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Sell two, wait until the crash, and upgrade for less money. Win-win!

From what I can find, the Linux Mint website was breached once, in 2016, for a short duration and during that time the download link for the ISO referred to a site that was hosting a version that installed a backdoor.

Meaning it was short in scope, the dev team reacted to it, handled it, and then were open and transparent about it, and it only affected people who downloaded the ISO at that exact span in time and also installed that version instead of replacing it when the announcement came.

The harsh reality of IT security isn’t that it’s a question of if you get hacked, it’s a question of when, even for multi-billion dollar companies.

Yet. There is no one trying to break down the constitutional order yet. Despite all we’re seeing, despite Åkesson having made warm remarks about Trump for years, despite being hostile towards the media, despite never-ending racist remarks from his party, despite record unemployment, he is currently enjoying the highest voter confidence of any party leader. If the trend continues, the same disease will end up in Sweden as well sooner or later.

I agree but I suspect his base doesn’t. They love all this power projection and hostility, and the Epstein stuff is something that they’re unusually not in agreement with the administration on.

That being said, I think it detracts from the real implications of these actions if they’re only referred to as a distraction. These are very, very likely things that Trump wants to implement regardless and not just something that’s done to shift the attention elsewhere.

I’m not sure I entirely agree anymore. I’ve installed Mint OS on both my mother’s and my grandmother’s computers and neither of them have complained a single time about it to me. Setting up a printer was even easier, I tried helping an acquaintance with W11 set up a printer and it was hell, with Mint it just figured out everything relevant on its own, I just had to confirm that it was correct.

The singular point of the UN isn’t to prevent conflict, there’s been plenty of armed conflicts since its inception, but one important part of it is hosting a forum between countries and especially giving the countries who are otherwise typically underrepresented (e.g. South American and African countries) in international discussions a means of making their voices heard.

It also hosts a number of organizations that allow international cooperation for common goals, with or without the US, that is usually more effective than any country doing it on its own.

There are issues and this recent visible regression to “might makes right” rhetoric is absolutely dangerous, but the UN shouldn’t die because the three biggest nuclear powers are assholes.

The problem is that for the time being, US support is pretty much a requirement for continued Ukrainian existence. I don’t like it any more than anyone else, but the situation is pretty shit at the moment. I’m not suggesting that doing anything Trump wants is the way to go either, then he’ll just demand more and more until the EU is dissolved, but I understand why politicians tread carefully.

I’m hoping that increased European defense spending can start making up the difference, but right now it’s an issue, and taking a hard stance that may hurt the people of Ukraine feels more like their call than ours.

Again, this is a feature of the fundamental structure of how LLMs work. What is determined to be the most statistically likely output is influenced not only by the training data itself but by the weights assigned during training.

LLMs can’t make anything up because they do not know anything. Unexpected outputs likely become more common as the training data used is increasingly more the result of previous LLM outputs, intentionally poisoned data, and an increasing number of limitations are placed upon the models during training.

To be fair, “hallucinations” is just an LLM model doing exactly what it is designed to to do. All it does is use a black-box statistical model to estimate the most likely following word or set of words. The only difference between “correct” outputs and “hallucinations” is humans’ interpretation of it, in terms of what the model does there is nothing separating the two.

I just switched to an AM5 board and at least on mine there’s a setting that enables HD resolutions, but the input works noticeably worse than on my mobo from 10 years ago.

I also get that perception, at least what they’re showing outwards, but it’s starting to feel like the EU is actually starting to plan for a future that has at least a much smaller dependence on the US.

I think for the pragmatic diplomats, it makes sense to show you’re willing to go back to the old way of doing things because it might make the transition less painful, you get to keep at least some of the benefits and goodwill while you prepare to move away from them.

However, I also think there are unfortunately a lot of spineless (and greedy) people in power who would go back to, for example, a president Newsom in a heartbeat despite the risks it poses.

Or maybe people have different tastes, preferences, and sensitivities. If you don’t enjoy it yourself that’s fine but it doesn’t mean someone has to be desensitized in order to not think it’s horrible.

To be fair, the vast majority of these are societal standards and not rights, they are still absolutely important and we need to do more for equality both for women and for men, but strictly speaking they are not by definition rights.

But I am in agreement with you that I think a lot of why the younger generation are being pulled in the wrong direction is because men, of which I am one, have not done enough to create an environment that addresses issues that primarily affects men in a way that is not based on misogyny.

Don’t get me wrong, the alt-right have absolutely tried to exacerbate these issues (either knowingly or unknowingly) and use them for their own gains, but we as a society have also not prioritized emotionally healthy solutions and that has led us to where we are.

There isn’t, she’s grifting and trying to get pity for something that she has done and gladly would do again to other people. She’s making sure to leave office right after she has become eligible for retirement benefits, it was never about something other than getting money and attention.

What is a hëlp and how do we cover it?

I don’t get the take about “CaPitALism”. If your employer did what you say then they did so in spite of the system of capitalism, not thanks to it. A good employer will set their sights long-term, aiming to keep their employees happy in order to build a stable future, but that’s not what the system rewards, the system rewards short-term profits.

Also, the last story kind of reminds me of “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”-rhetoric (the term also drives me insane because it’s literally against the laws of physics). Are there people who work hard, take steps to advance their careers and achieve success because of their efforts? Absolutely! Are there also other people who try just as hard and don’t achieve the same successes, either due to other struggles or just due to random chance? Most definitely.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Beautiful.

That’s just ridiculous, they wouldn’t price it the same.

They’d price it at 99% of the cost of a human’s salary so that they can convince their customers that they’re saving money by firing their workers, then pocket the difference!

You’re not missing out, in my opinion it was not a good movie in any sense.

Add to that, that to the best of my knowledge, most child rapists are not pedophiles and most pedophiles are not child rapists.

The two being convoluted helps child rapists by letting them hide behind their sexual orientation (“he can’t be a child predator, he has a wife and kids!”) and hurts pedophiles by stigmatizing their condition so that they have a harder time getting help to control or remove their sexual urges.

If we really want to reduce the amount suffering for both adults and, most importantly, children then we have to be able to start having actual conversations about this.