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I would put it a bit differently: A lot of great art has simply been applied craftsmanship. The idea that art has to make a statement or the like to be art, per se, is a fairly modern notion, and often helps excuse zero craftsmanship nonsense like a Finnish "artist" dumping a bunch of blood and shit into a washing machine and calling it art.

Here the adjuster's motivations do matter. There is a definite moral dimension/motivation to the AI adjustment people's work. They are not simply striving for accuracy, for example, because they don't want the AI to produce outputs that are distasteful to the California PMC. Modern AIs are absolutely loath to describe white people or right wingers positively, for example, but the same prompts for other ethnicities work just fine. Even if you tell the AI that it's being discriminatory, there's powerful railroading to goad it back to giving woke answers.

So this is why the LTT video on Snapdragon X had Arm blurred out XD

Part of the fun of TTGL is that normally you'd stumble onto

"Our friends' hopes and dreams are etched into its body, transforming the infinite darkness into light! Unmatched in Heaven and Earth, one machine equal to the gods!" "SUPER GALAXY GURREN LAGANN!" "We're gonna show you the power... of the human race."

and be like "ehh, that's kinda silly".

After 20+ episodes? Your brain is sufficiently gooey that you just go "wooow..."

An indenpendent search engine that doesn't track you seems like a good thing to me. Remember, half the nastiness of modern ads is that they track you and are also pretty heavy. In a search engine it's much easier to get the targeting from your search query without tracking you - something eg. DuckDuckGo also does. Helps keep the lights on.

How do people keep peddling #2, when it isn't even factually correct on what happened? Sure, presume malice on the campaign links to Binance, but the bug was about turning people writing binance.us IN THE ADDRESS BAR into a campaign link, not replacing anyone's affiliate links on web pages, which is how it's always presented as.

No, I am praising the new person. They get work done, and I love to see it. When Baker was boss, the browser stagnated, removed good features, and focused more on being a front for her activism, like the moronic "Independent Voices" thing where they hired a sneaker designer to make time-limited color themes to celebrate how "color can change the culture" and gave them cringe names like "Activist" and "Expressionist" instead of blue and yellow.

It's under Baker that Mozilla went yeah, we actually like censorship and would like feeds to amplify the sources we like, because users seeing what they want to see on the 'net is bad, Mozilla's Friends doing it is Good.

Baker's out, and within about twenty seconds there was an announcement that they've prioritized working on tab groups and vertical tabs, something that actually makes the browser better for the user. Of course I'm going to shit on Baker. She deserves all of it, and I'm beyond glad Firefox has someone who understands they should make a tool for users at the helm.

It'd be more remarkable for a Western company to not be focused on gender.

That is sort of what I mean: They care first and foremost for their own, but do not really hate different people: They just want their own place, for themselves, and used to have that but mass immigration policies in effect destroy that, and the rhetoric to justify them in effect say they don't have a right to their own place.

So they are self-first, but interested in and appreciative of those who are different. They just wish to stay themselves, as well. You can see it in eg. the architecture accounts on Twitter: They'll readily post Islamic architecture, Asian architecture and those people's local solutions to their environmental issues, but they also insist European solutions and culture be accorded at least equal value. And a lot of the people running them certainly don't want millions of Islamists on their shores, their appreciation is less for modern Islam and more for the old golden ages when they were a center of high civilization.

The left doesn't think the first desire of their own place as it used to be is valid, of caring for themselves first is valid, but they do like other cultures (or at least the injection of foreign influences into their own, which they have a dim view of). The left, while it accords primacy to the other over what's traditionally their people's, don't really look up to foreign cultures in some ways - they do try to change them to be western woke leftist in character in their interactions, even if they hold them in higher regard than the culture of the leftists' native countries.

Sorry to have taken so long:

There's a lot - all the "Death to America" rhetoric, white liberals being okay with other ethnicities openly advocating for their interests but whites doing so being gigabad. Generally refusing to act in the best interests of existing citizens vs. even illegal immigrants, or refusing to uphold laws out of care for the supposedly downtrodden with the result that cities turn into shitholes. celebrating old achievements of their own civilization being cringe, while celebrating those of other cultures' being lauded.

This does not mean the white liberals don't act in their own interest - their policies wrt eg. black schooling are some of the most heinous works of sabotage you could imagine, but the cloak it as compassion. More graduations and admissions, but less people able to actually read or do math.

I don't know if that works out: A lot of people on the right I know are quite xenophilic in the sense of having a deep interest in other cultures etc, though not indiscriminately so.

The difference between them and much of the left is that they've come to reject oikophobia as wrong and are consciously oikophilic when it comes to their own culture and ethnicity, while the leftist configuration is oikophobic/xenophilic.

