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    Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.

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    But are FOSS spirit and asshole users the same thing? On that, I disagree.
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    Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

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    In political science, the term polyarchy (poly "many", arkhe "rule") was used by Robert A. Dahl to describe a form of government in which power is invested in multiple people. It takes the form of neither a dictatorship nor a democracy. This form of government was first implemented in the United States and France and gradually adopted by other countries. Polyarchy is different from democracy, according to Dahl, because the fundamental democratic principle is "the continuing responsiveness of the government to the preferences of its citizens, considered as political equals" with unimpaired opportunities. A polyarchy is a form of government that has certain procedures that are necessary conditions for following the democratic principle. So yeah, you are right. A representative "democracy" is not a democracy. It's a monarchy with more than one ruler. A gummy bear is as much a bear as representative democracy is a democracy. I didn't know that, because i was taught in school that a representative "democracy" is a form of democracy. And the name makes it sound like one. But it isn't. It's not even supposed to be in theory. I am sure 99% of people living in a representative "democracy" don't know this. I hereby encourage everyone to abandon the word representative "democracy" in favor of polyarchy or maybe oligarchy. This makes it much clearer what we are talking about. Also i doubt the authors of this article know this, because they imply that representative "democracy" is desirable, but it is obviously undesirable.
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    Microsoft Used China-Based Support for Multiple U.S. Agencies, Potentially Exposing Sensitive Data

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    Leaving in the hat is a nice touch.
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    Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app

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    Sure they can write laws making it illegal to claim the king of Thailand is a doddering old fool anywhere in the world. Good for them. They have no legal right to enforce it on me, though. If I visit their country, of course, I will be subject to their laws. But they can't apply it to me until then.
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    New Google AdSense Fill Empty In-Page Ads

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    I've not seen an ad in years, so they can try to monetize me but will fail spectacularly
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    Judge dismisses authors' copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI training

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    Ingesting all the artwork you ever created by obtaining it illegally and feeding it into my plagarism remix machine is theft of your work, because I did not pay for it. Separately, keeping a copy of this work so I can do this repeatedly is also stealing your work. The judge ruled the first was okay but the second was not because the first is "transformative", which sadly means to me that the judge despite best efforts does not understand how a weighted matrix of tokens works and that while they may have some prevention steps in place now, early models showed the tech for what it was as it regurgitated text with only minor differences in word choice here and there. Current models have layers on top to try and prevent this user input, but escaping those safeguards is common, and it's also only masking the fact that the entire model is built off of the theft of other's work.
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    IBM plans to build IBM Quantum Starling, a “fault-tolerant” quantum computer with 20,000x the power of today's quantum computers, in New York state by 2029

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    Both waiting and not Both alive and not Both lying or not Both existing or not
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    Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year

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    Coastal vacation