NFP was doomed all along. The capitalist system wouldn’t allow for a left-wing government, especially now that it feels so unstable and endangered, and it certainly had the means to change the government without meddling with the election results.

I actually find Rust pretty OK. The only things that I don’t like about Rust is its quirky syntax. And its primitive implementation of OOP. And its compiler. And cargo. And the ecosystem…

OK well maybe I don’t find Rust actually OK. Why did we have to invent a whole new language if we could improve standards and compilers for existing languages?

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I thought Umatrix was unmaintained?

Anyway, I used to use it till a few years ago. It’s a really powerful extension, but it breaks some sites with the default settings and it can get tedious reenabling scripts one by one to find the bare working minimum. I have since switched to uBlock of the same developer and it seems to me an adequate compromise between privacy, better performance and working sites.

Unfortunately the modern web has turned into tihs so you can’t even browse without an ad blocker anymore.

“In the Future, people won’t have to deal with numbers, for the mighty computers will do all the numbers crunching for them”

The mighty computers:

People who make fun of LLMs most often do get LLMs and try to point out how they tend to spew out factually incorrect information, which is a good thing since many many people out there do not, in fact, “get” LLMs (most are not even acquainted with the acronym, referring to the catch-all term “AI” instead) and there is no better way to make a precaution about the inaccuracy of output produced by LLMs –however realistic it might sound– than to point it out with examples with ridiculously wrong answers to simple questions.

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This logo brings back memories.

Wow! Thank you so much!

It looks amazing but unfortunately there seem to be no English subtitles :/ (I’m just starting to learn Chinese.)

What about TOR?

That they’re a bunch of hypocrites with double standards (if we or one of our vassals do it, it’s fine)

Secretary Antony Blinker

Here in Greece we have raging wildfires for yet another summer, one enormous fire (30km 40km wide) raging so close to the capital the smoke has enveloped the sky in many parts of the city, and the lib government praises itself over its “quick reaction time”. Very few precautions have been taken since last year, so now fire fighters are risking their lives to contain the crisis, working for more than 24h in a row, unfortunately without much success. Some buildings (mainly houses) have already been burnt by the fire, fortunately no casualties for now.

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Is this the RSS we’re talking about? https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/National_Volunteer_Organisation

Thanks for sharing! This mostly mirrors my own short experience in PRC (a short visit to Shanghai). Can’t wait for a chance to visit China again!

Nature, technology, buildings, culture, the museums, the people, just about everything is amazing.

Some problems I encountered as a non-Chinese person, and tips to overcome them, for anyone interested in visiting China to be ready for:

1. Connecting to the Internet, even to Wi-Fi, requires verification with a Chinese SIM card. I didn’t care to get one in time so I was mostly offline for much of the time.
2. Many people, especially older people, don’t know foreign languages, esp. English. You can use the great voice recognition translator in the AliPay app, but you need Internet for that.
3. Don’t forget to bring an adaptor for the power outlets!

Also, for anyone who wants to buy theory books in PRC: unfortunately literature in foreign languages seems extremely scarce, since the vast majority of books is of course in Chinese. Only once did I find an English translation of Xi’s works.

The problem is not voting itself. It is the bourgeois “democracy” framework it is often implemented in, which provides safeguards against change.

I’d say, especially on a foggy day. The mist perfectly complements the scenic beauty with just a hint of mystery and romance.

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I like the simplicity of openrc and runit, they are as stable as a rock and their functions are easy to grasp. Systemd, on the other hand, while I can understand some of the motivation behind it, it still seems like a bad idea and an even worse implementation. In my experience –and I do understand that this might not be the case for many users– it and its modules has been the cause for some really cryptic bugs that took me valuable time to resolve, and which would not have occurred if it was just a init/service management system. On the contrary, openrc just does one job, and does it well. Haven’t much experience with BSD but heard they are rock solid too.