why has trump two different pfps
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This is standard geopolitics. You find dissatisfied people in the population of countries you don’t like, and then you support those people in various ways in order to destabilize your competitors.
no, not really, it’s only the last 20-30 years and mostly used like this by russians (also includes things like setting up conspiracy theory websites without obvious ideological tilt (at first), maybe to groom suggestible population for later use). the old way was to try to bring these people to your cause, not just to try to cause non-directed disorder
fullsquare@awful.systemsto News@lemmy.world•Chinese couple charged with smuggling a biological pathogen into the U.S.16·2 days agogiving them benefit of doubt - they still fucked up. they should get a permit with help of their PI and bring it in overtly with all proper paperwork
there are people who do want to live there (criminals wanted by their home countries with enough money to stay afloat, as long as uae decides to not extradite them)
fullsquare@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked.English34·4 days agoidk if cult owned far right rag has that much pull (it’s not washington post, owned by bezos)
fullsquare@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Meta plans to replace humans with AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent contentEnglish24·6 days agomoderation on facebook? i’m sure it can be found right next to bigfoot
(other than automated immediate nipple removal)
long lost distant cousin of jd vance
fullsquare@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire worldEnglish9·9 days agothis was before we figured out that you can use stranded aluminum wire and it’s fine this way
that, or copper clad aluminum
fullsquare@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire worldEnglish20·9 days agoonly residential wiring uses copper, everything from 350kV down to 400V lines is aluminum, and even in houses aluminum can be used too
fullsquare@awful.systemsto Fediverse@lemmy.world•This graph but with fediverse apps?English7·10 days agomost of pleroma instances are packed with nazis, go figure
also nostr is mostly altright and cryptobros (but it’s not activitypub)
fullsquare@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explainsEnglish6·10 days agoold power supplies used transformers, which when not loaded behave like inductors, and this causes reactive current to flow. not a problem for the last 15+ years because everything uses switching mode power supplies now
fullsquare@awful.systemsto News@lemmy.world•A crypto investor is charged with kidnapping and torturing a man in an NYC apartment for weeks8·12 days agoboth of them are cryptobros
ai can’t generate anything that is not averaged dogshit made by grinding every political cartoon to pixels and compressing it to paste. it categorically can’t generate caricatures, for example. it also shows a degree of creativity and familiarity with literature unlikely in average propmptfan. and also text is legible
ai could never make this
fullsquare@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them OnlineEnglish18·16 days ago🚩
marked safe
from Brazilian mass discord message leak
(never used discord)
fullsquare@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M Aerospace Company Chooses to Endlessly Abuse OpenSource Free Trials Instead of Typing Git Pull, You Start to Question Gravity, or at Least Common Sense.English14·17 days agorocket lab is 4x too big (that’s quarterly revenue, not annual)
fullsquare@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M Aerospace Company Chooses to Endlessly Abuse OpenSource Free Trials Instead of Typing Git Pull, You Start to Question Gravity, or at Least Common Sense.English2·17 days agonow that i’m thinking: would be 4000 VMs enough for spacex? maybe it is some smaller organization. i also take it is state-owned or similar, which narrows it down to a handful of countries that launch satellites
and probably not government agency, because these would have people competent enough to do a git pull
fullsquare@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M Aerospace Company Chooses to Endlessly Abuse OpenSource Free Trials Instead of Typing Git Pull, You Start to Question Gravity, or at Least Common Sense.English1·17 days agowait, i missed that, but then idk why it got called “semi-governmental”
also withdrawal can just happen when some random datacenter catches fire or disappears in a sinkhole