You can call Putin a lot of things, but stupid isn’t one of them.

Yeah, but then the admin would just need to keep adding new ones. It would be nice if it could be done client side or whatever.

Nah, it’s mostly because gamers Nexus reviewed an LG monitor, which also had that shit (monitors were traditionally ‘dumb’ before this), so he decided to do a broader investigation.

I’ve always wanted to have a way to give users their own options to use open source algorithms or create their own, but I don’t know how doable that is, since part of it is also how content gets tagged, etc.

Don’t worry, they all do it. You basically have to buy a dumb display if you want privacy.

If you can detect and identify the other devices on the LAN, you know exactly which other smart devices the customer has, and at scale that’s very valuable market research. They could probably even start sending ads to customers for an LG replacement if a device drops off the network.

I’ve heard Norm Finkelstein say it as something his mother used to say. It’s a reference to how her Apple Strudel recipe was featured in a magazine before the war.

They’re still killing people daily in Gaza, and displacing people in the west bank, despite a nominal ceasefire.

That means he’ll stop supporting Israel with their genocide and other destabilising actions, right?

Blatter doesn’t run FIFA any more. And was fine with Russia and Qatar having the world cup, so I’m guessing the principles arrived when he retired.

Not implying he was President during the Biden years. I guess I meant as a prominent politician.

LMAO

It’s doable if you’re not constantly changing the plans. The issue appears to be that he keeps changing things about it. Every plan or rendering they’ve released is different and it keeps getting bigger with each iteration.

I wonder what a demolition crew does if you don’t pay them. Other tradies will typically just rip out their work, but it’s not like a demo crew can easily rebuild something they tore down.

I’m actually amazed how he keeps finding new suckers after decades of doing it in the private sector and almost 10 years of doing it as President. The only ones that really can’t out ahead are the criminals that bought their pardons. Everyone else gets screwed one way or another.

Probably attached it in the CMS and didn’t upload the file as private even if the page itself was, or something like that. Users mess up permissions all the time.

Between this and how they treated Afghans that collaborated with them, this is going to be a long term issue for future recruitment efforts.

Still not sure if it’s deliberate, but Trump is taking the exact steps one would take to dismantle the American Empire.

Manpower is a bigger issue for Ukraine compared to Russia. Ukraine is at least not doing human wave tactics and doing more to keep their guys alive, but Russia can last longer in that aspect as well.

I do agree that Putin can’t stop the war for anything less than complete victory, otherwise people will start asking questions about why this was necessary as you said.

Yeah, they are still able to trade with China (which happens to make everything anyway), and as opposed to most countries, Russia can still draw on a lot of the remaining Soviet infrastructure that was specifically built because Russia needed to be self sufficient during the cold war.

As long as Putin can manage to remain in power Russia can keep this war going.

You have to keep in mind that ever since Elon took over Twitter, nobody’s left that actually understands how it works, so whenever they implement a change they do it in the most hamfisted way possible, usually in the presentation layer.

Disabling translation was just the easiest way to do this, as banning Israeli accounts for their actual hate speech was going to get the ADL on Elons ass.