Everything to do with living as a person in a larger community, part of which is using technology.

puts a bunch of AI features in, turns them on by default without user’s asking for them, mandates employees use it when ever they can.

“How could this be a bubble? Look at all the demand!”

Sounds interesting, but, I do worry, if such a system were to get any sort of significant adoption, it would create a financial incentives for projects to do questionable things.

Like, even the best intentioned dev would have a very strong incentive to intentionally make their software run in the background in a way that made it look like it was being used. And if a lot of projects did that, then, suddenly there is a bunch of always on stuff eating up system resources.

There is also potential complications around one project pressuring or paying off others to do stuff that gets them more run time. Like say, pressuring a distro or desktop to include their project as a default that turns on when ever the system starts. Or simply include their project as the default even if it’s not well suited to the task.

The incentives created by the system for devs and projects would need to be considered in aggregate, like what down steam outcomes could be created for the entire software ecosystem.

KDE is avalible for most distros. It being just a desktop environment. It’s well supported on Fedora, openSUSE, Debian and Arch. As well as many of the various distros based on those. Ubuntu, a Debian derivative, and fedora both have a version that installs with KDE out of the box, and the arch install script has it as one of the main options. You could also install it on mint, but, like, half the point of mint is the cinnamon desktop.

If you’re interested in customizability, are willing to read some wiki pages, and never want to wait for support for some new feature, arch is great.

If you want a system that’s incredibly stable, will run on basically any computer made after 1995, and is generally just very reliable. Debian can’t be beat.

Fedora and Ubuntu are both fairly easy to use, new versions are released fairly often. If you don’t want to think much about it, they’re good options.

As for game compatibility, most will work without any effort, some stuff will need a bit of puttzing with settings. The only situations where you may need a VM or duel boot would be certain competitive multiplayer games that specifically use kernel level anti cheat. If you play one of those, check it on ProtonDB . Notionally Proton DB is for the steam deck and steam games run through proton, but generally what’s on there also applies to any other game run through wine.

You shouldn’t need to replace any hardware. If you have an Nvidia graphics card you will need to install the drivers as they don’t come with the kernel, but it will run just fine. I’ve heard of some issues regarding specific brands of headphones, and I had to fuss a bit to get my microphone and it’s audio interfacing working.

Adobe products, a lot of popular music production software and a few popular CAD programs will have issues. Most of them can be run on Linux, but they don’t like it, and finding an alternative would be better.

She’s being a shrewd politician, keeping her self generally aligned with the base, but distancing her self enough from the leadership that she isn’t dragged down with them when the base sours on them for presiding over another 2008.

That’s “Werwolf the Apocalypse” plot line if I ever saw one.

Newsome keeps trying to reach out to younger voters, but it’s always in such… performative ways. It’s never him listening or signaling he concurs on issues they care about.

It always feel like an effort to inform them that he exists, become a familiar figure, as if the issue that Democratic candidates have been having was lack of visibility.

But the issue is a misalignment of values and goals, not that people haven’t seen them get interviewed on a popular platform. Visibility will rise on new media as they adopt talking points and positions that align with the bases values, just forcing them selves in to these places without changing their stances is going to just make them a laughing stock.

If that’s the case, it was a really dumb strategy because they were asking for the subsidies to be extended until right before the 2026 election, so that if republicans choose not to re-up them then, they’d be an even fresher wound for the election, now it’s going to be a year out of date by then.

Actually, Walmarts probably gonna be hemorrhaging money without SNAP. Like, they’re the single largest recipient of money from the program, by way of people using SNAP at them to buy groceries.

It’s actually supper perverse since a lot of their employees are on SNAP due to the poverty wages they pay. Walmart employees buying food with snap at Walmart is a non trivial part of their revenue.

A lot of conservatives argue that we shouldn’t have snap since it makes it possible for companies to pay poverty wages and not have their workers starve to death, and that without it employers would have to raise wages. Conveniently ignoring the fact that companies like Walmart would rather let their workers starve than raise their wages.

A tax to contribute to SNAP on companies that pay wages so low that their employees end up on SNAP is the better answer to the problem.

You can have tone, and write with sarcasm, and distain towards idiots, with out abusing subordinate clauses like they said something rude about your mother.

I said that academic literature can be incomprehensible.

Where did I say that this piece is incomprehensible?

I can comprehend it, it just has a bunch of elements in it’s construction that are not conveying any meaningful information, and are redundant in tone.

“at a place called” “you’ve perhaps heard of” and “his name is”. Any one of those would have been plenty to add a layer of jovial snark to the tone, all three is like putting a sentence in bold italics with an exclamation mark. It excessive and it forces the use of that very awkward “ of those there”.

Academic writing, at least In my experience, does the opposite of that kind of thing. It’s painfully dry, overly analytical, and devoid of much in the way of tone.

There is a difference between getting to a conclusion obliquely and swerving all over the road.

I don’t exactly have the most concise writing my self, but I try to keep the subject in the same hemisphere as the predicate.

There is something to be said for the incomprehensibility of some academic writing. Usually though that comes from obscure terminology, or struggling to fit all the relevant parts of a thought in to a cohesive sentence. But that sentence is 90% filler, and is structured in a needlessly confusing way.

I get what the guy is saying but his writing is a chore to read. Lugubrious and unnecessarily complex sentence structure.

i taught at a place called Bowdoin College for 16 years, and during the last of those there was a student in attendance you’ve perhaps heard of. His name is Zohran Mamdani.

What road kill of a sentence. It reads like it was blown apart and taped back together with some extra padding mixed in. Could easily just have been “late in my 16 years at Bowdoin Collage, Zohran Mamdani was a student”. Or “ Zohran Mamdani happened to be one of the students in the tail end of my 16 years at Bowdoin collage”.

He put out a video a few weeks back basically endorsing Mamdani.

They know they’re probably not going to be the majority in 2 years, and they don’t want to lose the power to block everything if that happens.

That’s a super interesting read, like, there have been a few services I used that were inexplicably awful in the exact ways described and I was bewildered by how bad it was.

As has been made very clear, it is not actually possible to prevent these models from regurgitating any information they’ve been trained on, no matter how fancy the system prompt. So, if there is NSFW content In the training data, users will always be able to access it, not matter how “compliant” the company is with restrictions on NSWF content by way of system prompts.

They can have their cake and eat it to, many users will prefer the models because of their ability to do porn stuff, and they will not be held legally liable for that since they’ve done everything they possible could.

So long as no one proves that they did in fact intentionally train the models on a shit ton of porn …

I think some department or team lead was told by higher ups that they needed to “implement AI” and are just trying to find places to shove it so they can tell the boss they hit the metrics.

The reason they turn stuff like this on by default without asking creators or users is probably because previous things that were implemented and made optional all got turned off and not used, meaning it didn’t help the department or team hit their metrics for usage of the systems.