a contingent of protesters, many of whom appeared to be on their way home from work,

So not protesters at all. Just residents who are sick of these thugs.

Also from the article:

An Associated Press reporter observed dozens of agents detaining a street vendor selling bedazzled smartphone cases, one of a number of arrests in the area.

A true concern for anyone right now: counterfeit phone cases. Won’t someone think of the poor domestic bedazzled phone case manufacturers?

Advocating for immigrants to resist is advocating for them to put themselves in real danger. So yeah, no one can do that in good conscience.

However, there’s a very rational argument to be against deportation, especially as it’s being done right now: Unrestricted deportation makes this country objectively worse, not better. Deporting employed, law abiding people who have lived here since they were 3 is a stupid idea. Our immigration policy is not good policy and before we irreparably ruin lives and tear families apart, we should fix it.

I get your point with the rest but…

Vote right? Transphobic.

Yeah, it kinda is? That’s a core plank of the MAGA platform; it’s practically inseparable. Unless you’re talking non-USA parties but then there’s still a better chance than none it’s a yes.

Apple is the trend setter. The avant garde. If Apple does it, soon everyone will be doing it. If you see Apple doing something shitty, you need to nip that in the bud right quick.

They had no problem standing up to the FBI when they knew the Constitution still worked. It’s not bravery when it doesn’t cost you anything and there’s nothing to be afraid of. But now things are different and regular every day people don’t want to say it out. The implications make them uncomfortable.

Apple’s market share outside of the US is pretty pitiful. Even with their piles of money, it would hurt.

On a mobile device? It’s more likely that only OSS drivers work and the binary blob driver only worked with a pre-Pandemic aged kernel. Or it needed a very specific userspace library that doesn’t work with a minimal libc.

“Free software enough” usually means “has a snowball’s chance of actually working”.

It’s a significant factor for sure. However, this year Reddit has accelerated its enshittification since the API schism and is far too risky to continue use anyway. The only viable alternative to Lemmy that I see is Mastodon and I never really got into the Twitter format.

Plain AOSP is already pretty brutal. An alternate OS is practically a non-starter. Phones aren’t just web browsers and SMS.

• Tap-to-pay
  • Including transit fares
• Bank apps
• RCS messaging
• MFA and security apps
• Work profiles
• Streaming media that’s not 480p

Not to mention that the camera is going to suuuuuuuuck.

Forking or improving AOSP is more viable but none of the more mainstream ROMs want to piss off Google. That’s why most LineageOS forums forbid talking about defeating Play Integrity.

I believe F-Droid signs the packages it distributes so that creates a painful choke point. Revoke F-Droid’s key and it will break all of F-Droid instantaneously. The only exception for F-Droid’s signing is if the build is reproducible, which is a high bar for a lot of projects, and then F-Droid will use the upstream signature.

Also, they’re trying to close the ADB loophole.

Obviously the first step is an equal doxxing site targeting Truth Social, etc.

Pretty soon all that will be left are the apathetic centrists.

If you think this is actually about antisemitism, you’re crazy. It’s about attacking and weakening left leaning universities, which are seen as a real threat to MAGA (grads loyal to alma mater, lawyers, respected institutions, etc). Throwing a bone to fellow authoritarians like Netanyahu is a huge bonus.

Kirk’s body wasn’t even cold before people knew the death penalty was locked in. Your Dad might recognize you but what sick fuck says “yeah, go ahead and execute my kid” ?

Doubtful. Mormons aren’t going to support murder and Kirk had that veneer of reasonableness that made him the wolf in sheep’s clothing that he was. Despite quotes being thrown around, Kirk’s fascism was more subtle because otherwise he wouldn’t have attracted the uninitiated the way he did.

Mormons will disown him and MAGA will keep their hold on Utah. It might even increase since everyone loves a martyr.

If you watch vapid slop content on Youtube, that’s on you. Don’t blame Youtube for giving you what you apparently want. I watch howto’s, “edutainment”, science and engineering stuff, conference talks, and overall generally positive, helpful content. This is a totally different thing from Netflix, which is mostly just fiction. I’d never pay a subscription for that. The cost of Premium seems like a fair value for what I get out of it, especially since creators get a higher payout for Premium views.

Yeah, Google still tracks you. So does absolutely everyone else, including your ISP that you’re paying for. Until you make it illegal, that isn’t going to change. I’m not going to put everything on hold waiting for better consumer protection laws, shit’s way too dysfunctional for that to be realistic. Life isn’t perfect.

Shallow content comes from trying to manipulate the recommendations algorithm and “go viral”. Without a recommendations algorithm, the incentive disappears.

I found it fascinating beyond just the geopolitics of video cards (although the existence of that right there is wild).

It’s a really neat look inside China with “real people” (not trade shows, uptight salesmen, or politicians). I don’t speak Chinese but it also seemed like Steve Burke had spent a lot of effort learning. He seems very talented and smart while staying humble. That’s rare.

Despite it being a 3 hour video about smuggling, the most discomforting thing for me was the left-handed driving in HK and I find that hilarious.

Applying normal engineering practices where human lives are at stake, you build in a safety factor. Your design speed is 25 but it’s built to be safe to drive at 50. Drivers figure this out and do 50. Now you have no more safety factor.

If you can’t rely on signage, then you need to design roads that aren’t safe. There are some obvious ethical considerations with this plan.

I think, in this particular case, it’s aggressive apathy/incompetence and not malice. Remember, Trump didn’t even know what Nvidia was.

AI’s don’t have a skin color or use the bathroom so you can’t whip your cult into a frenzy by Othering it. You can’t solidify your fascism by getting bogged down in the details of IP law.

You need to properly detect that they’re bots first and then they’ll just figure out how to spoof that. Then you’re back to square one.

Abstractly, POW doesn’t need to determine if you’re a bot or not. To make a request, as a human or bot, you need to pay in cpu-time. The hope is that the cost is not so high that a human notices very much but for a bot trying to hoover up data as fast as possible, the aggregate cost is high.

I think the more horrifying aspect is that they’ll just build ever bigger datacenters to crunch POW tests faster and the carbon cost will skyrocket even more.

Reddit has downvotes. That hasn’t saved it from misinformation, trolls, and radicalization.