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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.

  • China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed

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  • Ah, good, that makes this less of a dilemma then.

  • The city of Lyman is now covered with thousands of kilometers of fiber optic cable from FPV drones.

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  • If it's under the topsoil then it's not going to be eaten by mice or oysters.

    I really think this is one of those problems where people are looking for problems to make a big deal out of, like the massive panic about plastic straws a while back. Especially in this case where it turns out the fibers are plastic to begin with.

  • China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed

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  • On the one hand not fond of the CCP, and this is a step toward making Taiwan more "safely" invadeable.

    On the other hand not fond of the United States throwing its weight around like it's in charge of the world and not fond of monopolies in general.

    So hard to settle on a reaction for this.

  • ‘We want it back’: Trump demands Venezuela return ‘land, oil rights’ to U.S.

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  • Canada and Mexico are doing fine. The United States isn't North America.

  • The city of Lyman is now covered with thousands of kilometers of fiber optic cable from FPV drones.

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  • Only if the glass gets into your lungs, though. If it's mixed with the soil it's just sand.

    Wasn't aware they used plastic fibers. I guess that would make it lighter, too.

  • ‘We want it back’: Trump demands Venezuela return ‘land, oil rights’ to U.S.

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  • Could never have guessed.

    I wonder if perhaps the trade war against Canada isn't really about fentanyl, either.

  • The city of Lyman is now covered with thousands of kilometers of fiber optic cable from FPV drones.

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  • It has an eerie beauty to it.

    I remember seeing some photos a while back of bird nests made out of fragments of fibre optic cable, those looked pretty neat too. On the plus side, when this stuff degrades it just turns into sand. So at least there won't be a toxic waste problem on top of everything else.

  • Conservatives clash at Turning Point USA conference over MAGA movement's direction

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  • I do, however, enjoy it when various flavors of Nazi fight each other.

  • DOJ won’t meet Friday deadline to release all the Epstein files

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  • So, who's going to prison for this? Party of law and order, right?

  • Following controversy, all names will be left off Canadian monument to ‘victims of communism’

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  • When one option is live under a brutal dictator and the other option is have your ethnicity wiped off the face of the Earth, there isn't really an option, is there?

    You're still missing the point. The people living there, at that time, didn't know what those options would ultimately lead to. They didn't have the benefit of hindsight. And even if they did, they were right there at that moment in time, having to make decisions that would determine if they survived one more day.

    Basically every death in the European Theatre of WW2 can be directly blamed on Hitler and the Nazis for starting the whole thing

    Poor Stalin, I guess he had absolutely no choice in all the massacring that he did. Hitler made him do it.

  • Ukrainian drones hit Russia's shadow fleet tanker in Mediterranean Sea for the first time, source says

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  • Not only that, but apparently the head of the Russian military intelligence, General Andrei Averyanov, was on board and was killed by the strike.

    This should really highlight the shenanigans that these "shadow fleet" ships have been getting up to beyond simply transporting sanctioned oil.

  • Following controversy, all names will be left off Canadian monument to ‘victims of communism’

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  • Re-quoting from my comment:

    And they had to pick sides without knowing what the judgment of history would be.

    Emphasis added. They were making the choice without the benefit of that Wikipedia page from 2025 to refer to.

    And Stalin was right up there with Hitler in terms of total kill-count, which is why it was a rock-and-a-hard-place situation. There was no good option available.

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  • My dad had a Latvian friend in his youth, and dad would tell me about how sometimes when they'd had a bit much to drink he'd tell stories about fighting on the front lines in Latvia. For the Germans, against the Russians. He was by absolutely no means a Nazi supporter, but he had to weigh the options and try to figure out which one was less likely to end with him and his family lying dead in a ditch somewhere.

    It really sucks that Latvia didn't regain independence until 1991. I hope he lived long enough to see that.

  • Following controversy, all names will be left off Canadian monument to ‘victims of communism’

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  • Those Eastern European countries faced the ultimate rock-and-a-hard-place situation; side with the Nazis, side with Stalin, or get crushed by both (and whichever one you "sided" with wouldn't treat you particularly well either). And they had to pick sides without knowing what the judgment of history would be.

    Honestly, a rare situation where some Nazi collaborators deserve an "it was complicated" footnote, IMO. Though that's a bit much to ask for on a stone monument like this.

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    AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

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  • They're doing what the "contract" always allowed.

  • Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them

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  • I guess we'll see what people here find to complain about now.

  • Putin warns that Russia will seek to extend its gains in Ukraine if peace talks fail

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  • Yeah? You and what army?

  • Imprisoned Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell seeks release, citing 'new evidence'

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  • Vigilantism is a symptom of a failed justice system. I'd give good odds on this.

  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • It is interesting, IMO, that with AI we see the opposite of the usual trend; the fancy new disruptive technology seems to be liked more by the older crowd, and less by the younger ones.