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Cake day: June 29th, 2025

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  • Democracy is supposed to ensure as good as possible that everyone’s interests are considered. For example those of the people affected by sewage, which might not affect the experts you’d like to be in control. Also, after what you wrote, I don’t trust you to judge who is an actual expert with good intentions to put in charge. And you likely don’t trust me with this either. So we should probably have the same say. And if the experts in charge would at some point be (as they already somewhat are) the CEOs of AI companies, you would probably also like to have a say, just as everyone else.

    AI usage for this comment: DeepL and the translator in DuckDuckGo for spelling and translation, e.g. of “sewage” and “convulsing” (what the heck is this last half sentence you wrote there, btw?)


  • All of this is intelligence in my opinion. It may be far less intelligent than some human, but it still is (impressively, in my opinion) intelligent for a computer. Obviously, intelligence is very hard to define precisely. But LLMs can solve some nontrivial problems they have never seen before in that exact form and without existence of a clear algorithm to find a solution. And it even has some utility in many cases, as the comment describes. This is clearly intelligence. Even if it may not hold up to some promises made about them or people using it in inappropriate ways.

    Btw., your original comment is very antidemocratic, as you demand to exclude groups of people from decisions, just because you don’t like what they think!




    1. I usually do the updates in the evening when turning off my laptop. I click “update all” (or so) and then choose “shut down” in the selection that appears at the bottom. Then I can leave the laptop and it will automatically reboot to install the updates and then shut down completely.
    2. Yes, that number of updates is normal
    3. I don’t know of a way to (un)select specific “system”-packages within Discover
    4. The updates are usually fine. I can’t think of any case where a routine update caused trouble for me. I prefer getting the security updates (and other improvements) quickly. Just once, I intentionally delayed the updates for a few days before an important deadline, where I needed my computer to work and wouldn’t have had the time to deal with issues


  • I’ve last seen it last month. And I have an old chat, where FluffyChat and (“old”) Element show all messages by now, but Element X can’t decrypt many and both Elements report that they can’t guarantee the authenticity of many messages (even my own). For a long time, my chat partner could only read messages I sent via FluffyChat but not those sent by Element. I have not checked if that is still the case.