Si. We’re about to see how the iron dome stands against it. Maybe Iran has figured out a way to bypass Israeli defences…

And this is why you can’t trust corporations. They won’t stand up for you, or give you any chance at all, if another corporation wants to see scorched earth. The DMCA, ya’ll.

Funny how a bunch of non-governmental institutions uphold colonialism and anyone who wants to partake has to play ball… it’s like as if there’s an empire, an empire with flags from China, workers from Mexico and intellectual property made by Indians… but I can’t quite put my hamburger on it…

In my day, son, a WYSIWYG spat out HTML and CSS. It was up to you to integrate it.

Did you read the new features? CSS and HTML component testing, complete with web scalability (I.e media-query). Sounds very WYSIWYG to me.

But yeah, I know it’s an open source Figma, because Figma can ligma balls.

Is… is this the comeback of WYSIWYGs?

I’m assuming this may be a Flatpak issue. Have you turned on fractional scaling?

Sun Microsystems was once the great hope of the computing world, and technically the JVM was first to normalise the use of VM’s, albeit from a containerised perspective. It was Docker before docker, in some sense.

This coupled with Solaris and the SPARC systems that were Java-native (whatever that means) enabled this type of containerisation from a hardware level, which again: was a huge thing.

But, Sun turned for the worse once the JVM hit browsers and server stacks. That’s when their SaaS model was envisioned, that was the precursor to the acquisition by Oracle.

So it started nicely, but hit the enshitification velocity somewhere in the early 2000s.

haha java is terrible, mostly because of who owns it.

It’s about utelising supply and demand.

Problem: China needs a lot of solar panels, quickly… and making many things is comparatively cheaper than producing a few things, per unit of course…

Solution: set up the infrastructure, produce a shit ton of solar panels and sell the excess on foreign markets to make up the difference.

You save a ton of money and give your own companies and infrastructure a chance to easily implement them. This is important, as China has had industrial smog problems in it’s manufacturing hubs.

This is something China can do, but the USA can’t do because it’s not government cheese or soda… for some reason.

“Oh no, real competiton, in green energy no less!”

Bitch, are you for real?

“…daughter dearest.”

“Wow, this guy programs.”

Just look at that lineup. Plasma 6 is absolutely awesome.

Add it to the “reasons to stab execs in their face” list.

Your grandma’s pacemaker can run doom.

Orban is pro baby-rape, is how I’m going to frame that.

See, there’s this slow motion guillotine hanging over Putin right now, and for each month of successive losses, it’ll slowly be lowered until it reaches his neck.

Then, after a new favourite of the oligarchy and the generals have rubbed a few backs and made a few promises, said favourite will come up from behind and place his foot on the blade to force it through Putin’s neck.

That’s only speculation though.

The funny thing is that prompts also have unwanted (or “negative”) parameters, like “weird hands”. You could easily just input “disadvantageous framing for police officers”.

This is why these parameters should be public knowledge, so no exceptions are made that clear cops of wrongdoing if they committed a crime.

I promote running neural networks, LLM’s, SLM’s and stable diffusion locally. Why?

The way I see it, there’s a curve when various forms of AI technology becomes so effective and so powerful that it poses a problem for society. People are afraid AI will take their jobs, and that’s a valid concern.

Why then do I promote the use of local AI? Because I think that human+AI will be what prevents centralisation of data, the centralisation of knowledge, the centralisation of power that big tech firms, venture capitalists and authoritarians would love to have.

It’s an uphill battle though, because much like the other boardroom buzzwords like “cloud”, crypto, blockchain, etc, AI is something that makes billionaires pants wet and something that people despise - which is fully understandable.

But, I also fear it is self-defeatist. If we allow AI technology to be centralised instead of learning to liberate ourselves from the central tech cabals that wish to control it, then we set our selves up for new forms of authoritarianism we never knew before.

If you see the cyberdystopia that is China, or the tech oligarchy of the US, if you are left leaning, socialist, anarchist, etc, then it should be your prerogative to take that power away from central authorities.

Please reply with actual arguments and not cathartic putdowns, because I do want to see another way, but just being a troll on Lemmy will not sway me.

Again, I am open to reproach, just be objective.

The company had avoided certain destruction, after having fired the previous CEO and putting a new one in it’s place. The new CEO had managed to bring a newfound calm to the company and it’s ranks, and brought an air of meditative discipline to board room meetings.

Some said it was crazy, but making the LectoFan EVO the new CEO was the best decision the company board had ever made.