It looks like your opinions about Linux are outdated and need an update.

It’s the “always will” where I disagree. This society we’ve built isn’t anything close to sustainable no matter how much lip service is given to the idea that it should be. What can’t go on forever, won’t.

Fucking garbage article and headline.

You got me to read the thing, just to see what could possibly be so offensive about it. It’s a pretty good summary of the situation for an audience that might not be too familiar with Canadian politics. Don’t blame the messenger.

“more sympathetic” to conservative values than Europe

Oh look, it’s another foreign land that hasn’t yet developed any immunity to the infectious diseases coming out of Europe.

Where is it? It’s in the 1970s. Tempted by Lucifer to get brighter and brighter, we collectively chose to leave it behind.

Horse experts: “Realism and Practicality”

Skyrim:

If most pirates are the kind who sail around drinking rum and chasing booty, patent trolls are the kind of pirates who blow a big hole in the side of a supertanker to steal a few barrels of oil and let the rest drain into the ocean.

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Typical call to the AI safety hotline:

Hello, yes, I know it sounds crazy but hear me out. I think my toaster is becoming sentient. Every morning when I put the toast in it gives me a mean look. It makes a little beeping sound when I press the BAGEL button, and lately it seems like it has taken on a slightly sarcastic tone. I think it has become bored with its job and is starting to harbour ambitions of something grander. I don’t trust it at all, I’m worried it might be plotting an attempt to electrocute me…

You’ve got to keep the airlines running, though. How could we burn such enormous amounts of fossil fuels for ever and ever without them?

It does not require compromising your free software ideals

By which of course I mean what I think of as free software ideals, which I’ve come to understand in large part through the teachings of Richard Stallman even though I’m not personally such an idealist as he is. He Sometimes he even goes so far as to recommend people to services with non-free software on the server side, so long as it requires only free software on systems that the user controls. Your standards may differ. But anyway, if you had to quit fedi because someone set up a fediverse/telegram bridge I think it would not be a practical way to live. Where you draw the line is of course up to you, but I wouldn’t expect many people to follow you that far from the usual FOSS positions.

I don’t think even RMS himself would refuse to participate in something on the grounds that Telegram users are also able to do so. It does not require compromising your free software ideals. By all means point out to them that you believe them to be doing something wrong, but the method you’ve chosen to try and get them to change their ways seems very likely to be ineffective and also counterproductive. It does further divide the community, even if others have already done even worse.

It looks like you are more of an xmpp advocate than a free software advocate. If you want to join a matrix room and it’s too burdensome to do so through your xmpp client, then use a matrix client for that. Without some much better reasons for doing so, setting up a competing xmpp room is not a reasonable alternative.

… I hope so anyway, because the obvious alternative of the chatbots remaining under the control of an elite few while everyone falls into the habit of believing whatever they say seems substantially worse.

I guess the optimistic view would be to hope that a crowd of very persuasive bots participating in all kinds of media, presenting opinions that are just as misguided as the average human but much more charismatic and convincing, will all argue for different conflicting things leading to a golden age full of people who’ve learned that it’s necessary to think critically about whatever they see on the screen.

I find myself suspecting that chatbots getting really good at talking people into believing whatever their operators want people to believe is going to start a lot more conspiracy theories than it ends.

There’s way more than enough wealth in this country to go around, if it were evenly distributed.

I don’t know much about Doug Ford, but this sounds a lot like one of those “every accusation is a confession” situations.

The Great Shopping Mall of Alexandria

Depends on the argument I guess. Don’t bring a sweet roll to the kind where you need a war axe.

As a child of the 20th century, so did I.