[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is almost certainly a "please please please dont fucking flatten us please" from SA. They may have a rivalry with Iran but they're not against kissing toes to get short term benefit.

Iran may support the North Yemeni govt, but only as far as it benefits Iranian interests. Saudi Arabian subservience, even temporarily, could be worth them quietly telling the Houthis to avoid the refineries.

EDIT:

A notable statement by Iran was that they announced an offer to develop a nuclear energy industry in SA. This is certainly Iran recognising the opportunistic nature of the Saudi diplomatic efforts and offering something that could upset the Americans watching closely at the sidelines.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

flips page oh no. flips another page oh no. flipping more pages no. nono no nonono

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 weeks ago

Saudi Arabia has joined in, shelling Saada.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago

Of all the fuckin places to move to they chose reddit 😭

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago

Just proves to me that this should've gone to remediation so much earlier. Losing three important contributors to the Kernel, because people were scared of involving the Code of Conduct Committee from the start, is a shit sandwich, regardless of whoever you want to blame for this.

I'm not gonna lose sleep over his departure but the Linux foundation could do a lot to improve the professionalism of the project instead of dumping money on chasing AI.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago

This is probably part of post-war US dairy industry lobbying.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 months ago

Ironically what enabled this was the joint US-UK bombing raid on Sa'ana and Hodeidah port, intended to punish them for a ballistic missile strike on Tel Aviv earlier in the week.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 months ago

Interesting because most of the Reddit front page is viral marketing nowadays.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 months ago

Yeah the video I saw seemed to be a MANPADS. Pantsir is probably being hidden somewhere until they can learn how to operate it (I'm sure the Ukrainian officers will help with translation!)

Still, IGLA aren't quite fast enough or long range enough to be a big threat to modern fixed wing aircraft. A Pantsir might be close range, but it definitely does fulfill a dangerous gap in the air defences of HTS.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago

don't think it's an industrial complex more than the natural self interest of western media companies wanting to dumb down any protest movement for its audience.

There's a lot at play, such as the general subconscious sexism that portrays women as meek and caring over the violent, selfish man. On average (talking out of my ass here) this means media will naturally bias towards using women in imagery portraying protests to evoke positive emotions, the same way we often see women being used to evoke something being a tragedy. Men may be used to make a protest seem scary or violent, or to make a tragic event look menacing - Just think of how we see women Vs men used in news articles about immigration/refugees!

There's also just the sex appeal. Young women with features appealing to white western audiences are going to be featured in protest photography more than the men. This bias is likely at every level - photographers will likely photograph women more, whilst editors will likely select women from that already biased selection of photos. It's compounding; Especially if these choices are actively biased rather than unconsciously so.

There are loads of interacting social forces behind what is filtered down and slapped on an article designed for clicks rather than any amount of deeper thought. You're more than likely picking up on one of the many ways we're fed a skewed version of reality from almost all fronts.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 22 points 6 months ago

if I make this a meme does that count as a war meme too?

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 22 points 7 months ago

It was never about replacing C with a new language for the sake of novelty, it was about solving the large majority of security vulnerabilities that are inherent in memory-unsafe languages.

If Rust were to implode tomorrow, some other memory-safe language would come along and become equally annoying to developers who think they're the first and only person to suggest just checking the code really hard for memory issues before merge.

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