

some turbolib made a Lemmy client that had a hardcoded blacklist of users and instances they considered to be communists


Ok that’s fair, what Iran is doing is very similar to Russia’s approach of launching combination of drones and missiles to overwhelm Ukrainian defences.


lol yeah, dying gasps for the empire here


I don’t really see the misleading part in the headline myself. While China and Russia undoubtedly help Iran, it seems that Iranians are perfectly capable to inflict massive damage on the empire using their own technical capabilities. While Ukraine is a western proxy entirely dependent on its western masters, Iran has its own deep technological and industrial base. It’s worth remembering that it was Iran that originally did a technology transfer of their drone technology to Russia rather than the other way around.


the system is working as intended


I think if you read the actual article you’ll see that the headline is justified. It explains the actual mechanics of what Iran did, and this shouldn’t be trivialized. While the idea of what to do might not be that complicated, actually implementing it against an adversary like the US is not trivial.


What actually matters here is that the whole US military doctrine has become obsolete because of drones. It’s not just that Iran can find and hit US targets, it’s that they can do it very cheaply while US has to spend expensive and difficult to build interceptors which can’t even hit these kinds of targets effectively. It’s the economics of the whole thing that are defeating the US.
There is no way around needing helium, but China will boost their own production in time and they have access to helium from Russia as well. Meanwhile, the reason they can move so fast is due to having a centrally planned system the west rejects. It’s the same reason Russia is now outproducing all of NATO in terms of weapons and ammunition.
The west is in no position to recreate the necessary supply chains. Rare earths alone is a perfect example. I wrote about the problem in detail here if you’re interested. Even under the most aggressive diversification scenarios, China is expected to retain 80% of global refining capacity by 2040. And that’s just one example. The west has very little leverage at this point.
Also, as she correctly points out, China doesn’t need to get to ASML levels to make these fabs useful. As long as they’re better than the current ones, that already means China will be producing better domestic chips. And they’re also innovating with architecture as well such as Huawei’s tau law design which folds the chip and dramatically improves performance. All these things work together.
Finally, China is aggressively pursuing alternative computing substrates and some are already starting to come online. This is a recent example. These kinds of things have the potential to leapfrog silicon chips entirely. There’s nothing comparable happening in the west because you can’t do these kinds of projects without massive amount of state funding and direction to sustain them until they become profitable on their own.
I just kept the original title, she does explain how EUV works well, as well as the difference between Chinese approach and what ASML did.


It does look like OpenHarmony is slowly moving to becoming a general standard in China though which is at least some progress in the right direction https://pandaily.com/openharmony-six-year-transformation-jul2026


All of Ukraine and the rest of eurofash are in reach of Iranian ballistic missiles, including super-heavy Khorramshahr-4



It’s also worth keeping in mind that the reason for the proxy war in Ukraine is because the US ultimately wanted to take on China and saw Russia as the weaker target to take out first. The goal was to break up Russia and surround China with proxy states on its western border while cutting it off from food, energy, and resources it was getting from Russia. This was all openly discussed in the US media I might add. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/strategy-avoiding-two-front-war-192137


The obvious question here is how Ukrainians were able to hit an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea in the first place. It is no simple thing for Ukraine to track down a specific ship far away from its borders, and would require intelligence and satellite data which the US would be in a position to provide. Seems that it’s pretty clear that the US put Ukraine up to this.
It’s a Js runtime that’s a popular alternative to node.js


Basically, after Yemen put a blockade on Bab al-Mandeb, and hit a few Saudi ships, the insurers realized that it’s not safe.


It’s more that insurance carriers do not feel comfortable giving out insurance for Saudi ships now.


I’m sure Russia in particular would have absolutely no reason to retaliate asymmetrically against the west doing deep strikes against Russian civilian infrastructure right now.
I mean baking knowledge into a model isn’t really all that useful to begin with. Just download wikipedia locally and have it access it through tool use, it’s way more efficient and more accurate. And yeah, I find Q6 tends to be the sweet spot where it’s close enough to full 16 bit in performance, but doesn’t chew up too much memory.