There’s three types of NVIDIA failures on Linux:

A- The niche thing that doesn’t work for the group of people who use it.

B- The specific card model that doesn’t work.

C- The distro that for some reason is a nightmare to install the drivers.

Each motive individually is not a lot of people, but all together it is way much more than AMD. Hence the difference.

Also, if you have a type A failure card, there’s a probability that maybe it will be fixed eventually. But for type B, you’re out of luck. There’s a non-zero chance that your card will never work.

Type C is entirely up to user error and distro effort. But it won’t help with type A and B. If NVIDIA of fails you, whether you can install the drivers on your distro or not, is irrelevant.

Someone put a connection to an LLM on a Teddy Bear so kids could have natural conversations with the toy. It started making sexual innuendos and creepy political commentaries and suggestions to children almost right away.

Unfortunately, arms sellers have no ideology or morals.

This is why tn EU needs to invest all into developing a RISC-V hardware chain asap. Proprietary CPUs is the ultimate chain and shackles.

Read the article. That is not what is happening.

This problem stems from the way OneDrive handles synchronization between the cloud and a user’s local system. Disabling OneDrive Backup without explicitly restoring or relocating local copies can, in some cases, result in files being removed from both environments.

Pargin noted that the only way to remove files from OneDrive without also deleting them from the local machine is to follow a detailed, step-by-step guide “There is no intuitive way to do it,” he said, accusing Microsoft of deliberately burying the necessary controls deep within menus.

It is a dark pattern, it is meant to scare or annoy the users into paying a subscription or leave the system as is. There’s exactly one cloud service that deletes all files without warning as soon as it is disabled. There’s only one service that deletes local files without telling the users, there’s only one service that deletes both originals and cloud files when disabled, and it is only OneDrive. Every other service warns users and give grace periods for the users to download their data before deleting the files for good. It is absolutely not the user’s fault.

At work they forbade the use of one drive. It literally was consuming hundreds of terabytes of data and many more on bandwidth because they activated auto sync on thousands of laptops after an update without telling anyone. It was synching entire hard drives of confidential information without our consent. By the time our IT realized, they were trying to charge us for it (web do have SharePoint on azure). Turns out there’s some you can disable by group policy, but the shit is so embedded that it cannot be completely turned off. So they are just instructing workers how to avoid it now and warning everyone that, although we do have a quota per install of one drive, any loss of data is the worker liability as we are being told not to use it. Microsoft is such a joke.

We are facing similar issues with copilot by the way.

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Well, let’s follow Umberto Eco’s dissertation (Ur-fascism) on the 14 defining characteristics of fascism.

1. Cult of tradition (with strong syncretism: Chávez and Maduro proclaimed a traditional bolivarian thought. With a cult to independentist era thought. While at the same time participating in all (from Catholicism to Cuban Santeria) forms of religious rituals.
2. Rejection of modernism: the revolution cites and follows traditional indigenous practices. Going as far as to promote the use of plant fiber as female hygiene products as a replacement for menstruation pads. As well as the rejection of scientific communities and advanced industrial processes in favor of traditional and extractive economies (artisanal mining and others). Defunding universities and outright persecution of teachers.
3. Cult of action for action’s sake: there are way more examples than what can fit in here. But in 2002 Chavez fired every single worker from the state oil company PDVSA, prompting the quick collapse of oil production that never recovered. When people tried to protect themselves by accumulating US dollars, a ban was quickly established on money exchanges. Billions of dollars of infrastructure was lost and the country started the spiral that lead to 2015 humanitarian crisis and breaking all historical hyperinflation records.
4. Disagreement is treason: or Maduro’s version “dudar es traicion”.
5. Fear of difference: Chavez promoted several forms of hatred towards all sorts of groups. Mind you, calling political adversaries gay is state practice. Quite lefty isn’t it?
6. Appeal to a frustrated middle class: this is the only one that chavismo spun with originality. Instead the middle class was demonized as the source of all evil and the appeal was a populist appeal towards the impoverished. Never mind they are still just as or even poorer than they were before chavismo.
7. Obsession with a plot: I don’t need to say much here as chavista paranoia was well justified, perhaps, but also ever present in the figure of the north American empire. Even when the plot was all fantasy.
8. Enemies are simultaneously too strong and too weak: no need to say much, just watch any state communication and figure it out yourself. Also, the oligarchs are in power and impoverished the people, while all the big corporations are in the hands of chavista puppets after two decades of expropriation.
9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy: patria, socialismo o muerte. Life is warfare, every civilian is a combatant, perfect military-civilian fusion. Have been motos for two decades.
10. Comtempt for the weak: chavismo substitutes this with patronizing the weak in order to make the usual Marxists quotes not out of place. But it is comtempt all right.
11. Everybody is educated to be a hero: back to every civilian is a combatant fighting the imperialist threat. Chavismo also intervened all education to include ideological training and personality cults towards the traditional figures of the revolution.
12. Machismo: the regime in power organizes feminists rallies, while simultaneously rejecting any law that brings advancement of women’s rights and restraining funding to implement the few that do exist.
13. Selective populism: el pueblo as a concept that is entirely in the hands of the powerful elite.
14. Newspeak: just listen to anything granko says when defending chavismo.

