It didn’t for some reason? It didn’t work for a relatively precise reason.

And that reason is Larry Ellison. He (Oracle) bought Sun, which was leading the OpenOffice.org project.

At the time Google was still not evil, people thought Facebook was a good idea. It was the time when people actually liked big tech.

Even then Ellison was already so massively disliked in the industry that the very moment he got his hands on OO.o LibreOffice was created and all contributors jumped ship.

Do Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai strike you as extremely white names?

Edit: to be clear, some of those people are really quite racist… But I am not so sure that’s such a determining factor in the larger sector.

Like a pig, in a cage, on antibiotics.

These sabotages had been so inconsequential that I had not even hear about them. On the other hand…

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-left-wing-group-says-it-is-behind-railway-sabotage/a-77916758

This might be controversial, but I find that protesting the environmental damage of western industrialization by attacking public transport… Is a very special type is stupid.

you’re not allowed to bash

Only cmd.exe

That stuff has a name, and it’s called MMT, modern monetary theory, and it’s generally considered a bad idea.

Yes, the government can in principle just print money, but that has consequences, and they’re not pretty. The understanding of the problems this was causing has been the historical reason for the independence of the central banks from the executive branches.

There is a branch of the left that doesn’t like the idea that there are limits to public spending, but now that Trump is trying to take control of the Federal Reserve we just might find out how much of a bad idea it is to have the central bank under the executive.

The shortest version of why MMT is very dubious at best, is that if you print too much money you get inflation, and MMT proponents acknowledge this. You know how they suggest controlling inflation? By levying taxes. And there you go, taxes are back.

BTW the breakdown of how your tax dollars are spent is here: (at least if you’re in the US, which it sounds like you are)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_States_federal_budget

You mean the glasses, right?

…

Right?

In the Star Trek Universe though, from what I remember, there wasn’t a revolution of the working classes. There was a near global collapse due to a series of wars (often stated with different or contradictory dates), followed by some dark age, then a new golden age starting with first contact.

From my memories of Marx he was also pretty light on the details of the society that would follow his revolution, so if you tilt your head and squint a little, kinda anything goes.

To me it feels like the wrong label for the task.

Marxist socilaism

I wouldn’t go quite so far. At the end of the day we mostly see their military, and it’s fairly slim on the details about the rest. We know it’s post-scarcity, it’s democratic, it’s not currency-based, and not much else beyond that.

So, this depends a lot on where you are. But in most places, plastic straws are pretty irrelevant. The main sources of microplastics are things like road markings, worn tires, synthetic textiles, etc.

But saying

“We laid off 25% of our workers cuz we can”

Usually makes the stock go up.

I mean, he is on the “Fuck AI” community. You may agree with the response, but it should be hardly surprising.

no native toolbar widgets

I’m pretty sure he’s talking about client-side decorations.

I think he is posting from 1999, objecting to the use of the Qt libraries under the GPL-incompatible QPL licence.

It’s the best guess I have.

And indeed, KDE 1.0 didn’t look all that good.

steam machine devalued the labour of artisans

I’m so cooked that my brain went: “how is this the fault of Gabe Newell?”

But I mean why? Used in this way, AI systems are just another static analysis tool.

Sure, a computationally inefficient one, but if you can get the signal/noise region high enough, anything that helps you find bugs seems fair game to me.

One has to review their work, and take any fix offered by the slopmachine with a lot of care, of course.

And Anthropic is a bad company, but we are talking about detecting security vulnerabilities in Firefox by wasting Anthropic money. That seems like win-win.

The only downside (and I admit it’s big) is that Anthropic gets some publicity out of this.

Why? It’s pretty clear that Google is mostly done with users having choices, particularly indovidual users, and all the more so on Google-branded hardware.

Manifest V3, Play Integrity, the attempt of introducing Web Integrity. How many more examples do you need to see?

This seems like a perfectly logical decision in that direction.