Clearly you don't have a browser plugin that simply opts out of all cookie banners. Ultimately, the webs ites have a financial interest in malicious compliance, so you either work within the system as given or throw your hands in the air and let every and all sites rape your data.
I don't daily drive my phone for commuting anymore, but the trade-offs aren't exactly new:
- battery frustrations
- cost of a dozen cheap but good quality headphones vs a wireless equivalent
- easier to lose wireless headsets when you put them down somewhere (wired too, but way cheaper so less big deal)
- audio quality? Who knows
For people that demand noise cancelling, you need an active power source, but I personally hate noise cancellation and always turn them off. Maybe valuable in a plane with lots of engine noise.
It's just as easy? When you have a monorepo with 5 million lines of code, you're only going to focus on the part of the code you care about and forget the rest. Same with 50 repos of 100,000 loc.
Enforcing standards means actually having org level mandates around acceptable development standards, and it's enforced using tools. Those tools should be just as easily run on one monorepo than 50+ distributed repositories, nay?
Certainly any poorly configure av scanners will turn even the best computers into a heaping pile of garbage. A lot of people abandoned windows development not because the platforms were bad, but because corporate av policy was always scan everything and the performance became unbelievably slow. Now, it's so extreme, you can't enev get a windows (or shocked, Linux) requisition in so many dev shops.
I just installed it today because I was tired of apple mails mandate that I must block remote files 100% if the time (forcing me to click each time I want to see "load remote content") or let every random email I receive and preview have user tracked remote content (or the zero click bad stuff..). Thunderbird is much better at making this a balanced approach that's works well for me!
One of the best meals I ever ate was a store bought can of chiii cooked over a tiny camp burner after a long hiking through the Grand Canyon. Sometimes it's the simple things during the most exceptional situations that can cement such a strong memory... It did for me anyways.
I made a somewhat trivial app in javafx, bellsoft JVM with native graalvm/javafx included and it was an ok experience. It definitely shows the community is small, but a lot of the key issues were solvable which makes me think a few larger communities putting love j to it could reply turn things around. Kinda like redhat dumping a ton of effort into python and is kits for redhat, etc.. the love really seemed to help that community in the times it was needed.
Every "smart" tv is definitely spying on you. Your best defense is never setting it up or buying a dumb tv I'd you can still find them. Control your data! If you're going to surrender your data willingly to apple, google then fine that's a choice, but smart TVs like modern cars have no choice.
+1 for me. As a yt premium sub, I still think it'd be great if I could just pick a channel and have a recurring check to see if new content is up and to just dump them into a folder which my video player can show to avoid needing to open the app all the time. It'd work for my consumption uses better than relying on the sometimes great, sometimes terrible algorithm to surface the content I want to watch.
Let's be honest, the general public isn't using Firefox, isn't using x.com and has never heard of hacker News and if taught, they'd be afraid you were trying to scam them. We live in a pretty deep filter bubble.
Spending 6 minutes of my life engaging in political discourse is a far swing from hundreds of individuals producing a movie that took millions of dollars to produce. Both are just as easily digitally repeatable, but the expensive content is likely way more beneficial to society as a whole. I am choosing to engage in this hobby because I receive the means to provide this content recreationally. I fail to see this scaling to anything of any real quality outside of some isolated instances. For instance, some video game enthusiasts are using the work of Bethesda to make a new game call fallout London. It's a knock off fallout game using the base code engine that Bethesda built for their commercial games. The game is exceptional in that it could actually achieve a mostly compatible level of a commercial product as long as you ignore that they're leveraging the engines and story which were developed by commercial interests. In the same time, 10's to hundreds of thousands of people are employed every year to produce video games for commercial reasons. Will they all stop making games if copyright was dead? No, but the vast majority would.
Have you looked at who created these things by and large? For the most part, you have:
- aristocrats that were wealthy that didn't need to "work" to survive and put food on the table
- crafts people supported through the patronage of a rich person (or religious order) who deign to support your art
- (kinda modern world) national governments who want to support their national art often as a fear that other larger nations cultural influences will dwarf their
Are you implying that these three pillars will be able to produce anywhere near the current amount of content we produce?
How in the world where digital copies are effectively free to copy and infinitum would a creator reap any benefits from that network effect?