This, along with over a 1000 political prisoners, 33 thousand or more dead in political rallies, armed groups of colectivos acting as shock forces against political dissidents, 3 thousand verified victims of torture, and a long list of etceteras. I don’t know man. It awfully sounds like fascism to me.

It’s not nuance though. It’s cowardice, fear of taking a solid stance. The fact it can be ambiguously interpreted both in favor and against Trump actions, and both interpretations are contradictory with her historical position on the matter, shows that she is just playing optics.

The fact is that the Venezuelan situation doesn’t fit neatly across the US bipartisanship lines. Doing domestic politics based on foreign affairs always creates that sort of dissonances. It’s hard to explain to people that overall Venezuelans are mostly left leaning but communist and socialist rethoric causes rejection. That, for example, most would love Mamdani’s policies, but hate him over his stance about Maduro. That most would love Petro’s policies, but hate him over his history with leftist guerrilla. This is no accident. It’s the consequence of living for almost 3 decades with a red painted, communist rethoric, but in practice fascist regime. There’s love for progress but also a deep understanding that progressive discourse is not inmune to being corrupted and coopted to oppress and bolster oligarchs in power.

Stop talking.

Please. You don’t get it, you’re not Venezuelan. Then shut up.

Your comment was awfully racist, xenophobic and classist. Just stop.

If you disagree about the US dictating what Venezuela does through violence and threats. Then lead by example and stop being the dumb gringo that pretends to know what foreigners think and do better than them. Stop.

Well, she already announced she is ready to cooperate with the US to ensure peace.

I could argue that he is just as horrible as Hitler but just to a smaller set of people and that it is justified. But I also bet that wouldn’t change your mind. That’s the problem with crimes against humanity, suffering can’t be quantified. And it never would feel justified until it happens to you.

I like that line of thinking as much as the next guy, but it strikes me as wildly misguided that the US politics has reduced to that. Like, I get the symbolic aspects of the Epstein’s files for politics, but still think it is mindless engagement.

An indisputably genuine video of Trump raping a literal toddler could be released tomorrow and nothing would change. Their support base and the gears of power are already too deeply entwined to his personality. No amount of public rage or national indignation changes governments.

“I didn’t say it, I declared it!”

But seriously, declaration of war is a legal term specific to each country internal law system. War, as a legal term, hasn’t actually been a thing either in international law since the 50s. It was changed to armed conflict. Which, before you think is stupid and why not call a spade a spade, is actually not that stupid. It created a well defined but much broader concept that (this is the important bit) is independent of a country’s internal law standing or diplomatic declarations thereof. If a situation fulfills the criteria, then it is an armed conflict whether the countries involved like it or declared it. It gives tools to nation states and international organizations to do certain things on the international stage more freely in these situations even when the countries involved don’t want them to.

Cool, the best AI has to offer is worse than the worst human code. Definitely worth burning the planet to a crisp for it.

I dare to wage that the top 1000 most popular artists entire body of work is already freely available in torrent form. The remainder of artists will benefit from an independent archival point of view.

Yeah, I would say that magic spells, in English and other languages, are more traditionally associated with rhymes than specific words. Latin associated to magic is through catholic ritualist use of Latin. Even then, it was more about repeating prayer phrases, like in stereotypical exorcism or funeral rites. Gothic novels, for example, straight up used catholic prayer in Latin to convey magical intent. But it was not vaudeville magic or modern day superpower magic like in pop culture.

It is a Vice article. It has the journalistic credibility of a dirty wet wipe.

Edit: Lol, the source is an off the cuff remark of Mike Straw on a podcast. The same Dude has been teasing this news of an alleged leak since November and produced not a single shred of evidence while being an asshat on xitter about it at the same time. This is not the first time this guy speculates over future games and is taken out of context by fans.

If we were talking about the ethnic music of an extinct tribe that uses a language on risk of disappearing, sure, you would be right.

But think about it for a bit longer. They are just a commercial production that had no cultural impact in a population. They are still getting preserved in a format with a quality degradation that is imperceptible to the human ear. That’s usually enough. Audiophiles are usually overzealous about fidelity preservation. But the efforts are often misguided and discussions abound on technical topics that ultimately don’t matter.

Gay communities are not all the same around the world. It kind of is part of the problem, grindr applies an insensitive one size fits all model. US gay culture prevalent in grindr pushes promiscuity, distorted body images and sex centered stereotypes. It used to be that the app was simply a proximity chat with basic profiles. This was a safe haven for gay men in homophobic cultures that needed a way to identify, contact and interact with other gay men without fear of violence or discrimination. Yes, it was about sex, but it was about sex as a reactionary channel for frustrated desires for human contact and emotional connection.

Today it is so enshittified and has added so many anti features that it has shifted to be the opposite. It has turned into a harassment machine, that frustrates and enrages users in an attempt to make them pay money for premium features, that used to be free, or get rid of the new ones that nobody uses. Which signals users to be and act even worse to each other in order to circumvent the exploiting anti features.

Then it also pushes things like penis size obsession, high risk multipartner encounters and unprotected sex, with a high dose of body shaming on the side. All that while showing an ad every 3 seconds (I’m not exaggerating). Without mentioning that it has always been a privacy nightmare, a vector for minor’s abuse, sex work and drug trafficking. With the app owners never doing anything of value to actually protect the users. Grindr has gotten kids and adults raped and murdered before. But it promotes PRep (in countries where the drug is banned because homophobia), so, yay!