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in a sense it is.

i spent a short while trying to figure out what the petition was and who it was supposed to be addressed to, only to conclude there wasn't a petition at all.

finally i found a statement in small print: This is not a petition to any government, agency or company.

so it's an ad to build a database of gullible and compulsive people. oh, well ...

i'm guessing it's a metaphor for neutrality. except it's a metaphor that isn't really aging well ...

> (1) Just read what it gave you, (2) then write your own take on it

completely agree except a crucial step is missing here:

(1.5) validate the accuracy/truth/relevance of it

your own sincere and human take on rubbish will still be rubbish. validating is indeed the more uncomfortable/demanding task here but if you omit it you become just a "human ai beautifier", and this will actually undermine the trust in you as a human. if you are going to omit validation just paste away, be honest and let it be obvious, you can then blame the ai.

i found that almost everything around me is evil, and after a period of hesitation i resolved to make the most of it.

> We're back to pre-google, but it's a lot worse now

a lot is worse now, but not shopping. on amazon some very specific items may be hard to find, and the search will throw a lot of crap at you, but you're still free to refine, compare and explore. finding exactly what you need and making an informed purchase has never been easier, and you get next day delivery (most of the time) plus exceptional return/refund policy and process. not sure about picking a, b or c? order all three, keep one, return the rest. i ofc don't (usually) do that, but i could. don't know how shopping could get any better/easier?

i don't like amazon as a company, it is evil and there is a lot to criticise, but the service and the value to the customer they provided has completely transformed shopping, for the better.

ofc long gone are the times where you could walk into a shop and talk to someone who actually had a clue about what they were selling and most likely was even an expert on the matter. that isn't coming back but that happened long before amazon.

writes an anodyne wall of text about his obsession with particular elements in a character table - ends with:

PS: if you want personalised advice from me on how to use punctuation correctly, you can now get it for $175/hour.

humans sometimes ...

ps: sasha, if you want me to read your future regurgitations you can now get that for €175/minute (limited availability, only skimread mode for now)

that's one term of the equation. the other is that war is the tool of banking cartels.

because the empire sees no other way but war to maintain dominance, scratch that, avoid dissolution. so folks all over the world prepare, and rightly so if u ask me.

spoiler alert: the cozy days of the colonial west are over. it will all be over soon, and one can hope but i don't guarantee surviving will be necessarily a lucky draw.

btw, this would explain fermi's paradox pretty well.

taking vacation and switching off is actually the sane thing for a person to do. the problem is that there is no provision for your post being covered while on vacation, and it's a problem in the enterprise/organization.

imo that a representative of the people misses a vote should just not be acceptable under any circumstances.

that's of course if we had to take "democracy" as an actually meaningful representation of the people. this was a cheap political maneuver to get a bill passed. happens everywhere. they would have gotten the bill through by any other means anyway.

that would be in an ideal democracy, though, in reality european parlamentarians don't even draft laws, they are only able to sign off on laws drafted by shady appointees of an equally shady and largely unelected (by the people) comission, take it or leave it. that, photo ops and declarations is their whole job, it shouldn't be too complicated to have a fucking substitute when on vacation.

i reply to reddit on twitter with a cheeky capture because they sent me this crap from a "noreply" email account. it seemed appropriate. tbh i don't really "use" neither "reddit" nor "twitter/x", the decision is easy.

this dark ongoing trend is not to be taken lightly, though. i know it is a lost battle. i know this is a shout in the void. there even isn't really much to say to who won't listen. i don't really care because i have no faith in humanity anymore. but there it is.

this literally is about ibm providing free cloud infrastructure and offering support for the community. what failures are you talking about? s390x is not an "exotic" architecture by any stretch and is pretty top-notch in terms of availability, reliance and performance, which is why it is still in use. the incentives both for the community supporting it and the manufacturer supporting the community seem pretty evident to me.

>I'm happy for competition in this space, specially because Deno can run true TypeScript directly and not just strip types like the current Node implementation.

this is misleading. there is no "running true ts". you will always be running pure js (until someone actually develops a "true" ts engine), and deno does "type stripping" just the same. the only difference is that it bundles the tools and makes it transparent and config-free which is more convenient (although more rigid).

which is why shaming them is a valid attempt to get them to "think". it has worked in the past (particularly with bmw!).

specially because no car really supports grapheneos, but it can be used in any car supporting regular android provided google play is installed which ensures google's certification and validation is being preserved. if i get this right bmw is actively blocking this, which would be just a dick move.

oh, i see you misunderstanding. he obviously meant the ruling class, those epsteinites. nobody cares about british people, they're just ... people!

