Welcome to this place. Lemmy.ml is notorious for being run by the actual tankies that created this project. See what they support, what they don't, and have an opposite opinion on that. You will get the boys telling you how it acchually it is not and call you a glowie CIA agent or whatnot for not siding with them. The Reddit migration probably made them more accepting of opposite opinions, but probably because things have calmed down more a bit lately, they started aggressively moderating stances like yours and probably anti-Kremlin takes as well (seriously, before that, if you were against the Russian invasion in Ukraine or against China's politics you would have been accused of being racist towards them - but hey, you can say whatever you want against the USA, or The West, you can't be racist against these, can you?).
Much like AMD did today for CES 2024, much of NVIDIA's event was also all about AI but there's a few bits in there for normal consumers like the announcement of Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs.
That's why I set up 2FA on whatever account I can grab my hand on. It sucks that I cannot do it on every single one I have (e.g. some popular names like Spotify, last.fm, Bandcamp or Feedly do not support it, for example), but for every account that I do have, 2FA has become critical lately.
This is the keyword for such a city. It should've gotten such a system already by now when reaching the first million. All these arab/middle eastern cities seem so extremely focused on car infrastructure to a rather disturbing degree. And all the carbrains I know think these cities are the pinacle of modern city development: all just gigantic glass skyscrapers and highways circling around them - nothing else.
Also, back on Facebook/Instagram, there's not a single person who had the money to visit Dubai once and post pictures from there (at least that I'm aware of), that is not car brained. I'm sure they all use their car everywhere and nothing less, they could even be doing their basic shopping from the corner store with it, I think.
That remembers me about this older video. It's in Romanian, but it says "stay away from water" and the images are from some sparkling water commercials presented as the consequences of anyone drinking water.
To each their own. My jacket does not have a hood good enough to protect me, it sometimes falls off my head, doesn't protect my nose etc. So I prefer an umbrella.
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On a side note, I can also hang out with another person under it. But that would make me pretty gay, of course.
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Cel puțin 215 milioane de doze de vaccinuri COVID-19 achiziționate de țările UE în perioada de vârf a pandemiei au fost aruncate între timp, la un cost
Sometimes when watching videos on effective ways of public transport and trams come up, I get a bit annoyed at people not addressing the fact that they seem to share the road with cars. Why do people twerk for trams so much as a form of light rail if they share the road with cars and are subject to being affected by traffic?...
My city has started separating tram lines from the roads with fences, and it's all just great. We had next to no bus lanes until this year, and I still have none where I live. The bus sits in traffic and can stop for around 5-10 times at a traffic light, while the tram only stops once. Sometimes even the bus driver opens the doors before getting to any station. This never happened with trams. On the other hand, if one tram breaks, the others have to wait for it to be moved - although this doesn't happen that often on the line I'm using the most.
Another thing to note is that even when there is no separation from the traffic and the lines are asphalted, it's still illegal to go on the tram tracks (albeit this is one of the rules that is not that well enforced, because our police sucks, it's good that it's there).
Our municipality also purchased longer trams and plans to purchase some more, some even longer than what we have now, but it's great. It's a good way of making public transit more attractive for the people, hopefully getting them out of the cars and solving congestion.
We also have a metro system, which is also great and highly appreciated, but it doesn't go anywhere in the city, and its extension has been rather slow in the last 30 years. The company managing it is also owned by the government directly, so that's another hurdle in its development. The tram network, on the other hand, is owned by the local transit company, and is denser. I'm sure there will be more extensions to it if the municipality will throw the right money at the right projects.
The key downside is that they need tracks: this makes them much harder to divert around some kinds of temporary obstructions which buses can easily manoeuvre around.
If you have a more dense network, you can always divert lines on other streets if there are any issues. My city is also using temporary switches and trams with driver cabins at both ends whenever there are works going on.
The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large...
I tend to think as well that the situation in Ukraine is currently a stalemate. The fact is that, while Russia is losing weapons, Ukraine is gaining them. There's also a different quality of life for Western weapons compared to the Russian ones because, well, that's something that the West actually cared for back in the Cold War days. USSR and its satellites only cared about meeting the 5-year quota, or whatever they cared for in order to show the West they were more industrialized and whatnot. Western weapons are also more accurate and tends to integrate more hi-tech inside, so that you can use them for one-strike-one-kill instead of carpet bombing large swaths of land until nothing moves there. This is why, e.g. you have Grad systems with around 42 projectiles or so, all usually being fired in chain, while on HIMARS you only have a maximum of 6 projectiles, which are usually fired individually.
All this now proves vital for Ukraine, as it has to fight a country with a larger manpower, a larger (pre-war at least) stock of vehicles and a larger stock of ammunition. Ukraine, however, did not manage to become a powerful force on the counter-offensive. It does a great job at hardening Russian attacks, causing incredible amounts of damage for every inch of land lost, but the required weaponry for a successful breakthrough has been in short supply. Besides that, what Ukraine initially planned to do was to do a combined arms attack. And you cannot do this without a good amount of air support - which Ukraine was and is currently lacking.
IMO, it remains to be seen what will happen when Ukraine will finally start to operate F-16 jets (among other equipment it started to build in-house like drones), but as of now, on the equipment and fighting side, Ukraine is currently winning. On the loss side, while Russia loses more people and equipment than Ukraine, I'm afraid the numbers are proportionally the same for both sides. This is why I see it as heading to a stalemate in the foreseeable future. But Russia can no longer win what it initially planned, it is constantly changing the objectives in order to show the world that it achieved something, and Ukraine simply cannot lose. Russia's only advantage right now is being on the offensive itself.
I like Lemmy. Active development, lots of third party apps, active community, etc but what other Fediverse projects are worth getting into like this one?...
