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Kraiden ,

Recently found out about https://elan.school/ which ended up being run by ex "students." It's not the same thing, but there are parallels. Conversion therapy is essentially brainwashing at it's core, and I find it fascinating (in a horrifying, train crash, can't look away, kind of way) that in both cases, ex members become involved in perpetuating the horror.

eta: I agree it does not absolve them

Kraiden ,

I'd say it's because Apple's implementation isn't essentially spyware at it's core. The Microsoft implementation was straight up deranged and dangerous, frankly.

Kraiden ,

Dear god please no. This way madness lies. Your idea of "whatever you think works best" is not going to line up with whatever the next person that comes along thinks, and your codebase is about to get all kinds of fucked up.

Thinking code complete is going to save you is naive. Even in languages like C and Java, where it works best, you still need to be able to read and understand the code in context. There's no hope in a language like Ruby with all it's meta programming stuff

Kraiden ,

Yes and no. I agree that camel vs snake or that stupid mNameThing that was popular for a while, doesn't reeeeeaaally matter, although I would argue that convention over the language still has value. As an example, naming a Java variable with a capital letter would be confusing and annoying to any new devs joining the project, even if it's a valid identifier. Also it's handy to be able to look at something in ALL_CAPS and know that it's probably a static final, without having to check it's definition. I guess it's about finding that line between useful conventions and pedantry.

Kraiden ,

It's gonna be the political showdown of the century

Kraiden ,

Hey, don't beat yourself up about it. Who hasn't accidentally bombed a camp of displaced peoples? The important thing is to apologize and try not to get caught bomb the next one.

Kraiden ,

Is this so you can yell "DOWN QUARK" when he jumps up on the sofa?

Kraiden ,

Now we're scraping the bottom Quark of the barrel?

(Come on, someone do better than this please, this was terrible!)

Kraiden ,

"Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass"

iPhones And Androids Can Now Warn You of 'Secret Trackers' (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

In a collaborative effort, Apple and Google have developed an industry-standard detection feature called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” (DULT) for Bluetooth trackers. This standard allows users on iOS and Android devices to be alerted if an unknown Bluetooth tracker is monitoring their location.

Kraiden ,

I... partially agree? There's a bit of a difference between the targeted tracking a private individual does with an airtag, vs the generalized, but equally creepy tracking google/apple/others do through widespread tech. One definitely poses a greater short term risk than the other

Kraiden ,

Psh, I'm already doing that! I'm using smoke signals to write this right now!

Serious response: How would a movement like that spread awareness of itself?

There needs to be a way to only get one push notification for every new message in a group chat

I dont know about others, but sometimes I am not able to check my phone, or be fully present in a conversation that I’m part of. Maybe I’m concentrating on work, or driving, and not able to look. It gets distracting when my phone is constantly buzzing and chiming for 5 minutes straight. Muting the chat can help, but if you...

Kraiden ,

I feel like it's app dependent. We use discord, and I feel like I get 1 notification per channel, but then other apps like LinkedIn (for shame!) are fucking incessant, and will REnotify me multiple times for things I've already dismissed. It's infuriating.

Kraiden ,

those running Facebook groups routinely find that their content isn’t even being shown to those who choose to follow them thanks to Meta’s outright abusive approach to social media where the customer is not only wrong, but should ideally have little control over what they see.

inhales deeply
## ARE NOT THE CUSTOMER!!! YOU ARE THE PRODUCT!!!!

It astounds me how many people STILL don't understand this

Kraiden , (edited )

They should take it literally, because it is meant literally!

They're not exploiting customers, they are exploiting people. Those people are NOT their customers.

Facebook is literally selling people in data form. Everything you post, everyone you interact with, everything you look at across most of the web (not just facebook.com) is all catalogued and used to create a fingerprint that is a digital representation of you, and that is their product! "Essence of /u/Melt for sale here"

Their customers are advertisers.

ETA: Link

Kraiden ,

I prefer flipping that number on it's head. 15%. They delivered 15% of what they promised and are now saying "fuck it."

It's the equivalent of writing your name on the exam, and then sitting there doodling for the rest of the time.

Kraiden ,

I've just spent the last 3 days reading this off of your rec. It's... wild. And then to follow it up by seeing this is just... too weird.

Kraiden ,

After covid, this strikes me as a dangerous thing to say. Are you an immunologist and could you expound on this?

Kraiden ,

Thanks, that was a great answer! I had no idea it was so complicated. I was definitely in the naive camp there.

Kraiden ,

You're forgetting about the schmuck on the other end of that equation that has to answer the same question a thousand times over.

Kraiden ,

I feel this. I'm well aware that if my partner wasn't on Facebook, we wouldn't have a social life. I HATE that fact, but that, sadly, is where people put their events. I don't think I'd join if she left, but I can't deny that I benefit from her being on the platform.

She won't leave until everybody else does, and they won't leave until everybody else does, and so nobody leaves. It's dystopian.

Kraiden ,

you had me at "emotional support fish"

Kraiden ,

YES

Kraiden ,

Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Hamilton has published more than 130 papers, proceedings, and reports, about sixty projects, and six major programs. She invented the term "software engineering", stating "I began to use the term 'software engineering' to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process."

