I am not knowledgeable about this, I just checked the Wikipedia page to confirm my understanding of the joke and found these very interesting historical uses.

Octal 31 = 3 x 8¹ + 1 x 8⁰ = 24 + 1 = Decimal 25

• The Yuki language in California has an octal system because the speakers count using the spaces between their fingers rather than the fingers themselves.[2]
• The Pamean languages in Mexico also have an octal system, because some of their speakers “count the knuckles of the closed fist for each hand (excluding the thumb), so that two hands equals eight.”[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal

The tobacco industry is a good historical example of all the shit world dominating companies do. The most sneaky thing I can remember is that they finance perfectly good research on a lot of causes of cancer, except for tobacco, so researchers were too busy and happy to get some money to work on something, to investigate tobacco. They also have been buying companies that used to finance legitimate research so researchers that depended on them are now forced into a conflict of interest. https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q1153

Personal anecdote, a young female data scientists left my current department to join Philip Morris, it blows my mind that young educated people would join this industry willingly, I guess it was for the money.

Latex hell? Good luck

Sure, not just world wide like the USA currently.

For now, once China becomes the dominant power, they will certainly abuse it as much as the USA do.

You may be interested by this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification.

Prominent examples of verified software systems include the CompCert verified C compiler and the seL4 high-assurance operating system kernel.

I was making a joke because it seems AI intervened against the person in independent times, but thank you for your efforts.

You could share sources about this? I don’t know about your biases.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ars-technica/ gives a factual reporting score and political bias estimation.

I hope it’s the first proof of general AI consciousness.

Isn’t it already the case to steal from companies? I don’t know if things like Shai Hulud 2.0 qualifies as malware. Companies are much more lucrative targets so I am not sure personal Linux is changing much.

I wonder if they could immediately comprehend that or they would get stuck and incapable of using it for a while because of how inconceivable it was for their time.

As said in the article, in Western Europe you can already use Wero to bypass those and it is spreading in Europe. In France, for the past 40 years, the “CB” network has been available for every basic bank payment card, which is also Independent from the Americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_Bank_Card_Group I think the new initiative will spread, unify and simplify things.

It’s true for software engineering because the salaries in NA are insane due to the insane profits those companies are making. But for the average job, life is better.

Only from free and open source sustenance, he is disgusted by anything else.

That’s possible, I don’t know about the heavy industries. Checked for Toyota, founder was an engineer, second family CEO was also engineer, third was MBA, current CEO is not from the family and is an engineer. In any case, I don’t think having an engineer CEO guarantees anything, aren’t the GAFAM mostly led by engineers but got enshitifified for short term profit anyways?

Are they? Rakuten is led by a business guru and the products are subpar unless they bought them. Also Japan has a huge deficit of native (software) engineers, so most of the engineers at this kind of companies are Chinese and Indian. Which companies are you thinking about?

I didn’t either, but then I started being shocked by some positions I saw randomly on Lemmy that I never did on Reddit, and then I understood the pattern. I had no idea what a tankie was before coming to Lemmy.

The explanation you got is fairly positive. The negative side (depending on your own compass) is that they have the reputation to host a lot (majority ?) of tankies, which creates tensions, with people who defend democracy for exemple. See this definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie You likely ended up on the lemmy.ml because it’s one of the major instances and it is administrated by the core developers of Lemmy, which themselves are openly defending things related to the article above.