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It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Facebook

For software, the subscription model makes sense to me. It costs money to develop a working product, then it costs money to maintain it, and, in the case of cloud-hosted software, it costs money to serve it.

The subscription model benefits the consumer because it incentivizes use of the software. For example, suppose I want to learn web design. If I subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud, I am now committed to use it because if I do not I am wasting money.

The subscription model benefits the consumer by reducing the up-front cost to use software. For example, Adobe Photoshop used to cost hundreds of dollars before use, and now it costs $20 (per month).

I suggest that we, as consumers, may need to reconcile with the cost of labor.

Here’s hoping for a large U.S. company to go under for once.

No. The tech market is doing fine

> Then you need to grow

Genuinely curious as to why this is

> - and more money

gasp

> Gen-Z graduates want more flexibility, more security, more money

Oh! Well then. Makes sense.

Title's tone: "can you believe how entitled these kids are?"

Let's permute the title to see how it affects the meaning implied:

a) Gen-Z graduates want more money, more flexibility - and more security

Title's tone: "can you believe these kids expect job security?"

b) Gen-Z graduates want more security, more money - and more flexibility

Title's tone: "can you believe these kids expect {whatever flexibility means in this context, it's unclear}?"

But wait, more questions I have.

Why include 'Gen-Z'? Why not "College graduates"? Do we, the reader, need the label 'Gen-Z' to understand the article? Seems unnecessary, so let's make another edit:

> College graduates want more flexibility, more security, more money

Better, but there's still something there, in "College graduates". Young people. New workers. People who haven't worked as long as me. These people demand more pay? Do they know what I had to go through? Ridiculous.

So, we have some lingering age stratification of workers, meant to evoke resentment in older workers towards younger workers. One final edit:

Workers want more flexibility, more security, more money.

>... you'll love

I dislike the frame. Put simply: you don't know me, so do not assume that I'll love your product. I type this not to be mean, but to express my gut reaction as a consumer.

Here's a quote by a person:

> And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All irony is a variation on a sort of existential poker-face. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don't really mean what I say." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it's impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it's too bad it's impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today's irony ends up saying: "How very banal to ask what I mean." Anyone with the heretical gall to ask an ironist what he actually stands for ends up looking like a hysteric or a prig. And herein lies the oppressiveness of institutionalized irony, the too-successful rebel: the ability to interdict the question without attending to its content is tyranny. It is the new junta, using the very tool that exposed its enemy to insulate itself.

> Install any software So it's like a jailbreak. More software, less security.

> Make core messaging functionality interoperable. They lay out concrete examples like file transfer.

Encrypted messaging by someone not in the U.S.' jurisdiction. More privacy, more terrorism.

> Fines are up to 10% of global revenue for the first offense, and 20% for repeat offenses.

Ouch, that'll impose some discipline.

Dark web it is

NAT always confuses me. What do you mean I have two IP addresses why can’t this be simplified?

My perspective is that "nobody wants to work anymore" is another way of saying "I want workers but I do not want to pay the market wage." Unfortunately for the workers, they tend to get blamed for the issues related to worker shortages, such as baggage delays/mixups at airports and flight delays.

I'm surprised C++ is still prominent. I thought Rust would have taken its place by now.

YouTube has a culture: clickbait, mean comments, and ignoring users.

Though a bit extreme, the individual components are definitely there across various webpages. Certainly it is annoying. The fact that we can control whether or not we see them is somewhat remarkable, considering conditions under the dominance of TV: mandatory commercials and high cost subscriptions.

Today, the internet is in the process of wrestling that control back from us, driven by the lucrativeness of ad revenue. Ideally, the revenue user subscriptions would obviate the need for ad revenue, but sadly, this is not the case.

I resent news media relying heavily on clicks. Simultaneously, I understand that news organizations must generate profit somehow, and that many people are unwilling to pay for news.

The problem, as I see it: I pay for a news subscription. News Organization continues to produce low-quality content because they continue to rely on advertising. So, I am paying for the same quality of content as when I did not pay; I am wasting money.

Theoretically, if everyone paid for a news subscription, then News Organization could afford to produce content that relies less, or ideally not at all, on advertising. However, as it stands, I do not trust the quality of News Organization, because it currently relies on advertising, and consequently does not optimize for quality: accuracy, timeliness, transparency and newsworthiness.

I realized I don’t like to program practical things. Also, everything useful has been made. What else do we need to program? Most of our problems now stem not from lack of tech but from a lack of social will.

