The best part of Ubuntu was improving Debian. In the beginning, Debian was a bit ugly and difficult. Ubuntu was competition, and perhaps resources (IDK) directly or indirectly. Debian is much easier to use than it was when Ubuntu was new.

Ubuntu is taking the RedHat approach (over complicating so that one must buy the support).

Things are not normal. It is like a lot of people are waiting for the next shoe to drop.

Resistance is legal, so long as it does not go “too far”. I am near an “ICE” city. When empty cars with cut seat belts started showing up, there was an added level of horror film unease. The kidnapping by random “not ICE” didn’t amount to much, though we have yet to truly know who was kidnapped by “not ICE” (likely few). The murders have on not been good, but are at least fairly public.

No one is arming, as a shooting war on American soil will get everyone killed. There were days I wondered if we would be bombed. So far the “keep calm, and resist.” Crowd is making progress, which helps keep tensions from boiling over.

Elections are coming up, which is providing an outlet for energy. Real voting won’t be until November, and zero changes will happen until January 2027. Expect crazy shit to ramp up.

America is huge though. For any trend in one location, the opposite is happening elsewhere.

This is a very good time for the privileged to take a “mini-vacation”. It both slows production and gives one a chance to enjoy their last days on Earth.

Mostly okay. Slow discussion building on why test scores are dropping and are they still dropping. Is it COVID (immeidate shock), Long COVID (long term health issues), or nearly all course work and books being on tiny laptop screens (money showed up for a wholesale transfer to Chromebooks during COVID. They were actually helpful during lock-downs, but were kept after.).

I agree with you regarding availability, and I find your comment interesting. I often find phone models of interest that are only available in Europe or the East. Phone selection in the USA is often terrible.

The scroll at the top of the page sometimes changes, and “hold shift to draw” is one of them. Shift-C to clear.

Weekend commits are actually less likely to introduce vulnerabilities, but they take 45% longer to fix.

I can only think of contributors being nice and relaxed, doing their most brilliant work. Work that is a bit too brilliant for the same contributor to fix any bugs found during any other conditions.

insert that one quote about being too smart for one’s own good

Edit: Weekend commits are 8% less likely to have bugs, but those bugs take 45% longer to fix! This site is gold.

Edit 2: that may not mean what it looks like at first blush.

People have different levels for what they consider that other “people realized the truth”. Many communities are full of people that know the truth and when they act to change things get knocked down.

As the Saint George Carlin once said “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

There are a lot of really, really stupid people out there. Poverty, stress, hunger, etc make people even more dumber.

No OP, but with Snowden, a lot of the general outline was already known by those that pay attention. The specifics were new, but also largely filtered with “the government’s side”.

I want to push back on this part:

Only if Microsoft acquires a major CPU chipmaker.

In the USA, and other parts of the world, a small number of Billionaires are buying up everything. A small number of wealthy people could each own a part of the supply chain and for it on the vast majority.

For extra enforcement, add in a legal or cultural push for reporting or shunning violators through the media companies owned by that same group.

Just adding links for the lazy…

Clipper Chip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/usa/clipper.htm

The computers in the store, yes. I expect all computers in the store to be phones and the cell company will verify.

Open Source computers will be more important. Might need to brush up on wire wrapping… (Implication being that chip supplies might become dedicated to only those manufacturers that lock the product down.)

Any services that can help with this?

Either on the “Your made mate!” or a “here let’s make this more anonymous”?

Sure. Please get the aggressors in wars to stop and only generate nudes.

Yay! Extra mental load of having to ask the AI “correctly” and then keep up one’s skills to be able to review the AI’s work! Extra bonus for being blamed for letting anything slip past.

At least the junior that fucked up will learn something from the experience and can buy a round of beers (if the junior is paid well enough, otherwise the seniors have to buy the junior a beer while talking it out).

This is all true.

Plus the pointless murdering of humans.

Europe is supporting Ukraine in an existential fight for their lives.

This is far different from wanting to generate a false naked picture of some person.

People have protested the military industrial complex for decades and centuries. Possibly even millennia.

YOU not being aware of it is different from it not happening.

Stop the false equivalency and whataboutism.

On Lemmy? The local Lemmy communities for the communities most impacted. Currently, most of what I see if on https://midwest.social/c/usa@midwest.social.

Outside of Lemmy?
mastodon.social
This is where I have found most raw footage, plus stabilized and slowed footage.

The local news stations for that area has the more verified info plus overviews.
Snapchat map for that area show some of the improvised barricades and troop movements.

Edit: My initial reply was of poor quality. I skipped half of you thoughtful comment, AND I misunderstood your meaning as well. I apologize.

I think you are correct about your interpretation of their current policy. However, their old policy would have allowed for checking on users. The old policy is one reason my old company disallowed the usage of OpenAI, as corporate secrets could easily be gathered by OpenAI. (The paranoid among use suspected that was the reason for releasing such a buggy AI.)

I agree. I think training a depressing detector to flag problematic conversations for human review is a good idea.

Opens? OpenAI spent years doing exactly that. Though, apparently they almost three years ago.

https://www.maginative.com/article/openai-clarifies-its-data-privacy-practices-for-api-users/

Previously, data submitted through the API before March 1, 2023 could have been incorporated into model training. This is no longer the case since OpenAI implemented stricter data privacy policies.

Inputs and outputs to OpenAI’s API (directly via API call or via Playground) for model inference do not become part of the training data unless you explicitly opt in.