https://archive.is/Tigq9

this is where i learnt microslop has a discord server to begin with

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status (archive)

Ages ago when I was a kid, I used to use flashget, but as far as I'm aware it's become a spyware/malware riddled mess.

My primary reason for wanting to get a download manager is because I really hate it when my downloads reach a good percentage completed, only for something to happen like the internet zonking out, or perhaps windows decides NOW is a perfect time to install updates and restart my PC, causing me to have to restart my download from scratch, that in itself being a problem if the download speed from the that particular site is lousy. Currently downloading some hefty files and the download speeds are terrible.

I'd love a free download manager that won't riddle my PC with spyware, malware or obligatory third party content. Any suggestions?

Firefox has informed me that some of my downloads have failed, but when I hit retry....I THINK they resumed from where they stopped? If one is available though, I'd love a download manager, even if only temporarily.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7811520

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza exposed munitions shortfalls and the fragility of Western defense industrial bases. US-China competition has further identified industrial capacity as a sort of strategic infrastructure that determines endurance, military capabilities, and economic growth. China-light policies by Western governments signals seriousness, but it may not be enough to build the structural depth that real industrial power requires. Without that, state involvement in the economy risks becoming episodic and reactive, when it needs to be transformative instead.

China’s industrial advantage is often reduced to subsidies or low labor costs. Integration, however, has been the most important variable, as Beijing spent decades linking upstream resource extraction to midstream processing and downstream manufacturing. This reinforced the system with state finance, protected demand, and long-time horizons. Western apathy that led to these industrial ecosystems to die as China began to control the entire global market.

China’s industrial strategy also has strategic adaptability. As the US and its allies impose tariffs and “de-risking” measures, China’s industrial depth allows it to reroute supply chains and absorb shocks. Its dominance in solar panel manufacturing, where China controls over 80% of all stages of production, allows the weathering of trade disputes by shifting exports to non-Western markets. Chinse industrial power is now like the force of gravity: difficult to escape even when alternatives exist.

I've had openclaw running on an old macbook that was otherwise just laying around, using MiniMax M2.5 and GLM-5 for the past couple weeks. Beyond it breaking its own config and me asking it to help add features and fix bugs in some open source applications I use, I didn't really have a great use for it. But today I told it the US started a new war, it went out and searched multiple sources to confirm, and then gave me a summary of what news sites around the world are saying.

I asked it to specifically look for West Asia and Middle East sources, translate, and summarize them and provide me with updates on anything big.

It's doing that over Telegram now, though it is having a hard time finding any accessible Iranian sites.

That's pretty freakin awesome. It's also doing automatic Text To Speech, so I can just listen to the updates as they come in too.

https://archive.ph/W7KcJ