Ads are a core component of how search makes money. They’re also a core component of how YouTube makes money.

It absolutely is, even if your particular instance hasn’t been. Lemmy.world probably takes the brunt of it.

Does that claim remove the existence of conflict of interest?

State funding describes a conflict of interest, whether perceived or actual.

Musk wasn’t wrong in applying the state media tag to NPR/BBC/CBC. At the end of the day, they are funded by the state.

Thanks, China.

The entire point of E2EE is that it doesn’t matter who the host is.

Tell me you haven’t read the Communist Manifesto without telling me you haven’t read the Communist Manifesto.

Most people from hexbear provide sources, which is better than can be said for all the tankie hate.

You don’t know India?

You’d rather rely on the economic group you exited than the country you colonized?

Quite. All American networking equipment is being used to spy on people, so clearly all Chinese networking equipment must be, too. Evidence? Unnecessary.

There are an immense number of ways to dissipate excess power by shifting the cost/benefit curve.

One recent work looked at repurposing aging electronics when the energy cost curve allows it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06870

Fiberglass is a bitch and it’s used in far greater quantities.

Have you ever wondered why people are so eager to accept the premise that China is doing everything to spy on foreign nationals?

Considering that those claims are almost all getting started by American agencies, and given the details of the Snowden leaks… America is projecting.

Do you understand how fucking convoluted and bureaucratically insane the US H1B visa system is?

On the other hand, what if the problem is simply one that’s no longer important for most people? Isn’t technological advancement supposed to introduce abstraction that people can develop on?

FPTP is a crime against democracy. Anyone supporting FPTP might as well admit that they don’t really like democracy.

If the USB-IF can agree on it, why not?

The USB-IF moves so slowly it might as well be standing still.

75 to 1000 tons of CO2?

That’s, what, 5-62 years of an average American lifestyle?

Honestly, that’s not so bad lol