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While users can be demanding, this reads like a very immature response. Going out of your way to block support and prohibit packaging, which you can let others do with 0 seconds of your time, is kinda rude.

Author may have been harassed for all I know, but this is still an emotional response. They could have just said "yeah I'm not supporting this at all, figure it out yourselves if you want to" rather than actively blocking Linux functionality/packaging, which is what this sounds like.

At this point the only phone I would be excited for would be the Motorolas with GrapheneOS. Wouldn't mind paying a little premium for them either.

That's really not true. I've seen the term antifa (standing for anti-fascism) used plenty for many decades now.

We've had antifa spray tags in my school's walls.

It may seems obscure to some parts of the world but for those of us who suffered under fascism multiple times (south Europe) it's a very familiar phrase from a long time before trump become president.

And that's the AI industry endgame. A world where developers are no more and people can only get software tools or apps from them by paying insane fees.

They want this for everything, not just software. Skillsets, knowledge bases, web searching, reasoning and logic.

They flat out admitted that with statements like "we want intelligence to be a commodity that people buy from us".

They are fascism-craving sociopaths. That's it.

Depressing bit of the day: I don't have the source with me right now but there was a claim on youtube that the top 1% make up for like half of the consumer market in the USA.

Half of everything sold in dollars is done by the ultra rich. Everyone else is basically irrelevant and driven to extinction under capitalism, if that is accurate.

Reading from NTFS is nearly flawless. Writing and actively using it is pretty bad occasionally though, to the point where steam doesn't support it and recommends against it for game libraries on Linux.

His supposedly labour government has also doubled down on censoring wikipedia, calling people pedo-sympathizers for resisting absurd internet control laws that literally affect every digital facing international company, and is now promoting a digital ID straight out every digital era authoritatians or fascist's wet dreams.

Is he better than sunak? Probably? Kinda? That's a very low bar though and the fact that we even talk about it is sad. Their actions have been so much unlike what people think about when voting labour parties that it's surreal.

People reasonably feel cheated on given the party's supposed focus.

Lol no they won't. Consumer buying power keeps diminishing as a % of the overall market. Businesses just sell to each other and everyone outside of mass ownership is being turned into a surf for feudalism 2.0 (now with digital circus slop).

Sounds like win-win really.

This isn't typical price gouging. It's an industry moving away from consumers because our buying power is nothing compared to large corporations running on AI circlejerk VCs.

Private platforms have every right to ban you, even if they just don't like you or your political beliefs. Censorship is mostly happening by the government and systematic media.

And that is why federated platforms are so important. If most people don't wanna see someone's bullshit they can ban him. And he has the right to run his own instance.

Note that I'm not defending Tate here. Many of his words and actions are actually harmful or hateful and he deserves to be arrested.

But there's a line between "illegal/harmful" and "unlikeable" which we need to remember.

That's basically saying that "big tech" (as we know it today) and competition-friendly capitalism just cannot coexist. Which I'm inclined to agree with.

Point A) I've tried less frequent "yes" swipes and overall match rate was about the same.

Point B) calling people "low value" sounds like disgusting incel-speech and I think we should all avoid it and embrace the different qualities and virtues we all have.

I hate both the AI bubble (not the science behind it) and private jets and billionaires if that makes you feel better.

Also, global aviation serves an extremely useful function. Not sure that compares to fancy code autocomplete and media generation that either invalidates digital evidence in legal courts or looks like an insult to life itself.

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That sounds very US specific ngl.

Because it's not about the kids.

The UK, or any government, could instead use the money for OSA to create a protocol/mandate that phone and net providers need to adhere to, which enables parents to restrict to adult content. Heck, phone-only sims and adult traffic control administered via "parent accounts" would deal with almost the entire problem seeing how most young people use phones for internet access anyways instead of laptops and desktops.

But it's not about the kids. It's about control and having an excuse to abolish privacy.

People in comments are talking the "boomer cRPG" alias way too literally when it's just a metaphor for "old school" much like we had for years with unreal and older Dooms being dubbed "boomer shooters".

Yes boomer is used metaphorically to just mean "old" instead of "made in the 50s-60s or made by someone of that generation".

Even if it worked it wouldn't. Neoliberals and free-market advocates will tell you that competitors would rise up if there were no regulations.

But some industries (like silicon and microchips and other advanced tech) are just impossible to breakthrough without years or decades of setting up and operating without profit vs current players.

And those current players, given no market regulations, will still use their money to do anything possible to stifle upcoming competitors or buy them out.

The dream of capitalism was born pre industrial age, under models of "apples sold at the farmers' market".

The reality is we have advanced a lot and need mixed economies to keep things fair for most people.