ilmagico @ ilmagico @lemmy.world

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I love linux and been using it for decades, personally and professionally, but no, linux doesn't have "hot patching" the same way as that article describes it. At most it can live patch the kernel (and only few distros actually use that), but definitely not for the last 20 years, and definitely not running processes. However, it does usually restart background processes after an update without requiring a reboot, but in my experience, often times the system becomes unstable after several such updates and rebooting is effectively necessary (though not forced, and that's why I like it).

They said the "most transparent" genocide, not the most brutal, or the quickest one, or the one with the most people killed.

the mainstream media continue to limit criticism of Israel to humanitarian issues arising from its conduct of the “war,” paying virtually no attention to the near unanimous ICJ rulings, and to the dehumanization of Palestinians by the language and tactics relied upon by Israel. Without using the word “genocide,” they reconfirm in word and deed the genocidal character of the assaults on Gaza

I think what they mean by "mosy transparent" is that it's the most widely reported by the media, as well as downplayed as it happens.

This is the right answer. No tool can detect AI generated content with zero false positives, but someone using AI to cheat won't actually know the subject matter.

That's the sad state of things right now, but I hope things will change for the better, and crypto will become an acceptable way to keep and spend money (rather than ponzi ICO schemes, or sorry, "investment"). I also hope that more crypto switch to proof-of-stake to avoid the huge waste of energy, though that has its own problems as well (fears of more centralization, though this didn't happen with ETH, or at least not yet).

People who downvoted never heard of Argentina, for example, where their currency is so bad that individual provinces have started creating their own local currencies instead.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-19/defying-milei-s-austerity-argentina-province-plans-own-currency

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/02/12/tether-and-circle-stablecoin-purchases-dominate-in-argentina/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/04/26/crypto-usage-rises-across-argentina-despite-the-anti-crypto-imf-deal/?sh=7631cd706ece

Yes, unfortunately that's the state of things currently, but I won't call the prospect of using cryptocurrencies as actual currencies "dead and buried", yet. Eventually the hype will subside and people who thought they could "make money quick" will leave the game, and those who wanted a decentralized way to keep their money, aware of all the pros and cons, will stay. Hopefully that will lead to a more stable value, and maybe, just maybe they'll come back mainstream as an actual currency.

This is really more what I hope than what I see likely to happen, but one can hope ;)

It's "useless" now because prices are set in dollars, euro, yen or whatever fiat currency you use. Once somebody starts setting prices in bitcoin, monero, etc, then it won't matter how it fluctuates, cause if you have 1 XMR and something costs 1 XMR, then your crypto money keeps the same buying power no matter what its value to the dollar is.

Of course, we're pretty far from that happening mainstream, and it's actually pretty likely it will never happen (sadly, inho, but your opinion might differ).

Why is this post downvoted? It doesn't matter which side you agree with, it is newsworthy.

The profit is for society as a whole for creating less waste, but of course, that doesn't translate to money earned today. It will, on the other hand, translate to money lost (and more) in the future.

As much as I'd like to use public transport, even with traffic, taking the metro / bus is still at least 2x slower than driving here. Yes I tried, it's that ridiculous. They are trying to improve, but progress is very slow. The whole city was designed with cars, and only cars in mind.

Thanks for the detailed response, I'll have to double-check some of these. It seemed strange to me that everybody called her a transphobe based just on that tweet I remembered, and on a statement she put on her website that didn't seem that transphobic to me, but if all you say is true, then yeah, she definitely is.

so it's crazy to me that JKR is now liking and retweeting statements from nationalists and the far right.

Is she though? Do you have a link? I really want to get clarity in this whole JKR situation. The only thing I remember is her tweeting something of the like "we used to have a word for 'people who menstruate' in the English language, what was it?" which I can see how it can sound transphobic, but all it's really saying is that since the word "woman" now includes trans women, the English language now lacks a word for people being born female. She later said she is not tranphobic, and has (had?) many trans friends, but do think trans women are not the same as cis women, which doesn't really seem all that transphobic to me, so maybe I missed something else she said.

Based on the above, and the fact that all her books are pretty woke, as you say, I always assumed it was a bad misunderstanding, but I'd really want to see if she doubled down on some objectionable view.

Right? I don't known why some Americans think they're the only one capable of building AIs, and if someone else did it, they must be stealing it... (or more likely it's an excuse)

Freedom, respect.

Pretty much all my other core values stem from one of those two (also important to mention that "my freedom ends where yours begins").

They did work, to a point, but were also pretty hurtful to US economy. The company I worked for, which shall not be named, decided to move a sizable chunk of product manufacturing to Malaysia, and is (was?) considering Mexico as well, all because of the tariffs. This caused the stock to tank, and money was lost, but then, it proved pretty handy when covid hit.

I don't like Trump, and I didn't like the way tariffs were implemented, but I strongly agree the US needs to be less dependent on China. Tariff did the job somewhat, so I guess it wasn't a completely wrong decision.

Well, technically, CEOs don't pick their own salaries, they are decided by the board, and so, indirectly by the shareholders. Then again, she is also a board member, so ¯(ツ)/¯

Still using WhatsApp only, because I failed to convince people to switch to Signal (so far).

I just took some time to watch that video, and that seems to say "Yes" instead. Yes, they started as a non-profit, with a for-profit arm, and Yes, the for-profit arm is now trying to sell out in an IPO to (guess what) make more money. And while they are distinct entities, there's some of the same people on the board for both, who are likely going to profit.

it's not. They do have a commercial product they use to fund their operation, in addition to donations, but that doesn't make them a for-profit company.

Is that an actual for-profit company controlled by the non-profit wikimedia foundation, or just a way for the foundation to make money to run its operations? My understanding is it's the latter, unlike Mozilla and now Raspberry Pi. See here:

Wikimedia Enterprise is a product of the Wikimedia Foundation, with content created by volunteers around the world.

A nonprofit doesn't have to rely exclusively on donations to fund its operarions.