I actually find Rust pretty OK. The only things that I don’t like about Rust is its quirky syntax. And its primitive implementation of OOP. And its compiler. And cargo. And the ecosystem…

OK well maybe I don’t find Rust actually OK. Why did we have to invent a whole new language if we could improve standards and compilers for existing languages?

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I thought Umatrix was unmaintained?

Anyway, I used to use it till a few years ago. It’s a really powerful extension, but it breaks some sites with the default settings and it can get tedious reenabling scripts one by one to find the bare working minimum. I have since switched to uBlock of the same developer and it seems to me an adequate compromise between privacy, better performance and working sites.

Unfortunately the modern web has turned into tihs so you can’t even browse without an ad blocker anymore.

“In the Future, people won’t have to deal with numbers, for the mighty computers will do all the numbers crunching for them”

The mighty computers:

People who make fun of LLMs most often do get LLMs and try to point out how they tend to spew out factually incorrect information, which is a good thing since many many people out there do not, in fact, “get” LLMs (most are not even acquainted with the acronym, referring to the catch-all term “AI” instead) and there is no better way to make a precaution about the inaccuracy of output produced by LLMs –however realistic it might sound– than to point it out with examples with ridiculously wrong answers to simple questions.

Edit: minor rewording to clarify

This logo brings back memories.

Wow! Thank you so much!

It looks amazing but unfortunately there seem to be no English subtitles :/ (I’m just starting to learn Chinese.)

What about TOR?

That they’re a bunch of hypocrites with double standards (if we or one of our vassals do it, it’s fine)

Secretary Antony Blinker

The problem is not voting itself. It is the bourgeois “democracy” framework it is often implemented in, which provides safeguards against change.

This needs to be a real command.

Regardless of political subtext, I found Master and Margarita a fun read. Nevertheless, Heart of a Dog of the same author was not pleasant to read.

Soviet literature was not worse than the works of pre-Revolution authors and ranged across many genres, from socialistic realism works to fantasy (Soviet sci-fi was great) and also many children books that are loved till this day. Unfortunately, same with other kinds of works, Soviet literature is disregarded by the West, as are many works that don’t conform to the Western values.

Package “linux” is already the newest version.

for some reason I read this as “Survival Capitalism”

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>> 0

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>> "0[object Object]"

I’m going home.

just shut down capitalism already

Throughout all of the time that I’ve been online and offline, I have seen far more Hitler/Stalin comparisons and equivalences than I have seen actual, direct references to these events from the Eastern Front…ponder that for a moment.

Such comparisons are a handy propaganda tool. Presenting Stalin as a bloodthirsty dictator just like Hitler and socialism/communism as “red fascism” has been normalised by decades of McCarthyism and the political Centre trying to justify its existence. Many people uncritically take those as a given, since the media have also normalised such views, incl. by giving less air time to actually leftist views.

It is interesting to note how various history “documentaries” made in Western Europe also present Stalin as a dictator akin to Hitler, using what is considered an “objective” medium to misrepresent the deeds and intentions of historical figures, making them into mere caricatures.

A war CAN’T be legal, because it actually abolishes any pretense of legality. Any “legal” war is just an attempt to make it seem legitimate, even (especially) if it is not.