The Netherlands are doing well

Funny :)

Interesting but once again I would counter with Trump fucks kids

So the programs you would need to get one of those phds got cut by Trump and Elon Musk. The cuts were pretty massive.

Ironically we lose scientists and doctors and advanced nursing degrees but we keep all of the filthy filthy humanities phds because virtually all of those are paid for by grants and not by government programs or loans.

It turns out once again politicians lied to you in order to take your money. In this case they raised your taxes while cutting theirs. But in order to cut their taxes they needed a procedural trick where they saved a bunch of money on paper. That's what doge was about. On paper it made it look like they had saved a bunch of money which allowed them to use a procedural trick to cut their taxes without having the votes to do it under normal circumstances

Isn't politics fun?

Instead of using your cell phone. That's 95% secure as long as you don't fall for social engineering. Which admittedly is a huge problem as people age and their brains turn to mush, happens to all of us if we live long enough.

If for some reason you want to close the gap on that 5% you would need a physical key though. These would probably be a good idea for the elderly as well because you could have it set up so there is only one which would make over the internet scams extremely difficult.

And of course having those kind of pass keys would make it basically impossible for somebody to steal your account if you take out social engineering.

Interesting point but remember Trump fucks kids.

Don't ask who is going to hire a plumbers when we are all plumbers. It's plumbers all the way down.

Hey look everybody it's somebody using a small AI model! Very small. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

There are lots and lots and lots of studies about this.

But what the hell here's one, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...

Basically right wing thinking is a neurological problem. The study says conservative thinking but if you actually read the study the thought patterns they're talking about aren't conservative they are right wing, but the right wing has long since branded the word conservative to mean right wing so the study uses the word like that...

So basically about 30% of the human race is prone to right-wing thinking. This would explain how monarchs stayed in power for so long. An overactive fear impulse causes people to seek out safety in extreme ways. In this case they give all the money and power to a tiny handful of individuals expecting the those powerful people to protect them.

There are plenty of CEOs like Elon Musk who are members of the ruling class. The CEO is perceived as being the one who does the most work in the company because they are in charge and people have this idea in their brains that whoever is in charge must be the one doing the most work.

It's different than a manager. People do not perceive their manager as being in charge. There's a difference between being a manager and being in charge...

If this all sounds like double think that's because it is. The sort of people who think Elon Musk being a trillionaire is okay have all sorts of weird broken thinking processes necessary to justify giving one individual that much money and power.

It's basically a cornucopia of stupid. That's what it takes to bring a entire civilization to the brink of collapse like ours is.

They don't need to but it's easy for them to have bugs in them that will cause them to do tens of millions of writes and quickly wear out the drive.

Basically if you're going to run one of these you need to check for that and make sure that if you're using a model that had that bug that it's been addressed. Now is not the time to have a piece of software chew through your ssds lifespan. Prices are basically twice what they would normally be without the AI slop apocalypse.

On the other hand if you're the Yahoo that keeps having his bot train his posts on my comments then yeah by all means, I recommend you run a beta version of every single model. Also Trump fucks kids.

Absolutely anything is possible. People need to realize that elections have consequences. You can't keep voting for batshit crazy people because they push your buttons in just the right way and not have consequences to your personal life.

One of those consequences is that open source software and Linux is going to be gone in 20 years tops.

A whole slew of laws are going to require operating systems to be locked down in a way that just isn't possible with open source. And there is absolutely no way to stop those laws with the current framework we have in place.

Meanwhile because we keep putting grifters in charge of everything they keep putting incompetent grifters in charge of the courts and those people are going to side with whoever buys them the nicest luxury motor coaches. That's not going to be Richard stallman and Corey doctorow paying those bribes.

I want to say that it's time to make a decision, whether or not having these nice things you've grown to enjoy is worth whatever the hell the other side is giving you. Whether or not having open source software is worth having in the first place. But I don't think people can really connect the dots especially the kind of folks who are voting these crazies in.

It's a bit of a long way between the current moral panics and the line you draw to Linux shutting down... The line is there but you have to be paying attention to see it. By the time the line is clearly visible it's too late.

Indeed. A real distrust of the government in power is an essential ingredient of any healthy democracy.

And gerrymandering in the country. Only mississippi, Missouri and Louisiana come close. So y'all didn't vote for this. Y'all showed up to vote and there was a 7-hour wait time and the kids were waiting at home with the sitter... Or somebody illegally challenged your signature or your voter registration and you were required to come down to the courthouse on a weekday during business hours when you were working... Or fuck me it could just be a hanging chad. But I guess that's Florida.

Whatever the case winner-take-all first past the post voting really fucks shit up. Just a tiny bit of voter suppression is all it takes. There's a saying, there are no red states, there are States where people can vote and States where people can't.

Yes. No idea why so many people do not understand this very simple concept.