Correct. Division of money into currency units is entirely arbitrary, there are many currencies where a thousand units is a wildly different amount from a thousand US dollars or euros or similar-valued units.

Yes and there already is also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20

The first two depend on centralized services and nonfree software, which are things I don’t like. The third doesn’t. The fourth doesn’t have to.

So by those metrics I like cryptocurrency the most. In fact I have invested a bit of my savings in Bitcoin. I have never used Uber or AirBnB meanwhile.

Can’t I just ask it for the seahorse emoji once in a while and achieve the same result or something…

No, I didn’t.

Yes, you did, because people can look for those exact images - possibly with AI assistance nowadays…

Even if I did, what are you going to do with that information?

Me, nothing, someone else, who knows…

It already does, it’s called inflation.

Also are you talking about physical money, or bank accounts, or what…?

If they had come back at a different time, then why do the clouds align when I move back and forth?

wdym “clouds” on overcast days?

Also you do realize you’ve doxed your home address with this…

The entire history of KDE has clearly been carefully planned to lead to the point where the version number is the same as the latest entry on the funny numbers list.

There are certainly some governments around the world that have considered requiring age verification for chatbots. Not sure any such laws are already in effect.

I don’t even want to express an opinion whether I find that worse or less bad than doing so for social media.

ha ha

Do LLMs do that? That sounds more like dictionary use without thinking.

I remember not long ago seeing an image of handwritten homework where the student answered “as a large language model …”.

I certainly hope so. I hope eventually federated discussion groups become the default way for the general public to communicate about any topic that interests them.

But with how governments around the world are going after the Internet, especially the parts of it that aren’t profitable… I just hope some good parts of it survive at all. :(

The question is confusing, what exactly do you mean by “directly from online”? Just click a button in a web browser and it will install the entire distro? If so, pretty sure the answer is no; if you imagine something else, please clarify.

Because there’s no good reason to do that that justifies the cost and effort.

Hard forks are generally fairly rare, e.g. you could ask the same about the Linux kernel…

which is however not a fork, either hard or soft, of anything

When western governments don’t give a fuck about human rights anymore, they have no standing to criticize China over it.

I would expand this idea further… since all governments occasionally violate human rights, they shouldn’t be very much in the business of calling out human rights violations by other governments. That should mainly be the role of citizens or private organizations, not governments.

The etymology is that a “datum” (the plural of which is data) is something that is “given”.

So data is information that has been given.

In computers, data (information) is stored in bits (zeroes and ones). Eight bits are a byte, a billion bytes are a gigabyte, so the plan you describe allows you to download (or transmit overall?) 2*8*1000000000 = 16000000000 ones or zeroes that are used to encode data for computers (which they will decode into text, images, videos, whatever).

It’s the same for me honestly. Reading fiction isn’t enjoyable for me most of the time, though reading nonfiction (ie learning about the world) absolutely is.

I remember this being somewhat different in my childhood, and my hypothesis is that the fact we got somewhat uninteresting fiction reading assignments in school killed my interest in it.

It’s not screens vs books because I have tried reading fiction on my phone or tablet too, no difference.

It is a computer. Computer is a very general term.