Maybe I'm living in a parallel reality, but there are plenty of Slack alternatives and plenty of companies using Slack clones such as Mattermost and Zulip, among others. And yes, they work just fine.
Readit News_pferreir_ commented on OpenAI should build Slack latent.space/p/ainews-why... · Posted by u/swyx
_pferreir_ commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot
Which international law? Where's the book of international law?
Seriously? There you go:
https://legal.un.org/avl/studymaterials/handbook/english/boo...
That's just book one, BTW.
_pferreir_ commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot
Name a government in the OECD that’s fundamentally opposed to this intervention
Most European governments have already, in their own (weak) way expressed that this intervention isn't legitimate according to international law.
_pferreir_ commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot
"That interference has overwhelmingly turned out well."
What an absurd thing to say. The US doesn't only overthrow dictatorships - it supports them too, as it suits its self-interest. Why not include the US interference when it SUPPORTED Hussein and later changed its mind - still think "interference turns out well" after backing a genocidal monster, supporting his invasion of a neighbour, invading twice and related deaths of 400 000 people?
Countries stabilise over time, that's what their people make happen. You ignore Indonesia, Iran, El Salvador, Nicaragua and dozens of disaster of US imperialism but give credit to the US when their populations rebuild them.
The US has done some positive things but they're the convenient accidents you've cherry picked to make your point.
You're saying only facts and somehow getting downvoted, I guess denial is easier for some people.
_pferreir_ commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot
It took decades for the US to stabilize itself as a nation after its birth.
Why would you think Iraq would find it easy to stabilize itself post Hussein, such that you'd declare their future void already. Iraq is not yet a failure and is dramatically more stable than it was under Hussein (dictatorships bring hyper instability universally, which is why they have to constantly murder & terrify everybody to try to keep the system from instantly imploding due to the perpetual instability inherent in dictatorship).
Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Kuwait, and most of Eastern Europe (which the US was extremely deep in interfering with for decades in competition with the USSR). You can also add Colombia to that list, it is a successful outcome thus far of US interference.
I like the part where people pretend the vast interference in positive outcomes don't count. The US positively, endlessly interfered in Europe for the past century. That interference has overwhelmingly turned out well.
"Don't worry, the democracy will eventually trickle down".
There is such thing as a post-Vietnam America, and its record is pretty bad.
_pferreir_ commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot
How does this differ from Russia invading Ukraine?
We have to wake up to the world where USA no longer cares about ideals like liberal democracy or allies, but is a warmongering corporatist autocracy.
It does differ, in ways that many others listed below. That doesn't make it any legitimate, though.
_pferreir_ commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot
> a thin reason to invade a country
No invasion (yet). Just bombing.
And kidnapping their president in violation of every international law. No big deal /s
Seriously, I'm patiently waiting for the day America or Russia will do the same to Netanyahu, who is an actual war criminal. Not holding my breath.
_pferreir_ commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot
Muhrica gonna muhrica. It's been like this since time immemorial, the "regime" changes but the modus operandi is the same. True for all other empires.
_pferreir_ commented on Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use semafor.com/article/09/17... · Posted by u/mindingnever
Gosh, I guess the SaaS distribution model might give companies undesirable control over how their software can be used.
Viva local-first software!
EULAs can impose limitations on how you use on-premises software. Sure, you can ignore the EULA, but you can also do so on SaaS, to an extent.
_pferreir_ commented on Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG kube.io/blog/liquid-glass... · Posted by u/Sateeshm
I first tried the demos on Firefox and was like "wow, this looks fancy". Then, I saw there was a "Chrome-only" warning. I actually prefer the way it looks on Firefox, TBH.