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  • PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop"

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  • Because losing customers would force Microsoft to advertise more in these trade publications, to swing momentum back to Windows.

    Don't preach to the choir, convince the wayward sheep to return, so to speak.

  • I've been lurking for 6+ months, barely vote, no post or comment. I was banned for spam.

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  • Eh, I'm not sure it's indicative of votespamming though. That can just be a product of how they use Lemmy.

  • I've been lurking for 6+ months, barely vote, no post or comment. I was banned for spam.

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  • People aren't under the obligation to upvote posts they like. Personally I don't upvote or downvote a lot of posts either.

  • PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop"

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  • Why, this will only want Microsoft to pay more for advertising, as clearly it's becoming more necessary to do so.

  • China stages record drills designed to encircle Taiwan

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  • Again you display a total lack of historical awareness. Korea was subdivided into two occupational zones by two imperialist powers, both intent on expanding their influence in the area. The people of neither area voted for such a division.

    Moreover, it was North-Korea that invaded the South, not the other way around. China also sent huge amounts of troops to the North for this initial invasion (up to 47% of the NK army consisted of Chinese troops when war broke out). Later, when the war did not go so well for NK anymore they sent even more troops.

    Plans of the US military to nuke China only came about after the Chinese helped NK invade the South, not before. It was also opposed on various levels of the military and government, so ultimately it did not happen. Again, it was Trumans policy to let China fall to the PRC, and it only changed after they started getting involved in Korea, not before.

    And let's just fucking clear, becoming communist is a choice that nations make as part of their self-determination.

    The North-Korean government was installed by the Soviet Union in the Soviet occupation zone. It was not created by the Korean people there. It has just about as much legitimacy as the SK government, which came about through elections held by the US in the American occupation zone.

    We're done here.

  • Things ChatGPT told a mentally ill man before he murdered his mother

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  • China stages record drills designed to encircle Taiwan

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  • Your disdain for the Zionist claim is incongruous with your support of the claim of independence for Taiwan. You are making exceptions for your preselect conclusion. You are begging the question.

    You are again strawmanning. As much as I dismiss the zionist claim to the Israeli lands, I do not consider Israel to have zero claim to the lands they possess. I am firmly against their expansionist tactics, but I acknowledge that Israel has existed for decades now, and that many people were born there and have lived there all their lives. Hence, I don't support the full elimination of the Israeli state, merely its containment, and I support Palestinian statehood. This is not an incongruent position.

    You also claim that Taiwan is not a nation. But there is definitely an emerging Taiwanese national identity, surrounding the island territory, their modern democratic principles and history of opposition to the PRC. So this claim of yours is based on an assumption, one shared by the PRC, but one which polls increasingly show is outdated.

    I am so sick if you ignoring the imperialist interventionism that created this situation. The people on the island have been living under the protection of the US and UK because the imperialists desired to create exactly this conflict.

    Created it? The ROC fled to Taiwan without US/UK help. In fact, the PRC did make one attempt at an amphibious assault, which went so poorly due to the ROC having a fairly large navy and airforce still, which the PRC sorely lacked. It was in fact Truman's policy to essentially "let China fall", meaning they wouldn't intervene.

    This however changed when China hopped on to the imperialism bandwagon and started supporting their proxy in North-Korea. This solidified the PRC as a belligerent nation towards the US. The rampant McCarthyism at the time forced Truman's hand; he now had to defend other non-communist nations against the "communist threat" in China. This only started happening because the PRC moved against the US and UN in Korea. Had they not done this, the US would likely not have defended Taiwan and followed Truman's earlier policy.

    I'm not sure why you're mentioning the UK by the way, as far as I'm aware they've not threatened to militarily intervene if the PRC were to invade. The US has postured with the seventh fleet threatening to do so, but I can't find anything on the UK doing something similar. The US has also consistently opposed the ROC attempting to return to the mainland, to the point of almost sabotaging those efforts. So thanks to those US threats, there has been very little to no fighting at all between the two sides since the flight to Taiwan.

    You seem to have fallen into the trap of seeing abritrary definitions of arbitrary concepts as being legitimate reasons to inflict severe suffering and death on people, ignoring the reality on the ground. You're free to do so, but I'm simply going to remain fundamentally opposed to this imperialist reading of history, and I don't think furthering this discussion has any merit.

  • Russian “Ghost Ship” Sank While Smuggling Nuclear Reactor Parts Likely Bound for North Korea

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  • I dunno, I'm just guessing here. Perhaps doing it via the ghost fleet offers more plausible deniability? Or it may be more secretive in general since doing it via rail is a bit more publicly visible. Or maybe the parts need to go to some other part of NK that isn't connected via this rail line, and doing it this way is faster over the whole trip? The connection with Russia uses a different gauge than the rest of NK, might add some planning complications too.

