This graph shows something interesting. The numbers held steady for a long time. Then the opinion started rapidly shifting during Trump’s first presidency as they ramped up anti-CHAYNA! propaganda. That continied under Biden and the opinion trend followed. But look what happens after 2023. Despite the anti-China propaganda taps being fully open, the opinion trend goes positive. To me this means the propaganda is stopping to work for increasing number of people.

Anecdotally I see this with people I talk to in RL (in Canada). People who used to be on the China-bad (like myself) train have gotten off it and see their previous opinions as shaped by propaganda. Far from universal but things are shifting.

They know there’s no chance Israel’s gonna abide by that ceasefire.

Is this a potential alternative to Open Web UI?

People who used AI tools for hints and clarification had a much easier time once the chatbot was removed when compared to those who used the bot to essentially prompt the answers.

Probably important for people who want to get some of the benefits of AI without paying the heavier costs. This reminds me of how I used Wolfram Alpha understand solving integrals in multivariate calculus. I paid for subscription that allowed viewing the steps it made to reach a solution. That helped me understand how the different strategies get applied in integration.

This is not brain rot, it’s propaganda, just painfully obvious instead of subtle.

The TEE-01B satellite, built and launched by Chinese company Earth ​Eye Co, was acquired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force after it was launched ​into space from China,

So an Iranian satellite.

This is the intelligent non-invasive way to implement this. Basically using a similar cryptographic signing scheme as SSL certificates. We’ve known how to do this for decades.

The government’s plan will offer a one-year, renewable residence permit to undocumented migrants. In order to be eligible, applicants must prove that they have already spent five months living in Spain and have a clean criminal record. They have between 16 April and the end of June to apply.

If they have the same labour rights as the rest of Spanish workers this would help boost wages across the board as most migrants wouldn’t be used as cheap labour anymore.

If so - well done.

I got an 11th gen Intel board. The one with the CMOS battery design defect. 😅

If Ubuntu works well somewhere, chances are so does Debian. Especially if the last-but-one Ubuntu release works well.

Lmk if you want to know anything else.

Not necessarily Big Tech’s AI, but “a program” that can automate this part of the PR process. I’m not interested in a program that gives pointless or bad suggestions. I’m interested in a program that can spot pattern X which I always say “this is bad because Y” and print that for me. If it were easy to write a classic program to do this, I would have written it. If that’s easy with LLMs, I’d train my local Qwen or whatever to do it. Not a faceless corpo that runs this on gas turbines, poisoning people around them and lying to me abt how much it costs me.

Is the NHS run like the Environment Agency?

All good signs. I hope they follow through.

Are there good signs these guys would make such reforms instead of holding onto the power given by changes made by Orban?

Always has been. It’s why non-material policies are rarely effective. People primarily respond to changes in their material conditions. It’s like we collectively forgot abt that after WWII.

It’s also probably possible to teach an agent this opinion to help review.

They’re already enforcing it. PRs are reviewed and bad ones are rejected all the time.

Likely yes because that would be akin to a small general strike. And if it’s a real general strike, they woud def concede as the ruling class is gonna lose serious money, and they would push politicians whose campaigns they fund to concede. Working people have one real leverage to use against their ruling class - labour power - the ability to stop creating wealth for the ruling class. I think pretty much all other leverage we have derive from that. Protest, even the right to vote.

You’re not wrong but some render their opposition to capitalism by reducing the scope of the capitalist system. Something liberals tend not to do. Are all reformists committed to bringing it down to zero? Maybe, maybe not. I probably wouldn’t call a self-proclaimed socislist who spends their life reducing the capitalist part of their state a lib if they are okay with say 10% of the economy remaining capitalist.

Being a socialist doesn’t mean you have to ban capitalism the moment you get power. Or at all. There are many ways to be socialist and do socialist policy. The overarching ideology is the belief we can do better than capitalism by distributing the resources we create according to amount of work and need, instead of profit maximization. How and how quickly we achieve that differs between different kinds of socialists. Sometimes dramatically.

Goddamn, I thought it was cheaper! I donate already to my instance and dev but I’ll throw what I can your way too.