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Both are probably wrong so would be nice to have data instead. Here in Belgium checking out from postal workers deliveries or on recycling garbage day I can see a lot of Amazon parcels unfortunately. Your observation is not wrong, neither is mine, so the question rather is how relevant they are when scaled to all of Europe.

Corpospeak [...] Like a sociopath.

And this is why LLMs are so well suited for the task! People get genuinely excited by the prospect of using AI to read/reply email... because they don't mean actual thoughtful email written with intent, maybe even emotions or even reasoning. No... no they mean corpospeak that is entirely pointless, empty of meaning and definitely written for a human by human, but rather for a cog, to another lifeless cog in the corporation.

This is why people are investing tons of money and expending tons of CO2.

What a fucking farce of a species we are.

I’m a white, male, Christian gun-owner. I can blend in for now

What. The. Fuck.

Rule 34.

On Firefox (my default browser everywhere it's available) I use the Coil extension but seems it's now called InterLedger (Wallet) cf https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-monetization-extension/

If you go on my web site https://fabien.benetou.fr/ you should see 3 hearts under the 3D model if it's enabled.

being sensationalist. OR (and more likely answer). Musk is building some bespoke data center in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere without the local infrastructure to support it

It's exactly what's been reporting in several pieces from 404 Media, and others. Namely xAI does NOT have the infrastructure BUT Musk has a history (Tesla, SpaceX, etc) of cutting corners. He "gets shit done" like no one else not because he's particularly smart or efficiency ... but because he breaks the law, as simple as that.

Yes because you didn't take 2 min to think of precisely the information you need, you see! /s

This is so dumb. Of course the purpose of learning is to go beyond what you know, including what you do not know that you do not know. It's not even serendipitous, it's just learning.

Rage bait AI shill gets tiring.

histrionic

True... yet nearly everybody else, maybe beside few like 404 media, seems to be either boot licking or access "journalism" so I get the "spicy" take.

May I introduce you to https://webmonetization.org/ ?

Yes but I need to carve out time for it. I explicitly warn others about that, that I will be unavailable because I'm playing. I usually think of it as a choice between playing vs something else I enjoy doing, namely sports outside, watching a show, reading a book, coding, etc.

To expand a bit on the "I explicitly warn others" it also means I dedicate time for others but I also expect to have time for myself, including to play. I actually even recommend other adults to do so. Video games can be absolutely amazing. They can be an art form or something casual, they can be about any topic. I genuinely believe that adults who do not play, and I mean in a healthy fashion, are missing something. It's just so damn fun!

IMHO if you consider it a valid hobby like any other and don't try to "cheat" by squeezing it in in addition to everything else, removing time for chores or worst, sleep, then sure you might have time for it BUT, yes, like every other hobby it is a privilege.

Edit: anyway, back to Clair Obscur. FWIW finished BG3 last year (3x), Elden Ring this year (offline), so I do spend a bit of time on long, very long games, but it does take me a while.

You're right obviously, you dirty communist! /$

Post updated accordingly.

how is Belgium to live in and what would it look like to live there right now?

It's literally between France, Germany and the Netherlands, I mean geographically yes but roughly culturally too. Arguably Brussels is a mix of all that and other cities again match where they are.

So... it's a Western European country with good quality of life despite thanks to having one of the very highest taxes rate. You don't have to be a socialist to be here but if you want to become a rich entrepreneur it's going to be challenging.

Source : immigrated there from France ~10 years ago.

Edit: s/despite/thanks to/

No Linux build, not git link, why would anyone care?

Yes but it's probably worth reading the fine prints of a poll before coming up to the conclusion that 100% - 85% of one answer means 15% of the polar opposite. Chances are that there is a non null share of "I do not know" or even they didn't understand the question.

Not sure what NLNet is going to do about software lol, I believe you mean something different.

That NLNet https://nlnet.nl/ funding FLOSS project.

There are also BlueHats in France showing how administration is using AND consequently funding FLOSS https://code.gouv.fr/en/bluehats/ by paying for sysadmin, feature dev, maintenance, etc.

Don't underestimate management desire to be absolutely indistinguishable from their competition.

They read the Harvard Business Review, learn new terms they don't understanding, make a PowerPoint out of it and voila, they are "innovative" like everyone else.

If HBR put "AI" on its cover you can be damn sure all those innovators are going to put AI wherever they can.

I would love to, but we stiill use Windows specific software

If I had 1 cent every time I read that... and I pulled those cents together... and then paid software developers to build that missing software for other OSes like Linux... then we'd gradually see less of those comments.

It's as if the isolation was the business model, proprietary software insuring that alternatives do not exist because users do not bother to get together and unstuck themselves from glowingly dangerous (security wise but probably even financially dependencies.

Hopefully initiatives like NLNet are precisely trying to alleviate such challenges. Until them compatibility layers like Proton are showing the way with arguably some of the most complex and demanding in terms of performance software, namely games.

Minority Report, the bad parts.

Edit: glad I'm using a deGoogled Android phone, can't trust manufacturers not to enshitificate.

2, 3 and 4 also are about politics.

I for one knew it and yet I enjoy, in a very tragic way, discovering that she was, actually, even worst than I thought.