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At the Copenhagen #Democracy Summit, Chairman and former Danish PM & NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has unveiled a new Democracies-7 coalition concept, putting forward Canadian PM Mark Carney as its inaugural chairman. Its goal is to unite middle powers in a rules-based order, with enough financial clout to stand up to global hegemons.
https://files.gotocon.com/uploads/files/138/d7-formatted_1778445542.pdf
#FreeTrade #Defence #Coalition #Australia #Canada #EU #Japan #NewZealand #SouthKorea #UK #Brazil #India #Norway
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"A Linux system that works so well that I never need to fix anything."
In my defence, you *did* say "linux problems I don't have". >_>
I note that you obviously did not ask about solicitations either, just as you did not ask why #AerynOS really doesn't want people using LLMs if they choose to contribute.
In any case, if you can stomach it being alpha and therefore still in development, @AerynOS might be worth a look. It is recommended that you try it out in a VM or on a secondary computer.
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"The enshittification of technology – the decay of the platforms and systems we rely on – has many causes: the collapse of competition, regulatory capture, the smashing of tech workers' power. But most of all, enshittification is the result of anticircumvention law's ban on interoperability.
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the average American is a victim of Big Tech. Liberating the world from US Big Tech is also liberating America from US Big Tech." -
@jwildeboer This.
However, a baseline likely exists beyond which #disenshittification becomes actual value-generating improvement.
That is, disenshittification only describes the process of recovering what was lost in terms of utility from a customer perspective.
It would appear that the modern investor prefers to prioritise investments with the end goal of converting existing users into a vendor-locked, captive audience via hostage-taking tactics, which then enables rent-extraction.