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estimator7292··on Why TUIs are back
There's nowhere in a TUI to add oceans of padding for a ""sleek"" and ""modern"" look. There's very very little that a product manager can ""streamline"" in 80 columns of text.
estimator7292··on Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case
That's exactly the point. This is not normal even in software.

You can, in fact, learn C exactly once. Or any number of other languages. The entire argument being made here is that the world you're suggesting is a problem. Software developers should not have to continually relearn their tools and it is abnormal to suggest they should.

estimator7292··on Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
The bit we all care about: S3 is sleep mode proper. Most everything is physically powered off, only enough is kept on to keep contents of RAM alive.

S0 is.. just on. The PC is completely powered up. Microsoft has done this so that they can force your computer to wake itself up to install updates you don't want. Literally you aren't allowed to turn off your computer because some middle manager needs to see update stats go up. If your computer happens to be in a bag and cooks itself to death, well that's your problem. Fuck you for trying to keep Microsoft's statistics down.

estimator7292··on Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
Taxis would be a terrible jobs program because cars are the worst possible means of transportation for everyone except the person in the car.

Run a jobs program building public transit instead. We built an entire nation on unskilled workers laying rail, we can do it again and it will benefit everyone, not just car manufacturers.

estimator7292··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Right, you also need the very gullible
estimator7292··on Oil tanker hijacked off Yemen, steers toward Somalia
On the other hand, Somali pirates have attacked fully loaded warships dozens of times, apparently not realizing that small arms and a dinghy can't take down a goddamn battleship
estimator7292··on The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious
The post you're responding to makes no claims about the intelligence of others. The claim that's being made is that the majority of laypersons don't really know how to construct a sonnet or a haiku.

You're conflating that with a claim about intelligence because the true claim was not explicitly stated. One has to read critically, as if analyzing a poem.

estimator7292··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Good products are not profitable enough. Not that good products are profitable at all, but if it doesn't make disgusting amounts of money this quarter it's not worth considering at all.

We've reached the phase of "infinite shareholder growth" where physics says no, and that is so unacceptable that we'd rather burn down the entire global economy than accept less than exponential growth. It isn't that growth is impossible either, there just can't be enough growth. Break-even is apparently a fate worse than death

estimator7292··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Approximately everybody would like more money.

Greedy people put the desire for more money above the welfare of the business, themselves, and other. Greedy people literally put their desire for more personal wealth above the very lives of others.

Greed/not greed is a very fair way of putting it. One can operate a business that requires profit without wanting to destroy everyone and everything that stands in the way of more money.

estimator7292··on The USB Situation
That's because anything-over-powerline is absolutely and objectively terrible.

You already have a high throughput data cable between your PC and monitor. Carry USB over displayport or whatever. At least then you can use more than one PC on an entire city block.

estimator7292··on Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
In retrospect, most of Musk's ventures would indeed appear to be grifts from the very start. Many of them were plainly transparent grifts with only a perfunctory attempt to hide the fact (hyperloop)
estimator7292··on Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art
AI models are explicitly sold and advertised as a way to reduce labor cost to zero. If you want to reduce your cost to zero in one area (at the expense of other real people) you most likely will seek to drive costs to zero in other areas (at the expense of your customers).

I don't think that's a logical error at all. That is the explicit and overtly stated plan and promise of AI.

estimator7292··on America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance
The older and more jaded I get, the more I think that the only way to fix this mess before we all die of climate change is to dump the entire US government off a cliff and write a new constitution.

As the founding fathers intended.

estimator7292··on America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance
Lot of faux-intellectual buzzwords in there, bud
estimator7292··on New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content
It's not exactly a new thing. People we would describe in the modern day as "religious extremists" or outright authoritarians have been using he name of Christianity in this way for... Well, since Christianity was invented.

Same for Islam and Judaism, though the last one has the roles reversed.

The problem you're trying to identify here is how the public and historic narrative almost completely ignores any positive aspects of these religions and focuses exclusively on the actions of terrible people using religion as cover and justification for terrible acts.

In large part it's relative to location and culture. In the US, if you ask any random person their opinion of Islam, it will be overwhelmingly negative. Vice versa in Islamic societies about Christianity.

