www.theregister.com

They cover mainstream topics, but they have a lot of in-depth enterprise tech news and they have their own voice and humour.

www.linuxgizmos.com www.cnx-software.com

Both these sites covers SBCs (not only Raspberry Pi), microcontrollers and random DIY stuff

www.osnews.com

Some mainstream coverage, but also a lot of random news about open source, niche and historical operating systems and computers

www.hackaday.com

DIY hardware news and projects

www.restofworld.org

Lots of tech news on non-western countries, mainstream topics are covered as well, but often with a different perspective.

www.semiengineering.com www.chipsandcheese.com

Very specialized sources on semiconductor developments. Very in-depth, many of the articles are difficult to understand even if you have solid (armchair) knowledge of semiconductors.

Self-promotion: I am a mod at [email protected], while coverage includes a lot of mainstream tech hardware topics, there is content on more nitty gritty semiconductor topics (a lot of business type news though), battery tech and unique hardware devices (some retro coverage too). The sidebar includes more specialized tech communities on Lemmy that might be of interest to you.

This is a purely theoretical arguement.

Ecosystem momentum makes this argument mute.

What the fuck is this shit?

I wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s very easy to manipulate American oligarchs. However, they are relatively provincial and lack the capabilities to deal with truly complex challenges.

They operate in an environment with no real risk. They’ve never dealt with any real challenges. The US judicial system is a joke (even in China, Alibaba’s Jack Ma immediately regretted going on a public chimp out). US society is either openly supportive of corruption and criminality or lacks the capability (true desire and risk tolerance) to address corruption.

This is not to underestimate American oligarchs. They are extremely sophisticated and absolutely committed to their “number go up” fetish, but you also have to be real about what they are.

Let’s just hope they move fast and aren’t afraid to break things.

Good to hear.

No of course I am not down with tracking BS.

But I do use some smaller niche sites (for some of them I have subs or patron) and I would not want them to be hit (no clue what ad providers they use).

Because this will cause problems for independent website operators.

Blocking ads is one thing, but this risks fucking up their digital advertising accounts.

This is an excessive approach that risks collateral damage to 3rd parties who are not involved.

I have no issues with blocking ads (internet is unusable without ublock origin + Pihole), but actually simulating clicks is IMO not the right approach.

IMO, this is a bit much.

It’s one thing to block ads, it’s another thing to essentially participate in an ad fraud scheme. If this simply hurt Google, I would have no issues (they are corrupt criminals, an American oligarchic institution), but you also risking harming independent sites that have done nothing wrong.

Do you think I want to consent to an arbitration agreement

In many countries mandatory arbitration agreements in a B2C context are invalid. They have no legal power.

Regular ublock origin does a great job for both automated and manual page cleanup.

For cases when the page is still borderline unusable, Firefox’s reader view is a must.

Bread and circuses

I completely agree. I don’t mean to imply it is a competition. As I said, being better than russia is not much of an achievement.

But I do think the correct term for the US as it is today is proto-fascist. It’s also important to not ignore the transition into full scale fascism.

It pains me to see the US go down this path. I am well aware of how bad things are going in the US (I have close friends who live there). I agree with you regarding nationalism, street arrests by security, demonization of minorities and so on.

However, I am comparing my experience living in russia (as an expat who happens to speak russian fluently), my experience living in the US under Obama and US as it is today.

US still has competitive elections. The US centre right opposition is not a formal front for the regime. Compare that to russia were elections are a formality and the so called “opposition parties” get direct orders from the regime and exist as circus performers. US isn’t at that stage yet.

Same with the US judicial system. It is definitely corrupt (and this was true even before Trump) and it is getting even more corrupt. However, the US judicial system has some level of independence and at least on some level you can have your rights be respected. Again, compare that to russia were the judicial system as such does not exist and has no authority whatsoever.

Security services in the US are increasingly becoming unhinged and acting more like crooks, but it’s no where close to russia where they have zero liability beyond not respecting key regime interests.

US still has a measure of political de-centralization. You can elect mayors and governors and they have a measure of independence. While russian does have some regional independent power centres, they are still all aligned with the regime and its ideology.

I know, comparing your local political system to russia isn’t really a sane approach. But I do think it is important to note that the differences do exist.

I will speculate this is going to happen anyway, sooner or later.

While I am not American, I have lived in the the US and have many close friends there. From my understanding, American oligarchs have gone full in on a proto-fascist state (US is not yet fascist in the formal definition of the term, things can and likely will get worse). This includes Hoffman and not only.

This would actually be a great outcome.

While most people would likely move to Digg v2.0 (I am just being realistic), this will help fuel growth in the threadiverse. And at any rate, the major instances would simply not be able to handle 1 million MAUs immediately moving to Lemmy.

The funny thing is OpenAI’s image generator didn’t really do a good job with making a Ghibli stylized version of Altman.

That being said, there will be a downstream impact on media quality if there is no novel approach to balancing creative work and AI slop generators. Don’t think there is a simple answer.

Do you have any evidence to back this up?

It’s reasonable to assume that the vast majority of their throughput is used for crime.

The overwhelming majority of people do not leverage crypto in any way. Even crypto scam promoters almost exclusively focus on speculation and do not use crypto as money.

And you do not need the payment for your order of bell peppers and toilet paper to be private. Let’s be real here.

Over the 15+ years that we’ve had crypto, there have been only two viable uses. All others have failed:

1. Criminal activity (including brutal stuff like enabling NK/Russia and drug cartels)
2. Financial speculation (in of itself often a malicious activity where the goal is to dump your worthless bags on a mark)

They have one strong competitive advantage that Starlink will never have; they are not American.

By definition, you cannot trust an American service. Even if the people who run a given service are not degenerates, there are enough degenerates in the US that they could elect a degenerate who will fuck you over.

They have both GEO and LEO satellites. Not on the scale of Starlink (for LEO), but they do have a network.

I am not commenting on the nature of the stock market or anything like that. Just pointing out that they do have a working network, it’s not 100% speculation (like you see with crypto schemes).