The monopoly tried to make them the same thing.

Lawrence Lessig called out their bullshit, or they would have gotten away with it

https://nohello.net/en/

Only if it’s from the official Koka region

His bro DJT says the same thing about what will happen if his tariffs are blocked

The end of the world, to these guys, is someone not agreeing with them

Have you been to Mexico City or (even more so) Guadalajara since the Pandemic? Multinational techs are investing and building up campuses like crazy. Reminds me of the go-go years of Bangalore in the 2000’s.

Mexico has a real possibility of moving up the value chain and gobbling up all the good stuff Trump is pushing away from the USA

I work for one of the world’s largest proprietary software companies.

100% agree with you

Countries should fund open source OS, browser, mobile OS. It is in their best interest.

America needs the same denazification that turned Germany and Japan into tolerant diverse democracies.

This particular coding leaderboard matches my own personal experience. Llama4 is hitting ~15% ; Claude Opus4 ~70% (I haven’t used others personally)

If you really want privacy, use Tor which is free-as-in-speech-and-beer

My mistake

hold on I am still somewhat new to Fedi & not fully used to people being polite

The Monero community spent a long time trying to find a “useful PoW” function. The problem is that most computations that are useful are not also easy to verify as correct. javascript optimization was one direction that got pursued pretty far.

But at the end of the day, a crypto that actually intends to withstand attacks from major governments requires a system that is decentralized, trustless, and verifiable, and the only solutions that have been found to date involve algorithms for which a GPU or even custom ASIC confers no significant advantage over a consumer-grade CPU.

OCR could be done effectively without AI

OCR has been neural nets even before convolutional networks emerged in the 2010s

Neil Young and Dolly Parton

Role models we need but don’t deserve

May need to get one of these

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Monero works for anonymous payments for cocaine and fent across international boundaries, it can more than handle the illicit video game trade

DYMAXION MAP OR GTFO

EDIT: details

It has less distortion of relative size of areas, most notably when compared to the Mercator projection; and less distortion of shapes of areas, notably when compared to the Gall–Peters projection. Other compromise projections attempt a similar trade-off.

More unusually, the Dymaxion map does not have any “right way up”. Fuller argued that in the universe there is no “up” and “down”, or “north” and “south”: only “in” and “out”.[9] Gravitational forces of the stars and planets created “in”, meaning “towards the gravitational center”, and “out”, meaning “away from the gravitational center”. He attributed the north-up-superior/south-down-inferior presentation of most other world maps to cultural bias.

Some people like being unpaid OnlyFans models whose intimate details go to corporations instead of pervy guys

Yet another USAian here. I’m doing my part to stand with my EU allies!

Ditto. But I am taking my time. I am on the free tier; I cost him money. I’ll move off eventually probably to Tutanota unless something better shows up