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The great feedback loop is inevitable.

A spooky thing I noticed at one point I could search a rather vague query and Google was returning results in the programming language I was working with when the query was general enough to have been any language.

Maybe instead of Torvalds taking lessons on how to be less of an asshole, he should be teaching developers how to be more like him.

What has reddit accomplished in over a decade? That place has been nothing more than an escalating demoralization psy-op. It's given the right another central platform to push their ideologies. It's had the left preoccupied with petty squabbles.

Maybe reddit closer to 15-20 years ago would have been able to use reddit to stage actual coordinated worker demonstrations in cities around America. Over the past decade or so they've been keyboard mashing.

The world needed the open internet to bootstrap the digital revolution. It wasn't possible without the sum of humanity working altruistically to build the Library of Alexandria of software. No private entity could have possibly done it. It truly is an under appreciated marvel of the late-20th/early-21st century. FOSS contains the knowledge of software that runs the world. Now that such a thing exists I could totally see organizations (loosely speaking) wanting to conquer or ransack it. It's quite clear by now there's faction of tech with a tyrannical bent. I'd put them whoever they might be exactly as possible culprits.

A president in jail would be disastrous for the reputation of America as a country. That's been my theory as to why he will never face any real consequence. It seems like an elephant in the room. One that probably doesn't even split neatly down partisanship.

Yeah everything is broken with anti-patterns meant to kill competition.

I keep a separate Google Chrome install with no addons for government and banking. Websites break things so badly unless you're leaving yourself wide open to all their privacy snooping and what not.

For random web browsing the annoyances don't matter as much. It's unacceptable when it comes to important things. It's all by (anti-)design.

Not too long ago only anglos were considered "white" in Canada. The Trudeaus were considered mixed race for being French and English. This guy should be grateful Canada became woke enough to include him.

Google hasn't been dogfooding in a long time have they? I wonder what products Googlers use.

They already have their own x86 chips. They're a few generations behind the cutting edge. They've been catching up fast which is why the US and EU have been shitting their pants trying to wage cold war. All of a sudden ramping up the China bad narrative out of left field when not long ago they were trying to work with China rather than against them..

Much of the manufacturing difficulty we hear about with western industry is achieving highest yields possible of the most powerful chips to please ravenous shareholders demanding flawless profit gains every quarter. Capitalism problems in other words. It's much different when your goal is merely to produce computers for government office use. You can still use old computers for the majority of computing needs.

Notice the difference between complaint and threat. Minorities: "That's offensive, please don't talk that way". That guy: "Only a matter of time until we fucking come for you".

The average person makes under 100k even in reddits favorite high cost of living tech hubs where their six figures is pretty much makes them equivalent to the people on skidrow. It's amusing how when they were struggling college students the bar for rich was millionaires. Those who've made it rich themselves the bar for rich person moved up to billionaires. So now they have to wax philosophic, "what exactly is 'rich'?". You got rich. There being richer people than you doesn't change that.

Explain the same executive compensation minus tech and people will have their pitchforks out. But it's tech so which has a different set of standards because it's the internets darling.

There's more money in tech than anyone does what to do with. They give it to each other.

Are we all forgetting rm -rf has the --no-preserve-root safeguard? The accidental engine DataSource culprit seems unlikely. You can experiment yourself with in VM. It's only a couple lines of QML code. Nothing will happen without explicitly turning off safety.

The pling account that posted the theme was registered on February 25 2024. And suddently it has 3800 downloads without anyone else saying anything?

Things aren't adding up. I think this had to be intentional malicious crafted code.

The writings been on the all for a long time. Public trackers are as good as dead. People have held on to a cocky attitude that there will always be somebody to take up the mantle but that hasn't been true in so long. Anti-piracy has been winning by war of attrition.

The interest in bittorrent usage has been on a gradual decline for good decade at least. Try looking for some recent shows these days and you'll be hard pressed to find many seeders for even popular ones. You'll still be able to download it eventually but it's a long way down from the heyday when obscure content was highly available.

These days everyone has streaming subscriptions or is logging in with someones account. The dwindling number of torrenters will download and watch relatively soon after release. Then the torrent dies real quick.

I'm pretty sure to much of the younger generations piracy means getting content from pirate streaming sites more than anything. The decline of PC usage has got to be a big factor too. There just isn't anymore nerd culture of your PC being your main device much less leaving it running 24/7 with a torrent client. I bet soon enough as gen alpha comes of age, bittorrent will be a forgotten technology of the ancients.

It doesn't help that discourse online is entirely convinced that everything was absolutely perfect for the baby boomer generation. They never experienced hardship. Nope. Absolutely none. If they did it was no where near 1000 times how bad I have it.

I think I've comment this before but over the pandemic years I did a little experiment. Every day I bookmarked the obvious content reposting bot accounts on the first few pages of r/all. After a while I checked back on the accounts. The majority of them become cryptocurrency spam bots. A very small percentage spam random things. There was an extremely high success rate of picking out the bot accounts. Pretty much all them were except for maybe a handful.

spez is basically exit scamming with reddit. Whoever is buying the dataset is getting robbed blind. That's if reddit inc isn't being upfront behind closed doors. Maybe they are. After all reddit does have well over a decade of mostly organic activity. The recent data has to be absolute trash though.

Running their mouths on Discord. Using Patreon to profit from (not) piracy (but everyone knows it is). Reckless display of hubris.

We're in the middle of a technological cold war.

The calamity of another great war may not be nuclear weapons but weaponized ad tech. Maybe then will the average person comprehend the gravity of the situation we live in right now. Maybe it will be so horrifying that no conventional weapon of mass destruction would be needed to cause a digital dark age as people throw away these privacy nightmare devices.