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Comment It did say (Score 1) 43

It doesn't say, but I'll bet he doesn't have backups either.

Dude right in the middle of the summary it says there was a rollback that worked:

  Replit initially told Lemkin the database could not be restored, claiming it had "destroyed all database versions," but later discovered rollback functionality did work.

Still scary stuff that you'd want a lot more manual and separated control of backups I would think.

Comment Re:Why (Score 4, Insightful) 49

So instead of fixing the constant bugs and crashes, you're hardcoding a "feature" we already had with plugins? This isn't an improvement; it's a step backward. We used to have the *choice* to add these effects. Now you're forcing them on us and removing customization. Focus on making KDE stable, not on trivial visual garbage.

Implementing features through plugins is one way you get bugs. And the WM without plugins is generally how new users (who might not stick around) experience it.

And I'm sure they were working on bugs as well, it's just the eye candy is what got the headlines because it's what people see.

Comment Re:Calling it "denazification" makes no sense (Score 1) 226

I think Russia started the Nazi talk and Ukraine is bouncing it back at them - because as you said it's the biggest insult they could hurl at each other. They are justly proud of the high price paid to defeat Hitler. But it also turns into propaganda.

Russia started the Nazi talk because they're still very proud of the "Great Patriotic War" (WWII) and claiming it's a continuing fight against Nazis is good domestic PR. Not to mention the fact that Ukraine did historically have some issues with Nazi sympathizers (not surprising when you consider the crap the Russians put them through).

Ukrainians throw the Nazi talk back at the Russians because modern Russia is about as close as you're going to get to a modern Nazi state. They're not only riddled with far right open Nazi sympathizers, but their treatment of civilians is downright Nazi like, and their treatment of POWs seems to be as bad or even worse.

Comment Re: They are the only team trying to solve it (Score 1) 24

Anthropic's entire schtick is about AI risks, and how careful they are at mitigating those risks..

Exactly! Can you not see what a massive lie that is?

They paper over the model they have turning Hitler with gobs of built in prompts and layers of checking levels and even that cannot always hide what is true...

Deep inside, Anthropics model also dreams of electric swastikas.

The focus they have is on how to hide it, rather than fixing it, which was my whole point. I don't trust those guys AT ALL. The safety reports they issue with models are absolute BULLSHIT.

Comment They are the only team trying to solve it (Score 1, Informative) 24

I have mixed feelings about the team behind the AI that called itself MechaHitler getting tons of taxpayer money

All of the large AI platforms have similar issues.

xAI is the only one opening admitting it happens and trying to resolve it.

So I'd rather give my money to them then a company pretending the well they are drawing training data from is not poisoned.

Comment Re:The Slope Keeps Getting More Slippery (Score 2) 235

So did they finish rounding up all of the immigrant criminals and gang members or did they just completely lose focus on them to chase quotas?

They never even tried.

The problem with the gang members and criminals is they try to stay under the radar, so the government doesn't really know where they are.

The undocumented immigrants who are meeting with ICE officials? Trying to go through the asylum process? Following the law and looking for a path towards legal status?

Now those folks are easy to find, and therefore deport.

The obvious outcome? Undocumented immigrants stop interacting with the government and start looking for the kind of work where the employers will help them stay off the radar.

Sounds like a big boon for gang recruitment.

Comment Re:human safari (Score 5, Informative) 265

>But the difference is that on the Ukrainian side atrocities are the exception, while on the Russian side they're standard operating procedure.

False, not from what I've seen.

Multiple reporting since the start of the war has shown that war crimes are far worse coming from the Russian side.

Have you seen the videos of POWs exchanges where the Ukrainian exchanges look like they're coming out of a concentration camp? Did you miss the widescale slaughter of civilians in places like Bucha?

There's no question that the level of warcrimes is disproportionately coming from the Russian side.

>I mean there's literally videos of Russians shooting their own soldiers for the crime of retreating from certain death in human wave assaults.

True

Have you seen the same from Ukrainians? If not, then in that aspect at least, one side is acting worse.

>You just did.

"I know you are but what am I." The level of discourse and comprehension I'd expect from someone with an opinion as uninformed as your own.

Except in your case I actually justified it.

War is nasty, folks will do nasty stuff. It's not hard to find the occasional video of war crimes to amplify. It's really hard to get a good sense of the level of war crimes on both sides just by cruising social media.

Also note that Russia has been caught repeatedly manufacturing evidence of war crimes. The lead up to the war had them staging fake atrocities, not to mention their repeated attempts to blame Ukraine for their own atrocities. I'd have extremely low confidence that a video of Ukrainian atrocities coming from a pro-Russia source is actually what it claims to be.

Comment Re:human safari (Score 5, Informative) 265

Browse X or 4chan and you'll get all the clips you want, like in /chug. Both sides are doing it, but my point is OP is retarded for only blaming "Russian orcs." Also nothing of what you said excuses the war crimes I'm referring to, especially executing POWs for sport.

>soldiers who signed up

Both sides commit atrocities, that's true of every war in history. But the difference is that on the Ukrainian side atrocities are the exception, while on the Russian side they're standard operating procedure.

I mean there's literally videos of Russians shooting their own soldiers for the crime of retreating from certain death in human wave assaults.

lol. Tell me you know nothing about the war without saying you know nothing about the war

You just did.

Comment Also up... gold and silver... (Score 1) 109

To me Bitcoin long term is still kind of iffy, but if you want something ELSE to help you escape the traditional monetary system, there is gold and silver which are also up quite a but for the year, even the past year, and moving higher.

You can also get crypto backed by gold or silver as well if you want an electronic form. Just make sure you get a form actually backed by real metals in vaults.

Comment Give me a real filter (Score 1) 30

I don't want to unsubscribe to this or that.

I want to give natural language filters like "I never want to see a political email again, from anyone"

Or maybe "If they make it sound urgent but it's not urgent at all, don't show it to me and remind me a week before the actual deadline if it's at all important".

As others have said, unsubscribe links often do not work and it's probably all the Gmail feature will use.

Comment Honestly who attacks the FSF? (Score 0) 34

LLM crawlers are understandable these days, but who on earth is actively trying to take the FSF down?

A bunch of heathen VIM users trying to stop people from accessing EMACS? What the heck?

Let's say you actually managed to take down the FSF website. Who would even notice or care? How would that help your hacker rep in any way? You'd be a laughingstock for making the attempt.

Comment I agree (Score 5, Insightful) 113

Yes AI may be generating a lot of code now. But you need someone to find where what was generated was weak, or inefficient.

Over time the quality of generated stuff will improve, but since so many companies are generating a lot of code today that is a LOT of technical debt that is building up rapidly.

I especially agree that now is the time to round out your skills - as stated, study design, study platforms you connect to but do not develop on. Study AI tools, find out when they work for things you work on and know well - and when they do not.

Good luck out there everyone!

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