finally. i’ve been waiting for this for a long time. finally a worthwhile software development project again.

France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands will work to develop open, European alternatives in “key areas” such as AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and – curiously – social networks.

especially social networks are important, as it allows people to connect and exchange messages outside of the influence of US big biased algorithms.

does anybody have a link to the project website, where one can sign up and contribute?

idk it just seems complicated, with all the keybindings and i think it even has scripting inside the text editor … i never bothered to learn it.

the problem with custom keybindings i have is i work on a lot of different machines (i used 3 different desktop computers yesterday) and keybindings presumably only work on my machine.

saw someone unironically use vim the other day. i thought people actually using vim was a joke.

i can confirm 4K and up add nothing for me compared to 1080p and even 720p. As long as i can recognize the images, who cares. Higher resolution just means you see more sweat, pimples, and the like.

edit: wait correction. 4K does add something to my viewing experience which is a lot of lagging due to the GPU not being able to keep up.

please please no, i don’t want a huge wave of normies infiltrating our space.

I imagine lots of these discussions are largely symbolic, in the sense that they provide an expression of the country’s will. It is then a lot of effort to make actual laws out of that intention; but the intention is still foundational to all and any laws. That’s why it’s relevant anyways.

relevant:

edit: just to be very fair about this: if you could go back in time by 10 years and tell people who are just about to start studying IT (for the sake of making a lot of money later on in their life) that they’re going to be replaced by AI in a few years, would the people really listen to you and think about that possibility?

Or would they rather go “nah man that’s absurd, a computer program can not write software like a human does, and pay in IT is always good”. (i mean, lots of people are still saying this today)

What i’m saying is that it’s not the future’s fault of happening, but the people’s fault for being infinitely stubborn about the fact that progress does not exist and nothing can ever change. the way the world works today must inherently be how the world will still work in 50 years from now. there is simply no other possibility. and also go fuck yourself for proposing otherwise.

well the issue is much more complicated than a 300 word article could express it.

personally, i feel that the whole issue of sexuality (and it’s an incredibly big one) is incredibly misunderstood and misrepresented by modern society.

i think that in modern society, everything is commodified, and that includes human relationships. think about this: human relationships are becoming a product. you sign up on dating apps, then you date at a fancy restaurant (don’t mind the bill!) then you go to a movie or sign up for netflix at home …

essentially, capitalism is killing the people by killing one of their core needs: human relationships. wages are declining, and “non-essentials” get cut out from the budget, and human relationships are that. as a consequence, society loses relationships and falls apart. that prevents unions from forming; a capitalist’s dream.

can we have fediverse mirroring of xiaohongshu?

in my opinion the civil war around 1800 did not actually abolish slavery. it just made slavery more efficient.

instead of killing your slaves through hard work (which means you have to buy new ones) you can just work them longer if they live longer, i.e. that’s why working conditions improved. at the same time, slavery got renamed into “prison labor”. it’s essentially the same thing.

It’s crazy how 13% of the world population dominate the social media discourse so much that i basically see no other people’s opinion ever.

yeah same. also i don’t drink alcohol anymore but it would be nice to have more places to hang out.

With WASM you’re looking at bundling every single dependency, every single runtime, framework and whatnot, in the final binary.

you just don’t know what you’re talking about. wasm has a module-import structure with which you can link libraries at program start-up, and some wasm runtimes also offer possibilities for linking libraries at run-time.

But isn’t WASM for web browsers

not really, no. WASM is a generic hardware-independent format for instructions. it’s like instructions for a virtual CPU, not a real one. it gets translated into the instructions for the real processor on the target device. in this way, it can run on any hardware.

comparing it to other setups such as java or javascript (which are also both hardware-independent), it runs much faster because it is much hardware-oriented, while java and javascript require abstract features such as a garbage collector, which makes real-time processes impossible.

hell yeah risc-v is hella cool :)

i just looked into how it works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V

seems very sane so far.

beautifully documented

i can attest, very nice indeed.

as a rule of thumb, more often than not, if an anime is being “mainstream” and having a lot of people interested in it is a safe indicator that it’s boring and not watch-worthy

everything interesting and watch-worthy is so edgy that the majority of the population can’t handle it; though that’s essentially why it’s watch-worthy in the first place. it gives you some nice and much-needed mental gymnastics. :)

could

could in the same sense that i could check all software i use for bugs and malicious code. realistically, i can’t, because it’s way too much work.

Our hardware has its own problems.

We rely way too much on x86 and ia64 architecture, both of which have only two big manufacturers in the world. That’s not good because it’s almost monopolies.

It would be better to have simpler chipsets that can be produced by more manufacturers worldwide, and especially ones that can be produced by smaller regional manufacturers.

On top of that we shouldn’t distribute compiled binaries for the x86 and ia64 chipsets; instead program code should be distributed like .wasm, in a hardware-independent way, and compiled on the target device. That would enable that hardware can use any chipset it wants and there are no software incompatibilities because of it.