There's also a lot to be said of the last era of colonialism wreaking unthinkable damage and actual literal genocides under the name of Christianity, and the damage that Christian "missionaries" still do in the modern day. In recent history, a lot of very, very bad things have been done very loudly in the name of Christianity. Under that banner, Europeans destabilized and destroyed huge swaths of the world. The consequences of which will still be around for generations yet to come. That kind of thing leaks into public and historic sentiment, no matter what. Turns out that the public doesn't really like genocides.

Before I get replies, yes, other people have used other religions to also do terrible conquest and genocide. European Christian colonialism is just the largest and most recent example relevant to Western common knowledge. You should study foreign religions and form your own opinion, it's quite enlightening.

On the other hand, the narrative of the modern era is completely and totally dominated by sensationalism and all the problems that capitalist media bring. Stories about Christian groups donating money don't sell news subscriptions or ad time. Ragebait does, and many religious groups of all flavors are happy to oblige.

estimator7292··on Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?
Please enlighten us then, why do many countries require commercial kitchens have fire sprinklers if it's such a terrible and dangerous idea?
estimator7292··on Russia Poisons Wikipedia
If you learn to read, the fragments "not just" and "etc" clearly answer your question.

Yes, China and the US also participate in this. Everyone knows this. You are not clever or special for pointing it out, you're just being stupid and trying to distract from the conversation.

Literally whataboutism. Classic FUD and distraction technique. Go somewhere else with this nonsesne.

estimator7292··on GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay
Best I can do is three dollars
estimator7292··on LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
So that websites can track and identify you "for improved personalized advertising" in exactly this way.

Browser fingerprinting is massively valuable to Google's surveillance/advertising apparatus. This is all working exactly as intended.

estimator7292··on LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
This is complete and utter conspiracy nonsense.

This kind of tracking has been going on for decades

estimator7292··on Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
At least come up with your own thought instead of repeating someone else's thinking
estimator7292··on For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
"I, personally am not affected, and I don't care about anyone else so therefore there are no consequences"
estimator7292··on Online age verification is the hill to die on
The tech companies are the ones lobbing for age verification.

The entire point of this scheme is mass surveillance and shifting responsibility away from big tech companies. It has nothing at all to do with "protecting" kids. Preventing kids from accessing adult material is not even remotely a goal, it is a pretext. Just like every other "think of the children" argument.

estimator7292··on OpenTrafficMap
OpenStreetMaps works in the US and much of the rest of the world.

It's entirely reasonable to expect that a project with an extremely similar name would also work in most of the world, which just happens to include the USA.

estimator7292··on PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning console into full Linux gaming PC
Consoles aren't really a useful object. You can only play the heavily locked down titles the vendor approves for you, and nothing else. You have to pay a monthly subscription for the damn thing. And if you want to do anything at all than engage with the DRM lootbox subscription machine, no you don't.

With this you can use the console to do anything that a PC can do. Which is literally everything.

You could, for instance, play all of your old legally-backed-up games without paying for them yet again. You could run productivity software, or play literally any game that isn't blessed by Sony. It also doesn't try to extract money from you at every opportunity.

estimator7292··on We need a federation of forges
I don't think calling your git server a "knot" is going to go over well with certain large subsections of the OSS community.

Or rather, it will go over way too well.

estimator7292··on Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can't
Yeah, I also get mad when someone takes a functioning piece of equipment and remotely turns it into e-waste, forcing me to buy a new one
estimator7292··on How ChatGPT serves ads
What possible reason could they have to not always run both? It would make zero sense to leave that money on the table
estimator7292··on Before GitHub
You are being a toxic asshole right now by accusing people of being sociopaths completely unprompted.

Honestly, pretty sociopathic behavior right here.

estimator7292··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
That's really not true at all. Are you aware of the entire home computer industry of the 70s and 80s? Before PCs, you had a beige box you plugged into your TV and typed in games line by line out of a magazine. They DIY scene was enormous as a percentage of total users.

They also blur the line between "computer" and "console", since the NES is practically the same architecture as many contemporary "computers". Homebrew games existed, and weren't that far out of reach. Homebrew has existed on pretty much every console ever.

PCs weren't an accident in any way. They are a direct descendant of "home computers". That's why they were called "personal computers" in the first place.

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