koonsolo

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by koonsolo 9d ago
I like the small % of nutcases in my country. We also consider disinformation a national security threat. That way a foreign adversary cannot push the public into voting for an incompetent, ignorant and arrogant criminal narcissist. I don&#
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by koonsolo 9d ago
Speech inciting hatred, violence, or plain misinformation is harmful and so should be illegal or restricted.
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by koonsolo 9d ago
Censorship? Do you mean the fact that we hold platforms accountable if they post hate speech or misinformation, or is this something else?
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by koonsolo 9d ago
Good observation. If they are able to keep foreign AI out and stifle small startups with big regulatory upfront costs, they only compete with each other. And if they are all smart, they can keep their prices high and don't compete each
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by koonsolo 11d ago
> But all those political divisions are a result of national politics of those countries. Do you claim that Russia doesn't invest in disinformation campaigns against the West?
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by koonsolo 11d ago
Don't forget the 2014 Vrbětice explosions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrb%C4%9Btice_ammunition_...
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by koonsolo 15d ago
My kids follow STEM here in Belgium, and there were multiple times when I thought "If only I could do those things when I was young". At 12 years old, they get an Arduino and start programming in C. Then over the years they do all
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by koonsolo 21d ago
Do you have any reference to your story? Because this is not the historically accepted one. From Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_III_of_Belgium#World_W... ): "On 24 May 1940, Leopold, having assume
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by koonsolo 1mo ago
Rewriting something from one language to another is not really the height of software development. When you have an extensive testing suite, I would claim it's the ideal scenario for LLM's, next to crunching out small tools and MV
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by koonsolo 1mo ago
Maybe their survey should have asked one question: What is the difference between average and median? More than half would not be able to answer this, and not only in US.
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by koonsolo 1mo ago
A prime minister visiting Russia on victory day, sure sounds like pro-Russia to me. I know plenty of Slovaks, and you can divide them into 2 groups: First group are disgusted that their government is pro-Russia. Second group claims the Ukra
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by koonsolo 1mo ago
That is possible, but I also see people who used to be very anti-Soviet, now to be anti-EU and anti-Ukraine. It's kind of like they hated Russia in the past, but now are convinced that EU and Ukraine are worse. When in the past they wo
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by koonsolo 1mo ago
It wouldn't surprise me if the Russian misinformation inside Slovakia is able to spin this into an anti-EU, anti-Ukraine story.
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by koonsolo 1mo ago
In the case of Slovakia, it's purely Russian misinformation that was able to capture a large part of the population, mainly older people. First anti-EU, then anti-vax, and now anti-Ukraine and anti-EU.
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by koonsolo 1mo ago
Slovakia is heavily influenced by Russian propaganda, which started way before Corona times. It's mainly the older people that are influenced by this, and a lot of young people either left the country already, or have concrete plans to
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by koonsolo 1mo ago
Meanwhile in Belgium (EU), company owners are recovering millions from the US government, possibly up to billion dollars for all of Belgium. Don't assume EU is stupid. https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/08
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by koonsolo 1mo ago
No, coding is more like building. A garden shed can easily be built by an AI. A house? Maybe with supervision. A skyscraper? Good luck with that! And no, garden sheds do not represent 99% of software.
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by koonsolo 2mo ago
So you erode democracy, and now blame capitalism? Hi, Europe chiming in here. We still have proper democracies combined with capitalism, and life is great here. But hey, if you don't like capitalism, go to some country where they don&#
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by koonsolo 2mo ago
It dulls sharp knives, and is very agressive to other materials too.
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by koonsolo 2mo ago
My dishwasher is also super slow and bad at it. But you know what? I still prefer that over doing it myself.
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by koonsolo 2mo ago
Americans are so proud of their 5th amendment. Yet when their country turns into a kleptocracy, nobody does anything.
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by koonsolo 3mo ago
If I remember correctly, it was a pandemic. So yes, everybody contributed, either by getting vaccinated or staying home, your choice.
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by koonsolo 3mo ago
Who is paying for this psyops in Europe, and who is getting paid? Facts and references please.
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by koonsolo 3mo ago
And it all got a nice little push from Russian disinfo, who took the opportunity to discredit governments even more. Why do you think all the anti-vaxxers all of a sudden got pro-Russian and anti-Ukraine? Coincidence?
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by koonsolo 3mo ago
Some people can't take vaccines because of allergic reactions. Other people have weakened immune systems and so the effect of vaccines is low. For those people, it's the group that protects them. But of course you always have self
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by koonsolo 3mo ago
Therefore the COVID vaccines were also not mandatory.
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by koonsolo 3mo ago
In Belgium, the polio vaccine is mandatory, and rightly so. I'm willing to bet that in the next 20 years, some kid in the western world will suffer the consequences of polio, because of the anti-vax lunatics.
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by koonsolo 3mo ago
So yes if you can't back away.
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by koonsolo 3mo ago
> Most still don't think about guns or shooting first. You base this on what? I know plenty of gun owners where I live, and most would pull open their safe the moment they hear something during the night. I'm willing to bet mos
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by koonsolo 3mo ago
No it is not. Europeans can have guns, and there was a recent case in Belgium where such a thing happened.

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