I’m going to use this for my next order of crystalware and explosives.

I don’t understand how people get these ideas, except that they live on a diet of propaganda. Conservatives never help anyone except themselves.

It’ll make the sea nice and thick.

Poilievre’s Conservatives are an awful option and will only further harm the country. But they are winning the propaganda war at the moment, with many people somehow convinced they have something to offer. It’s the usual right-wing fearmongering and scapegoating as a distraction from real issues they have no plan or intention to address. But once the right wing media machine starts to do its work it’s hard to see others catching back up again.

He notes that now most Americans don’t expect to be “better off in five years” — a record low … Four in five doubt that life will be better for their children’s generation than it has been for theirs, also a new low. And … support for capitalism has fallen among all Americans, particularly Democrats and the young. In fact, among Democrats under 30, 58 per cent now have a “positive impression” of socialism; only 29 per cent say the same thing of capitalism.

This is bad news for Sharma as a strong supporter of capitalism. What has gone wrong? Sharma says that it’s the rise of big government, monopoly power and easy money to bail out the big boys. This has led to stagnation, low productivity growth and rising inequality.

It’s painful watching capitalism’s faithful trying to figure out where their magical system went wrong and why its results aren’t benign. None of what’s happening surprises capitalism’s critics or the cynical exploiters who still benefit for now, but its loyal cheerleaders keep cheering even as their lives, societies and planet fall apart and a voice in the back of their mind wonders, “why doesn’t this feel good?”

Does anyone else find that the cross-post function no longer works after the upgrade? Clicking the cross-post icon brings up the form correctly, but as soon as you select the language or the community, the form clears itself.

I agree, reducing meat consumption is all heading in a helpful direction. But I do get a bit irritated by how every mention of the word “vegan” triggers someone to pop up saying “Here’s why I’m not a vegan.” It seems defensive, irrelevant, and a bit self-centred. So I wouldn’t assume all the downvotes reflect vegan purism.

In some cases, this will mean prioritizing security

Sounds like the old Microsoft attitudes are alive and well.

Well this one depends on negative mass, which is, as far as I know, no less weird and speculative than dark matter.

I think the main take on this is to learn the lesson that it is not safe to install random software you come across online. Is this lesson new, though?

I think people often have a vaguely formed assumption that plugins are somehow sandboxed and less dangerous. But that all depends on the software hosting the plugin. There was a recent issue with a KDE theme wiping a user’s files which brought this to light. We can’t assume plugins or themes are any less dangerous than random executables.

Educated sociopaths do.

Another key quote:

"It needs to be like a surgical operation, like a brain operation,” [Hagari] said.

This man would be the worst brain surgeon.

All malicious extensions detected by the researchers were responsibly reported to Microsoft for removal. However, as of writing this, the vast majority remains available for download via the VSCode Marketplace.

Ah, the Microsoft tradition of always having the wrong priorities.

It looks like Poilievre’s Conservatives will win the next election, and he has shown repeatedly that he’s willing to court the far right whenever it serves him. Having a PM who associates with fascists will certainly send the message that Canada is dealing with the far right, but not in the sense we hoped for.

https://archive.is/YBMgY

On the other hand you can just call wherever you end up the destination, and no one can prove you wrong. 100% success rate.

I’m using GitHub Copilot and haven’t dug into the license. It’s possible I’m technically handing all my code over to Microsoft.

This is the first I’ve heard of it, but apparently Canada’s Conservatives are interested. Conservatives always seem to have an ear out for the worst ideas from each other.

I hope not, but conservative bad ideas do seem highly contagious.

These things cost money to run, so how are they offering it for free? Who’s paying for it? How do they profit from our using it? What’s the catch?

Edit: Someone else here found that the license basically means all the code you write with it becomes theirs. Seems like we found the catch.