On November 22, 2016, Hamilton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from president Barack Obama for her work leading to the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions.

Huh, didn't know about her! She sounds like a badass lady!

Kraiden ,

Net neutrality is the status quo, it's not trying to "solve" anything

Kraiden ,

To. Protect. It.

You really have no idea what you're talking about, do you?

Kraiden ,

signed, Hugh Mann

Kraiden ,

nature is metal

Kraiden ,

Aaaaand the DDG enshitification begins... continues? continues.

Kraiden ,

Have they said that or are you just implying that? It's beta right now but I'd put money on them following in Google's footsteps and integrating right into the main search.

It's enshitification because instead of simply fixing their crappy SEO laden results, they're pushing this new thing.

I'm also willing to bet that once it's out of beta there will be either a limit on free searches or it'll just be straight up subscription model.

And just like that, normal search is dead, and the only viable option is to pay for their new thing

Kraiden ,

"VR in the 80s" is my go to analogy. Sooo many promises, such tantalizing potential.... and zero follow through

Kraiden ,

So. Much. Denim.

Jeople watching!

Kraiden ,

Did you even read the article? That's literally what they're calling for. The removal of subsidies.

As for everyone needing to pitch in, just no. The vast majority of emissions come from sources outside public control. The "everyone needs to pitch in" and "watch your personal carbon footprint" crap is just effective marketing from BP.

Not saying cutting down personal emissions is bad, every little helps...

but it's not a solution. We need to be holding the big emmiters accountable.

The only realistic way to doing that is through inconvenient protests like blocking roads and making sure we can't be ignored. How else do you force governments to turn on their benefactors?

It's been over 50 years now, and we've seen very little real movement on this. it's been mostly token and empty gestures, and pandering. It's time we stepped up our game.

Soooo she's got the right idea imo

Kraiden ,

so I've just giving it a quick test vs google with the query "open source chromecast alternative"

the first result for both is a reddit post about NymphCast

it's the rest of the results that are interesting though.

Google has a ycombinator news article about NymphCast and then decends into the usual "17 best chromecast alternatives in 2024" rubbish

Kagi on the other hand lists the github for NymphCast, and then goes on to list others... mirrorCast, pyCaster, free Cast, an article on using a raspberry pi as a chromecast alternative.

obviously this is only anecdotal, and very unscientific, but it's got me interested for sure! Gonna bookmark it and see how it goes

Kraiden ,

I take your point, and agree when it comes to Google

But here's rabbit hole for anyone interested. That brand name being synonymous with the product thing is actually fairly regional.

We just call them tissues here. I think you can get Kleenex brand here, but I don't think anybody cares about the brand of tissue. There's a particular kind that has some kind of aloe Vera extract which is all I'll use if I'm sick, but I don't even know what brand they are.

On the flip side, we call marker pens Biros, and where I grew up we called them Khokis

Kraiden ,

it's on the chromecast remote as well now. Is there an open source chromecast alternative?

Kraiden ,

I'm willing to bet canceling will be instant too

Kraiden ,

look at em

Kraiden ,

I have a kobo Clara, and I love it for the most part. I just really wish they'd release a USB C version. It's literally the last of my devices still using micro

Kraiden ,

interior crocodile alligator, I drive a Chevrolet movie the-atre

Kraiden ,

Youtube Shorts is the absolute worst for this. Just recently it's massively trying to push transphobic BS at me, and I cannot figure out why. I dislike, report and "do not recommend this channel" every time, and it just keeps shoving more at me. I got a fucking racist church sermon this morning. it's broken!

Kraiden ,

So that looks like main long form content. I'm specifically talking about youtube shorts which is Google's version of TikTok

Kraiden ,

Imagine watchibg let alone even having the option for shorts.

I like shorts for the most part

Report for what?

Misinformation and hatespeech mostly. They have some crazy, false pseudoscience to back their "opinions" and they express them violently. Like it or not, these videos "promote hatred against a protected group" and are expressly against youtube TOS. Reporting them is 100% appropriate.

Photo agencies are refusing to publish a portrait of Kate Middleton with her children over concerns it was manipulated (www.businessinsider.com)

The Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse all released kill notifications to media outlets over the photo — released by Kensington Palace on Sunday — announcing that they would no longer be distributing the image....

Kraiden ,

I don't understand what would be photoshopped in that part of the image though. it's too far down to be Kate's hand, and if the kid was photoshopped in, why is her dress underneath showing through? The shop could only be concealing something ON the kid, right?

My guess is she was holding a doll or something and that's what was manipulated out

I'm also not actually following any of this this though. Anybody got a TL;DR in what the conspiracy theorists are claiming?

Kraiden ,

I'm an adult and I still do weird stuff with my fingers. I absolutely cross my fingers like that.

conspiracy theorists gonna conspiracy I guess

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Kraiden ,

I do weirder shit as a stimming thing too

Kraiden ,

Not sure if these images are going through everywhere, so maybe have a look at my instance?

And the second one

Kraiden ,

So I'm mostly in agreement with you and I've said before I think we're at the "VR in the 80's" point with AI

I'm genuinely curious about the legit use you've seen for NFTs specifically though. I've only ever seen scams

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