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  • Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube

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  • So generally, in the PRC, the central government will put out a request or state a problem, and then provinces will attempt to implement a solution independently. If the central government likes the out come of one of the trialed system they might make it national policy.

    That’s basically what social credit was. The central government gave a vague cryptic request for potential solutions about low trust in modern society, and a bunch of different provinces implemented various ideas, some via contract to private companies. Some provinces didn’t trial anything, some trialed systems that were basically just credit scores, some trialed a system of ranking “how good of a citizen you are” and gave gift cards and stuff to people who scored high.

    Ultimately, the central government choose not to adopt any of them and the various trials were spun down. So, social credit was a lot of things, and thus multiple different ideas of what it was are correct, although a lot of reports on it mixed and matched different parts form different trials to make it sound as bad as possible, and some will just talk about one particularly benign system to make it seem like others are being hysterical. Ether way it wasn’t ever a nation wide thing and is largely defunct now.

  • Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US

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  • I’ve tried a few of those, I always get a buzzing or it gets weirdly hot, one just blew out my headphones. So I don’t really trust them at this point.

  • Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US

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  • The big problem for me is that there is only one port, so you can ether listen to something, or, charge the phone, not both. Just having two ports would solve this.

    Also, not something I really care about but a lot of people do, the headphone jack is an analog output, where as the USB-C is a digital output, and you need an analog signal to run a speaker. So they need to have their own DACs (Digital-Analog converter), and many of the USB-C headphones have poor quality DACs that loose detail. Used to be the DAC was just in the phone, and was generally of good quality.

  • Hegseth was the only cabinet member with Trump while Rubio, Bessent were on decoy plane

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  • I saw a take that was just “he has no attention span, the only way to get him to care is to make it feel engaging and exciting”

    And thus the idea of the attack was crafted to get him re-invested in the war. To make him see it as important and not just an annoying thing he wants to go away. And… given that kegseth went with him… yah… feels like a stunt.

  • Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com

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  • The US was the first place smartphones took off and in the first couple years iPhone was the smartphone, so the initial set of adopters got iPhones because android wasn't really a consideration. Then the network effect, people got what their friends or family had. Also, since a lot of people get their phones payed for through their cellular carrier contract, they not super price sensitive since the cost was buried in a monthly bill.

    So lots of people are used to IOS, and don’t see a reason to switch. Especially now with the one major differentiator, walled garden vs open platform, is disappearing with Google locking down their platform.

  • Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

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  • The HP obsessive are also littering that sensitive sight with a bunch of socks.

    Also the cable was for sharing load between grids to account for variability in power generation in renewables. It was literally being built to support further decarbonization of the grid.

    Oh and now the cable might have to go through a Bronze Age burial site.

    Like, this is not a win, this is idiots making a good project more expensive and difficult and potentially causing the destruction of an archeological site.

  • Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

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  • It was a … power cable. To connect the Irish grid to the welsh/English grid. To allow for more efficient transfer of power between renewable generation to the respective grids based on availability and need.

    It was actually a good project? Like unironically. It was going to allow for further decarbonization. Now it’s been delayed and going to cost a lot more, and may have to go through a Bronze Age burial site now.

    The people who blocked the project were also disturbing the local environment by leaving huge amounts of synthetic fiber socks at the beach.

  • Flock Is Losing Dozens of Contracts as Controversy Grows

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  • most people are generally not ok with being tracked and surveilled. It’s only the fact that they aren’t aware of how wide spread a given system is that lets these things grow.

    With computers, phones and the internet, the surveillance is not super visible, or the implications of it are not so visceral. People always have this idea that they can just choose not interact with it. So it’s much less prominent of a worry for most people.

    But with a networked camera in a public space recording everything, able to easily map every trip someone makes by car (which is basically all trips in much of America). That sets off alarm bells. That’s an immediate “what the fuck? Who said you could do that?” From most people.

    Flock was betting no one would notice, or that no one would care. They’re so chronically online, tech business brained, that they failed to understand that most people see a meaningful distinction between the internet and the real world. This was inevitable, and now it’s a huge boondoggle and their company is probably cooked long term.

  • Fuming Trump, 80, Melts Down Over Embarrassing Poll Numbers

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  • 30% of the country are stuck in isolated suburban hellscapes where their main source of information is Fox News, talk radio, and online echo chambers full of people who do the same. Another 30% are also stuck in isolated suburban hellscapes but they’re not stuck in the same dis-information loop.

  • Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO Online

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  • I mean, I see it all the time in like, military history books. But like, not in casual conversation or company statements.

  • Cube - Litterbox Comics

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  • Yes, but an over confident person will take a while to do so.

  • Cube - Litterbox Comics

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  • The real trick is taking a cube, swapping the placement of some of the bits, then mixing it up and handing it to someone who’s confident in their ability to solve a cube.

  • TIL about Pontic–Caspian steppe

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  • TIL about Pontic–Caspian steppe

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  • It is where the Yamnaya culture came out of around 3300-2600 BCE. A significant group due to their usage of domesticated horses and carts. They spread across much of Europe and central/South Asia, spreading the Proto-Indo European languages.

    In Europe they largely displaced and/or assimilated the “Early European Farmers” and the remnants of the “Western Hunter Gatherers (although WHG appear to have been somewhat ancestral to the Yamnaya culture), although the degrees to which the admixture favors one group or the other varies depending on region.

    The exact nature of the migrations and population dynamics are not certain and very fuzzy since we have limited archeological evidence and are largely reconstructing based on genetics and linguistics. But it’s pretty clear there was a migration out of the Pontic step around this time that had a significant impact across Europe, Central Asia, Persia/iran and the north of the Indian sub-continent.

  • Newsom Claims to Support National Tax on Billionaires While Opposing It in CA

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  • No, it’s not a start, it’s what we’re currently doing. It’s just a rebranding of the currently non-functional system.

    It’s not good, it’s actually deceitful to suggest this nonsense in place of an already compromise solution. An income tax being branded as a wealth tax is just nonsense distraction from people who want the appearance of being progressive without actually supporting anything that might bother their wealthy donors.

  • ‘Thinking He Can Fool Everyone,’ Newsom Backs One Billionaires Tax But Not Another | “The misdirect here is that Newsom is opposing a WEALTH tax on billionaires in his own state and insisting he supp…

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  • He’s wrong about his proposal actually doing anything, his suggestion is an income tax, not a wealth tax.

  • Newsom Claims to Support National Tax on Billionaires While Opposing It in CA

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  • His proposal isn’t actually a wealth tax though, it’s basically just an income tax only applied to people with billions of dollars in wealth, which means nothing since people at that level of wealth don’t make incomes that can be taxed meaningfully.

  • 'Newsom Does Not Want to Tax Billionaires,' Say Campaigners, 'But Wants You to Think He Does'

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  • Windsock, toothless proposal. How can anyone trust this guy given how often he reverses his positions to chase headlines?

  • 'Newsom Does Not Want to Tax Billionaires,' Say Campaigners, 'But Wants You to Think He Does'

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  • He’s not even proposing a wealth tax, his suggestion is literally toothless because it focuses on taxing income of billionaires more, which we already know doesn’t work because they don’t make an income.

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