they did ban it, and everyone still used it (Telegram was good at evading the bans back then, but eventually Roskomnadzor became decent at banning it), and then they unbanned it, whatever that means

people always joke about this but defenestration has never been that common in neither the Russian Empire, USSR nor Russian Federation

it receives relatively frequent updates, and it uses love2d (with a native lua module for the AI) so it’s crossplatform.

the code is FOSS, the weights aren’t, this is pretty common with e.g. FOSS games, the only difference here is weights are much costlier to remake from scratch than game assets

AI basically recognizes patterns and returns a likely output based on the patterns it found. It doesn’t check “this is a red pixel, so this is red”, it checks “this pattern is usually red, so this is red”.

well, it’s rather the opposite - AI is vulnerable to these kinds of tricks, you can inject some patterns into images to make the AI perceive the image in a completely different way, humans are in fact much less susceptible to this, at least for now

huh? I’d say email was quite popular there, it was just tied to the mobile operator (and has then been replaced with Line)

The right of self-determination means that a nation may arrange its life in the way it wishes. It has the right to arrange its life on the basis of autonomy. It has the right to enter into federal relations with other nations. It has the right to complete secession. Nations are sovereign, and all nations have equal rights.

Stalin, Marxism and the National Question

again, !bang is for searching using a specific search engine, !!bang is for redirecting to a search engine’s page

!g will search with google

!!g will redirect to google

all ddg bangs are supported to my knowledge, but obviously !bang will only work with the search engines searxng supports

i’m not talking about knowing about how humans perceive/learn languages, i’m talking about language structure. Perhaps it’s wrong to call it “how languages work”

While I agree that LLMs can achieve human-tier efficiency at most tasks eventually (some architectural changes will be necessary, but the core approach seems sound), it’s wrong to say it’s modeled after the human brain. We have no idea how brains work as they’re super complex, we’re building artificial neural networks from the ground up. AI uses centuries’ worth of math, but with our current maths knowledge the code isn’t too complicated. Human brains aren’t like that, they can’t be summed up in a few lines of code because DNA is a huge mess that contains so much more than just “learning”, so many inactive or redundant bits and pieces. We’re building LLMs with knowledge of how languages work, not how brains work.

it might work with obfuscation, in general my preferred solution is VPN+proxy, the proxy is used for bypassing the DPI and doesn’t have to adhere to particularly high standards and can be easily swapped, and the VPN is used via the proxy for actually routing L3 traffic

Well, Tor (with bridges) still works just fine, I don’t really know any other “crowdsourced” proxy networks. Telegram isn’t blocked (it used to be, but everyone used it anyway, including people in the government, so they unblocked it), so any info there is freely available. Wireguard and OpenVPN are blocked (even within Russia for some reason), shadowsocks is throttled on certain connections but works fine, and I haven’t extensively tested anything else.

Also, mobile networks are used for testing stricter blocking measures before rolling them out to landline connections

not “any”, but some very specific ones

snowflake is actually blocked quite well

searxng has bangs too

!bang to search using a specific engine, !!bang to redirect to a search engine’s page

this kind of software is mostly used for tech support, so your option is too hard to setup

I agree that’s a problem, but refresh rate is one of the fingerprinting methods, and resistFingerprinting doesn’t offer finetuning options (except canvas permissions?), which is what prevents me from using it

you can change that in about:config, i think privacy.resistFingerprinting is the culprit

as a rhythm gamer, I can say you’re full of shit lol

I have 240hz and the difference between 120hz and 240hz is somewhat noticeable, don’t see why I’d need any more than this though