My apologies for the confusion.

In my original comment, I was talking about the term "tankie", which is a term we're seeing used a lot on Lemmy (a social media) to refer to people who support authoritarian governments (of countries, such as Russia and China).

In my reply to you, I meant to say that the effects of a Lemmy instance being "authoritarian" aren't at all as harmful to its users as an authoritarian country is to its residents, since it's easy to change instances but its not generally easy (and sometimes not reasonably possible) to change countries.

Sure? But Blahaj isn't a country, it's a social media.

I'm free to register on multiple instances at once. If I ever became displeased with Blahaj's admins, I could very easily go elsewhere.

ah, then my impressions are biased, since I haven't heard that term outside of Lemmy.

There's pretty much only one person I know irl that calls themselves a "centrist".

People designated .ml as a tankie instance for very good reason: the admins of .ml have repeatedly shown to be pro-authoritarian.

For years now I've seen incessant gaslighting from tankies pretending that "tankie" is some catch-all term baselessly thrown around like "woke". However, I've pretty much exclusively seen the term "tankie" used to describe people who support authoritarian regimes/dictatorships.

In case you're not making a joke or somebody else is wondering: this looks like a JavaScript error. Specifically, one that comes from trying to read . daylight from something that is undefined.

For example, you can get a very similar error by running:

const info = undefined; 
console.log(info.daylight);

Which in Chromium and in NodeJS v22 gives you this error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'daylight') 

Nix and NixOS

oh wow, I really wish I had known that last time I was looking for mini PCs for my cluster, I'm saving that now. Thank you!

The xenophobic "haha americans are so stupid/evil" attitude I've been seeing as of years ago all over Reddit and now even more intensly on Lemmy is making me very worried that people aren't gonna recognize the same disinformation that led to all this when its served to them...

I don't believe Americans and Europeans are as different as a lot of people seem to think. Or maybe I got dumber and more naive since my teenage years.

I appreciate it! Thank you

Shit, I remember looking at 18F when trying to learn more about accessibility and I recall they had good info, it's a shame...

Unfortunately, as I've learned recently, it doesn't look like Deepseek is actually open source.

You can download the model, but unless I'm misunderstanding, that feels comparable to calling Photoshop open source because you can download the .exe file on your computer.

I, for one, haven't seen people over-using the word "tankie", I haven't seen people getting called tankies for the reason alone that they are leftists or even communists.

However, I've seen many tankies insisting that the word is meaningless or that it just means anybody on the left.

People I've seen using the word tankie have been surprisingly consistent about who they call a tankie: supporters of authoritarianism, especially Putin and the CCP.