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US E.P.A. to start considering the impact on poor billionaires bank accounts when setting any rules at all to ensure they receive a fair treatment

This

I also sometimes use AI for small bits and pieces and the vast majority of the time it gets about 10-20% wrong which I then have to fix

There is a net-gain in time on these small bits and pieces, but it’s not really able to do more than that

Is there a panel for the pragmatist that just goes with what works, with open source strongly preferred?

More to the point:

Yes, many elements of modern tech driven society are the way they are optimized for rage, buts that is only because rage drives engagement and engagement makes a select few people very rich.

As long as we allow individuals to become insanely rich and or powerful, this. will. never. change.

It’s not that hard, simple rules, ban billionaires. Set a hard cap on personal wealth and anything you earn over that goes 100% to taxes.

Not loving canonical, I hate snap with a passion, systemd… Meh, mixed bag

But in general, I’m very happy with Kubuntu, it’s been my main os forost of the 25+ years that I’ve used a Linux desktop. It’s very easy to use and has mostly been very reliable, especially the server variant. KDE desktop always has been awesome

The world missed it’s opportunity to prevent climate change

Yes?

It’s missed it multiple times and it will continue to do so. The Paris climate accords were an absolute joke yet even the outcome of that was just ignored by all the important players. That was when Obama was in charge, now we have trump, good luck with that

Uh huh

I’ve seen these types of talk all over the globe since 1990s.

The first indications of global warming were discovered back in the 1890s

This is not a new thing, we’ve known about it for a century, we’ve rang bells for at least 3 decades, and nothing has been done because rich people want to be more rich and powerful. It’s literally that simple

Add it to the pile of PFAS, plastics in general, the garbage patch, recycling, and so on.

That is why o know humanity is fucked, because even EVEN if we managed to get our collective heads out of our asses and fix climate change, there are still a hundred or so other self caused problems that can and will wipe us out of we don’t fix them and well, we’re in no hurry with the first one on the list, so yeah

We’re fucked

Interesting!

Can this work server side as well? I’d love a good PDF toolkit to integrate as a backend into my open source system

Most important missing detail though: reliable conversion from HTML to PDF

I’m currently using wkhtnltopdf and it gets unreliable results at best, especially with layout (CSS)

Any suggestions on what tool could do that best?

Uh huh, as expected and predicted

None, because none of them exist

Ooohhh, the xth time I see a young generation that actually believe they will succeed and make a difference

I’ve seen these every year for the past 40 years now, still waiting to see that change!

I’m sorry, I known I’m super cynical with this but be honest. Because this claim is honest too; I do see this every year, and every year it’s a bunch of new fresh kids who get enraged at what they see when they look at the world, and they want to fix it and…well, nothing really because rich assholes have entrenched themselves so far that everyone thinks that how the world works now is normal, they can’t be touched unless you go full Luigi or something.

I’m really not trying or wanting to be cynical, but I see them every year and it breaks my heart because I know they’ll fail. Believe me, if they don’t, I’ll cheer, I’ll dance with them, but they never win, nothing changes for the better, so all I can tell you is good luck, god speed, and kick som ass, and I’ll see you later when you’ve given up because nobody gives a god damn fuck.

Yep, only probably more than 30. Also, only when all our power generation has gone CO2 free, so all renewable and nuclear or (one day, one day) fusion.

Until then it’s just a waste of power as the power to pull the CO2 out of the air generates more CO2 than you’re capturing. If you have partial renewable, like now, routing renewable power to capturing CO2 is less efficient then just routing that renewable power to other places because those other places still will be generating more CO2 than you’re capturing.

So until the entire world (except maybe airplanes) is on renewable electricity, don’t even bother unless it’s for research and making better CO2 capture

That is the problem though, isn’t it?

We’re at a point that AI is shoved hard in everything and your mother, yet actual useful applications for AI barely get any attention.

It’s all about the useless and criminal like chat bots, nudifier apps, and the hilarious claims that AI really can do software development

It’s all pushed by lying psychopaths who convince empty headed politicians (seriously, we need a required IQ test or something for people who want to become politician) to invest billions in their bubble balloons.

Those billions are them used to build new datacenters that nobody wants and which destroy the environment in all sorts of creative ways

This is not a tool used wrong. This is somebody inventing guns and now everybody wants to shoot those guns at everything and your mother.

If tomorrow AI and the knowledge we have about it would completely disappear from the world, it would be a better place.

Aaaaand we have a wiener winner

Whoever signed off in this, both on the parts of shell and that museum, should all be jailed, at least for a year, and I’m not kidding

This is such a transparent and obvious attempt to subverse kids minds with a narrative that will destroy the world, but it will make the CEO a lot of money!

Fuck all of you, especially the ones at the museum; Shells execs are evil phychopaths, what is your excuse?

I’ve had similar issues using CSF firewall. They just pushed out updates that apparently support docker a little better but I still have to fight with that to get that working, I don’t know if that will fix it, but give it a try

This would be hilarious is not half the world is pushing for this shit

You’re right

I’m very much in the left camp and I do fear its too late. I fear that in the next 5 decades, millions if not billions will die and that we might actually face a societal collapse

Governments don’t give a shit about climate, they’re too dumb

Companies don’t give a shit about climate because their owners direct the actions and they only care about money

So how exactly should I be positive and have a “let’s go fix this!” attitude?

I’m tired, really really tired

Imagine a federated system that allows everyone to host this and everyone can vote on a designated target

Ticketmaster is being a dick? Vote! Ticketmaster is now ddossed until it makes hard changes to its policies and brings prices down to like 10% of what it is today

Boeing continues to focus on money only, not safety? Ddos until it changes

The Cheeto is murdering innocent people again? The entire world will ddos everything US until he’s removed.

I know this won’t ever happen, but I see this as potentially useful in making the world a better place for everyone

I just love how Linux is awesome and outperforms windows in just about any metric, and every update is basically making it faster, better, more secure, and more featureful.

I love how easy it has become to get it to run, even when confronting complicated problems

Meanwhile in the microsoft camp, its always been shit, severe known security bugs don’t get fixed because marketing goes before everything, even if it means that the US government gets hacked (but don’t worry, we pwomise that the CEO wiw now cawe about secuwity!) and apparently M$ literally only cares about shoving security averse AI down everyone’s throat with a used plunger.

Sure sure, the AI my install malware for you, but AI, man! It’s awesome even though you hate it, even though it’ll steal all your data and your first born back to Microsoft for processing. You MUST love it, resistance is futile!

And still people keep going on about how windows really is the best

Meanwhile, I try to type a document in Microsoft Word online, because unfortunately that’s is het we still use at work but it keeps randomly and quietly deleting text that I wrote 30 seconds prior. That high quality, of course, is all due to the AI vibe coding that is all the rage at Microsoft now.

To anyone who still needs to hear it: switch to Linux now, get rid of Microsoft nonsense. Linux is awesome, we have cookies