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Buelldozer

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The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

  • Russian Internet users are unable to access the open Internet

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  • Unfortunately it’s not a country with very safe windows.

    Even the TCP sliding windows aren't safe!

  • Block US within Lemmy?

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  • As an American I fully agree. I've completely had it with our politics infesting everything, everywhere, all the time. For everyone's sanity it needs to stop. More communities need to have and enforce a "No US Politics" rule. No Trump, no Elon, no AOC, no Bernie, no State Senator from bumblefuck Alabama or Los Angeles, California. None of it. Just.Fucking.Stop.Already.

  • In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say

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  • There's also the fact that the majority of Iran's nuclear facilities were built before UHPC, the concrete discussed in the article, was available!

  • In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say

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  • Why? The kinds of UHPC being discussed in the article weren't available even in the United States until the year 2000 but most of Iran's nuclear facilities were built between 1974 and 2005. Even their primary enrichment facility in Fordow, which was struck with MOPs, was started no earlier than the mid-2000s as it was still unfinished in 2009.

    Basically the majority of Iran's facilities, even their major ones, are too old to have the kind of concrete being discussed in the article.

  • ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

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  • A lot of masks only work in the visible light spectrum. It's entirely possible to "radar" images and remove them.

  • Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users

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  • The bot problem has been around since before Sam Altman was old enough to legally drink. For example in the early days the founders of Reddit were running bots to make the site look wayyy busier than it actually was in order to attract new users.

    He's a convenient bogey-man, and a huge asshole, but he's the not the source of this problem.

  • Am I the only one who thinks social media has destroyed the spirit of the internet?

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  • but breaking down what’s different I can’t pin anything concrete down.

    One big difference is scale. The 2000s Internet was primarily centered around single(ish) interest forums with relatively low user counts. The entire Lemmy-verse, which is itself quite tiny in 2025, is still WAY larger than nearly any of the 2000s era forums ever were.

    Another other big difference is why the user base is online. The majority of them aren't participating to discuss a shared interest anymore, they are doing it for general entertainment or to earn money.

    Those two things explain nearly all of the change. Way more users congregated into a handful of websites with many of them, including the sites, attempting to get rich doing it.

    The 2000s web was a much smaller number of users spread across a zillion websites / forums with nearly all of the users and site operators doing it without money as a motivator.

  • Am I the only one who thinks social media has destroyed the spirit of the internet?

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  • MySpace was social media and had none of the toxicity.

    Usenet was Social Media and it had allllll the toxicity.

  • Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.

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  • There isn't a single county in this country that votes 100% in either direction. So saying that "All of whom voted for this." is objectively incorrect.

  • Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.

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  • I'm in Wyoming and fiber started rolling out in multiple cities with multiple different providers in each city two years ago. They got to my house earlier this year so I now have a 2Gb/s connection.

  • Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.

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  • I'm confused. The article is talking about "BEAD" which wasn't passed until 2021. You must be talking about a different program.

  • Hong Kong police officer’s gun accidentally fires at headquarters

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  • The CF98A looks like a SIG knockoff.

  • France Pushes Digital ID Check Laws For Platforms Like Reddit and Bluesky

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  • When did France start caring about porn?

  • The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26]

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  • As explained in the video you can't run 50 amps ona dryer outlet. It's 42 amps max.

  • Plex has paywalled my server!

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  • Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content"

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  • I went over and looked at the peertube FAQ and nope, there's no monetization plan. Their reasoning for that is consistent with their goals but it is a hurdle to creators moving to the platform.

  • Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content"

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  • When are they moving all to freetube or something?

    Unless I'm missing something Freetube is a client. So it wouldn't be Jeff moving to freetube it would be you using freetube to watch his content on YT.

    I'm guessing you meant peertube instead of freetube and your answer there is "When they can get paid." Making content takes time and costs money and YT pays creators like Jeff for doing it.

    I dislike YT alot but there's financial decisions at play here that can't really be argued with.

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    Has anyone checked on the NRA recently? They seem to have been pretty quiet since the tyrannical government that they've been warning us about for decades came to pass. I wonder if they're ok?

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  • At some point, the NRA forgot that and only funded one side.

    As the article notes after '94 the number of Democrats the NRA could support steadily dwindled. These days the Democrats purity test their candidates to ensure that they fully support Gun Control and there are various Democrat PACs that will oppose Pro-Gun Democrats in the primaries; making it increasingly unlikely for there to be any future Democrats at the federal level that the NRA can support.

    The 2nd Amendment is a wedge issue and both sides do their best to take maximum advantage of their position.

    That left them vulnerable when there was widespread financial fraud in the organization...

    They were vulnerable because they were up to shady shit. No one should have been going to bat for the NRA during their corruption scandal and the fact they had one is entirely the fault of the NRAs Board of Directors. They knew what was happening and ignored it. No amount of political donations to Democrats, or anyone else, should have insulated them from the consequences.

    I'd like for all of the Pro 2A groups, not just the NRA, to get back to donating to non-Republican politicians but they kinda don't exist anymore and I don't know how to change that.

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    Has anyone checked on the NRA recently? They seem to have been pretty quiet since the tyrannical government that they've been warning us about for decades came to pass. I wonder if they're ok?

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  • The modern NRA is near useless but what you're accusing them of hasn't been true in a long time.

    The NRA that supported The Mulford Act ceased to exist on May 22nd, 1977. The membership was fed-up with their organization supporting Gun Control and in an event known as the Revolt at Cincinnati they removed and replaced the entire leadership then set the organization on an entirely new course.

    Post '77 it's been very rare for the NRA to support any kind of Gun Control, to the point that they've spent the last three decades getting torn up in the media for staunchly opposing any limits on 2A rights for anyone. They've spent a ridiculous amount of time, money, and energy winding back all of the gun controls and policies that they supported prior to '77 and to my knowledge they've made no attempt to limit 2A rights for non-whites.

    Now some of the NRA members and 2A associated politicians are certainly racist / sexist / 'phobic fuckheads but the organization itself hasn't cared about any of that for decades.

    The biggest knock on the NRA in modern times, basically the WLP corruption era, is that they completely lost the willingness to go against the Police regardless of the circumstances. The '90s (Cold Dead Hands / Jackbooted Thugs) era NRA would likely have already been in the streets at this point.