[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 61 points 3 weeks ago

2/3rds of Ukrainians want the same. They just need the help to resist the Russian invasion.

Poll data was part of Perun's latest video on the latest developments of the war and what the turning point will be:

https://youtu.be/vf2vSoWsmgI (0:50:38)

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 63 points 1 month ago

It's very easy to watch in 2024.

https://youtu.be/xwCw1kiVgE0

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sweden up until recently had freedom of organization protected in the constitution. This was changed in a recent constitutional amendment at the request of Turkey, as a prerequisite to join NATO. Turkey demanded that Sweden arrest "PKK members" (aka journalists that Erdogan doesn't like), and to show support, both the Andersson and Kristersson administrations revived a constitutional amendment from 2021 and pushed it through, making it illegal to be a member of a terrorist organization.

https://www.regeringen.se/rattsliga-dokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/2021/03/sou-202115/

https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2022/6/pdf/220628-trilat-memo.pdf

https://lagen.nu/2022:666

It's really an unfortunate development, since the terms "terrorist organization" and "support to terrorism" is so poorly defined, and it's clearly intended to punish political opposition in dictatorships, like Turkish and Kurdish opposition in Turkey. Very much a chilling effect on political discussion when foreign political oppositions are banned from speaking in Sweden, even when racist hate groups are still allowed to speak.

It does seem that the current law is still quite limited, at least. The Terrorist crime law of 2022 (Terroristbrottslagen) outlaws support, propagandizing, and recruiting for terrorist organizations, but this seems to be limited to only material support, organized propaganda and organization leadership. Simply going around waving a PKK flag still is legal, for now.

https://www.ui.se/utrikesmagasinet/analyser/2023/juli/terrorlagar-domstolar-far-bedoma-flaggviftning/

So luckily, I don't think it's possible to be deported simply for expressing expressing pro-Kurdish or pro-Palestinian independence ideas, or even expressing support for the violent people in PKK or Hamas.

Johan Forssell has also expressed a wish for a new law making it illegal to be in a criminal gang, but this has not passed yet. His view on the ongoing wars with Israel seems to be that Israel "has a right to defend itself", but that civilians must be protected and receive aid.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 63 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

January 6th will be fun

lmao no, Biden isn't going to block the National Guard from arresting everyone if people try to attempt a coup again. Enjoy your night in military jail waiting to be handed to the feds.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 59 points 2 months ago

Humans know to drive more carefully in low visibility, and/or to take actions to improve visibility. Muskboxes don't.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 58 points 3 months ago

Basically how building new houses in suburbia works. Every new house is subsidized by the local government in the hopes that they'll pay back enough taxes in the next 50 years before the pipes have to be replaced again.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 62 points 4 months ago

How is a chatbot here better, faster, or more accurate than just a "return this" button on a web page? Chat bots like that take 10x the programming effort and actively make the user experience worse.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 65 points 5 months ago

If Israel rejects a two-state solution, shouldn't Palestinians be granted the right to vote in Israel, and the right to normal trials instead of military court? Seems like they want to have it both ways so they can maintain their apartheid state and continue their genocide.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 63 points 5 months ago

Bringing your real phone instead of a burner phone into the PRC is just asking for your shit to get stolen. I have never brought my real phone into the PRC.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 65 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"We demand that our overly-complex, smog-emitting, mechanical automata become mandatory parts of Europeans' lives! Also, feel bad for us because climate change is literally killing us."

If the situation was swapped, and German conservatives thought it would be a good idea to replace electric motors with these horrible contraptions, we'd all be laughing at them. Just because you guys made a noisy smog centipede that doesn't completely suck doesn't mean they're a good idea.

The CDU just sound like a bunch of murderous luddites. Just let fossil fuels die before we all burn, for fuck's sake.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 62 points 11 months ago

Wayland reduces bugs and standardizes the desktop, and flatpak makes it easier for distros to include apps without going through the process of packaging them.

This post is FUD bullshit, Wayland and Flatpak are making it easier to run an indie distro.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 59 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This entire article just to hype up Qualcomm releasing a new CPU? I havent seen any evidence to suggest that this new Qualcomm CPU won't be trash like all the other ones.

ARM on PC isn't happening any time soon. They're not more efficient than x86 CPUs at all.

Here's a speed comparison between Qualcomm and AMD's best cpus from last year. Same TDP.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-qualcomm_snapdragon_microsoft_sq3-vs-amd_ryzen_7_7840u

Here's Jim Keller, the father of both AMD Ryzen and the Apple M1, saying that ARM is not necessarily more efficient than x86:

https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/07/13/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-matter/

The only reason why Apple was able to make a successful ARM CPU was because they control the entire OS and the entire supply chain, and they have super expensive exclusivity contracts with TSMC. (because they literally make 50% of all phones in the world)

AMD's x86 CPUs are actually faster and more efficient than Apple's ARM CPUs on the same 5nm process node, but Apple is consistently 2 years ahead when it comes to silicon manufacturing, because of their TSMC deals.

Qualcomm doesn't have any of that, and there is no way their CPUs are going to be so much better than AMD's that people are going to be willing to put up with ISA incompatibilities. Windows on ARM has been a flop.

At least servers are more reasonable to see ARM chips, because all the software is open-source and all the major cloud vendors are making their own CPUs.

Nothing against ARM, or alternative ISAs in general, people just don't understand that x86 vs ARM is not about power efficiency at all, it's about supply chains and software compatibility.

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