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chillingeffect··on Tesla offers mammoth $1T pay package to Musk, sets lofty targets
How are they not noticing cheaper, better cars, pending lawsuits, toyota's invention of aluminum batteries making lithium obsolete, end of early mover advantage, and history of underdelivering?
chillingeffect··on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater
Is there any chance you and your family are perfectly safe right now, under no threat of violence, and have no need for an app like this?
chillingeffect··on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater
Definitely. The app is not perfect, sure. Lots of people and journalists are smarter and "could" do it better...but they haven't.

Often the best work comes out theough competition and revisions. Google didnt sit back and write sniveling blog posts abt how lame altavista was.

chillingeffect··on Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
Similar here. AI works much better as a consultant than as a developer. I ask it all kinds of things I have suspicions and intuitions about and it provides clarity and examples. It's great for subroutines. Trying to make full programs is just too large of a space. It's difficult to communicate all the implicit requirements.
chillingeffect··on New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely
It's not our species, it's our culture. Anxiety over death leads to consumption, so it's a consumer society's virtue.
chillingeffect··on Without the futex, it's futile
Yeah the part about not even calling the previous sysv style a dinosaur bc it implies it was once mighty is like standing on the shoulders of giants and pooping on their heads. A little humility is all that is required.
chillingeffect··on When did AI take over Hacker News?
Which aspects of God are we seeking, post-Christianity? It seems the focus is on power and creation, w/o regard for unity, discipline, or forgiveness. It's not really a complete picture of God.
chillingeffect··on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England
Ive identified several aspects. Moral injury, new status baseline due to social media, and lack of awareness of effects our digital powers. Not enough time to type on this phone keybd but if ppl upvote i'll elaborate.
chillingeffect··on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
>$1500/month

Wow, i just got into newpipe/fdroid. Its neat to think even a donation the size of mine can be almost individually meaningful :)

chillingeffect··on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
I like your energy; and I like your awareness that more control/different center of power may not help. This is where community-oriented leadership techniques could go a long way. To build trust, maintain peoples' roles and dignity, but to increase that awareness and enable floodlight focus (big picture) in addition to flashlight focus.
chillingeffect··on Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked
...so the gangs will continue the crimes?
chillingeffect··on FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime
Congratulatulions, you're in the running for Apology of the Year.
chillingeffect··on British man claims he's unable to watch porn as tattoos confuse age check system
Not sure if youd find me me smart or stupid, but in my immediate experience a youth in my circle was influenced negatively by porn. It won't be every kid, and yes his parents should have watched him, better, but they have little influence over him from the grave.
chillingeffect··on It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)
Plus the differential versions of most of those signals for long distance doubles the number of pins. And they have optional synchronous clocks. I did some WAN work for 3Com back in the day... :)
chillingeffect··on It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)
While we're at it, RS-232 is not serial. It's a voltage specification.
chillingeffect··on What's happening to reading?
We don't need to, in the sense that we survived without it. However a key difference between reading and passively listening or watching is the ability to dynamically vary the pace and re-thread ideas together. E.g. to slow down during complex parts, e.g. involving lots of pronouns, tenses, or familial relations, to move your eyes around on the page, and even to pause a moment to quiz and rehearse to ones' self on the material. To even attempt to connect it with existing ideas from other sources.

While theoretically possible with non-linear media like videos and audio playback, the fluidity of reading is far superior. Thus, passive consumption leads to many fragments of ideas remaining atomized and not sticking. In contrast, reading allows one to efficiently stitch numerous ideas together.

The point of reading is not to become convinced or apprehend a single summarizable point. Rather, it is to fill one's memory banks with thoughts, experiences and ideas that can be combined with other ones and synthesize new information.

Contrast wandering though a botanical garden, reading labels and looking at plants on the one hand. On the other hand, picture a slow-moving bus that rolls continuously through the garden. The bus may pause from time to time, but mostly it remains on the path, letting you watch things go by from a distance. Both means of travel "get you through" the garden, but the self-pacing version allows a personal connection to the information.

