Frank Herbert couldn't have been any more prescient...
Continue reading..."Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." -- Dune
KDE, the return
The first version of Linux I ran at home (23+ yrs ago) was Gentoo with KDE (where a typical upgrade involved a nail-biting setup and overnight build where you kicked off the compile and hoped like hell you hadn't messed up something when you restarted the next morning). Since then it's mostly been G...
Continue reading...Kiwi activist alleges violent abuse by Israeli forces
stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360984340/i-could-die-here-kiwi-activist-alleges-violent-abuse-israeli-forces
"A spokesperson for the Israeli prison service said the allegations were 'false and entirely without factual basis'."
Renowned liars tell yet more lies and expect the world to reject the evidence of...
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Keep Android Open
I've already installed f-droid, and interestingly there's a Notes app there which is closer to what I wanted than the free ones in the Play store...
Continue reading...Alternate AI business model
So if AI can regurgitate works in their almost unmodified form, I wonder how long till a new business model emerges... where a company dual-licensing their code under (for example) GPL and a commercial license, can then charge an exorbitant amount of money to corporates to stop the GPL infection o...
Continue reading...Lawful?
It’s telling that UK media hasn’t highlighted the Iranian frigate being unarmed, despite it being widely reported across Asia (lots of talk in Thailand). There’s also been littl...
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