iridaniotter

joined 2 years ago
[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Comrade Zuck doing us a favor and ideologically purging the Fediverse of all the liberals by extinguishing all the collaborationist instances. o7

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Here's one way it could happen

  1. Facebook joins the Fediverse, becoming the largest instance
  2. Majority of Fediverse embraces this
  3. Facebook decides to deviate slightly from ActivityPub
  4. Not wanting to be disconnected, majority of Fediverse follows them
  5. The real, ActivityPub-based Fediverse is dead (or as small as it was when it started) and now Facebook controls its (former) instances
[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 9 months ago

No, projects like the Fediverse require initial protectionism. If you let megacorporations into your project, they will dominate and gain control over how the protocol develops in the future. Google Chrome's huge share of users has enabled it to get dangerously close to locking other browsers out of most of the Internet (the Web Integrity API shenanigans are just the start). Chrome also removed support for JPEG XL, killing that attempt at a standard and enshrining its own WebP. It's called "Embrace, extend, and extinguish".

If the Fediverse actually wants to grow, it must unite against this. Otherwise we will end up with a couple hundred thousand Fedipact hardliners and millions on Facebook 2. No progress will have been made.

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Reuters, NYT, NPR etc. are all using the opportunity to complain about Xi of course, but no conspiracy theories yet. I went with the People's Daily article cause it doesn't use his death as an excuse to write an opinion piece. Also it's straight from the source.

 

BEIJING, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Li Keqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 17th, 18th and 19th Communist Party of China central committees and former premier, passed away on Friday in Shanghai.

Li recently had a rest in Shanghai. On Oct. 26, Li had a sudden heart attack and passed away at 00:10 on Oct. 27 after all rescue measures failed. He died at the age of 68.

The obituary will be issued later.

RIP

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I for one denounce the heinous acts of violence committed by the Haitian rebels. Stand with France!

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 11 months ago

And yet you support the genocide of Palestinians. Curious!

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You are falling for atrocity propaganda again. No, Palestinian freedom fighters did not go "one by one" slaughtering babies.

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Incorrect. Hamas, in accordance with the Quran, believes it is possible for Muslims, Jews, and Christians to live in harmony. Furthermore, in their updated charter they explicitly reject targeting Jews for simply being Jewish:

Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.

Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage.

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox on Android with U Block Origin. Can watch in 720p and even listen to audio while in another tab. Stop using apps folks!

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

2050 is gonna be crazy

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The esteemed Mr. Malthus wrote about it. The admirable J. Swift has also written a wonderful proposal for how we may deal with it.

 

Hello, everyone. I felt we could all use a bit of mundane news. Today, North Korea finished producing dozens of rice threshing machines. 👍

 

With these new rules, FIDE has managed to

  1. Imply the mental inferiority of women
  2. Validate the existence of transgender men
  3. Destroy the integrity of awards record-keeping
  4. Call transgender women men

Very nice, FIDE, incredible mental gymnastics performance! 👏 Add them to the ever lengthening sports federation shitlist.

 

Here is an update to Travis King, the US soldier who crossed the DMZ. As this is KCNA, it's about the most official statement you'll get from the DPRK. It's also where a lot of other newspapers are getting their info from.

 

They found extremely high levels of E coli in the waters due to sewage being released, but it wasn't published until after the event.

 

They'll be stopping at dozens of locations and will have a rotating crew. The journey will be made by both a double-hulled canoe and another canoe with an engine. The entire route will be 43,000 nautical miles. Very cool!

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