As a relatively young person, we will be fine--changed subjectively, sure. In the vein of Heidegger: Human + TikTok = TikTokHuman. As we learned from Prohibition, artificially restricting consumer freedom never works. The market does not and should not coddle those who make choices against their interests. Addicts can change, however difficult it may be, if they so choose. On the other hand, if this line of reasoning is incorrect, then we have a serious issue with some very fundamental principles of our extant community.

The fact is that TikTok is currently superior to other apps in terms of user engagement. As a consumer, I understand that a business simply exists to generate profit, and while I can and do benefit from this pursuit of profit, our relationship remains adversarial; consequently, my allegiance is mercenary. TikTok is the best product, so I use it.

I wonder why U.S. firms pay U.S. senators to loosen data privacy laws, such that they can compete with TikTok. U.S. firms seem to think that the cost changing privacy laws is greater than the cost of paying news outlets to turn public opinion against a business rival.

I welcome this trend, since it gives workers more leverage to negotiate higher wages. The whole reason serfdom transitioned to capitalism was a massive reduction of workers due to the Black Plague.

Seems neat, but is there any research to suggest that this works? I'm skeptical because I'm given a claim, "This will help you read faster", and then asked to test the claim, which primes me to think I am reading faster, regardless of whether I actually am.

K but Russia is where we all illegally stream from right now.

I think most software has stagnated because we have hit a wall in terms of user interface until AR/VR/Brain interface improves.

I have a few assorted goalposts:

* Where are the AR glasses? Google dropped the ball.

* I need to be able wave my hand to send things to other people's eyes.

* Most games still can't play at 60 fps, which is 2006-era tech.

* VR headsets are still poor quality.

* Cloud gaming still can't achieve < 1ms input delay. What's up with that? How am I going to post a multi-speedrun where a program randomly switches between game tabs?

* Interfaces in general are slow. There needs to be as little delay as possible between my thoughts/actions and the computer's response.

* Why can't an iPad simulate the sensation of texture? Tracing lines in sand with my finger on my phone was a cool webgl tech demo 10 years ago. Now I want to feel the sand.

* Self-driving cars still don't work.

> Entertainment is too much like drugs

I watched an interview from the 80's-90's in which a developer discusses the process of coming up with a concept for an arcade machine. They said something like "It's like trying to create digital drugs."

> the new generation of programmers looks down on how the world is GUI dependent

I personally think we have a good mix of GUI and terminal apps right now. They both have their uses.

> That's too easy

I feel like making a GUI app is harder precisely because of the added development work.

> Programmers are no longer excited about tech

I'm less enchanted with having to know several frameworks before getting a job, rather than simply understanding a language/paradigm well and being quickly onboarded, but that's probably just a sign that I personally shouldn't be a software developer.

I will be editing this on an on-going basis.

To my understanding:

1. Russia declared two regions of a whole country--Ukraine--sovereign.

2. Russia is moving its troops into those regions on the premise that the citizens of these Ukraine regions seek sovereignty.

3. Sovereignty is valid only if other countries recognize it.

4. Russia recognizes these regions as sovereign.

5. All countries who are not Russia--or at least members of NATO--recognize Ukraine. Borrowing from regex, let's refer to the latter group as `NATO+`.

Torrents are hard, too. To avoid getting sued one needs to pay a VPN subscription (Paying a business for a service, kind of ironic for a pirate). And even then, people have been caught because they use identifying information to sign up for the VPN. This problem is solved by using a VPN that doesn't keep logs, but how does one know which service to trust? Furthermore, once the data is downloaded, one has to manage it: dealing with hardware failures and the sheer data size. The data can be uploaded to the cloud, but then one risks deletion for copyright violation. The workaround for this is encryption, but then one has the hassle of managing encryption keys at the risk of losing access to their data.

This is where I'm at. Yesterday I was making a list of all the technologies that I felt I needed to learn. So far:

Javascript Node Next.js Kubernetes Typescript npm yarn Gulp Docker Electron Webassembly Ember.js Vue.js React Angular.js

It's honestly frustrating, because there's too much stuff.

Idk. I just give them my info and TurboTax navigates the labyrinth that is the U.S. Tax Code. I was actually pleasantly surprised with how easy TT made things. Maybe it's bad that TT gives my info to third parties, but arguing against the practice is fighting an uphill battle because it requires listing a bunch of hypotheticals.

When it comes to taxes, I simply don't care as long as someone can tell me how much I owe!

Oh interesting, I didn’t know this. So an i3 is just partially botched i7

Agreed. Everything is becoming a service and we just sort of need to deal with it.