If I want people to vote for my puppet, I do ads for my guy. But I can in addition donate money to political education charities, that’ll then try to raise participation in general. If I did my job right, those extra people ideally vote for my guy.

Alternatively, not everything is all capitalism all the time. There’s still some amount of public and charity money going into funding this kind of general education. Surprising maybe, but some people do genuinely believe in democracy and put their money where there mouth is.

I mean, using LLMs for development could make Linux support economically viable. I know it’s the glazers favourite excuse, but with coding it really, truly depends on how you use the tool.

For the LLMs killer feature, software development, you don’t really need confidential information 99% of the time.

It continues to annoy me how both haters and glazers will over-simplify the topic by calling everything AI. There’s a giant difference in usefulness, ethics, and quality between LLMs that produce code guided by an experienced developer, and “art” slopped out for greed by some random schmo.

Because it’s almost always superior, if you need things from more than one “niche”. Specialty shops only make sense if you have a big order in that niche, like building a new PC. If you want a hard drive, some TCG card sleeves, some zero cal food products, and wanna top up on boxer shorts, Amazon is just too far ahead.

I have tried other “everything” retailers in Europe, like Otto, but their selection for everything is tiny. Ironically, it’s not tiny well selected, well known european brands. It’s still filled with Chinese shovel ware.