Redjard

Redjard, 28 days ago

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/03da9f51-594b-4580-86d3-55bf8d4a55fe.png

Redjard, 1 month ago

Archive is for old versions not old apps. As in if you don’t wanna fiddle with versions you have no reason to enable the repo.
It will only cause casual users issues with not finding apps

Redjard, 1 month ago

$9,000 per metric ton. So 9$ per kg.
Copper is $8.3 per kg.

Thank you metric for not being a pain in the ass

Redjard, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

v-dem democracy index map
v-dem democracy index map figure subtext

USA, Portugal and Austria are ranked between 0.7 and 0.8.
Israel and Greece are between 0.5 and 0.6.

For comparison: France, Germany, Sweden and Estonia are 0.8-0.9, all beating the US

edit: added subtext of figure 1

Redjard, 3 months ago

Swiss chees model of accident tyranny prevention
Governments are imperfect systems, you wanna have redundancies over redundancies. What you are saying is kinda like “I don’t think we need separation of power, we just need to get the laws just right so noone can break their election promises and abuse their power”.
As cheese layers go, not having a way of permanently stripping people of rights, and stripping prisoners of as few rights as possible temporarily, is a pretry solid cheese layer. In governments, it’s relatively easy to introduce laws targeting critical systems of balance like protesting, because governments have to change laws as one of their main functions. Separation of power is nice, it limits bad (vague) laws, and allows implementing tiers of importance in laws like constitutional laws being harder to override than regular laws, among many other benefits. But if protesting is allowed in the cpnstitution, criminalize making noise yaknow.

Redjard, 6 months ago

I disagree.
Some months ago I had weird behavior with compose sequences, I went on the ff c, made a post on it, and there was a fruitfull discussion leading to pinning it on gtk doing compose sequences weirdly. No hate was experienced.

Redjard, 6 months ago

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Redjard, 6 months ago

Hallstein was a member of several nominally Nazi professional organizations, but he was not a member of the Nazi Party or of the SA. He is reputed to have rejected Nazi ideology and to have kept his distance from the Nazis. There was opposition from Nazi officials to his proposed appointment, in 1941, as professor of law at the University of Frankfurt, but the academics pushed through his candidacy, and he soon advanced to become dean of the faculty.

Hallstein began his academic career in the 1920s Weimar Republic and became Germany’s youngest law professor in 1930, at the age of 29. During World War II he served as a First Lieutenant in the German Army in France. Captured by American troops in 1944, he spent the rest of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp in the United States, where he organised a “camp university” for his fellow soldiers.

I don’t see how he is a Nazi

Redjard, 6 months ago

Where is YouTube ReVanced?

Redjard, 6 months ago

So you are saying that Huawei is better than Google, because Huawei has less suspicion about it than the US government, because we should not conflate a company from a country with the government og that country?

While you are conflating Google and the US government without even so much as acknowledging that?

If we are being fair, we must accept both the USA and China have the means to get data out of their companies, and have done so frequently. If we thus compare either Google and Huawei or USA and China, in both cases we can make out the shinier turd of the two clearly.

Now can we go back to hating both of them please?

Redjard, 6 months ago

I have seen plenty of independent hate, and my hown hate has certainly developed independently too.
Even in politics other countries have come to the same conclusion, some of which even against US influence, while certainly others where pulled along by them.

Also did you notice that you jsut assumed I was completely influenced by the US, as in that you hold the innate belief that everyone who disagrees on this must obviously be doing so because they fell victim to their propaganda?

I didn’t actually bring google into this at all.

I’d trust a Huawei phone less than I would a Google phone. Much less.

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Redjard, 6 months ago

Huawei Smartphones collect a lot of data from their users and send it to Huawei[1], and the founder of Huawei has very strong relations to the Chinese government[2].

