From an open source perspective, this is how things are supposed to work, humanity making progress by standing on each other's shoulders... Of course they want the rest of humanity to help them, with government subsidies, investment from our retirement funds, etc.

Yes different languages use different sets of characters, most of them overlapping in the case of Latin derived characters. It would be vastly less convenient if there was a completely different set (with mostly the same characters) for every single language. And what about variants over time and region and dialect? So it is much better to model them as subsets of the same larger character set. Note that À and Á are different characters with different Unicode symbols.

The human world is messy with lots of inconsistencies and irregularities, particularly from pre-computer times because humans just deal with them and tolerate mistakes. This is a challenge for modelling properly in computer systems. It does not surprise me that there are even bigger challenges around this for Kanji / Hanzi.

It really irritates me when reporting fails to answer the most obvious questions... Like WTF is burning, Greenland doesn't really have forest. I believe the answer is peat.

Putting a piece of tape (perhaps duct tape, or electrical tape) over the holes will probably keep them from unraveling further.

It updates for me. For example (and I just tested this), if some other process copies a file into the directory I have open in dolphin, I see the file appear pretty instantly.

The worst problem, to me, is that it pollutes our "environment" that is, our cultural environment, our pool of input about the world, with potential corruption, inaccuracies, at worst the intensification of falsities, stereotypes, and mediocre conceptions. Even if you don't detect them in an AI image, they may be there. A real world image contains details that humans have not already preconceived, and diluting that with the bullshit of what humanity thinks is reality but which may or may not be, will have a greater long run cost than we can imagine.

No friend is acceptable unless they have no human faults!

Seems normal to me. At some variable time after I get up, I need to poop. I feel like coffee or eating, even drinking water, can encourage it, but even without those, it happens. If I try to repress it, like if i'm still working on making coffee and want to finish, it can become quite urgent.

It constantly pisses me off that my coworker emails me screen shots of error messages instead of cutting and pasting the text, so I can't easily just select some of the text to search on.

That's crazy! Next you'll try to tell us that there's a nation who has elected both Trump and Obama as president!

It affects all of us. Every step along the enshittification path happened because people let it, and it makes things worse for the few of us who resisted also.

Welcome to norovirus.

It's a gag guillotine.

Finally, a razor that's specialized for shaving assholes!

I think it would have been better with another f-word, but apparently they didn't give two fucks.

Probably no one's thought of this yet, but i'm going to say black electrical tape. If you put it over your eyes it takes care of all your devices at once.

That doesn't work anyway, since based on wheat variety, growing season, and grinding method, different flours have different information density.

He said that if such interference were really happening and conservatives were supporting such behavior they were “crazy” because eventually they themselves would be the target of such censorship

What's really wild is that his biggest concern is that the people doing the fascist thing could become the target of it later. There's no dawning of 'oh maybe the people doing this aren't so good' no, he's worried that the other people who have been warning that they are fascists might pursue them later with the fascist precedent they are putting in place.

I think we're just supposed to infer something generally heartwarming and nod vaguely and approvingly.

Listen I know the RFK claim is nonsense but that doesn't excuse faulty logic. This is like saying cancer existed before X so X can't be a carcinogen.