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baru,

“both parties are sometimes the same”

The usual claim isn’t that. What people object to is claiming that both parties are the same.

baru,

I also don’t see why any content generated by an LLM could or should be illegal.

Cannot see how it could be illegal? If it does something against a law it’ll be illegal. Just because there’s some technology involved doesn’t absolve that from laws.

I remember a case where someone complained about the incorrect statement an LLM produced about some public figure. The judge ruled it had to be corrected.

baru,

But I do notice you on every trump post insisting people are screaming both sides

Another common tactic/fallacy is exaggerating the claim. Example: saying something “screams” about “both sides”. The bit about screaming is unneeded and is just added to make it easy to argue against it.

and others taking legitimate criticism of biden as people screaming both sides

That’s not the same and not what is meant as “both sides”. And again, people aren’t screaming. I’d maybe take your comment more seriously if it didn’t ignore things while adding a fallacy to discuss a common fallacy.

baru,

Some people go out of their way to not understand or not see something.

baru,

no one is voting Biden

Aside from the loads of people voting for him.

Loads of people are repeatedly saying that Biden oud somehow not something to vote for. While Trump would be a good candidate? Your argument just doesn’t make sense. There is a huge difference between these two.

Edit: further reflection, people easily forget history. But Biden won against Trump. Though less relevant now due to right wing media distorting things. People seem to have forgotten what Trump is like as president.

baru,

genocide Joe

That’s a tired claim as well. Ignored that after he blocked some support that the Republicans went out of their way to ensure that support is sent anyways? It’s not on Biden. That said, I don’t agree with the support.

baru,

No he doesn’t, lol, he only helps people if they are continually useful to him

Not exactly true. He did various one-off favours in the past . I think you’re too negative about Trump. See for instance an article to explain that Trump is rumoured to have helped various people as a one-off thing: forbes.com/…/giuliani-spoke-about-selling-pardons…

Anyway, for anyone too lazy to look at that link. The article is about Trump helping people by giving out pardons, just needed a one-off 2 million usd gift. There wasn’t a need to be useful to Trump after that. Yes, my entire reply is a sarcastic one.

Zelensky: 'Our partners fear that Russia will lose this war' (kyivindependent.com)

President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Ukraine’s partners “are afraid of Russia losing the war” and would like Kyiv “to win in such a way that Russia does not lose,” Zelensky said in a meeting with journalists attended by the Kyiv Independent....

baru,

We all know that’s not going to happen.

Russia will not leave on its own no.

It’s time to do something about it.

The first commenter repeated Russian bs about giving land. This while I’m the past Russia already took land, then greatly expanded and were attacking all of Ukraine.

So wondering if you’re trying to repeat Russian bs or intend that Ukraine should get enough to get rid of Russia.

baru,

Russia performed genocide in those regions. There’s no possibility of referendums. Things have have been changed, forcefully by Russia.

baru,

Like I said, that’s literally how a child sees the world.

Insulting people and implying people do not think things through. While most of your replies consist of giving insults. With some weird suggestion that free can only mean the amount of people in prison.

Egg on your face, no?

baru,

There’s a person for the democrats, there’s one for the republicans. Due to the voting system only two parties matter. Why invite someone else? Doesn’t make sense. Don’t get why you make that as blocking.

baru,

That wasn’t said. Pretending a crazy summary was said is a common fallacy.

baru,

Republicans blocked it. There’s no “both sides” to this.

baru,

I guess it is helped that nobody will call out their lies (and lives).

baru,

Ah, there’s the both sides argument.

baru,

Kennedy is stealing votes from Biden

Kennedy is right wing crazy person.

baru,

So far in this criminal trial, Trump has been relatively subdued, often genuinely appearing to doze off, but mostly sitting with his eyes closed.

Why not report that he often was sleeping? Why report it like above?

baru,

According to the French road safety observatory 84% of fatal car accidents in 2022-2023 were caused by men.

How many kms do men drive vs women? And does it differ across the type of road? And what about age?

In Netherlands if there’s a couple often the man drives, not the woman. It used to be way more expensive to insure yourself as a man. That until they said it wasn’t allowed anymore. Then suddenly insurance rates were dropped quite a bit for men, hardly went up for women.

I’m guessing/wondering if there’s a difference on how often a man drives vs a woman. Coupled with testosterone effects for men under 25 or so. In Netherlands men under 25 aren’t known to dive safely.

84% is still huge, but seems they aren’t looking at the right figure.

baru,

My partner and I use 4.5 gallons PPPD.

Do you really count everything? This seems awfully low.

baru,

It took like 10-15 years to go from anyone can afford a flat to almost nobody can.

It’s as if nothing could be done about it. One country blames tourists, others immigrants. In Netherlands the most popular party said for ages that it’s useless to plan ahead. Such remarks are ignored. People go for the populist remarks. Blame some group of people.

baru,

They don’t care if their claims are true. Lies spread more easily than the truth.

baru,

From what I saw reported in corruption cases, might not be that much. Unfortunately the amount can be pretty low, e.g. 22k USD.

Testing if VRR is active and working

I recently updated to fedora 40 and enabled the experimental setting to get VRR running. But I am an idiot who has been playing at frames rates between 30-60 on screens without VRR for almost all of my life so I can’t even know if VRR is actually working or not. Is there some rest I can run to see if VRR is functional¿? If...

baru,

An appimage should run where, normally you’d put that in your home directory. The immutable bit is outside of your homedir.

baru,

Here’s a question: why now?

There have been many previous attempts. Why now? It takes time to go for a new plan. They’re likely working on a new attempt.

baru,

It’s been reported that some employees helped carry similar boxes into a plane just days before the FBI (?) executed their search warrant. Meaning, there is likely more classified material in other properties owned by Trump.

baru,

If you’re THE leading DE project at least try to accommodate those DE’s that depend on your code or meet with them to inform them well in advance and discuss the best options for those DE’s.

