m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@Hyolobrika
And with Ukraine in particular — sure, right-wing groups always existed, there are those openly adopting swastikas fighting on Russian side, despite the state adopting the whole WW2 rhetoric and claiming fighting Nazis — don't look for consistency here 😩
Some were extremely hostile towards Russians, but these groups were hardly as numerous as Russian state propaganda had been putting it, and they were never influencing the state politics.
@nicholas @softwarepagan @toiletpaper @lizzy

@Hyolobrika
I mean they do hate "black people" — but these people have nothing to do with Africans, AFAIR Hitler himself wasn't hostile towards those, it's just a US thing 🤷
So it's to each their own — in each country these groups pick their own "outsiders", e.g. I can imagine far-right groups in Poland being tolerant towards Jews, but not Gypsies or Arabs.
@nicholas @softwarepagan @toiletpaper @lizzy

@Hyolobrika
> But they have a Jewish president
Not everyone being labelled a Nazi, even those accepting it and adopting swastikas hates the Jews, every group picks their own target as enemy. E.g. this crowd in US often hates black people, but e.g. here in Russia those who love swastikas — they don't care about them, they don't see them much here.
@nicholas @softwarepagan @toiletpaper @lizzy

@admitsWrongIfProven
People who underwent normal socialisation still get into cults at times, imagine children being preconditioned with religious or otherwise ideological dogma from the get go — this can be catastrophic, nearly impossible to undo at adult age.
@Hyolobrika

@admitsWrongIfProven
This is in theory where homeschooling might come to the rescue — but in practice most parents cannot afford it.
And give or take, I think even this is better than some of the cases of homeschooling gone wrong as it still implies socialisation — interacting with all sorts of kids.
@Hyolobrika

@admitsWrongIfProven
Yeah, that is normally true — when the state is serving the society, but there are all sorts of corner cases, such as this: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/24/europe/russia-schools-pro-war-parade-grounds-intl/index.html
The article is from 2023 and I don't have children, but from what I know — it's got much worse since then and now they are planning to extend this to kindergartens. Most teachers partaking in this aren't just resource-constrained, they are part of the system which is evil.
@Hyolobrika

@admitsWrongIfProven @Hyolobrika
> it is easier to notice with public schools
Besides, children being raised this way might not even be realising that something wrong is going on as they don't interact with the rest of society much. Some very wrong shit might be going on behind this. The state might be pure evil, but it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone opposing it is a good guy.

@PurpCat
From what I know, it is still a major problem, they've made Superjet 100 before any major sanctions, but it failed internationally because they couldn't handle the logistics and make spare parts available.
I'm not an expert on military jets, but it also seems to be the problem — AFAIK MIG-31 wasn't a bad fighter design and spec-wise, especially for its time, but it was demanding in maintenance and they couldn't handle it properly, that is why it failed to see wider adoption.

@xianc78

@PurpCat
Ha-ha-ha, I do remember Soviet civil planes from childhood — sure, they were clunky, but compared to other Soviet things (especially cars 😏) not that bad!
I suspect most of the issues were not due to poor design choices, although I can't exclude that too, but due to not being able to service them properly: keeping a spare part in the warehouse and getting it installed by a qualified serviceman — impossible, it's always "scavange repairs" of some sort 🤦

@xianc78

@theorytoe
At first I didn't get it… But OMG, Luce is so cool in this scene! 😍

Did they really think that making their mascot look like a character from popular series that had "devil's paw"… and naming her dangerously similar to certain Lucifer was a bright idea? 🤔
Wait… or was it on purpose? 😈

@th3rdsergeevich @neural_meduza

*гусь.джпег*

@meowski
> he's removed bots not increased them
I've seen a couple of papers that I have no reasons not to trust — both claiming that the number has increased drastically. Maybe it did improve in the recent months, I don't know.
> they just said he's ruining twitter
The "destroy Twitter" in "Elon continues to destroy Twitter" is a link to an article about the removal of block feature, or rather about limiting it to DMs only — I'm not a user and can't confirm, but it is what it is 🤷

@newt

@meowski
I can agree — them being politically opinionated is bad… ish, but if you think that it's bad for them to just be in a different camp, then I can't agree and like I already said it would be weird for them to support Musk even if they were on the same team: give or take Twitter is still centralised and they stand for decentralisation.
@newt

@meowski
You might be right in general, but I don't think it means that in this particular context, check out what they are referring to — it's about removing the block feature on account level, this isn't about censorship or lack of thereof and thus has nothing to do with free speech. Besides, most right-leaning people seem to be okay with it, but Twitter becoming bot-infested is a fact, so him "ruining it" is irrelevant to his political alignment.

@newt

@meowski
They also maintain presence here, so I don't care.
Wouldn't it be more surprising for a foundation behind a decentralised protocol to do the opposite: promoting centralised Twitter (even compared to Blue Skype it is) and Elon Musk, who is behind it? 🤔

@newt

@newt
Yeah, true.
> but the code isn't developed by Matrix Foundation anymore
Wasn't it the model for quite some time already? 🤔 I mean they don't do it themselves at this point, but they might hire others to implement certain parts.
> video calls working in nheko (it's in C++/Qt)
Good! I've only used Nheko on my Windows machine — because compared to Windows even Qt doesn't seem that bad 🤭
I've seen some settings related to it, but I wasn't sure it wasn't a just a placeholder and that it works.

@newt
How is it dead?
This came up on my feed just yesterday: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/
And from what I see, not all these specs are client-side. Dendrite (Is it the implementation in Go? 🤔) might be dead, maybe they have just abandoned it as they don't even mention it in the announcement, lol… But the protocol itself looks pretty much alive to me, they've even redone the video calls so maybe we can have those not in Web-based clients only.