yogthos

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

What’s the disinformation troll, are you claiming Nigerian senate didn’t reject military intervention in Niger? Reddit liberals are exposing themselves to be utterly unhinged here.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

The fact that you think I’m multiple people is pretty fucking hilarious. You really are a deranged individual and should seek help.

yogthos , 1 year ago

Reads news about Nigeria’s senate refusing to support military intervention in Niger, claims it’s not news and goes on to whinge that his empire is being portrayed in a negative light. Western propagandists aren’t what they used to be.

yogthos , 1 year ago

It does, I post factual information about world news mostly sourced from western media. The fact that this upsets you is entirely a you problem.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

Pretty much, and I think this highlights just how important it is to have at least two independently developed browser engines. If Chromium becomes the only game in town that would effectively let Google, which makes most of its revenue from ads, decide how we access the internet. That would be an absolutely terrible scenario to be in.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

If experience gets bad enough then people will look for alternatives. IE was something like 90% of the market share at one point and then it lost it fairly rapidly.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

We’ll see if sites really start forcing this standard, could just turn into a situation where you use Chrome as an app to access specific sites that force it and Firefox for everything else.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

The concern with WEI proposal is that it’s going to be server enforced. Basically, the server will require browsers to be signed and will refuse to talk to ones it doesn’t recognize the signature for. This will mean that you’ll only be able to talk to such servers using a browser that’s approved by whoever distributes these certs. This is a great explanation of the whole scheme.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

At that point we might see a split between corporate and open internet.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

Yeah, I think banks and online stores are the most likely early adapters of this.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

My perspective on this is that it’s about sustainability as opposed to trying to compete with big tech in a zero sum game. For example, Mastodon or Lemmy aren’t able to compete with commercial platforms in terms of users, but that doesn’t mean they’re not viable communities. I can see a future where there’s a niche open internet that exists independently of the commercial one and I think that would be fine. As long as there are enough people to do development on platforms and browsers and to produce content, that’s all that really matters. In fact, a split might even be better because then we wouldn’t have companies interfering with how the network operates.

yogthos , 1 year ago

Just another mask off moment here.

yogthos , 1 year ago

You should read your comment when you’re sober and if you’re still not embarrassed enough to delete it then what else is there to say.

yogthos , 1 year ago

LMAO do you even listen to yourself. As proven propagandist, when do I get my Xi bucks already!

yogthos , 1 year ago

people like you are the reason gulags were invented

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

Global shipping rates dropping is one of the leading indicators for recessions in case anybody is wondering how the global economy is doing.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

Pretty much how I feel about this as well. My phone usage patterns haven’t changed in years. There are a handful of apps, such as email, calendar, and a music player that I use day to day. The way these apps work hasn’t really changed over the years. What I find frustrating that even though hardware keeps getting faster, software manages to make up for that by getting ever more bloated. Imagine if we didn’t have phone released every years, but in stead focused on optimizing software so it runs better. I bet you could get a ton of performance out of older devices that way.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

Completely agree, there’s just an incredible amount of software bloat nowadays that adds pretty much nothing of any real value for the user. I recently put Linux on an old 2015 macbook I have and it was shocking to see just how snappy it is compared to macos.

yogthos , 1 year ago

The reality is that what majority of people in US want has absolutely no effect on what the government does as a study analyzing decades of US policy clearly showed:

What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens.

What makes these news stories relevant is that they’re an indicator of where the ruling class is planning to take things, and it’s pretty clear that the narrative is being shaped for US to pull out of the proxy war with Russia.

yogthos , 1 year ago

It’s absolutely incredible how people got trained to screech about Russian propaganda any time they’re faced with anything that doesn’t fit the propaganda narrative they’ve internalized. Imagine how out of touch with reality a person has to be to genuinely believe that CNN is doing Russian propaganda.

yogthos , 1 year ago

A fascist regime regularly abuses people, who would’ve thought!

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

Unconditional US support is the basically the key reason Israel is able to do what they do. US funds the regime in Israel, provides it with weapons, and shields it at the UN. Only way the apartheid will end is once US is no longer able to prop it up.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

oh look at you spreading conspiracy theories republicworld.com/…/italy-dismisses-russias-invol…

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

Imagine being utterly ignorant of western colonization of Africa and the role USSR played in African liberation. People in Africa support Russia today because of that history. It’s not a mystery for anybody with even a modicum of historical literacy. Meanwhile, nice ad hominem there, are you disputing the factual content of the article or just making a clown of yourself as usual?

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

These aren’t 1940s geopolitics. USSR provided education, built infrastructure, provided food, and helped Africa shake off western imperialism. People who got education in Patrice Lumumba university in Russia are still alive today. Meanwhile, the west continues to oppress and colonize Africa today. That’s why Africans are aligning with Russia. The fact that you don’t understand this shows profound ignorance on your part just as does your framing of the war in Ukraine.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

It’s worth noting that private business isn’t even necessary to have competition. For example, USSR had different design bureaus that would compete with each other. When a new technology was developed, each would put out a proposal and the best one would be selected. The advantage of that model however was that everyone shared the learnings from a project. So overall knowledge and expertise would increase. With private competition this doesn’t happen and companies end up relearning lessons from other companies.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago

The reality is that the selection pressure for companies is to make profit. Providing a good service tends to be more expensive than using shady business practices, hence why we see companies use shady business practices. And once a company gets large enough to become an effective monopoly then it doesn’t even have to provide a semblance of a good service because there are no viable alternatives customers can use. Telecom industry in North America is a perfect example of that.

The leadership of a communist country caring about people not revolting is a much more direct incentive to provide better lives for people than the indirect incentive of a profit motive.