throw_m239339

> “Seed, chemicals or fertilizer, it’s all in the hands of a few companies that are the only game in town. You want to fix farming? Start a federal investigation on those big companies. Booming quarterly earnings and big stock dividends make no sense when farmers can’t pinch a penny.”

It's not just AG, it's every single industry today. It's obviously the result of corruption among elected officials and it's a vicious cycle... who finance these candidates political careers? Nobody wants to bite the hand that feeds them... Corruption is always done at the expense of everybody else...

At least in IT, we've got open source software (but not much open source hardware). Imagine a world, where every single IT company would depend on Windows thus Microsoft...

My cousin manages a dozens of mid-sized informational websites and communities, his former hosting provider kicked him out because he refused to pay the insane bills as a result of literally AI bots DDoS-ing his sites...

He unfortunately had no choice to put most of the content behind a login-wall (you can only see parts of the articles/forum posts when logged out) but he is strongly considering just hard pay-walling some content at that point... We're talking about someone who in good faith provided partial data dumps of content freely available for these companies to download, but, caching / etags? none of these AI companies, hiring "the best and the brightest" have ever heard of that, rate limiting? LOL what is that?

This is nuts, these AI companies are ruining the web.

Next.js turned out to be worse than JEE, which is ironic to say the least. People moved to Node.js at first place because the Java ecosystem was "too bloated". Fast forward 15 years later, the Node.js community has adopted its own flavor of JEE. And rince and repeat, new developers will deem Next.js too bloated therefore they are going to go with another platform that doesn't have that stigma...

> As mentioned in OP, Apple is doing the same thing.

The thing is that if Google choses to make Android OS as closed as iOS, I'd rather use an iPhone than an Android phone...

Is it real? I can't find any serious news outlet confirming that information. The whole site looks AI generated...

It's funny you talk about Google Plus. the only reason I didn't stay more than 10 minutes on that social media is because of that horrible sticky header that was taking 1/3 of the browser screen on a laptop.

How could that design choice go past basic UI/UX checks is still beyond me after all these years, it made that website horrible to browse.

Aren't like MSNBC and CNBC part of the same group? isn't CNBC a news channel about capitalism and the free market?

I find it so odd when billion dollar corporations publish pieces like that... like, can't you first look in the mirror? this weird alliance between economic liberalism and that neo marxist intersectionality is so... hypocritical...

> I couldn't agree more. It's like when you see headlines claiming "people" are outraged by a jeans advertisement.

Well, it turns out that some people are actually outraged by a jeans ads... the problem is that these social networks tend to amplify these sort of divise issues for engagement purposes.

My problem with Twitter/X was that, for instance I was following somebody in 2010's who talked about Javascript and Node, only to end up with that person constantly ranting about partisan issues that had nothing to do with it (especially after Trump election), but at the time, Twitter provided no way to limit feeds to center of interests. That made me quit the platform and I imagine it's getting way wore now...

The EU has plenty of talent, Most startups in the EU simply do not have access to the Venture capital pool that exists in USA.

> Why doesn't PHP remove the horrid $ symbol for variables and the -> symbol for calling methods? I think those alone would do a lot more for its perception and adoption than adding the pipe operator.

Because it simply can't do that in a retro-compatible way. -> isn't so bad, C/C++ uses that as well. as for $ I guess it came from Perl. The point is already used for string concatenation, where other languages would overload the + operator.

PHP does have generators and iterators yes, although I personally rarely use them directly.

> How can you protect yourself?

Put your valuable content behind a paywall.

Is it a competitor to tools like Sedja?

Thicker keys absolutely do change the ergonomics when typing.

> The problem isn’t just that Substack makes money off Nazis, it’s that they don’t seem to care who they make it from.

Ana Marie Cox can move to Medium, they have that "diverse and inclusive" editorial policy she is seeking, we all know how "great" Medium has been doing...

"Einstürzende Neubauten"

This is just the beginning of all that. "Designer babies" will obviously be a big business in the future, and one can take that logic VERY far, even for an entire nation where all babies will be mandated to have certain genes or characteristics... or worst, mandated specializations...

