I could see them maybe using a custom version of Deepseek for that second tier. Could be a boon for them if the inference costs are a lot lower.
It's actually pretty rare for dictatorships to have only one legal party. Even North Korea is nominally a multi-party state. Such minor parties are just token controlled opposition ofc, but they serve to give a flimsy "democratic" veneer.
America's trajectory rn is aiming closer to the illiberal/managed democracy of Hungary under Viktor Orban, where there are true opposition parties with an actual chance at winning, but the media, government, and electoral system is strongly biased against them.
More accurately, it traps any web crawler, including regular search engines and benign projects like the Internet Archive. This should not be used without an allowlist for known trusted crawlers at least.
Annoyingly, it initially seemed to work well on my iPad (only lacking right-click support, which upped the difficulty nicely), but now it only shows the multicolored loading screen forever. Not a cookie thing either, since it does the same thing in a private tab.
I just wish it would prioritize the top from the last 6 hours while showing older stuff below. Because slower communities feel dead when you visit and see no posts (even if there was one seven hours ago).
"You can't take a picture of this, it's already gone."
Yeah, if you do the Connections Bot, at the end it links to the NYT comments, and each one has its own themed image.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23816732
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It's a nice sentiment, but things haven't exactly worked out for the pro-democracy movement in HK.