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menial tasks that are important such as unit test coverage

This is one of the cases where AI is worse. LLMs will generate the tests based on how the code works and not how it is supposed to work. Granted lots of mediocre engineers also use the “freeze the results” method for meaningless test coverage, but at least human beings have ability to reflect on what the hell they are doing at some point.

What does Capitalism™ say about “innovations” that can’t deliver results? Filtering out crap that only works on some bullshit paper is the one thing capitalism is supposed to be good at.

Take note EU.

What do you think unblocked the EU trade deals with Mercosur and India? Suddenly almost all the grievances became small inconveniences in comparison.

Gecko is kind of PITA to integrate on anything, unless you are just writing a glorified Firefox skin. That’s why Apple forked khtml to make webkit, despite khtml being less compatible with websites back then. It doesn’t help most Firefox forks come into almost-unusable-paranoia-driven flavour (like Librewolf) and maintainers-are-in-way-over-their-heads flavour (like Zen), and they all lack enough maintainers to keep up with upstream.

Servo could be a serious Blink/Webkit competitor, but unfortunately Mozilla dropped the ball there, and Samsung is still not taking it seriously enough.

That sounds like an amazing way for a secret police to set up a trap.

I would be very careful with this kind of advice for people leaving in a dictatorship. What happens when the police catches people with apps that circumvent government policies?

Besides, the general advice is that protestors should not take smartphone to protests, and in the specific case of countries like Iran, I would advise against using anything that leaves any paper trail, physical or digital, when doing any communication against the regime

The only advantage bitchat has is that, being supported by an American oligarch, it might already have a better network. But somehow I doubt it really makes a difference at this stage.

I’m working 36 hours in four 9-hour days.

I changed to part-time because I was exhausted and close to a burnout, since my brain stayed in work mode for most of Saturday too, and I was hoping to have two actual weekend days.

In the end, by increasing the time I’m not working, I actually managed to train my brain to not thinking about work outside of work. So not only I got the my 3 days weekends but I’m also disconnecting faster during work days.

My productivity also got objectively better, but that just makes me pissed off that I had to take a 10% cut to become a better worker.

You haven’t been paying close attention. Even his foundation is doing shady business to benefit Gates’ bottom line all the time.

I wonder how’s the weather in Madagascar this time of the year.

I expect even some bigger gaps, because top 1% is usually when you start having enough money to have good living standards efficiently. I.e. at this point you have the option of having efficient construction and waste less on cooling and heating, you can afford more sustainable clothing, both in terms of material and durability, etc. But unfortunately lots of people just decide to turbocharge destructive consumption instead.

The gay propaganda is broad enough that it means that people are allowed to be gay if they pretend to be heterosexual.

Like in all fascist regimes, application of the law is arbitrary, but if the regime wants to get rid of gay person, then they will happily label their “lifestyle” as gay propaganda.

This is probably the proposal that came out of the Berlin talks last week.

People that buy commercial displays won’t tolerate adware on their monitors. Can you imagine having a screen in a store and it suddenly displaying ads that are not for what the store sells itself? This ensures there will always be an healthy demand for ad free displays.

Some premium brands like Bang & Olufsen sell TVs without adware, I think Panasonic TVs are mostly ad-free for now. Outside of that, most big brands will have “professional” or “commercial” product lines that also don’t have ads. But in all cases you’ll have to pay extra over the TVs subsidized by ads.

You are using rights differently from them.

While you are using rights in the humanist sense of the word, they are also including privileges tied to their “social station” in a “divine right of kings/the master race/…” kind of way. And in the latter there can only be one lord in the castle.

Regarding what Bernie calls the risks “robot soldiers”, I think the Star Trek episode A Taste of Armageddon should be mandatory viewing.

War is not always avoidable, but it becomes less so if the costs of fighting it are perceived as small.

That goes back to the original Luddites. They weren’t anti technology per-se, they were were anti oligarchy.

Immigrants that accept that they are immigrants or self-described expats?

As long as you don’t try to make your surroundings a mini-'Murica you should be fine everywhere in Europe.

Maybe you have more than 26 storage devices, but don’t know how to use folder mounts on windows, or are weirdly attached to bad design decisions from the 1980s.