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Panic among Moscow’s Elite As Putin Moves to Seize Tycoon’s Empire
  • It's not a threat to someone's health or life. Simply pointing out that he's a fool to think that similar groups wouldn't turn on him if they wanted to. All gung ho to try and join them. I think the comment is safe.

  • Panic among Moscow’s Elite As Putin Moves to Seize Tycoon’s Empire
  • Are, are the liberals in the room there with you? Roll your forehead across the keyboard if so. Seriously though. It's laughable looking at the levels of cognitive dissonance shared between people making arguments like yours and the maga crowd.

  • Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain.
  • It's definitely limiting. LoRa wan meshed network is more useful. But most people don't have a LoRa capable device. I could see something like this at a protest or public event at least. If there were enough nodes in the area the network could span hundreds to thousands of feet with the right conditions. But that's a big ask ATM.

  • Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain.
  • I don't trust Jack. But this does seem marginally interesting. Actually decentralized, no servers supposedly. We'll have to see. Again I sure as hell I'm not going to trust dorsey. And he's got it under some cringey edgelord "unlicense" license which basically appears to be MIT just with a different name. The actual concept seems intriguing. But definitely nothing to get excited about currently.

  • Panic among Moscow’s Elite As Putin Moves to Seize Tycoon’s Empire
  • Trust me the US will start taking from wealthy Americans as well soon enough. Once authoritarian groups burn enough Bridges and goodwill. They always have to scapegoat another group.

    It's pretty hilarious how so many people think that the boot isn't the problem. The flavor of it is all that matters.

  • This Is Why Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Needed Human Babysitters
  • Unless you consider money charisma. I really can't agree with you or understand where you're coming from. Anyone who's ever known the man as a peer or personally pretty much universally hates him for good reason. Including his Ex-Wives, his father, even his children, and that ghoul Peter Thiel.

    People liked the concept of boosted Space travel, Electric vehicles, etc. Musk was smart to invest in them. But he had no contribution of note to any of those companies other than his money. No one ever cared for musk anymore than that. And then once his erol-ness was on full display finally the people who had been fooled had to acknowledge reality.

  • This Is Why Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Needed Human Babysitters
  • No it isn't.

    The only way for someone to think he was some awkward autistic rizz master. Was to be fooled.

    At one point it was possible to not be paying attention. Getting distracted by the smoke screen etc. But even the most basic look into him and his history. No one would ever mistake him for someone with charisma or talent.

  • Missouri adopts law ending St. Louis’ ability to run its own police, transferring control to the state government
  • Realistically Kansas City and St Louis should break off independent of the state. Leaving the backwards yokels to wallow in their Missouri. But that's not going to happen either unfortunately. If St Louis even tried the fascists at the national level would mobilize the National Guard to go crack the skulls of brown people as penance.

    I'd love to see St Louis do it. But until we start getting organized ourselves and putting together a proper militia. That can be called to any state to stand against the fascists and intimidate them. There are plenty of militias around here unfortunately having known plenty of them. They'd all jump at the chance to serve the fascist.

  • Missouri adopts law ending St. Louis’ ability to run its own police, transferring control to the state government
  • That would ultimately be administrative. The Only Hope on that front would be for police officers to care enough to be upset. But they by and large don't care beyond the paycheck. Give them money and tell them who's skull to cave in and they are on it.

  • Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky
  • Rodney Anonymous being one of them. Well I guess he's not necessarily indy? Though he's definitely not mainstream. Outside of Punk Rock Girl I'm not sure how much else of their catalog got play.. But they are legends up in Philadelphia. Which is where he DJs once a month for ynot radio.

    The fediverse provides a platform individuals can completely control if they want. Or at least be free of a lot of unsavory restrictions and associations. And for a punk group like Rodney's, that is even more important.

  • Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky
  • You don't always need an expensive microphone. But a pop filter can make a much bigger impact than you would believe. Honestly the thing I see a lot of YouTubers using often that seems to work out quite well are lavalier mics. Not the traditional desktop microphones.

    A lavalier microphone attached to a collar or lapel. Is generally outside of the direct path of your voice. So the need for pop filtering Etc is reduced. Though many of them do provide filters for it. Further since they are generally clipped to you the distance between you and them doesn't change much. Meaning that your levels stay much more consistent and even. No leaning away from mic and then back in. And they sometimes have a few less issues with assonance.

    That's not even touching the headaches that can be simply capturing footage or streaming in obs. That rabbit hole goes deep. It's also a lot of fun with a lot of opportunity to be creative.

    And as I said in my other post I just don't tend to listen to many podcasts at all. I have listened to behind the bastards a little bit in the past, Pod save America a couple times. Even the Retro hour a few times with RMC. But it's just never been something that I have a lot of time available to focus on or desire to. Though I might give it a try.

  • Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky
  • That's how it was DJing for me. I never made a lot of money. But I always enjoyed sharing the music. LOL, perhaps someday I will find someone to pay me to do it. But not everyone can be as lucky as Rodney anonymous. Of course it doesn't hurt that he was famous as well:-)

  • Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky
  • Some certainly do. I've never been much of a podcast person myself. The closest I follow is the Cody Showdy AKA some more news. but it's a bit more Straight Up Performance than just basic podcast.

    I do watch a lot of tech YouTubers. And have done some shows myself. I know the amount of time and effort that can go even into simple ones. They require a lot of passion and drive to produce. And especially for topics like this where there isn't a lot of money in it. It's definitely deserves some respect.

    I know I've been considering Reviving an old program myself. If it's worth all the work again.

  • Just curious, why do people sometimes choose to post to a Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed community on a different instance?
  • Certainly to an extent. Though the fediverse model is much more elegant and clear. Plus it offers massive benefits to organizations. Seeking to have communities and comms that they can truly call their own. Maintaining as they see fit. The KDE and blender groups for instance have their own servers and their own communities on them. That they can manage and focus on just their projects. No missing on the servers with toxic political communities like leninists or fascists. Just their projects and only their projects or things related to it.

  • Just curious, why do people sometimes choose to post to a Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed community on a different instance?
  • It's the beauty of federation. Under reddit etc. If a community you were interested in had shit admins, there wasn't much you could do. Here you can create your own theme park with hookers and blackjack. Growing it to build something great.

    Does it create duplication? Yes some. Though new backends like piefed are supposed to be addressing it a bit. But more importantly it creates competition.

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