The US military takes enlistees at 17 and a half years old. Usually from poor families.

I believe the US lets people enlist at 17 (with parental consent) but they don’t deploy them to combat before they’re 18.

I encourage you to you watch this movie, btw.

And see also:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_Inside_the_Army
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iraq_War_resisters

You’re ignoring the fact your article also doesn’t provide source

Which article are you saying doesn’t provide a source? I see only two articles linked in this thread and they both refer to several sources 🤔

I am sincerely baffled as to what your perspective about this story is.

Do you believe that EU and US officials are spreading Russian propaganda via the Associated Press about Russia supplying drones to Iran (which, as you said earlier, you believe they do not in fact have the ability to manufacture) and therefore Russia’s denial is actually true but also part of their cunning plan to deceive us?

Or what?

Of course Russia denys it

But… just a few hours ago didn’t you deny it too? 🤔

(“No they aren’t” was your first comment in this thread)

Anyone can use copilot to open PRs under their own name on any repo which accepts PRs, so you can’t easily know copilot is involved without looking.

In the case of the first hit in the mastodon post’s linked search query, it looks like a human actually opened the PR last year and subsequently requested a review from copilot (as well as from two humans); after some back and forth nothing else happened until 3 days ago when copilot updated the issue to tell them: you need to pick a “Usage billed to” option in your Copilot settings.

And then, apparently, three minutes after they updated their billing information copilot pushed some more commits and helpfully edited the human’s original PR description to insert the advertisement.

(Obviously this is yet another reason to move off of github, but (1) that is much easier said than done for many projects, and (2) once it’s normalized on github, “coding assistants” will also be spamming in other venues soon enough if they aren’t already.)

No they aren’t, Russia wouldn’t have purchased thousands of Iranian drones if they could produce them domestically.

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Russia put out propaganda

The original link in this post is to an article by the Associated Press (syndicated on a website owned by Bell Canada) and it cites “U.S. and European officials” as its primary source to support the claim made in the headline that Russia is supplying drones to Iran.

I’m curious: did you call this Russian propaganda after reading only the headline, without actually realizing who is saying what here?

Correct me if I’m wrong but I suspect that after you read the article and see that Russia in fact denies sending drones to Iran (and says the seven trucks they just sent have food and medical supplies) you’ll probably change your mind and decide that they probably are in fact sending drones.

It’s easy to avoid if you don’t use AI?

Isn’t this a Raycast ad, rather than a Copilot ad?

It seems most likely that it is copilot inserting it, because the other screenshots in the post show similar ads for its integrations with various other services too

I’m a little hesitant to use that link, wasn’t there recently something about a lot of archive websites using visitors for ddos attacks or something similar?

The archive site recently caught doing ddos attacks was archive.today (which also uses the domains .fo, .is, .li, .md, .ph, and .vn). This is a site run by a pseudonymous individual since 2012. Here is the wikipedia article about them.

The link in my comment above is to archive.org, which is a very reputable organization called The Internet Archive which has been operating since 1996 and definitely would not use its visitors’ browsers for ddos attacks. Here is the wikipedia article about them.

Know the difference :)

Also, btw, while the latter is older, larger, and vastly more credible, the former uses different archiving techniques which enable them to have archives of many things which the latter doesn’t. So, it does continue to also be a useful tool, albeit one of last resort.

Executive officer in charge of radishes Paterson Supra had one appearance and gets to be in this meme, but Ro Laren and Alexander Rozhenko (with eight episodes each) are both forgotten?

smh my head

I’ll compile from source

yfw you find out getting access to a compiler requires an ID check

https://web.archive.org/web/20240530005438/https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/israeli-defense-forces-case-study (the original is 404 now, for some reason…)

for one thing, you’re in a country where this once happened 🤦

I am a white European Spanish woman

Race is a social construct and in the eyes of your friend’s racist dad you are apparently not white (even if he might have classified you as white if he had only your appearance to go by and hadn’t seen your name).

did an LLM get involved in your dictionary somehow? (why are four of these six definitions very minor rephrasings of each other?)

Fwiw, the American Heritage Dictionary has only one definition; the other two are in wiktionary (which has citations for both).

you’re obviously prompting it wrong, and/or not using the latest models _/s

the first rule of jury nullification is not to talk about jury nullification during the jury selection process

Ted “my father was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba. I hate communists. it was actually Batista who tortured my dad” Cruz

unfortunately, like its predecessor (Nokia’s Maemo/Meego), Jolla’s SailfishOS has never been (and has never had plans to be) fully free/libre open source software.

many components of it are freely licensed, but not nearly enough to constitute an actual mobile operating system you can use.

The text was “highly problematic in countless respects,” Ambassador Dan Negrea, US representative to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), said prior to the vote.