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- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 22 hours ago:
but polling proves that most Americans (hilariously, even most Republicans) don’t want cutthroat neoliberal everyone-for-themselves economic policies.
Yes, but what if you repackage austerity as “patriotic manly tax cuts”?
Look, sales so isn’t my department, but I’ve been far enough down this path to know bullshit dominates politics because bullshit works. It’s fueled by apathy much more than actual stupidity, but comatose isn’t far off of what the average door knock feels like.
I think that Trump would love to install himself as a dictator, and maybe he will, but even dictators keep controlled elections going for the appearance of legitimacy. He’s already 78, and no other Republicans have managed to replicate his popularity among GOP voters. One way or another (unless the US government literally dissolves, which is my preference tbh) we’ll be dealing with a post-Trump US government sooner or later.
Yes, post-Trump will be “interesting” for sure. I’d be mildly surprised if everything went back to normal, though, because it was just so broken before, and there’s so many alternative trajectories available.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 23 hours ago:
The stock market is not the economy. The economy on the ground has not been bullish. The US stock market doing well benefits the wealth-holders, not workers.
So what are you referring to, then? Inflation-adjusted wage growth? That was shit in the 90’s too. The tipping point was the 70’s or early 80’s based on what I’ve seen.
Voters see that they’re not actually moving Leftwards on economic policies that would help their own lives.
You’re ascribing way too much rationality to the average voter here. The politicians themselves don’t - if you’re inside a campaign one day, a rational defense of policies is not how the strategy ever works.
I am worried we’re in for several Presidential election losses before they all die out or get the message.
Bold of you to assume there’s more to come, in light or recent events.
- Comment on 23 hours ago:
That’s kind of my feeling too, although it’s dangerously close to “better back in my day” given my age.
The period after they shut down browser popups but before they invented vitrual DOM-hacking popups was great, and that’s a measurable change.
- Comment on 23 hours ago:
It’s always a bit ironic when people post this on the internet.
It’s not wrong, per se, but much more specific instructions on how not to waste your life would be nice. There’s old people that have spent their whole life on the metaphorical grass and are still dumb as shit.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Rights are soooo gen X.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 1 day ago:
There’s a few things there. Young people have always had low turnout, it’s not anything the politicians are doing. We’ve actually had a bull market for a decade or so, with a pretty momentary pause for COVID. Apathy happens in other countries like mine too, so it’s not just the Democrats.
As per usual, people primarily care about their own life, and just aren’t motivated by big abstract concepts. Here people’s toys got broken, so they’re mad, simple as. All the discussion about climate change and gun violence or whatever is just a smokescreen for that. If it wasn’t they could have fixed those problems all along. That goes for the geezers too, BTW - they just found out in '83 or whatever that voting is easy and doesn’t require knowing what you’re voting for.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 1 day ago:
Man, if any of that youth passion had shown up at the polls we (yes, including us in the rest of the world) wouldn’t have this problem in the first place. Somehow the fervour never translates away from from the soft keyboard, though - probably because it’s mostly fake. God, we’re the worst.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 3 days ago:
That is in interesting phenomenon. I suspect it’s just out of spite, because people not understanding the technology is almost like a new law of the internet, and that it’ll blow over eventually.
If it doesn’t, WTF, basically. People are already getting kicked off of Xiaohongshu for being openly gay.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 3 days ago:
I don’t believe for a second people use TikTok because they have objections to the data collecting practices of Reels or whatever. They do it because it managed to be super addictive and get the network effect going faster than anybody else.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 3 days ago:
Ah yes, because “it was just a joke” would be to obvious.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 3 days ago:
A yes, like the freedom to buy a Windows licence to run basic required software, or the freedom to have a TV that updates to include banner unremovable ads. The freedom to give all your freedom away, so essential for innovation. /s
You’re argument is basically that you should have the right to to ruin yourself. Look, that normally has merit, because people know what’s best for them. But, I think it’s pretty clear that when it comes to tech people don’t know what’s best for them.
