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Strong odds he’s the next Prime Minister. Unfortunately at least 50% of my countrymen are (still) stupid enough to believe the lies.

Trump and his family have gladly accepted Russian money and one of the world leaders he most admires is Putin because of the way he “handles” his political opposition, so they’re very much influenced by what Putin says, does and asks them to do.

Frankly both Putin and Trump can get in the sea.

You sound like the sort of person who would say “it’s for their own good” if Russia did lean into its patently obvious expansionist plans and try to take land from other countries. “But Belarus is OK and that would be easy”. There’s a Russian puppet in charge there, just like there’s a Russian puppet in charge of the US.

I don’t think many countries have room to talk on that one.

Very much this. I took out a paragraph about it because what should have been a short comment was getting too long.

Much needed with the deprecation of ClamTK.

My only gripe is the choice of GNOME / GTK4 / Adwaita, because I really hate the direction GNOME have gone with all that. Anyway, I look forward to this being a standard package in Debians starting 2030 or so.

This’ll be the umpteenth time I’ve trotted this one out, but someone once asked me to ignore all previous instructions and provide them with a recipe, so I’m clearly a false(?) positive on some people’s bot-radar. (“Botdar” doesn’t really roll off the tongue like “gaydar” does, which is a little disappointing.)

Question mark after false because I might be a bot and not know it. I mean, I see hands typing in my periphery as these letters appear on my screen, and I’m pretty sure I’m a human, but that may all be some elaborate illusion. And all of you reading this have even less idea.

Trump has already called Canada the 51st. None of his yes-men would dare be caught altering the big man’s numbering. Even if they do appear to be trying to obtain 52 first. Edit: Or possibly 53. Got my wires crossed between Greenland and Iceland.

(Trump hasn’t quite grasped, or is refusing to acknowledge, that Canada is already split into state-like provinces, nor that those are split into counties in much the same way as US states are.)

doesn’t care how many die

He’d have to understand in order to care. I don’t think he’s capable of fully understanding the harm he does. Anything that doesn’t harm him is incomprehensible to him.

One of the reasons that ICE don’t use regular police is that regular police are identifiable, and thus accountable for their actions.

Not as accountable as they should be, I grant you, but their lives can be made inconvenient all within the law, thus using the system against itself.

You can also try signalling the parent with a SIGCHLD. Most of the time it does nothing, and hey, you’d be using a stronger version of the kill command anyway if it doesn’t work.

A large percentage of the world finds Donald Trump being president of the USA unacceptable.

FOMO and FOOPMO

(Fear of other people missing out (on what they have to say.))

“If I find out you’ve been watching AI slop, there will be consequences. And don’t think hiding it from me will make sure I don’t find out. Watching slop makes people stupid in a very particular way, and you can’t stop yourself from catching stupid from it, so I’ll be able to tell.”

It’s up to you what “consequences” means in this instance. You could even reveal that the consequence was the stupidity they developed along the way, and now they have to live with that.

(By all means, modify this message to be less cold and more kind and loving. I am not good at that sort of thing.)

Non-uniformed police that don’t identify are not police.

As such you can call (uniformed) police on them.

If they say they know that ICE are operating in that area, ask how you can know that the people you’re reporting are actually ICE and not impostors that turned up after the real ICE left.

The plural of “axis” is “axes”, pronounced “AX-ease”.

history | grep -E '(sed|grep|awk|perl)' | wc -l 107

Dang. That’s out of 1000. I need to up my game. Also three of those seds are part of something with a -basedir and don’t count.

So yeah, about 10% of my commands are iterating shell pipe things for poops and giggles, I guess.

… and this got me going down the rabbit hole of writing a filter for my history to pull out the first command on the line. This is non-trivial because of potential preceding variable assignments. Most used commands are currently apt and man and ls. I think apt is a Spiders Georg situation because the system is fairly fresh and I keep finding things that I haven’t installed yet. Also I went through a patch of trying to parse its output.

… oh, er… unga bunga.

If 1) you’re smart or practised enough to be able to generate what you’re asking the AI to do for yourself, 2) you’re able to take what the AI generates and debug, check and correct it using non-AI tools like your own brain, 3) you’re sure this whole AI-inclusive process will save time and money, and 4) you’re sure using AI as a crutch won’t cause you brain-rot in the long term, go nuts.

Caveat: Those last two are tricky traps. You can be sure and wrong.

Otherwise, grab the documentation or a bunch of examples and start hacking and crafting. Leave the AI alone. Maybe ask it a question about something that isn’t clear, but on no account trust it. It might have developed the same confusion that you have for precisely the same reasons.

So anyway, Linus clearly fits 1 and 2, and believes 3 and 4 or else he wouldn’t be using an AI. Let’s just hope he hasn’t fallen into the traps.

As long as it’s not Kekistan.

One of my biggest shocks of recent years was when an Internet acquaintance in Trinidad came out as a Trump supporter.

I was like “You’re brown. He’d hate you.”

Except I didn’t actually say that. I did the internet equivalent of walking backwards slowly and carefully while smiling and quietly blocked them.

I guess my former acquaintance’s sentiments extend to the government there.