yeah that’s grim

yeah pretty much, the society here drills into you that owning more stuff is how you show you’re successful

it’s kind of crazy how obsessed people can be with status

I love how these threads always make you fash come out of the woodwork.

lol there is that demographic for sure

It’s a completely different dynamic from commercial services. It needs enough users to continue developing the software, to operate servers, and to create content on the platform. There is more than enough users on the platform to ensure that it can operate indefinitely at this point. Meanwhile, most people on Mastodon, just as the case is with Lemmy, are on it because they want an open source platform. So, they’re not going to jump on another proprietary garbage platform BlueSky or W. And if a better open source platform comes along that’s a win for everyone.

And I’d argue that chasing growth for the sake of growth can itself be harmful. When you have a slow trickle of new users then they adapt to the existing culture of the platform. But if you have a huge influx of people all at once they can erase the existing communities in the process.

That’s the big question, cause I doubt there’s going to be huge demand for phones that cost a couple of grand in this economy. The fact that Apple’s been trying to secure RAM deals in China suggests they realize they need to keep prices down. We’ll have to see how it works out for them.

Mastodon is fine, it’ll outlive every commercial social media platform because it doesn’t need a funding runway or to show profit to shareholders.

I do think they kind of lucked into it by focusing on SoC and unified memory before LLMs got big, and now they are really well positioned for running local models like Qwen.

a quintessential FAFO moment

They seem to have had the foresight to realize that this tech will quickly move to edge devices.

I bet LLMs are a big part of it because the barrier to trying different attacks is much lower now, and a lot of people don’t even realize it.

Your whole narrative was that guns don’t work and that’s why Russian army is getting more missiles. Then faced with the fact that Russian army is actively developing more gun based systems, you just keep doubling down. At least put some effort into your trolling.

Yeah, that’s the whole point of using Ukraine as a proxy genius.

So when the AFU uses its own population as meatshields that’s legitimate war right fash?

A poorer defender can sustain unlimited losses against a wealthy attacker because they have less to lose. Trump is also learning it in Iran.

If you think Ukraine is anything like Afghanistan you’re even dumber than I thought. What Russia is learning is that NATO is a paper tiger, and that it can outproduce it militarily. And it’s hilarious that you don’t understand that Ukraine and Iran are part of the same global conflict. It’s truly amazing that a grown ass adult can be such an ignoramus.

I literally posted a bunch of sources showing that you’re wrong. I love how you’re now screeching that two sources discuss the same system. You’re such a clown. The fact that you got caught lying and now can’t admit it is the real icing on the cake. You’re full of shit and we both know it, and no amount of you pretending otherwise is going to change that.

Just admit you were wrong and move on bud.

The link doesn’t support your claim.

How many years into trolls parroting a made up story?

If you genuinely think Russia lost then you’re going to have a real hard time coping in the coming months. The fact that you think Ukraine being reduced to doing terrorism against civilian infrastructure is a sign that Ukraine is wining really is incredible. Also further highlights what an utter imbecile you are. If doing that led to winning then Russia would be winning by your own metric since it’s doing far more damage to Ukrainian infrastructure because Ukraine has no AD. Incredible how you’re unable to see the obvious flaw in your own narrative.

The wikipedia article does not substantiate your claim. But since google is blocked at the troll farm, I’ll happily provide some links to substantiate what I said.

• https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russians-developed-automated-zu-23-2-to-counter-ukrainian-drones/
• https://tass.com/defense/2136151
• https://tass.com/defense/2038373
• https://www.vietnam.vn/en/quan-su-the-gioi-hom-nay-3-6-nga-phat-trien-phien-ban-co-dong-he-thong-phao-zak-30-citadel
• https://defence-blog.com/russia-shows-off-counter-drone-cannon-with-programmable-shells/