davel , 3 days ago

I just tried it, and yes, “Web” was buried in the “More” drop-down 🤡

Apparently udm=14 is what sends you to the web filter. Here's How to Declutter Your Google Search Results (And Make It Your Default)

It's critical you include the &udm=14 part at the end. That's not junk code, it's what tells Google to send you straight to the web view.

davel , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

On first impression I think I might ideally have used a query parameter instead, leaving the URL path unmodified. I think that might work better for search engines, archivers, and link aggregators like Lemmy. But no one seems to do it that way, and front-end isn’t my bag, so what do I know.

davel , 5 days ago

Same. If It’s to exist at all, it should be opt-in and explicit about what it’s doing.

davel , 5 days ago

I think this is poor form, and I won’t be surprised or sad if your one-person instance gets defederated by other instances for this kind of behavior.

davel , 5 days ago

Activitypub is open by nature, kbin users can see everything that I’ve published.

Yes, we know how Activitypub and kbin/mbin work.

There’s no abuse happening here.

Others seem to disagree.

Nor is my instance just one person/user.

My sincerest apologies: three user instance 🙄

davel , 5 days ago

As I said, we know all of this. You’re just repeating yourself.

davel , 5 days ago

Hell, I’d say the lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml instances acting as hiveminds downvoting anything critical of Russia/China is also evidence of this.

I think you’re so far up the imperial core’s ass that you’re triggered by the least hint of nuance. If anyone’s a shill here, I think it’s you.

davel , 9 days ago

no thanks xi

It’s coming from inside the Instagram! specter

How much US military-industrial Kool-Aid have you drunk?

davel , 9 days ago

Shrödinger’s joke

davel , 10 days ago

Headline is not dumb. There are reasons to make a distinction between the two, the most salient one being that capacitors are several orders of magnitude faster to charge and discharge.

davel , 11 days ago

Good luck with the deleting. It often just means UPDATE comments SET is_deleted = 1 WHERE ID = 666;.

davel , 10 days ago

How is the west white supremecy?

Imperialist European powers invented “whiteness” almost 500 years ago as a justification for and a tool of imperialist domination, and the Global North is still doing it.

We really ought to teach CRT in schools like the conservatives claim we do.

davel , 10 days ago

frothingfash

davel , 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

archive.today, otherwise known as archive.is & archive.md & archive.ph & archive.li https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

I use it when Bypass Paywalls Clean for Firefox fails me. In fact BPC itself makes use of archive.today in some cases: https://github.com/search?q=owner%3Abpc-clone+archive.today&type=code

davel , 16 days ago

This reminds me of David Rees of Get Your War On and My New Filing Technique Is Unstoppable fame who moved on to Artisanal Pencil Sharpening in 2010.

davel , 17 days ago

slave labor in xinjiang

Oh no the CIA-backed terrorists got job training, the horror. https://lemmy.ml/comment/8175413

The actual slave labor is in the United States, thanks to the 13th amendment.

davel , 17 days ago

It’s true, China Has Billionaires.

Income inequality rhetoric ignores that a class can reap the benefits of work via public investment (e.g. a bullet train), even if bosses make more as individuals. Working Chinese people are seeing the fruits of their labour despite billionaires and inequality. To recriminate them for not demanding more is recriminating the virtue of patience.

In fact, much of what passes for “socialist” idealism in the West turns out to be a mirror image of bog-standard liberal-capitalist entrepreneurship propaganda: “I will be my own boss! I will run my own business!” This idealism appears unaware that the necessity of management is foisted upon us by logistics, not capitalism. Denial of this reality results in fantasies of perfect synchrony between perfectly autonomous anarchists.

The “Fully Automated Luxury Communism” dream, embraced more by pundits with cushy lives than working people, also reveals a dark truth: western “socialists” have some awareness that a more equal world will mean losing first-world privileges. They cannot conceive of things getting better steadily and slowly, with hard work. And so they are forced to denigrate the Chinese road of self-sacrifice in favour of leisure-driven utopianism. The reality is that the victory of the working class over the capitalist class will usher in an era of hard but rewarding work, as opposed to hard work without reward.

