This is quite literally the plot to A Clockwork Orange.

The IMF is going to give Ukraine another loan but only if Ukraine tells every pensioner in the country that if they freeze to death next winter that's on them. Ukraine will default on that one too.

Neo-liberalism was supposed to pause all of these conflicts, but because America is no longer a leader in the world, because it sucks

Lmao. You realize that this idea in the modern era is based on one gigantic moron who's only job it is to be a stenographer for power had this big brain moment where he wrote down "No two countries with McDonald's have ever gone to war".

Then he changed it to any country that has a company that sells stuff to Dell won't go to war with each other.

The capitalist peace theory has never been true.

From my perspective making software, it's improved. Prior to 2016, I had to be the one pushing WCAG standards. After 2016 it's been explicit customer facing criteria managed by product managers.

Most people are mad at hexbear because their moderation policies are consequentialist not deontological and thus more stringent against stupid online shit. As a poster you don't have a "right" to post on hexbear, however the community has a right to be protected. As such it's one of the better places if you don't want to read reams upon reams of lib coded bigotry.

I love how quickly lemmy.world speed ran the aesthetically lib to fash redditor pipeline problem without even a profit motive behind them.

It seems naive to believe that the Chinese firewall acts purely as a benign protector of the assaulted Chinese citizen. Chinese people are not like stupid children in need of protection, they are smart and strong.

Yeah it's equally naive to believe that the Chinese firewall acts purely as a hostile censor, Chinese people aren't uneducated, oppressed, impoverished individuals, they are accomplished, politically active, and well to do. The Chinese people have comparatively derived a larger individual and collective benefit from their government than Americans have in the last 50 years.

If you read actual comparisons of "censorship regimes" there are tons of commonalities that are just ignored by Westerners and their Chinese counterparts are made out to be uniquely evil and beyond the pale. For every news article you read about how the National Security Police invites a satirist to "drink tea" you're ignoring all of the times the FBI does the exact same thing, and uses various psychological tactics to escalate into a position of legal authority to get around their limited authority to collect evidence.

You know why it's "soooo hard" for the cops to arrest rich people even if they know where they are? It's because the tactic of escalatory arrest (an arrest that happens without a warrant as the result of an "investigation") doesn't work on rich people, they have gates, intercoms, staff, and know their rights. They aren't easily cajoled into the position of opening their home to a cop, or allowing a cop access to their body. Isn't is very strange that these very technical legal distinctions aren't told explicitly to the "freedom loving people" of America? Meanwhile the agents of "evil Chinese government" don't need to play games like this, because the cards are all on the table.

People in other countries get "dissapeared", but when ICE or the Department of Corrections shuffles prisoners around for political purposes such as Mahmoud Khalil. People in other countries are "political prisoners" but in America we have the WGAD which is a nice rhetorical trick so that the government can "honestly label" it's political prisoners (upon a opaque and deliberatley difficult review process only undertaken by those who actually want to go through it for the benefit of being labeled a political prisoner. WGAD has not authority to enforce anything.

People in other countries get thrown in jail because of political corruption, in the US saying such a thing is insulting the honor of the judiciary as a whole, a judiciary that allows the same practices the jailed Stephen Donzinger for the crime of taking on a legal case against Chevron in Ecuador. Furthermore it's processes are abused to provide legal procedural punishments for missteps in engaging with the system such as the contempt charges the Donzinger case. Donzinger is still disbarred and cannot leave the country, despite winning all of his appeals. All at the behest of a corporation that doesn't want to create a precedent that it must pay for poisoning people.

The reality here is that you're not actively comparing things, you are just going on hunches or whims, and if you take a look that's how a lot of information you receive is actually structured. That is what allows labels like "authoritarian" to have a spooky evil weight. In essence the US has simplify codified the abuse into law, which is how it gets around these icky little moments of "Are we the baddies?" the reply is a thought terminating cliche of "No we're all just following legal orders, in the freest country in the World". China doesn't need to Nuremburg because it's goal of social cohesion ensures that people understand how and why things are happening to them.

The self censorship that exists on the Chinese internet is a matter of moderation scale and techniques. It doesn't exist in the West because Western companies have the incentive to keep you interacting with their products.

In China moderation is meant to:

1. Protect the rest of the users from bad behavior
2. Signal to the bad user that they are engaging in bad behavior.

Western moderation is meant to:

1. Protect the rest of users from a bad behavior
2. Keep bad users engaged in order to drive ad revenues.

1 and 2 are inherently at tensions with one another. Thus you have the problem where 1 is diluted by 2 leading to a much more limited set of what is considered bad, and an ever changing and political understanding of it based on the whims of the ownership and their relation to the party in power. Facebook changes its moderation policies based on presidential administration.

