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bt4u··on EU Official Hopes X Will Face "Peer Pressure" to Hire More Censors
Well, in my country the citizens managed to push back on broad logging of all internet traffic. It went to court and the logging was deemed illegal. Appealed to supreme court - deemed illegal again. Entered EU court, deemed illegal again.

That was 3 years ago I believe. The logging never stopped and continues to this day. The courts are a lie. Democracy is a lie. Pushing back doesn't matter. The only solution is some sort of technology similar to encryption, Tor, freenet etc.

bt4u··on Interactive intro to shaders
Don't be shy, I guarantee that I'm worse at shaders than you are. Thanks for your effort
bt4u··on Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search
Generally not very tightly but of course with Android, there are many different OEMs and they all try to do their own things to stand out
bt4u··on Pentagon’s shameful effort to draft mentally disabled men to fight in Vietnam
A simpler and probably more effective solution (and arguably more moral) would be to make it so only the sons of billionaires and sitting elected officials are allowed to go to war. We would have worldwide peace within a week.
bt4u··on ‘I just assumed it would happen’: the unspoken grief of childless men
It will absolutely occur. Men who take their kids to the playground by themselves are often confronted (by moms of other kids). At some point things are so obvious that not many people are going to bother finding a peer reviewed study to cite. Maybe they should but they won't.
bt4u··on I Am Leaving
Self hosting is not sufficient. We saw that with the kiwi farms website. I didn't follow their story too close but it's wild how not just Cloudflare dropped them but also how big ISPs were willing to drop routing to them.

You can self host. It helps. Won't help you if major ISPs decide your self hosted ip shouldn't exist online.

bt4u··on Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
See you on obscure irc channels :)
bt4u··on Microsoft Small Basic
C# does support project-wide imports since C# 10
bt4u··on Why does it take so long to schedule a doctor's appointment in the US?
Modern problems require modern solutions
bt4u··on Google to ban financial lending apps from accessing user photos, contacts
Android does provide this. Your app can send out a message on the system: "i need a picture" and usually the built-in camera-app will accept the request, and send a picture back to the requesting app (which then does not need camera permissions since it, itself, never accesses the hardware).

This feature is actually quite foundational to the Android architecture, where the vision was a bunch of small apps working together in this manner.

Unfortunately it's a slightly more clunky user experience than what users these days have gotten used to: big monolithic apps that handle everything themselves.

bt4u··on Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps
They should be paying developers, yes, but not for the pain of going through review but instead for the simple fact that an iphone without any app developers is almost completely worthless. Apps make their platform more valuable.
bt4u··on Don’t teach during code reviews
You have to fight to produce quality and you have to do it continuously. You cannot just merge in "working(tm) but not using best practices" and then turn on the quality-switch months or years later.

Your attitude is creating a culture where nobody cares and it's why many good engineers end up hating their job.

bt4u··on ChatGPT Plus
Agreed and it's a very strange activism. You can get it to tell a joke about men, but you cannot get it to tell a joke about women. Go figure that one out
bt4u··on John Carmack Leaves Meta
There's even a fallacy named after using fallacies to dismiss people, come on.
bt4u··on “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”
Maybe because the person who came up with that idea is a crazy pedophile who drove 2 young boys to suicide. Yes, really. Maybe we should not blindly accept all of his ideas.
bt4u··on Blocking Kiwifarms
How can you be against harassment campaigns while at the same time inciting harassment campaigns? Do you ever notice your hypocrisy and just ignore it or?
bt4u··on Oracle Suspended My Account
They are.
bt4u··on TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex
There's no such thing as an untyped programming language that's used in the real world. JavaScript and typescript definitely aren't. Maybe you mean dynamically typed
bt4u··on Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment
Are there? Please explain them to me. I'm serious and want to learn
bt4u··on Not a Dot-Com Bubble, Not 2007, but a Nasty Mix of Both
Why is your name green?
bt4u··on Men and women can't be just friends
I'm an Apache attack helicopter
bt4u··on Men and women can't be just friends
Indeed.
bt4u··on Men and women can't be just friends
I would recommend you do bother. Having a social life very enjoyable, even if we sometimes think it's not needed. Besides, you're not the only guy your wife is taking to, stop kidding yourself
bt4u··on Men and women can't be just friends
"sad" is being naive about the relationship between men and women
bt4u··on Men and women can't be just friends
Invalid premise. If not sexually attracted, they would not get along that well