mrkramer

Romans called barbarians anyone who is not from the Roman Empire, I don't think Israel thinks any better of its Muslim neighbors. And Jews had pretty bad experience under the Roman Empire in then called Judaea and now Palestinians have pretty bad experience under Israel. Palestinians are Jews of the Islamic world as well as Kurds.

> Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

I draw comparisons to Roman Empire, would that please them better? Because Roman Empire also had racist expansionist state policies.

This is dystopia in the making, 1984 coming alive, first of all; why someone's social media activity would be the matter of the government? Everybody in the world has freedom of speech, it is a human right. US will no longer be free if it peruses politically motivated persecution and segregation. This is political hysteria akin to anti-communist and anti-Japanese hysteria during WW2 and after.

And secondly why would US government target only anti-semits, will they check for anti-white racism, African-American racism, anti native-American racism, homophobia etc. This is a mess of a policy. And Trump is openly homophobic and anti-LGBTQ+, what that should tell us?

Abraham Lincoln said: "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

On my 3 year old Samsung Android phone Firefox mobile works fine and I don't have any issues. Try reinstalling the app or restarting your phone.

I guess complaints are aimed at Firefox's desktop browser but mobile Firefox browser is pretty good and they are the only mobile browser that I know of that supports third party extensions. That fact by itself should be a killer app for Firefox mobile browser.

Damn, usually I'm not this dumb but thx for the reference I didn't even see it. My take is; YouTube is currently your only option if you want to try to make a living as a video content creator but if you want to casually make content and share it with your audience or your friends and family then you can definitely try PeerTube.

Federated video platform PeerTube[0] can be a good alternative.

[0] https://joinpeertube.org/

Image that I shared was from my Google Keep account and apparently it was set private afterwards by Google so don't click the link....here is the alternative link: https://media.springernature.com/full/springer-static/image/...

TikTok and Substack showed that the problem is not lack of quality content creators but that the problem is lack of good discovery engines. Google is probably the first internet company that fell victim to the enshittification; once they started prioritizing commercial content and commercial websites the game was over for indie content creators. We need better internet platforms for discovery of content creators and their content.

>I really don't think going with python except for an into/cross-major class is a good idea since it's so simple and there aren't that many jobs with it.

Python's ecosystem is massive and there are lots of use cases[0], basically data analysis, machine learning, deep learning and all the rest of AI run on Python.

[0] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/keep-bbsk/AFgXFlJPnxraSopK...

I tried to study IT(lighter version of CS) without any prior programming experience and our first programming language was Java because apparently with Java you "Write once, run anywhere". But when I saw Java's syntax, I was like....this is not happening. That was the golden age of mobile apps and our focus was on the mobile development since Web was not sexy anymore. I'm actually happy that I quit because all I heard were horror stories of Java's mobile development on Android. My interest is actually Web development and if I had to choose all over again I would rather learn JavaScript. I can only imagine and speculate how hard it is for someone with no prior CS and programming experience to learn computer architecture, assembly, C and C++ for the first time.

It's old news that markets are dynamic.

>A lot of things were going on in the early 2020s that at least anecdotally seem to have disproportionately affected software jobs so I’m skeptical it’s purely an interest rate phenomenon.

Software industry was over hiring probably ever since dot-com bubble because after the bubble burst revenue and profits were rapidly growing and it never really stopped. I would rather blame the managers who constantly pushed for more workers instead of increasing the productivity of the existing workforce.

Poetry is full of figures of speech which are words and phrases that intentionally differ from common logic and common knowledge so LLMs can actually be probabilistic and accidental generators of figures of speech. Every nonsense that LLMs generate can be interpreted as a protentional metaphor or an oxymoron. The sentence that you mentioned sounds like a badass metaphor to me "Once upon a time, in a small town, there was a huge town" or in another words: town might be small in size but it has soul.

So LLMs hallucinate by design which is of course bad for any serious work but then again I was thinking in which situations would hallucinations be actually useful....let's say poetry writing, lyrics writing etc., the crazier the better or for generating business ideas, "crazy ideas succeed" type logic.

Modern AI started with NLP, computer vision and speech recognition and it was expected as chips get more powerful and faster, that software and AI people would figure how to utilize the massive new computing capabilities. My prediction would've been early 2010s for something like LLMs to occur but I guess I am too optimistic. And probably if it wasn't for Google and their enormous spending on R&D we would see LLMs not in early 2020s but in early 2030s.

Gates is opening gates of hell.

Enter Matrix....I genuinely believe we live in a simulation or multiple simulations.

I care about my privacy but I use almost all of the Google's products because they are so easy to use and because they are so ubiquitous. But for people who are super worried about your privacy, did you ever refuse to send or receive an email from Gmail or some other big corp email provider e.g. Hotmail/Outlook, Yahoo etc.?

For example if there was en masse boycott of Gmail and Outlook maybe people would start switching to more privacy aware email providers. Let's say that you want to contact a blogger and s/he says: "I bounce off emails from Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo, please use other more privacy friendly email providers."

Yugoslav communists were pawns of Moscow from the beginning and all the way until the end of WW2. After WW2, they grew some balls and put the interests of degenerate Yugoslavian state before the interests of the communist international, that's what almost cost them their state. And also they were traitors of their peoples because during WW2 they didn't support national movements but wanted cosmopolitan socialistic Yugoslavia with the help of Soviet Union.

"We will continue to protect the privacy of European data."

Our data is up for grabs since at least 2018[0]. There is no privacy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

So Facebook is the new MySpace? Damn.

US is capitalistic liberal democracy and China is one party capitalistic dictatorship. Make your choice.

Everybody is spying on everybody, it's free for all....if you want to be out of the reach, either stop using software for sensitive information and communication or start using fully encrypted products. Cryptography is the key.

In my bookmarks I found this RE examples as well: https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1

https://ibiyemiabiodun.com/projects/reversing-tiktok-pt2/

>It was the de facto digital means of communication for social events--the social world in your palm so you could see what everyone was up to, where the parties were, whatever.

I think Zuck realized pretty fast that specialized competition is coming that's why he scooped up Instagram and WhatsApp so fast. Without Instagram and WhatsApp, Facebook is botched, something like Google without Chrome and Android. I really can't see how Facebook can become relevant again, their time is gone, people got tired of it. Like you said it was awesome back in the day because it was the first real social network and everybody was on Facebook but nowadays no way 90% of your friends are on Facebook. They are scattered around, mostly on Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat. Zuck got lease on life when he acquired Instagram and WhatsApp because they are still relevant and will be for quite some time.

You can use WhatsApp and/or Facebook Messenger for connecting with friends(they are both owned by Facebook) but using Facebook per se seems less and less appealing especially when it became bloated with non-friend content. Zuck is tho introducing or reintroducing "friends feed" so that might serve people better[0].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/news/637668/facebook-friends-only-f...

Facebook was awesome when it was the only social network; now we have Instagram for social image sharing, WhatsApp for messaging, Snapchat for ephemeral messaging, YouTube for social video and TikTok for social short video plus Discord and Twitch for social gaming. Even Facebook's social casual gaming moved to mobile gaming.

Facebook wanted to be the everything social network just like Amazon is the everything store but it doesn't work because we began to see specialization for every segment of Facebook. I honestly don't see appeal why anyone would use Facebook when you literally have better alternatives that are specialized for the particular niche you might be interested in e.g. images, videos, gaming etc.

Elon is taking over! https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/5e0e6ea/2147483647/str...

Another example, imported food we get in the Eastern Europe is much worse than they get in the Western Europe.