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Saleh

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  • TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet

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  • There is 1.4 Billion people in China. Chinese internet firms are reaching a larger audience in China, than all the people living in North America and Europe.

  • The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again

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  • For the longest time in the EU streaming was not considered illegal on the users end, as long as he is not collecting a big enough part of the file, wheras downloading was illegal already.

  • DNC chair candidates embrace Biden's oligarchy warning

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  • Well yet spending more money did not win the Democrats the election. Meanwhile there is strong indication from polls, that Democrats would have won 2016 if they had nominated Bernie, and would have won more strongly in 2020 if they had nominated Bernie instead of Biden. Biden was sold for the last election with "you always have to put up the sitting president for reelection, that wins the election." When people rightfully complained about Biden being mentally unfit to go another 4 years, slurring his speech, wandering off randomly, yelling insults at journalists...

    Also relevant xkcd:

  • Democrats in denial over Trump defeat, voters say: ‘Haven’t learned the lessons’

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  • Non profit housing, be it through companies owjed by the municipality or cooperatives who provide housing to their members are very effective means to limit rents and provide housing.

    In many European countries it used to be normal for a large part of the rental market to be in the hand of such entities or even housing built to be buyed to own by lower middle class families.

    Incidently rents started exploding after a lot of these got privatized in the 80s to 00s.

  • Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law

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  • And we keep the government out of finding scientific truths for good reasons. Independence of science is crucial. Also scientific trith is not absolute. No scientist worth his salt will say "x is true and y is false". They would say "we have strong evidence to support x and we have strong evidence that y is not the case under all tested circumstances."

    Courts move slow and only in acvordance with the lae. For instance in my country politics decided to define Afghanistan as a secure country of origin by law, to make it impossible for people to seek Asylum from there. That was the legislative opinion of "fact". And that also was while the Taliban was retaking large swaths of the country and months later took full control. Iirc. it was only stopped when the constitutional court decided much later, that clearly this is wrong.

    I am not against fact checking. But if you mandate it by law, you must observe the adherence to the law. And for that you ultimately need to grant the government the definition of what is true and what is not, simply in order to measure the adherence to the law by.

  • We're RIGHT HERE :(

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  • Reddit got quite successfull over the years.

    I think the potential audience for lemmy is huge, just that people havent gotten the same marketing hype/trend like you pointed out.

  • Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law

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  • No, it is not the slippery slope fallacy. If you create an instrumemt that obligates fact checking, you have to give someone authority to define what are facts and what arent. And as this is obligatory by law, these fact checkers are subject to supervision or are directly part of the government.

    So now the government gets to decide what are facts and what are not. Which can easily be abused. Especially as disinformation through so called fact checkers can move as fast as any other disinformarion.

    So at the very least you need to create a sanction regime, e.g. criminal punishment for the abuse of the fact checking, as well as a right for people to have the fact checking checked and challenged, if they think it spreads lies against them. This way you can have it analysed by courts, as the most neutral authority in a state of law.

    I dont get how people in Europe, where i live by the way, especially with the experience of Mussolini, Hitler and Franco fascism, as well as all the Warsaw pact authoritarianism, GDR surveillance, red scare policies in the Western countries during cold war, etc. are just treating this so lightly.

    Authoritarian regimes based on lies and forbidding the truth are not some abstract. They are both an extensive reality of the recent past as well as looking at Orban, Melloni, Wilders, Merz and many others they are reemerging right now.

  • Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law

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  • So if the US would make obligatory fact checking under a Trump administration. How would you solve that problem?

    In the end it always boils down to the current administration getting to decide what the facts and what the disinformation is.

    This is easily abusable and for instance Goerge Orwell predicted such problems with the "Ministry of Truth" in his book 1984.

  • Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law

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  • Who decides what reality is?

  • Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law

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  • You give authority to define "facts" to a fact checking institution. That institution may not be sufficiently independent. Because of meddling the institution spreads lies under the claim they would be facts and declares actual facts as lies.

    Just think about a fact checking under the authority of Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg, AIPAC...

  • Job application portal has started asking for my approval to let an AI review resume. Is it a mistake to opt out?

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  • You might overestimate the statistical prowess and care to establish good proccesses in HR.

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    Another one falls for the cult...

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  • I keep rseeing people claiming this about Proton. Is there any specifics i can read up on?

  • Vicariously Offended

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  • now i want a t-shirt/tote-bag with that line.

  • S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏

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  • Why is this not knowledge taught in school?

    It is the first time i hear about it and i have never thought of it, yet it makes total sense and could make the difference between life and death in a storm damaged area.

  • Pete Hegseth's FBI background check doesn't include interviews with key women from his past

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  • So if in two years when there is multiple rape allegations they will claim "but we did a background check. No idea where this was coming from!"

  • Safely Remove Hardware

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  • How am i supposed to make a backup of data i just received on a drive that got corrupted?

  • Safely Remove Hardware

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  • Its all fun and giggles until the hard drive you just loaded all the data and literature for your thesis on got corrupted by the Prof. unplugging it but you cannot tell him he is an idiot with computers.

  • Don't worry if you don't get this. It doesn't even matter.

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  • What does the Clown have to do with IT?

  • IEEE 754

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  • Okay thank you. I was wondering because for stuff like buying electricity, gas or certain resources, parts etc. there is prices with higher precision in cents, but the precision would not be identical over all use cases in a large company.