this would actually be achieved by a team of 20 thousand oompa loompas with small shovels and 500 million tons of cocaine

openAI tried to remove the mexico filter but they just can’t. The AI is hopelessly addicted to that sepia tone

yep, it’s almost all banana pi, and at least 4 different ‘models’ of it it seems. But the word is also used in some string processing tests and as an example comment of how suffix arrays work…

And most of those cases are of course using the word sarcastically

The next function to implement is called, amazingly, next(); its job is to
move the iterator forward to the next position in the sequence.

if (lc->sync == NOSYNC)
	for (i = lc->header.nr_regions; i < lc->region_count; i++)
		/* FIXME: amazingly inefficient */
		log_set_bit(lc, lc->clean_bits, i);
else
	for (i = lc->header.nr_regions; i < lc->region_count; i++)
		/* FIXME: amazingly inefficient */
		log_clear_bit(lc, lc->clean_bits, i);

/*
 * Amazingly, if ehv_bc_tty_open() returns an error code, the tty layer will
 * still call this function to close the tty device.  So we can't assume that
 * the tty port has been initialized.
 */

 *   this header was blatantly ripped from netfilter_ipv4.h
 *   it's amazing what adding a bunch of 6s can do =8^)

/*
 * I studied different documents and many live PROMs both from 2.30
 * family and 3.xx versions. I came to the amazing conclusion: there is
 * absolutely no way to route interrupts in IIep systems relying on
 * information which PROM presents. We must hardcode interrupt routing
 * schematics. And this actually sucks.   -- zaitcev 1999/05/12

 * corresponding ABS_X and ABS_Y events. This turns the Twiddler into a game
 * controller with amazing 18 buttons :-)

 * In an amazing feat of design, the Enhanced Features Register (EFR)
 * shares the address of the Interrupt Identification Register (IIR).
 * Access to EFR is switched on by writing a magic value (0xbf) to the
 * Line Control Register (LCR). Any interrupt firing during this time will
 * see the EFR where it expects the IIR to be, leading to
 * "Unexpected interrupt" messages.

 * Thanks BUGabundo and Malmostoso for your amazing help!

it does kinda fit in that if you forced people to learn linux, the basic stuff most people do should in the end not be much more difficult than windows (assuming you don’t run into more bugs)

but that would never happen unless a “linux revolution” was already in full swing

My major version updates on 2 computers with linux mint in the past few years have been just one click, wait, reboot when prompted, everything works and you barely even notice that anything changed. Though maybe I’ve just been lucky

though the rest of the video’s takes on the linux experience for new users seems pretty accurate to me (lol downloading an application and using it requires at least a manual chmod +x and that’s the best case scenario. Maybe there’s a distro that has a solution but I have doubts (and “have everything you could possibly need in the package manager” is obviously a nonstarter))

But the community parts seem odd to me:

Is “just disable secure boot” a bad take? Has someone been holding everyone out on a better solution?

and

The only way linux is going to change is when money and development power is given to major dekstop Linux projects. It’s time to stop wasting time on customization or packaging

is just… sure, herd all the cats into one place, make them all work together in harmony, and summon 500 million dollars out of thin air to wrap it all together. Instead of writing bash scripts everyone should be praying to gabe newell to save us lol

People who cant use linux never learned the basics of computers

that’s like 80% of all people

What is mutually exclusive, though, is reality and China’s “imminent collapse” which has been looming just around the corner for the past 20 years

1. They claim to respect privacy and - to date - have done nothing to suggest that they don’t.

If you ignore all the fast and loose they play with privacy, sure, there is “nothing to suggest” they don’t respect it.

IT’S OPTIONAL (there goes the “aggressive push” bit)

It’s not an aggressive push if you ignore the part where they repeatedly use the foot in the door technique where they first promise they won’t do something, and then later do it anyways.

They claim it is optional but they just shove a pop-up in your face about AI, while misleading you about how it works. This is about 1 step away from how most companies “allow” you to “preserve your privacy” by carefully clicking “no” to a long list of popups suggesting you give them cookies and share your emails etc.

This may be easy to dismiss as “problem between keyboard and chair” but when it predictably leads to many users thinking it’s off but being surprised when they find it turned on without them realizing it it’s not much consolation

NOTHING EXCEPT FOR THE PROMPT IS SENT TO MISTRAL (there goes the “reads all emails” bit)

How do you figure that works? The server somehow corrects your spelling mistakes without reading the email containing the spelling mistake? Again, End-to-end encryption is a core advertised feature of protonmail, and this completely sidesteps it while actively misleading users into thinking it doesn’t

Sure you can look at it as just a bit of politicking (if a poorly thought out one), but it’s really just the tip of the iceberg. Proton hasn’t done anything that clearly crosses an unacceptable line, but they’ve made a lot of other highly questionable decisions in a relatively short timespan

oh, actually now that I looked it up closer, starting about 9 months ago they did a foot in the door manuever (a survey with leading questions followed up by misrepresenting the results) and then aggressively pushed an AI service that, you guessed it, tries to read all the emails you write and receive, totally undermining the end-to-end encryption. (the claim is it works locally, but most users have their data processed on the proton servers unencrypted)
And the way they did it is straight out of the enshittification playbook where they first promise that it’s “business only” and then later try to push it to all users, and claiming it’s off by default while it’s actually on by default

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/18/proton-mail-goes-ai-security-focused-userbase-goes-what-on-earth/

(this article only covers the early portion of the debacle)

this isn’t even all the problems with proton either, though all the other things are pretty minor by comparison (eg. quitting mastodon “because it’s too expensive to maintain” (?))

The most popular alternative seems to be tutanota, though there should be a lot of alternatives though they may be very niche

(it seems tuta has some technical limitations if you want to do automated emailing, and the UI is a bit clunky, but it’s not a privacy or security problem)

The Lemmy users who call themselves “Leftists” are garbage human beings

And most of them aren’t really that left. Trying to talk about abolition of police and prisons is something they would never agree to

wait, is this a roundabout way of calling yourself a garbage human being?

What started it I think is this twitter post praising trump and the republican party: https://xcancel.com/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660

He later doubled down on it (if I recall correctly) and the company has generally been making some highly questionable decisions since

found this update from 1 month ago:

https://euro-stack.com/blog/2025/3/schleswig-holstein-open-source-digital-sovereignty

what the actual amount of progress is seems to be buried under bureaucracy-speak but I got 3 useful sentences out of it so far:

Configuration via group policies

MS Office can remain installed in parallel, until October 2025

Goals for october 2025: LibreOffice should be the sole standard office software on around 70% of the state administration’s IT workstations

so to me it seems they’re currently slowly doing a MS office -> LibreOffice transfer, but they’re still all using windows (as the use of “group policy” implies)

64 gigs of ram costs less than $200 these days

stoning is a particular method of public execution, so most rock-related deaths don’t count

fact checked by real enlightened atheists: ❌FALSE❌

the US constitution specifically has a carve-out that allows using prisoners as slaves

disagreeing with a bunch of delusional tankies is not the same thing as trolling, and I think somewhere deep down you know that.

Your unwillingness to understand does not a non sequitur make.