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And be able to easily comply with law enforcement requests for decryption.

Ergo, the encryption is actually worthless.

I did, but I failed reading comprehension. Shouldn’t be reading this stuff right after waking up.

Nice of them to mention which plugin.

I think this is the idea behind it. Sure it looks sanctimonious if you’re already privacy-minded, but then the site isn’t for you.

Cheers. I mean that’s on me for not checking. aww

Why does their own phone run Ubuntu Touch and not Sailfish? Or do they have multiple flavours available?

He should aspire to that instead of aspiring to be a billionaire.

Their idiot CEO will move forward with forcing AI onto people too. CEOs don’t learn.

Yeah I don’t see this sentiment enough. It’s not like they’ll buy the graphics cards now and then be done with it, they have to keep buying it over and over again. It’s a rolling expense. Given that the manufacturers can’t keep up with the supposed demand as it is, there’s just no chance it’d ever be sustainable from that perspective alone. Nevermind the massive rolling cost it’d incur.

It was never going to work.

I don’t quite get why they need to rebrand these things. I have my own Nextcloud instance, as well as my own Matrix instance. I don’t go all “IT’S LEONDRIVE AND LEONCHAT” because that’s really silly.

Hope they also have people contributing upstream.

You’re free to disagree, but all the tools say otherwise. Hell even the widely lauded Claude Code is just that, we know for sure since the source leaked.

Of course, that’s how all of these agents work. At best they’re a bunch of prompts tied together with scripts to perform actions. At worst they’re just interacting directly with software without any scripts or sandboxing.

There is no AI.

I’d say that our international reputation is kind of undeserved.

For example, we’ve previously been kind of prideful of our status as “neutral” in conflicts, but I don’t think we ever really were. During WWII we were doing the same eugenics stuff that Germany was interested in, we severely maltreated our native population, and ultimately while we didn’t exactly ally ourselves with Germany, we also didn’t stand against them. We let the nazis use our railway network to attack Norway for example.

Segue: the most recent eugenics law we got rid of, to my knowledge, was in 2013, when we abolished the requirement for trans people to get sterilised. Obviously, the nazi party was against this.

I wrote about a kind of pivotal event here, which ended up shaping how our labour system functions. However, the Social Democrats of old are not the same as those we have today. They’ve been catering more and more to the right, and the perspective I see the most nowadays is that they kind of just go with the flow. They don’t have any significant values, and haven’t for a long time.

This shows, because we have some very American problems in society now. Widening gaps between the normal people and the ultra rich. Significant parts of our welfare has been sold off and privatised. We have nazis sitting in parliament.

One example I think is particularly striking is our drug policy. It’s the one thing pretty much all parties are in unison on; drugs are and should remain banned, and people that use drugs need to be punished. The stats for drug related deaths here are scary, and the scientists are saying that the policies need revisions because the current draconic approach isn’t really working.

The parties however will not budge, instead they sit in parliament and sniff cocaine, and when they’re caught it obviously doesn’t get investigated.

A social democratic politician from Sweden is also the person responsible for initiating the whole Chat Control thing.

If I’d gone to Florida I would’ve wanted to see gators! That would’ve been exciting.

Think it depends on where you are. I’ve three close friends who all have had really rough working experiences.

One person was studying at business school and had an intern position at a company. There were legal limits to how much my friend should’ve been allowed to work, but the company didn’t give a fuck. This ended up being a detriment to their studies, which was the whole point of working to begin with. They were tasked with way too much responsibility, and neither authorities or union really gave a fuck.

Another friend works in tech. They had a similar situation during their studies, and have since taken on a “hard work is good” mindset which I find revolting, because hard work isn’t intrinsically good, it’s rewarded with more work, and you get exploited until you burn out.

Further, the fairly strict social hierarchy Germany has is really off-putting to me, and it’s reflected in the working culture. Work meetings I had in Germany were always awfully stiff and weird.

Again, this is from a personal preferences perspective. Some people love the rigours. I do not. Most of the Nordics have been influenced in some manner by Janteloven, and it’s reflected here. I cannot stand social hierarchies where someone is supposedly your better for some arbitrary reason.

The former friend moved here, and experienced our working culture. I remember one day they talked to me about how shocking it was to have the CEO of their company bat for them, and talk to them like an equal. They said it would’ve been unthinkable at their previous workplaces.

Also tap water may not be drinkable but thats more of a nuisance since you can filter/boil it.

