Multithreaded

Not sure about the USSR but in east Germany there are 2 camps: those who profited from the socialist system and are in full support, and those burned by the socialist government are some of the biggest anti-socialists I know

Germany for example. There was just the Modern Solutions case and the ruling was that using a hex editor to get hardcoded MySQL passwords from a binary is considered hacking

It’s still an old nation-state with laws made in the olden day when you had to compromise.

What democracy does not rely on compromise?

Ubuntoo

Isn’t it the other way around? AI companies going out of their way to limit their models so they don’t say something “wrong”? Like how ChatGPT is allowed to make jokes about christians and white people but not muslims or black people? Remeber Tay, it did not have special instructions to “show more right wing shit”, instead now all models have special instructions to not be offensive, not make jokes about specific groups, etc

How is that different from producing and disposing a modern car? Those things are essentially large computers with wheels and a combustion engine

2026 will be the year of the linux phone

for a week

There are ads in comments now?

There’s a saying in German - “Der dümmste Bauer hat die größten Kartoffeln”, the dumbest farmer has the biggest potatoes

Yep, my company allows me to use Linux but for Compliance Reasons I need to have Microsoft Defender installed and running. Still beats Windows 11 by a mile

mfw I read one of Cory Doctorows books

You can use the Gecko webdriver for Selenium

not too sure that’s a good thing

The Mediterranean countries disagree

No, what are you talking about?

This was posted on Mastodon today: https://epicenter.works/en/content/finally-a-no-to-overreaching-id-systems

Looks like they didn’t expect it to pass a vote, just like with chat control, and postponed it indefinitely.

They will surely bring it back for discussion in a few months/years though, just like with chat control.

EU fines take way longer then that, give it a couple years of data collection and if we’re lucky they get fined

Works great until some hikers take a photo with you in the background, that gets backed up to iCloud, then they want to show the photo to a friend, download it to their computer, open it and BOOM, Microsoft AI knows your face