United Nations, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding

davel , 17 days ago

basically zero labor laws

You have no idea what you’re talking about, like at all. Even shitty Wikipedia says they do.

davel , 19 days ago

I don’t put my passwords in the cloud in the first place, so what it means to me is: keep backups.

davel , 18 days ago

By that logic most of the world is helping Russia fuck Ukraine, because they’re also still trading with Russia. Even the US and Europe still are, despite the sanctions they’ve imposed on themselves.

davel , 17 days ago

China files more patents than the next nine countries combined: https://www.wipo.int/en/ipfactsandfigures/patents

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/83ec576b-b536-40ac-b2f1-3dafd22b9894.png

China is first country to hold over 4 million domestic patents

The number of China's domestic valid patents does not include those held in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

davel , 17 days ago

Are you kidding me? iPhones and most smartphones and laptops are Chinese products. The vast majority of high speed rail in the world are Chinese products. The Tiangong space station is largely Chinese products.

davel OP , 20 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp

On February 19, 2014, one year after a venture capital financing round at a $1.5 billion valuation, Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms) announced it was acquiring WhatsApp for US$19 billion, its largest acquisition to date.

davel , 20 days ago

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Spam

Not a great look, reporter.

davel , 20 days ago

Yes but did you consider that the majority of the contributions to the web came from men? smuglord

Won’t somebody please think of the men?

$ dig +short -t soa nowebwithoutmen.com
$

???!

davel , 21 days ago

Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy.
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8d2764b6-8ec4-4c39-91d4-4934504e612c.jpeg

davel , 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

Exactly, this asset is worth nothing to the CPP if sold.

TikTok is worth approximately nothing to the CPC either way. It’s not like the Chinese state is hurting for money. They have a surplus of US dollars that they’re busy unloading, and they have fiat monetary sovereignty of their own currency. The app is banned in China, so nobody there is going to miss it. Who is invested in ByteDance that might care? American private equity: ByteDance’s US investors weigh options as bill to ban TikTok advances

davel , 24 days ago

The national security angle is a farce because ByteDance was already forced to move their service to the US on an American-owned hosting provider, and they have already put people with a history of aligning with “American interests” into executive positions, like CEO Shou Zi Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman, and American oligarchs are invested in it. I think the US “intelligence community” already has everything it needs to monitor and control TikTok.

davel , 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

Well there’s PeerTube and PixelFed. Perhaps a few will try it, but mostly I think they”ll go to other corporate American platforms like Instagram.

davel , 24 days ago

specter This is silly. It’s an exaggeration to even call it a Chinese company.

[Singaporean CEO Shou] Chew added that 60% of ByteDance is owned by global institutional investors such as the Carlyle Group, General Atlantic and Susquehanna International Group, while 20% of the firm is owned by Zhang and 20% owned by employees around the world. Three of the company’s five board members are Americans, he said.

davel , 24 days ago

land of the free btw

davel , 24 days ago

Because American hosting providers like Oracle are constituent parts of the military-intelligence-industrial complex, as are American ISPs.

• Room 641A » NSA Leak Vindicates AT&T Whistleblower
• Edward Snowden Says Use Cloud Services at Your Own Peril

davel , 24 days ago

Is ByteDance Chinese?

Definitely.

shocked-pikachu

Whelp if corporate American media says that then it must be true 😆

davel , 24 days ago

I think the article speaks for itself. It says ByteDance definitely is a Chinese company and then goes on to explain the ways in which it isn’t, including majority ownership. If the US government has the power to kill the company, one might argue that it’s more an American one than Chinese.

davel , 24 days ago

The definition of a golden share is effective control.

That’s not nothing, but still not the be-all and end-all that you seem to want to make it.

The US government has the power to kill Huawei if they wanted to; it’s their territory and they can do whatever the heck they want, of course. That doesn’t mean Huawei is US-owned.

Is this a joke? The US government just tried and failed. Huawei reclaims top spot in China’s smartphone sales ranking, its first time back since company was added to US blacklist

Huawei Technologies climbed back to the No 1 spot of China’s smartphone market in the initial two weeks of this year, according to a report by research firm Counterpoint, putting more pressure on 2023 industry leader Apple and major mainland rivals in the world’s largest handset market.

This marks the first time Huawei reclaimed the top smartphone sales ranking on the mainland since Washington imposed sanctions on the Shenzhen-based company when it was added to the US trade blacklist in May 2019, which crippled the firm’s once-lucrative handset business, according to the report on Sunday by Counterpoint research analysts Ivan Lam and Zhang Mengmeng.

That resurgence was jump-started by Huawei’s surprise release last August of its Mate 60 Pro 5G smartphone – powered by its advanced Kirin 9000S processor, which was locally developed in spite of US tech sanctions – as well as the firm’s Android replacement mobile platform HarmonyOS, the report said. It also pointed out that brand loyalty among Chinese consumers greatly contributed to the popularity of Huawei’s new 5G handsets.

davel , 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

China can influence TikTok into giving them their data for free today.

