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  • Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

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  • Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted

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  • they’ve killed and continue to kill tens of thousands of civilians in the independent republics

    Even if I assume the truth of that statement, do you not care about the deaths of Ukrainian civilians?

    We couped Ukraine in 2014

    My understanding is that Ukraine's parliament (Rada) removed Yanukovych from his position as president. That seems fair to me. Many countries, including the US, have legal processes for removing their leaders.

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  • I would wager that every country has far-right elements, including Russia.

    What Russia claims though is that the Ukrainian government is full of Nazis, which I don't think is true.

  • Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands

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  • Certain speech is criminal like inciting violence.

    Therefore I would say that there is no such thing as completely free speech, even in the US which has the First Amendment. There are always some restrictions on speech.

    With the example of pro-suicide content, you could argue "making pro-suicide speech illegal would start a slippery slope". But on the other hand, if you have people committing suicide because they were encouraged to do so, then maybe it makes sense to make pro-suicide speech illegal. And it doesn't necessarily need to be a slippery slope. Other forms of speech don't have to be banned.

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  • Maybe. I think it might be okay if the government bans those things though, because people would still have political freedom to voice whatever political view they like, as long as they're not promoting violence or harm to particular people in pursuit of political aims.

    Perhaps it's not easy to decide where the line of legality should go though, which is why this topic is controversial.

  • Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia

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  • Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands

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  • it’s all good to call Twitter the public square, but that’s a lot harder to take seriously when the guy in charge of policing the square is heavily biased

    I agree. A public town square is good but like you say, it should be neutral, and Xitter is not that.

    On the censorship thing, maybe it is okay if an online messaging website bans certain content, like pro-suicide content, or pro-terrorism content, etc. You could call that censorship but you could also call it safety. I don't think anybody really believes in 100% free speech anyway, because if a person shouts "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre, when there is actually no fire, and it causes a stampede which kills people, should we not punish their speech because they're free to say it?

    Freedom of political speech is important, but maybe there should be some fundamental rules about certain types of speech.

  • Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands

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  • As Elon himself said in the early days of the Twitter takeover, “free speech does not mean free reach”.

    I understood that to mean "I want to claim I'm a 'free speech absolutist' while actually only promoting things I agree with"

  • European auto giants launch a flurry of cheaper electric vehicles — taking the fight to China

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  • I wonder what happens if you own a Chinese car but the car decides your social credit score isn't high enough to drive...

  • Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts

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  • Businesses might pay big money for LLMs to do specific tasks. And if chip makers invest more in NPUs then maybe LLMs will become cheaper to train. But I am just speculating because I don't have any special knowledge of this area whatsoever.

  • It's a matter of perspective

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  • European auto giants launch a flurry of cheaper electric vehicles — taking the fight to China

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  • Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts

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  • Maybe it's like the dotcom bubble: there is genuinely useful tech that has recently emerged, but too many companies are trying to jump on the bandwagon.

    LLMs do seem genuinely useful to me, but of course they have limitations.

  • Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands

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  • I think reducing the visibility of some kinds of content can be good, especially for those under 18. E.g. when it comes to content around suicide, I think it is better if children/teenagers see "there is support for you, please speak to a charity for free on this phone number" instead of pro-suicide content.

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  • I hate to sound so salty, but its mind boggling that they would fight this so vehemently, instead of just… filtering abusive content?

    I guess it's just enshittification. Profits are their first priority.

  • Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands

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  • Fuck Spez

  • Meeting the 3rd party candidates

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  • If the US had a single transferable vote system then you could comfortably vote for a third party, if you wanted to, without helping out the opponent you dislike the most.

    You just rank the candidates, so you could rank Jill Stein as 1 if you want, then Harris as 2, and Trump below that. So then if Stein has fewer votes than Harris and Trump each have (likely) then her votes would transfer to whoever her voters ranked 2nd.

    Under this system, a third party candidate is more likely to win (maybe you don't like Jill Stein, but conceivably a third party could produce a good candidate). The ballot under this system looks like this:

  • Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave

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  • You mean Amazon is bad to their workers?

  • Putin warns he will not allow Ukraine to have nuclear weapons ‘under any circumstances’

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  • Ideally no country would have nuclear weapons, but I don't think Russia's call for denuclearisation should be taken with any seriousness whatsoever unless they get rid of their own nukes.