I’m happy to stand corrected given my very limited medical knowledge.

That said, old mate obviously wasn’t too concerned about it given that he forewent treatment.

Ok so everyone is entitled to basic rights, but if you’re a Trump voter my sympathy gets turned way the fuck down.

If I’m reading the article correctly, the guy suffers from high blood pressure and as such he should avoid excessive stress. He asked for medical treatment but when told that he would be under guard at the hospital and then returned to detention for questioning after he recovered he declined treatment.

I’m not a doctor but my understanding of high blood pressure as a chronic illness is that it’s a long term game. High pressure on your arteries and heart over many years increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. It’s less relevant as a short term problem.

To point out the obvious, this guy was very happy for Trump to be mean to everyone else, just didn’t think he was included.

Nextcloud really does feel old.

I think they set up their own discord server now.

Guy, everyone operates off their own limited experience.

LibreOffice has user defined functions that work just fine. You’re just illustrating my point really.

Doesn’t the message you received basically say the graphene devs don’t want it discussed in /r/privacy ?

If I were involved in a project with any sort of following I wouldn’t want it discussed in a large, general, subreddit either. If it is, you either need to engage with people there to minimise any misinformation, or you just have to let people spread nonsense about your product.

That said, asking why /r/privacy exists when the devs of privacy-related projects don’t want to participate is a good question. The answer is, the mods are fief lords who would rather preside over a sham than nothing at all.

Honestly, I can’t think of any good reason to be a moderator of /r/privacy on reddit

It sounds like you’re talking the ability of ms office products to open documents authored by libreoffice.

I have no way to evaluate whether these claims are true. Pretty much verbatim what people say about libreoffice.

Can I ask your perspective on the comments here saying that Krita and Inkscape just aren’t comparable to their commercial alternatives?

The reason is… I’m not a professional graphic designer, I have a small consultancy with several staff and work with documents and spreadsheets all day.

Occasionally I encounter similar threads discussing the difference between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office, and the comments are all the same. So many people saying LibreOffice just “isn’t there yet”, or that it might be ok for casual use but not for power users.

But as someone who uses LibreOffice extensively with a broad feature set I’ve just never encountered something we couldn’t do. Sure we might work around some rough edges occasionally, but the feature set is clearly comparable.

My strongly held suspicion is that it’s a form of the dunning-kruger effect. People have a lot of experience using software-A so much so that they tend to overlook just how much skill and knowledge they have accumulated with that specific software. Then when they try software-B they misconstrue their lack of knowledge with that specific software as complexity.

Well it makes people feel like they’ve done something.

Well it gives everyone the opportunity to blindly believe everything will be better because it’s not twitter.

Yeah there’s that one guy that appears in every thread about bluesky saying that it really is an open and decentralised protocol even if only one corporation uses it in a centralised way.

Everyone needs allies, and having allies doesn’t necessarily reduce one’s independence, although admittedly you need to navigate some relationships deftly to maintain that.

It’s this “soft power” that the US has enjoyed for many decades that Trump has discarded because it just doesn’t translate in his transactional view of world politics.

What has Malaysia ever done for the US? Maybe nothing, but at least they didn’t think that the US were complete idiots that are trying to bully everyone with economic warfare from the 1700’s. Now that cat is out of the bag of course you’re going to draw closer to China, you’d be mad not to.

They could also be working with aid organisations, and they’re almost certainly bringing money with them.

I fear this is a poorly considered retaliation.

I don’t think there’s really any evidence of that.

I’m sure they were mindful of the potential applications, in the same way that we’re mindful of the potential for orbital solar arrays and asteroid mining.

The Wright brothers didn’t have a fucking destination they were just trying to fly.

They’re not really ignoring him though. They’ve discontinued exports of rare earth and are dumping debt. It’s a calculated strategic response to capitalise on an epic mistake.

There wouldn’t be much point merely stopping export to the US because some other country could just on-sell to the US.

He really doesn’t understand his precarious position and the harm he has done and is doing.

It depends what purpose that paperwork is intended for.

If the regulatory paperwork it’s managing is designed to influence behaviour, perhaps having an LLM do the work will make it less effective in that regard.

Learning and understanding is hard work. An LLM can’t do that for you.

Sure it can summarise instructions for you to show you what’s more pertinent in a given instance, but is that the same as someone who knows what to do because they’ve been wading around in the logs and regs for the last decade?

It seems like, whether you’re using an LLM to write a business report, or a legal submission, or a SOP for running a nuclear reactor, it can be a great tool but requires high level knowledge on the part of the user to review the output.

As always, there’s a risk that a user just won’t identify a problem in the information produced.

I don’t think this means LLMs should not be used in high risk roles, it just demonstrates the importance of robust policies surrounding their use.

That’s what I was thinking.

Nothing wrong with boobs, but why put them on your tailgate?