Th4tGuyII

Not to be facious, but in simply asking this question you’re already beyond the scope of the people most GUI tools are designed for (I.e. novices who either don’t need this tool often enough to learn the CLI, or don’t need the advanced features you’d get from doing so).

I agree on CLI text editors. I get why they exist, but for most users they should be a last resort, not the primary instruction.

Instead of telling people to use Nano, just tell people to edit the .conf in a text editor and let them choose!

Many users won’t understand that what they’re being told to do with Nano is literally just edit a text document with a funky file extension, and that they don’t actually have to that it in CLI (in-fact it might even be easier not to if you’re not familiar with them).

Yeah. I think this is the likely answer.

Amongst the sheer number of initiatives and councils being pulled out of, concerningly many of them relate to the enforcement of international law, and to human rights in general.

If the US was planning on violating international law (again) anytime soon, this would certainly be a good indicator for it.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Donny J make good on his threats. Question is how will that play out when both parties have nukes and might be willing to use them.

Looks like the US is intent on starting this year with a bang.

The list is HUGE and spans across so many agencies and so many disciplines it’s absurd.

I mean FFS does Donny J actually mean to tell us that the “Science and Technology Center in Ukraine” runs contrary to US interests?

If that’s actually true - that doesn’t spell good things for the US’s future intentions for Ukraine.

Also a few of these are rather telling of the current trajectory of the US’s policies:

• Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development;

• Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• International Renewable Energy Agency;

• International Union for Conservation of Nature;

• UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;

For starters this is a metric fuck tonne of environmental initiatives to pull out of, and shows the Republican-led US is going to be making a generational push towards screwing over the environment.

… And then some other notable initiatives:

• Freedom Online Coalition;

• Global Forum on Migration and Development;

• Global Counterterrorism Forum;

• International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property;

• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance;

• International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law;

• UN International Law Commission;

• UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;

• UN International Trade Centre;

• UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict; Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict; and Secretary-General on Violence Against Children;

• UN Democracy Fund;

• UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women;

It’s rather concerning how many of the councils the US is pulling out from relate to international law, upholding democracy, and to human rights in general.

Honestly I get your frustration. Feeling like you’re being hidden away…

But I think you’re taking what you’ve got for granted. It sounds like your family is fairly liberal and well-meaning, but that doesn’t mean her’s is.

Even in the west, religious conservatism can get nasty real quick (especially for woman), so I can absolutely see why she might be scared to tell her family.

She probably doesn’t like hiding you in the shadows any more than you do - you should be careful putting your feelings over her well-being.

I’d feel sorry for Elon IF his losses weren’t entirely perpetuated by his own immoral actions.

You want to be a fascist doing Nazi salutes and repeating Nazi rhetoric? - then don’t be surprised when people don’t want to associate you or your products.

Not that it matter, because he’ll survive off the back of SpaceX - which of course is not on DOGE’s radar.

Yep. The feeling of knowing you’ve forgotten something is so annoying, especially when its important

An agreement with Russia isn’t worth the paper its written in. The Kremlin lies as easily as it breathes.

In theory Nitrogen suffocation should be incredibly humane. Nitrogen gas is incredibly dangerous in the workplace exactly because the human body is incapable of noticing it displacing air. It can kill you without you even noticing until you keel over dead.

Problem is when you shove a mask on someone’s face and pump nitrogen into it, that’s not what you’re doing…

That doesn’t displace the air the executed was breathing, because the air has nowhere to go, so it just mixes with the Nitrogen gas. The O2 gets used up and CO2 builds up until they die, which is basically normal suffocation (which is incredibly inhumane) with a side of Nitrogen gas.

To do it properly, you’d need to a much bigger chamber so that the air in the executed’s lungs would be easily displaced, or a way to filter the CO2 out of the air they’re breathing… But who’s got time for that, when you can just torture prisoners with something that should be humane and pretend you have no idea why it “doesn’t work properly” /s

LLMs are made to mimic how we speak, and some can even pass the Turing test, so I’m not surprised that people who don’t know better think of these LLMs as conscious in some way or another.

It’s not a necessarily a fault on those people, it’s a fault on how LLMs are purposefully misadvertised to the masses

The irony of them calling Biden a “President Puppet” when we all know Trump is a poorly disguised Russian Puppet

Customs and Border Protection said in an emailed statement, “Arriving aliens bear the burden of establishing admissibility to the United States.”

One, that language is a solid ick.

Two, while it may be true that she has to prove admissability…

A notice of court order violation filed Saturday said CBP “had actual notice of this Court’s order and willfully disobeyed this Court’s order.” It further requested an order to return Alawieh to Massachusetts immediately and to schedule an emergency hearing as soon as practicable.

… What the fuck is she meant to do when they refuse to accept her documents (a valid passport and H-1B visa), and then deport her in spite of an explicit court order??

Honestly, man rants like he’s on a bad trip - with so much projection that it burns the eyes

Tell you what Nicole is really dedicated to making friends on here. Messaged just about everybody, with multiple accounts even. Definitely nothing suspicious about that /s

The fact that they’re still doing this means people are falling for it, and I feel sorry for those people, cause this scam is clearly designed to prey on those who feel lonely and are too naive to know better

Was about to comment almost exactly this.

His “experts” are all cronies - and they’re not even slightly interested in the plight of the people, including the retirement prospects of 71 year old Mrs. Redlich.

Having any faith that Trump’s administratiom will do anything except line their wallets with tax payer money and do their upmost to fuck over Ukraine is morbidly stupid.

Man that bird was living a straight up nightmare.

And from the comments I saw it gets worse for this bird - apparently after the bird flew off, the scientist who captured this call played it back to check they had recorded it properly, only for the bird to come back and start calling again.

These scientists accidentally played the cruelest prank imaginable on this poor bird, and it was likely not smart enough to ever realise it.

Like imagine living years of your life desperately calling out to someone, anyone, and you finally hear someone - you desperately rush over, but there’s there’s nobody there. You’re sure you heard someone, but there’s nothing, except you.

As far as the companies go, their lack of resources is an entirely self-inflicted problem, because they’re won’t invest in increasing those resources, like more IT infrastructure and staff. It’s the same as many companies that keep terrible backups of their data (if any) when they’re not bound to by the law, because they simply don’t want to pay for it, even though it could very well save them from ruin.

The crowdstrike incident was as bad as it was exactly because loads of companies had their eggs in one basket. Those that didn’t recovered much quicker. Redundancy is the lesson to take from this that none of them will learn.

I think what @riskable@programming.dev was saying is you shouldn’t have multiple mission critical systems all using the same 3rd party services. Have a mix of at least two, so if one 3rd party service goes down not everything goes down with it

The Internet Archive is currently fighting in the courts to maintain free digital library access to over 500,000 books they own from their own collection, yet Meta uses a pirated dataset of nearly 200,000 books to train their proprietary AI and is just allowed to get away with that??

Publishers will go after a charity making fair use of their content, but not the corporation outright stealing from them. What utter bollocks.