So glad to see that the state of Linux as a technology is now such that people in their very late 60’s who are almost entirely non-technical can not only use a Linux system as a daily driver on more than one computer, but enjoy using it :)

It’s been my impression that it has been like that for at least 23 years, when I started using it.

There has just been a lot of misinformation smearing it as somehow hard, or only for technically minded people. Never been hard for me, and I don’t consider myself technically minded, but, others do, in circular reasoning [because I use linux, I must be technically minded, ~] that it’s hard to disabuse them of, until you get them sat in front of some linux systems, and they can see for themselves how cushy the community have made it for them, in any of many ways.

It’s the freedom that matters. Not the kernel. Not the convenience of better software. The licenses. Free to use, study, share, change, as you wish. That’s a lot of wide open innovation potential, from that essential 4 freedoms. We got here because of those freedoms. And we’ve been here a long time. [Decades]. They tried to smear freedom, fearing they’d lose their abuse victims. Bye bye corporate proprietary software developers. The truth’s getting out… Freedom’s here, and it’s nice. No abuse gets to persist, when we’re free to create a version of the thing doing the abuse, with the abuse removed. :)

Thanks.

It seemed implausible that it’d have had that many “community notes”.

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I have Lex Fridman’s interview with [OpenClawD’s] Peter Steinberger paused (to watch the rest after lunch), shortly after he mentioned something similarish, about how he’s really only diffing now. The one manual tool left, keeping the human in the loop. n_n

Long live diff!

:D

With another LLM, turtle all the way down. ;D

Or for a more serious answer… improve your skills, scrutinise what they produce.

Yep.

Keep getting another 2nd opinion.

There’s always more [to learn].

Human problems are complex and the medecine field is slowly catching up, especially medecine targetted toward women, which was pretty lacking.

Lacking for either sex. Even though they’re wrong any way, did you know the supplement RDA are all for women?

And… I’m not sure how much it’s really catching up, and how much it’s just reeling out just enough placatium to let the racket continue.

“For-Profit Medicine”'s an oxymoron that survives with its motto “A patient cured is a customer lost.”. … And a dead patient is just a cost of business. … No wonder “Medicine” is the biggest killer. Especially when you consider how much heart disease and cancer (and most other disease) is from bad medical advice too, thus making all 3 of the top biggest killers (and others further down the list) iatrogenic¹.

It takes time to transform a system and we are getting there slowly.

We may be getting there so slowly as to take longer than the life of the universe, given how so much is still headed in the wrong direction away from mending the system, since seemingly all of the incentives (certainly the moneyed incentives) are all pushing the other way… to maximising wealth extraction, rather than maximising health. We’ve let the asset managers, the vulture capitalists, get their fangs into the already long time corrupted health care systems (some places more than others), and from here, we’ll see it worsen faster, perhaps to a complete collapse asymptote, as the rotters eat out all sustenance from within it.

¹ “Induced unintentionally in a patient by a physician. Used especially of an infection or other complication of treatment”

What fools we’ve been, thinking we could televise the revolution on a corporate monopolist video platform, where ultimately they have absolute control over. Even bigger fools we’ve been, pinning our emancipatory power hopes to our labour?

The Department of Homeland Security should abide by the constitution.

That’s my random criticism of The Department of Homeland Security.

human: je pense

llm: je ponce

It’s scary, when someone recommends webmd as a primary, and reliable, source of healthcare information.

Presumably those same people would unquestioningly take the first thing an LLM says as gospel too.

Terrible programmers, psychologists, friends, designers, musicians, poets, copywriters, mathematicians, physicists, philosophers, etc too.

Though to be fair, doctors generally make terrible doctors too.

nobody was left on IRC.

If you went back to freenode.net… we’re all over on libera.chat… since freenode.net got bought by rotters trying to enshitify it.