No. It doesn’t

Confirmed human case summary since 2024

The year is currently 2025. And the CDC has been ordered by President Trusk not to publish any new data.

There’s lunar new year, but its more than a stretch to say that’s causing the price of eggs to rise.

Unless it’s saying that the prices have reached 2022 during the holiday season?

I’m in agreement. I think where our opinions differ is that I’m not worried about consumer electronics in this new economic and political reality. And the reason I’m not worried is that I know it’s fucked.

We will not see the type of economy that we have been used to for quite some time. And if the last democrat admin is anything to consider, then I doubt these insane new regulations will be repealed even if the Republicans lost power in 4 years.

I think there are much greater concerns than consumer electronics and now is the time to plan for them.

I think I might get the point…but I think we are past trying to build budget friendly PCs for gamers wanting to play the latest AAA titles.

As a gamer myself, it’s sad but I’m tightening up my belt and preparing for much worse economic consequences. Like what a 100% tariff on Taiwan made chips will mean for the US military budget and the national debt.

Honestly, I’m anticipating buying junk hardware for at least the next 4 years that’s being auctioned off by companies that are not able to deal with the new economic hardships that this and other decisions are going to create. I doubt I’m going to be able to play the latest games nor will I be able to afford them. Luckily I have a backlog of games and there are a lot of books I want to read too.

I think one of the bigger consequences of this in terms of pure compute is people not being able to self host open source LLMs and similar models offline. As I think this will soon become something that’s expected to have access to in the next couple of years.

I am for getting tech you need when you need it. I’m against buying tech you might want to have now just in case it cost more money in the future.

If you are really concerned about future costs of essential items that you will die without, then I suggest stocking up your pantry with shelf stable food as much as you can and researching what you can do to help your local community grow their own food.

You know what’s cheaper than a $2000 RTX 5090? Not spending money or upgrading unless you actually need to.

Large Language Models don’t reason either. The idea that Artificial General Intelligence will come from LLMs is pure fallacy to drive stock price. When it is eventually announced that some company claims to have achieved AGI via LLMs, it will just be another arbitrary milestone that moves the goalposts more.

I’ve been boycotting X.com since musk purchased it. When he did, it stopped being Twitter anyway, even before the official name change. Infact it was good he changed the name, as now there is a clear marker that it’s not the same thing it was. The way he treated his employees at Tesla was enough to tell me that musk does not care about workers, or contracts, or even morality in general. So when he showed his true colors by buying the US presidency and performing a Nazi salute I was not surprised.

I also boycott all meta products, truth social and all things related to trump and various news outlets, resellers, manufactures, food producers, countries, and non open source projects.

That being said, I think the idea of forcing a ban on links to a domain at the community or instance level is wrong. I don’t want to give any of these companies web traffic but the user should have the final say in what they boycott and what they view is a reputable source. At the most, the community or instance should tag links from domains with some sort of flair to indicate caution of some kind. And implement bots to help provide alternative sources.

Users should be able to block domains, users are free to down vote things that disagree with them, and bots could be used to provide alternative links to archived postings just as they can do to YouTube videos.

The biggest issue is that now X.com and truth social will be the only or at least the breaking source for some more important world news. And if trump declares martial law, declares himself emperor, decides to send all the “woke” people to concentration camps, or any other crazy thing that might make me decide to finally pack up and flee the country, I need to see that at the source, even if it’s just a screenshot with an archived link before I uproot my family to avoid being stuck in a 1930s Germany situation.

For the community itself, we need to view things at the source too if a decision that one of these companies make is announced on a boycotted domain or product so that the workers of those companies can understand the harm that is happening to them. Again this could reduce web traffic with screenshots and archive links.

Tldr: Users should boycott what they feel they should when they are able to. However information should not be boycotted, especially not arbitrary. Users need to know when something important effects them, or will harm them directly and might need to verify the source themselves. Blocks should not happen at the instance or community level, but at the user level. Links to questionable sources should be down voted, flaired, and replied to with screenshots and archival links. However the user should have the final say in what they click.

Lol. I guess she married into it.

I just started it and so far it’s ok. It seems to be lacking some description and details to help young readers internalize the material. At least for the tempest it seems to just gloss over a lot of things which is fine if the goal is to summarize but since the goal is to make Shakespeare accessible to children it makes it not very memorable. But haven’t read it all yet.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/

• The Critique of Digital Capitalism by Eileen Joy
• Shakespeare for Children by Charles and Mary Lamb

Honestly, i think it’s just much cooler to see the swastika torn in half.

Cool

I’m not from Finland but I’ve been playing a lot of My Summer Car and just figured out how to take a sauna and got the Welcome to Finland achievement.

I love freetube for my android and Linux PCs.

Ehh, it’s not like Linux is perfect. And if we want more Linux adoption it’s good to have different perspectives and be made aware of things that perhaps we haven’t thought of. It could be useful to vent about Linux through memes if we can have proper discourse and are willing to work collaboratively to solve issues.

You know, you can be critical of a government without using racist slurs against the people from that country. Not everyone from China is part of the CCP.

I’m talking about not needing anything installed on the server though. Like you don’t need sudo. If the server has ssh then you can use Emacs to edit a file on it

I used to think this way. Until I found that with emacs you can edit any file on an SSH enabled computer remotely. Meaning that not only are you no longer constrained by what the computer has installed. But you can use your personality configured editor while editing that file. It’s called tramp.

BTW, with Emacs you can use vim key bindings evil-mode, so don’t stress about that.

I love kagi but I don’t think it actively filters out ai generated content.

I know when searching for pictures you can disable AI generated images.

I think the hard part for a search engine is that unless there is some kind of identifying mark on the content, how do they know that an ai didn’t write a top 10 list of pastebin alternatives?