Before English, German and French were the lingua franca’s of the world. Then Hitler came along and fucked that up for Europe, the US took advantage and spread its defaults around the world, now Trump is here and it may be the end of that. If China’s clever, they’ll do more than just owning supply chains and actually try to spread their language and world view.

From the looks of it, that’s one thing they haven’t understood yet: you need a strong marketing and ad machine to really take over in the hearts of people. Material ownership can be reversed more quickly than cultural and mental. There are still lots of people who will continue to speak English, make English content, and spread US culture around the world long after the US hegemony falls. If China’s only legacy is material and not in world-wide language and culture, it will be quickly forgotten.

People like the free in free software for cost, not liberty to fork.

The point is that English is dominating for many reasons but in tech it’s because it spread everywhere. If China decided to invest in Linux and spread it everywhere, at some point they’d stop communicating in English just to fit in. There would be innovative things coming out of China that other non-Chinese speaking people would want and they’d have to translate it or learn the language.

Not of cryptography but tracking.

I was hoping it would be an announcement about a linux smartphone from China. But who knows, it may come. If China decided to go all in on Linux, we’d all have to start learning Chinese.

Before even reading : they sell AI slop products, people will use it to make AI slop, and the solution will be AI to detect AI slop, right?

Yep, exactly that.

Kids like being cool and trendy. Much more than adults (don’t believe me? Go to an opensource conference and count the macs). Anything from the fruit store has been successfully marketed as lit (or whatever the kids say these days). And Geerling, for all the good he does, doesn’t care about spyware, lock-in, monopolies, or big tech. He’s a pragmatist. Whether that means his godson in “the land of freedom” ends up in the walled garden or not isn’t any concern to him.

Of course the nephew chose the Neo.

In our minds and hearts, for sure. Can’t speak to the monetary aspect.

And look where we are again.

I like the way you think

If we killed all billionaires now, only more would rise in their place. We need to fix the system that bred these people.

None of them have to worry. None of them are in the US.

That is actually ducking hilarious. It had so many false positives that cops ignored it.

OPFS isn’t in RAM and size limited? That’s crazy! It’s almost as if the idea was to give access to as much data as possible in order to track users.

I thought those didn’t support tool calling. Has that changed?

Health, I assume. If the period is irregular, something might be up. And also, when you’re fucking, it’s good to know if your period isn’t late.

And there are thousands more. I thought it would be cool to learn it too, but finding out they 3 scripts made me give that up. I hope they’ll have a scriptural revolution and make a script to unite them all (and end up with 4 scripts 😅)

Korean’s Hangul script seems more sane from what I remember. But the only reason I’d learn it is because of manhwas. I don’t have the impression that working or living in Korea is in any way pleasurable as a foreigner. And the country is dying too due to their low birthrates.

Use Firefox or chromium.

Anti-GAFAM only reachable via GAFAM networks. Amazing

If they made their language easier to learn, I would. Right now, the idea of memorising a billion symbols doesn’t seem appealing at all.