It’s a pretty weak argument using a metric without historical numbers then claiming it means something.

It seems reasonable less people would be building a rig with the price crunch, but that survey and this article isn’t making much of a case for the argument besides emotional appeal

Ah! They are open? Partly my bad then. I also wondered if ODF was written in a way that prohibited online collaboration, or at least made it very expensive.

Yeah, on #3 I think I misremembered how far back France started using open source. Hopefully this means more ODF native options

Ahahaha. Fuck off. I’ve had plenty of friends from Taiwan where I’ve pointed out they were the Republic of China in their passport and I lived in China too so I’m far from ignorant on this. I’m just pointing out that you clearly have some biases. As do I to be fair but I didn’t give my personal position here, just pointed out that you’re pushing people in a slightly manipulative way in yours

Is Korea a civil war that ended? How about the confederates in the US? The Maori in New Zealand? What’s would you say about Yugoslavia?

I think a lot of people see a difference between groups prancing about saying words, and the pragmatic situation.

I’m not saying anything about the ideal outcome for any of those situations I’ve listed. Just that they’ve been stable for long enough they fit a definition of “ended”, even if over time that situation does change a little and that internal civil wars have a habit of forming new nations even while some groups hold onto the past

Sure for isolated machines. I was using open office on isolated machines 20 years ago, I’m glad the software is better now.

But there is value in cloud storage for institutions and collaborative editing. All the European offerings I saw for this were autoconverting to Microsoft formats (pcloud, onlyoffice) and they both seem to have at least part open source licenses so it’s surprising to me.

Its also surprising to me that there are mostly viewing options on iPhone (but not surprising to me that there is low support, just that it’s almost only view only)

Yeah, I get why Microsofts formats are entrenched

I don’t so much get why they aren’t mostly export formats since:

1. A proprietary format seems like it would be more error prone to use as the only format you edit documents in
2. I presumed there would be some overhead like fees to using microsoft formats
3. With governments caring more about digital sovereignty, I thought there would be better placed suppliers

I guess #3 will just take time and to them there is risk that Trump leaves and everyone goes back to Microsoft

Yeah, I quite like libreoffice on the mac but I’m not always on my mac. I kind of thought one of the European cloud storage providers might offer support for editing too but they auto convert to Microsoft formats during edit and that just seems like it would be more error prone. And on an iPhone I only found one app that would edit in place, everything else views or converts to Microsoft formats

Do you have a traditional name? I can’t find any information for anything related online

If you’re planning a suicide there are people out there to talk to:

https://therecover.com/suicide-hotline-numbers-by-country/

If not, don’t waste the book by waiting

Yeah, so that accounts for the grey being reasonable (although in some of these a arguably too large, if things are well established and people are unsure that’s because of groups spreading uncertainty)

The article is mostly focused on that red bar though

Oh? All those people that love playing and watching sports that help give sports people (at the top) large salaries don’t fit well. Nor do a lot of people that display other people’s art (that love art). I think you’re grossly simplifying in a very pessimistic way

I wonder what you do about this.

I just started reading Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan, published in 1994, and the intro is basically saying the same thing but framed as curious people being more well read in Atlantis than they are in interesting recent science or critical thinking skills

For each statement, between 25% and 32% of respondents said they believed it, and another sizeable percentage (17–39%) said they didn’t know whether it was true. In total, 70% of respondents believed at least one of the claims (see ‘Divided views’). The findings, which have not been peer reviewed and were published today by the Edelman Trust Institute in New York City, were described as ‘staggering’ in an accompanying article by the think tank’s chief executive, Richard Edelman.

And it should end with “without the US”. Fuck the US and their center of the world bullshit, there are a lot of beautiful countries in the Americas

I just think a lot of them don’t think about the actions of their companies and are more focused on their income and promotion opportunities

I can’t believe this is so heavily downvoted for pointing out flaws in the expressed/written stance while still expressing they agree with the general position

That’s seems pretty reasonable, it just sounded in you post like you were so emotionally invested in how often security is used as an out that you were ignoring that the post you were responding to brought up some valid points about security for some segments of the population that aren’t as knowledgeable as you seem to be

Over a billion (maybe four) in his first year of his second term for him and his family:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/20/opinion/editorials/trump-wealth-crypto-graft.html

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5677024/trump-profits-merch-hotels-crypto

It’s tough to tease out exactly how much and exactly who it goes to

I have wanted to transform things

I didn’t know how but it seemed possible. I searched and didn’t quickly come up with an answer.

I asked an LLM, and it gave me a confident answer.

I checked the man for the tool and the LLM had used creative writing to create the interface I expected should exist… but it did not exist.

I don’t know how you’re swapping or merging these basic facts:

1. If you’re told the binary and the flag, the validation of the LLMs output is fast (either with man or executing the command)
2. If you have a process you’re searching for then the searching can be slow to find the combination of commands and flags (and that’s why so many people, by the sounds of it yourself included, use LLMs)

I do think a “linux tutor” is one of the better use cases for LLMs for beginners, since you can quickly validate when its recommended commands are incorrect (but you still can’t quickly validate if its description of internals is misleading). I just think it falls apart as you start requiring more specialised things, or are at a situation where “this should exist” because the LLMs habitually make things up that sound reasonable to fill in the gaps in what the tools can do. That’s not an issue for beginners / the basics especially if there are lots and lots of tutorials the LLMs are sourcing from (although, that opens ethical issues too)

Agreed, but I think a framing or two is missing here, and it only applies to a subset, is that the people of the world shouldn’t have to deal with more/larger bot nets because these things haven’t been considered.

Another is just that the average great aunt isn’t opting into a concept of insecurity they’re simply ignorant to what threats there are. If it’s possible to distinguish between the two sets of people, or to maybe even bucket devices by potential threat, it might go a long away. I probably a lot wrong here, I just woke up.

But yeah, agreed security is an argument that’s hidden behind