I do think this is AI, but I don’t think it’s obviously AI. As someone said ChatGPT is probably trained more on formal writing than casual writing, LinkedIn is a place where you want to appear super smart so this is an environment where many will use a more formal style.

It’s more the nothing burger of a comment that gives it away IMO. But then again, the reason people do this I believe is to be visible. If they comment on things it may pop up in their contacts’ feeds, and if it catches the interest of that person it reflects positively on them. If it doesn’t catch the interest of that person, it has still generated visibility for them.

I assure you a great many people take Linux seriously.

Why is Spain such an attractive place for data centers? Seems costly due to high temperatures. But maybe those costs can be offset by the viability of solar power?

No shit they are. Even after all this blows over, as it inevitably will, they’re still gonna be huge… but what might be a small loss percentage-wise is still quite big when you’re as big as Microsoft.

Here in the nordics they seem to have almost every company and almost every municipality as their customer, if there’s a rule coming in saying public data must be in Europe or something like that — that’s a lot of dollars lost. Same if just a percentage or two of companies decide they’re not fans of American tech anymore.

Probably more integration than we have now, but not full integration like the US. I think something one might call a confederation is likely. Unified military, more integrated economies (stuff like having a common framework for company registrations, not tax but taxation systems), shared system for identification/passports, maybe an EU-tax (similar to how most countries have something like municipality/city tax, regional tax and state tax, some of that could be moved to an EU-wide pool of money).

But I don’t think we’ll see taxation and budgets left over completely to the EU, education, healthcare etc. Just unify the boring stuff and make integration better.

Swedes just go to any country that’s nearby and that’s not Norway for cheap alcohol. Switzerland and Austria seem to have the same strategy.

It’s so weird tbh. It’s a mutual need, they want people I want a job — why don’t I ever get an email thanking me for my time?

Of course not, to even entertain this idea is ridiculous.

An EU-China summit will be held in July, both sides announced.

Don’t know why, but this feels hype.

Do you remember any examples of things that made you turn away from those other distros?

Most big distros are old enough to drink though. Ubuntu is 20yo, Fedora 21yo, openSUSE 18yo, Arch 23yo, Gentoo 23yo. (I got curious and a bit carried away…)

But sure, Debian does have them beat by roughly 10 years (31yo).

This OS isn’t made by the EU, but it’s goal is to become sponsored by them:

Is EU OS a project of the European Union?

Right now, EU OS is not a project of the European Union. Instead, EU OS is a community-led Proof-of-Concept. This means it is lead by a community of volunteers and enthusisasts.

The project goal is to become a project of the European Commission in the future and use https://code.europa.eu/. For this EU OS is in touch with the public administration on member state and EU level. So far, EU OS relies on https://gitlab.com/eu-os.

Personally I don’t see why EU wouldn’t just go with Suse. It has the corporate support that I guess these government institutions crave, it’s a good system as far as I know and it’s home-grown. Ubuntu is another option, Canonical is a British company (not EU anymore but it is European).

My impression as an outsider (some, but limited, exposure to Finnish politics) is that the Finns have the right way of dealing with these far right, maybe. What they always do it seems like is to create a coalition government of the largest parties, including the far right. This keeps them from riding the underdog wave of support for years, and exposes their incompetence in real political issues (usually these parties only have one well-formulated stance, and that is anti immigration - that’s the solution to every single other issue).

I’m welcome to criticism if my outsider perspective is misinformed. (-:

I used to be in this camp, but will now avoid public toilets whenever possible. Not having to sit on others pee and butt sweat is pretty awesome.

If a tariff falls on a product category but no one is around to hear it, did it even make a sound?

Of course. I mean why doesn’t Gizmondo wait for the review to finish?

Their work is detailed in a paper, posted April 1 on the preprint server arXiv, that has not yet been peer reviewed.

Rebuilt ancient device and tested it feels like the kind of thing that should really be peer reviewed and not just accepted at face value, doesn’t it?

day before yesterday, 105. yesterday 125. today 145.

so I guess 165 tomorrow?

Maybe he’s doing it to displease someone…

Automating this system with some kind of algorithm is not right, but a nearly blind 70-year-old can still do damage? The angle here is weird.

160 people is a very tiny force, feels unlikely that this is China’s official (official between Russia and China) contribution. China is a country with twice the population of Europe, and 160 guys is all they send to help?

This explanation feels more likely:

One of the captured soldiers claimed he paid 300,000 rubles (roughly $3,000) to a middleman in China to join the Russian military in exchange for the promise of citizenship, Ukraine’s Luhansk military unit press service told Ukrainian Pravda earlier in the day.