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Amanda

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  • ‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections

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  • and Intel was releasing foxes and shit

    I realise this is an autocorrect error, but it’s still funny 🦊

  • if you're not free to become poor, homeless, and starving, are you really free?

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  • Scandi here, sorry to tell you our system also sucks. It has almost exactly all the problems of the soviet system (queues, poor quality, corruption) AND the American system (inequality, horrible if you’re poor, inefficient focus on luxury production), but in moderation. You can call it better (I would, or I’d have moved), but it still sucks. You need a system that’s fair, transparent, efficient, and provides enough.

    We have the capacity to do that, but I don’t think it can be combined with capitalism. Capitalism eats everything around it (and inside it). It cannot be negotiated with, except for at most a lifetime in exceptional circumstances, usually less.

    By the way, a unique problem with social democracy is that capitalist interests have a huge incentive and ability to commandeer whatever shit implementation of democracy you have to extract profits. If you have centralised social services (housing, healthcare) they’re very very vulnerable to takeover, selling our, deregulation where private entities can cream the market and leave the difficult cases to the publicly funded variants etc etc.

    Another issue is the EU, which demands universal market liberalism. The Swedish housing system with universal public housing as opposed to social housing for the poor was explicitly fucked by this after a EU court ruling demanding they operate their rental flats like profit-driven companies, which of course completely destroyed their ability to provide the service they’re designed to provide.

  • Ukraine justifies Kursk attack in first acknowledgment of incursion into Russia

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  • It’s been zombie-ish for a while now!

  • USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation

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  • I’ve fallen for it too and I’m technically a security researcher depending on how you read my job description

  • English-language Wikipedia editors concluded: Israel committing genocide in Gaza

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  • Sure, but I assume there will have to be a regular Wikipedia page (or at least section) about the discussion of Wikipedia’s naming of the main article.

  • empress says she is going to return cracking denuvo games

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  • What the hell is Denuvo?

  • English-language Wikipedia editors concluded: Israel committing genocide in Gaza

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  • Wikipedia is now in the interesting position of having to write an encyclopaedia article about the discussions about their original page, in which I suspect they cannot cite themselves as a source.

  • Israel Accused of Running “Torture Camps” as Video Emerges of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner

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  • I’m pretty sure he does, yeah. He needs a bloody conflict to go on to remain in power (and possibly out of prison). Scared people are easier to rule, and terrorism is scary.

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  • No idea honesty, I don’t collect metrics.

  • Belgium withdraw from mixed relay after Seine swimmer falls ill

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  • Also I imagine they swallow far more water

  • Russia says Ukranian troops have crossed into it's border.

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  • …in winter, a famously amazing move that never goes wrong

  • [meme] I'm constantly dodging lesbian orgies whenever I try to find a seat in an Amtrak

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  • User name checks out

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  • I still do this!

  • Framework looking for unpaid workers to be 'Linux Community Ambassadors'

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  • I think this part:

    Our volunteer ambassadors will [list of tasks performed]

    And

    Ambassadors need to [list of properties]

    Along with

    Bonus points if [list of properties]

    Are what makes this read like a job ad for a job they’re not paying for. If they’d have posted a much shorter version with less demands, selection criteria, etc, not worded as a job ad, I’d have been a lot more charitable in my interpretation. In this case, I find it difficult to read it as anything else than “work for us, a profit-driven company, for free”.

    I don’t think it’s a massive problem, but it for sure is bad communication. Ironically.

    I generally don’t like this. Company fandom is bad, companies encouraging fandom is worse. Someone mentioned “but OnePlus does this!” as a counter argument and I think that’s telling something because I think they’re slimy as hell. And I had a OnePlus One and liked it.

  • Opposition leader joins rally calling for Venezuela presidential election results to be overturned

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  • There’s been a lot of cases where the opposition is a bunch of US plants or worse so a charitable interpretation is they’re worried about that. A less charitable one is the one everyone has already posted: they’re tankies, ie left-wing authoritarians and like the authoritarian government.

    For the record I’m holding off on having an opinion until I’ve read an analysis of the situation I trust, and I haven’t found one or had the time to look seriously. My opinion doesn’t really matter in this case anyway so I don’t think I’m in a hurry to find a correct position.

  • The transphobia rocking olympic boxing has a Kremlin connection

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  • Exposure doesn’t always help. Most people become less bigoted from exposure but a few double down on their bigotry and get worse. I guess it depends on where your bigotry comes from.

    For example, I’m trans myself and don’t exactly pass. Despite this I’ve faced very little direct bigotry from people. The ones I’ve read as transphobic have all been very well-educated, including a woman with a Master’s degree in humanities who sounded a lot like mid-downfall JK Rowling. She’d clearly been exposed to trans people and the discourse in general, to her detriment.

    Most reasonable people intuitively get respecting people’s wishes to live their own lives. It requires a certain amount of bad personality traits and/or indoctrination for them to believe the lives of others are a threat to them and want to intervene so I think there’s diminishing returns from educating people beyond basic explanations and a few quick etiquette rules of thumb.

  • Reclusive tribe attacks loggers suspected of encroaching on their land in Peru's Amazon

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  • Actually we do in most places

  • ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

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  • the post also attracted a steady stream of comments from climate denying-accounts subscribed to X’s premium service, many of which were abusive and misrepresented established climate science

    My god

  • ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

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  • That’s capitalism for you: one company makes money creating the problem and another fixing it! It’s double-pumped!