Just because an authoritarian has the power to act "quickly", you think that they will always act in the right way to handle a crisis?
Where did I say that? I never made that claim. I even included the "theoretically" to acknowledge that they don't actually do that.
Of course most of them are evil, and even those that aren't, don't have the best ideas. But this is about what the system enables, not how it is actually used.
authoritarianism ... considered the most effective form of governance in difficult times for a country ...
That is the case though. Talking to people takes time, the less people the faster you can respond to difficulty. An autocrat can just take any radical action necessary to deal with a crisis on a whim, theoretically.
I understand the problem with Russia saying this, and I don't see why it should be in a dictionary. But it's absolutely not false.
I fail to understand how AI is relevant here. Isn't it just being used as a boogeyman to blame the problem on?
I mean, you're not forced to use English with AI. They even know obscure languages like Swiss German (which doesn't have any formal literature), surely they know Icelandic too. People talking to it in English is more of a people problem than an AI problem.
reluctance to stop dealing with Russia
Can you name examples?
We did always implement all the EU sanctions afaik.
In case you meant us not using Russian assets to help Ukraine like the EU does, iirc they're using interest, not the actual assets, for that. Which I remember reading (but don't have a source right now) isn't possible for Switzerland due to how they are stored in commercial banks rather than central repositories. And just seizing them would be illegal. It's not like we don't want to (though that's probably a factor too), but more like we can't.
The Nazi gold is still very much a thing.
The Nazi gold was given back. It's very much not a thing anymore. And back to the jews I mean, not Germany.
This only applies though if it's a per-device passkey that uses a private key stored securely that cannot be exported.
If the private key can be exported, it can be stolen and the factors becomes invalid.
But people also store their private key in cloud solutions (some here mentioned doing that) which just makes the factor invalid anyway, since then it's not device-bound anymore, and it's the device that verifies your identity with those methods.
Like, what if someone hacks the cloud service storing the passkeys and steals them? Not really any different from storing passwords in a cloud, and that one isn't called 2FA either.
There are some platforms here that do have a karma system. Mbin does, and I think Piefed iirc had a similar but not same scoring system for users too.
Depends. If you get Gruyere in the US, there's zero relation to Switzerland there. The US declared gruyere a generic name and so its Swiss or French name protections are void there and thus no guarantee about origin is made.
In the EU there's the difference between (Swiss) Gruyere and French Gruyere which are quite different according to Wikipedia.
There are endless discussion on the internet why pc gaming is superior than consoles
It is objectively. It's the only platform which fully supports modding (and historically the only one that supported it at all) with sideloading (not through stores provided by the game dev). Modding is huge for the longevity of a game. At least in my experience, PC games tend to have more settings to customize your experience. You can install external tooling like Reshade and others. If you buy on GOG, you actually own your games. There are some games that just aren't suited to consoles, like RTS, while I can't think of any genre that works badly on PC. You also get to choose where you buy games.
That said. Consoles exist for a reason. They're ready-made systems that can play games designed for it without a hassle. You only have to worry about upgrading when a new console comes out, and you always know whether a new game will run on your console. You don't have to worry about stuff like driver updates either.
I think objectively speaking, PC is clearly better for gaming than console. BUT subjectively it's a different story. Most people would probably prefer consoles due to them being more accessible.
Just play your game and let other gamers enjoy their game too.
This is most important imo. At the end of the day, subjective enjoyment is what matters most, so that's where the comparison should go. And imo there's not much of a winner there, there's good and bad traits for either, and there's going to be different people preferring either.
Does this even make any difference outside of Switzerland (were pirating for personal use is actually legal)?
On Reddit, a more accurate name for /r/worldnews would be "Non-US News". It iirc came about because /r/news was flooded with random US news no one outside the US cared about, so /r/worldnews was meant to be the place for news from or directly concerning other countries besides the US.
Considering the rule of no internal US news, I assume lemmy.world's version of the community is an extension of the subreddit, culturally. They do allow some US news, but from what I can tell, it's only ones which directly concern another country or the citizen of another country.
What do you mean with "crosslinking" in this context?
You know how to view a threadiverse post from Mastodon. You know how to post a Mastodon post to a threadiverse community.
What else are you looking for?