If humans had 8 arms, we’d reserve one for back and butt-scratching.

Instead of sneaker-net it will be rocket-net… and at a certain point you need an on-prem on-planet support team to just figure things out.

Yeah. I have used that. And I’m sure most with personal instances that just pressed the “Install NextCloud” button have no clue, including me.

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/yes-jeremy-corbyn-was-vilified-because-he-criticized-israel/

How very sad it is that Corbyn was ousted as leader for making the case for Palestinian rights too early. Now look at what the current ruling Labour party is doing.

Watch China shrug off Don Taco again.

Seriously. I’d be somewhat less concerned about the impact if it was only voluntarily used. Instead, AI is compulsively shoved in every nook and cranny of digital product simply to justify its own existence.

The power requirement for training is ongoing, since mere days after Sam Altman released a very underehelming GPT-5, he begins hyping up the next one.

That means that Copilot could have already indexed the content of all your files without telling you.

Putin talks with “Krasnov” /s

Ubuntu-based, Arch-based, Fedora-based distributions will do you fine.

Debian is great for having a rock solid stable system that works, but not for the latest and greatest software or hardware combis.

China will see if it can get some freebie American island territories from Trump if they try occupying Taiwan.

Yes, my whole thing is very, very privacy-focused. I don’t use Gmail. I run my own mail servers. I run my own web servers. I have always done that because I just don’t trust these companies who are reading all of your messages, and they’re doing it to harvest your data and market to you. I want myself to be private. I’m an individual. I think that lent quite a bit to the way that I thought about IceBlock.

Heck yeah, our self-hosted hero!

Knowing this Supreme Court, it could totally be worse than the same outcome.

A few nice words and a $15 shiny object is all you need to curry favour with the current President.

Can someone ask him for free college education and healthcare in America, presenting him a golden stethoscope or golden book-shaped award?

How far could you throw an 800lb gorilla? (Warning: Reddit link)

won’t ≠ shouldn’t

I’m thinking more of a situation like the West Berlin Airlift than just dropping trucks from the sky. Of course this in this case it would be a cooperation of France, Spain, UK, Ireland, Canada, Belgium and others to the chagrin of Israel and USA.

Good. More. At this point we as a group of nations should be airlifting aid trucks in and out of Gaza since the Israelis aren’t letting sufficient aid in.

Goddamn NYT, the answer is right in front of you. Israel’s US-backed Genocide. Stop humming and whistling around pretending you don’t know.

Well, I guess the prerogative is on the rest of us non-Americans to break unjust American IP laws to counteract the lack of enforcement of anti-trust laws, or make laws in other countries that better enforce competition laws on American companies.

I have a glimmer of hope that Europe is getting in gear somewhat for that.

I do like Cory’s overall point about needing to think more of solidarity than individual choices, but I disagree on discounting them completely, those choices do carry a certain degree of importance as well in effecting systemic change. Saying, “well, society isn’t changing, enshittification isn’t going anywhere so I shouldn’t bother changing my habits” won’t get us anywhere. It has had real effects.

Things that start in the margins have the ability to get noticed by big players and then bring about change. A couple examples: Linux gaming is in a viable state that was unimaginable 8 years ago. The Canadian boycott of US products and travel has had a very measurable affect on US tourism and select industries, and has spread to other countries. Valve nor the Canadian government started either of those efforts, but they helped signal-boost and take concrete supportive actions when they see that even a small group of people independently have supported that change already.

The point is not to get the point, intentionally.