Tech bro libertarians have no limits. No boundaries. Nothing is off the table for them. All they care about is money and power.
They know to get these things they have to start small. Say the right words that people want to hear. They say anything to make the sale. Their words mean nothing. They’re liars every day that ends in “y”. They gradually push boundaries until there are no more.
Chip wars. Probably has something to do with the US telling the Dutch to seize control of Nexperia.
Imagine if China seized Intel. Surely the response from the west would be far more severe.
New media indeed coincides with revolutions. I disagree with your final assessment. We have yet to see how this turn of new media plays out.
Good or bad is a relative. The frame of reference should be contemporary. Just because we ostensibly have technological luxuries not mean things are going well right now. Authoritarianism on another up cycle.
The newer generation of tech users know only of a narrow subset of technology from big tech / ad tech. They know little of anything at all the grassroots era of technology.
There’s going to be a point where the sole goal of escape is more important than what skills and money an individual has. If you can empathize with that then congratulations I believe that is the refugee experience.
There’s absolutely some extremists who would martyr themselves.
I don’t know how tech (il)literate people are anymore but a basic laptop with portable drives containing media. Portable drives with single folders containing movies, audioooks, music. Compile a few playlist files. Make sure a reasonable player like VLC is the default.
Seems kind of hard to mess up if you can get the nurses to play a list of media once in a while. It’s a simple as a few clicks.
Social media as a whole is the infrastructure of authoritarianism. It only needs someone to put it use.
That’s a paraphrase from some talking head I heard a while back. The world has been feeding this machine for about 15 years. It’s filled with everyone’s personal data.
In a sense this is the Skynet doomsday. It’s already in place. All it takes right now is a flip of a switch. Like the Doomsday Clock. We are on the verge of it. Midnight strikes soon.
I have no doubt ICE is already using this to know how and where to pluck people off the street. If I’m a person that could be targeted in America right now. I’d be 100% off the grid. Ditch every electronic device. Go completely dark. Disappear myself to another location before they disappear me.
Apparently ban has a different meaning than it used to. I keep seeing dramatic posts about Who-Gives-Shit influencer getting banned from somewhere. The next day or two I see another post about how they’re back.
If the far right would stop using Lemmy that would be fantastic news. (inb4 hurr durr echo chamber!!!11!)
Now’s the time for Espressif to spin off their own ecosystem.
Is there some evil villain angle to this. Like the data is hosted outside of any country thus not subject to any laws or regulations.
Bidens infrastructure bill. Democrats do a thing. Nobody notices. People wonder why Democrats don’t do a thing.
The talking heads say the words they want to hear. There are many listeners which results in a herd effect. Someone is saying it while many people are agreeing. Therefore it could be right.
As another reply said, it’s a propaganda machine. It became a mechanism for disseminating political doctrine.
Or to describe it in their vernacular. It’s a virtue signalling wokeright mindvirus.
It was a completely different world having several different search engines. Felt like you were actually on a discovery path. These days Google funnels you into Amazon products listings.
They haven’t had real dialog about real issues in 10 years. Time flies doesn’t it. It was dead the moment they entered the Trump era. This idiotic fascism era.
I don’t see how they’re bringing 1/3rd to 2/3rds the population back to reality. It was over when that half the country reneged on the social contract.
I had a feeling he exploits the 9/11 thing for sympathy.
People were saying to anyone who would listen that Guantanamo was going to lead exactly where we are today. The sane washing as we call it now goes back so far.
I wish we’d moderate trolls again on our internet.
Did you read the article? This isn’t about a research paper that talks about theoretical lab experiments. Sodium batteries are in real world application right now. Mainly in China and South America.
You can buy sodium batteries from AliExpress. It’s been available for a while. I was thinking about ordering a few but I ended up spending my hobby budget elsewhere. There’s no economies of scale yet for sodium battery tech. You can get the battery but there is zero electronics available for it. Mainly you’d have to design your own charger and battery management modules. That’s out of my pay grade. I’ve been waiting for Chinese engineers to mass produce such things.