The interfaces are relatively modern too, with VGA and a PS/2 keyboard.

Also, export your DBs first, and snapshot the export instead of the raw DB files

borg

A lot of the best communities to be in have a barrier to entry

The community of pilots, the people who work in medicine or on floor X, the people who are proud of what they can accomplish and recognize automatically that the value of the interactions they have are not worthless.

Idk how you bring that to the online space. But it is missing, yes. I like this essay.

You need to read again the thing that was described, more carefully. Imagine for example that by “a page,” the person means a page called /juicy-content or something.

I know this because i wrote a page that IP bans anything that visits it, and l also put it as a not allowed spot in the robots.txt file.

This is fuckin GENIUS

@PanArab@lemmy.ml in re the Arabic thing, my God dude it should be immediately clear that I was trying to verify for myself if I was missing something, and no interest at all in a back and forth or trying to tell you anything.

I asked a few questions purely for my own education and then when it was clear beyond a reasonable doubt that you were talking bollocks, I left it there. I think I even wished you well or something like that.

I was totally unaware until today that I was banned. It’s not bothering me; I think I unsubscribed from all that stuff and most of the lemmy.ml stuff a while back. You’ll need to @ me on every message, otherwise I don’t see them, I think.

Anyway, I guess you need a refresher on the debate we were having. My position was that the West was deindustrializing and losing economic ground while Russia was growing its industrial base and gaining economic ground. I provided a bunch of sources about German deindustrialization and UK losing steel production and you countered with none of that was important

Correct. Or more specifically, that selecting some isolated pieces of the pie and then pretending they form the whole picture, without even attempting to analyze the question “how much of the picture do these things I’m talking about form?”, is misleading and silly.

I think I talked about this before, but you don’t want to accept it: To me the whole context is relevant. I think last time you explicitly rejected the idea of looking at the whole context and just said you wanted to build narratives out of individual data points, so “Russia going up + Germany going down” = “Russia can outspend the West” as if the pieces that make up statement A automatically connect into conclusion B. To me that is not a good way to figure out the world, but it’s up to you, man.

Russia’s been expanding its domestic industrial production ever since about April of 2023, sustaining a growth rate of roughly 5% per year ever since then. Hooray! That is because they cannot import a lot of the things they need, and so they have to produce them at home. To me, that’s not really winning. It’s just necessity – you’re picking like the one metric that’s going to show backwards from how well Russia’s doing, as compared with the countries that can trade with other countries and just have them do the work and then buy the finished products. I mean, it’s impressive. I do think Russia’s economy is still doing surprisingly well under the sanctions. But I think that’s more an effect of what happens when you spend a bunch of money on domestic industry (again – because they have more or less no choice), and the stimulating impact that that has on everything, and some unexpected cleverness dodging around the sanctions, than some kind of master plan.

The US can already outproduce Russia 10 to 1, without needing the EU or any of Ukraine’s domestic wartime economy. Russia will have to sustain that 5% growth for 47 more years before they can outspend the US (and then continue it for some similar length of time before they can outspend the EU plus the US). In terms of pure materiel, they’re fighting like one distracted pinky finger of the US right now, and not really doing all that well. The US has weaknesses, but we’re not going to run out of stuff to fight the war with. Stuff is our whole thing. A shortage of stuff isn’t the US’s problem.

(Actually with PPP it would only by 32 more years, I guess)

and also Russia was having trouble maintaining their Boeings while under sanctions.

Yeah. They still are.

I mean the dig at Boeing is fair I guess. 🙂 IDK dude, if you want to tell me a system to improve the West’s whole Kafka capitalism so that the US won’t have to suffer under the Boeings of the world, and I can be confident that the plane I’m flying on won’t suddenly fall apart because someone wanted to squeeze a little more into their quarterly bonus, I’m all ears. I’m not trying to be ignorant about the problems of the West. I’m just saying that if your solution is to get us on board with how Russia’s aviation industry is, then I’m gonna get on the 737 and cross my fingers.

Russia appears to be fielding T-54s and T-55s which are over 50 years old. Why? Because they have no reason to field more advanced systems

Suuuuurre. Let me ask you: How long should the front line stay stalled at 100 km from the border before you acknowledge that the war isn’t going to plan?

If you told me a lot of the West DGAF, and is fine with just spending Ukrainian lives in their hopelessly mad scramble to defend their country against your boys’ invasion, without giving them enough materiel or approval to fight back in a way that will actually let them win, and that that’s real fucked up, I could agree with that. Like I say I’m not trying to be ignorant about it. But IDK how you can claim that everything in Ukraine is going to plan and sending out 50-year-old tanks to get blown up half an hour from the Russian border before they accomplish anything was like totally exactly what they wanted to have happen, and that’s how you can tell that Russia’s industrial economy is winning.

