Really funny to actively hate FOSS on ideological grounds because you just love corporations and markets so much.
Yeah, especially when there are so many legitimate ideological grounds you could use to hate on FOSS, like: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116851056980506739
I wonder who made the list of “don’t touch these repos, they’re propping up our proprietary software sans attribution” for the LLM injectabots to avoid.
I realize that the end game here is SUPPOSED to be “erode all trust in free software” but the ineptitude of those profiting off of proprietary software is such that they WILL fuck this up in such a way that it hurts themselves too, it’s just a matter of when.
Interestingly, that was the episode that made me stop watching.
I suspect I just don’t normally like watching shows about miserable people making other miserable people even more miserable, which made the fact that I really enjoyed Boardwalk Empire a surprise.
Guess there must be some other element to it.
Misleading headline.
Should be: copilot adds functionality to open links inside of it’s own sandboxed copy of the browser.
Copilot sucks, fuck AI and the hellscape it’s creating on our planet, but, dear news media: please use accurate headlines.
good policy gets you voted out of office, and makes everyone hate you. You don’t get rich from pursuing a broad-based policy that improves the lives of your constituents. a lot of people i met… were smart and open about this. there was no reason to be a ‘good’ politician because nobody pays you for it, and the voters tend to vote you out for it.
I feel like this effect could be ameliorated by restricting political advertising to direct, verified facts only.
That wouldn‘t be very democratic now, would it?
I TOLD you, we’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune! We take it in turns, to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions OF that officer must be ratified at a special biweekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, or by a TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY in the case of more immediate…
I’m curious. Economically speaking, what would happen if Nvidia pulled a “Steam” and had a “February sale” where some models of video card were discounted enough to lead to a massive spike in sales numbers? A big enough discount to generate a greater total net return on sales for the quarter despite the fact that they were sold at a lower profit margin per individual sale? Assuming limitations like “you must create an account with a residential shipping address that can receive no more than x cards at the discounted price per street address” or some such to limit scalping, would simply showing increased profits do them any good?
Or is the problem due to a lack of product quantity?
If nobody can afford anything with more than 8 gigs of ram for their office workers, they’ll all just pay for more AI tokens because otherwise the 900ms keystroke latency in MS Word would make it impossible to work, right?
I would be shocked if that wasn’t on some AI company’s brainstorm board as a positive side effect (for them) of all of this.
These features are unwanted by many, keep increasing, and the methods used to turn each individual piece off keep changing, growing, and moving, and that’s JUST on the user level.
It’s at least an order of magnitude worse to have to pull the unwanted stuff back out if you’re forking Firefox.
Mozilla could make this straightforward and easy.
They are specifically NOT doing that ON PURPOSE.
Why do you suppose that is?
Knowing that poem meant I got chills from the opening lyrics to the Mayans M.C. theme song when I heard it for the first time:
Mother of Exiles, the torch of hope.
In the toss of the tempest, threw us Madison’s rope.
But the brazen giant, with limbs astride, blocks the golden door to the US of Lies, screaming:
Fuck your huddled masses, scrub our floors, cut our grasses.
I am a wolf, a wild cur, cut from the pack, with blood on my fur. Every howl marks the dead.
Cause a beaten dog never forgets.
Oh good. /s
Let’s push the idea that “good people are tired of being filmed by creeps”.
Start the narrative out nice and soft.
Countdown to "it’s okay to smash the phones of people filming ICE agents doing their jobs"or whatever agenda is most on the radar of people who are against video accountability when they’re in the wrong.
I don’t particularly like the concept of these glasses or the fact that creeps will use them, but this is not how we tackle a problem we already have with creeps being able to use cell phones and easy-to-hide body cams.
Puff pieces like this are how narratives get used to put bad things into law.
Remember Cambridge Analytica and note the current state of xitter.
My eyes are such that I can’t tell if the script on that cardboard container is Tamil, Thai, AI, or something else.
