I am 50/50.

It’s link free, and while citing a few details, mostly vague with a suspicious format.

But sfg.media seems to have a real history; it’s not an SEO farm:

SFG Media was launched in 2022 by a small group of Kyiv-based journalists and volunteers during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It identifies as a non-commercial, non-registered media collective run by six individuals. According to their About page, they publish English-language content primarily to offer independent Ukrainian perspectives to international audiences. While not a formally registered media outlet, they describe their work as journalism reflecting their “social and political position.”

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/sfg-media-bias-and-credibility/

And the point the article makes is pretty reasonable.

I’d feel a whole lot better if they link citations like the ISW or Wikipedia. And I know that can be a slop pattern too, but it’s still good practice these days.

+1, I get it.

I don’t know how to say this inoffensively, but I think China (speaking broadly) has a cultural victim complex, which is understandable given their history.

And I think China and Russia governments stoke this victimization for political benefit, kinda like the US convervative movement is doing now.

Anyway, I think that leads to reflexive denial of their own atrocities as if its an abuser blaming a more enlightened victim. And as for the tankies actually outside of those countries, well… I don’t really know.

So what have tankies got to say here?

They seem real quiet.

Why not both? One section for owners, one for pre-purchasers (maybe it has to be in their wishlist?)

It would give owners a clean space, allow pre-purchasers to ask questions, but rob trolls of attention (which is the most important thing).

I mean no offense on the whole, but its quite ironic given the reports on how they treat Uyghur folks.

…Kinda like Israel’s irony here. And the US, and, you know, a whole lot of countries right now. Trauma tends to get passed down, it seems.

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Bad headline.

…As he could have done this anyway? Like, what does the shutdown have to do with it other than optics and literal vengance?

A lens (the bottom one that hits the ground first) cracked the first week I got my iPhone 16, setting it down on a glass table.

Its a hairline crack, but still.

And it was in a case, but the bump is so freaking big the camera barely sticks out.

Meanwhile my old HTC and Razer phones (and old iPhones) never had this problem… Oh, but I forgot, they were a millimeter thicker and non-rectangles, therefore unusable?

Honestly most Americans don’t even know about the blockade :(

Headline seems true. To quote ISW’s Oct 1 report:

Gasoline shortages continue in Russia and occupied Ukraine due to repeated Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries. Russian energy-focused outlet Seala told Russian state outlet RBK on September 30 that Russian oil refineries are temporarily facing a 38 percent decrease (roughly 338,000 tons per day) in their primary oil refining capacity as of September 28 due to Ukrainian drone strikes, which have struck more than two dozen major oil refineries in Russia since early August 2025.[20] Seala estimated that Russia’s total available capacity for gasoline and diesel fuel production fell by 6 percent in August 2025 and by another 18 percent in September 2025, reaching historic lows. Seala estimated that Ukrainian drone strikes caused approximately 70 percent of downtime in gasoline production as the strikes disabled approximately a quarter of Russia’s oil refining capacity (roughly 236,000 tons per day) by the end of September 2025, and that four more Russian refineries, including two of the top five largest Russian oil refineries, halted production after drone strikes. Independent Russian outlet the Moscow Times reported that the fuel crisis has impacted the Far East and occupied Crimea the hardest, where Russian authorities have banned sales of more than 30 liters of gasoline per customer since the beginning of the week (roughly September 28).[21] Crimean occupation head Sergey Aksyonov announced on October 1 a limit of 20 liters of gasoline per customer in an effort to mitigate the gasoline shortage.[22] Russian economist Vladislav Inozemtsev noted that Russian oil companies have to wait months for repairs to damaged refineries, as Western sanctions have blocked the sale of equipment and replacement parts on which Russia relies and cannot easily replace with Chinese equivalents. Russian business outlet Kommersant reported that Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak outlined to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on September 24 several possible means of alleviating Russia’s desperation for gas, including a zero-rate five percent import customs duty on gasoline imported from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), South Korea, and Singapore through certain checkpoints in the Far East.[23] Novak also reportedly proposed a rule that Russia will only authorize certain companies to supply fuel, which would allow Russia to export approximately 150,000 tons of gasoline from Siberian refineries westward per month to maintain supply balances in central Russia. Novak also reportedly proposed increasing gasoline imports from Belarus from 45,000 tons to 300,000 tons per month. RBK reported that Belarus began exporting gasoline to Russia in September 2025 after a pause that began in Fall 2024.[24]

Russia’s problems with oil refinery capabilities will likely persist amidst more damage to Russian oil refineries. Russian authorities and sources reported on October 1 that there was a large fire at the Yaroslavl Oil Refinery, located 700 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.[25] Yaroslavl Oblast Governor Mikhail Evraev claimed on October 1 that the incident is unrelated to a drone attack, and neither Ukrainian nor Russian sources have attributed responsibility for the fire.[26] Rostov Oblast Governor Yuriy Slyusar claimed that a Ukrainian drone strike overnight caused a fire at an industrial facility in Verkhnedonsky Raion, Rostov Oblast, and NASA FIRMS data indicates that there was a fire at the Sukhodolnaya Oil Pumping Station in Rostov Oblast.[27]

The war can be both devastating for Russia and an ongoing grind.

