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The reason why they can make Android close source but not the kernel used is because the former is has ASF 2.0 while the later has GPL license.

This is why they are developing their own kernel.

I'm assuming you use Lynx now then? Because I don't think you would be using Chrome or its clone if that's where you draw the line?

It's on BSD license, Google or someone else can again Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Maybe I'm not enough of an Apple fanboy but using work provided mac with firefox for 15 years I never noticed UI being disjointed from the system any more than Chrome.

Actually it is still cool if they don't.

Because of their enshitification we do have alternatives that were developed.

At this point the their only services I'm using are Maps, Translate and Keep Notes and it is mostly due to lazyiness as all of those already have alternatives.

Edit: forgot about YouTube, which is ironic, because that one is a toughest one because the value comes from creators, but I'm doing my part and using GrayJay[1] so I can follow them if they switch their platform.

[1] https://grayjay.app/

I despise that too. One website (was it walmart?) gives me option to use that or a password, I select password and after entering it it tells me that it needs to verify my e-mail "for security" where I get link or code to log in.

At that point what's the point of password? Just an optional extra step?

Honestly I think it already is.

A lot of people who talk about massive gains seem to forget about code review.

Then in a company someone who has to review is is f*cked because that code is much more complex and takes much longer to review.

> This is really fascinating. As someone who reads a lot of history and historical fiction I think this is really intriguing. Imagine having a conversation with someone genuinely from the period, where they don’t know the “end of the story”.

Having the facts from the era is one thing, to make conclusions about things it doesn't know would require intelligence.

The term free speech is misleading. It is really freedom of speech. I.e. someone who says something doesn't have to be afraid of prosecution because of what they said.

It isn't the speech that is being protected it is the person who says it.

Using the term "free speech" creates those weird scenarios where now we have someone argue that the US Constitution mandates ads to be everywhere.

Hey, once musk is dead I'm willing to consider Tesla as well.

And the parks.

I didn't have ADHD (or at least not diagnosed with it), but I tried to use Internet without adblocker and is unusable.

I suspect owners of those sites either don't visit them or use ad blocker themselves.

What's the URL for California?

He was documented, he even had work permit, which he got during first trump's term.

The way things work is that if the judge oversteps you appeal, but you are still bound by the ruling unless higher court overrides it.

You can't just say you don't like the ruling and ignore it.

If you can put any person 12 years and up in jail without a trial, and you don't care about accidentally hurting innocent ones I'm surprised it is 2.5 per 100,000 and not 0 per 100,000.

El Salvador currently has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and its president now is serving second term which is not allowed by their constitution.

Adams, Tate now this, looks like the administration is looking for best scammers they can find.

Why those articles are immediately flagged? It is tech related.

Yes, please, they block contacts so only their constituents can email them.

Yeah. Everyone is convinced ads don't work on them, yet somehow it is a trillion dollar industry.

Perhaps you are lucky and don't have anyone in your family affected by disinformation.

I have family members that no longer watch TV, listen radio, read news papers. All "news" they are getting is from sources that also tell them that all other sources lie.

They live in complete different reality that it is a distorted mirror of actual reality.

Or election were hacked, but not the way you think.

Social media was weaponized and turned into a tool that manipulates people's view of the reality. Each person gets a personalized feed that presses their buttons to think certain way.

For example with war in gaza. If for example you were pro Israeli, you will see content that Harris was siding with Hamas, and trump actually was the most Israel friendly candidate.

If you were supporting Palestine you would get that there's no difference between Harris and trump, and it is best to do protest vote.

Same with leaning too much to the left, or not enough to the left etc.

Pretty much every issue was handled this way. People who got their news from social media had no idea what her stance were on any topic, because that was filtered.

Few years ago we had huge scandal about Cambridge Analytica, there was a bit loud about it and then died out, meanwhile it all continued and was perfected.

Twitter, Instagram, Facebook manipulated older generation. While TikTok managed to capture younger, left leaning generation and make it more apathetic.

I don't think it is a coincidence that pretty much all social media (except the Chinese TikTok) was present on his inauguration.

I also don't think it is a coincidence that all social media companies have involvement with AI. With it, they no longer need humans to generate content, so the whole manipulation is much easier to do.

This isn't just isolated to US and it is being used in Europe too. Look at elections in Moldova, Romania, what's happening in Germany etc.

Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century" book is a must read so we can prevent this.

Here's summary of the lessons: https://substack.com/@snyder/p-155209838

The book is quite short and he also reads and discussed them on his YouTube channel.

> This will likely not decrease our salaries. It may increase them as funds get reallocated away from HR.

You have serious misunderstanding how companies operate.

And he managed to top it off.

Few years ago I was planning to buy Tesla, boy I'm glad I didn't, I don't think I would be able to drive it again after this Monday.

He uses bots (or some PR agencies) everywhere to promote his image, I see it personally on Facebook, on Reddit, but it is on all social media. This is how everyone think he is an engineer, a genius and turns even his failures (like hyperloop) as a successes.

I wouldn't be surprised that they would have few here too.

As long as it is in Chrome

It's the same in Software Engineering, lol. If your service just works no one cares. If you instead have a flaky service, but step in to save the day then you become a hero :)

Though I agree somewhat that politicians don't have as much incentive, but this is what regulations are for. Someone said that regulations are written in blood, because they are results of "lessons learned".

It doesn't help that then those regulations are frequently removed to help businesses and the cycle repeats.

They did prepare though, 3 days before they got units from north California. If nothing would happen they would be attacked for risking safety of

BTW: which locations in the whole Los Angeles (you know how big it is? actually there's no guarantee the fire works be in LA) you should get fire trucks stationed?

There wasn't any rain registered since April, there were unprecedented (last time we had such big ones was 15 years ago) dry, 100mph winds. This means using air support was also not feasible at the time.

We mostly talk about Palisades, but when watching WatchDuty app, fires were constantly popping up in random places.

It was a nightmare, and it is frustrating to see politicizing the whole thing or criticizing that fire men did something wrong.

Why those people aren't volunteering and helping?

There are some things that is impossible to do with what we have.

Much more effective would be for example having all building up to the latest fire code, but majority are of course old.

Did you bought enough houses to assume that's always the case?

My experience was that I was told to send the cashier's check using overnight FedEx because they did not have office in my area.

Ok I did not know that.

I need to check, but I don't think I signed in my SmartTube, I don't see a good reason for it.

ReVanced is patched up original Youtube (which has among other things the benefits of not showing ads), but the equivalent to SmartTube would be NewPipe, which is a new YouTube replacement app.