When will Westerners realize that the common characture of the brainwashed, thought controlled, information controlled, constantly surveiled citizen that we attribute to China/The USSR/etc… IS US?! You clutch your pearls at people in other countries potentially being treated like that but are inclined to do nothing about OUR OWN countries treating US like that.

IDK how common this is, but there are stories of companies that make you work on real production code in the interview. Basically suckering you into free work before they give the position to the boss’s cousin or something.

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“I can oppose both capitalism and communism!”

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Only opposes communism

Same in Canada. But switch the red and blue colours and our party names are more on the nose (Conservative/Liberal vs Republican/Democrat)

Something something white exemption from the Geneva Conventions.

These are the same companies who insist on kernel mode anticheat

Something tells me it was never about “the integrity of the game.”

It’s banned in a lot of European countries AFAIK.

Should be banned in every country with decent public education. Unless you have a formal education background you have no business formally educating anyone. Everyone has stories of things their parents taught them that turned out to be total bullshit and they only found out because they went to actual school.

First time I’ve seen CAMM memory in a real product. Pretty cool, but not sure if I prefer it to traditional DIMM slots though.

But the removable ports are a fucking godsend. So sick of a broken port making an entire motherboard unusable.

Honestly the only thing more I can ask for is for the battery to be on the outside of the case (like old school laptops) so you can replace it without opening it which not everyone is comfortable with doing. Otherwise this is really good. The only thing stopping me from buying this laptop is the fact that my current 6 year old Lenovo still works perfectly after I replaced the battery (honestly Thinkpads have always been pretty repairable, this is going above and beyond).

Is this satire or real? Genuinely can’t tell because every real AI Bro startup reads like satire.

Oh yay the UN EXPERT has spoken. Problem solved.

2026 is that unicorn from Cabin in the Woods

Unhinged rant for your entertainment: Woz was the visionary in that he designed all the early Apple computers and made the technical innovations that made Apple a company in the first place. Jobs was a vibes giver that made demands, not products. I fucking hate people who call people in tech who did almost none of the engineering the “visionaries” behind the brand. Like, no, any idiot can make something look pretty and marketable, unless that same idiot made it actually work they didn’t do shit. And he inspired an entire generation of “entrepeneurs” who think their one page “idea” (which god forbid you ever need to ask them to clarify any details on) makes them smarter and superior to the workers who produced hundreds of thousands of pages of planning and prototyping, engineering drawings, code, etc etc, and did the actual QA testing to ensure they weren’t shipping sleek looking paperweights. And yet they talk down to those workers and demand they worship them. YOU should be worshipping the people who actually turned your prized idea from useless words and vibes to a real product you can actually sell, they made YOUR dream come true. Jobs should be the kind of people AI replaces, yet it’s people like Woz that are losing their jobs.

Raise > promotion

I can’t manage people, don’t want to manage people, taking me out of an engineering/development position to be a manager would literally be hell on Earth for me and probably anyone under me. Keep me at the same position doing the same thing and just pay me more the better I get at it. But that’s not how pretty much any Western company works, worse, they look at your promotion record when deciding who to lay off, not your actual work record, and staying in the same position for too long automatically labels you as a failure.

Interestingly I’ve gotten the 32B (IIRC) local Deepseek R1 model to say it’s Claude as well (in English).

IDK if it’s indicative of distillation or “model theft” though (how do you distill a closed model like Claude?) And why would them training on prompt responses from Claude also carry the name over unless Claude says its name every time? From my uneducated guess it’s probably more of an indication that LLMs don’t actually know anything and the information they’re trained on mentions every AI model so they just randomly “pick” the most commonly mentioned ones for what they think they are if you don’t tell them. Deepseek is a common Chinese model so it’s probably associated with asking names of models in Chinese, same with Claude and English.

Even if true, just block them wtf? Vibe coders don’t understand server side access controls.

You don’t get it. Demo as in demolition. Rule by demolition.

Are there no anarchist books? I’m pretty sure there are and anarchy doesn’t mean willful ignorance.

You can be criticized for “lack” of support on the absolute scale but still be the ones providing the most support because every other country is doing fuckall.

0. We’re just exercising Western freedom of speech.

1. Russia’s not socialist. Either you still think Russia is the USSR or you’re insinuating every socialist is apparently a Russian shill.

2. This might surprise you, but immigrating to socialist countries like China, Cuba, Vietnam, etc from the West is not as simple “just buy a plane ticket there.” They’re not exactly crazy about a bunch of Westerners moving there after all the West has done to them. You don’t get to “just move” to whatever country you want, you have engage with their immigration system, get a visa, get a work permit, etc etc, you know, the same things immigrants to the West need to do.

3. Even if you do all that, you’re still not entitled to immigrate to a country just because you want to or because you ideologically align with them. You generally need to have a skill that the country you’re immigrating to has a demand for and can’t fill with its own population before they’ll let you move there, you know, exactly like how immigration to the West works. I’m sure there are MANY people here that would love to live in a socialist country. Physically being able to go there is not the barrier for them.