hongdao

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Confirmed - China bans NVIDIA chips and accelerates its total independence from US technology in c/technology@lemmygrad.ml
[โ€“] hongdao@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 month ago

I would love to, and fully expect to be able to before long, one day fully migrate to Chinese computer hardware... just because it will probably not have Five Eyes backdoors built in.

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Impending sense of doom (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by hongdao@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
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Maybe it is not unreasonable but a sober evaluation of the situation. I think the lid is gonna come off this whole thing within 30 years, that is, the relatively good living conditions of the imperial core, low to medium levels of unemployment, steady food supply, etc., and North America will see, or is already in, a years of lead situation. And I hope that should we ever have Black Hundreds or Brownshirts - which we do already - we will also have Red Guards... which we don't yet. I guess looking at the aggressive advances of the fascist movement it is more poignant than ever to say "without a people's army, the people have nothing". Gotta build a movement first, and the movement's means of self protection and force will come from that.

A very prescient J. Stalin predicted in 1952 the reactionary degeneration of the bourgeois-liberal system that we see today in c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml
[โ€“] hongdao@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Pointing out the fact that Trump is a Zionist and will act in the interests of Zionists is not one of those bad takes.

However, the specific phrasing promotes the "tail wags the dog" theory, which in my view is backwards, Israel is an asset to American imperialism to a greater extent than Israel exerts control over the US (of course, Israel lobby IS powerful still). Biden put it, if there were not an israel to advance American interests in the region they would have to create one. The tail-wags-dog theory on the other hand lends itself to "ZOG", a genuinely antisemitic and reactionary slogan, as I understand it. None of us would say that the American govt was infiltrated by Koreans (from the yankee occupation state) or Taiwanese, right? We would see that those countries are if anything subordinate to Washington and not the reverse.

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Picking a tech niche (lemmygrad.ml)
 

I keep waffling about what domain of software dev I should focus on: web, data, games, who knows. It is like Sylvia Plath about the plum tree, but more nerdy and less personal. But I am thinking that "security dev" might be the perfect niche for me; I would love to learn to read assembly code, reverse engineer, etc. Don't want to be too far from development, would love to develop skills that could hypothetically one day be used to protect the people's movements from attacks.

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European bourgeois states not mass murderer migrants challenge (lemmygrad.ml)