Good question.

I’m not sure if anyone has created a list. There’s several Wikipedia articles about SDR, including comparison lists, but AFAIK they don’t have pricing information.

Basic habit to get into:

If you’re contemplating doing something destructive, do a dry-run first.

In this case, remove the -delete flag, run the command and see what you get.

A good approach is to build a command step by step and test your assumptions each iteration.

Things might take a few moments longer, but one day it’s going to save your bacon.

As for unexpected globbing, learn the difference between quoted and unquoted, and single versus double quotes.

Source: Linux user for 25+ years

I figured that a good percentage of the delivery robots would simply “disappear” from the map and be rebirthed as battle bots in some arena with chainsaw accessories.

Firefox Focus with AdGuard DNS

Nice!

Wow, smugness and libbed up … not sure how, but there’s nothing quite like playing the person, not the ball.

I see no working example of Communism anywhere on Earth, plenty of semi-dictatorships that claim to be communist and so far not particularly welcoming for human rights or gender equality, never mind quality of life.

The pedophiles that were voted in by their constituents.

Responding to what I thought was a genuine question with what I thought was a genuine answer.

Technically that’s already the case, we vote in elections and we have courts.

However, a significant proportion of the electorate is swayed by the promise of something, without any real means of enforcing it, other than the next election, which starts the cycle again.

Having shorter election cycles might look attractive, but we’re already dealing with election driven policy, shorter cycles would make it worse, not to mention the massive increase in cost for running more elections.

We already know that dictatorships don’t work for anyone other than the dictator, but we still elect people who want nothing short of their own immortality and permanent leadership.

Do we need to improve things, sure, but we’re dealing with something that goes back at least as far as Plato.

Here’s an article exploring the quote that Democracy is the least worst form of Government.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/12/08/democracy-worst/

Have you considered sharing the configuration as a CSV?

As for installing chirp, I’m pretty sure that it’s packaged for Ubuntu in the repository, rather than attempting to install the latest version from the source.

That depends on how much you value privacy, it’s not a question I can answer.

At the rate Microsoft is going, by the time we set up a community on Mars, everyone will have migrated to Linux 😁

Given its history and ongoing lawsuits and investigations, I think that you might want to reconsider your perspective on privacy.

Privacy is like a chain, the weakest link is the end of it.

In my opinion, while there are serious concerns about Google, they pale into insignificance when compared with META.

I’d be less worried about the Play store and more worried about WhatsApp, but that’s just me.

Let me ask you this.

If the LLM instance doesn’t talk to anyone, you’re right, but there seems little point in building an instance that talks to nobody.

This leaves us with an instance that does talk to other instances, presumably responding to posts, making its own and subscribing to communities. This already costs money for each “touched” instance.

At that point the administrator of an instance that doesn’t want to federated with the LLM instance, has to defederate from it, updating their instance and then still getting access requests from the LLM instance when it attempts to do the reply, post, community thing as described before.

Even us discussing the phenomenon right now takes server resources across the fediverse.

In other words, as I said, there is always a cost to everyone.

I understand.

My point didn’t state that all instances would be affected equally, just that there’s an effect everywhere.

All of them.

You don’t need to go to Mars to deal with timezones … plenty of people right here who have absolutely no idea that half the planet is dark at any one time and still schedule global events in their colloquial timezone rather than UTC.

If you care enough about privacy to not have the Google Play store installed, what on earth posesses you to have WhatsApp anywhere near your phone?

Microsoft … the poster child for Linux migration

If it’s free, you’re the product.