Unsurprisingly, defenders of dictatorships always have to resort to whataboutism to defend the indefensible.

As per usual, this whataboutism is lazy and inaccurate as well.

My rule would be simple: The only ships allowed to land are those crewed by a captain who can pronounce this accent-free. Every one else gets acquainted with the business end of the Planetenverteidigungskanone.

Even first gen ones from 2015 are still being used. I don’t think these die all that often. They will be obsolete at some point, but even this takes far longer than with other tech. As long as you make sure it doesn’t overheat, it should last for a while longer.

Yup, they are one of the most inhuman regimes on the planet, right up there with the likes of China and North Korea: https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/08/21/they-fired-us-rain/saudi-arabian-mass-killings-ethiopian-migrants-yemen-saudi

Nope, these mass death events are a regular occurrence due to the Saudi government’s incompetence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_during_the_Hajj

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To illustrate your point, my old GPU, a GTX 1080 from 2016 (basically ancient history - Obama was still president back then) remains a very useful for ML-applications today - and this isn’t even their oldest card that is still relevant for AI. This card was never meant for this, but thanks to Nvidia investing into CUDA and CUDA being useful for all sorts of non-gaming applications, the API became a natural first choice when ML tools that run on consumer hardware started to get developed.

My current GPU, an RTX 2080, is just two years younger and yet it’s so powerful (for everything I throw at it, including ML) that I won’t have to upgrade it for years to come.

I mean, one of the core ideas behind these things is that these are highly capable devices that are receiving updates for several times as long as normal tech, so you can just keep using them for ages.

Apart from the very latest codecs, what else should they do that they aren’t already doing?

Because that’s where the audience is. Peertube is deader than the lemmyverse. You are essentially making the silly “but yet you choose to live in society” argument.

It could be regulated into oblivion, to the point that any commercial use of it (and even non-commercial publication of AI generated material) becomes a massive legal liability, despite the fact that AI tools like Stable Diffusion can not be taken away. It’s not entirely unlikely that some countries will try to do this in the future, especially places with strong privacy and IP laws as well as equally strong laws protecting workers. Germany and France come to mind, which together could push the EU to come down hard on large AI services in particular. This could make the recently adopted EU AI Act look harmless by comparison.

Funny you mention that. Israeli brain surgeons saved Yahya Sinwar’s life by removing a tumor when he was imprisoned in Israel for torture and murder of several Palestinians and Israelis. He “thanked” the lead surgeon by having his grandson abducted on October 7.

What’s far more disgusting is stalking me after I called you out.

Key quote:

Palestinian militants armed with machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades opened fire on the rescuers, as Israel called in heavy strikes from land and air to cover their evacuation to the coast. “A lot of fire was around us,” Hagari said.

It was this bombardment that appears to have killed and wounded so many Palestinians.

This was a ruse of war, which is entirely permitted:

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v2/rule57

What isn’t permitted is fighting in civilian clothes, but if you read the article, there is nothing indicating that they did. It is entirely legal to move about and set up an attack in civilian clothes, provided they are discarded immediately before striking.

Everything you’re writing is 1:1 Russian state misinformation, completely identical to lies spread by the Russian government in order to justify their imperialistic expansion.

Chinese military tech has always been and will always be decades behind. Autocratic regimes are terrible at fostering innovation - and unlike with civilian tech, China cannot make use of cooperation with Western companies in order to catch up. Their only remaining option is subterfuge, which has limited effectiveness.

Additionally, the Chinese military lacks institutional knowledge and experience - and courting Western experts won’t make up for this. They haven’t fought in any serious war since the 1970s. Against pirates and sandal fighters in and around Africa, they are performing shockingly poorly. On top of that, there’s corruption that is at least as bad as in Russia, poor quality equipment, low training standards, awful electronic warfare capabilities, etc. pp.

They’ve been told to do this for decades and they are proudly ignoring these requests.

“But what about” * 5. It’s always whataboutism with sycophants of autocratic regimes.

You don’t get to cherry pick which human rights to respect in order to seem progressive.

The way you casually threw away a human rights aspect you don’t care about can only be called cherry-picking. That’s really all that needs to be said in response to this gish gallop.

Not all of them. In recent years, virtually all arcades have been powered by standard gaming PCs (see for example the infamous Half-Life 2 arcade). In the past, it wasn’t unheard of for some arcades to have nearly identical hardware compared to home consoles. The Neo Geo arcade for example is running the exact same code as the home console (although in this case, the arcade came first). There have also been edge-cases, like the Namco System 11, which is using only slightly modified PS1 hardware (primarily in the sound department) in order to drive down costs.