I used to fairly frequently hit dead ends on Linux, e.g. regarding Wifi drivers or getting some (Linux) applications running. But the driver situation has improved greatly, and thanks to Flatpak, Distrobox & co. I’ve only ever run into one application I couldn’t install - a corporate antivirus. Whoopsie!

Unfortunately there’s still plenty of unencrypted traffic from normal usage (e.g. DoH is still fairly rare).

No, the logic was that replacing a GPL project with an MIT project is bad.

Godot didn’t replace an existing broadly used GPL game engine, so this is irrelevant.

If every AI company steals the public data separately, it means massively increased costs for everyone who is getting their data stolen. If the AI companies “steal” from each other it’s much better for everyone else.

Hm, alright, I can see that - but to me, this is an example of business practices that the GDPR is explicitly trying to restrict. Of course it will be difficult to delete someone’s data if you’ve been sharing it with many other companies.

Could you expand on some of these challenges? We haven’t had these issues in any companies I’ve worked at, but those were mostly on the smaller side.

As a passionate Golang hater, I can gladly explain!

• It’s not just the repeated if err != nil, even though that’s already bad enough. But the really fucked up part is the := bullshit. It makes moving code around unnecessarily annoying, and it’s telling that few other languages share Golang’s approach.
• The lowercase/uppercase rules for private/public stuff is theoretically not a horrible idea, but it makes the code look much more inconsistent. I find _ much easier to read, and this leaves upper/lower to signal other details. But I see that this is mostly personal preference.
• Fairly basic operations take much, much more code than they should (e.g. deserializing JSON while handling extra args, or basic functional operations - though that should change sooner rather than later with the new generic methods, right?)
• The decision to initialize every non-pointer primitive with the “bottom value” (or whatever it’s called again) makes sense in isolation, but it’s really unfortunate that they don’t support additive types, because this means a bunch of common tasks need to use pointers, and unfortunately the type system is worthless when it comes to preventing segfaults caused by bugs with pointers.
• I find that most Go libraries have basically no documentation, if you’re lucky you get an example that might vaguely be related to whatever you want to know. I’ve had much better experiences in other languages.

All in all IMO most Go code is 5x longer than necessary to actually express itself in a readable manner, all because the language still doesn’t have proper error handling or generic support (until recently at least). At the same time it’s fairly inflexible, the type system is still shallow and basic, and it’s still way too easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

The only good thing Go has going is the single file deployments, but I’ll gladly spend one hour of every remaining day of my life setting up containers, if it means I never have to touch anything Go again.

A lion does not concern himself with the opinions of sheep.

So please don’t be mean, sheep, or the lion will start crying.

Weird question to ask through radio, over.

But that would drastically change the message, no? People should choose to leave the Matrix because the reward is living in reality, even if it’s harder and there’s no other reward.

Hm, I think it does make the message stronger. If a single event (development of sentient machines) leads to our downfall, it’s easy to shrug it off as “bad luck”, because who could have foreseen it back then?

But if we had multiple chances to correct course and we kept fucking up, it removes any doubt that it’s a human flaw, which means “humanity must reflect and change, or this is the inevitable conclusion”.

AI could be useful if it could orchestrate more complex tasks that the relevant apps don’t natively support. But of course that’s not what we’re getting.

I use lots and lots of timers every day to structure my chores and work. For example, I’d sometimes love to be able to start one timer, and have another one set to automatically start as soon as I stop the ringing from the first (which might take a few minutes).

Very simple requirements, but specialized enough that I’d have to write it myself. But I can’t see phone AIs supporting something like this in this decade.

That’s good! But I’d still prefer if I and the other 44% could at least say “please stop producing and sending us trash”.

They should really make mailed advertisements opt-in, but of course the industry won’t do that. And this what makes it cancerous IMO: they never give up trying to inject ads into people’s lives.

OTOH, it seems like ~44% of junk mail gets thrown away without ever being opened: https://zerojunkmail.org/environmental-impact

That’s a bunch of environmental destruction and personal annoyances caused, so the label “cancer” seems fair to me.

I have no idea how they fucked up that scroll wheel so badly. There’s a setting you can change through logid to make it at least click while scrolling, but still!

I used to not get any as well. Then for a new job I had to sign up with an American company, and since I didn’t have a company phone yet, I used my private number.

Since then it’s been multiple calls/messages per day, but over the years it’s died down. I fucking hate it so much.

Ah yes, sorry, I forgot we’re deliberately ignoring all nuance. So I agree: no matter from which perspective we look at it, there’s literally zero reason for the politicians to show a stronger reaction towards completely losing their own power to the fascist regime.

Of course they do if they don’t want an open confrontation with the state’s own forces.

You’re trolling, right? I can’t imagine why I’d have to explain this otherwise.

Laws aren’t magical spells that change reality. If Republicans introduce a law saying “you must have a passport to vote”, people can still vote without a passport as long as nobody prevents them from doing so. Republicans can send ICE to polling stations in blue states to prevent people from voting without a passport.