I guess here on the fediverse it is essential to add the /s to not be taken seriously.

If you’re against data centers you should be in favour of age verification. Just imagine how many data centers will have to close once Linux becomes illegal.

On the other hand, it’s unlikely that police will actually go after individuals using Linux.

CIA intervention is definitely there, but maybe for other reasons. They did already try to murder him in several occasions, be it the Bolivian government, CIA or whomever it may be.

Regarding the relationship, it was supposedly a consensual relationship. Not too nice, but in those places it is not too strange for a young girl to get together with an older man. Most girls have kids by the time they are 18. Now, go figure what is true and what is not.

In the Chapare the propaganda by Evo is very strong. He is loved by the people. They do have a fortified town, I went there to meet him just before the elections. It is not at all a strong defence: thousands of farmers taking turns to defend Evo with sticks and shields.

He is unlikely to surrender to the police. The police could easily go to his fortified place, it’s not like he’s got any real defence that a team of 10 militaries with machine guns could not handle. The main line of defense is that in order to get him they’d have to kill hundreds of innocent farmers. And then the whole country would revolt: while Evo is not appreciated as before, and while propaganda antagonized him very much, many people see him as a good honest person which actually tried to improve the country. There’s plenty villages where there was no water, electricity or roads before Evo.

Slovenia is a very unreachable country. I remember last time I went the bus from Milan was 30€, which is not a bad price. A train would be nice, but not high priority. It would be good if they actually got any flights actually landing there.

Interrail is a very good idea, but way too expensive; unless you perfectly plan out your trip you’re most certainly better off flying or paying for normal train rides. It can definitely be cheaper, but you’re going through 2 months of planning out the proper travel plan for that to happen.

50372364.45 GB and growing. It will always be free.

We had a 2 hours blackout and the -80 freezer got warm.

I hope you got some backups of your backup.

One espresso.

I’m sorry, we are out of coffee; would you like some canned tomatoes? We are running an offer today: 50 cans of tomato for just 60$.

We were allies of Gaddafi, we broke our pact, attacked him and allowed his murder. He may not have been the best ruler, but the country was stable. Look at Libya now and tell me whether they are doing better than before.

They were not in civil war; they had protests and the government had strongly repressed the protests killing people. Protestants formed and uprising and there intervened EU countries.

This was not against international law, but we did attack an ally of ours, which does not speak very well about the reliability of European countries.

European countries bombed Sarajevo, against UN rulings not to intervene into the war.

European countries attacked and bombed Libya and allowed the murder of Gaddafi.

European countries attacked Syria with no UN authorization.

European countries currently sell weapons to Israel, not against international law but quite morally difficult to support.

European countries pay Libya and turkey to keep migrants in detention centers and not allow them into the EU.

In general not too bad for that many countries, but definitely not completely free from guilt.

Saint Elbakyan, please redeem us. Give us our daily papers and don’t lead us to paid open access.

Would be great! Fuck Elsevier, may that company burn in hell.

If I have to pick a side, I’d go for meta in this case. Elsevier has no rights to defend their ownership of research conducted with public investment.

I guess this could be a cool solution to having to make several usernames on different gitlab instances.

Still, I’m not sure if this is really worth it: if I want to self host I’ll just self host a git repository and that’ll be incredibly easy to setup.

The main advantage of GitHub is that it’s completely free and I don’t have to bother about self hosting it and maintaining the software.

I do see some advantage, but I’m not sure it compensates the added maintainance work.

The pipes were running just nearby the data centre, free real estate

Not really, my browser should happily comply if a webpage I want to use needs 7 GB.

No way YouTube needs 7 GB.

I don’t really see the point to be fair. It’s unlikely a union will force workers of a factory to modify the contractual situation if they’re happy. However workers who are being well treated can push for better conditions for people working in other companies.

There should could be a subscription payment, where I’m form it is something quite negligible to the salary of one worker. If it is well administered, that money can be used to pay workers if they ever decide to go on strike.

When the company starts screwing workers, it is already quite late to be in a union, at that point you don’t have a support net which has already been prepared. In general it’s better to be in a union before you need it than to scramble for one.

The main objective of free software is to destroy copyright. To be fair, AI did a lot more than Stallman and the GPL license in that regard.

Why not unionize anyway? Are unions on a factory level over there?

It’s most likely not the same people, as AI destroyed quantum computing. A person strongly invested into quantum computing would be crazy to push for AI.

Quantum computing has already been destroyed by AlphaFold.

I work in the computational chemistry field and I’d really love a working quantum computing solution to that kind of problems, but since the ML solutions came up most research in that direction stopped and it does not seem like there is any nearing solution in the world of quantum computing.

I’m not talking about qubits numbers or amount of errors themselves in the system but about the complete lack of algorithms that can handle the problem. Most of what I’ve seen is handling childlike problems that a single core CPU will do better and quicker anyway. It really does not feel like all the promises that have been done are anywhere near to coming true.

When I speak with people working in the field they’re like: sure in a few years if we can get better computers we’ll be able to handle a few hundred atoms at a time (all without any actual working methodology and assuming that will be developed), however we are more commonly talking about hundreds of thousands of atoms… There’s little hope on my part that anything useful will come out of there soon. However, I do really hope it does: quantum computing would be a huge revolution for chemistry if it works as advertised.