if you are looking at this from the US that is not necessarily the only thing that could be driving prices up though. You’ve got tariffs and a much weaker dollar than it used to be right now…

Well they’re saying despite there being a light sensor it still can be easily circumvented by also covering the camera, not the LED, with your hand when starting to record and then just moving your hand away from the camera once the glasses are recording. I’ve definitely seen this tip shared and I think even an video of it in action.

They probably realize there’s no airtight way to prevent it anyway so they’ve added just some simple ways to make it a bit more difficult. It’s not like you couldn’t get camera glasses from some other company without these restrictions anyway if you’re determined to record without the light.

Having seen what people now accept I would not want to bet that these will fail. Never thought people would be OK with Google using their phone to record their exact location 24/7 and save a searchable history of it for example but it seems that never was even controversial. Same with phones and other dedicated little devices that are always listening…

I agree the shit during cold war was bad and it was good that we had moved past that. Unfortunately it looks like that and worse is now again on the table for USA. What I was really talking about was even further back than that though. The real period of no international norms whatsoever, pre-WW1.

But yeah, I can see you’re one of those tankies who only wants to desperately see one thing so probably not worth continuing.

Looking at all the lawlessness of the Trump administration with regards international law and how it is returning to “gunboat diplomacy” I think that position is a bit difficult to defend as being the only thing it has done.

More nuanced arguments can be made but it is a fact that we can just look at how things were historically if we want to see what the world will look like when there’s no international law or norms.

Democracy has certainly meant a lot more than just that to the countless people who got out of nondemocratic regimes imposed on them against their will. So much so that even the modern authoritarian tries to pretend he is supporting democracy by holding sham elections etc.

Sorry, converted factories in nazi germany to make weapons, while also continuing to sell nazi germany materials and financial services integral to their effort.

Where in particular do you see weapons factories mentioned in that? Some businesses continuing to operate in Nazi Germany, sure. Fairly far from the initial claim though.

He was literally Time’s Man Of The Year in 1938; fascism was seen as the answer to communism.

Time magazine man of the year has never been about making an endorsement. He wasn’t portrayed as an answer to communism in the article but as a threat: https://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/projects/hitler/sources/30s/391time/391timemanyear.htm

It was ideologically aligned with them because they liberated the people and increased their standards of living by simply removing the Japanese and holding real elections.

Yeah… that’s not at all accurate. There were no real elections. A hand-picked leader who was loyal to Moscow by the Soviets. Communist as a requirement. Wasn’t great from the start and especially in the long run North Korea really has in fact proven to be the worse option…

Most nations in Europe and the EU didn’t manage much more than that so it’s really no reason for the Germans to distrust UK when they’re doing the same thing… and the reason is that European security is still strongly dependent on the USA, unfortunately.

“Saving europe from the nazis” is far too much credit for the USA… but they did play a significant role, just weren’t the only one putting in work to do it. Unfortunately the Soviets also took the eastern half for their efforts…

I don’t know what you’re referring to with “selling weapons to the nazis” though, the aid in weapons to Britain and USSR was significant before USA entered the war and there was a ban on selling weapons to anyone before that happened.

Same with praising fascism, in general the Nazis tried to demonize the US government and focused on the jewish members of it in particular. There were certainly some American fascists of course if that’s what you’re referring to but they didn’t represent the US as a country…

US splitting Korea is a bit like saying the US split Europe or Germany. It wasn’t the plan at the time but the USSR wasn’t going to let go of what they had occupied without it becoming ideologically aligned with them. The government that US supported carrying out purges is inexcusable of course but on the other hand but an even more brutal regime is now still in power in the North.

That said, post-WW2 USA certainly did it’s share of evil shit during the cold war. It’s just that the other side of that was still generally worse and USA got somewhat better over time. Now all that seems to be out the window.

Because for a time with all its faults it was the best option. The world becoming multipolar with most strong players not being committed to rule of law or democracy will have some pretty significant consequences…

well the thing is that sharing this sort of ideology doesn’t really mean your goals are really aligned on most issues at all since “America First” is necessarily “Sweden Last”. It’s of course especially dumb to push for this sort of worldview everywhere if you’re from a small country that really needs the world to cooperate…

how low has it historically fluctuated to with more normal presidents?

Very sorry to hear that, a legend has passed. Just watched LGR’s react to the Computer Chronicles 1987 Christmas Episode the other day… I may need to schedule a Computer Chronicles marathon soon in light of this news.

well that may be true for general news but if you’re looking for a more specific topic it won’t necessarily hold.

thanks, that’s interesting to see… I wouldn’t say that what we mean by Loops now has been around for that long but it does show he has been thinking about shortform video for a while and used the same name as the experimental feature had.

where are you getting the idea that Loops is five years old? Seems more like less than two years. From what I can tell it was publicly announced March 2024 (not yet available at that point): https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/loops-by-pixelfed/

In October 2024 it was starting to accept limited signups. The git repo has commits dating back to December 2024.

Federation for it is definitely still a WIP but I don’t see much reason to doubt that it will be a fediverse platform.

Do you have a proposal for how you’d solve the other half then or just think it isn’t enough?

Well it is fundamentally better because it does not only have a single party that makes all the calls thanks to the real decentralization. I wouldn’t call all of fediverse “the good guys” but I would call it “good”.

Because they’re focused on just user numbers probably and many people from Turkey recently moved there. This decision might of course cause a decline anyway.

Whether anything about it is for a good reason is very much a contested point. There are significant issues they introduced with the design while trying to address some that exist in ActivityPub.

they could also choose to fight it exactly like Twitter under Dorsey did and as Wikipedia did (and won). Instead they’re instantly just obeying and even setting up to obey multiple other countries like Russia too.