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FatherPeanut

@ FatherPeanut @pawb.social

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    What are your thoughts on people who are against pacifism?

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  • Progress happens in spite of them, aye. Feudalism led to capitalism, while it is flawed, I'd say this is an upgrade. Capitalism originally embraced slavery, and while some aspects still exist today, mostly all capitalist governments have put massive blocks on it. Monarchism led to constitutional monarchism, the beginnings of the rule of law. Through this rule of law, democracy could be organized.

    Thr next steps are entirely up to your opinion, yet I feel things will on average improve. There will be setbacks, yet onward we go.

  • Samsung meeting transcripts show memory workers offered incredible 607% bonus worth $477,000, while logic chip staff get as little as 50%

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  • The title of this post seems to communicate that goal, even if it's not the intent. It is worth noting that the article itself seems to read more as if Samsung is going through bad management decisions amid market turmoil. The current market demand on Samsung has some sectors performing with insane profits, yet others completely underperforming. This current topic is the offproduct of the statements of the lesion between the union reps and the company, to which this individual has already been replaced. They were pushing for a distribution of earnings based on how their respective sector performed.

    Also not to be outdone, wronged workers are doing what wronged workers do best. A strike is planned for the near future, and Samsung is currently responding by cutting production quotas in advance. It is not a company wide strike, rather it is a strike of just the specific division of Samsung that's getting lesser earnings. The union seems to see that amid the AI craze, their underperforming sector is at risk of being diminished, even if only temporarily.

    I can add more, but I dont wanna interpret for others and I think I've done that enough already. Its not a long or bad read, y'all can see for yourself.

  • Suggestions for choosing email provider

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  • Tl;Dr: I used Proton and Tuta, both work well and respect privacy. I will encourage E2EE though.

    My suggestion is largely dependent on your use case. I'm switching from Proton to Tuta actively, but not necessarily due to a slight to Proton. I simply used to use their VPN + Email combo, but recently wanted to switch to Mullvad VPN, so Tuta then became cheaper.

    As far as E2EE discussions go, I dont feel E2EE/PGP is ever a bad thing to have. Namely, encrypted communications have a smaller threat surface. I'd advocate in the modern day, all respectable services should offer it anyways. With how easy PGP is to setup, any company that doesnt do E2EE by default is likely motivated against it, which speaks ill of their privacy practices.

    For services in general, most privacy respecting services are hosted in Europe. Switzerland and Germany for Proton and Tuta respectively, which what might ease your stress a bit is that they do still need to follow the GDPR, but all good providers I'm familiar with are European based.

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    Why does Lemmy.ML admire authoritarian regimes ?

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  • I don't believe that makes it any less valid, even if it is the case. Those are systemic things, which if one could be morphed by them, it's fair to say others are too.

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    Which instances have the most ban-happy moderators? Analysis inside

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  • I think that's a weird quirk of Lemmy in general, is that the lot of us tend to be much more accepting of differences. I haven't exactly spent too much time around, but nobody's mentioned my instance or 'queerness' in ill intent, even when disagreements happen.

    But also if there are instances or groups created where a very large portion of said instance is bigoted, it's very easy to just defederate and move on.

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  • Honestly even explicit content aside, I'm afraid of being lumped in with some group that's staring down the end of the barrel. Even though furries seem valuable to STEM jobs, the large LGBT presence and general 'weirdness' make it seem easy for us to be given some degenerate label.

  • Internet shutdown in Iran is now the longest in world history

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  • I'll translate the other guy's comment;

    Israel and the US attacked because they were basically handed a golden opportunity in a world where they search for opportunity. The top governmental officials were present within the same room, confirmed by their intelligence officials, and during a vote for the next supreme leader. By attacking then, both the current government would be inept for days to weeks, and a new government would have a shoddy transition of power.

    Tl;Dr: the goal is a long, drawn-out war. I realized after writing this whole thing out, It's totally a tangent you didn't mention, but fugget I'm not gonna let it go to waste.

