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theparadox

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  • 'Israelis are more genocidal than you think': The 'counter hasbara' of Andrey X

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  • The actions of the state of Israel definitely work, intentionally or unintentionally, to increase antisemitism across the globe. Equating criticism of Isreal, which is actively committing Genocide, among other illegal atrocities in the region, with antisemitism is absurd. Using that logic to shield their actions from criticism is, frankly, a crime against Jewish people everywhere as it reduces the seriousness and sincerity of any legitimate claims of actual antisemitism.

    However, I don't think that's particularly relevant to my comment. Ashkenazi is an ancestry - not a state, not a religion, not a tradition. It conveys no information beyond who your parents are and who their parents were and where they all came from. Discrimination based on such things is just racism.

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    Hey bro, need some tp?

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  • Hey, that's brilliant! Would you like a job in our C-Suite?

  • 'Israelis are more genocidal than you think': The 'counter hasbara' of Andrey X

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  • Trust me - I'm not the guy who brings this up very often - but Ashkenazi or Jewish does not mean Zionist or Israeli. I get that it's a cute joke but that actually feels more antisemitic to me than simply critical of the state of Israel or Zionists.

  • Immigrants at Delaney Hall Continue Hunger and Labor Strike Demanding Their Release

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  • Prison/slave labor, usually. Rotten, maggoty food ain't free y'know and you don't want them getting comfortable lazing around or they might not self deport.

    GEO Group’s Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, runs on immigrant labor. Detainees cook, clean, and repair the facility for as little as $1 a day and sometimes for nothing at all.

  • If online services (such as Netflix) only ever raise their prices, does that mean they offer less and less value for money as time passes?

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  • Technically, no. However, in today's society if you aren't making more profit this quarter (line go up) than last quarter you are seen as failing to meet your fiduciary duty to shareholders. More accurately, if the rate at which your profit is increasing isn't increasing (line describing line go up) you are likely seen as failing the shareholders.

    It's no longer acceptable to deliver to your customers, make a steady profit, and be sustainable. Now you must cut every possible corner, deliver as little value and use as little labor as possible, make more profit, and "stay competitive" or your company may as well be failing... in the eyes of investors.

    Unless you claim you are working on a technology like AI that can eventually let the company fire all of its workers and make all the money without having to pay humans for labor... in which case ignorant investors will light money on fire for you until they think someone else is definitely going to do it better or they think you can't deliver.

  • Where did the dust settle on Syncthing Fork?

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  • I think the idea is that it is not something separately securable? I don't disagree, I'd like to be able to disallow any app not explicitly granted permission to use any method to determine my location. Unfortunately if Google can scan WiFi and figure out your location, anything with access to WiFi can too maybe?

    I don't know. I love technology but this fucking surveillance state situation is really getting to me. Routers using WiFi signal passing through your body to identify and locate you regardless of whether or not you are carrying any tech and all the other shit I don't know about... ugh.

  • Where did the dust settle on Syncthing Fork?

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  • It's actually a bit informative. I believe Android approximates location using the SSID/WiFi information, so it's not just network that it's used for.

  • Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming?

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  • Reminds me of when I first tried to play Quake (I think? some old arena FPS) over dialup. I tried for a few minutes hoping my ping would even out. At one point I had ~4,500 ping. That's 4.5 seconds between my input affection what I saw on the screen. Needless to say, I was often gibbed before I got to see my inputs manifest.

  • More than half of Americans say the cost of living is worse under Trump than at any other point in their lives

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  • If a sufficient portion of the population is ignorant or ambivalent of the fact of our creeping, kleptocratic, fascist, psychopathic, pedophile overlords robbing of us our rights and prosperity then nothing changes. People giving a shit does matter more than facts these days. That's not a valuation of opinion over fact, more of an observation of how our propagandized population works.

  • The $950 Steam Deck Apparently Isn't Too Expensive, As it Sold Out in Under 24 Hours

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  • Is there not a future in which the AI bubble bursts, and we are in a glut of datacentre memory and storage with no buyers?

    There is. Unfortunately, not even the chips on the memory used by data centers is compatible with consumer hardware. They use extremely high performance, expensive HBM (High Bandwidth Memory), we use DDR memory. Unless consumers start getting affordable devices that are compatible with such memory, there is not much hope of buying what has been or is in the process of being made for data centers.

