Lol you had me in the first half, amazing goldbug bait.

I have to say I find your theory of violence-backed currency quite compelling.

I use yabridge for running VSTs and it is normally great, however it isn’t compatible yet with the newest WINE versions.

Depending on your needs and hardware, Linux audio can bring full satisfaction. The new subsystem, Pipewire (replacing both PulseAudio and JACK) is very convenient and still low latency. Applications are still catching up but the ecosystem has made major strides in recent years.

Yes you should, and it would be even better to use it as a template to write it yourself.

MEPs will pay more attention to messages that seem genuine and from their voters rather than mass-produced by foreigners.

I assume you mean keeping the outer diameter the same and making one ball lighter than the other. That’s clever, it would eliminate aerodynamism as a factor.

However wouldn’t results still vary, since hollowing out the metal ball increases its buoyancy ? (Archimedes’ principle).

dutch-style cycling where high gears are something you use when you’re late for school

Where I lived in the Netherlands there often were electric bikes and scooters and sports bikes going 30+kph on the bike lanes.

This is […] a strange marketing strategy by AI companies. Instead of selling products based on helpful features and letting users decide, executives often deploy scare tactics that essentially warn people they will become obsolete if they don’t get on the AI bandwagon.

Very insightful for me to read this. If AI in its present state was as useful as it is advertised, it wouldn’t need such apocalyptic language.

I have no proof but I suspect it is a mistranslation. The French legal term “bande organisée” literally means “organized crime group” but is simply the French counterpart to criminal conspiracy. That is to say, they are suspected not merely of breaking the law but also of having done so as a collective that knowingly planned for it.

I don’t have any statistic, but I would guess that the proportion of people wanting a Jack is significantly higher in the group of people interested in buying Fairphone that on the general population.

Fairphone literally does have that statistic. They spent effort to gather that info in order to inform their business decisions. And they report:

We also looked into the consumer data and Fairphone 4’s weight and thickness were more of an issue than the lack of a minijack

I don’t understand this, why not call him the way he wants to be called ? He’s despicable but his name isn’t the problem, I don’t see how calling him Bowman (or calling Donald “Drumpf”) is making any progress.

And it kind of undermines the discourse that we should respect people’s choice as to how they define themselves.

Do you remember the time Marco Rubio repeated the same thing twice during a presidential debate ? His speech included calling the US “the greatest nation in the history of the world” but no one minded that.

In most countries you would be ridiculed for saying something like that, but from what I understand Americans are taught that their country is the best in basically everything and they are very lucky to be born there because every other place is worse off.

The American military doesn’t train to put on parade theatre for a despot. No high stepping, no elaborate formations or movements. None of that pointless bullshi

Marines doing the silent drill in dress uniform : 👀

I’m unsure I get your point, how does waste prevent a shortage from becoming a famine ?

Also, both raw cauliflower and tinned tomatoes can be eaten almost as is.

It’s not just whales, one could draw the same comic about other animals being hunted or factory farmed, it would be very traumatic to live through. In fact Disney made an animated one about deer.

In political discourse anarchy has been given another meaning which is the elimination of undue power and self-governmen. Left anarchism focuses on eliminating hierarchies (power not justified by ability or need), while right anarchism focuses on eliminating special legal privileges such as those of the state.

My guess would be yes, the whole point of including a legacy port like this would be compatibility. Laptops used (still use?) PS/2 long after desktops moved to USB keyboards because the lack of polling meant improved battery life, so it’d make sense for the hardware support to still be there.

Yes, I agree. OK, now let’s say 99% of users online agree that low quality content shouldn’t be posted online. And then imagine there is some kind of technology that allows the 1% of “bad users” (the ones who don’t care about low quality) to upload a thousand times more than other users can. It would follow that 90% of content online would be from these users that only represent 1% of the population. Do you see the problem?

A big issue with AI is precisely how just a few people can inundate the rest of us with their mass-produced slurry of AI content.

Teachers and physicians do not require emotional awareness?

I’m not American, it just happens that where I live everyone is quoting from Gramsci’s cultural hegemony at the moment. ^^

My point is you don’t need to leak to matter, or do anything illegal. The simple fact that powerful institutions are staffed with people who share your ideology is helpful to you. (I do have a lot of respect for leakers though)