This might be subjective, but imo, while Mastodon has the most feature complete apps, it's not the most feature complete platform out there. Hell, even Kbin is more feature complete than Mastodon. I recommend trying Friendica, Hubzilla or Streams for a larger feature set.
Are you American/Canadian? If yes, there are plenty of non-political and general purpose accounts in English. Follow @FediFollows or check out fedi.directory from the same account owner. There are other lists as well from other people, but I find these being great starter.
You can use these if you're a non-american and/or non-english speaking person as well, and you can also follow hashtags (as others suggested). But what I also liked doing was the following:
If you, like me, live in the EU, Facebook is now entirely clamping down and forcing free users to make their personal data available for monetization....
Friendica should fit the bill right there for you. Or if you don't want ActivityPub, check out diaspora*. There's also Hubzilla which uses AP as well, but internally it uses its own Zot protocol.
Romania is pushing to buy 54 Abrams main battle tanks and related equipment from the United States in a deal worth at least a billion dollars, the defense ministry said Friday....
I agree with the logistics part, as they'd need to build and maintain additional facilities but
Abrams aren’t built for Romania’s terrain.
What do you mean by that? Why would they be incompatible with our terrain? Indeed, they'll most likely never be used in the Carpathians, as you'd need more compact and mobile vehicles to go through there. But given our current threat vector - which comes from the East, so basically only Moldovan low-rise hills, Dobrudja and the Romanian Plains where Bucharest is located being the parts under threat - why would they be not fit for that type of terrain?
Simion a avut/încă mai are legături la greu cu mafiotul ăsta încă de când era la conducerea Acțiunii 2012. Nu m-ar mira să bată apa în piuă și mai tare pe roexit anii următori doar ca să-l scape pe maimuțoi.
Don't know about you, but I feel the Fediverse has been flooded by actual news rn though. I'm probably already following too many publications, but I feel like my feed is flooded by them lately.
Yesterday I followed the docker guide for setting up a new KBin instance. Some parts of it are working, but it seems like it's not federating properly....
This looks rather like a discovery issue and is quite common with newly created instances on the Fediverse. You have to search for everything you want for a couple of times before you make your instance aware of the content or other instances aware of yours.
You can more easily overcome this by connecting your instance to an ActivityPub Relay, but I don't know how this is done on a Kbin instance.
I normally use Fedora with a theme identical to macos, but now since I have to use Windows for work I thought I would rice this as well. Below are the things I used for this rice....
The best alternative to Rainmeter that is also cross-DE (Desktop Environment - i.e. you can use it on KDE, as well as Gnome, XFCE etc.) would be Conky.
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NVIDIA reveal Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Much like AMD did today for CES 2024, much of NVIDIA's event was also all about AI but there's a few bits in there for normal consumers like the announcement of Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs.
Heads up. Facebook keylogs your passwords. (midwest.social)
[image] Riyadh (population 7.6 million) is finally getting a metro. Initially scheduled for 2018, after successive delays it will open early this year (lemmy.ml)
What's the most absurd thing you've seen someone refuse to do because of toxic masculinity?
Țările UE distrug vaccinuri COVID în valoare de 4 miliarde de euro / O analiză Politico arată că peste 200 de milioane de vaccinuri coronavirus nedorite au fost aruncate la gunoi / Unde se plasează România în topul celor mai risipitoare țări (www.g4media.ro) Romanian
Cel puțin 215 milioane de doze de vaccinuri COVID-19 achiziționate de țările UE în perioada de vârf a pandemiei au fost aruncate între timp, la un cost
Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do (www.niemanlab.org)
Are trams that good (genuine question)?
Sometimes when watching videos on effective ways of public transport and trams come up, I get a bit annoyed at people not addressing the fact that they seem to share the road with cars. Why do people twerk for trams so much as a form of light rail if they share the road with cars and are subject to being affected by traffic?...
The state of open source SMS messagers
With simple messager selling out & qksms no longer being actively worked on. What’s our options for open source sms messagers?...
Flipboard now testing our #ActivityPub integration (fosstodon.org)
Who's winning the war in Ukraine?
The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large...
Which of the Fediverse projects are worth getting into?
I like Lemmy. Active development, lots of third party apps, active community, etc but what other Fediverse projects are worth getting into like this one?...
Are there any notable content creators that focus on content other than niche tech and US political on Mastodon?
I’m hoping to find more general, less nerdy content or infuriating American news. 99% of what I see and is recommended to me is just that....
CFR Călători anulează duminică peste 20 de trenuri între București și Constanța și în Bărăgan din cauza viscolului (mobilitate.eu) Romanian
CFR Călători transmite că în contextul avertizărilor meteorologice și a restricțiilor de circulație aplicate de...
Solid advice (sh.itjust.works)
If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. (lemmy.world)
If you, like me, live in the EU, Facebook is now entirely clamping down and forcing free users to make their personal data available for monetization....
NATO member Romania pushes to buy 54 Abrams battle tanks from US (apnews.com)
Romania is pushing to buy 54 Abrams main battle tanks and related equipment from the United States in a deal worth at least a billion dollars, the defense ministry said Friday....
Mega-ancheta Parchetului European care vizează șase proiecte de IT duce la firme și oameni apropiați de Sebastian Ghiță (www.g4media.ro) Romanian
Netanyahu rejected ceasefire-for-hostages deal in Gaza, sources say (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli PM said to have turned down proposal in early talks and continues to take tough line
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Troubles with new KBin instance
Yesterday I followed the docker guide for setting up a new KBin instance. Some parts of it are working, but it seems like it's not federating properly....
I spent over four hours today ricing Windows to look like MacOS! (files.catbox.moe)
I normally use Fedora with a theme identical to macos, but now since I have to use Windows for work I thought I would rice this as well. Below are the things I used for this rice....