> the wording is open to interpretation, but not in the case of Ukraine. Nobody considers the Ukrainians and Russians living in the Donbas as a separate ethnicity or people; not they themselves, nor anyone else.

that is an unsubstantiated claim that's actually false and doesn't even preclude the right of any group of people in sufficient majority to exercise self-govern, by their mere will and manifestation, so i'm not going to even bother debunking it (again).

> There was no coup. "Ukrainian MPs have voted to oust President Viktor Yanukovych and hold early presidential elections on 25 May." (BBC, 22 February 2014).

that vote didn't reach the required 3/4 of the threshold required by the constitution for impeachment. the subterfuge employed to ignore that requirement was that yanukovich had allegedly relinquished his position, which actually means he had to flee the country for his life because of the threat of the nazi nationalists (armed by the us and on the loose around kiev), as did many of the 122 deputies that weren't even present in the voting. so you arm extremist groups for years, groom ngos to stirr up discontent funded by usaid and ned, then weaponize legitimate protests with violence, which then spirals out of control as the legitimate government overreacts in the crackdown, then you make huge international media fuzz about it, then you threaten the president to flee, then you hold a sham vote to impeach him, then you instate a "provisional" government you already decided. democracy installed! if all this sounds familiar it's because it is the good old cia coup playbook.

bonus sound bite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUCCR4jAS3Y

she had to actually publicly apologize (thus admitting the conversation) because eu vassals were indignant about her disrespect ("fuck the eu!"). fun fact: those insults are intolerable! but that the us secretary of state and the us ambassador were deciding, all by themselves, the composition of new goverrnment to replace the legitimate government of a foreign country ... that apparently bothered no one.

> The right to self-determination is the right of an ethnicity to self-govern

there isn't really a clear definition of what constitutes "a people". etnicity might be a common trait but it doesn't have to. basically if all or a considerable majority in a territory want's to self-govern, the un charter recognizes that right. in practice this right has never been honored unless these people found a way to enforce it.

> There was no secession movement

oh, there was.

prior to 2014 there was a consistent history of voting pro-russian parties, like the "party of regions". as early as in the 90s the "interfront of donbas" was advocating for regional autonomy, federal structure, recognition of russian as an official language and consultative referenda were held showing consistent support. kiev obviously ignored all this, but there was clear a will for self-govern and attachment to russia.

indeed not secession outright. secession is a bold move. that happened immediately after the coup in 2014, because all these people felt betrayed and threatened (and with good reason). excuse me if they weren't as orgnaized as the eu would demand. one irony of that eu ruling is not only that it fails to consider the right to self-determination, but that it recognizes the ukranian government as the administrator of donbas completely obviating the fact that that was an ilegitimate government, installed by a foreign power (we have victoria nuland on record reciting her staff picks for that) after ousting the elected government, that then immediately started to exert discrimination against culturally russian ukranians, particularly in donbas. it all went to hell form there.

without even commenting the evidence considered (mainly 'osint' claims) that ruling completely disregards the right of donbas to self-determination (wether organized or not). it was clearly a political ruling.

you know, as an european over sixty that actually voted to join the eu i have long learned that ... european courts are full of shit, as are most of the institutions of the "international rules based order" btw. i know, that's the best we have. which means we're fucked.

but funnily enough and back to the question: that ruling not even suggests the concepts of "invasion" and "territiorial gains".

https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/#{%22fulltext%22:[%22\%22Ukraine%...

one has to wonder... if donbas didn't really want to secede (or didn't know how), and it was all russian troops ... why would kiev shell residential areas in donetsk with massive civilian casualties in july of 2014? so they would actually have a reason to secede? doesn't that court full of shit have a case for that?

