It never was, but it’s much less so now. Many Americans have believed the propaganda for a long time.

Worm abuse.

First you need to put the non-rich in charge and prevent them being bought off by the rich. That’s the hard part, but not impossible.

Until version 8.8.7 of Notepad++, the developer used a self-signed certificate, which is available in the Github source code.

That doesn’t sound wise.

https://archive.is/uCWNB

It depends on their relationship with the social media companies. There’s a good chance companies like Meta have already given the authorities a lot of data on their users. US law enforcement might already know about some of your accounts based on your identity, and then claiming you have none might not work well.

I wouldn’t mind so much if they were giving their own arms and legs, but they seem to be giving ours.

There are plenty of dedicated young Nazis around. I hope you’re right.

They’re probably counting on people eventually forgetting what they did. People can forget quickly.

https://archive.is/Hd8xy

That’s been the thinking for the last couple of decades at least. But it can’t continue if people can’t afford new hardware.

If you snitch on a transgender person you’re admitting the existence of transgender people. To the camps with you!

It’s sickening how this regime is persecuting trans people.

Their agenda sounds good but apparently they’ve acted a bit shadily in various ways.

https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html

If there’s any silver lining to this, perhaps we can get a renewed interest in efficient open-source software designed to work well on older hardware, and less e-waste.

Nothing inevitable about it. That kind of thing only happens when you’re defeated in war, taken prisoner by your enemies, or when your entire country sees and regrets the course it has taken. Bush and Cheney faced no consequences, and Kissinger faced no consequences, because no one in a position to bring that about wanted to. Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and the rest will face no consequences unless Israel’s apartheid regime falls. And that looks unlikely in the near future.

They’re still preparing, gathering names for the day when they have enough force:

https://truthout.org/video/journalist-reveals-fbi-is-offering-a-bounty-for-reporting-anti-trump-thought/

I have no idea how he manages to do so many things so well. Some people just seem to be built like that.

Another case of AI = Actually Indians.

Benn Jordan’s video on Flock is worth a watch.

I don’t think it’s AI. It looks like bad human writing. An AI wouldn’t use clunky non-idiomatic phrases like this:

He noted that the area of the pipe break is part of museum spaces that will undergo a major renovation…

Also, A LLM would be unlikely to say a flood led to a burst pipe when it has lots of examples of writing where the causation is the other way round. A human having a brain fart might make that mistake though.

I suspect this article was written in a hurry by someone whose English isn’t great.

Even more efficient: humans do the specs and the implementation. AI has nothing to contribute to specs, and is worse at implementation than an experienced human. The process you describe, with current AIs, offers no advantages.

AI can write boilerplate code and implement simple small-scale features when given very clear and specific requests, sometimes. It’s basically an assistant to type out stuff you know exactly how to do and review. It can also make suggestions, which are sometimes informative and often wrong.

If the AI were a member of my team it would be that dodgy developer whose work you never trust without everyone else spending a lot of time holding their hand, to the point where you wish you had just done it yourself.