Thanks

I know curl but I don’t get the meme?

And then what? I tell google to show my ad to a guy born on some date and in a zip code. What data am I getting?

They cannot see my data, they can give target parameters like ‘show to those who are private banking customers’ or ‘show to females in the 20s with daddy issues’.

This crosses a line because information will be exfiltrated. Gemini will be telling someone that I gave bubba a blow.

He’s not wrong but read the bloody room. If a tool for image/video generation was all that Microsoft gave on Windows, we’d be fine.

It’s got KDE

It’s not a console, it’s a general purpose PC

They did say that it’s a mini PC, not a console

Hyperloop was Musk’s tactic to distract from and destroy sensible public transportation. Tesla didn’t work on it or plan for it.

Sizes are different. Before “AI” went mainstream, those in machine learning were very excited about word2vec and reinforcement learning for example. And it was known that there will be improvement with larger size neural networks but I’m not sure if anyone knew for certain how well chatgpt would have worked. Given the costs of training and inference for LLMs, I doubt you can see nerds doing it. Also, previously you didn’t have big tech firms. Not the current behemoths anyway.

It was down for only some users, not all anyway

I wasn’t pointing out that there are extended updates, I was pointing out that customer associations can apply pressure. That’s the only way Microsoft can be limited from taking more and more profit share with increasingly enshittified products.

People are much more likely to use windows as employees, rather than business owners. So I don’t think an average Lemmy user (lemmings?) will be interested in commenting anything seriously about it.

Business owners can form association and apply pressure. E.g. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-windows-10-security-updates-european-economic-area-customers/

If you’re an employee, why give a damn…

And don’t forget the British-American bias. Hopefully the automated translation and adaptation that is being pursued by wikipedia helps to improve it.

Yeah, figuring out which dependencies in which locations just seemed not worth it

I just downloaded the .tar.gz

Wow, I did that on CentOS and reinstalling the OS was the only sure shot way I could figure

And they tried. Look at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the salt raids, the mass imprisonments. But the point wasn’t to wait for mercy, it was to make the cost of control so high, through sheer non-cooperation, that ruling became practically impossible. The system depends on participation. Remove that, and power collapses under its own weight. It’s not about violence, nor about moral appeals. It’s about leverage. When millions stop obeying, even bullets can’t fix the math.

Nope, nope, nope. It is not a show of force, it’s making the society ungovernable, like not paying taxes, growing/making/selling anything to anyone etc. There was no implication of anything more violent. It is not appealing to the morality of the oppressor.