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Border Patrol Drones now using LLM-based “Predictive Empathy” to screen migrants. Ethical lapse or necessary evil?

🚨 Cloudflare Outage Day 14: Only 5 Sites Still Online. This Is Not a Drill.

Voyager 1’s final official ping confirmed, exactly 60 years after launch. 🫡 Farewell, old friend.

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Yes, of course he is a racist. Not too long ago he went on a 20 minute rant about “DEI” (which is a racist code word for people of color) and the Debian Project. He is also anti-lgbtqia, sexist, and ablist. He consistently deadnames and misgenders trans people. He is an all around bigoted asshole who does nothing good in this world and spends the majority of his existence spreading hate and misinformation.

Sources:
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-linux-doesnt-want-straight
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/elementary-os-is-imploding?s=r

Edit: typo

How to tell people you are a racist without telling people you are a racist, associate in any way with Lunduke.

I drink alcohol maybe once per year and I’ve never touched weed. I feel joy when I am around people and animals whom I love.

Another reason not to use vanilla Firefox.

How funny, I am in the south too.

bricks

I’m happy with 1080p content. I have a 4k TV and from the couch I can’t see a difference. I would be perfectly happy with a bargain 4k TV, bigger the better.

It is shitty in many ways. First, I view videogames as art (because they are art) and taking out the human element just makes them a product created by a machine. Coding is a form of human expression. I understand the capitalist urge not to pay people, but replacing people with AI is a moral wrong. Microsoft, for example, after purchasing many studios over the past few years, has fired over 15,000 people in 2025 alone, despite making record profits and charging us more for new games.

I would be terrified if I were a full-time coder. Like many other occupations, programming jobs are in jeopardy. I would be considering other fields or specializations because these corporations plan to replace them all. Google already is saying that more 25% of their code is written by ai. That will only increase and bleed over to game development.

Second, by forcing the development timeline by basically any means necessary, you are creating an inferior product. Just throwing a game in early access because it isn’t complete isn’t a good solution and there are hundreds of games currently in that status. Personally, I avoid anything that is early access, with a few exceptions. I get the point in the article about making games with lesser graphics, which I am fine with if the project warrants it, but it feels like these companies don’t care what the product is as long as it sells. They are going to create ai-slop and charge us more for it. This is how the AAA industry dies.

Sources:

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/in-new-memo-microsoft-ceo-addresses-enigma-of-layoffs-amid-record-profits-and-ai-investments/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24282757/google-new-code-generated-ai-q3-2024

The enshittification of videogames.

What you are experiencing is called a learning curve. Don’t let it get you angry, learn from it. NVIDIA is known to be problematic for Linux users (I have had my share of issues with my 2080 Ti) but once it is setup it is problem free. Librewolf is known to be one of the chunkier options, but 3gb really isn’t that much for modern systems (especially if you have 16 or 32gb of memory). I would personally take Librewolf’s privacy features over closed-source Vivaldi any day. Linux overall is much more efficient than Windows and I would bet that your system idle memory usage with nothing open is lower than it was with Windows.

That is an older laptop. I run an even older HP laptop on Arch that still feels zippy, even compared to my gaming desktop pc. One thing to remember is POP_OS! is designed for newer computers as it is built by a company who sells them. There are known issues with POP_OS! and Mesa drivers. The Mesa driver might not be efficiently handling the graphical demands of the default POP_OS! desktop. I’m not suggesting to switch your distro, just keep in mind going forward that it is made for newer systems.

Some further troubleshooting you can try:

• Check for Driver Updates: Ensure the system is fully up-to-date by running sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade in the terminal .
• Use a system monitor tool like htop, btop or the built-in system monitor to see if the CPU or RAM is maxing out when opening a program.
• Check for Overheating: Check if the laptop feels unusually warm. This could indicate a need to clean the cooling vents and fan.

Welcome to the GNU/Linux family! Your desktop setup is lovely! I highly approve of the use of Librewolf. Pop_OS! is a great choice choice for a new GNU/Linux user. As for your system feeling slower, you might be missing something. Can you share some of the basic specs, like cpu/ram and/or brand/model of the laptop? What feels slow, the internet or the actual loading/power of the system?

While I get what you’re saying, it is technically legal in the United States under an exception in the 13th amendment as punishment for a crime.

See more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States

I could understand if it smelled like swamp-ass (sweat) from sitting there too long, especially in a chair made of faux leather, but it shouldn’t smell like poop.