Ok, this conversation is going to go nowhere. There is a clear divergence in what we both say vs what we interpret each other saying. We can probably both keep trying to explain our points, but it will just lead to an endless cycle of nonsense.

What my familiarity is with one ideology or another is irrelevant to this thread.

But yeah, ml/c/usa is a great example of mostly anti-west mass posting by a vocal minority. We could get into specific subjects and events that may or may not be true, but that risks detailing the point of this thread. (This may have changed over the last few months, but I doubt it.)

For generic cut-n-paste responses, all you usually need to do is mention anything about Ukraine or Chinese gost cities. Those are just two glaring examples, but I am sure there are more.

Your experience is going to be different because you likely have different views than me. That’s not good or bad, it just is what it is.

No, I am not a fan of .world either. It’s got its own set of issues.

I have and blocked nearly all of it. They have fuck-all to do with Marxism or Communism and mainly focus on Kremlin and CCP anti-west propaganda.

It’s worse than the “conservative” communities, actually. It’s not so much about promoting a cause as it is about telling everyone else how they are “bad”. Any dissent is usually met with insults or walls of cut-n-paste posts that all point back to state media sources or fake sites.

While all places have their own degrees of circle-jerk mentality, it can be especially bad in some corners of Lemmy.

Can you snort it? Just image all of that sweet, sweet data…

Hey. I made that joke first about hell freezing over. Booo!

I thought it was nudie calendars of Olga Skabeyeva and RT news, but you can call it whatever you want I guess.

There was an article posted today on /c/texas (Lemmy World, I think) about them actually connecting to the national grid.

I guess there actually was a cold day in hell…

Totally not penis inspired.

Then there is ml and lemmygrad. They lean on something, I know that at least.

New users accidentally posting on those instances is kinda fun to watch, TBH. It’s like Lemmy’s version of hazing I suppose.

Texas ain’t that big. As long as y’all aren’t getting snowed on, we should be fine.

It’s zero hedge, you twat.

And that is just an ignorant thing to say.

They are used for most pairing sequences, but we don’t type them in anymore. They are used more to validate that it’s you that are connecting two devices.

Honestly, I have never heard of that term before. Regardless, here is a cute pic for you.

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You shouldn’t be scared of something that doesn’t exist.

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(thinks out lound…)

If you could force different speeds and different voltages, you can make some guesses as to what the cable might support.

USB packets use CRC checks, so a bad checksum may indicate a speed or physical problem. (Besides stating the obvious, my point is that doing strict checks for each USB mode gives CRC more value.)

I just looked over the source code for libusb (like I knew what I was looking for, or something) and it seems that some of the driver(?) components hook really deep into the kernel. There might be a way to test specific parts of any type of handshake (for dataflow or voltage negotiation) to isolate specific wires that are bad by the process of elimination.

I think my point is that a top-down approach is likely possible, but it’s probabilistic.

Nope. I can’t even see a resemblance.