A_norny_mousse

fediverse is it’s trying to layer some order over a decentralized physical infrastructure.

I’m not sure I follow you. The Fediverse is about social networking which is not all, not even most of the internet.

And the internet itself is a layer of order over its decentralised physical infrastructure.

You really really hate the new 3310. To the point that you’re inventing adversaries where there are none.

I was going for the complicity. That’s a big (geographically) problem.

TBH I forgot that I had this discussion elsewhere and I’m about 99% sure that these phones simply become unusable when 2G is shut down, which is why some countries shut down 3G but not 2G. But I don’t remember or understand the technical stuff behind it.

There’s also somehing about these specs that we just call 2G or 3G etc., in reality it’s much more complex.

Yes, the internet is decentralised in every way, not only its infrastructure. Even unorganised. If that’s your big discovery, I respect that. But…

the library was the main source of human knowledge, and it was very organized through the Dewey Decimal System

Not all of humanity uses the DD system.

Today, even the search engines are failing us, and we are turning to AI.

This simply isn’t true, and everything you write after that. It’s an insult to actual librarians.
There is no “Artifical Intelligence”.

Indexing the internet is a big job. We had data centers even before A-not-I. And people were complaining about how much energy they use. Had we known then how much worse this is going to get very soon…

Artificial Unintelligence does not do that job better btw. It doesn’t do the indexing at all. It just wastes energy. And, as another commenter pointed out, it actively makes the situation you describe worse.

They’ve been ramping this shit up ever since '22.*

Worse: when they do this to kids they stole from Ukraine.

I don’t think the rest of the world will ever - or even should - meddle in a country’s affairs to the point of destroying their government, but I think it’s high time to ostracize and isolate Russia in every way possible.

Even China doesn’t do this shit to their people. Not so brazenly at least.

Also, the next time someone says “Russians brought this on themselves because they voted for the wrong guy”, show them this. Because, as I said, this has been going on for a long time, a lot longer than '22. They are adults now. Fully indoctrinated and kept from any sort of real information.

* this phrasing is not to be misunderstood: they already did it long before that. It’s been a steady development ever since Putin came to power.

Tax is not a punishment.

Are you replying to the wrong person? I specifically pointed out that they were thinking about something else.

Among the 15 most imitated media brands were eight French outlets, including FRANCE 24, which saw its brand coopted by fake news stories 34 times over 12 months.

The brazenness. I honestly wouldn’t oppose cutting the Russian internet out from the rest of the world - something Putin himself wanted to do before he realized how much he can hurt “The West” through it.

Of course it could never be 100%. If it’s additionally made illegal for VPNs to serve Russian IPs there’s still the option of simply buying people’s services abroad, but it would still help a lot, esp. since payment happens through the internet as well.

There are multiple objectives for Moscow’s information war

And the one that binds them all: fuck your enemy up, and not just militarily.

It’s called hybrid warfare for a reason.

And once again - this is turning into a pet peeve of mine - the headline is misleading. The use of present tense in this case. It evokes an immediate reaction: this is developing right now! But how could they know if it’s such a fresh thing? Well, turns out it isn’t. The article itself is more honest, uses past tense:

The Russian disinformation operations that emerged at the start of the war in Ukraine have ramped up in the past year

Not saying this isn’t newsworthy.

autonomous drones

They really thought that sounds like a plus

This would make sense if it was a response to Russia, but we all know that that’s not what this admin is about.

And that’s what I really find worrying here. This is not a Cold War scenario. This is an admin that really is keen on showing its own citizens and the world who is boss. And the person who can ultimately pull the trigger is a truly unhinged narcissist who has no business leading a country in the first place.

Apart from that, what is it with US official documents always looking like they were written at least 100 years ago?

“THE HONORABLE”, seriously? I can sorta understand it with judges, but undersecretaries, pardon, UNDER SECRETARY?

Also, what’s “vertical integration” mean here?

BTW, proper dumbphones still exist these days. They don’t release flagships every year so there’s little to report on, but they’re being produced and sold.

Many of them even bear the name NOKIA but have little to do with the original.

An important aspect to consider here is the networks - the original 3310 had - at most - 2G.

Most countries are shutting their 2G and 3G networks down these days.

I wonder how that affects telephony capabilties of both old and new dumbphones.

Thanks for bringing this up. Most places - even Finland where I still saw original 3310’s in use a few years ago - are shutting these networks down. The 3310 did not have 3G btw. I don’t think they even called whatever it had 2G back then.

No dude, I am. I once fixed a car with a paper clip.

Meaningless hate aside,

has nothing to do with the original one except the name.

It has the form factor and the buttons. Being different inside was the whole point.

But you probably couldn’t use it as a bottle opener.

Actual dumbphones are also sold by the company that bears the name of the original Nokia, but I guess you hate those too.

Your username really checks out.

Hardly. If the alcohol tax on a bottle of wine is €5 and the bottle is sold for €10, that’s a pretty steep price. If the bottle is sold for €100 or even more, it’s nothing.

But I understand that you were probably thinking about companies calculating spending & sales.

Even the countries that do this employ all sorts of edge case rules not to make it too fair.

Well, at least my country does. One of those famous Northern European “Socialist” countries.

I expected nothing except being entertained.

Sorry, you made me say it.

TBF: both rich and poor people pay luxury tax (tobacco, alcohol etc.) - but such taxes always affect low income people more.

A reboot has existed since 2017.

I don’t care much about 2nm, but this one probably runs an OS that’s miles more complex than whatever the original ran. Still I’d be curious about its battery life.

BTW those batteries are replaceable so you can actually test that part.

So, was it blocked by default?

If yes, I wouldn’t read too much into it.