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I think I can see the problem here…

How else will you make it so that people can’t find anything better to do than work for a pittance and shop?

Also defunding arts, sciences, academia, and anything that might improve people’s lives, and making minorities suffer more.

You won’t know if you’re being influenced by propaganda. You’ll feel you’re immune if it’s working well.

Propaganda usually works at a deeper level. It can nudge your attention towards some things and away from others, so that you don’t even realize you could have attended to other things. It can frame what you consider important or unimportant. It can subtly influence what facts you’re exposed to, or what you consider a fact from a trustworthy source. It can nudge your emotions and perceptions of trustworthiness, shape your unquestioned narratives and unconscious assumptions, influence how you form associations, mold your incentives, and determine what you’ll never see or hear and never know you’re missing. There are many voices in this world that, by design, you haven’t heard, and others that, by design, you don’t consider worth listening to.

Forming an opinion involves prior beliefs, definitions, and judgements about credibility and what counts as evidence. Propaganda steers these steps, not just the conscious opinion-forming you are aware of. By the time you’re aware that you’re forming an opinion based on facts, propaganda has often already done its work, and if you wind up undecided that might be exactly the intended result.

It’s pretty sad that some people are so lonely even AI feels like companionship. The issue isn’t that these older people are undiscerning and easily pleased, it’s that they’re desperately lonely.

These laws, near-identical versions of which are being rammed through in many countries simultaneously, could make it legally and financially infeasible for anyone but wealthy corporations to run online services. You have to suspect this is by design.

The effect will be that all communication has to go through censored, commercial channels with integrated deep surveillance. Political dissidents will be unable to organize without being flagged, and left-wing messages will be easy to suppress. Combine it with the recent tendency to cut left organizations off from banking and payment systems, and it starts to look pretty attractive to governments who know their populations are going to be angry about what is coming.

The climate crisis is really starting to bite and our political and economic systems are only equipped to serve the wealthy few. If the next crash is the big one and people start to starve, governments and the few they serve are going to need all the tools of suppression they can get.

I know my colleagues and former colleagues, and have reason to be confident it didn’t.

I think it’s fine for people to give the most cursory explanation here, just enough to help someone understand what’s funny. There are plenty of other sites where one can learn about Rust’s borrow checker in more detail, and this is a humor community.

I wouldn’t expect anyone to know about it unless they had taken an interest in Rust. It’s pretty unusual.

legacy code at least used to make sense at some point in the past.

That assumption doesn’t hold where I work.

They have plans for winning the midterms even if the people don’t vote for them.

With the number of countries trying to crack down on privacy-focused phone OSs, I’m a little worried Motorola may get cold feet after talking to its lawyers. Has Motorola made any public statement promising these phones are coming?

Yes, I have always enjoyed trying to create elegant architecture and code, more than I get satisfaction from the end result. I’ve always found it frustrating how many colleagues were prepared to throw together any old junk as long as the right thing came out in the end. On the positive side, maybe the AI does raise the quality of what some of them contribute.

Maybe they edited README.md by hand.

This is the new normal, it seems. My developer colleagues are bragging about how long it has been since they wrote a line of code.

So does the US Government. If you’re in any way active in left-wing politics, or what the fascists would perceive to be left-wing politics, it’s unwise to use Windows.

It’s great that umbrellas can now contain more toxic chemicals, rare minerals and disposable batteries, but can we also please make it depend on an app and a paid subscription, contain an AI assistant that tells you whether it’s raining, and report in real time on all your movements and conversations?

One single kind of bacterium.

Or leave Android altogether and get a Linux phone. You’ll have more control but it won’t be as slick.

At first Google does plan to offer something called “advanced flow” that will let you install what you want. But this doesn’t address the chilling effect for developers (some are just getting out of Android rather than registering and paying Google), or the censorship power it hands to Google to make “undesirable” apps harder to obtain and install. And there’s no guarantee they won’t just withdraw “advanced flow” one day.

https://developer.android.com//developer-verification/guides/faq#advanced-flow

The best way to avoid it is by installing an OS that doesn’t include the developer verification component.