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yowo··on 120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom
I despise everything about google, from surveillance and user hostility to monopoloy and genocide enablement, but I can understand this change everytime I look at my grandparents app menus, for me, it feels patronizing to have to wait 24hrs to enable basic functionality, but I can understand where does this come from.

Anyways, it is a good thread to remind people that Motorola partnered with GrapheneOS and will release GrapheneOS compatible devices next year.

yowo··on 120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom
GraphenOS?
yowo··on Our position on open-weights models
Conclusion: open weights models are good for Anthropic because they shows the so called threat that will make congress allow pouring money in Anthropic for national security & AI arms race
yowo··on The kids with phones are alright
I don't have a particular opinion about smartphone/social media ban for minors, but the argument made here is at best a strawman fallacy, there is no law that prevents minors from having a digital camera that can be used to collect evidence or document malicious actions, and they aren't more expensive than phones.
yowo··on Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church
Completely wiped out? Christian copts were the majority for more than a century after Egypt became under Islamic rule, the shift took centuries of immigration and fertility rate changes. Many churches still stands in Egypt where they were before Islamic rule.

The copts themselves welcomed Islamic conquest as Muslims gave them more rights than previous rulers.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Egypt/From-the-Islamic-conq...

You are attempt to disguise your hate as history is a failure.

yowo··on Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
I have a serious question for everyone who reading through comments: If you get a great paying position in a business that is clearly managed by too ambitious people and will never succeed, given that you are legally not a part of the potential fraud ring that you can't prove, just an engineer closing issues and merging patches, would you reject it?
yowo··on Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
This is like saying a user who clone a random git repo is not to blame and git-scm should do more to prevent cloning of malicious repos. If it is not official, it is your job to review, if you dont like it, use iOS instead of Arch Linux.

If you crash your car, you are liable for the accident. If you aren't ready for that, take the bus.

More power = more responsibility

yowo··on Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
Maybe US OFAC has missed one particular state
yowo··on Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
What a surprise..
yowo··on Surprise, pay $1000
Unpleaseant experience and all, but sounds like complaining about not reading the full terms and then being shocked after the first bill, which is ok if you are buying a personal service, but that's a no-no in business.

The argument of "like many early startup do, we oversaw this and ignored that" doesn't really make it better.

yowo··on The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies
Better idea, mandate 4 days work week and 30 days PTO, the labor squeeze such law would cause will bring wages up and offsets AI productivity boost impact and pays people back in lifetime.
yowo··on Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets
- Global economy on the verge of depression.

- ChatGPT drops, AI is perfect to be our savior.

- AI glorified as the great messiah.

- Everyone worships stocks even remotely related to AI.

- Execs desperate for relevance boast about tokenmaxxing.

- SHTF

- burst

- last year flagship GPUs and DRAM are sold used for the price of a burger.

- Laidoff people start using local AI as hardware price drops to make actual useful stuff

- New round of bootstrapped tech bros that eventually give birth to the new metaverse/NFT/etc.. hype.

yowo··on The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100
4-day work week is one of the fastest ways to distribute AI productivity gains back to public
yowo··on Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality
Wow, many dictatorships wouldn't mind this level of speech.
yowo··on Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
1600 years old in Egypt isn't ancient
yowo··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
No, give him a handshake and thank him for being a good teacher who didn't let me and my colleagues turn the class to a zoo and teached us discipline.

Corporal punishment is not bad when its fair, not arbitrary, unjust, nor physically damaging.

yowo··on Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
I literaly switched away from banks whose apps dont work on GrapheneOS
yowo··on Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
> This is, again, a children's book.

Children are capable of understanding cruelty, pain, death, suffering, in young age, overprotectiveness is why we have many >20 y/o people who can't speak for themselves and are overly shy.

yowo··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
I was hit with wooden 100cm ruler in middle school multiple times, it is painful for an hour or so but not emotionally damaging or anything, I'd be happy to meet that teacher today, I dropped out from high school eventually after I've been reducled and mocked at by a principal repeatedly as I didn't like to shave my facial hair, which I assume happen all the time and isn't as controversial. I kept dreaming of vandalizing his car for a decade but didn't want to get in trouble.