From what I understand there sadly has been a more conservative shift from the government in recent years. I don’t think there are any openly discriminatory laws, but LGBT media is being censored, dating apps are removed from appstores, etc. I feel like it’s another case of severe overreaction to a threat of “western influence”, similar to Xinjang.
To be fair the (real and sometimes horrifying) human rights abuses of modern-day China kinda pale in comparison to what the US is doing (and has been doing since its founding), so I think on balance it’s good that more people support it over the imperialist hegemon.
To be honest most popular youtube channels are slop, whether they are AI or not. There are a lot of gems in there as well, but their monetization model pushes creators towards high-quantity low-quality content with clickbait.
Sorry to be picky, but it’s definitely way more than 40000 dead Palestinians.
This seems to be an opt-in, user-supplied field that apps can use to implement parental controls easier. If you’re gonna do birth dates at all, this is the way.
But IMO it should be more granular: there should be fields for WWW access, social media access, sex/nudity/violent content, and apps should respect those individually. Then parents can choose what is appropriate for their child at their development level.
Hey, Stalin (for all his many flaws and awful decisions) industrialized the country and lead the war to victory over nazism.
Trump is worse, he has literally zero redeeming achievements.
If you vibe-code it and use an LLM to respond to reviews, it is really easy to tell.
If you know what you’re doing and just using an LLM to speed up boilerplate writing, honestly who cares. It is technically copyright infringement but so many people are doing it that it’s not likely to be a problem.
I think this policy is overblown a bit. A better policy is “you need to understand, and be responsible for, what every part of your contribution does”. Enough to tell lazy vibecoders to fuck off, and allows for some flexibility in your tooling.
Russia did some pretty bad stuff in Ukraine (including some war crimes) but nowhere near the hell on earth unleashed by the US every few years. The civilian death toll in Ukraine war in 3 years is way less than any single year of the Gaza genocide.
China did overreact to uighur nationalist terror groups with unnecessary searches, arrests, and reeducation camps, but it’s not even closely comparable to the other two. The closest widely-known comparison is perhaps the Japanese internment camps the US did during WW2, but less widespread.
US is by far the shittiest most evil country on this planet, and until you come to terms with this and internalize it, you’re (a small) part of the problem.
You know that you can just get a visa, go there, and talk to people there, right? Or watch many of the interviews from reporters (western or otherwise) who went there already. It’s not like NK where you can only visit certain pre-approved areas with a “tour guide” either, in Cuba you can go whenever you want (within reason) and talk to whomever you want.
US is a similar style of “democracy” to modern-day russia, in that despite there being elections, whoever ordinary people vote for they are still fucked and the oligarchs get all the money and power. It’s just that the US political system achieves the same goals with a slightly more sophisticated machinery of “two parties” serving the same interests, which is enough to fool many people into believing they have a meaningful choice.
Chat, is this real?..
Most expensive military in the world, 50x military budget of your enemy
Advantageous position of a surprise backstabbing attack during negotiations
Kills enemy head of state on the first day in his own house
Commits uncountable war crimes
Still loses in just 3 weeks
It takes a special breed of a fucked up system to suck this bad, they can’t even do imperialist forever wars now.
The MIC is redirecting every cent it can toward profits, and so there’s nothing left for the actual military hardware. The pedophiles in charge can barely think anymore and are high on their own AI-generated propaganda. Truly the century of humiliation hallucination for the USA
TBH I’m very happy with the state of Linux desktop as it has been for the past 3-5 years or so. If things enshittify I’m just gradually freezing the versions that I like for most things, except stuff that directly interfaces with the internet (kernel, nftables, browser, nix, git, ssh, rclone). My main hope is that LibreWolf keeps updating and doesn’t let in too much AI slop from firefox, and I’m reasonably sure everything else on that list is quite difficult to enshittify.
I don’t think the pen input sensitivity/features on it is suitable for pro-level artists, but I might be wrong.
I mean, it is some carbrain propaganda that aligned with the government-approved destruction of walkable cities and public transit. Soo it is kind to a hymn to enshittification in its own way.
I have multiple contributions to FOSS projects (incl. small patches to bash and linux), and I’m a commit-access maintainer of Nixpkgs. While I do use a local LLM occasionally for boilerplate stuff, the attitude here makes me immediately distrustful of the Lutris maintainers. Going out of your way to disable the Claude Co-Authored-By on commits is counterproductive and dangerous to the project in the long run. LLMs can often confidently spit out good-looking code with subtle but critical flaws. Commits with non-trivial amounts of LLM output need way more scrutiny than human-written commits, and making it more difficult to tell the two apart is fucked up.
I also dislike Iran’s political system, but overall the US has killed, maimed, tortured and ruined the lives of many more people then Iran’s government ever could. US is currently the most evil country on this planet, and has been in the running ever since its founding.
But even then, let’s suppose for a second that somehow Iran’s government is more evil. So what? Bombing Tehran city center, destroying mosques and museums, causing an immense ecological disaster by blowing up oil reservoirs, and double-tapping an all-girls school with tomahawks will not help the people of Iran in any way. It made their lives measurably, verifiably worse for generations.
Sorry if I’m being whooshed, but literally https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
US has been doing the exact same shit to leftists ever since the founding of USSR, this is not new. Sadly the tea party people have nothing to worry about.
In the previous century japan and germany were strong contenders. This time around it’s neck-in-neck with israel, and russia is a distant third.