> If you want to believe that Russia had no military forces in Ukraine before 2022

that's not what i said, and supporting a warring faction doesn't really qualify as "invasion" nor "taking territory".

also, i would recommend very strict skepticism about politically sensitive content on wikipedia. it can still be useful for general timelines, but a simple check at the sources (when there are any) will reveal they tend to be overwhelmingly one-sided.

it's fine if you want to learn about, say, birds, engines or stars, though.

>Also because it was considering joining the EU. >The Russians threatened at least as early as 2008 that they would invade Ukraine if they did either.

this is not true. nato, yes, but russia made it repeatedly clear for years they had no problem with ukraine joining the eu, as a mainly economic/political entity.

it has only been this year that this position has shifted, the argument being that eu has morphed into a fully hostile military entity aswell.

btw, popular opinion in ukraine was strongly divided regarding joining the eu even before the coup and the ensuing civil war, and particularly against joining nato. also, there were no real prospects for ukraine joining the eu because the eu wouldn't really want that. to this day they still don't.

> They actually invaded Ukraine in 2014 and captured a lot of territory.

russian invasion started in february 2022. 2014 was the ousting of the legitimate government, secession of crimea and donbas, ukraine declaring donbas secessionist to be terrorists and starting a bombing campaign and the civil war.

if you're referring to the "green men" in crimea: those were the ukranian (but culturally russian) garrissoned troops that immediately after the coup removed the ukranian patches from their uniforms and defected to the russian side en masse.

> Within the article, the wording is much more accurate: “The victim uploads a skill file to Copilot Cowork that contains a prompt injection,” and “The injection manipulates Microsoft Copilot Cowork into posting a Teams message that exfiltrates pre-authenticated file download links when viewed.”

it's indeed accurate and clearly states what the outcome is: an exfiltration. why is it misleading to say so in the title?

it's pretty obvious that it means that "cowork" is the component vulnerable to exfiltration, not the prime actor.

interesting perspective, but i'd throw in some caveats:

- productivity isn't the be-all end-all, it's just one metric and a consultant's mantra. taking a productivity hit can be more than fine if it gives you a tactical/strategic advantage or opportunity.

- i'm not convinced at all that agents will become prohibitively expensive. that's indeed some companies' wet dream but a) good cheap competition is emerging and b) you don't really need the latest models or massive computing power to get shit done.

i do agree though with the emphasis on code quality and debt, and for not blindly going for the silver bullet fad and throwing money at it like there's no tomorrow in the hopes of some "productivity figures boost". then again i doubt that companies going for that would heed such advice, we've been there many times.

bs. all of the eu is doing this. the top importer is hungary, then france. and that's the official figures, not counting imports "rerouted" through other countries.

regardless of inflamed speeches eu simply cannot operate without that energy. should have thought about that before starting a war with russia. best of lucks!

it's in the article: wholesale energy price is among the cheapest in eu, but retail price to residents (including tolls, fees and taxes) is well over eu average. tells you something about spain ...

looks like a disproportionally huge wall of text (on twitter no less) for a non-issue. just choose your tools sensibly:

- work text / human or mixed input: markdown, plain text

- fancy looks / interaction: html

avoid creating problems, try solving them instead. and don't start futile smoke campaigns.

>unexamined assumption here that "the next thing" is always going to be an improvement but there is no, non-ideological reason to hold to this assumption

i'm not making that assumption at all, so whatever.

context: revolutions? if slop is a problem but is barely enough of a problem to collectively do something about it maybe letting it get out of hand would be a good motivation.

i'm not advocating for this, just providing it as a possible context where the "this is really bad so let's make it worse" argument could "make sense".

progress isn't just a technical issue, it involves people and people need motivation.

context. sometimes things simply have to be broken to give way for something better. ymmv.

i had to laugh at his announcement that "otoh ai will give you the power to get all that coverage and cyclomatic complexity stats done in minutes, which you know doesn't really mean that the code is going to work".

also, his prediction assumes that ai will be able to learn from its own code going forward. will it also create its new programming languages and tools?

but it's a funny rant.

it's ok, the occasion offered an interesting glimpse on the crowd in here.

btw, that was another deflection right there, just saying ;-)

worse how? are you aware of the real sorry state of privacy, freedom of information and civil rights all around the globe today, and very specially in our shiny western democracies? that's getting considerably worse, i recommend you pay a bit more close attention instead of chasing tired clichés and ghosts abroad.