What’s the middle eastern hemisphere?

You seem really confused about the Middle East, and the geography of Asia in general. The Old World is not the same as the Eastern Hemisphere, and the Middle East is not the same as Central Asia.

You mean the Central Asian countries?

For the majority of the world’s people, Russia is their only shield from the imperialism of the US and the EU (mainly France). A world with a strong Russia is better than one with a weak Russia. Putin is a man; he will lose power / resign / die at some point. The 6,000 nukes keeping us safe are a lot more important.

And yes, Ukraine seems to be run by people who have no issue kidnapping their own citizens and sending them to die. They also worship WW2 Nazi collaborators. I’m sure Russia has its own racists, but they aren’t in power. One side is less bad than the other.

I’ve lost count of the glassware I’ve broken. Now none of them were plague cultures, but I wouldn’t get less clumsy just because they were.

Also this sort of thing becomes more likely when we’re overworked and tired. So if you don’t want another plague, it might be a good idea to make sure your local scientists have reasonable workloads.

They are not ‘just west’ of 90E. 90E is the line passing between India and Indonesia. They are also not in the middle third as you claim below. The middle third would be bounded by the 60E and 120E lines, which you can see in the map (one west of India, and the other passing through Australia).

Yeah, I don’t understand why they’re drawing attention to it. I would just ignore it and hope NK doesn’t notice.

No, it is roughly in the middle of the Old World. The middle of the Eastern Hemisphere is further east, in the Bay of Bengal southwest of Myanmar.

As an aside, it’s not the ‘Arab speaking world’. You could try ‘Arab World’ or ‘Arabic Speaking World’. Neither of which is technically correct, since Iranians, for example, neither speak Arabic nor consider themselves to be Arabs. ‘Muslim World’ might be better, if half-Christian Lebanon doesn’t object …

Ukraine has been trying to buy South Korean M-SAM systems (which, ironically, are themselves based on the Russian S-400). Guess that’s not happening now.

Like what exactly SK looses here?

South Korea is trying to normalise relations with the north, and Ukraine revealing that they participated in rendition will complicate matters.

I’m sure NK spy’s knew it already if that’s the concern.

Maybe, but now it is official, and can result in South Korea having to make diplomatic concessions.

The only correct system is 0ver.

You say this on a free social media …

AI isn’t a ‘product’, by the way. It is a technology. You can run it on your own device.

Don’t pay for access to AI. There are plenty of free ones.

AI will always be tied to concentrated capital due to the cost of training state of the art models.

So will CPUs, trains and new medicines. Some sectors simply need a huge amount of capital.

It’s unlikely that the market will open up any time soon so that you can get your LLM from someone who isn’t a fascist billionaire tech bro.

But this I think is not just likely, but inevitable. As long as at least one company puts out open-source AI models, users will have the option of switching to it. So even if they don’t switch, they can use this leverage to keep AI access sellers in check. Eventually, the whole market of selling access to AI will collapse, and the only AI trainers will be people who want to give it out for free (governments, universities) or companies who use it as a loss leader to sell an actual product.

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/93

If this was the issue you’re talking about.

As someone who lives in a third world country, no third world country gives a damn about what’s on your phone. The police only care if you make a scene in public (or publicly post something spicy) and somebody complains.

An NDA is just a contract, an actual law always trumps it.

Say what you want about Korea but their decision to develop nukes was 100% correct.

I believe this is an X issue, not a Mint issue. Most other distros have switched to Wayland, but Mint will use X until Wayland is mature enough.

Mix of (1) modern warplanes genuinely being hard to make, (2) corruption and (3) Chinese sanctions on a bunch of companies that sell to the Pentagon.