That itself is not unprecedented. Large militaries have horrifically ground themselves down against smaller, determined foes for literally thousands of years.

I think all of Twitter is probably better to ignore?

LOT of The Guardian (click bait yeah, misinformation no), AP, Reuters, Al Jazeera and mocking the NY Times for sanewashing

I guess everyone has their different leanings, but I’m talking more about dailybeast, rawstory, literal tabloids that constantly hit the front page when sensationalist or sometimes flat out wrong headlines. There’s a reason Wikipedia avoids these.

Folks also spread twitter screenshots or memes that are easy to interpret as factual but are, in fact, completely fabricated. This is an example I’m thinking of: https://lemmy.world/post/36736401

And of course mods don’t care as long as it fits political orthodoxy, no matter how much its pointed out. I’ve even had Lemmy users express they ‘don’t care’ about the source quality, just that it matches their ideology. If the above was, say, a more tankie leaning meme, you can bet the mods would have zapped it instantly.

Lemmy has a lot of Anarchists and very true Left leaning people in general, which means knowing how to doubt everything corporate media puts out into the world.

Again, I’m skeptical of this, as it sure seems like tabloids are upvoted en masse as long as the title is juicy.

In other words, no one really seems to care about information hygiene unless its outside their bubble. Thats a recipe for spreading misinformation.

It uses a modified version of its engine and its own filter source. It’s not commercial ABP: https://github.com/uazo/cromite/blob/master/docs/ADBLOCKING.md

Why was AdBlock Plus used rather than uBlock?

ADB is developed in c++ while uBlock is an extension in javascript. Currently, support for extensions is not active in Android. ADB in Cromite is enhanced with support for cname uncloaking and blocking even in workers (a unique feature of Cromite). Support for “acceptable ads” has been completely removed.

I view this as a huge plus, as (theoretically) a C++ engine is faster than a javascript one.

It doesn’t work with some projects, unfortunately.

It’s not that bad, IMO.

That being said, you sould 100% be using Cromite if you’re on android. Not only is its adblocking/antifingerprinting basically state-of-the-art, but its (unfortunately) way faster than firefox.

Killing sideloading might kill it though…

Lemmy is a bubble too, unfortunately. The top posts here are frequently clickbait websites or misinformation.

And it’s easy to look back on the nastiness of the old internet with rose tinted glasses, but… I think folks were aware of the absurdity, yeah. It was like being in a zoo. So I suppose I largely agree

Ugh yes I hate the import system too. I have to look it up every time and still don’t understand it, and it’s a hair away from messing up existing projects to the point where sometimes it does.

I want to love uv, but:

• It breaks some random compiled C packages. I ran into this the other day, and the associated issue on the package was basically “shrug we see it’s breaking, this dev is doing some weird shit”

• I’d prefer to use the optimized/patched build of Python CachyOS provides (and the optimized Python compiled system packages), though this is largely OCD.

• It’s not optimal for some PyTorch stuff, which is its own little ecosystem nightmare

It’s so ridiculous that many projects don’t even support pip+venv (much less system python packages. shivers). They literally check if that’s what you’re trying and pre-emptively fail.

Some projects become impossible to run in any combination because some dependency (looking at you, sentencepiece) no longer works outside a narrow set of circumstances, unless you hand build some obscure github PR, disable all the dependency checks and cross your fingers and hope the wheel builds.

And I’m sorry, but I don’t have 200GB of space, tons of spare RAM, and an intricate docker passthrough setup for every random python project. I just have like four different 3rd party managers (conda/mamba, uv, poetry… what’s the other one? Ugh)

This is spot on.

And on the apparently contradictory “AGI” development, I’ll add the Big Tech kingpens like Altman/Zuck/Musk are hyping that while doing the exact opposite. They say that, turn around, cut fundamental research, and focus more on scaling plain transformers up or even making AI ‘products’ like Zuck is. And the models they deploy are extremely conservative, architecturally.

Going on public statements from all three, I think their technical knowledge is pretty poor and they may be drinking some of their own kool-aid. They might believe scaling up transformers infinitely will somehow birth more generalist ‘in the sky’ intelligence, when in reality it’s fundamentally a tool like you describe, no matter how big it is.