Can someone tell Freagle to try joining an instance that isn’t going to try to deny them their ability to talk with who they want to?

(Or, I guess, it’s on brand if they like USSR / Russia; maybe they should be happy about their overlords shielding them from incorrect ideas so they won’t get confused or disobedient.)

If someone wants to relay the message: The block is not on my end. I’ve never done any kind of block, but there are certain instances (lemmygrad, hexbear, and hilariouschaos) that never seem to be able to talk with me without issues. Lemmygrad I used to be able to, so maybe they created something on their end, but it wasn’t me.

Freagle! Good to see you.

Yeah, Russia’s fuckin cleaning up. They’re the biggest country on Earth and they’re 12th on the chart. They’re trying to invade their neighbor that they’re 28 times bigger than, and they’re stuck on the border after 2 years. You know, like winners do.

Now that Ukraine got their aid package, and the rest of the world + Ukraine has had enough of a wake up call that the US is not necessarily a reliable partner, I think it’s highly unlikely that Russia will be able to do any better than a stalemate and peace agreement keeping some of the stuff they already stole. They may do worse than that (particularly if Trump doesn’t win). They also seem very shocked and aggrieved that people are now allowed to attack inside their borders, as if that is cheating.

IDK why you keep cherry picking Germany when it is such a small part of the overall aid-for-Ukraine picture (and not really doing badly – democratic countries tend to pick on small or moderate issues and write about them as big deals, of course, but in the grand scheme of things it’s nowhere near the types of problems Russia is having), or on the UK when Brexit is very clearly the source of their problems. If you wanted to celebrate Russian victories, I think celebrating Russia’s influence operations getting Trump and Brexit in place would be a lot more sensible than would holding up the Ukraine war and their capacity with industrial production. But IDK; you do you.

What’s the oldest tank Russia is fielding in Ukraine? Just in your understanding. And why?

I kinda doubt there’s gonna be any level of shitstorm

This is, however, hilarious.

I was imagining things, as is tradition

I thought it was confirmed to be Piefed once that is complete enough to be useful. Idk, though, maybe that is me just imagining things.

Edit: I am imagining things, it is Sublinks

I think 8 hours starts to get into territory where they might get an informational message about the delay? That also starts to be long enough that the emails might get lost in the distant past in the client and never be seen, by the time they arrive.

I think when I used to do this, it was one advisory message every 24 hours that a message was holding in the queue, and after 5 days it would bounce, but I have to assume that those limits have shrunk in the modern day. How much, IDK; it might be worth experimenting with it though before committing to creating that situation since it might not go okay.

SMTP is designed with queues and retries

Unless something has changed massively since I was deeply involved with this stuff, the people that sent you email may get a notification after some hours that their message is being delayed, and maybe after like 24-48 hours they might get a bounce. But if it’s just your SMTP server going down for an hour or two every now and then, the system should be able handle that seamlessly (barring some hiccups like messages showing up with timestamps hours in the past which sometimes is confusing).

Good luck with that

I mean you can do a significant amount by making it illegal to offer it on the open web, which might be the way to go, but creating awesome things that can be had once you go outside the law actually carries its own little long-term consequences

I’ve been a teenage boy before and I did some bone-headed things. Maybe not this bad, but still, I agree with the judge in this instance that it would be inappropriate to impose permanent consequences on these kids before their life even gets started because they were stupid, horny, teenage boys.

Completely agree with 100% of this

I’m just saying that I think the answer lies somewhere between “take some classes and promise not to do it again” and “adult prison”. They imposed significant harm to another human being, in a way that’s so significant that we all agreed it should be illegal. Yes, I know that probably wasn’t the intent on their part. But this kind of “oh but I just got horny and just kind of didn’t care / wasn’t focused on what the impact was” is not a thing you wanna teach them there’s some wiggle room with as long as they make sure to apologize about it after.

Community service? Home arrest? Juvenile detention for 21 days? Fuckin something? I’m not saying put them in the hole.

I don’t think those are additions, I think those are the punishments for those charges, in full. I could be wrong but that’s how I read it.

In addition to probation, the teens will also be required to attend classes on gender and equality, as well as on the “responsible use of information and communication technologies,”

…

What?

Have you not interacted with teenage boys?

I can think of not much more of a better way to teach them there are no consequences and they can keep doing this as long as they smirk and say they’re sorry whenever they get caught

You’re the only one talking sense and you are sitting here with your 2 upvotes

The AI company business model is 100% unsustainable. It’s hard to say when they will get sick of hemorrhaging money by giving away this stuff more or less for free, but it might be soon. That’s totally separate from any legal issues that might come up. If you care about this stuff, learning about doing it locally and having a self hosted solution in place might not be a bad idea.

But upgrading anything aside from your GPU+VRAM is a pure and unfettered waste of money in that endeavor.