aleph

aleph, 15 days ago

Technically, it’s for a combination of election fraud and falsifying business records.

But “paying hush money to a porn star” is definitely a sexier headline.

aleph, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

It depends how you’re using the term ‘genocide’.

While the CCP might not necessarily be intentionally mass-killing ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region, there is very strong evidence that they are doing their utmost to stamp out Uyghur culture and forcibly assimilate them. In the process, people are being incarcerated, tortured, and raped, amongst other things.

It could be argued that this is a crime under international law, where the definition of genocide includes

intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".

Or you could argue it is ethnic cleansing instead. Either way, it’s a lot more serious than just overzealous “counter-terrorism” measures.

aleph, 10 days ago

42 Dems voted for this nonsense.

aleph, 7 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

And that’s just the number according to Israel. Gaza officials claim over two hundred.

aleph, 11 days ago

The party that revolutionized political lawfare and has gone after their political rivals via the criminal justice system on several occasions is now clutching their pearls and heralding the end of American democracy?

The audacity.

aleph, 11 days ago

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aleph, 12 days ago

Right, but these new benchmarks don’t speak to that, do they?

aleph, 13 days ago

I though G4 was supposed to bring a big improvement to the modem, or is that going to be G5?

aleph, 12 days ago

Possibly, lol. Although going from Samsung’s to their own completely custom silicon will be the best chance of seeing some actual improvements.

aleph, 10 days ago

I’d be interested in buying a Nothing phone if they weren’t all so huge.

aleph, 6 days ago

That one, I’ll grant you.

aleph, 6 days ago

The casting choices are just so weird. Across the board.

aleph, 7 days ago

Follow-up question: I’m in the US and the initial installation is taking forever. Pacman seems to be running at just 60-80 KiB/s when I normally get 5MiB/s. IS there a way to have the installer choose a local mirror before downloading all the packages?

aleph, 7 days ago

Very intriguing. Is there a wiki or support forum in the works, too?

aleph, 7 days ago

Cool. Will definitely be giving blendOS a spin in a VM.

aleph, 7 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Ok, thanks for the heads-up. I’m running it in a local VM and for some reason my host Arch system is significantly faster at downloading and installing packages than the blendOS guest. Not sure why, but just thought I’d mention it.

Edit: never mind, I messed up the first installation so had to do-over, and the slow download speed seems to have recovered this time.

aleph, 7 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

It’s a bit premature to be making that prediction. If no further evidence comes forth that it isn’t a random shitposter, then it’s a complete nothingwurst.

aleph, 11 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

It has been a common belief in philosophical circles for centuries, but not among physicists. Both Newton and Einstein thought of time as being one of the fundamental properties of the physical universe.

However, in the past decade or two, some theoretical physicists have now come back around to the idea that space and time could instead be emergent properties of a deeper, underlying reality.

If you really want to go cross-eyed, read up on the holographic principle.

aleph, 12 days ago

Because they are traditional gentlesirs who think that feminism has ruined western women and therefore yearn for a cute, child-like, and submissive female partner who does not threaten their fragile sense of masculinity?

I dunno, just guessing.

aleph, 12 days ago

Yup.

aleph, 12 days ago

That certainly is news to me. After all these years and the almost total lack of hydrogen infrastructure in the US, I had assumed that it was considered a dead end.

That said, it does makes sense; I hadn’t considered that hydrogen tech was more in competition with ICEs than with EVs.

aleph, 12 days ago

Hybrid engines have been around for quite some time, though, and they can be just as reliable as ICEs.

On the other hand, the weakness of EVs right now isn’t just the charging infrastructure - it’s the batteries. They’re big, heavy, and very expensive to replace. This is especially true given all the new electric pickups/SUVs coming onto the market in the US. Battery tech needs to mature a while longer, IMO.

aleph, 12 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

On top of that, there’s the fact that Toyota have been investing heavily in hydrogen fuel cell technology for years, instead of BEVs. They put their bets on the wrong horse, and have been slow to adapt as a result.

aleph, 11 days ago (edited 9 hours ago)

It’s not so much of a problem for brand new models but there are still many older ones that suffer from battery failure and degradation outside of warranty.