WhereIsTheTruth

Animals served us well when human's life expectancy was 30yo

Centenarians i know are all on a plant based diet

Insects? why bother

The Microsoft effect, everything they touch turns to shit

The American Dream /s

You'd think techies would be immune to religion, but then you realize that most of the people here are web devs, so that makes sense

> Many years ago I followed this process and, without exaggeration, it changed the course of my life. The insight I gained led me to quit law school, leave England and move to America and start down the path as a teacher and author. You’re reading this because of that choice. It remains the single most important career decision of my life

That "decision" required a safety net most will never have

Designing your career isn’t about self introspection, it’s about leverage

And leverage is stolen from the invisible hands that keep your world running while you journal

The problem isn't individual, but systemic: why is the freedom to choose rationed so narrowly?

For a lot of people, work isn't a career to design, it's survival math

This is exactly why you keep your personal life off the internet

Mozilla received $555 million from Google in 2023

Half a billion, they are both milking and lying to you

Stop using microsoft products, it's not that hard

Protect yourself by removing dependence on Big Tech ecosystems

They bait you with "free" tools to herd you into walled gardens where you are the product (and customer at the same time, LUL)

Forward declaration is the only reason why I moved away from C, so much time wasted..

They'll access GPUs through their company VPN

If they're unemployed, they'll just rent from the cloud

How many of you still manage your own home server?

I'd argue using lua is is more convenient than typescript

What ever suits you, you didn't mind shipping a 400mb executable after all, so what do i know

> For extensions, the choice was either TypeScript (and get this bloat) or go with Lua and a much smaller binary (but less popular language).

Incredible, the technical choice got overridden by popularity, leading straight to bloat

400mb executable for a terminal text editor?

Modern developers have lost their mind

Sovereign tech stacks matter

Without domestic silicon or OS, you're forced to mandate bloatware that users can see

Real power operates at the silicon/firmware level, invisible, unremovable, and uncompromisable

This is a cringe move from India

https://www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/insights-and-re...

Microsoft in disguise

IYKYK

Good, rejecting reliance on Microsoft's centralized platform means less vulnerability to their evil policy/practices (AI, users/country bans, privacy, vendor-locking)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679837

- can't branch-off/fork a chat

- can't fold/unfold code

- lack syntax highlight for some languages (Zig, Odin, D)

Ah, coming from the good old british revisionist

I got something too, something that nobody wants to depict:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia...

-2 after France admitted Apple and Google devices are backdoored

classic hackernewers

I would not trust it personally, specially since the Chip Security Act is looming

https://www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/insights-and-re...

Yet again, European countries are showing who their leaders are: US Big Tech

No wonder we default to Google Chrome on Microsoft/Apple systems, and American social platforms, to debate issues affecting EU citizens

West's Great Firewall

/s

The UAE has partnered with the US and NASA on cloud seeding research, and the US has been doing it for decades

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/18/united-arab-emirates-is-usin...

Sounds like a psyop

The "disruption" story is a cover: makes them look like defenders while they spy on every programming lab on Earth

In reality, they are the perpetrators:

https://xcancel.com/MaziyarPanahi/status/1988908359378993295

They are downplaying the severity of the data theft, which most likely includes user identification documents, the most dangerous type of breach, since it directly enables identity theft

Reading between the lines reveals the severity they're obfuscating, with contradictions:

> This incident has not impacted our payment processing platform. The threat actors do not have, and never had, access to merchant funds or card numbers.

> The system was used for internal operational documents and merchant onboarding materials at that time.

> We have begun the process to identify and contact those impacted and are working closely with law enforcement and the relevant regulators

They stress that "merchant funds or card numbers" weren't accessed, yet acknowledge contacting "impacted" users, this begs the question: how can users be meaningfully "impacted" by mere onboarding paperwork?

The trackpads are a deal breaker for me

They should have put them just above the joysticks, like the PS5 controller

Better, they should have made them detachable with a magnet, similar to the Switch JoyCon's system, what a missed opportunity

Ignorance Is Bliss

3 models only, can we really call that a benchmark?

You're technically correct, but you're slicing the argument so thin it disappears

The YouTube drama you glossed over is the point: we've reached a stage where explaining how to bypass Microsoft's arbitrary hardware requirements gets censored for "physical harm"

On systemd: calling it a Red Hat/Microsoft, driven monoculture that mediates everything from device mounts to DNS is accurate, the same consolidation that gave us Microsoft signed boot chains also delivered one init system to rule them all, dismissing this as "merely ideological" is exactly how normalization works, by the time it's a technical dependency, it's alreadt too late, look at the "cloud" ecosystem..

You listed exceptions, but let's be honest, they are only just distros.. Tails and Qubes are security, hardened research tools, not daily drivers for "elderly relatives". Alpine, Gentoo and Void require deep knowledge, technical skills and an ongoing maintenance that defeats the "set it and forget it" goal

And yes, you can buy a Purism or System76 laptop, but that's the exception that proves the rule: you must pay a premium and choose their hardware to escape the shim problem, that's not freedom; it's choosing your corporate master from a smaller menu, all subject to the same master/ideology

*BSD remains the only ecosystem offering a complete, usable desktop without either a Microsoft signature or a sprawling, vendor, controlled init system, if that sounds hyperbolic, it's because the Overton window has already shifted so far toward corporate control that stating the obvious appears radical

Today Linux supports most HW but Tomorrow, if the Chip Security Act passes, chips will be legally required to contain tracking and kill-switch mechanisms, while the Act doesn't directly mandate Linux to restrict hardware support, it creates the legal infrastructure for exactly that: either mainstream distributions cooperate with the surveillance architecture or risk being barred from running on modern hardware

The 'choice' becomes BigTech-approved Linux that supports backdoored silicon, or niche distros that can't run on any new machine

I could continue with many more examples, but I feel like none of the people over hear understand the point

https://www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/insights-and-re...

Linux is under control of the same companies

Besides, all major distributions (Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu) ship with a shim signed by Microsoft, and systemd..

*BSD is the only escape, but for how long?