Indeed, and also because those small shops were often owned by families or had less abstraction layers that remove all traces of humanity, like in the big corps

In my country, when we still had most shops and services coming from small businesses, it was common to receive discounts and benefits for being a long-time customer, and in december, almost all shops gave small gifts to their customers. But then, the multinational corporations came with full force and people embraced them… no need to tell how this ended

I just realized I never deleted the account I created a couple years ago to try it, before knowing all the harms of ai, and realizing it wasn’t worth it. They claim that chatgpt users weren’t affected, but we can never trust them. Well, at least I remembered to delete my account now.

Don’t be sad, be happy! It requires some country to be brave and break this invisible barrier, showing that those people aren’t invulnerable and that we can still turn things to a better path, before others will follow.

And by the way, I’m proud of being from this country ^-

We’re always evolving. We are at this very moment evolving to adapt to an environment full of microplastics, to eating ultraprocessed foods, to look at screens for most of the day, etc.

It’s too bad that evolution has some sort of time delay and only makes the next generations more adapted to the current environment, instead of the future environment, so people won’t be adapted to a hotter climate, more intense climatic events, to deal with food and scarcity, more uv intensity, more conflicts, and so many other things until it’s too late.

Just informing that this post contains irony and is mostly a joke

Looks like I finally found a purpose to live

I’m so deep in open source and avoiding big techs, that those recent outages didn’t even affect me to the point that I wouldn’t even know about it if it wasn’t for the news, and I’m proud of it.

For me, the suicide-related data is so hard to measure and so open for debates, that I’d treat it separately, or not include it at all, if using death count as an argument against llms, since it’s a breach for deviating the debate.

I understand and share the dislike, but the openly released version will remain free, and no one can change it, so don’t you think temporarily open is a bit misleading?

temporarily open?

Soon, Linux will have better compatibility with older windows programs than Windows itself.

I still have issues with wayland when using extensions inside other software that aren’t compatible with wayland. They tend not to work even with xwayland. Well, I hope compatibility improves until I need to update…

Brazilian here. The situation is much more complex than “Brasil is destroying the amazon”. We suffer from political instability, and the big foreign oil companies lust after our resources with enough power to lobby our politicians and manipulate thepublic. A notable case was in the early 2000s, when pro-environment protests led to petrobras abdicating from exploring some recently discovered sources, only for shell to come and explore it soon after, so the environmental damage was done anyway, and we lost our sovereignty over it. Allowing for petrobras to explore it can allow for some degree of environmental control and avoid falling into the same trap. But since things are always more complicated the more we look into it, petrobras isn’t fully state-owned, and suffers market pressure from several actors, both national and foreign.

Anyway, I don’t agree with the exploration in the amazon, but I wanted to show that things are way more complicated than the international media make it look.

This reminds me of a joke where a student tells the teacher that if they had only one more hour of life, they would spend it in that teacher’s class. The teacher gets moved by the comment and, while wiping a tear, asks why the student would choose their class to spend the last hour, and the student says that it’s because that hour would feel like an eternity.

My ancestors were poor people and some of them were slaves. I guess they would give me very different wisdom for troubling times.

Linux stats on statcounter was growing a lot, up to almost 5%, then reduced quickly back to less than 3%. Maybe the new users learned to install privacy tools?

That’s interesting, because according to statcounter, linux usage actually went down last month, but I guess most browsers on linux will block those stats scripts

I believe it’s more a cultural thing. In a lot of places, people think in terms of a community, not individuals, and will plan things for the longer terms. But in american culture, people are much more selfish and short-sighted. Problem is that they have been shoving their culture in the entire world, and it makes it look like this is the default for all of humanity.

But climate change IS happening, and already observable.

And simply blaming older people also hides the problem of global inequality and exploitation of the third world. Most elderly in my country only faced food insecurity and hyperinflation when younger, and their environmental impact for all the time they’re alive is smaller than the environmental impact of a current teenager in the usa.