I would love for there to be a simple way to just interface with a graphics card directly on a low level w/o any vulkan/d3d/opengl crap in between. Just have the kernel map it to a file in /dev and to set it up and make it do stuff you just fopen() that file and write commands to it.

There are 64-bit Pentium IIIs?

Completely agree! I like to limit myself to HTTP 1.1 and any website I'll ever make will just be simple handwritten HTML with some CSS. I like to use elinks and xlinks for hypertext but in some cases -- like lemmy -- I'm unfortunately forced to use a bloated browser that supports JabbaScript and black magic (which makes no sense because online forums, message boards, blogs, wikis, etc. in the past all used to work without any JS). I like Gopher/Gemini a lot but I find it hard to discover interesting holes/capsules.

For a moment I thought "Did something big happen that I missed?" and then I watched the video. I'm always amazed by the stupidity of the average yankee.

Super cringe if real.

The "sit back and relax"-strategy really does work.

The stock market is basically gambling and designed to serve the bourgeoisie. Better to read theory than books on "how to make money".

By the early 2010s, at least two tycoons had seen their net worth approach that decabillion-dollar barrier, only to land in jail on corruption charges instead. That is not to say the charges were baseless, only that the choice of targets did appear to reflect a lingering, levelling tendency among China’s leaders.

In this new era, it’s dangerous to get too rich. Stories abound of the state launching investigations against this business figure or that financier. The pressure is drying up venture capital funds, scaring the young away from lucrative professions such as investment banking. The number of millionaires leaving China has been rising and peaked last year at 15,000 — dwarfing the exodus from any other nation.

Hilarious shit. It's almost as if it's impossible to get rich through honest and ethical means.

I support this. I have a home server running 24/7 with more than enough storage and wouldn't mind seeding some prolewiki torrents.

Assuming web crawlers and Tor traffic are filtered out my guess would be in the range of 10 - 100 depending on the day.

NGL I kinda miss him. At least he was funny. Wonder when he'll try to come here again.

The only possible glowop related to lemmygrad that we know of is Wenger/Wisconcom; Some guy from the US who claims to be Hoxhaist/Stalinist and calls this site and prolewiki "revisionist" because people here support the PRC. He lurks here and other places and has been actively attempting to infiltrate/wreck lemmygrad and prolewiki for over 2 years now. So far all of his attempts have hilariously failed, but for some reason he just never gives up. He might even be reading this very thread from a different account. I recommend "The Wiscon Files" for a deep dive.

Unless suddenly strange things start happening here on lemmygrad I think there is no need for this much paranoia (unless you're somehow a big threat to the imperial state).

At this point the best thing that could happen to the PS5 is for people to find a reliable jailbreak. With Linux it would probably make a decent PC. In terms of specs the hardware is comparable to a Xeon based workstation from the early-mid 2010s.

Good point. All these streaming sites are inefficient by design. Even without the DRM the Server will have to encode the video and audio (or possibly even transcode them if the client only supports certain formats) before sending them to the client. And this happens on the fly every time anyone watches anything. If those streaming sites were all just a fancy looking file server that make you download the source video files directly (kind of like GOG does with video games) then that would greatly reduce energy consumption long-term.

QEMU is vastly superior. Supports a great amount of different architectures and KVM acceleration is painless. Plus it's not from Oracle.

It doesn't help that they keep deprecating and changing standard stuff every other version. It's like they can't make up their mind and everything may be subject to change. Updating to the most recent release can suddenly cause 10s or 100s of compiler warnings/errors and things may no longer behave the same. Then you look up the new documentation and realize that you have to refactor a large part of the codebase because the "new way" is for whatever reason vastly different.

Here is the linked thread for people who don't want to go to twitter:

Booker Ngesa Omole ☭:

There is no such a thing like sex work, period! Let's address the misguided communists who claim "sex work" is legitimate labor. This notion betrays the fundamental principles of Marxism and aligns with capitalist exploitation rather than challenging it.

In a patriarchal society, prostitution isn't just about humiliation—it's the highest form of exploitation, primarily affecting poor and working-class women.These women aren't "workers" in the traditional sense; they're victims of a system that commodifies their bodies.

The relationship between those who purchase sex and those who sell it is not one of equality. It's a relationship of oppression, where the powerful exert control over the powerless, perpetuating violence and exploitation.

To suggest that prostitution is anything other than the grossest form of exploitation ignores the brutal realities these women face: physical and psychological violence, poverty, and a society that views them as disposable.

Human beings should never be used as mere instruments for others' ends. The commodification of women’s bodies contradicts the Marxist principle that people should not be treated as commodities.

True communists must reject the capitalist narrative that seeks to legitimize prostitution under the guise of "sex work." Our fight is for a society where exploitation is abolished and where women are free from the shackles of patriarchy.

Anything less is a betrayal of our revolutionary ideals and a capitulation to the forces of reaction. We must stand firm against this dangerous rhetoric and fight for the liberation of all women from exploitation.

imo. people (especially comrades) should really consider using the fediverse.

This shit is exactly why I've been firmly avoiding anything "smart". If I can't run an OS/firmware on it that I compiled myself and have full control I don't trust it.

lol why care about these random online personalities? The only times I get to know of their existence is when people post clips of them where they have a highly controversial take and it's always without fail some generic boring af react-commentary-"just chatting"-variety streamer/content creator. I wouldn't put it past them if they do these controversial takes intentionally from time to time in an attempt to increase engagement.