    Now, here's the opportunity in that opportunity: A "short victory" is not the goal, this is a resource war. Venezuela was effectively captured by the US, Hegseth has stated intents to revitalize the Americas as the 'American sphere of influence' (paraphrased), Iran is unable to export significant oil, and with that goes most of the middle east's production through the closed strait. This disproportionately favors the US, Russia, and Canada for oil production. Trump previously pushed his "51st state" agenda on Canada, and Russia is cutoff from trade with much of the world due to sanctions. This has the US in a position where it disproportionately benefits from having the Strait of Hormuz closed, and the longer it goes, the more reliant countries get on the US for energy.

    As to why it happens now, Trump is in power, and the current admin understands the developed world is slowly becoming more energy independent without the need for oil (alternative energy). This explains why the narrative is maintained that "green energy doesnt work," while Europe actively sees progress and positive outcome with it. It's not about what's best for the American people he speaks to, it's more oriented around what he wants to leverage in the current state of global affairs.

  • Other than money, what's something you would want an unlimited amount of?

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  • I mean, it'd definitely have some baggage when it comes to the vacuum of space.

  • Trump signs order directing creation of a national voter list, a move sure to face legal challenges

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  • He's absolutely gonna push congress to legislate a National Voter ID system within a month of elections, isn't he?

  • Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking

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  • One passed, the other has yet to be presented. These legislators have no clue how they'd even do it, but circumventing the scan is also made illegal.

    So yeah, flashing Open-Source firmware is something they dont like either, but fingers crossed they just choose to not allocate resources to enforcement. Wouldn't be surprised if this 3D printed missile mentioned in the article above comes up ad a taking point during the legislative hearings.

  • Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking

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  • Washington state already started making moves against it, as an attempt to prevent 3D printed firearm components. Specifically, it requires 3D printers sold within the state to have firmware-based scanning to cancel prints it suspects are used for firearms, alongside criminalizing the possession of files ruled as 'firearm compoments'.

    One bill is in the House, the other passed into law. Gonna make it a real rough ride ahead for tinkerers into 3D printing, especially if we've gotta design around "Oh boy, I sure hope my pencil holder doesnt get flagged as an illegal item."

    Edit: One of two bills passed: HB2320 and HB2321. HB2320 is currently law, and HB2321 is awaiting presentation to the House.

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  • This has always messed with me to explain, but mostly since this confusion is based on different experiences. If you learn the theory and understand how to craft your own circuitry, pushing and pulling amps can be designed for, but if all you've ever done is install things like a contractor would, then all you're familiar with is pulling amps.

    It always makes it such a hard explanation when someone says, "I thought you pulled amps." There really ain't an easy explanation, since most people are only familiar with systems designed to not be used outside their target voltage, so they don't experience Ohm's Law in action.

    In retrospect, its probably because I only have these talks with contractors lel, and they've spent a whole lotta time going with the "Pulls amps" approach, and it works out well enough for them. Whatever works for the groups you're communicating among, I suppose.

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  • So, I wanna support the Onion network, but it seems hosting a middle node is the most likely way, and thus have the largest base. In looking into it, exit nodes seem very dangerous to those who're uneducated on the risks of having them, and thus are a big bottleneck.

    Not to say this is a bad problem to have, as it's a growing pain and that indicates an increase in popularity, but wouldn't wide-scale adoption of this disproportionately limit the usability of the Onion network through the exit nodes?

  • Profitability

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  • I was gonna say, much as I wanna do work from home myself, I'd say the whole gestures broadly at everything economic during COVID definitely has a bit more of an impact on company profits during that time period.

  • FBI chief shown in raucous locker room celebration during Olympics trip

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  • That's kinda what I'm trying to get at. Like yeah, it sucks to see, but between being worried about this v.s. an additional 10% tariff globally, one of those will impact my life much more substantially.

  • FBI chief shown in raucous locker room celebration during Olympics trip

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  • Gotta be real chief, I'm gonna oppose the crowd here and ask it: What's the big deal here?

    Like, its definitely not a good look, but is this really significant enough to devote any mental energy to?