What did anyone expect? I think this is literally the central purpose of this: to make sure the population is less well-informed so they can be ruled more easily.

I really used to think self-declared western liberal democracies were better than this. I don’t anymore.

I think there are free software devs (e.g. KDE) who livestream their work now too already.

What now?

With free software, I can just modify my client to tell any backend that I’m over 18 or over 21 or whatever the highest age bracket is. The backend is, as I understand, supposed to then take that claim at face value and deliver to me the version that is intended for adults.

There are many problems with the entire thing, but this one in particular is a non-issue.

No, but an SSD really does make the computer a lot faster, no matter the OS.

It wouldn’t be any different if you did the same with a human brain (with the memory capacity of ChatGPT):

“Human, read and memorize this giant pile of written text, which is a mix of things on the Internet, almost every book ever written, and such things.”

“OK, have done that.”

“Now, based on what you’ve read, tell me: Who is Barack Obama?”

“Barack Obama is a man born in 1961 who was the US president from 2009 to 2017. [… other facts about Obama that were somewhere in the training data]”

“OK, and who was Konrad Adenauer?”

“Konrad Adenauer was the first federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. [… other facts about Adenauer that were somewhere in the training data]”

“OK, what’s the current date and time?”

“No idea. How am I supposed to know THAT?”

oddly enough all these things have repeatedly appeared, disappeared, and reappeared in my lifetime, e.g. titlebars on Windows became transparent with Vista, then stopped being so in, I think, Windows 8?

Do speedometers even measure such low speeds with anywhere near that precision?

Hasn’t yet.

Is becoming, yes. There are still plenty of opportunities to stop it provided that the democratic process remains somewhat functional and governments have not gone into “we are the rulers, we decide whatever we want, screw the will of the people” mode yet.

I don’t have the answer on how far on the path toward that aforementioned mode we are. :(

Have you ever played a Pokémon battle frontier/tower?

Plenty.

I think as long as there is competent human verification of what it’s done, it’s legitimate to use AI for nearly anything. Especially the creation of art.

But I’ve also read that AI has been helpful in finding security problems in software that humans likely wouldn’t have found. I don’t see a reason to hate AI in general.

At least for me, all citrus fruits including their juices have an effect that they make me somewhat happier and help somewhat against depression. In the winter, I usually eat several mandarins a day.

The problem with that is that he hasn’t been convicted of any of the things mentioned there. People are innocent until proven guilty, so it can’t be the case that someone can be deemed to have done these things if they haven’t been convicted.

Oddly enough, treason is actually the only crime defined in the US constitution.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-3/section-3/

Unclear that Trump has done those exact things.

In any case, the executive branch isn’t going to prosecute its own head. The next president might, but then again it’s a real possibility that Trump might not live long enough for that…

I would start here: https://ryf.fsf.org/products?category=1&vendor=All&sort_by=created&sort_order=DESC or if that is too limiting, here: https://kde.org/hardware/

Define “censorship” as well as “obvious like following the law” (the law of which jurisdiction?). People have different ideas of what they want to see, and laws across the world are different in what they do and don’t allow. So the question is unanswerable as asked.

Here are two articles that may help you understand the problems with your question:

• https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship
• https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/

Bears are pretty common in some areas of North America. We don’t even have black bears in Europe at all, only brown ones which are more dangerous.

Nowhere close to the >95% market share IE had in the early 2000s.

I see.

I occasionally read debates at what age children should get smartphones or other devices. While I don’t have children yet nor plans to have any, I think my attitude would be: when they’re able to read and write and occasionally unsupervised, they get a GNU/Linux smartphone, with Plasma Mobile or similar, so they can use the Internet through a web browser and get used to that being normal.

They get an Android phone in their teen years when they need it for banking apps or similar.

When I was younger, the Internet was primarily a text based medium. Images and videos existed, but mainly to illustrate text.

I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t able to read, so I wonder: do illiterate people now just watch videos on the Internet? Unthinkable 20 years ago that the Internet would be usable without being able to read.

Not familiar with that layout, but just looking at it I see there is a ’ printed on the question mark key, to the right of zero. So try pressing that key in combination with shift, or if that doesn’t work, AltGr.

Print screen, I suspect you’ll have to look up in that specific keyboard’s manual. On a full size keyboard that doesn’t need an Fn key it would certainly be where it is in all other languages. I suspect it is hidden behind a combination with the Fn key but since it isn’t printed on there, I can’t tell for sure.