It’s very unlikely they’ll get near 50% in the next two cycles. They can become the largest party, but luckily in German politics that’s not enough. Of course it’s still a dangerous situation if another party betrays their voters and allies with them.

I would assume that the real alternative would be a right-wing -still bigoted- party that recognizes that Trump is retarded, recognizes that Russia is problematic & alongside all that they can still do the borderline fascist migrant policy & all that jazz. It’s really not that hard, alas they are really a Russian asset, they don’t really have people that actually believe all this crap. Perhaps we are lucky that they are, otherwise they could really sweep the elections like no one else has done in recent years.

they wouldn’t classify themselves as a dictatorship.

That is correct as well, but only because it’s ingrained to be resistant to openly proclaim such things. The cognitive dissonance about this very thing among the mainland Chinese is quite the fascinating topic actually.

Have you been to China? It’s not a dictatorship.

It is a dictatorship, that’s basically a fact. It’s just a much better ran dictatorship than Russia. Sometimes the king is competent & even benevolent & so the kingdom can thrive.
Having been to China has very little to do with this, yes China has amazing infrastructure & whatever else, but this is not an argument in the dictatorship debate, in math terms A is true, B is true, but there is no connection.

I think not much chance of that. Users that post there are unaffected & lemmy rarely shows up in search results…

This will make Google / DDG searches less useful than before, so even more people will use Ai instead of search.

In fact I would argue that this is a really bad business decision on Reddit’s part. I can totally see them come around & revert it in a couple of months.

Populism, being right wing & authoritarianism are not the same things. I’m of the opinion that sane populism on the left is what we need in Europe, but there are almost no examples. (kind of like what Bernie Sander’s populism is like)

In an ideal world the studios would care & you could optionally not download high-rez textures, immediately cutting the download in half, or less than.

While it’s mathematically possible, it’s very implausible. He owns 42% of the shares.

Star Trek Online exec scorns publishers who close teams like BioWare

Honestly how is Larian even remotely comparable to the Bioware of today/yesterday. Larian right now is about where Bioware has been when they made ME1, before all the EA enshittification chased away all the talent.

Not saying that is not happening, but EA is not the gaming industry, they are just garbage for the most part.

€100 / mine does not seem very efficient, but I guess they don’t want to domestically produce them. (and honestly given the circumstances, probably they should)

I can hardly believe they chose this over reunification. Thank you for the information!

Using that sovereignity for establishing a digital police state is pretty shit even without imperialistic dreams.

it’s absolutely possible to reduce the number of tries to hits to a manageable level for a distributed botnet that can’t easily be blocked.

This is very hard for me to imagine. Even if the people running the website are incredibly incompetent, they would have to be intentionally moronic about passkey generation for what you are envisioning to be realistic. You are right that passkeys enable brute forcing on a scale regular passwords don’t, but it doesn’t matter, because normal passkeys are just too long.

And if the site is hacked, they can get a lot of information about how the passkeys

I don’t like passkeys, but this is not a real worry, unless the service you are using is ran by idiots. I mean to say that knowing how passkeys are generated is typically not helpful in guessing your passkey. There are more interesting questions where security fumbles, like is your data encrypted on the provider side & is that encryption tied to your passkey or not, often not, since they want to mine your data.

Just use a botnet and start throwing probable keys at it and you’re likely to get a few.

This is not plausible, would take billions+ years to stumble upon just one with a botnet that has all online PCs on Earth utilized.

Remote attestation is the real problem with where passkeys are going.