To hell with Starlink, it’s giving money to individuals who wish you harm.

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it has withdrawn a plan to impose restrictions on Chinese drones to address national security concerns after an earlier crackdown on passenger cars and trucks.

Considering the mercurial nature of US policy, I wouldn’t be surprised if this plan is brought back at a later date.

I am a Fractal Design person when it comes to cases, but these look really nice.

It’s too bad it will be impossible to build an new PC in the next 24-36 months.

The pen would be far from ordinary—described as “contextually aware,” it’s designed to work as a “third-core” device that sits alongside your laptop and smartphone. Think of it as an AI companion that fits in your pocket or on your desk, enabling seamless two-way communication with ChatGPT through a paired device.

And why can’t you just your smartphone?

The whole “AI device” thing sounds like Altman and Ivey wanting to become a new Apple of sorts. These people are so vapid and honestly boring.

TeamGroup’s general manager Gerry Chen warned that December contract prices for some DRAM and NAND categories increased 80-100% month-over-month. He expects availability to worsen significantly in Q1 and Q2 2026 once distribution stockpiles run dry. At that point, according to Chen, obtaining allocation could become difficult “regardless of willingness to pay.”

Wow, this is crazy.

HyperNormalisation has its flaws (too big of a focus on a single “theory of everything”) and an argument can be made that it emphasizes style over substance, but it’s a great experience. Even if I disagree with some of the structural arguments of HyperNormalisation, it does raise a lot of good points and in a very engaging way.

I would also recommend Bitter Lake from the same director which IMO is a more intense experience.

My argument would be that the government is a representation of its citizens.

It’s up to each individual citizen to make the government work; be it with autonomous weapons or surveillance. Both have legitimate use cases and it is up to the voting public to make sure they are used responsibly.

Even in developed democracies, only around 70% of the population votes and in the US it is closer to ~60%.

I am not naive enough to think it won’t (I mean this in a practical way, i.e. hearing/seeing how Shaheds have evolved over the last ~3 years from my balcony).

But I would much rather we get it to use it first and have a head start (not just usage but refinement) and maybe we’ll even have a good 6-18 month lead period on somewhat semi-permanent basis.

If one wants this technology to “disappear” [not be used], then one needs to address corruption in their own country in an outcome based manner and defend the international rules based order (by force if necessary).

And yet we have Obama, the darling of the US centre right, calling the invasion of Crimea a “regional issue” back in 2014 or chickening out to strike Assad when he used chemical weapons (after an explicit warning that chemical weapons were a red line).

I strongly disagree with this framing.

I live in Ukraine and I am only happy to see better drone technology for fighting the russians. Every time you walk in the centre of Kyiv you see the memorial for many thousands of fallen soldiers right on the main square of the country. Any technology that saves lives and kills more russian invaders is a good thing.

If one doesn’t want this tech to be misused, then the citizens of a given country need to deal with local oligarchs, corruption and crime.

In the case of the US (just one notable example out of many thousands), this would be arresting Mark Zuckerburg and his goons for enabling mass scale fraud that netted them $16B in 2024 alone.

And the scam run by Meta is the tip of the iceberg. I don’t support capital punishment, but for the ennoblement of the Rohingya genocide, it would be reasonable to consider an exception for Zuckerburg and other senior thugs in the Meta criminal gang.

Thank you!

I did check the site, but I missed it.

I wish there was a text transcript of this, I will check the video out after the holidays though.

I have my doubts about their benchmarks with respect to real world use cases. I have a 5800X that scores about 2,200 on GB6 ST. So does the 4,000 score mean it will be roughly x2 performant for constant throughput single thread use cases?

I use a Debian stable ARM distro called DietPi; it’s perfect for aow touch DIY NAS/media server/Pi-Hole.

You get all the stability and predictability of Debian with a nice set of ClI tools and configuration utilities from DietPi team.

I’ve been using them for 8 years (been donating too), other than an issue with a major Debian upgrade, I’ve had no issues.

Hope they get to 10K.

I am on Samsung/Android, but I will not be paying for American platforms after this (my A73 works really well considering considering that I have had nearly 3 years). To be honest, I have zero desire to upgrade.

I hope Jolla can develop a sustainable consumer business that’s fundamentally different from the US/Chinese model.

The word “liberal” in a political context means something different in the rest of the world.

This another funny thing about you tankies. You have zero clue about anything. It’s just online edgelord roleplay or open demagoguery if one wants to be less charitable.

You even did the lame “Shut the fuck up liberal” thing.

You can’t even get your insults correct because your so tied up with American-style online roleplay.

I am not right wing. Believe it or not it’s possible to be left leaning and not spew gibberish like “NATO made putin invade”, “NK is a vanguard against imperialism” and “everything I don’t like is a GIA psyop”.

More so if for example you speak fluent russian, you’ve lived there for multiple years and you’ve studied the history of russian imperialism (be it in the form of the USSR or its current form).

I wouldn’t say Chomsky is a tankie, but his involvement with US oligarchs and authoritarians does make one wonder…

FYI, I consider tankies to be supporters of authoritarian state capitalism and the genocidal imperialist policies of such models.

Haha, who could have thought that a tankie would be fine with US authoritarians? )))

Then why partake in ML?

lemmy.ml is predominantly socialist.

Saying ML is socialist (which it’s not, it’s a tankie instance) is de facto discrediting socialism.

It’s like saying that socialists oppose any criticism of russia and china (authoritarian, imperialist, hyper-capitalist oligarchic countries that have nothing to do with socialism) and socialist only read Russia Today.

The best way to use YT, is to have a bookmark folder linking to the recent video list (Descending by release date) of the channels you enjoy.

YT/Google by definition (large American technology company) cannot be trusted.