Why call it anything? UTC-7 or -8 are explicit, less confusing internationally & shorter

this comment feels very reminiscent of the recent “if it was opt in nobody would opt in”

Why?

We’re perfectly aware that Russia is capitalist, it gets no more credits than Germany for its communist past. The reason it receives critical support is because it’s opposing the US, and the US hegemon falling is pretty much the gateway to socialism worldwide.

We’re so clear about it that I don’t even understand how you could possibly think we support Russia because we think it’s still socialist?

You mean bloodstream CO2, if not what other form?

AI traning on AI producing content is called poisoning and can be devastating even if a tiny part of the training set is poison. Stripping this mark makes AI companies unable to detect it as training poison, so it might make it posible for poisoning to occur on a larger scale, which is kind of inevitable as they’re scraping literally all they can & AI generated content is now inevitably part of the training pool

That’s not what democratic socialism is. That’s social democracy – Capitalism with some kind of social net. It fails for the same reasons capitalism eventually fails; usually after failing as a social democracy first, because capitalist elites will cause corruption & dismantling of the safety net (as is going on everywhere in Europe)

Edit: It’s turning my double dashes to emdashes, I didnt chatgpt this :(

I’ve read somewhere (which means it’s highly reliable) that they’re trying to work in isolation to be self-sufficient, is that wrong?

If the code is GPL they’ll generally be scared to use it. I agree with you for non-copyleft open source though

oranges, bananas and other “Southern Fruit” were mostly a Christmas special

It was true for most of Europe afaik, unless you’re speaking about like the 80s I suppose, but oranges being a christmas thing was true for my grandparents as well (not in Germany)

Except the US economy is already dead, and only AI is keeping it “alive”. If AI companies die, the US economy enters a true recession, and rich people would lose a lot of money

I tried Linux multiple times (out of curiosity / contrarianism I guess) until Windows pissed me off enough, while the Steam Deck proved I could reliably run games with minimal tinkering (frankly not any worse than what I had to do on windows).

So I made the jump, and I have not looked back

My issue isn’t with Rust as a language at all, I quite enjoy making my projects with it. My issue is with “Rust rewrites” of GPL software, only to have those rewrites be licensed under MIT/Apache. To me it signifies that these rewrites were never about the safety features of Rust, but that they are attempts at pushing out the GPL

Rust often ends up just being an excuse to rewrite software with corporate-friendly licenses without copyleft. That’s not necessarily true though, Lemmy itself is Rust & licenced under AGPL

today’s system of survival Capitalism

it’s not “today’s system”, this is not a different kind of capitalism we are living through; it’s simply the logical continuation of capitalism.

Capitalism means profiting from owning. This systematically means, as the meme says, “line goes up”. The line must go up, otherwise owning stops being profitable, and capitalism stops. We’re just at a point where the avenues to keep growth going are becoming harder and costlier to reach, and each time those avenues are explored, they make the next ones costlier. So we’re all getting squeezed, both as workers (mass layoffs, multiple jobs etc), and as consumers (enshittification, product quality deterioration, price increases).

This is unavoidable; European countries that are currently more livable than the US will inevitably face this as well, they just took the scenic route

I love rust, but I absolutely hate how it’s used to jam MIT licenses where GPL belongs. Maybe it’s time we consider using corpos tools against them, and use an AI to rewrite GNU utils to Rust, so that people can continue contributing to Rust while not feeding corps?

Edit: Though licensing AI software is iffy at best, you’ve got to own the copyright to something to licence it: Non-human productions are legally non-copyrightable. Also it might be better to just have humans do it anyway. The intent of my message was just that maybe we ought to deprive MIT-licensed projects from FOSS-motivated developers by providing Rust GPL alternatives to MIT/corporate Rust projects

China literally just put out an open weight model that verifiably beats the unverified Mythos claims in some scenarios; the reality is that they most likely want the US to “win” the AI race (which they cant, closed models will always be beat by open weight, which is what China is doing)

They’re already on shaky finances, having an export ban would just pop the bubble sooner (and what remains of the US economy along with it)

There are issues with LGBTQ people in CHina, but they’re not really worse than Japan for example. Not good, because there is no official support or recognition (except at the local level), but no one really cares, especially not the government (except trans people – they do get treatment & support)

They are scaling up but as with other things they will most likely scale to their inner market first, and then I doubt they’ll subsidize a price depreciation to help westerners when they can get the profits for themselves

But did you think about China Bad™?