Don’t get complacent. The EU countries are toying with the idea of collapsing with us. AfD doesn’t seem to be shrinking, and there will be a lot of money and propaganda dumped that way soon.

I hope you’re better at resisting it than we were, but seeing as how we’re all still on vulnerable social media…

The latest Libreoffice update has ribbon menus (optionally).

It works well when you use it for small (or repetitive) and explicit tasks. That you can easily check.

It could also be that they didn’t trust the regulars and installed trusted, inexperienced idiots to get it done.

Which is probably a good thing. I appreciate projects like Thunderbird as well.

You can not push the button that says AI.

You can also hit the kill switch that completely removes that button.

That’s opt-in enough.

If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that’s an issue.

I wouldn’t go that far. I expect it was more allowed to happen and got out of hand, ended up worse than they expected.

But I don’t think they planned or participated in the attack.

Wrong country

It kind of amazes me they don’t have better infrastructure. It’s not like they’re shy about forced labor.

Because AI in this case is the opposite of help, in case Illecors wasn’t clear enough.

It’s almost like it needs a dedicated person to hold its hand as it does your job. I wonder who would be well suited for that task.

It likely doesn’t help that the kids use “AI” as slang for “bullshit”.

Yes, this is true, and I have preached this in the past, but…

They’re not treating it as a cache. Most of these apps don’t function with less ram.

It’s just inefficiencies stacked on inefficiencies. And yeah, they didn’t matter a ton at first, because our hardware was advancing fast enough to handle it. But at some point we should really go back and visit a lot of this stuff.

A 2014 computer should have gotten better at all the basic tasks that existed then, not worse.

The Windows 11 start menu being built on React is a good example. Insanity.

the US continuing to … instigate conflicts between Russia and Ukraine.

You’re kidding, right? Your bias is showing. Right here.

You’re also blind if you just say “America bad” at every opportunity. No, many of the things he’s doing are absolutely not in the interest of the billionaire class. How do you think bringing back measles benefits them?

Some of the dumb ones might think the pressure on the Fed to lower interest rates is good for their bottom line, but they’re idiots.

All of them will suck up to him regardless, for survival. It doesn’t mean they think everything he’s doing is right by them.

And yes, he’s serving some of them, particularly Peter Thiel. But he’s mostly serving Putin and himself.

We have a wealth disparity/capitalism problem. We have a Trump problem. There’s some overlap, yes, but they’re not the same.

And even Hillary isn’t the devil incarnate you think she is. She’d be more content with the status quo than I’d like, and I voted for Bernie over her, but she’s not part of some grand conspiracy to keep the American people down.

hostile to his brand of politics for one reason or another.

Because his brand of “politics” is dumb, destabilizing shit that’s bad for America and Americans. That is what they’re there for, to serve the American people and the Constitution of the United States of America.

Trump only serves himself, Putin, and indirectly, Xi.

Also, did you just link me Trump admin propaganda justifying their firing of anyone not loyal to the furher?

That’s not what Trump has ever meant by the “deep state”.

I mean, the Marshall Plan was benevolent. USAID and similar may make us net beneficial to Africa.

Let’s not talk about South America.

Lying on that form is a crime. The purpose is to actually have a crime committed if they later find you’re affiliated with Al Qaeda.

I mean, optionally they could set up a tiny dev shop with that amount and submit the PRs they want to submit. And at worst, they could maintain their own fork.

It’d be a public service in more ways than one.