I don’t know nearly enough history to be an expert on this subject, but I’ve heard that one of the causes of the Enlightenment was because peasants and poors were able to afford to spend time learning and creating, rather than substinance-farming.

Yup, same for me

https://xkcd.com/1129/

I’ve been using the ‘Silence’ app, which lets only known-callers ring your phone. The rest get sent straight to voicemail

I’m not who you replied to but… I’ve run a bunch of models through https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile and https://ollama.com/. I’m lucky enough to have a decent video-card (24GB), but if you are willing to be a bit more paitient, or run a lower model, you’ll probably be able to get it going.

I grew up in California and had the opposite experience. I had friends who grew up speaking Mexican-Spanish at home, and would take the Spanish classes to get an easy A.

The teachers never understood what the Mexican-Spanish students were saying, and kept telling the native speakers that they were doing it wrong.

Honestly, I just block the people who keep repeating that kinds of BS. They aren’t worth my mental energy.

Does that mean I miss out on a bunch of discussions on .world? yes, but not wasting my mental energy on bad-faith arguments is worth it.

Fair enough. I’m sorry to hear all that. I’m lucky enough to have a good tech job, but I’d love to have a good tech job in Sweden instead of here in the US.

I’d love to move to Sweden. Any advice on how to move out there?

I don’t think that’s even remotely true. While it is true that the USA has it’s fair share of racists and sexists, Hillary won the popular vote, and Obama is one of America’s most popular presidents.

Harris lost because she ran a terrible campaign, on the coatails of another terrible campgaign, from a terrible president.

Does Firefox do reproducible builds? This bug report makes me think it doesn’t (at least for Linux): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885777

But maybe they do for Windows/Apple/Android?

Have they considered just asking for money? Also getting rid of the giant holes that they keep pouring their money into?

A lot of people love Firefox, and would happily donate. They could also trim a lot of fat at Mozilla quite easily.

If you liked vimperator, you might like https://qutebrowser.org/

I find it very telling when someone gets mad at the people who couldn’t stomach voting for a genocide, rather than getting mad at the party for running on a pro-genocide platform