The only way to fend off far-right parties is to elect governments that will actually take action to make people’s lives better. I mean dramatic, even drastic actions to improvements in quality of life for real people, not billionaires.
Centrists and even some center-left parties don’t seem to get this, or they do but they don’t care. It seems like leftist parties are the only ones that are willing to step up. They need our support more than ever.
I’m not a fan of AI personally, but the “copying others’ work” argument never resonated with me. The internet makes copying data trivial - if you still get worked up over people using a technology that has been trivial since the '90s, well, I don’t know what to tell you, but you’re just not going to win that one. People are just going to keep doing it anyway and maybe it sucks, but there’s nothing you can do about it.
The only reason file sharing is illegal today is because nobody bribed politicians to keep it legal.
I can confirm. I’ve worked for two different companies since 2023, and in both of them, there was a cabal that were super hyped up on AI while the rest just ignored them. In one of them, it was half the company, but that company was more like a cult… People in my current one are more level-headed, but that just makes the divide look even bigger.
Something about convincing people about things their income depends on…
There’s probably also a tragedy of the commons kind of situation. Yes, it’s bad, but everyone else is doing it so you have to as well. If 99% of people do it and you don’t, you’re even worse off than everyone else.
Economics often turns into a terrible social policy.
They don’t actually believe a single word they say. They’re just too scared to stand up to their shareholders.
Well, actually, they do believe it. They’re just delusional. Because they’re too scared to stand up to their shareholders.
It has been obvious for far too long that ICEs will go extinct and be replaced by EVs.
The people who have been holding out have no excuses at this point. They should have started the transition a long time ago.
Big congratulations to the people of Hungary. Hopefully this is the start of a much better chapter in their country’s history.
Even the early internet didn’t have content of this high quality
It’s mostly Gnome 2 frozen in time - there have been small improvements here and there, particularly in Caja (the file manager). I think that’s great though personally, and use it on most of my machines.
Wayland adoption has been slow, but it is getting there.
As a bit of an aside, I learned recently why Mozilla has the weird Corporate/Foundation structure that it does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701441
Someone claiming to be the CEO of one of these foundations appears to confirm it. Just thought people might be interested to know since this comes up in pretty much every thread about Mozilla.