You have no basis for that claim. Following the Roman Empire, the most powerful nation on earth has been different every century. The US has already been on top for two centuries, it would be a statistical outlier at this point for it to remain that way for much longer. And if you’ve been paying attention at all, the US has almost completely eroded its soft power, is already running a deficit that would kill any other country, and is now adding the full cost of its illegal tariffs and at least one more war in the middle east to its bill.

It is looking supremely unlikely that the US will be able to call itself a superpower in a few decades.

So in other words, the next 40 years will look just like the last 1500.

The headline made me think for a second that there was a company called “Dystopic”. I thought, well at least they know…

The number of die-hard MAGA supporters is not much lower than that.

Let the little children come to me. And do not forbid them, for such is the kingdom of heaven.

The church is just unrecognizable from how I was raised. But I do suspect it will be a religious push, not a scientific one, that sees us on the other side of all this. That’s just how humans do.

I’ve not heard of those, but to me this is a competitor to the much more ubiquitous Obsidian. Which works great, and has a whole community of support, but is not open source.

Personally, I don’t need my notes app not be responsible for syncing across devices either. I already have that for other file types (photos, media, etc).

I’m not against these features being added, but this app is young, afaik it’s one person writing it, so I’d rather see their time be spent making the note taking experience as good as it can be.

I also generally wouldn’t trust one person to properly audit the security of the networking and encryption features. If I wanted those features, I’d still give the community time to peruse the codebase.

I think it makes sense to handle this at a lower level. After using other notes apps, the thing I want is for it to not have some arbitrary opaque file hierarchy that locks me into it. I want a plain dir of .md files, some resources they link to, and that’s it. If I want disk encryption, there are solutions for that. I can use something like LUKs to encrypt my whole drive, or even just the notes directory.

For android, afaik everything uses disk encryption by default.

The unix philosophy is do one thing really well. We don’t need a note taking app that also handles encryption.

No one has ever gone out of their way to run windows. At least not in 25y.

That seems as reasonable as suggesting they could pass a law requiring everyone to hire a govt licensed computer user in order to interact with their devices, and otherwise touching a keyboard or touchscreen would be illegal.

It doesn’t feel like a realistic estimation of what they would actually try to do. There’s too much that is currently dependent on Linux, you’d do better to just dismantle and ban the internet.

I mean no, the article is literally saying that he claims the DoW agreed to all the same terms that Anthropic laid out. Which if true, would objectively not be selling out. But yes, something isn’t adding up.

Doesn’t even make sense. Virtually all Linux distros can function completely offline. How do you do age verification completely offline? Classic politician who doesn’t understand tech trying to look like they’re doing something to save the kids.

Yes, once more. And once more after that. Never stop pushing back in every way possible, because that’s the only option we have.

The things media outlets will come up with to not say “fascist”…

Sure. In a year.

I also got it back in early 2020 when doctors still said, “it can’t be covid, you haven’t been to china”. Now I have the same thing happen as you describe, but I legit don’t know if it’s covid or just getting older. I remember my dad always used to do the same thing when I was a kid, calling things by approximately, but not quite exactly the right term. We always thought it was funny, how his memory could be so close yet so far like that. Now it happens to me all the time. Names of restaurants, actors, random words.

One up side of LLMs is they’re actually pretty decent at figuring out the word I’m thinking of from the description I can manage. The other day I was trying to remember the word “ambitious”, and searched Google for “word that starts with A that means biting off more than you can chew”. The normal results didn’t have it, so I tried AI assist and it got it immediately. Also, in trying to recall this story, I forgot the word again and had to do the exact same exercise :/

I kinda hope it’s not long term covid and just normal getting older shit…

“Busted” implying anything will happen to them.

Damn…any good forks of bcache yet?

If your bank is legally required to unilaterally take your wealth from you at the whim of Trump, everyone with wealth will put it elsewhere. Historically, bank runs are much harder to stop than start.

The same concern looms over govts threatening to sieze accounts that belong to the Kremlin over Ukraine. If anyone does it, they are implicitly signaling to their other clients that their funds are not safe from political strife.

Ahem, you forgot the Console Wars

No, candy.