I don’t know if you read the article, but in there it says AI is becoming smarter. My comment was a response to that.

Irrespective of that, you raise an interesting point “it’s about the impact AI has on the world”. I’d argue it’s real impact is quite limited (mind you I’m referring to generative AI and specifically LLMs rather than AI generally), it has a few useful applucations, but the emphasis here is on few. However, it’s being pushed by all the big tech companies and those lobbying for them as the next big thing. That’s what’s really leading to the “impact” you’re perceiving.

This means absolutely nothing. It scanned a large amount of text and found something. Great, that’s exactly what it’s supposed to do. Doesn’t mean it’s smart or getting smarter.

Great work they’re doing, hope they keep it up. Fucking cowards in the UK government… had they not left the EU, they would not have caved to the US as easily.

Agree with you on that, as it is the situation just prolongs suffering in Ukraine. Europe and NATO should properly defend Ukraine, including with troops if necessary. In any case the fear of escalation is bs, because if Russia gets what it wants, it will not stop with Ukraine.

Completely agree on the security guarantees by UK and US and that it’s fucked up they weren’t upheld. When repeating Russia’s talking points you should also point out that they’re BS though. Who cares whether Russia wants that or not, Ukraine is a sovereign state and they can make their own decisions, just like other former UDSSR states.

It wasn’t the case before Trump. What NATO push? Any country is free to decide what alliance it wants to belong to, Russia does not get to decide what its sovereign neighbouring states do.

Please don’t dump Europe and the US together in this context. Neither of them has done as much as it should, I agree with you, but Europe has not turned any of its military aid into loans and it’s not extorting Ukraine for its natural resources now. That’s only the US and it’s completely despicable.

Indeed, as mentioned in the article.

What? You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. I recommend informing yourself before spewing nonsense.

I agree with the sentiment, but wouldn’t necessarily recommend F-Droid, see https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

I think something like Twitter hinges on people/organisations being there that are popular for whatever reason. Many people engage with those people’s posts and react to each other. Since there aren’t many such people on Mastodon, there isn’t as much activity.

The problem is not people like him. The problem are newspapers publishing it as though it was important and people giving a shit about it as though he wasn’t a moron.

The EU isn’t democratic. As opposed to national parliamentary democracies, the European parliament has barely any power compared to the commission which has no democratic legitimacy.

It’s as democratic as democratic gets on that scale.

That is also completely false. There are numerous proposals that would make the EU more democratic, but that’s obviously against the interest of the incumbent neoliberal elite.

It has no claim, who gives a fuck how many Russians live there. By that logic Luxembourg should be Portuguese.

Lobbyists aren’t inherently bad. The problem is lack of transparency and controls. Without effective controls of course a corporation with millions to spend will always have the upper hand over some NGO that lobbies for the common good.

That’s wrong, first of all it’s the central bank that controls money supply, which is independent from the government. In addition, even if the government could magically create all the money it needs to pay its debt, without borrowing more, it would completely devalue the dollar.

These cutbacks are completely stupid imho. The EU is undoing decades of good work by jumping on this dumb deregulation band wagon. I guess it was always run by a bunch of neoliberals…

VPS, I wouldn’t run a mail server from my home network. If you go with mailinabox you don’t need to set up a proxy, it’s pretty simple.

https://mailinabox.email/

What more you should ask is precisely that it’s not owned privately. Otherwise, soon the next Elmo comes along and buys this one too.