and another one from 2025, [Apple’s unsolvable China problem](Apple’s unsolvable China problem) - How Apple sold its soul to an authoritarian regime (Invidious link).
Wait, did you just link to a video of Bari Weiss talking about surrendering to authoritarianism?
Oh you think he means two weeks from now?
No, he always means two weeks from the date it happens.
Don’t watch.
Boycott the damn thing.
Don’t allow the United States to have the win.
“How did you become a socialist?”
“Well when I was growing up, the news kept putting up all of these infographics describing all of these wonderful things as socialism, so I knew that it must be good.”
The United States could learn a lot from France.
I switched to OpenOffice.org(now LibreOffice) when Microsoft replaced menus with ribbons.
And I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo after being a Google user from nearly the very beginning, because they tried to claim earlier this week that they couldn’t prove I was over 18 years old unless I provided them my legal identification.
Thanks Google, I can’t imagine how the fact that I’ve physically been using your product and logging into the account for more than 20 years would leave any question in your mind that I’m over 18 years old, but you do you.
No regrets with LibreOffice. None.
may as well go full luigi
Wait, you’re telling me that’s an option that people could choose?
I wonder what the world would be like if a whole bunch of people started doing that. Could you imagine?
This is the man who just bought Paramount/CBS and Warner Bros for his son and fired Stephen Colbert.
If you care about this, you might want to consider whether to ever turn CBS on again.
That would be great, just to see MAGA guys say “The DEMOCRAT People’s States of North America” as if they were making a point.
Just wait until you hear what country you have to travel to.
What in the actual fuck?
As if workplaces aren’t cold enough.
You’re right. It’s INCREDIBLY simple.
And I’m saying this as a systems engineer. I do this for a living.
I would go a step beyond and just make it a mandatory screen as part of setup:
Will this account mainly be used by an adult, by a teenager, or by a child?
I think the “teenager” would allow a little more granularity in parental control, but the “teenager” would legally be treated as a minor.
And you mandate that browser manufacturers be able to read that as part of the account information, but not forced to provide it to websites.
And you mandate that websites be forced to put in place restrictions that prevent adult websites from being provided to children or to computers that don’t identify the user as an adult or as a child.
Restricting on the computer manufacturers’ ends is the wrong way to do it. Restrict on the websites’ end.
The U.S. are not trying to “prosecute” leaders of other countries.
They are trying to KIDNAP leaders of other countries.
NOT the same thing.
Ironically, the only people terrorized by transgender people are transgender people deeply in denial.
That’s not true!
I keep hearing one of them complain that he doesn’t have any balls.
Privately owned AI displaces jobs.
That is the primary problem with AI. It literally prevents people in the country from being able to pay for necessities like food, water, shelter, clothing, et cetera.
In that respect, it is more than an optimization tool. It is a weapon that is used against the people of the country, and it prevents money from going into those employees bank accounts and out to those businesses it used to go out to.
So it negatively affects both individual people within the country AND the country’s businesses’ ability to make a profit.
For that reason, all AI should be owned by the government, and the government should use the resources that AI provides toward the welfare of the people in the country. There is zero justification in allowing the privatization of the benefits from it, regardless of how many competing AI companies there may be.
There is NO justification for privately owned corporate AI. It destroys jobs and people’s ability to feed and care for themselves.
Government is needed to make sure that the benefits of AI are provided to the population instead of seven dorks masturbating into their piles of money.
It is ABSOLUTELY possible.
At this point, we need to stop listening to ANYONE who says it’s impossible.
What is NOT possible is sustaining the current system as it currently functioning.
Literally anyone can look at the current system and identify that it can’t continue to function in this way. And I’m not arguing that people will say that it’s too cruel to continue. I’m saying that regardless of whether anyone is working to try to change the system, it’s just not logistically possible for things to continue functioning the way they’ve been functioning. The population doesn’t have any more to give, but the wealthy demand more profits and profits at an increasing break.
We are at a breaking point with or without people trying to break anything.
Make it the end of Chrome instead.