unwarlikeExtortion

From what I see, 0 = 10 on this scale.

From what I gather (someone correct me if I'm wrong), carriage return and line feed do different things.

Think of a typewriter. It has two things. A large lever you spam which lets you move the writing position towards the start of the page (that's carriage return), and a small wheel you spin which adjusts the vertical positioning of the paper (that's the line feed).

Computers were modeled after typewriters. And in typewriter logic, to start writing in a new line, first you need to return the horizontal position to the start of the current line (CR), then feed a new line in (LF).

If you just CR, you'll start to type over the text already present on thal line, and if you just do a LF, you'll start typing in a new line from the same horizontal position, leaving a large gap of unused space to the left.

Newer models of typewriters made the large lever used for CR automatically do a LF as well as a quality of life improvement, as it was hard to nail down a consistent line spacing manually.

As computer programs atopped thinking in terms of being a 1:1 logical replica of typewriters (simulating ink being stamped on the page with a mechanical arm and supporting stamping over existibg text), but ratger in terms of layers and text boxes, selecting and editing), editors lost the ability to destruxtively atamp over existing text, so CR doesn't do anything anymore.

Some systems only use LF (CR implicit) or verbosely say CRLF (what a typewriter would do).

Well... I'm quite on the fence about AI, after being against it for a while.

Your point stands. Current AI use is terrible: both the ecological disaster and mass theft they present are not small issues.

Yet these aren't a fault of the tech itself. They're the fault of the companies doing said theft, and the governments either silently or openly ebracing said theft. And economic bubble fueling the theft and the unprecedented rate of datacenters popping up.

I like to compare AI to photography. Both are/were revolutionary. Both killed jobs. Both raised copyright issues. Yet photography today is an integral part of life. And I'm afraid LLM chatbots will be as well in ad few as 15 years.

There's no stopping technological progress, even when it's actively blocked - let alone when governments feed billions into it and take a blind eye to all its issues.

So the case isn't as clear cut. You can admit defeat now, or you can wait a bit. You can be the sole hermit not using it in a world which does. Which is a personal choice for everyone. The only thing to ask is: is it the right one for an open source project?

Rejecting "known unethical" tools does seem like a sensible approach though. Either make your own, use a known-good one or do things the old fashioned way. No leaded gas in our vicinity allowed.

Because a certain group of certain countries made the main comparison axis "capitalism - communism" instead of "totalitarianism - freedom". I wonder why.

But if he wants to spy on you in your home, suddenly there's a perfectly valid reason (in hsi book) why your house is special and doesn't get the right.

Tbh Amazon always had outrageous pricing for me, raging from 1.5-4x the price on other platforms. I don't think I'd ever seen a competitive deal on the site.

I wonder if it's their algorithm taking a distaste for me in particular or a local glitch, but no one in my area uses it either.

In any case, locally marketed price aggregators never even showed me an Amazon listing in the first place, so it's probably an issue on their end, as most people aren't willing to pay $76.5 + $115 shipping fees for a product worth at most €50.

The mere fact all prices are insane does not magically make them sane.

Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure the required absolute majority of 361 votes

I'm a bit OOTL. How the hell does that even work?

Calling digital copy-pasting piracy is akin to calling breathing displacing the air, data centers be damned.

Isn't that the entire point what with the world watching the genocide live in general and refusing to do jackshit about it?

The thing is, getting this kind of exception doesn't happen even when 5 million people sign a petition. The government is ruthless. Usually.

Yet here we are, a 79-year old got it. Usually you need the situation on national news before the relevant authorities would even begin to consider granting such an exemption. So the users of the program are never anonymous. They need to be exposed to the media in order to get it.

Yet here we are, a "random" 79 year old got it, and that's all we know about them. So thinking the "random" person coincidentally the same age as Trump isn't most likely to in fact be Trump is definitely not a stretch.

Surely a random 79 year-old from from North Korea is equally as likely to be the recipient of this as arguably the most powerful man alive, and unarguably in the country where it's happening.