Meanwhile, within TikTok, it’s pretty clear that censorship is openly endorsed. You can’t even say “gun” on TikTok, and god knows how much user information they have to “play around” with.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 3 days ago:
And you think this app is run by the Chinese workers? Lol no. This is idiots digging themselves deeper into an even more walled garden.
An actual FOSS platform like the one we’re on would get banned over there very quickly.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 3 days ago:
Remember when the youth hated censorship and overreach from the man? I 'member.
C’mon, what do we have to do to stop zoomers from bending right over.
- Comment on The Top 3 Apps in my Country (Venezuela) are all VPNs... 4 days ago:
What’s a good non-EU alternative, if it gets to that point?
- Comment on The Top 3 Apps in my Country (Venezuela) are all VPNs... 4 days ago:
Yeah, it wasn’t as bad as I was expecting, although still alarming.
- Comment on Dunkin' added achievements to their mobile app 4 days ago:
Jesus fucking Christ.
- Comment on Dunkin' added achievements to their mobile app 4 days ago:
It’s so rife for abuse I’m not sure I’d even say “good”. Effective, maybe?
- Comment on Dunkin' added achievements to their mobile app 4 days ago:
This is everyone I know who actually has to keep up their SnapChat streak.
I guess because they’ve never seen the developers IRL, it doesn’t seem like the completely self-serving suggestion it is.
- Comment on Someone pulled the trashcan into the stall and shat in it! 5 days ago:
Interesting. It’s definitely a thing in use just across the mountains, although dollar store is also in the mix.
- Comment on Someone pulled the trashcan into the stall and shat in it! 5 days ago:
Yup. So-called because of the loon on the tail of the coin. The two-dollar coin is called the toonie by analogy.
(We say dollar store sometimes too)
- Comment on Someone pulled the trashcan into the stall and shat in it! 5 days ago:
I’m not sure I’d make this an ethnic thing. Once I saw one filled with piss in the middle of a loonie store right here in Canada.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 1 week ago:
Fuck, wrong thread.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 1 week ago:
There’s definitely custom ROMs; I run one on my current phone. You should too, if your model makes it possible - they tend to be OSS Android forks and can do whatever the stock one can, but better. (DivestOS being my personal choice, for the Google-freeness)
I suppose I could have cut out the SoC and replaced it with the same SoC but not locked already. I didn’t think of that, lol! Maybe I still could - it’s still relatively new, but selling the thing feels like letting a great evil back into the world. I have no idea how hard the particular one is to pull apart in a controlled manner.
Using a different chip would be pretty hard. You said microcontroller, but a phone is closer in function to a desktop PC than a dishwasher. There’s high-bandwidth things going on and you’re going to need a lot of bespoke circuitry and software to kludge it. Forget about the end product having the same form factor, too.
- Comment on Please create a non-secure password. 1 week ago:
10^31^ is ridiculously huge too. The NSA probably works on EB scales, which is “only” 10^18^ bytes. If you can get up to 10^22^ you’re fine against brute force-style attacks.
- Comment on Please create a non-secure password. 1 week ago:
That’s a big rainbow table. Like, way too big to exist assuming you mean random ascii characters (on the order of 10^42^ entries).
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s bound to happen eventually, although they’ll probably never be exactly as good or cheap as the ones for the sucker mass-market. Think Fairphone.
In the meanwhile, we just have to keep kludging in old solutions or alternate solutions, like a monitor.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 1 week ago:
Don’t worry, silicon valley is already making headway into government (where all the big guns and the monopoly on force is).
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 1 week ago:
And the next generation my well have capability to connect to cell towers or something (for your convenience!). Or just refuse to work without internet access (for security!).
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 1 week ago:
Interesting. I wonder how long that will last.
You really think the technology being inside there and capable of switching on at any time is just drama?
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 1 week ago:
I was dumb enough to get a random Samsung phone for a while. The ROM was on the SoC so it wasn’t possible to change short of getting out an atomic force microscope.
Sounds like smart TVs usually have older hardware, though, which could actually be a saving grace.