So it would be convenient for a farmer to have his animals illiterate, yet capable of listening passively to commands over loudspeakers. And to the farmer, it would be inconvenient for these animals to learn to read and explore material on their own which would eventually lead them to an awareness that they don't want to be fenced in, farmed, and eaten. So you can see why some questionable leaders are comfortable with illiteracy as a means of control. While others seek to empower humanity through encouraging reading.

chillingeffect··on Let me pay for Firefox
fair enough. how do you feel about duckduckgo? I see ddg as doing the same thing Mozilla is: selling anonymized, aggregate data to help marketers find out what is being searched for, but not connecting it to the individuals.
chillingeffect··on Let me pay for Firefox
That's not what a nonprofit is. They do not survive off of donations alone. They have to have a public or charitable purpose. They can sell products and services for any amount or profit. They are required to reinvest the profits and not distribute them to owners.
chillingeffect··on Let me pay for Firefox
I cant buy your firefox data.

I can buy a huge block of aggregate data that has some things of yours in it.

chillingeffect··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
So now we can out up porn and harvest IDs? Love it.
chillingeffect··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
You subbed in "ends" for "purpose to is to validate." They're different. Without the seduction of violence and racism, fascism is a much less convincing argument.

Facism is a paranoid carnival that feeds on fear, scapegoating, and blood. That’s the historical record.

Fascism needs violence and racism as tools and moral glue to hold its contradictions together. It’s the myth-making and the permission slip for brutality that gives fascism its visceral pull, not some utopian goal of pure violence, but a promise of restored glory, cleansed nation, purified identity, and the righteous right to crush the other.

Fascism doesn’t chase violence like a dog after a stick. Im fact, it needs violence like a drunk needs a barstool. Strip out the promise of righteous fists and pure-blood fantasies, and the whole racket folds like a bad poker hand. Without the thrill of smashing skulls and blaming ‘the other guy,’ fascism’s just empty uniforms and a lousy flag collection.

Look at Mussolini: all that pomp about the Roman Empire while squads of Blackshirts bashed heads in the streets to keep people terrified and in line. Hitler wrapped his genocidal sadism in pseudo-science, fake grievances, and grand promises of ‘racial purity'...the point was never a coherent plan beyond expansion and domination.

chillingeffect··on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon
When I tried to buy quercetin from Vitacost recently, they dropped a second, unwanted item into my cart. I noped right out of there. Turns out they were acquired by notorious lawbreakers Kroger.

https://lawyerinc.com/biggest-kroger-lawsuits-in-company-his...

chillingeffect··on Elon Musk Forms a New Political Party to Challenge Trump and the Republicans
But who is left that likes him?

Is this a republican split?

chillingeffect··on How to not pay your taxes legally, apparently
The actual functioning of everyday society and quality of everyday life are based on moral grounds. Legal grounds are a backstop, not a hand rail.

Those who exchange moral indulgences, clinging to legal grounds, are naturally and inevitably bound to accept the moral consequences. It's not just your Sunday school teacher making frowny faces at you: It's being afraid of armed robbery at every step because you have squeezed every bit of wiggle room out of every one elses' lives.

chillingeffect··on Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent
A recent job offer for a startup was a 5 year vest with a 2 year cliff. Seriously?
chillingeffect··on Introducing tmux-rs
> developed in the 1970s.

It was born in the 1970s and was standardized in the 80s and 90s. It continues to develop. Numerous data types have been added, along with unicode and threads. The C23 standard was released last year.

chillingeffect··on The Unsustainability of Moore's Law
Mr. Chilling E. Ffect wishes to sincerely apologize for accidentally expressing emotion. Futhermore, he is sorry from the bottom of his digital heart for expressing himself differently from everyone else in this non-comformist community. He promises the court from now on he will talk and think more like other people here.
chillingeffect··on The Unsustainability of Moore's Law
Thank you for the nice downvotes when I posted correct information including a source.
chillingeffect··on The Unsustainability of Moore's Law
So tired of people getting this wrong. Moore's law is about NUMBER of transistors, NOT DENSITY!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

It tells us more about market and ppl's hunger for apps/cabilities than fabrication and physics, although fabrication quality is indirectly related through cost.

chillingeffect··on A new PNG spec
Thank you for the nice response... in contrast to those I deserved downvoting. You'ee alright.
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