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Obama wasn't a hero; he just wasn't terrible

  • He blew up innocent people with bombs and drones. He tortured people. I'd say he was indeed terrible.

    Don't get me wrong: he was one of the better presidents that we've had, but that bar is embarrasingly low.

    • Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”

  • I don't know nearly enough history to be an expert on this subject, but I've heard that one of the causes of the Enlightenment was because peasants and poors were able to afford to spend time learning and creating, rather than substinance-farming.

    • Email client for Linux

  • It works great. I never open a browser to search for mail: http://mutt.postle.net/searching/

    • Email client for Linux

  • I learned about mutt ~12 years ago, and it changed my email-interface forever

    all mutt, all the time

    • Like dust in the wind

  • I've heard of the Brain Health Registry: https://my.brainhealthregistry.org/

    But I have no idea how well it works

    • Customer is mistakenly accused of text spamming for repeatedly replying STOP to political texts

  • Yup, same for me

    https://xkcd.com/1129/

    • Customer is mistakenly accused of text spamming for repeatedly replying STOP to political texts

  • I've been using the 'Silence' app, which lets only known-callers ring your phone. The rest get sent straight to voicemail

    • OpenAI Says It’s "Over" If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work

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  • I'm not who you replied to but..... I've run a bunch of models through https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile and https://ollama.com/. I'm lucky enough to have a decent video-card (24GB), but if you are willing to be a bit more paitient, or run a lower model, you'll probably be able to get it going.

    • How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach?

  • I grew up in California and had the opposite experience. I had friends who grew up speaking Mexican-Spanish at home, and would take the Spanish classes to get an easy A.

    The teachers never understood what the Mexican-Spanish students were saying, and kept telling the native speakers that they were doing it wrong.

    • Anyone know why americans are relatively unconcerned about dying to totally preventable stuff like disease?

  • Honestly, I just block the people who keep repeating that kinds of BS. They aren't worth my mental energy.

    Does that mean I miss out on a bunch of discussions on .world? yes, but not wasting my mental energy on bad-faith arguments is worth it.

    • Swedes launch boycott of US goods in response to recent policy shifts

  • Fair enough. I'm sorry to hear all that. I'm lucky enough to have a good tech job, but I'd love to have a good tech job in Sweden instead of here in the US.

    • Swedes launch boycott of US goods in response to recent policy shifts

  • I'd love to move to Sweden. Any advice on how to move out there?

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  • Install Ganeti, or K3s, and do a lot of things!

    • Tim Walz says he may run for president in 2028 despite failure of Harris campaign

  • I don't think that's even remotely true. While it is true that the USA has it's fair share of racists and sexists, Hillary won the popular vote, and Obama is one of America's most popular presidents.

    Harris lost because she ran a terrible campaign, on the coatails of another terrible campgaign, from a terrible president.

    • Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source?

  • Does Firefox do reproducible builds? This bug report makes me think it doesn't (at least for Linux): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885777

    But maybe they do for Windows/Apple/Android?

    • Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

  • A source for what?

    • Which browser do you use and why?

  • https://qutebrowser.org/ and Librewolf

    • Grand Old Pearl-clutchers

  • It was probably Chick Tracts: https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0046

    • Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

  • That doesn't detract from OP's point. I want Mozilla to be a good, privacy respecting organization, but they aren't anymore, and chromium has nothing to do with that.