IMHO it's not lifeless. It's just not overly emotional. I definitely prefer it that way. I do not want the AI to be excited. It feels so contrived.
On the video itself: Interesting, but "ideal" was pronounced wrong in German. For a promotional video, they should have checked that with native speakers. On the other hand its at least honest.
The death penalty is wrong, but I think there's a point where when you have politicians wielding massive amounts of power being willfully capricious that the crime is on a wholly different scale. They should be held to a higher standard and I think that higher standard can and should include harsher penalties in cases of crimes against humanity.
The argument that human rights are indivisible is contradicted by your statement right after as western civilization turns inwards on itself and begins removing human rights.
>Neither torture nor genocide is recognized anywhere as a human right. After WWII we held trials.
What do you want to tell me? Of course torture is not a human right. That doesn't change a bit that human rights apply to everyone. Even to the torturer. Sure, we should put him/her in prison for a long time but never does even the torturer loose his/her humanity. That is exactly what distinguishes us from the nazis/fascists.
Distinguishes us how? If you cannot lose your humanity through torture, can you lose it through mass murder? Or is humanity something you cannot ever take away from anyone? If so, the worst of the nazis still had it. Yet I do know that it can be taken away precisely because you can torture another person until they aren't themselves anymore. That is, in fact, the goal of torture.
Believing that the world is not divided into good and evil people also requires me to believe that people of the US have the same capacity for both good and evil as did the people of nazi Germany
Yes, they do. This is what "indivisible" in this context means. Of course they should be imprisoned but they are still humans with their human rights.
I know that this is hard for some to understand but retribution has it's limits. It is counter productive anyway. Just look at the USA. It's at the top of countries when it comes to the incarceration rate. Even Chinas incarceration rate is only ~1/5th compared to the USA. Norway is at a rate of ~1/10 of that of the USA. The American way clearly does not work. They put an unbelievable number of people in prisons where human rights are not guaranteed and yet they would still be much, much safer elsewhere. Their prísons grow criminals instead of citizens.
If you say: Nazis do not have human rights than where do you stop? Child molesters like Donald Trump? If human rights are relative and open to interpretation, there are no human rights.
> the internet as we once knew it, is effectively dead
Maybe it's simply less visible?
I have no account at any of the social media giants (except HN but I think that does not count). I mostly use the Fediverse and specialized forums. I would argue that it feels similar to the "old" internet.
AFAIK they use Open-Xchange, Univention Corporate Server and other specialized (maybe customized?) an open solutions for telephony, interoperability and other tasks.
I've never used it. Does this actually replace AD and group policy effectively? Does it manage updates properly? Can it handle compliance tasks?
I've used other things that claimed to in the past and none came anywhere close in practice. They all turned out just to be LDAP with some NT4 style policies for windows and very little at all for the Linux clients. It was like traveling back in time to the Windows 2000 era of management.
There never will be a 1 for 1 replacement because the two systems have different approaches. Why would you want a direct replacement when you could have something better?
GPOs are a windows thing and don't apply to other systems. The generic equivalent is configuration management, for which there are many solutions. Linux updates are much easier than windows updates, and many linux systems now use immutable and atomic updates by default, which further reduces risk.
For directory, openLDAP just does LDAP. DNS is done with Kea or Unbound.
Fundamentally the issue is a lack of familiarity. The only way to become familiar with a system is... to use it.
> Does this actually replace AD and group policy effectively?
I do not know. They probably evaluated the solution before they made the decision.
In any case, continuing to use AD seems out of the question. Relying on US based software in 2025 and beyond is simply not a viable option for any administration that values its sovereignty. The US isn’t even hiding its hostility.
I'm not an expert and that still might be the case but you have to understand that for many Microsoft as an American company is simply no longer an option for critical infrastructure. It's a matter of trust.
> that the comparisons would be extremely unfavorable.
Why should they compare apples to oranges? Ministral3 Large costs ~1/10th of Sonnet 4.5. They clearly target different users. If you want a coding assistant you probably wouldn't choose this model for various reasons. There is place for more than only the benchmark king.
Of course, he shot himself in the foot but that’s what AI companies are pushing. They’re promoting the idea of running multiple agents in parallel. How long will it take before most people grow exhausted from constantly acknowledging requests from five different agents at once and simply switch on auto-pilot?
I just tried it with a well known commercial VPN and I had no problems accessing the site and its music content.
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