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Linkdump 47/2024 – #fundstücke

Sounds like Russia's tech industry - including internet, software, etc. - is seeing sharp declines in revenue, with widespread, major layoffs.
"The economy is in s***. It seems like everyone really needed IT specialists, there was a shortage of personnel, and all that. But the market has no money for development, the marketing tools have collapsed. Although both marketers and IT specialists are needed, there is no money. But everyone is hiding this."

«Денег нет, но все это скрывают». В России начались массовые сокращения айтишников
Нынешний год для российского ИТ-рынка заканчивается увольнениями.

Couch jammin with the LXR-02 and a brown drink

Open source software for brain implant (and open hardware brain implant) when

Aus blanker Neugierde: Mit welcher Sprache betreibt ihr eure Geräte?
Ich habe meine Desktop-Systeme schon immer in Englisch und die Handys in Deutsch eingestellt. Jetzt aber beides in Englisch.

I posted the assortment of tools I've found for #Bluesky in this post including 3rd pty Bluesky clients, list/starter pack mgmt tools, Twitter migration tools & statistics reports. (Also the #Microsoft #StarterPacks

INFO: Microsoft on BlueSky
UPDATE 12/6/24WHOA. Yesterday, after I posted this, Microsoft Corporation officially joined Bluesky as a company, verified by Frank X. Shaw, our Director of Corporate Communications. This is absolu…

The ruble has lost 1/3rd of its value vs. the yuan, but if you factor in OTHER extra costs...
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China strongly limits Russian access to tech in mech. engineering, aviation, and microelectronics.
"...they openly tell us: if you want to get some technologies, buy the product as a whole. We say: no, at best we need components that we'll replace soon. They tell us: we understand this, but aren't going to do it at normal prices. Here is double the price - please.&…

КамАЗ пожаловался на нежелание китайцев делиться технологиями и надеется на возвращение западных партнеров
Российский бизнес, как и власти, надеется на скорое возвращение западных компаний и инвесторов, ушедших из страны после начала полномасштабной войны.

One obvious reason this could be the case, despite the stimulus impact of the war, is that a lot of dotcoms / tech companies are highly sensitive to the stock market, VC funding, etc.
IOW, revenue from the stock market & VC funding suddenly disappeared, leaving them at the mercy of high rate loans, due to the historically high Russian central bank key rate.
And so, huge swathes of high tech are at risk of debt spirals and ever-increasing rates on loans.

I remember someone mentioning a software that could read a Mastodon export archive and host your toots and stuff in a webpage
Does anyone know the name or something?

ICHSS 2025 : 2025 11th International Conference on Humanity and Social Sciences (ICHSS 2025) #acrel http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=180298%C…

Paging #GenX. They're baaaaack!
#phenomena #muppets #sandrabullock