When I visited the U.S. the tap water there wasn’t really drinkable. People said it was fine, but my friend bought bottled water, which I paid for during my stay because the tap stuff smelled evil. Tried the tap water at a restaurant and I physically couldn’t swallow it. Supposedly Massachusetts has pretty good water, too.

China is not a magical land where everything is perfect and futuristic. It’s a big country with a lot of people in many, many big cities that operates on totally different cultural systems.

I like this take. You often hear places hyped up in media because that garners clicks, but everywhere has its pros and cons. Living in Sweden, I’ve heard absolutely bananas claims about my country. I’m comfortable here, but not everyone will be, and it’s certainly not the utopia some people believe it to be.

China has some good things going for it. I’m not a fan of the lack of privacy there, but simultaneously Europe is taking a leaf out of that playbook. They seem to have decent healthcare, and the infrastructure is seeing some major work that a lot of places here in Europe sorely needs.

The working culture in China is off-putting to me, though I feel similarly for a lot of other places here in Europe as well. Germany for example has a really rough work culture, which always makes it funny when American immigrants sing its praises.

The world is complex.

My country, Sweden, is fighting a war on drugs. Believe we have the highest drug related mortality in Europe. So currently drugs are winning the war on drugs.

Not only that, but every single party is in favour of more restrictions on drugs, yet these cunts are in parliament doing cocaine at work. Rules for thee, not for me kind of situation.

These draconian prohibitive policies are never helpful. You’d think we’d have learned that given how our prisoner rehabilitation system works, but alas. We’re ruled by idiots and sociopaths.

That’s bizarre. Since it’s 20 of them and they’re all pinktoes my first thought was that she’s a breeder. However, it feels really strange that a breeder would just forget about 20 babies on a train? I can’t quite fathom how this sort of thing could happen.

Yeah. It’s the one thing I find the most exhausting about how democracy works. It requires an ongoing participation, and our society is sadly structured in a manner where that isn’t easily done for everyone, and as such not everyone gets proper representation.

It’s further hampered by the fact that individuals and other institutions with financial means can employ people to do political work for them. This just isn’t feasible for individuals, many of us don’t have much money to spare, and we’re fully occupied between our professional, and our personal lives.

So once participation in democracy starts slipping, when workers are unable to attend, our rights start getting eroded.

This isn’t exactly helped by media, social and otherwise. We live in an attention economy where explosive headlines and bold attention-grabbing statements win out. We don’t get accurate representations of reality, and thus the decisions we make are based on whatever lies we’ve adopted to become our worldview.

The only real solution I see to this is to empower people to have the ability to partake in unions and cultivate a political interest. Otherwise we’ll just be ruled by the oligarchs and we’ll return to a more or less feudal state of things.

I’m trying really hard to engage politically in my area, but honestly the only party that seems to put themselves out there is the nazi party, so I’m hardly surprised that they’ve been garnering a lot of followers for the past decade.

I’d like to provide some further context. This wasn’t always the case here in Sweden, obviously.

A big shift in our society happened because of the massacre in Ådalen.

This was in the 1930s, during the great depression. People didn’t have jobs, particularly in Ådalen where the unemployment rate was around 85-90%. People were starving. So they worked together, they demonstrated, and the worker parties gained significant support.

The powers that be didn’t like this, naturally. They tried to put a lid on the events, and called in the military. To cut a long story short, the military opened fire and several bystanders were killed. It led to nation-wide demonstrations, and the Social Democrats gained significant following, leading to them being the majority government for decades afterwards. We saw social and worker reforms, and is largely the reason Sweden is held in such high regard internationally.

Things don’t really last however. Private interests are trying to dismantle the system we have here, because it gives workers too much bargaining power. IF Metall has been striking against Tesla for coming up on three years at this point. Tesla has their supporters, because obviously they do. People don’t get that the reason for the strike isn’t because Tesla’s workers necessarily have it bad, but because Tesla is trying to undermine the system we have here, and set a precedent for others to do the same.

In e.g. the U.S., employers have significant power over workers. Some states have at-will employment, where either an employer or a worker can just walk out on the contract whenever. This is only ever to the worker’s benefit when the market is looking for workers; I can’t recall a time in my lifetime where this has been the case. They dangle people’s livelihoods and through things like healthcare, their very lives, to enslave workers.

We are headed down the same path, with well over a decade of right-wing rhetoric, privatisation, and budgets eroding our systems.

It’s election year this year, and I really wish people would remember where we were a hundred years ago.