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teloli··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
Quitting social media is probably one of the best things you could do to bring stress levels back to normal!
teloli··on Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs
Oh boy do they love the free market!
teloli··on Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools
You should have seen what happened a few years ago during a thing called covid
teloli··on Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing
Or perhaps they try to do what socialists are supposed to be doing, namely giving the people a place where they can live.
teloli··on The Fashion Police in 16th-century Italy (2014)
The idea of Italy as a very specific place is much older than Italy as an independent, unified nation state though. A famous example from Dante’s Inferno: «Sì com’a Pola presso del Carnaro, ch’Italia chiude e i suoi termini bagna» (Inferno, Canto IX, 113-114).
teloli··on What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation
Oh boy am I glad to live in a first world country where this is not an issue.
teloli··on OpenAI deletes ban on using ChatGPT for "military and warfare"
So far, it’s always been the other way round though.
teloli··on A Danish political party led by an AI
> Modern machine learning systems are not based on biological and symbolic rules of old fashioned artificial intelligence, where you could uphold a principle of noncontradiction as you can in traditional logic.

As if politicians had anything to do with noncontradiction.

teloli··on Software and Anarchy (2021) [pdf]
> there is a lot of evil in this world

Maybe, but evil vs good is very subjective and leads to paradoxes like the “anti-capitalist software license” not being usable by one of the most popular examples of anti-capitalism in history, namely the CNT militias in revolutionary Catalonia.

> a bunch of armed hooligans like the police or military

Your hooligan is someone else’s freedom fighter though. /me looks dramatically in the general direction of Kiev

teloli··on Software and Anarchy (2021) [pdf]
With remarkable consistency across space and time, those lists have historically grown from “the capitalists” to “their allies” to “the counter-revolutionaries” to “the enemies of The People“ to “the enemies of The Party”
teloli··on Software and Anarchy (2021) [pdf]
One thing the human race should have learned from history is that once you start restricting individual freedom, you know where you begin but you don't know where you end.

You don't want corporations to use your software, fine, fuck Google. Then one day you find out that the police may use the software, so you add "law enforcement" to the list of fields of endeavor you want to restrict.

Then it's the military, and that's where the definitions get tricky. The "Cooperative Nonviolent Licenses", just as an example, would have probably not been usable by the Anarchist Confederal militias in the Spanish Civil War.

A think tank promoting nuclear energy uses the license, is that fine? How about a neo-nazi nonprofit?

Soon enough the list of groups you don't like is gonna get long.

teloli··on Analogies for Git (2016)
At first I read this as “apologies for git”, that would have been much more interesting
teloli··on Shortest URLs on the Internet
Amazing, instead of "ping 1.1" I can now use "ping ai" and save one character. What a great world we live in.
teloli··on Countering the achievement society (2018)
"Western" was probably used with its economic meaning in mind, as a synonym for "Developed".
teloli··on Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956012
teloli··on Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG
Context and rationale here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956012
teloli··on Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero
Germany
teloli··on Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero
My bank account here in democratic Europe was frozen by the authorities for two weeks due to some taxes they didn’t receive. This shit is terrifying.
teloli··on How far can you go by train in 5h?
Distance alone isn't enough of a reason though, Beijing–Shanghai is 1200 KM and yet you can cover that by train no problem in < 5 hours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing%E2%80%93Shanghai_high-...
teloli··on ACM Digital Library Archive is Open Access with 50 Years of Published Records
And interestingly enough such a landmark paper got rejected initially: http://www.fang.ece.ufl.edu/reject.html
teloli··on SSH Bastion Host Best Practices
If you’re using - say - Debian all over your infra, introducing a whole new OS just for the bastions increases complexity without bringing any significant advantage.
teloli··on Tirana Prosecution to Investigate Alleged Data Leak of More than 630k Albanians
True, the total population is 2.8M though so this is a very significant chunk of the whole country.
teloli··on Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand
What a game they made out of those 6MiB. Constraints foster creativity rather than limiting it.
teloli··on English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
What really helps:

1) Watch movies in English 2) Move abroad, at least for a while 3) If (2) is out of the question, find English-speaking friends and hang out with them as much as possible

Lectures in school, especially when given by non-native teachers, are inferior in terms of costs/benefits when not counterproductive.

teloli··on Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]
It’s hard to find a discipline with “science” in its name that is actually a science.
teloli··on The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying
AND you would get to live in Falkenstein, one of the most exciting places in Europe.
teloli··on New – EC2 Instances (G5) with Nvidia A10G Tensor Core GPUs
The "Remote Workstations" use case is interesting: what kind of software do people use to do that nowadays? Is x2go still a thing?
teloli··on U.S. court upholds dismissal of lawsuit against NSA on 'state secrets' grounds
> Why is it necessary for us to have this authority now when it was not needed in the Civil War or during either World War?

Because now you are an Empire

teloli··on A pair of memory-allocation improvements in Linux 5.13
The kernel allocates memory too, hence an improvement at that level benefits allocations across the board.
teloli··on Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
In the swampy, stinking waters of the river Styx – the Fifth Circle – the actively wrathful fight each other viciously on the surface of the slime, while the sullen (the passively wrathful) lie beneath the water, withdrawn, "into a black sulkiness which can find no joy in God or man or the universe".
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