Of course, science fictions authors,scientists and philosophers have written plenty of material on the matter and the danger of such societies... and it might blow up in our face one way or another, but nothing aside of our demise can stop scientific progress...

Some people always forget that GPL is about the end user's rights, not developer's rights. If a fortune 500 re-implements some GPL library to make proprietary, then by all means. It changes nothing for the GPL code, it's still GPL and its license should guaranty user's rights.

Blender used to be proprietary,the community had to raise money to buy the source code to make it free software. What a crazy success story for opensource.

It's the euphemism treadmill in action. It's like how "undocumented residents", which replaced "illegal aliens" in the media, now has a negative connotation anyway, so mainstream media are now trying to find a new word that doesn't sound "offensive"... but the very concept is loaded by definition, so no amount of euphemism is going to change that.

What a horrible story.

What can you do when you know you are innocent but the court trusts the software more than it trusts people? And you are asked to repay something you never stole which off course leads to your financial ruin/divorce/... your kids bullied because you as a parent were deemed a thief... Imagine your spouse leaving you because of something you didn't even do...

Someone absolutely needs to go to jail over this. This kind of software is supposed to go through a lengthy compliance and certification process, so clearly whatever person put their signature on that "certified" document is responsible for these death.

Can you tell me, the scenarios you used MongoDB for? Because I'm still curious about why would anyone use MongoDB after all these years.

> The EU should fork firefox and develop it as a public benefit

All these mega-rich US tech entrepreneurs can finance Firefox development. They have all the capital. The EU isn't a charity.

I only buy old refurbished DELL/ LENOVO/... computers because of the numerous ports and they are better build than the recent one at the same price (I'm often using them outdoors in rain, cold, or sandy places, something that would wear off any cheap new laptop way too fast). Hopefully sellers online won't stop selling them if they can't get new W10 OEM licenses, but most people want windows, not Linux.

The only reason most of these computers cannot run W11 is the graphic card, nothing more, they can have 16+ gigs of RAM, can be upgraded with internal 5G wifi cards for cheap, and yes, I still use ExpressCard PCMCIA extensions as well (to add USB ports for instance), or even docking stations!

edit: they are easier to repair as well or find parts for because the design goal wasn't to be ultra-thin or ultra-light.

Will professional hardware sellers still be allowed to sell valid W10 licenses with computers or not? Because in the "refurb" space, there are a whole lot of computers that cannot run W11 due to graphic card requirements.

> Thankfully, unlike people and physical hardware, software and algorithms can lie in wait in perpetuity until they are resurrected when the political winds finally change course or favorable conditions for their spread emerge.

XHTML 2 is waiting on that one... Oh well...

Teams & developers will likely only chose a single format if they can, the one that most browsers support, because doing some content negotiation is more code, more work. It doesn't take away anything from the parent point though, if JPEG-XL is more performant it could reduce bandwidth requirements.

> just fuking use a poly fill to add support of JPEG XL. Or store JPEG XL and convert on the fly to JPEG to supply it to browsers that don't support JPEG XL.

Doesn't a polyfill imply more Javascript running on the device?

> Yes, the AI is trained on a vast quantity of data therefore it is less likely to be manipulated vs a single editor that may have ulterior motives.

Gemini was caught stuffing prompts with "custom" keywords on certain requests, so there is still an editor between you and the AI.

I remember my first android device, it had like 512MO of RAM (and storage), and it was blazing fast, it could be used as a WIFI repeater too (which is why I still have it, although it 2.5G...). Fast forward 13 year later or so, if your android device doesn't have at least 8gig of RAM and 64gigs of storage, then it's pretty much useless given how bloated the OS (and the apps) have become...

So basically, Android low end has become useless, I remember 10+ years ago having to search for something very fast because of the context, like something on a map or surf the web for info. It was still super responsive with 512MO...

I tried a few cheap Android phones recently... they are simply unresponsive, google apps will suddenly shut down because the device is out of memory or something... or you try to make a call, you make a mistake so you try to hang up, the phone will refuse to hang up because it's stuck! you'd have to remove the battery to quickly cancel the call! What the hell happened with that OS?