2 also leads to non-deterministic systems of gating users into fake interaction or limiting their reach to other similarly bad users.

Another reason is cultural / social. Praise is often used ironicly in China, they have a very fine line between legitimate praise and what in the West would be considered saccharine or gassing someone up. In China when you overly praise someone it's read as a criticism of the person for what you're praising them for. So typically censorship structures do not take into account sentiment unlike in the West esp. because Chinese is more of a figurative language than English. There is a lot of context lost in communicating text only and audio only Chinese due to how the language is constructed. In essence they prefer to police topic not types of speech (e.g. hate speech, criticism, etc).

The last reason this happens is a lot of the Chinese Internet's moderation policies are based on the fact that their level of public social acceptability is much more constricted think PG not even PG-13. In that sense the codified language works to create a space where you're able to have conversations on things that would "rock the boat" without getting everyone hot and bothered. Unlike the Western Internet where social media companies want these clashes to happen because they drive more engagement and thus more revenue.

For example instead of posting about censorship and getting into an internet pile on where nothing happens and nobody learns anything because they're talking past each-other why not just post a picture of a river crab wearing 3 watches. Anyone who cares knows what that means and they know that arguing about it online isn't actually the way to change anything in China. Everyone having a take while barely understanding the thing they have a take on is only beneficial to Western capitalists running internet companies that act as treats. Higher education is affordable in China, you can actually go learn about censorship at an accredited program. Surprisingly because Chinese citizens on average are protected by their government from being wrung dry for all their profit potential by their capitalist class they have time/energy to do these things.

CapEVs are almost nowhere on the American tech radar. It's entirely an industry dominated by China. Ironically the industry started out in the US. Foton America was a subsidiary of Foton. China's first trials in Shangai in 2006 were done with Foton vehicles made in America. Foton America folded because America was not investing in the tech or public transport. Foton reshored the tech in China and continued development.

Almost every major European metro is doing a field test. Belgrade installed Chinese Higer busses for a lot of its' routes. Graz is running 2 lines from an American manufacturer (with no presence in America lmao) called Chariot Motors (how much longer until we see the Foton America story play out again). Paris is running tests with busses made by German manufacturer MAN, but they're hybrids because Westoids can't stop relying on fossil fuels "just in case".

I fully see China dominating Eastern Europe with these things because the value proposition is so good, Foton and Higer are miles ahead in testing, deployment and development than any other manufacturer. Since China is generally hotter than Europe and America they have a lot more practical experience with keeping the capacitors from overheating which has been a problem for this type of tech esp. ~15 years ago.

Either way it's essentially a trolley that doesn't require continuous lines which is why it's so hated in the US, ever since GM bought up a bunch of lines and left them to rot.

don’t even try to learn what a software dependency

Everyone at my company keeps using the term "dependency hell" when referring to literally dependency management and order of operations with a modern package manager like NPM that tracks versions and dependencies.

They've literally never experienced working with dynamically linked libraries and they think it's so hard because they have to understand a tree that exists in data form (e.g. package-lock.json) and can be easily visualized vs a tangled file system and LD_LIBRARY_PATH or Windows standard search order / HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\KnownDLLs.

It's pathetic.

Vaxry is not a very smart guy. He originally got a wrist slap by FDO saying don't do your toxic shit here. Then he followed it up by going postal on the FDO mailing list. Then he put up a blog post where he was like like "SJWs are coming for me".

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-inclusiveActivists

The entire argument is that you can't make an exclusionary space for people (no definition of what that means) but you should be able to call them slurs. Who would want anything to do with him? He should have gone full tilt and made a list of slurs you should be allowed to say beyond just arguing for the R-slur. That would have really convinced people he's not an extremely toxic right wing weirdo.

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandsCommunity

This was his non-apology where he says "lets be real" a lot which is a common way of just ignoring a criticism and then he follows it up with, I should have banned that user instead of doing what I did.

Asking for professionalism in the OSS community is not a huge deal. It's also quite literally not even about the code AFAIR Drew Devault is still taking Vaxry's patches. He just doesn't want him in the community starting shit with people.

come around on social programs.

Wat.

Anarchists are the ones who are consistently making social programs from scratch. Direct action is and has always been about feeding people as well as sabotaging bulldozers.

https://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/