  • The $950 Steam Deck Apparently Isn't Too Expensive, As it Sold Out in Under 24 Hours

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  • Nobody needs any entertainment, but some people enjoy hobbies like gaming.

    no company has ever responded to more sales with lower prices

    Prices are going up rapidly thanks to AI data centers exploding demand by orders of magnitude more than retail customers. There is no end in sight to the price increases.

    If you want a gaming device, buy it sooner rather than later. That's all I am saying.

  • The $950 Steam Deck Apparently Isn't Too Expensive, As it Sold Out in Under 24 Hours

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  • Sure. I guess it depends on your anticipated financial situation and your priorities.

  • The $950 Steam Deck Apparently Isn't Too Expensive, As it Sold Out in Under 24 Hours

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  • Honestly, the way shit is going, get what you can while you can. Gaming is only going to get worse and more expensive by the week.

  • The U.S. Embassy in India is paying people to put Trump's face on their vehicles

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  • It's a better investment than spending that money treating AIDS or preventing an ebola outbreak in Africa.

    • Typical, sick, racist, fascist Republican shit-stain

  • Naughty ducky

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  • Artist is Will Quinn. A lot more where that came from. Literally posts daily.

  • Democrats vow a redistricting counterpunch but are facing hurdles Republicans don't

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  • It's too bad Ds are trying to remove those hurdles by being more like Rs.

    Out of curiosity, in what way do you mean they are being more like Rs? I'm hoping you are not referring to their attempts at matching the R's redistricting tactis.

  • What is a DNS address ?

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  • This is a question that might require a bit of "prior knowledge" in order for an answer to make sense.

    Basically computers keep track of each other with complicated, unique numbers. This isn't easy for humans to deal with so instead we have websites like netflix.com. DNS is a system that translates "netflix.com" to it's more complicated unique computer address so that your computer connects to the netflix server when you type in that web address.

    There are a number of servers (DNS Servers) on the Internet with databases that keep track of which website has what computer address. Usually, the company (ISP or Internet Service Provider) that you get Internet from has their own DNS Server and tells your modem to tell your computer or phone to use that server to look things up when you browse the web, but it is possible to use alternative servers.

    Technically, the system is very trust-based - it's just assumed that they are going to respond accurately and in good faith. It is possible to mess with this but there are other layers of security and authorities your computer should be using to make sure that you are actually visiting the website you think you are visiting. Usually ISPs just use this server to keep track of the websites you visit so they can sell your data to advertisers.

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    MAGA Supreme Court OKs GOP Overthrow of American Democracy: Disenfranching 40% of a State’s Citizens Cannot be Reconciled with Representative Democracy.

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  • the GOP they grew up with is gone, and there is now only MAGA.

    I guess I want to be crystal clear that, as far as I see it, the GOP they grew up with is the same GOP. They might have been more subtle, more slow and methodical, but nothing else has changed. Most of the GOP reps in Congress have been in Congress long before Trump and they've wanted to do this for a long time. As many Supreme Court Justices that were not appointed by Trump have been in lock step with him... and Roberts has wanted to eliminate the Voting Rights Act since before he was a judge.

    What's different now is that the GOP has their backs against a wall - they know a substantial majority of voters are against them - and the Trump has normalized shamelessness so there are no consequences to breaking rules and norms in order to hold power.

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    MAGA Supreme Court OKs GOP Overthrow of American Democracy: Disenfranching 40% of a State’s Citizens Cannot be Reconciled with Representative Democracy.

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  • MAGA Republican Supreme Court OKs GOP Republican Overthrow of American Democracy

    I'm so fucking tired of people acting like this is a Trump/MAGA thing. Republicans wanted these things, Republicans voted for these things, and Republicans enacted these things. John Roberts has wanted this since before he was appointed and other GOP justices, appointed pre-Trump, have helped the push for this. It took all of the Republicans support to approve everything that has happened every step of the way - just a few votes against could have stopped it at any time.

    Trump just did everything less subtly and did a better job inspiring racist shit-stains to rally support.

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    Frustrations - GPU/CPU Load (and Performance) Decreases Over Time in Space Marine 2