I really like fish because it has excellent contextual autocomplete based on the folder you’re in. I haven’t used any other shell that was as good at it.

Would be very cool to see Ubuntu on these chips that are similar to Apple M series design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V68RE0M8zhk

Saw that, totally can’t imagine how any of that is going to backfire.

Sure, but finding more partners is crucial for long term survival, so if Mozilla never reaches out to anybody for fear of offending Google then they’re always gonna be stuck in this sort of abusive relationship. Becoming so reliant on Google in the first place shouldn’t have happened, but it’s better to start fixing that sooner than later. It’s also worth noting that the main reason Google funds FF is to protect themselves from antitrust litigation. As long as FF is around and gets a bit of usage, then Google can point to it to say that Chrome isn’t a browser monopoly.

The fact that Mozilla is so dependent on Google is the actual problem here, diversifying where they get funding from is precisely what they should be doing going forward.

I just got this set up with fish locally, and it really is nice. Works completely seamlessly, and makes it very easy to comb through history.

I’ve used GPT4All, and it’s one of the easier ones to get up and running I found. Everything just works out of the box.

Sure, but it’s still more work than a web UI, and using a web UI is a lot more flexible. For example, say you want to render a chart or some other visualization. It’s trivial to do with a web UI, but can be a tricky problem with native widgets, especially if you want to keep the UX consistent across platforms. I agree that using React Native can work fine in a lot of cases, but I can also understand the appeal of using the web UI stack. Another aspect is likely familiarity, people use the tools they know, and if somebody is already comfortable with a particular ecosystem they’re likely to leverage it.

The disadvantage with React Native is that you still have to maintain a UI for each platform because it maps to native widgets while a web UI works the same on every platform.

It really does because Google happens to control the browser that now dominates the market by a wide margin, and it’s using it’s monopoly position to break the internet. It’s incredible that people can’t understand the problem with this.

This goes against all the fundamental principles of how the Internet is supposed to work.

I don’t disagree, but as you point out in the context of Ubuntu Core the decision makes sense and snap does the job.

Snap makes a lot of sense for desktop apps in my opinion. There’s a conceptual difference between system level packages that you install using something like APT, and applications. Applications should be managed at the user layer while the base system should provide all the common libraries and APIs.

It’s also worth noting that this is a similar approach to what MacOS has been doing for ages with .app bundles where any shared libraries and assets are packaged together in the app folder. The approach addresses a lot of the issues you see with shared libraries such as having two different apps that want different versions of a particular library.

The trade off is that you end up using a bit more disk space and memory, but it’s so negligible that the benefits of having apps being self-contained far outweigh these downsides.

Class relationships have not fundamentally changed in the past century, and much of the writing directly applies to our society today. In fact, it’s the clearest and most lucid explanation of what we’re seeing around us. Furthermore, there have been plenty of people, such as Parenti, who have been building on these works and modernizing it. You keep talking like modern explanations of ML theory don’t exist when they’re readily available.

It’s true that young people are becoming disillusioned by capitalism because the system is becoming increasingly unbearable. However, that’s a very recent phenomenon. Meanwhile, even on Lemmy which is pretty far left from the mainstream there are plenty of people running around defending capitalism. Most people in the west can’t even define what capitalism or socialism is, and they take western system for granted.

What’s more is that majority of people who are discontent have no idea what to do about it. People vent their anger online and grumble, but they have no idea what to do to actually improve their conditions.

If you can offer a home, healthy food, medical care, and education at 32 work hours per week, you are sold to almost everyone in the US.

These things aren’t possible under the current system because it’s designed by capitalist to facilitate exploitation of the workers. The only way to change things is for workers to tear the system down and build a new one from ground up. There are no signs of that happening in the foreseeable future.

You are correct that the published data indicates an overall decrease, just not as much as originally claimed. And you’re of course right to say that a leaked report alone with a general statement regarding poverty increase isn’t necessarily convincing. However, there is a lot of other indirect evidence showing that the poverty problems in India are quite dire today. Massive farmer protests are one example, increasingly volatile political environment is another. There are also lots of articles discussing lack of investment in the social safety net in India. All of this does not paint a picture of a country where there is any meaningful poverty reduction happening.

I acknowledge that there is conflicting evidence in the article I linked though.

Communists today are using all the same materials and asking people to read works like The State and Revolution, the Manifesto, and so on. I’m not sure what you think is so different about messaging today from the messaging in the past. From what I can tell the problem isn’t the messaging, but the fact that most people in the west have been generally happy to keep capitalism and ignore its problems.

Notice that the revolutions failed to spread to the west at the start of the 20th century as well, despite the great messaging. Germany came close, but ultimately socdems, libs, and fascists closed ranks to strangle the revolutionary movement. Same happened in France, Italy, Spain, and Greece.

I’m starting to get the impression that you didn’t actually read the article. It talks about poverty decreasing using the numbers that are publicly available from India while also pointing out the following:

The survey data leaked to the media showed that poverty had increased in India. Without official data on poverty in a country hosting the largest number of poor in the world, agencies were not able to make an exact estimate of global poverty, whose eradication is the Sustainable Development Goal 1 to be achieved by 2030.

It’ also concludes that India contributed to an overall poverty increase globally which is another indirect indicator of poverty actually increasing there:

With the addition of India’s new poverty data to the global system, the number of poor has increased. “The global poverty headcount in 2018 is revised slightly up from 8.7 to 8.9 per cent,” says the World Bank, adding, “The 2017 PPPs (purchasing power parities) by themselves reduce global poverty, which is more than offset by the new estimates for India that increase global poverty.”

Hope that helps.

Let’s be honest, you would’ve been saying that communist messaging sucks when the Soviet revolution happened too. You would’ve dismissed Lenin with the same smug insults. Yet, that’s the kind of messaging that got people organized, educated, and mobilized to carry out a revolution. If ML messaging actually sucked then it wouldn’t have resulted in many successful revolutions.

So, what part am I misquoting. Do be clear. As far as I can tell, you are saying that I’m wrong because you believe the numbers indicating poverty decrease in India despite the fact that India hides the actual numbers. That’s your argument is it not?

Seems that reading the article critically is what you refer to as misquoting.

So, just to be clear. You’re saying we should accept that poverty reduction is happening in India despite the fact that they hide their numbers. Did I get that right?