Perhaps they could, but there’s no evidence that they as yet have. And of what use is your TikTok data to the Chinese state, anyway? Money is no object to them, and they can buy your data from other US companies as well. Anyone can.

The US government doesn’t care about protecting your data. They care about accessing it themselves and controlling narratives on social media in order to shape public opinion.

• Facebook Partners With Hawkish Atlantic Council, a NATO Lobby Group, to “Protect Democracy”
• Jessica Ashooh: The taming of Reddit and the National Security State Plant tabbed to do it
• Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
• Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
• MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes

They’re after the fediverse now as well. Atlantic Council: Collective Security In a Federated World (PDF)

Centralized and decentralized platforms share a common set of threats from motivated malicious users—and require a common set of investments to ensure trustworthy, user-focused outcomes.

Many discussions about social media governance and trust and safety are focused on a small number of centralized, corporate-owned platforms that currently dominate the social media landscape: Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and a handful of others. The emergence and growth in popularity of federated social media services, like Mastodon and Bluesky, introduces new opportunities, but also significant new risks and complications. This annex offers an assessment of the trust and safety (T&S) capabilities of federated platforms—with a particular focus on their ability to address collective security risks like coordinated manipulation and disinformation.

Trust and safety my ass. This is about manufacturing consent. They’re failing to control young American’s impression of and reaction to the Gaza genocide that’s being done in their name, so they’re pulling out all the stops now. Not the Onion but the NYT last week: Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe: A surveillance law referred to as Section 702 is needed to protect us from foreign threats.

davel , 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

“subversive influence” 😂

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/69346d36-5461-4033-8cb5-b1102f4a934b.jpeg

davel , 23 days ago

The US was never meant to be a democracy and has never been one. It was born of a bourgeois revolution, and the Founding Fathers formed a bourgeois democracy, which was never meant to represent us, and never has. Princeton University Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

The US government and US corporate media are trying to convince us that foreign powers are undermining our democracy by putting foreign ideas in our heads through social media. But in reality 1) there is no democracy and 2) our government and corporate media have been putting ideas in our heads our entire lives. What they’re really worried about is losing control of the public discourse.

• Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
• Propaganda model
• Edward Bernays
• Walter Lippmann
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Powell Memorandum
• The Trilateral Commission’s report, The Crisis of Democracy

As I’ve said elsewhere in this post, the BlueAnon conspiracy theories of Russian/Chinese bots significantly influencing our elections don’t hold water. Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away

davel , 24 days ago

I’m not here to defend capitalism, only to say that capitalism and open source have had a more complicated relationship than that.

The Apache HTTP Server was the preeminent dot-com era open source project. It’s hard to imagine the dot-com boom without it. People seem to forget that it was corporate open source. It was “a patchy server” developed (from NCSA HTTPd) and maintained largely by internet startups like Organic, Inc. Many other critical components of the dot-com tech stack were similarly developed.

• Apache HTTP Server Project » How Apache Came to Be
• History of free and open-source software » The dot-com years (late 1990s)

davel , 24 days ago

Seriously, don't sign a CLA

A contributor license agreement, or CLA, usually (but not always) includes an important clause: a copyright assignment.

This is a strategy employed by commercial companies with one purpose only: to place a rug under the project, so that they can pull at the first sign of a bad quarter. This strategy exists to subvert the open source social contract. These companies wish to enjoy the market appeal of open source and the free labor of their community to improve their product, but do not want to secure these contributors any rights over their work.

List of some companies that use CLAs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement#Users

davel , 24 days ago

Maybe your browser doesn’t like Let’s Encrypt certificates.

davel , 23 days ago

When you run out of evidence, there’s always insults.

davel , 23 days ago

Good point: I didn’t click upthread to see the beginning of the conversation.

davel , 1 month ago

I assume there are Z80 clones still in production. The Z80 itself was a copy of the 8080.

davel , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

CableMonster is a libertarian petit bourgeois property flipper.

davel , 1 month ago

I heard that it’s three Satoshi Nakamotos in a trench coat.

davel , 10 days ago

China files more patents than the next nine countries combined: https://www.wipo.int/en/ipfactsandfigures/patents

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/83ec576b-b536-40ac-b2f1-3dafd22b9894.png

China is first country to hold over 4 million domestic patents

The number of China's domestic valid patents does not include those held in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.