Fucking stupidest idea I ever seen.

The US has more guns than its total population. Real GUN CONTROL is needed.

For that matter, it was the same problem the US then faced back when it was getting much of their electronics from Japan, as the Soviet threat loomed so large.

I always think about what creates revolutions (and counter-revolutions), and most cases the lack of a single thing usually causes the affected classes to rise up. Something really needs to break the bastards.

Fucking bastard is the convergence of all evil going on in the last few years. Unless one morning they wake up to their neighborhoods patrolled by “militia” in their brodozers, what’s gonna take people to shock them up into outrage, and it’s not just the minorities or the progressives?

Also known as profiling.

Where I am and due to its greater practicality, nursing is more popular as a college course than compsci.

I once started as compsci, but instead got a job fixing PCs. Also self-learned basic carpentry and plumbing. Looking at raising livestock in the near future.

How do investors keep falling for this shit.

The ROI and the supposed savings from getting rid of the human side of technical support but also efforts of human creatives.

A platform for people in developing countries, however. In some cases it supplants most if not all of the functions of what used to be several programs for Internet access and communication.

I mentioned Facebook because I’m seeing some people trying to share information how to grift with AI.

1. It’s theft to digital artisans, as AI-generated works tend to derive heavily without even due credit.
2. It further discourages what’s called critical thinking.
3. It’s putting even technically competent people out of work.
4. It’s grift for and by techbros.

I like the lemmy mindset far more than reddit

…and Facebook.

Another fucking asshole.

AI startup Perplexity has offered Google $34.5 billion to buy the Chrome browser. The price might be below evaluation, but the company may be forced to sell the browser at the request of U.S. authorities as part of a case in which it was found guilty of being a monopoly.

https://x.com/80Level/status/1955488788861555082

Might as well be wanting all that juicy personal information from which to mine not only for profit but also for sending a SWAT team through the door without a court order and a search warrant. Or, sending a Hellfire missile through a window of a house somewhere in Pakistan.

Damn sure was clickbaity. No ads? Buy YT Premium they say.

Whoopee. Saved you a click.

I stopped using ABP years ago and switched to uBlock Origin. That and some *Monkey scripts.

Easy for them, but not everyone else. I’m saying this as someone who’s into PCs, used both OS, fixing them for a very long time, and seen a lot different kinds of userbases – some who don’t have formal PC use training. That in my part of the world, while Android is pretty prevalent for smartphones and gaming on them, pirated Windows is still being used for PCs because it’s so familiar for a lot of people, it’s almost the default, but for how long that’s gonna last as Windows is being made more like locked with DRMs and shit like that.

“Install Linux, Problem Solved.”

Seriously, I’d like to see Linux made better so much non-technical people can use it without any further technical assistance, most notably, computer games that are normally functional and easy to install under Windows.

Because some are artisans and see that their work is being pillaged for AI “training”.

Seethe hard Santis.

I refuse ever touching an AI-driven app or feature, having seen too much slop.

I’d rather call myself a rejectionist than something called fancy.

Javlar!

Embrace? With so many devs constantly being laid off, how about NO?