wikipedia or literally any other public good being hosted on any website anywhere.
The delusion that your safe using a free service is matched only by the delusion that you’re protected because you paid someone money.
It is funny to see people relentlessness stanning a paid service that’s built on a notoriously fraud prone crypto stack, then getting paranoid about something about as sophisticated as Lexus Nexus because it’s hosted out of Evil Country.
I hope nobody here bothers to interogate where their torrents are being hosted from too closely.
Does anyone still think their data isn’t being sold even if they pay for a service?
Very possible they’re too small to have a meaningful contingent of buyers. But I wouldn’t bank on it.
Stop getting your views from dictatorial governments with human rights violations within the last five years
My brother in Christ, what primary school did you think you went to?
None of substance
Russia and China being ok hinges on them being equally shit when compared to other authoritarian governments?
They’re wildly different places, governmented by entirely different systems. But American plutocrats hate them, so we all get an endless earful about how they’re nations run by savages.
all of the countries you described are horrible
Stop getting your political views from a bunch of sweatshop dancers doing magical realism interpretive dance for the Falun Gong cult.
You’ve made this joke so regularly that I have to wonder if this account is a bot.
Russia Bad is the new China Bad. Once a user knows it gets attention, they’ll spam the channel relentlessly and call anyone who complains a Vatnik.
That’s long before you get into the politics of the Putin Regime, his climb to power on the back of Shock Doctrine dismantling of the USSR, or why Bush was staring into his eyes and seeing a soul he could trust during the War on Terror. Like, everyone wants to hate on The Russians. Nobody wants to ask where the plutocrats came from or why so much Western European / US infrastructure imported during the 1990s and 00s has Cyrillic script stamped all over it.
Nobody wants to talk about why Donald Rumsfeld was shaking Saddam Hussein’s hand back in the 1980s, why Bin Laden was getting glowing write ups in US news journals during the 90s, or why guys like Noriega and Bukele and Bolsonaro kept popping up across Latin America every time the locals got to community oriented.
The Senate passes a lot of bugnuts bills. Watch the House calendar if you want to see what has a chance of actually passing. It took Abbott nearly a decade to get his watered down voucher bill through, in large part because the calendars committee guy hated the idea and would book the legislation at the tail of every session.
They’ve been making a lot of threats. But there’s a ton of money in renewables, too. It’s a hard lift
Henk Otten is a multi millionaire who made his mint as an apparatchik of Dutch finance capital. I’m sure you can draw lines back to a dozen different countries in the region, but these calls are coming from inside the house.
Might as well claim Jaime Diamon or David Solomon is a Russian foreign agent.
One of the ironies of the Texas electricity grid - ERCOT - is how it accidentally created huge incentives for new solar and wind energy by trying to prop up the natural gas markets.
ERCOT operates via an auction system, wherein the electricity carriers put in bids for GWhs and producers meet those bids. When demand is low, electricity is very cheap - $10-25 MWh. But it rise rapidly during a heat wave, peaking at $3000 MWh in some instances. Gas plants don’t have any incentive to sell onto the grid at this point, so they turn themselves off until the price rises. But when a bunch of gas plants operate as a cartel, they can coordinate when they release electricity and drive up the price.
The problem is that the auction price is set on the last GWh sold but it applies to the entire sale of energy for the auction cycle. So if you’re selling continuously across the day, you can accidentally trip into a ahem windfall when gas producers surge the price.
Because green producers can’t really control how much they put out onto the grid, they’re at the mercy of the market. But if they know, in advance, that the gas companies are going to fuck with things, they can anticipate enormous profits during these strategic moments. And because wind/solar don’t need a supply chain like gas does, you can just keep building and building and building wherever you find opportune spots for harvesting (which Texas has in spades).
So the gas companies inadvertently kicked off a green energy boom by their periodic price spike scheme.
Part of the problem is that - between mass media and the industrial exploitation of foreign workers - there’s enormous profit to be made in bigoted social policies.
The money feeds the media cycle. The media cycle generates economic growth for misery profiteers. You can blame this on The Russians if you like, as United Russia has cemented itself in the foundation of this cycle of misery. But (until very recently and even then still kinda) they’re bound up in the same web of systematized ethnic-nationalism as their neighbors.
The Saudis, the Turks, the Italians, the Israelis… vast economic empires are predicated on the profitability of hate.
Europe is not the Germans.
The English ran laps around the Germans in terms of human attrocity for centuries.
The French weren’t far behind.
In 2022, renewable energy sources contributed 31% of the electricity used in Texas. Fucking Texas.
Get those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.
Cahoots is a strong word. They’re all ethnic nationalists who sympathize with the wave of anti-Muslim hysteria echoing through the continent.
But when push comes to shove, they’ll start shooting at one another over the border happily enough.
I started rawdoging urls a while ago.
Works best when you’ve got a web ring or other friendly community of contributors to reference against one another.
But those are few and fair between in the modern day.
I’m reminded of this mindset from the crypto scam surge.
Points at technical documents
“Well, it says it’s secure so quit arguing that it’s not secure”
Typically followed by
“If someone traced you/robbed you, then you were just doing it wrong”
Like, we’ve got high level white house officials feeding national security secrets to the Israelis because they just blindly implemented a “secure” Signal extension. So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised people don’t look past the cover.
But come on. “You can just buy some tokens and then you’re secure” is painfully naive.