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WhatsApp data breach sees nearly 500 million user records up for sale in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nice. Ditch WhatsApp. Use an app that has no user identifiers to begin with so no chance of that happening, that is apps like https://simplex.chat/

International auxiliary languages should be utilized in software development (to improve international collaboration). in c/programming@lemmy.ml
[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is there any scientific evidence Esperantano is more efficient, has significantly superior user experience/usability? What about that in the context of using it for software engineering? People seem to have developed it in the 1800s; so outdated. Also many issues https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto#Criticism like bias and the gender non-neutrality; I would discard it. I would suggest to come up with a better language for the 21st century. This one seems better https://www.globasa.net/eng

Also, isn't this an XY problem? The problem is that many people do not know the current dominant language that people use in science, technology, so on. So you propose Esperanto. Well, now you gatekeep it to people who know Esperanto, which is a way less demography than English. But since learning languages that are more close to one's native language is easier, that would allow people from Latin/Roamance/Germanic-based languages to possibly learn it faster? That would not be true to Asiatic languages, ...

Why another language is the correct solution? Why not improve current education systems? Why not machine translation? Why not improve translations? If the US switches its official language to Esperanto, wouldn't it be imperialist as well? Language dominance is linked to socioeconomic development. You need countries like US to actually adopt it; otherwise it would be just another language to learn besides English. You are just making it harder.

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Why China cannot abandon communism (tube.tr4sk.me)
 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/195767

President Xi Jinping pledged to redistribute wealth while turning up the heat on China’s upscale citizens and businesses. So, what keeps Chinese communism going?

CaspianReports says it is because geopolitics, development, national security, stability. BTW ofc China is not Communist. What are your informed arguments?

Facts in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Worry about surveillance capitalism and mass surveilance instead. This "imperfect", nothing to hide stance is just distraction from the real issue.

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Dominant Capital and the Government (www.econstor.eu)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org to c/capitalism@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/180514

Summary

On paper, the U.S. government is free to legislate its path and determine its policies. In principle, there is little to prevent a resolute U.S. administration from challenging the power of the country’s dominant capital and clip the wings of its largest firms.

But it would be good to remember that the U.S. government---like most other governments---has become part and parcel of an increasingly global state of capital. This integration has undermined the de facto autonomy of governments everywhere. Whether willing or reluctant, many if not most policymakers have become pawns of a global mode of power they cannot control and that forces them to tranquilize the increasingly vulnerable population that dominant capital helps create. Government spending has inflated, but this inflation betrays weakness, not strength.

Larger-yet-weaker neoliberal governments are the alter-ego of bigger-and-meaner dominant capital. It is hard to think of any important sector or aspect of society, in the United States and elsewhere, where dominant capital does not dominate. It is true that, faced with increasing resistance, the rising power of dominant capital in the United States has slowed down significantly over the years and seems to have stalled completely in recent times (Figure 1). But the level of this power is still greater than ever, and it is yet to show any meaningful decline. Finally, and importantly, the stalling advance of U.S. dominant capital makes it extra vigilant against any serious challenge.

Prediction: if the current U.S. government delivers on its promise to curtail the might of the country’s largest corporations, it will face the wrath of the most powerful megamachine the world has ever seen.

---Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan, authors of the Capital as Power, the power theory of value

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The Physics of Capitalism (monthlyreview.org)
Just when I thought Telegram might be an option in c/piracy@lemmy.ml
[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/why_not_signal.md

I'd also add Jami to the recommended list, even though it is a bit buggy.

Death to passwords: Beta passkey support comes to Chrome and Android - But there are still unanswered questions about lock-ins in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

well i won't be using anything google.

Nix Package Manager Advice in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Which one in specific? There are some packages which maintainers did not bother creating xdg desktop specification... you can look into nixpkgs source code to see if they are specified there or not.

I do not know if Debian is able to pick the desktop files though

Beehaw is a community in c/support@beehaw.org
[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Rules can only do so much as it was written down. They incentive burocracy.

The narrative typically takes the side of ‘open/free speech’ is tantamount and that any suppression of said speech is unwelcome (typically said in a much more hostile way).

I'm not too sure about US in specific, but there are democratic countries' law where free speech is not an absolute guaranteed right; it cannot go against other laws, human dignity, ...