  • Nerd: The First Programming Language Not Built for Humans

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  • That doesn't work. TTD works because you're writing the code you're testing, so you know exactly what's in there.

    If the LLM hallucinates a feature that wasn't in the requirements and is somewhat hidden, reviewing the tests won't cut it. The tests may cover all the requirements, but what about all the code doing stuff that's not required?

    Basically, don't just test for requirements, also test that what isn't required isn't there. And that's basically an infinite amount of possibilities to test for. The only way you detect that stuff is by checking that the code isn't doing anything extra it shouldn't be doing.

  • Russian “Ghost Ship” Sank While Smuggling Nuclear Reactor Parts Likely Bound for North Korea

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  • Not in winter, large parts of that route are frozen currently.

  • China stages record drills designed to encircle Taiwan

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  • Sorry, "who" considers themselves a nation? The Han Chinese living on the island of Taiwan. No. I don't think you'll find that opinion to be very popular nor very defensible.

    Also, an increasingly large group of people there consider themselves Taiwanese first, Chinese second (or not even Chinese at all). Support for unification is very, very low. It is in fact a popular opinion to favour independence or to believe they are already independent (Huadu).

    I know you want to say history doesn't matter, but it does. You can keep saying it, but it won't make it true.

    Strawman argument, I never claimed anything of the sort. History matters up to a point. The right to self-determination also matters however.

    The actions of the US regarding black people are abhorrent. They also matter, because their effects are felt by people alive today. But those events are in a wildly different category than matters regarding territorial claims.

    For example, I think the zionist claim towards Israel is imo basically bunk; maybe some ancestors have lived in that area 2000 years ago, but in my opinion that does not trump the rights of people who live there today, and whose parents and grandparents lived there. Basically, if you're forcing someone to move somewhere else, or are forcibly assimilating them into your country without any form of proper democratic input, I think it's wrong. I think that the rights of people who live in Taiwan trump some claim based on territorial borders from over a century ago. Unless the people there vote to become a part of the PRC, the PRC has no right to annex them. Similarly, the old ROC claim to mainland China is equally bunk. I don't give a hoot about what people 100 years ago wanted to be a part of, I care about what people want today.

    And just to clear this up in case you were wondering: I am not an American.

  • WhenTaken for 01 01 2026

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  • #WhenTaken #674 (01.01.2026)

    I scored 882/1000🏆

    1️⃣📍7.4 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇198/200

    2️⃣📍683 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇179/200

    3️⃣📍193 m - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇198/200

    4️⃣📍1.2 km - 🗓️15 yrs - 🥈170/200

    5️⃣📍2.0K km - 🗓️9 yrs - 🥈137/200

    https://whentaken.com/

    Did fairly well I think. Got real close on some of them.

  • Russian “Ghost Ship” Sank While Smuggling Nuclear Reactor Parts Likely Bound for North Korea

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  • Perhaps the parts were too large to transfer by rail?

  • Why didn't the Democrats talk about the Epstein suicide more?

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  • Well that was the thing, he was taken off suicide watch.

    I think it's somewhat likely Epstein did off himself. But it's also possible someone allowed him to do so, by creating the conditions for it.

  • Trump’s DOJ is seeking hundreds of lawyers to sift through more than 5 million Epstein files before release: report

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  • Depends on the images involved I suppose. And don't underestimate the public's tenacity in hounding people whose names are publicly known.

    It's fairly safe to assume that everyone named in the files, victim or not, will receive death threats.

  • Nerd: The First Programming Language Not Built for Humans

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  • You won't be able to tell if you should be satisfied with your tests unless you review the code.

  • But these organizations are for peace, trust me! -liberals

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  • No, the were used for their technical knowledge and allowed to live quiet lives in obscurity, away from any political power.

    A blatant lie. Erich Apel joined the East German party and became head of the GDRs Economics Comission in the Politburo.

    Werner Gruner became an emeritus professor at the TU Dresden.

    Brunolf Baade joined the Socialist Unity Party in East Germany and led the jet plane industry there, after having done the same in the Soviet Union. He also was director of the Institute for Lightweight construction and the economical use of Materials and a lecturer at Dresden.

    In fact, many of the captured German scientists were only in captivity for less than a decade; afterwards the vast majority of them were allowed to return to East Germany and Austria, where most seem to have lived comfortable lives, and a number of them were politically active with high offices. They certainly did not live in obscurity, nor were they kept away from political power.

  • China stages record drills designed to encircle Taiwan

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  • Regardless of whether you think they are nations, they do apparently consider themselves one. And the right to self-determination does suggest the CPC should stay out. You can argue all about how it came to be this way, but ultimately it's irrelevant; it's there to now, so acting militarily against these people is an injustice.

  • think of john shareholder

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  • Repurposing the water would be good. Have the heated water heat people's homes for example, give something back to the community.

    Instead they heat up the fish.