A modern equivalent would be famous YouTubers who all they do all day is "watch" other people's hard earned videos. The super lazy ones will not direct people to the original, don't provide meaningful commentary, just consumes the video as 'content' to feed their own audience and provides no value to the original creator. The position to kill copyright entirely would amplify this "just bypass the original source" to lower value of the original creator to zero.
Without copyright, entire industries would've been dead a long time ago, including many movies, games, books, tv, music, etc.
Just because their lobbies tend to push the boundary of copyright into the absurd doesn't mean these industries aren't worth saving. There should be actually respectful lawmakers who seek for a balance of public and commercial interests.
I dunno, maybe I didn't look deep enough, but skimming through, it feels like more a symptom of infinite growth. I think we're def. starting to plateau in many things that have had basically no growth for a long time. Anything that's gotten the attention like crypto and AI feel like "let's dump unbridled enthusiasm into this" while waiting for some real epiphany to arrive. The internet was imho the last real step forward in mankind (and a bunch of life saving drugs/vaccinations), though mass cellphone usage certainly helped to democratize it.
Employee: Microsoft gives us a 50% "discount" vs the competition but they may get hacked easier.. incentive brain mode: if i save 50%, I may get a raise. If MS gets hacked, then "everyone suffers, so it's not like I'll get the blame for this decision"... Azure 100%!!!
I'm not terribly sure if it's really more MS lack of security posture vs. being a big target as they hold a lot of juicy government targets, etc.. so my comment isn't really to beat up on MS because who knows the key flaw that got them inside yet?
You absolutely will eat the extra charges, the question is will you bear the brunt directly with a behavior targetted at you uniquely or will the company just raise the cost of the product for everyone and have everybody pay more even if they get a fat pay day when they don't end up paying the platform overhead tax.
There's a huge difference in rates and how it affects markets between Canada and the US. I'd assume most US based loans have a lock in period of 25-30 years, but is basically unheard of to have Canadian rates locked in longer than 5 years for fixed mortgages. That means there's a bunch of mortgage renewals that will dramatically affect the amount of disposal income for these individuals that locked in low rates a few years ago. In the US, it's more about potential buyers holding out for cheaper rates. In Canada is more about owners that "suddenly" have dramatically higher servicing rates. It's not unlikely that people are paying 1000/mo extra post renewal.
Interest rates in Canada have doubled and were only seeing a trickle of investors selling. I do agree that we have way too much investment in finished real estate, which is only hurting consumers trying to get into a market. We've been a lot more strict with ownership transparency and clamping down on short term rentals, which is still too soon to see how significant the effects will be, but the big tldr here being that rates doubled and there's still not a high push to reduce prices (yet), so both sides of the market are holding out for better.
Graduating into Y2K, there was definitely a period where new grads and a bunch of experienced devs couldn't find work at least for a couple years. I can only guess that it also happened to some extent during GFC.
I remember fondly writing a winamp clone in school with a team project. We scraped together a rough plugin based player, input and output plugins (a super limited network streaming variant), etc.. good times grinding on a neat project. Yikes, that was like 25 years ago.
Workers and managers are two sides of the same coin, cost centers. All we need is a bunch of owners. No need to pesky resources. Just find someone to make the machine that prints infinite money that I need no effort to utilize. Perfect capitalism.
Wow, what a different in perspective. I've met maybe a few people period that have at least mentioned that they've ever used AI tools (ever) in their personal lives, frequency be damned. Maybe you're just a lot more insistent in weaving in questions about using AI tools in daily conversation.
At work setting in a tech company, there seems to be a handful that are very in love with AI, a bunch that use it here or there, and a large majority that (at least publically) don't even use it. It's be interesting to see what company enforced spyware would say about ai uptake though for real.
BC wine industry in some areas purportedly had a crop loss of something like 90% by some estimates. With a 3 year turn around to re-establish the plants, and a very smoke tainted 2021, their industry is certainly in a trouble spot. Let's see if they have enough reserves to sell to get them past this disaster.
And likely they're either:
1. Dumping into the market to gain market share and decimate competition which is often illegal, depending on your locale in which case that coffee will be a bunch when they own the market (or they go out of business)
2. They have suppliers that are so tainted nobody buys their source and you probably shouldn't either
Hi about pulling a sample of good random every N invocations to still allow for fast PRNG but to ideally defeat these schemes. Maybe use the real signals RNL value to seed the PRNG. Just a thought.