This is made more difficult by google search continuing to suck out loud and returning results that include nicknames for people and TikTok home recipe challenges instead of historical facts on international menu items.
Even “verbatim” barely works anymore.
Anyone know what other names the McTaco may have gone by in the past?
It’s also really bad for political optics.
It’s as bad as or worse than (according to the people treating it as a political issue) low birth rates. (From a human perspective it’s much worse).
So if you can suppress discussion of it, you don’t have to talk about solving the “problem” as frequently, you can downplay it, and you can shift blame to nebulous, faceless things like “social media” or “bullying” (both of which are real things and real concerns, but not things most places are willing to earnestly address politically, so in practically they function as a fits-all “evil” that allows redirection from the real problem, which includes things like lack of agency and security.)
If the U.S., for example, had a true grasp on the scope of this issue across all age groups, I think our political landscape would look a lot different. Despite being an issue across all age groups, each age group tends to stratify their discourse to be primarily amongst themselves, so online silencing becomes a ridiculously powerful tool in downplaying the issue, because there’s already a semi-natural cultural isolation in place for discourse in general.
We’ve seen the effectiveness of this silencing tactic when it comes to avoiding discussion of the problem for decades in one particular subset of humanity who, historically speaking, frequently seems to have regular horrible tragic mishaps while “cleaning their guns”.
Thank you for the clarification
My first question, working only with the headline and the first paragraph of the post was “I wonder if I can flash this to a smart TV I currently own?” I was excited. Maybe we’d finally made progress and I could have something superior to my early experiments with serviio some 10+ years ago.
Then I got to here and stopped caring because this makes it worse than any Roku in my book:
This project uses various open-source components like Plasma Bigscreen, Mycroft AI, LibCEC
Why does it have AI in it?
Five minutes?
I’m assuming from combining ingredients to putting in the oven?
How?
Got a recipe?
I just figured he was trying to save Wikipedia from getting axed by those in power in some countries who are pushing back very hard against anything that has sentences containing both “Israel” and “genocide” in it.
We’ve hit such staggeringly outrageous levels of “forced propaganda” in the U.S. (people getting fired from their jobs for speaking I’ll of a dead guy?) that if I was Jimmy, I’d be worried about the whole thing going away if it catches the eye of the wrong person at the wrong time. I don’t agree with what he’s doing for whatever reason, but the fact is that while Cloudflare may be able to survive 2.2 whattabytes[sic] per second, Wikipedia will not.
Do some of the same shit the Republicans have been doing for ages any time THEY are in the minority.
There should be a daily press briefing with Pete B, Bernie S., or Alexandria O.C. that’s covered by every journalist who’s been kicked out of the white house. Call that shit “The American Way” briefing and compare the events of the last 24 hours of trump BS to the constitution and the declaration of independence.
Obstruct every last piece of illegal garbage the Republican Nazis are trying to get away with loudly and publicly.
Put themselves OUT THERE in the public eye as AGAINST FACISM and go full-on captain America on those Nazi Republicans.
I don’t know what this is.
Yank special brew is called malt liquor, sits between 5% and 12% abv, and is typically sold in 40oz bottles.
Also called a fotie (FOE-dee) or a lando (because Billy Dee williams, the actor who played lando calrissian also did ads for colt45 malt liquor)
This is 42 ounces?
The vast majority of computer users with those kinds of issues are
windows 10 couldn’t reliably run it’s own bundled software (Mail), by itself, with nothing else open, without that one app going “not responding” every few minutes on a computer with those specs.
Last time i checked, Walmart, best buy, costco, etc were still selling those specs with win11 which is notably bulkier and slower than 10, especially without an ssd, so things have only gotten worse for the average non-power-user.
That’s a perfectly servicible spec for basic operations on a mint install, you could probably even watch netflix or youtube on it with linux, but i wouldn’t want to run windows newer than xp on it.