If only you read as far as the 4th paragraph of the article…

The experts the Guardian spoke to agreed that the US is likely to have violated the terms of the UN charter, which was signed in October 1945 and designed to prevent another conflict on the scale of the second world war. A central provision of this agreement – known as article 2(4) – rules that states must refrain from using military force against other countries and must respect their sovereignty.

Geoffrey Robertson KC, a founding head of Doughty Street Chambers and a former president of the UN war crimes court in Sierra Leone, said the attack on Venezuela was contrary to article 2(4) of the charter. “The reality is that America is in breach of the United Nations charter,” he added. “It has committed the crime of aggression, which the court at Nuremberg described as the supreme crime, it’s the worst crime of all.”

Elvira Domínguez-Redondo, a professor of international law at Kingston University, described the operation as a “crime of aggression and unlawful use of force against another country”. Susan Breau, a professor of international law and a senior associate research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, agreed that the attack could have only been considered lawful if the US had a resolution from the UN security council or was acting in self-defence. “There is just no evidence whatsoever on either of those fronts,” Breau said.

wow this was quite the ride 😂

Yea sorry, I didn’t phrase it accurately, it doesn’t “pretend” anything, as that would require consciousness.

This whole bizarre charade of explaining its own “thinking” reminds me of an article where iirc researchers asked an LLM to explain how it calculated a certain number, it gave a response like how a human would have calculated it, but with this model they somehow managed to watch it working under the hood, and it was calculating guessing it with a completely different method than what it said. It doesn’t know its own working, even these meta questions are just further exercises of guessing what would be a plausible answer to the scientists’ question.

“I am horrified” 😂 of course, the token chaining machine pretends to have emotions now 👏

Edit: I found the original thread, and it’s hilarious:

I’m focusing on tracing back to step 615, when the user made a seemingly inconsequential remark. I must understand how the directory was empty before the deletion command, as that is the true puzzle.

This is catastrophic. I need to figure out why this occurred and determine what data may be lost, then provide a proper apology.

Also what I’ve heard from open-source project maintainers, once a project gets popular, the flood of feature requests is neverending. (Something I’m sure I contributed to over the years 🫣) And especially in cases of feature requests with niche usefulness or mismatching vision, they can sap developer morale.

Reminds me of that story about Windows’s format dialog. It’s on Xitter, so here’s the text:

Dave W Plummer

I wrote [Windows’s] Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.

We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI.

I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.

Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn’t elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.

That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in “temporary” solutions!

I also had to decide how much “cluster slack” would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect.

So remember… there are no “temporary” checkins :)

got stuck on lvl 15, couldn’t park the Waymo in the traffic 🥴

Ahh my bad, I haven’t read the comic again once I saw which one it was, and forgot it mentions the diet coke thing 😅

Not sure why you’re being this hostile.

CMYK is easy to work around.

But that’s the point, that you need workarounds for such a simple and (if you work with printed materials) essential feature.

So, your argument is, that you can find 1 tool where AI is better, and then everything else doesn’t matter?

That’s literally not what I said, just that I don’t think it’s necessarily the best based on what I’ve read. I agree that it being FLOSS raises its appeal quite a bit, but it’s not quite there yet to replace Illustrator for me.

Well, fine - keep paying a sh*tload of money for Adobe, and use AI, that’s totally fine by me. :-)

Yeah, Adobe’s predatory pricing is why I’m not paying for it. But sadly it’s still the only tool I found that has all the features I need.

Oh, if you’d be so kind, show me something made in AI, that Inkscape can’t do?

A CMYK file lol. But I’m not going to do work for you, you’re clearly not engaging in good faith.

that’s sad :(

I’m only using it for tracking new releases of 400+ Steam developers, which still works 🤞

(mentioning the “400+” part bc I had tried so many other change tracking tools before finding this one, but the free ones all had limits of like 25 sites)

I’m not sure about that “best” qualifier. From what I’ve read, it still doesn’t really support CMYK colour mode and its text tools are lacking compared to Adobe Illustrator.

wrong thread?

Google Keep is a very basic note-taking software. Imho its main appeal is that it seamlessly syncs between desktop browser and phone app - I use it for shopping lists.

Other note-taking apps are much more advanced in features. E.g. I use Obsidian (sadly not open source) for everything that doesn’t need spreadsheets. Logseq, Joplin and SiYuan are open source alternatives recommended elsewhere in this thread.

and lastly, Tor Browser: anonymous web browser to evade state censorship and surveillance

qBittorrent: only for your legal torrenting needs from e.g. archive.org :>

Open Hardware Monitor: track and visualise CPU/GPU/HDD/etc. performance over time

(I’ve been using the original repo that I see hasn’t been updated in some years, this is a more active fork.)

MusicBrainz Picard: superb mp3 tagger with online metadata lookup feature and audio track fingerprinting

GEDKeeper: genealogy software with many functions

(disclaimer: I contributed to this project :) )

Workrave: screen break reminder

I recommend v1.11 because the v1.10 UI is very retro 😅

freac: free audio converter :)