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Timmy has AI psychosis. I’ll never use the oligarchs gated services. But I run LM studio and comfy ui on my on hardware just to tinker. These generative models are fascinating, but sycophantic and inaccurate. Not something I would ever rely on or run regularly. Honestly I consider the models wasted storage space most of the time.

This is just indicative of a long pattern of bad business decisions on Timmy’s part. The game store, putting everything in the fortnight basket, now betting everything on hallucinating generative models. Epic probably only has a year or two left at best. With unreal and unity driving developers away, and the rapid improvement of Godot over the last 5 years. There isn’t a single secure solvent part of the company.

Yes, it’s kind of sad and they’ve largely made themselves irrelevant with those costs and restrictions. I think one of the few only operating systems that still Unix certified is Ibm’s AIX. Which I’m sure some big iron still uses us somewhere, but it’s not very prolific. However, if any group were to have the funds to cover licensing and the need of it, IBM is one.

Unfortunately, the open group has turned Unix into a static, unchanging specification. Not a healthy, flourishing, evolving ecosystem. So I am okay with Unix like and descended from Unix. But not tied down to it or held back by it as opposed to officially Unix.

Yes and no. Kronos doesn’t really care as long as you’re compliant. The open group will come after you for licensing fees and take you to court. That’s the difference. Therefore, Linux and the BSDs are just Unix like and not actual Unix. It may only be a technicality, but it is a significant one.

Unix is a licensing issue. Linux BSD or even Mac OS could likely get Unix certification. Mac OS technically had it even though it shouldn’t have for about a decade. However, none of them are Unix because none are currently paying the hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly. Or have made the niche compliances necessary.

https://www.opengroup.org/certifications/unix

Either I have no applications that need X. (Doubt) Or there may be something with your hardware. I’ve been running Wayland without a hitch under fedora, pika, and cachy. (RPM, DEB, Arch) Will have to take a look at this when I get home. It would be nice to prune another background process.

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Accepting a pardon is accepting guilt. In doing so they wave their 5th amendment rights and can be compelled to testify. Which they should all be. Everything thurroughly investigated and documented. Hopefully re incriminating them and others with state charges.

Those are leninist/Maoist. If we’re being generous we could call them aspirationally communist. But not actually communist.

2 defining criteria for communism is being stateless. Ie not having an governing state elected or otherwise. Definitely not having a large hierarchical unanswerable centralized government. And the other being classlessness. Something that the large central politburos preclude.

The one thing Leninism shares in the most asinine and negative way with communism. In the actual vision of communism, Marx and others theorized that the workers of the factory, etc. Should own the factory. Social ownership. However, Leninism warps and twists it negatively in that the state owns everything, not the workers. They may claim that the workers are the state. But that’s bullshit as can easily be seen by any time they put down a citizen revolt. Roll out the tanks, etc. Like Tiananmen Square.

Weird. I recently installed the modern KDE version of fedora 44 to an old Dell core 2 duo laptop from 2007-8. Installed just fine. It has no business running it however. Far too heavy. If I’m looking at the right one this is a decadish newer laptop?! Must be some odd bit of proprietaryness getting in the way. Not unheard of with dell or HP.

Well, I mean if they understood China is looking to replicate and replace them. As they’ve done with so many others, they might. But they’re all interested in short term gains only. So they all happily assist.

All these years he’s relied on his leather jackets to keep him safe. Finally, Johnson Wang will face consequences.

People who aren’t terminally online. It’s a real issue. Piker can’t even approach their reach.

Same and I occasionally reforget, but it’s always a joy to remember.

Brent was a treasurer on night court, not in nearly enough episodes.

The problem with propaganda is that it generally only really works when there is a kernel of truth for it to be based on. Therefore you cannot simply completely dismiss something because it’s propaganda. And in this case it’s sort of whataboutism anyways.

China is easily as bad with misinformation and propaganda. Yet I wouldn’t dismiss everything they say out of hand just because of that. The problem with capitalists like China is that since the state has its fingers in all pies. It’s hard to prove that the state wasn’t involved in actions like this. Maybe it was the company doing this on its own. Maybe it wasn’t. Either way is still a bad look that China shouldn’t allow.

Its possible the client on your PC could be profiling your traffic and reporting back. That would likely end up badly for the parent company. But things like that aren’t unheard of and part of the reason I’m building my own router again. (See the ongoing GN LG coverage) Those sort of devices can spy on, and report back about other traffic on the network. If your smart devices are connected via Ethernet then they can likely see and read everything on your network that is unencrypted.

But a management console isn’t traffic snooping. Yes, you do have to trust the client to use it. They aren’t routing your traffic through them though. If they’re found to be spying it will be huge news turning them into a parriah in the IT and open source communities.

Contempt and a lack of empathy are definitionally what it means to be conservative.

Tail scale should act as a mediator basically initializing the connection between two remote sessions. Then stepping away, letting go two remote sessions handle everything else. If every customer’s traffic had to go through them as a central server, it would be a central bottleneck and a massive operating cost for them. This is why free Vpns are never worth it. You are always the product on them, and they are always heavily mining your data.

It’s always the ones you most suspect.

Being born pasty white.