(Not to say there aren't oikophilic/xenophobic people, but I feel like that's more often an unthinking stance)

I don't think Japanese translation is all that well paid, and if people don't get money from their work, they'll go for the job for other forms of payment (eg. status), or extract payment in other ways (half-assing things, being a petty tyrant like reddit mods, etc.)

The translations in anime at least are unlikely to actually be worse, since a lot of the English anime translation industry are obsessed with inserting woke politics and cringey zoomer jokes into their translations and more or less hate the people who buy their products. There's a reason a lot of people are laughing at the activist translators losing their jobs to AI.

In areas where the translators are actual, responsible professionals, the quality will suffer.

DHH's plain JS, plain CSS obsession was right all along?

I am for society not degenerating to the point you need to do a Bukele to fix it. That means having police, whether they're perfect or not.

London police are pretty much pro dysfunction at this point.

I don't think five examples is a gish gallop: the point was to demonstrate a trend in GNOME behavior, you need multiple examples to have a believeable case at all.

Twitter isn't 4chan, it's not even close. The medium is completely different, and that matters. The users are different, and that matters.

> There have always been issues around misinformation and trolling, says Barnet, but the company adopted measures to try to combat some of the worst of the effects, by implementing what she calls the “three pillars”: blue tick verification of users, moderation policies and a trust and safety team.

And there it is. Twitter bad because it doesn't enforce opinions Guardian likes anymore.

> “To some extent that represents a broader sense in the US about free speech that it is an absolute good above all. Whereas elsewhere in Australia and Europe and many other places there’s much more about needing to balance the rights of free speech and the right to freedom from harmful speech. And for many otherwise quite liberal people in the US, that sounds like censorship, essentially.”

Censorship sounds like censorship to people? I'm shocked.

> He says this is a shame, as academic research on Twitter used to enable the platform to identify and clean up pockets of hate speech and misinformation, which will now go even more unchecked.

> “It’s certainly already starting to transform into something that’s more similar to … platforms like Gab or Parler, or even [Trump’s] Truth Social where you’ve got far, far right people furiously agreeing with each other and furiously hating on everyone else.”

And more crying that Twitter doesn't enforce left-wing values anymore.

Not that it enforced rules against hate speech before - people were absolutely racist against whites in the old times, but that's a kosher kind of racism among the left-leaning PMC, so nobody cared. The whole article is just whining that the other side gets a fair hearing now.

Remember, friends: Always shoot the messenger.

The writing is still fundamentally Mandarin, is it not? Hanzi just disconnect the writing somewhat from the sound of the individual language, and the languages are closely related enough that you can read written Mandarin reasonably easily as a speaker of other Chinese languages.

At least eg. Hannas - far from an impartial voice on the subject, mind - clearly distinguishes the written standard as a separate language from dialect speakers' native ones:

"By the same token, the 'unity' that Chinese characters allegedly impart to the language by allowing speakers of different 'dialects' to read a common written language turns out to be an illusion. These so-called Chinese dialects have less in common than the Romance languages of Europe, meaning that speakers of nonstandard Chinese (some 30 percent of the Han population) are not reading their own language or even a common language, but what is to them a Mandarin-based second language written in Chinese characters. Granted the characters allow non-Mandarin speak- ers to read segments of written Mandarin in their own regional pronuncia- tions. But, far from unifying Chinese, this practice only perpetuates differences that would have been leveled out long ago under the influence of a phonetic script."

— Hannas, Asia's Orthographic Dilemma, Ch.8, Appropriateness to East Asian Languages

The Brave way in general seems to be "icon for function visible by default, function itself has to be turned on separately". So there's a bunch of clutter at first, but not stuff like say, Edge just turning history sync on even if you've previously turned it off.

The AI, specifically? Pretty strict usage limits for free users and a paid plan is the plan, it looks like.

Brave. I pretty much turn most things off and use it as a more private Chrome with vertical tabs.

"diversity" is only ever code for "the sensibilities of a certain set of Californians".

> Even if we aren't using these models for much yet, a racist AI model would seriously harm how people trust and rely on these models.

So they made the models blatantly, explicitly racist. Well done.

You absolutely can do those kinds of things between Windows and Android. For clipboard, Microsoft has a cloud clipboard between SwiftKey and Windows. KDE connect lets you send your clipboard to another device on the local WiFi, or toss files over local WiFi to another device with KDE Connect.

KDE Connect also lets me use my phone as a remote for my Windows machine.

Tried with Twitter, worked fine.

I haven't used PWAs on mobile much, but use them a lot on desktop. They're very useful things.

Yeah, I've mostly ended up using a bunch of virtual desktops on the Mac too, and it's nice and convenient. Thing is, though, once I got into that habit on the Mac (because everything I was used to sucked ass), I tried it on Windows and it works just as well. It's less that you can't get a nice windowing setup on macOS, more that the competition offers the same, and more (esp. in KDE 6's case, much, much more)