It's only local to China in the sense that they choose what {packages/CCP poison} go in there.

For all values of u, Linux is local to u in the sense that u chooses what packages go in there.

The "places that are not populated enough for them to profit" is the reason for the subsidy - the government wants to have equal service to everyone, so they are lowering the cost to bring them into service. Just the same as when electrification was a thing.

The whole thing is bullshit, because for it to be evidence of a crime, there has to be an actual crime to investigate.

Where's the probable cause?
Where's the due process?
Why is he being charged with obstruction of justice, when there is no predicate crime to investigate? Evidence of fucking what?

Unless they can answer that, this goes the same way as the Subway sandwich assault guy, the olympian reflecting pool vandal, and the seashells prosecution of Director Comey.

Yes. Here is why:

If the police are at your door with a warrant, they have already shown sufficient probable cause to a judge to show that a search warrant is justified. Due process is being followed.

If the police are demanding your password, you as a citizen of the United States have a constitutional right under the 5th amendment, and under legal precedent (Doe v United States, 1988) to tell them to go fuck themselves:

Grabbing some dude's phone at the border under the guise of border control, when that dude is a US citizen and has shown documented proof; and then demanding his password to unlock it is a violation of his 5th Amendment rights. Moreover, there was no probable cause for the seizure of property, and without a court order for the retrieval of evidence (a search warrant) it remains his non-legally-encumbered property to do with as he pleases, including giving them the password that is a metaphorical string tied between the doorknob and a shotgun trigger.

There was no crime for them to investigate, and therefore no probable cause to issue the illegal search. There was no court order from a Constitutionally empowered judge to approve agents of the government trampling this man's rights.

HTH.

Yes, we should all be surprised that a tool created to increase efficiency at which documentation can be produced with little human input, indeed increases the efficiency at which documentation can be produced with little human input.

And when you take the tool away, the human that only knows how to use the tool is as useless as a broken tool.

So confirming the existence of water ice, and getting some data about the nature of it's existence and how common it is on the lunar surface wouldn't put China at the forefront of lunar science?

Seems nobody else has done that yet, so I do not agree with your analysis.

Only the third?

Clinton had to perform cleanup-on-aisle-41 from the post-Reagan recession during George H. W. Bush's term.
Obama had to perform cleanup-on-aisle-43 from the post-GWB financial meltdown.
Biden had to perform cleanup-on-aisle-45 from the post-Trump-1 covid meltdown.
Whomever is elected in 2028 will have to perform cleanup-on-aisle-47 from Trump-2 bullshit tariffs, Iran war, billionaire tax cuts + runaway deficit spend, bond market meltdown that looks ever more predictable, etc.

So they vote for the convicted fraudster who lies more often than he inhales breath, and hasn't fulfilled a single promise other than tax breaks for billionaires.

Speaking of which, I can't help but notice:
- the Ukraine / Russia war is still going, despite a promise to end it on day 1. We are currently on day 578.
- prices at the grocery store on average are higher than they were in 2024. There was a promise to fix that on day 1. We are currently on day 578.
- we were told no new wars. We have been in a war with Iran for 6 months now, with no actual goals enumerated, no actual goals achieved, and no "light at the end of the tunnel" in sight to the point where even cabinet secretaries are saying they don't know when it will end YESTERDAY in a media appearance.
- we were told of how bad the "autopen" was, and yet Trump pardoned a shitload of criminals that were convicted or pled guilty to their charges with the "autopen."
- we were told that the Epstein Files would be made public. That didn't actually happen until Congress forced it, and even with that law the Department of Justice is questionably in violation - a subject of ongoing court proceedings.
- there was a vow to cut the debt and budget deficits during the campaign. He and his administration have already added 10% to the national debt in LESS THAN TWO YEARS even with all the DOGE bullshit that is actually costing us MORE money.
- we're still waiting to hear about his health care plan, 10 years later. What's that about?

If you want to go after fraud, waste, and failed promises you need to look behind you.

What makes you think influencing on this has-been atrophied site is worth spending the money and time to do so?

Lots of lower hanging fruit out there (X, Instagram Threads, regular Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Bluesky, etc.) that are easier to target because they aren't based on 20-year old Perl code that sucked 20 years ago.

Your tongue is bright red from chugging all that kool aid. Seek help. Also, don't pretend to speak for the Democratic Party, because literally everyone in Democratic politics sees your bullshit for what it is. Democrats are happy to have a "big tent" party with multiple ideas about how to fix things - that's how Democracy works.

Think of it as "the invisible hand of the market", except the market is one of ideas, and the hand is the voters who select people with ideas the majority find to be good ideas. Notice that this is "communism" and "crazy" to Republicans who all march in lockstep to the beat of the hive mind, as any dissent is viewed as disloyalty and you are instantly labeled as a "RINO" and probably primaried out due to failing a minor purity test.

TL;DR: heaven forbid someone has different ideas and ideals, and wants to see if that's a better way of operating. For shame!

Ha ha, Linux already has..

# top -o gpu
top: unrecognized field name 'gpu'

.. d'oh! Never mind.

And is asking an AI to proofread something that much different than MS Word flagging spelling and grammar errors?

Great question, and I think there isn't any significant difference.

But LLMs use a type of math that apparently has the evil bit set. Meanwhile, up here in VirtueVille, the computer code we write to create things, uses different math that doesn't have the evil bit set. Conclusion: we can look down on those AI companies and their stupid users. ;-)

Now, I wouldn't expect an AI service to be better at copyediting than an average human, but I haven't kept up so I'm ignorant of their performance. (All my "AI" experience is that I used Claude twice to, it turned out, fix some typos in some RoR config initializers.) But whether an AI service is as good at copyediting as a human or not, it's that user's choice and, as long as they sign off on the work and really take responsibility for it (declare the words to be their opinion), then I've got no problem with them doing that, whether it uses LLMs or Markov chains or human slaves or Searle's Chinese Room.

The words will be judged by their quality, not provenance.

That said...

Here's a similar story where I'd probably come to the opposite conclusion(!), despite the clown in it pretty much doing what I preach above, though he was using the AI service to do a lot more than copyedit. Behold this 3M expert witness cross-examination (134 page PDF) in the Watson Grinding case. It's slow going at first, but eventually you'll be laughing and cringing like in a good episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Fuck. I don't know.

Exactly.

You are there because you said you were going to do things to help people. When you only help rich assholes that want to fuck over the voters that actually put you there, the voters get pissed and take your job away.

Nobody should be surprised by this. Listen to your constituents, or you won't have a constituency much longer.

Well good thing nobody ever wanted to rename the trunk branch on an existing repo from `master` to `main` in the entire history of git.

Good job on the irony of asking if *I* am dumb.

More nonsense. "Bothsides!!" is total bullshit. Reference: easily observed reality.

There is one political party that is doing everything they can to fuck everything up. The other is working to prevent that to any degree they can.