A friend who is very politically active (think gaza, queer rights and other leftist topics) refuses to use apps other than WhatsApp and Instagram because using any other apps is too much app switching. Meta is literally destroying democracies, but ya gotta have your comfy apps!

If you think the average person understands watts, you live in a bubble, straight and simple. You have a very skewed notion of the average person.

How can you outlaw something a company in another conhtinent is doing? And specially when they are becoming better as disguising themselves as normal traffic? What will happen is that politicians will see this as another reason to push for everyone having their ID associated with their Internet traffic.

This sequece was definitely prepared to show those Chinese robots that they can dance without CGI.

I’ve stopped buying my rocket launching services from SpaceX long ago!

They become the janitors of the stuff cobbled together by AI. Generated code has existed for a long time. Generating code from scratch is not what software do. Understanding the business context and the whole code base is. There will certainly be lots of things that developers will do faster with AI, meaning less developers might be needed in the long term. But it’s more likely that developers will just be expected to develop faster and ship more things.

And then everyone stood up and clapped. The name of that student? Richard Feynman.

I’ll take a look, thanks.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ET7lYpZUxQg

The video does not give false hope. There is hope. We won’t escape disaster, but we have the power to reduce the magnitude of the disaster. Giving up is what’s deniers do to justify not changing anything, and is a very dangerous stance to take.

Actually, since 2020 the curve looks linear rather than exponential, which does match what he says on the video that we might have stopped increasing emissions year over year. Obviously this is not enough, but it is progress.

You wouldn’t get it. These geniuses have highly efficient brains that are working every waking hour.

Not to mention best bang bang for the buck.

I thought the same. And watching the second video it’s still impressive, but much more realistic.

Also, once solution to avoid having so many cables: the batteries last just enough for the promotional video.

That’s why I said around these parts. Back then there was a lot more regional fragmentation.

Where you gonna go without your government issued passport?

I switch to the Voyager app exactly to block communities and keywords. But I also need to block whole instances to be honest. Namely instances from countries I don’t speak the language.

It’s your government issued app, required to access services like hospitals and social security.

Around these parts in the 2000s, MSN Messenger was what literally everyone used. Then Microsoft bought Skype and decided to shut down MSN Messenger. Then they also ruined Skype. Microsoft just can’t do anything right despite making so much money. It’s like they have no long term vision.

Apple is probably betting they can twist the UKs arm until they roll back the requirements. In the long run this is better for users.