Just for the benefit of other readers, Notepadqq is one of the alternatives for Linux. However, there are a few features I really wanted from Notepad++, so I have installed it using wine. No problems there. Hopefully some day we'll see a Linux release.
Australis13
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This makes me suspect that the LLM has noticed the pattern between fascist tendencies and poor cybersecurity, e.g. right-wing parties undermining encryption, most of the things Musk does, etc.
Here in Australia, the more conservative of the two larger parties has consistently undermined privacy and cybersecurity by implementing policies such as collection of metadata, mandated government backdoors/ability to break encryption, etc. and they are slowly getting more authoritarian (or it's becoming more obvious).
Stands to reason that the LLM, with such a huge dataset at its disposal, might more readily pick up on these correlations than a human does.
Trump seems to be driven only by one thing - what he directly gets out of it. Programs that help other people don't directly benefit him, so why keep them?
This is one of the ways in which it is abundantly clear that the Trump Administration (Trump himself, Musk and a lot of others) are incredibly stupid. They do not understand the concept of soft power at all.
Honestly, I can't blame them.
We were already headed for a dystopian future. Trump has simply disconnected the handbrake that some of us have been trying to use and slammed his foot on the accelerator.
I_Has_A_Hat's explanation about the problems with "The Apple" might actually trump "Threshold"! Although I think just about everyone wishes "Threshold" hadn't happened (the writers included, IIRC).
I'd forgotten that! I'd like to think that the Enterprise arranged for a Federation support ship who would actually ensure that the civilisation survived, but yeah, Kirk and co making a joke of it is bit much!
I agree, the way Tasha's death was handled wasn't great. The impact wasn't really followed up on over the following few episodes. The manner of her death was more believable than Hemmer's, though.
That in itself isn't a problem if the character's exit is well-written. The writers could still have killed him off, but at least they could have done it in a more convincing fashion.
How has nobody mentioned 'Threshold' yet?
Very sorry to hear this. I'm sure you gave him a wonderful life for the time he had with you.