• On the idea of a kill switch: while I said that we won’t add a “global kill switch”, all of these capabilities will be delivered as Snaps to the OS, layered on top of the existing Ubuntu stack. That means there will always be the option of removing those Snaps - which I suppose acts as a sort of kill switch for the features we’re planning on shipping.
• Opt-in vs Opt-out: my plan is to introduce AI-backed features as a “preview” on a strictly opt-in basis in 26.10. In subsequent releases, my plan is to have a step in the initial setup wizard that allows the user to choose whether or not they’d like the AI-native features enabled. Because of the size of most LLMs, we simply couldn’t ship them in the installer anyway, so opting out at first run is simple: they just won’t be there.

Point of order: “you can easily remove the Snaps from your install” is an opt-out mechanism. Calling these features “opt-in” is gaslighting.

Are we really not doing “phrasing” anymore?

Personal injury lawyers:

don’t mind if I do

Honestly, given how idiotic we’re being these days, I wouldn’t be super shocked if the UK also told us to kindly fuck off.

Iirc they replaced a bunch of editors with LLM review

Same as it ever was

It’s why riot cops and other similar security paramilitary (or even straight up military) types are often brought in from other regions - because there’s a much lower likelihood that any of them will identify and sympathize with the protesters. It’s a well-known tactic.

disturbingly pervasive shuffling noises intensify

Japan: omg what does it take to get our citizens to FUCK

Also Japan: work harder, peons

Lmfao NYT coming in hot with the AI slop 🤪

Honestly though, that’s a hilariously bad and super obvious fuck-up

it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it

Afaik there’s no mechanism within the nato charter or any of its founding documents or principles that would allow this. So the US doing this would probably only hasten NATO falling apart, and lead to the forming of a new iteration of it without the US.

Edit: and, uh, NATO itself agrees with that first part

It’s not against the rules, lfg

And absolutely nothing bad happened to Hungary as a result. See how easy that was?

I live in Boston; I am familiar with the Smoot unit lol

That’s… not how SLMB maintenance works.

It is, but Ukraine is still depends on a lot of US military hardware for a lot of important systems that help them hold the line as they’re being invaded by Russia… so this is actually the lesser of two evils. I see it as an insincere theatrical move that orangeboi likes because it’s a thing that paints him in a “flattering” light, despite it being obviously insincere.

But there is a maintenance and support supply chain, which is effectively a kill switch in the long term

They’re… kinda not though. The UK uses Trident SLBMs in their SSBNs. That’s a US missile.

France, on the other hand, rolled their own. It’d really strategically behoove the Royal Navy to figure out how to equip their next iteration of SSBN with M51s instead.

He did kill a pope tho