Let’s figure it out. You take your little legs, go to Marseille - preferably in the north districts, and tell the youngs who live there if they are Bibi’s bitch. And please, stream it live (I’d recommend Kick as the content might quickly break Twitch TOS).

A company in Europe has to respect patents. Same for a company in the USA. Not a company in China. Of course this has an impact. Failing to grasp this is at best naive at worst purposefully misleading.

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We should be critical of our manufacturers but we should also not forget China is basically getting its R&D for free by stealing tech from everybody (all do, but some more than others).

How do you want to do this? Linux is a kernel the world relies on. It powers your car, your fridge, your satellite, your phone, the entire Internet, the army, etc. Nothing comes close to Linux in market share. The distros are built upon the kernel. System76 may have to comply, but the other maintainers don’t give a flying fuck. They could even write a small line somewhere on their repo that says “this distro is not allowed in California” and call it a day.

Let me introduce you to Ansible

My changelog generation tools output emojis because our lives are too short to not use 🚀

No, I don’t think this is correct. There was a time during which Google did great things. Their search engine allowed millions if not billions to gain access to knowledge. They had a positive impact on a lot of FOSS projects. What they were is not what they are.

That’s why I asked you if we should base our actual opinions on what it meant. Because if we did, we could argue that the Nazi party is a left wing party and Communism is a Marxist regime, both of which are factually false.

So you always look at things with the “original” prism, or the actual meaning?

You are mixing a lot of things here : capitalist vs anti capitalist regime is not this same as progressive/conservative politics.

If you believe social progress should benefit only you and not me, you are not progressive.

And I’d like to point out that all regimes you mention are not different from any other : they all had a ruling class. This is, again, not progressive.

And as I pointed out in an other comment: studies suggest that Totalitarianism is not about left or right, because they use the same concepts to validate their ideologies.

What you define is segregation : a society where progress benefits me, but not you, because you are different.

If we consider one of the key value of the “left” being progress, I think it is difficult to concillate both.

I’d argue they were totalitarian and not conservative. The funny thing about Totalitarianism is that it does not really care about being left or right and seems to share the same values : https://news.emory.edu/stories/2021/09/esc_left_wing_authoritarians_psychology/campus.html

You can indeed be a right wing liberal, it is however more difficult to be a left wing conservative

Quick reminder that anthropic CEO praised Trump for his AI plans. Anthropic also created an organization to help elect politicians that favor them and their business.

A broken clock and all that.

No but you don’t get it. AI is such an amazing tool, it can do everything and replace everyone. Did you try my new model yet? It’s blazing fast and can tell you to drive to the car wash to clean your car. It’s will revolutionize the world

What is sad IMO is that he’s quite freaking good. It’s kind of a waste.

I use salt as a a weed killer in some specific area. So I guess I know, at least a little bit

Wen speaking about copyright and how the USA is abusing its power, this is worth watching