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Of course they are -it goes without saying.

Are you including aggressive economic attacks -such as weaponizing tariffs or are you only counting direct military acts?

I'm pretty sure the U.S. has done both over the last couple of years -but I'd love to be proven wrong. :)

Yes and no? I've had the same experience with asking about Tienanmen square -but then when asking a Deepseek v4 model (and confirmed by asking the chat on the deepseek site) about the "laying flat" movement it gave me a detailed answer that was unexpectedly sympathetic to the movement.

But lately, because of AI, I've completely lost interest in this kind of stuff.

I'm a few years older -and yes, I feel the same way. Not just in programming and geek stuff but in creativity too.

It seems literally pointless, since what everyone else is doing involves AI. It literally takes the point away since folks will simply say "oh, who cares? Look at this shit I made in AI instead"

I originally wasn't going to try it -but now I have to!

Particularly since the first version of Windows shipped in what -1985? Contemporary with 4.2BSD? Did 4.2BSD even use /etc/hosts the same way or DNS?

Elon bought Twitter to destroy it, this is simply the latest step in that process.

And at that point you also realize that are better OSes

Nothing beats Windows 11+WSL2; literally the best of both worlds.

Great for svardos users, not ideal for the rest of the FreeDOS community, however.

[edit]Additionally, it looks like people's IP address is included with their posts. YUCK!

OS/2 was more stable than Windows and it had threaded application support -so the analogy does hold, IMO.

Another One Rides The Bus

(I first heard it on Dr. Demento)

Litigation in some form or another. This is undoubtably related to the take it down legislation recently passed.

Porn isn't the only worry; there's also getting sued by the estates of dead celebrities, being misused for misinformation purposes.

Things are going to become increasingly restrictive until it is not worth using unless you're a corporation or a state actor. But for hobbiests? Resources are going to become thin on the ground and no, that is not a good thing.

From what I understand, Brave is a shit-show in its' own right.

Lxcore.sys, the kernel side driver that powers WSL 1

This isn't open source, and considering that this is probably what ties into/sets up WSL as a windows subsystem that's a bit of a bummer.

The rest is just a Virtual Machine for the most part, isn't it?

Let's not get sidetracked with the whole LGTBIQH or whatever topic

No -LET'S; because it's not a sidetrack; it's the primary motivation.

Quoth project 2025: "Pornography, manifested today in the *omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology* and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered."

This is saying that anyone performing education or support services on LGBTQ issues, specifically transgender issues "educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders."

Focusing on this issue is not a side-track; it's one of the primary motivators for this new bill -to target, harass and imprison those who are LGBTQ...

of course anyone with more than two working braincells can anticipate how it would be expanded upon (goodbye freedom of assembly, goodbye unionizing); but it's a foot in the door.

I'm worried on a personal level that it's too easy to begin to rely on chatgpt (specifically) for questions and such that I can figure out for myself. As a time-saver when I'm doing something else.

The problem for me is -it sucks. It falls over in the most obvious ways requiring me to do a lot of tweaking to make it fit whatever task I'm doing. I don't mind (esp for free) but in my experience we're NOT in the "all the right answers all of the time" stage yet.

I can see it coming, and for good or ill the thing that will mitigate addiction is enshittification. Want the rest of the answer? Get a subscription. Hot and heavy in an intimate conversation with your dead granma wait why is she suddenly singing the praises of Turbotax (or whatever paid advert).

What I'm trying to say is that by the time it is able to be the perfect answer and companion and entertainment machine -other factors (annoyances, expense) will keep it from becoming terribly addictive.

The mention of lovebombing is disconcerting, and I'd love to know the specifics around it. Is it related to the sycophant personality changes they had to walk back, or is it something more intense?

I've used AI (not chatgpt) for roleplay and I've noticed that the models will often fixate on one idea or concept and repeat it and build on it. So this makes me wonder if the model the person being lovebombed experienced something like that? The model decided that they liked that content so they just kept building up on it?

It's interesting that a few of these projects seem to be reaching milestones at the same time. It's reassuring to see that there are people out there who are still working on this deep of a level with computers and sharing their results with us.

Rock on!

Clearly people care very deeply about sources and evidence -and they're attacking things (wikipedia, various gov websites) which can be used as objective sources.

If you don't have objective sources, it's easier to lead people around by the nose -hence the attack.

Basically we've seen this movie before -look at the trajectory OSX took. As far as I know, it's not really possible to build a useable pure darwin installable OS. Puredarwin itself is stuck in whatever was released in 2018 or earlier.

Like Darwin, there may be an 'open' skeleton that vscode hangs upon, but all of the things that make it useful and attractive are being increasingly pulled behind paywalls.

I'm pretty sure most of us saw this coming a mile away. I've played a little with VS Code here and there but never put a lot of time into it because I'd rather invest my time in things I know will be here in 2035 -like vim/neovim.

Literally how it will be used; you are correct.

The irc client (not naming it) is an interesting choice for a secure-by-default OS. My understanding was that it has several security concerns?

no one who voted for this regime is familiar with the idea of shame.

In practice? Very much no.

Trump is a puppet. The people pulling his strings, however, should be taken very seriously.

This video breaks down who those people are as well as what their motivations are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

They is NOT Trump; THEY is Musk and he has economic ties to China and Russia.

Musk the lens that all future U.S. actions and rhetoric needs to be seen through, at least in the near-term.

So they've now zoomed past 'don't be evil' right to turning into snidely freakin whiplash.

It would be very nice if the press didn't just fall over itself trying to be a free PR agency for OpenAI.

Which means there will be bad actors with a special interest in spreading narratives on every relevant forum

Which brings us neatly to OpenAI

I attempted to post the distrowatch link to my feed and it was blocked as 'spam'.

That seems pretty automated to me.