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I guess the only thing that reads most of those is one poor regexec(3) in a loop.

NixOS is definitely not as corporate as MacOS or ChromeOS. It's also not as mainstream as RHEL. I'd say RHEL should be one square to the right, NixOS should go where RHEL is now, and Guix should share the square with Gentoo.

In the previous century japan and germany were strong contenders. This time around it's closely contended by israel and russia as a distant third.

From what I understand there sadly has been a more conservative shift from the government in recent years. I don't think there are any openly discriminatory laws, but LGBT media is being censored, dating apps are removed from appstores, etc. I feel like it's another case of severe overreaction to a threat of "western influence", similar to Xinjang.

To be fair the (real and sometimes horrifying) human rights abuses of modern-day China kinda pale in comparison to what the US is doing (and has been doing since its founding), so I think on balance it's good that more people support it over the imperialist hegemon.

To be honest most popular youtube channels are slop, whether they are AI or not. There are a lot of gems in there as well, but their monetization model pushes creators towards high-quantity low-quality content with clickbait.

This seems to be an opt-in, user-supplied field that apps can use to implement parental controls easier. If you're gonna do birth dates at all, this is the way.

But IMO it should be more granular: there should be fields for WWW access, social media access, sex/nudity/violent content, and apps should respect those individually. Then parents can choose what is appropriate for their child at their development level.

Hey, Stalin (for all his many flaws and awful decisions) industrialized the country and lead the war to victory over nazism.

Trump is worse, he has literally zero redeeming achievements.

If you vibe-code it and use an LLM to respond to reviews, it is really easy to tell.

If you know what you're doing and just using an LLM to speed up boilerplate writing, honestly who cares. It is technically copyright infringement but so many people are doing it that it's not likely to be a problem.

I think this policy is overblown a bit. A better policy is "you need to understand, and be responsible for, what every part of your contribution does". Enough to tell lazy vibecoders to fuck off, and allows for some flexibility in your tooling.

Russia did some pretty bad stuff in Ukraine (including some war crimes) but nowhere near the hell on earth unleashed by the US every few years. The civilian death toll in Ukraine war in 3 years is less than any single year of the Gaza genocide.

China did overreact to uighur nationalist terror groups with unnecessary searches, arrests, and reeducation camps, but it's not even closely comparable to the other two.

US is by far the shittiest most evil country on this planet, and until you come to terms with this and internalize it, you're (a small) part of the problem.

You know that you can just get a visa, go there, and talk to people there, right? Or watch many of the interviews from reporters (western or otherwise) who went there already. It's not like NK where you can only visit certain pre-approved areas with a "tour guide" either, in Cuba you can go whenever you want (within reason) and talk to whomever you want.

Chat, is this real?...