[1] doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279942 “On the data privacy practices of Android OEMs”
[2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhengfei “Ren Zhengfei […] is the founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies […]. He is a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”

A company being employee owned is a very good sign, but mainly for worker treatment. Huawei is still not managed by all of its employees; a few people in upper management are tasked to represent the owners interest, and in that process, as per usual, morals get diluted.

You can see this by the facts that Huawei phones still violate user privacy by collecting copious amounts of data on them, or that Huawei knowingly supplies surveillance equipment to the CCP, that is used in areas where a lot of Uyghurs live and in the not-concentration-camps that reeducate Uyghurs .

Besides that, I also just came across “Huawei states it is an employee-owned company, but this remains a point of dispute” on their wikipedia article, which at a cursory look appears to have some good points against that statement behind it.
The paper about that is here doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3372669

In summary, we find the following:

• The Huawei operating company is 100% owned by a holding company, which is in turn approximately 1% owned by Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei and 99% owned by an entity called a “trade union committee” for the holding company.
• We know nothing about the internal governance procedures of the trade union committee. We do not know who the committee members or other trade union leaders are, or how they are selected.
• Trade union members have no right to assets held by a trade union.
• What have been called “employee shares” in “Huawei” are in fact at most contractual interests in a profit-sharing scheme.
• Given the public nature of trade unions in China, if the ownership stake of the trade union committee is genuine, and if the trade union and its committee function as trade unions generally function in China, then Huawei may be deemed effectively state-owned.
• Regardless of who, in a practical sense, owns and controls Huawei, it is clear that the employees do not.

So at every path we come to the same conclusion, the CCP will get your data, and about as much of it as google (and probably the US government) if you used their operating system and services.

Huawei is about as trustworthy as your average trillion dollar corporation, and about as devious with their whitewashing as all others too. Google is masquerading as pro-privacy, apple as pro-repair and pro-environment, and Huawei as pro-worker and state-independent, because they all aren’t but would profit if they where perceived to be

Redjard, 6 months ago

And they occasionally need to be debated anyway.
Like with conspiracies and religious cults, not debating them allows them to pull people in, while debating them both gives those vulnerable the ability to see the issues with them, and it allows those already believing a pathway to exit.

Redjard, 7 months ago

Fuck smartphones, I wanna finally have glasses that are thin, light, and without distortions, reflections, or chromatic aberration

Redjard, 7 months ago

That doesn’t align itself to the dimensions of an element. The screenshot thingy even allows you to screenshot past the visible area for scrollable pages

Redjard, 8 months ago

wget actuallygooddistro.⁤org/install/2023-09-x64.iso && cp .iso /mnt/ventoy/ && rm -rf /

Redjard, 8 months ago

How does one write an article about it and then not even mention the instance nor link to their profile?

@ltrlp

This has likely happened because the german government created the social.bund.de instance earlier this year, paving the way for various government things in germany to simply request an account and be set up.

Redjard, 9 months ago

The Brussels effect is the process of unilateral regulatory globalisation caused by the European Union de facto (but not necessarily de jure) externalising its laws outside its borders through market mechanisms.

The California effect is the shift of consumer, environmental and other regulations in the direction of political jurisdictions with stricter regulatory standards. The name is derived from the spread of some advanced environmental regulatory standards that were originally adopted by the U.S. state of California and eventually adopted in other states.

The Brussels/California effects are when the EU/California make a law that applies to the EU/California but for various reasons is followed globally/across the US

Redjard, 9 months ago

If you think the things brave has done are bad, go read through the list of things microsoft has done. You really don’t want them to ever have a browser again, and certainly don’t want to personally use it.

Redjard, 10 months ago

Wait so reddit made a downvote troll mod of r/scuba?

Redjard, 10 months ago

Just like dndmemes, it’s not that they removed the nsfw content, they removed everything. There is a hand full of posts left from over a month of content. On dndmemes they bothered to sort out maybe 30 non-nsfw posts from the highest rated posts, here it’s more like 5. Seems they are getting even lazier about it.