Venezuelans were repeatedly told they were trading one dictator for another with Trump by literally every other Latin American that isn't a right wing dickwad, and their response was to tell every other Latin American to shut up because "they don't know what it's like" (never mind the fact that nearly every Latin American country had to survive through US backed dictatorships) or that they knew they were going to take the oil but that it was a step in the right direction 🙄.

Venezuelan online discourse now loves to shit on Delcy's puppet government while conveniently forgetting to mention who keeps it propped up.

I feel this is the kind of thing why, in an ideal world, we would all form cooperatives for any service where it's not feasible or economical to deploy infrastructure twice. And then refuse to buy from any non-coop service provider.

Fully featured Open source drivers for all popular devices. RINA implementations for all major platforms and architectures.

No, LLMs only contain a bunch of numbers that predict which word is likely to follow the previous ones. Their output resembles knowledge simply because the most likely combination of words is one meant to convey information.

This is why my hope is on Redox OS. I wish it would get a bit more resources.

I'm not arguing about what is technically possible. I'm arguing about what is practically possible: Samsung (biggest market share) supports LC3 for example, but they can also break it and replace it with their custom codecs to lock people into their ecosystem. Making Sony LDAC the only real choice, and there's no telling when they will break that too. This means that in practice, only SBC and to a lesser extent AAC and SBC-XQ are the only codecs you know for certain will work.

What actually makes it soul sucking is if you still have a sense of duty or responsibility to deliver high quality code, because you will be knee deep in slop code without enough time to review it, or if you're forced to review it. If you stop giving a shit, you can use that time to find another job or do research for your own project.

It's yet another distro being shilled by god knows who on YouTube and other social media.

The fact that it's being pushed so hard without anything of note about it is already suspicious to me.

Right wing newspapers love to do this shit where I live. We get into a crisis, people start skipping meals because they don't have money, and they will talk about the health benefits of dieting and fasting 🙄

Sadly, they still get hit by sanctions when it comes to banking, software, etc.

If Europe and the rest of the world doesn't immediately defend it, it might be done for.

This also will probably accelerate the decoupling from US services and software the rest of the world has been working on.

Did they include AI slop, dogshit mobile game ports, low effort games, and the like in the dataset? If so, I'm not surprised.

That used to be true in my experience until Win10. But lately I've seen lots of people complaining about their laptops just losing all battery with Windows 11 due to constant background tasks. Not to mention that Linux has improved power consumption and suspend/hibernate somewhat since then.

I'm so glad I never gave any serious amount of money to Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo.

That sounds like most of the terrible private companies are just companies that want to go public.

It looks like a really good trolling shitpost, or like the schizo ramblings of the kind of people who actually ship themselves with celebrities or send threats to authors once their "head-canons" get demolished.

The problem is that they see people hating the torment nexus and then they assume it must be because they didn't market it correctly.

Like "oh I guess they don't like it because they can't share it, let's add a suffering multiplexer so they can enjoy it with friends and family^*^

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In the Chinese Room scenario, cards with Chinese written on them are inserted into a box.

Inside there is a man who doesn't understand Chinese but has a lookup list of which symbols to write as a response to every possible sentence you can write on the inserted card.

For anyone observing from outside the box it looks as if whatever is in the box is fluent in Chinese and can hold a conversation. But the man inside does not understand anything about Chinese.

This is used as an analogy to explain that machines, very much like the man in the box, do not actually understand the data they are fed, nor the data they output, no matter how human the response might seem.

It was an argument against the Turing test, which is about whether machines showing behaviour indistinguishable from a human is a sign that they can think.

The Chinese Room argument is that they must also show understanding of the data itself, rather than just human-like responses, to say that they think.

Does anyone here have any song from the supporting acts you would recommend?