Jayjader

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Jayjader ,

My cynical take: he wants to let the far right win the legislative elections while he still has close to 3 years left in his term.

He thinks this will "show" their electorate that voting far right doesn't get you what you want.

At the same time, he can take advantage of the media bashing the leftist party has been getting for their vocal opposition to Israel's actions since October 7 2023, and run them out of Parliament. At least, it's a gamble he's willing to make.

He is just as much of a clueless, egotistical liberal as David Cameron was, so your analogy is sadly pretty accurate.

Jayjader ,

He called during his televised speech to get rid of the "ruckus causers", separately from the far right.

The current largest leftist party had (until last night) close to a third of Parliament, and have a reputation of loudly contesting shit they don't stand for.

I really don't think Macron's intention is to give them a chance at more votes. If anything, he's hoping this forces leftist voters to move towards the center, seeing as how his own party barely cleared 14% (the largest far right party did over 30, and a smaller splinter party got around 7% on its own).

Jayjader ,

Though Islam has certainly become the primary target over the last 20 years.

Critics of Putin and his allies targeted inside the EU with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware ( www.theguardian.com )

At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....

Jayjader ,

Right?

"Protecting vulnerable individuals" - they must mean Putin and Bibbi, not actual victims of political intimidation, sabotage, etc.

Jayjader , (edited )

Still, I think the only way that would result in change is if the hack specifically went after someone powerful like the mayor or one of the richest business owners in town.

Jayjader ,

Penal battalions vs penal battalions is not a sign the war is going "well" for anyone (except maybe if you can short the prison industrial complex)...

Jayjader ,

Art might not be about thinking while you are experiencing it, but it most definitely is about thinking about the experience afterwards, as much as experiencing it in the first place.

Not to mention that books are often art.

Jayjader ,

Late to this thread, but this is disturbingly similar to the media-bashing a French-Palestinian politician has received recently.

She tweeted something along the lines of "time for an uprising" before attending a conference. The following week+ of interviews with her party colleagues were filled with "did you know uprising in Arabic is intifada?! Why is your colleague calling for violence?!?!?!"

Her name is Rima Hassan if you're interested.

Jayjader ,

In light of the recent forays by AI projects/products into the reason of coding assistants, from copilot to Devin, this reads to me as a sign that they've finally accepted that you can't make an ai assistant that provides actual value from an LLM purely trained on text.

This is Microsoft copying Google's captcha homework. We trained their OCR for gBooks, we trained their image recognition on traffic lights and buses and so signs.

Now we get to train their ai assistant on how to click around a windows OS.

Jayjader ,

I'm kind of surprised that isps are not injecting ads into your browsing and forcing you to watch ads just to use the internet that you paid for.

If I recall correctly, during one of the more recent public debates around Net Neutrality in the US, it came out that certain ISPs were doing just that. Some people were showing screenshots of ads showing up inside their steam client (which runs the storefront and community sections as webpages).

Jayjader ,

My dream for the past 3-4 years is something like a raspberry pi that you could just plug into power+internet+a chunky hard drive at home to have your own kbin/masto/lemmy/peertube instance.

I don't know how one can bring this about, though, in a more meaningful way than yet another hackaday.io post.

Jayjader ,

I wonder how stable the situation for in-stream ads really is. Paid sponsorships are nothing new, yet with browser extensions like sponsorblock becoming more and more popular I doubt the arms race will stop any time soon.

Jayjader ,

I don't know if "appliance" is how I would describe it but, yeah, something that's as plug-and-play as possible. I guess in the sense that off the shelf, it would be as easy to use as a dishwasher or toaster.

Until I became aware of the fediverse and activitypub, I thought that any such project would be doomed to fail - like most of the smart home market, you're tied to the manufacturer not only for compatible hardware but more crucially to talk with their servers.

Now I'm starting to think it is feasible, but still too many unknowns to bet a business on it.

Jayjader ,

I think the point is to scold Google for the harm they cause or fail to prevent. When the law is written so as to genuinely prevent harm (data protection, for ex) then I will scold those who don't follow it. When the law is written so as to be ineffective at best and harmful at worst, I will scold those who do follow it.

The point isn't to be consistent with regards to the law, as the law itself is not always either consistent nor "good".

... unless it is me that isn't understanding your own comment?

Jayjader ,

I was expecting more to this "analysis" than a graph plot too dense to read. Not much else to say, given the brevity of the article.

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