9/11/2001

“What? The twin towers have already been destroyed? Is it November the 9th? Oh, it must be one of those pesky european time maschines that got month and day backwards.”

Is this a real thing?

Suddenly I need that to be a real fanfic.

NFP was doomed all along. The capitalist system wouldn’t allow for a left-wing government, especially now that it feels so unstable and endangered, and it certainly had the means to change the government without meddling with the election results.

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“In the Future, people won’t have to deal with numbers, for the mighty computers will do all the numbers crunching for them”

The mighty computers:

People who make fun of LLMs most often do get LLMs and try to point out how they tend to spew out factually incorrect information, which is a good thing since many many people out there do not, in fact, “get” LLMs (most are not even acquainted with the acronym, referring to the catch-all term “AI” instead) and there is no better way to make a precaution about the inaccuracy of output produced by LLMs –however realistic it might sound– than to point it out with examples with ridiculously wrong answers to simple questions.

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That book cover looks really cool

Here in Greece we have raging wildfires for yet another summer, one enormous fire (30km 40km wide) raging so close to the capital the smoke has enveloped the sky in many parts of the city, and the lib government praises itself over its “quick reaction time”. Very few precautions have been taken since last year, so now fire fighters are risking their lives to contain the crisis, working for more than 24h in a row, unfortunately without much success. Some buildings (mainly houses) have already been burnt by the fire, fortunately no casualties for now.

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Is this the RSS we’re talking about? https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/National_Volunteer_Organisation

Thanks for sharing! This mostly mirrors my own short experience in PRC (a short visit to Shanghai). Can’t wait for a chance to visit China again!

Nature, technology, buildings, culture, the museums, the people, just about everything is amazing.

Some problems I encountered as a non-Chinese person, and tips to overcome them, for anyone interested in visiting China to be ready for:

1. Connecting to the Internet, even to Wi-Fi, requires verification with a Chinese SIM card. I didn’t care to get one in time so I was mostly offline for much of the time.
2. Many people, especially older people, don’t know foreign languages, esp. English. You can use the great voice recognition translator in the AliPay app, but you need Internet for that.
3. Don’t forget to bring an adaptor for the power outlets!

Also, for anyone who wants to buy theory books in PRC: unfortunately literature in foreign languages seems extremely scarce, since the vast majority of books is of course in Chinese. Only once did I find an English translation of Xi’s works.

I like the simplicity of openrc and runit, they are as stable as a rock and their functions are easy to grasp. Systemd, on the other hand, while I can understand some of the motivation behind it, it still seems like a bad idea and an even worse implementation. In my experience –and I do understand that this might not be the case for many users– it and its modules has been the cause for some really cryptic bugs that took me valuable time to resolve, and which would not have occurred if it was just a init/service management system. On the contrary, openrc just does one job, and does it well. Haven’t much experience with BSD but heard they are rock solid too.

This needs to be a real command.

Regardless of political subtext, I found Master and Margarita a fun read. Nevertheless, Heart of a Dog of the same author was not pleasant to read.

Soviet literature was not worse than the works of pre-Revolution authors and ranged across many genres, from socialistic realism works to fantasy (Soviet sci-fi was great) and also many children books that are loved till this day. Unfortunately, same with other kinds of works, Soviet literature is disregarded by the West, as are many works that don’t conform to the Western values.

Not surprising in the least, what else would they use their base on Cyprus for? Surely not for any good.

Cyprus is in a convenient geographical position in the region and it is safe to assume it has been widely used to monitor the situation and collect intelligence on the Gazan conflict.

Yes, it is a good start to understand the dogmatical stance of the Greek CP, as well as other parties under its influence (see the ProleWiki article on IMCWP: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/International_Meeting_of_Communist_and_Workers'_Parties)

A good resource to watch on the activity of KKE and parties that it collaborates with is SolidarityNet, check it out: http://www.solidnet.org/home/

Package “linux” is already the newest version.

Well, nothing too bad with that, actually. It works, doesn’t it?

I assume newer aircrafts will get an update and use a more modern medium though.

That sounds nice and all, but the relationship between time and labour is not linear. So one might put in more effort than another in the same amount of time. Therefore, there are some limitations in using time as such a metric.