It’s always easy to say that other people should do more work to benefit others. Libawaita isn’t anything new. It was announced loads of times.

In other words, work together for the good of all users

That the current status isn’t what you want isn’t the same as not working together. Further, there’s usually a limited amount of time and attention.

Within Linux there’s loads and loads of opinions. Loads of different desktop environments. That complexity cost development time. Time that isn’t infinite. Again, it seems to easy to direct how others should spend their time and/or to argue that they aren’t doing enough for your liking.

baru,

“just asking questions”

baru,

If a company willingly involves itself with Trump then that action might be a great reason to investigate them for crimes.

baru,

He might not be able to sell it, but he could get a loan off of it. That stock shouldn’t be worth anything, but unfortunately it’s too easy to have stock at crazy high valuations.

baru,

If a company still takes that as collateral it’ll likely be a shady company, though it could be that people not yet know the company is shady.

baru,
  • Background I was using got removed, got a better one anyway

I had that happen a few times. This time I downloaded those backgrounds again (from gnome-backgrounds repository). Still, it’s pretty annoying to have this happen.

I upgraded just before the beta. Discovered a mutter crash, reported it, it was fixed in a day or so.

baru,

Everything just feels slow, clunky and some basic things are quite complecated to archive

It’s been that way for much longer than a few years unfortunately. I don’t understand how people can tolerate it. Some projects switched to it because it seemed more beginner friendly than IRC, but to me it’s not focussed on making things easy.

baru,

Never heard about this. They’re website is awesome, they have a extensive list of changes they made. Don’t agree with removing SELinux though. It stops enough security issues and it doesn’t seem good to have such a change while likely (didn’t check) rely on Fedora for package updates.

Kind of wonder how old certain changes are, e.g. Fedora did change the vm.max_map_count.

Edit: forgot to say that I do like it. I like opinionated software/projects even if I might not use it myself.

baru,

its just too difficult to try to keep him focused

Put a McDonald’s meal in front of him. That’ll get his attention.

baru,

The most important bit about this isn’t how it’ll be done. It’s to convince people that a certain group of people is the cause of all of their problems.

baru,

Everything you think is right is right, the rest is propaganda, right?

Critical thinking would be nice. You seem to easily dismiss things. Maybe tone down on the right wing media sources.

baru,

You’re repeating years old misinformation like you’re saying something new.

baru,

You are trying to make out like the US is benevolent and are concerned about Ukrainians.

You’re moving the goal posts. The world isn’t black or white. Disliking the US doesn’t mean that Russia is right. Russia went to war with Ukraine. The whataboutism on the US is not relevant. Say the US did something bad, is that really why Russia invading Ukraine can be excused?

baru,

Obviously the US and the EU! /s

baru,

I mean, he could tweet about how people should show up anyway

Last time Trump ensured that police and so on couldn’t prepare. Plus denied any assistance on the day. That alone is a huge difference.

baru,

Sending people to Rwanda is part of blaming a certain group for everything that is going wrong. Housing crisis? Caused by this group, then take some terrible action against them. Meaning, they’ll keep sending them to Rwanda.

Cable News Viewers Have a Skewed Attitude Toward Gaza War, Survey Finds (theintercept.com)

Americans who get their news primarily from cable are the only people who believe that Israel is not committing a genocide in Gaza, according to according to a new survey that examined the relationship between attitudes toward the war and news consumption habits....

baru,

They continued 😂

baru,

until you are only left with managing the differences between DEs

Maybe they’ll add a DE as well?

Just kidding!

baru,

Systemd isn’t just an init system. It is a project with low level building blocks for a distribution. Most of the complaints are that it isn’t just an init system, while it’s not meant to be just an init system.

baru,

I wonder if this is still true, now that he no longer works for RedHat, but Microsoft.

Why wouldn’t Fedora do that? Decisions are decided by multiple people, they are not forced through or just decided unilaterally by one person.

Enough people in Fedora try to improve the low level stuff. I’m looking forward to that homedir systemd stuff. Don’t care about this sudo alternative.

baru,

Those hacked together system-specific bash scripts were shit.

With a different feature set per script as well. The systemd service files have often been pushed upstream.

Pretty sure people liking those scripts never really tried dealing with them across distributions. Though this just rehashes things that were said when distributions decided if to switch to systemd. Still the same strange claim that those scripts are somehow easier. It wasn’t, it is also way easier to package a systemd file from upstream than to maintain that stuff within a distribution.

Why YOU should write a Wayland compositor – Victoria Brekenfeld – HiP22 Berlin (www.youtube.com)

Victoria Brekenfeld: “Hi! My name is Victoria and I have worked on a Wayland compositor library called “smithay” for the past 5 years. Right now I am working for system76 on their new desktop environment, I am member of wayland-protocols and have been contributing to the wider ecosystem. So if you even wanted to learn...

baru,

I don’t really know how to do that

  • Install rust
  • Create a directory somewhere
  • Change to that directory
  • Run: cargo init
  • Open a text editor and do stuff in there
  • Save the file(s)
  • Run cargo build
  • Run the executable

Hope it helps!

baru,

Are you reading what you wrote? It’s full of contradictions.

It seems you think that people should be free from consequences until a certain level is surpassed? That’s rather arbitrary.

What I saw is that an active developer got actually banned just for arguing against an affirmative action.

It’s often not as simple as how you summarize this. Above is awfully similar to the incorrect claim of “cancel culture”. While often that meant that people think someone should be able to do as they please without any consequences. Except for things they dislike, then there should be consequences.

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