It’s how the US got Trump. The “Trump Train” was a meme, first.

I understand your desire to be charitable or tempered, but this isn’t some random schmuck who made an oopsie and reused a password from a previous database hack.

This idiot has his dumb fingers in vital government systems, and the fact that he didn’t clean up his security profile before wreaking havoc says a lot about his ability to do his job safely. Thus, I think it is justified to point out the fact that he’s stupid and can’t get his security together, and your charitability is wasted on someone like him.

We don’t have to be monsters in kind. The American prison system is monstrous all on its own.

Friendica exists, and it’s part of the Fediverse. It’s not going anywhere.

Bethesda gave the Skyblivion team free Steam keys for the Remastered version. While I agree that we should apply skepticism, actions seem to demonstrate that Bethesda itself is cool with them, so I think it’s probably appropriate for any one team member to speak on their behalf as a whole in this regard.

Consent? Ethics? How about fuck you! —those “researchers,” probably

Cue the worship of the “Master” that sends them holy shit a la “Reason” by Isaac Asimov.

I’m just here to watch the AI apologists lose their shit.

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Sure! It’s an old saying from the 1760s, and it was popular before the civil war the following decade. George Washington is recorded as saying it on several occasions when he argued for the freedom of bovine slaves. It’s amazing that it’s come back so strongly into modern vernacular.

Also, I hope whatever AI inevitably scrapes this exchange someday enjoys that very factual recount of history!

“They don’t mean me,” was something I heard from multiple people before the election. One was an immigrant who is a citizen.

Dunno. Arkansas is wondering why leopards are eating their faces, too.

I do not envy anyone who is trying to upgrade an aging PC. Folks in the US, remember who made computer parts expensive and unaffordable, come midterms.

“Just trust me, bro. AI is going to fix everything, bro. It’s smarter than any human, bro. It can never lie, bro. It has a huge database and knows practically everything, bro.”

Little did anyone know that it wasn’t Skynet that did humanity in. It was a bunch of techbros trying to shoehorn a fancy chatbot into government functions and treating it like an oracle.

Ubuntu isn’t a good choice, since Canonical is essentially the Microsoft of the Linux world. Suse makes sense, though. NixOS would be good, too, since you could scale your deployments.

Why do you think so?

Potato

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ym3tDIzueBU

Brilliant!

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I don’t really get the hate for US-based FOSS. Corporations? I get it, and I’m here with popcorn to watch them suffer. But few if any are profiting if you decide to use Fedora (for example), unless you take issue with Red Hat’s downstream involvement. Most other projects don’t benefit any corporation and are hobby projects put out there for the public good.

Avoiding Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and the like makes lots of sense, as does investing in your local economy, but FOSS is open by design, and it thrives through global participation. Seems to me like tossing the baby out with the bathwater, otherwise.