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Shaken?! SHAKEN?

Like like the women of America were shaken when their rights to bodily autonomy were taken from them?

Or like when the American people were shaken when they discovered that our nation's checks and balanced were completely corrupted? That they will do nothing to stop a dictatorship and the end of democracy?

Or shaken by the knowledge that the highest court in the country is colluding with the lower courts to bring specific cases through the appeals systems so they can make predetermined rulings, effectively writing their own laws and subverting the basic foundation of law in our country?

Shaken. Yeah, go fuck yourself Roberts.

Because basement losers can't conquer and raze libraries to the ground.

The internet has shown that assumed anonymity result in people fucking with other people's lives for the hell of it. Viruses, trolling, etc. This is just the next stage of it because of a new easy to use tool.

Yes, this is what many of us worry will become the internet in general. AI content generated on from AI trained on AI garbage.

AI bots can trivially outpace humans.

The Whitehouse needs a competent and derisive science explainer. Someone that can explain in simple terms the amount of force you'd need to stop a hurricane compared to the entire arsenal of WMDs on the planet, and how stupid the conspiracies are.

Make the village idiots feel like idiots again. Not empowered outside the box thinkers.

Nah, he's hustling for that well done end piece on a prime rib

What? $1.3m is a modest fixer upper in an ok neighborhood where I live.

He'll have to spend an assistant's time fraudulently inflating his vacation home(s) destroyed by the hurricane so that he profits. And then spend all that time and brain space deciding what he wants in the rebuild.

Billionaires suffer too.

"Scapegoat" is the term. Humanity has always loved a good scapegoat to blame all their problems on. Whether it's true or not doesn't matter. Has never mattered.

You mean that warning that they all give when you're installing a 3rd party app? And the warning is more aggressive when it's an unregistered (licensed?) App.

They all do it. Windows, MacOS for sure. I don't remember seeing it on Linux, but I'm usually not installing sketchy binaries on Linux.

Mostly fair, but I'll push back on the security issue.

Side loading an apk is extremely dangerous, and an easy attack vector.

While there are plenty of malicious apps that make it on the Google store, they do attempt to do some automated and even manual curation. This is fact.

I think it's wholly appropriate to warn the user that they're bypassing that standard, if imperfect, Google security coverage. And granting extensive app permissions is done at your own risk.

3rd party app stores may do their own security curation as well, and it's up to them to communicate that and educate their users on why they still get the Google warning.

Did I?

those who feed the primitive ape brain for their own selfish purposes.

I wasn't talking about your home grown racist. I was talking about the ones feeding that division for their own power and profit.

My point is that our ape brains have an inclination towards Us vs Them. Education and socialization combats this base instinct, but there will always be people who aim to counteract those efforts so they can easily manipulate the chimp brains for their own gain.

Because we're chimps. Tribalism is in our DNA. And unfortunately, education and socialization doesn't simply solve the problem.

There will always be a battle against those who feed the primitive ape brain for their own selfish purposes.

That is human nature in a nutshell.

Well, his dad was a nazi too, so maybe he thinks it's his genes that made him this way.

Because we should wipe away 2 decades of history and pretend the next thing is flawless on release?

Edge came in with a freight train of baggage, and didn't make it. It's absurd to frame this otherwise.

And Google established a lot of the standards that were both open and long living.

Yeah, Google has strayed far from the "Do no evil" philosophy in the last decade. But this rewriting of history to praise IE and demonfy Chrome from that era is ridiculous.

Rofl. So let's white wash the browser history before chrome, then. Back when IE reigned supreme. You must either be too young or not in the industry to champion that.

So Google establishing a now industry standard of evergreen versioning so that they could iterate relatively quickly on features, rather than have to maintain compatibility with years old versions, and iterating quickly on their own major websites - is a bad thing?

Right.

Yeah, let's go back to having to maintain terrible legacy browsers that behaved completely differently for the rest of time.

Edit - rofl. Bunch of revisionists here on Lemmy.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-201001-202409

EdgeHtml released 2015.

But sure, Google has been doing shitty things lately so let's retroactively change history and make Microsoft the browser hero? Right.

Huh. There's an employee program that has small rewards for meeting exercise goals.

Time to break out Rock Band

Yeah, the one saying that was claiming that after your initial deprecation after driving off the lot, trucks tend to hold their value for a long time. So might as well.

He's also the guy that's last minute panicking about saving for retirement in his 50s.

Go figure.

I just picked up an early 2000s used truck because I have a hobby where a truck bed is useful. $7500.

People were trying to tell me that I should get a new one, I can resale it in a few years and it'll retain it's value.

I don't need a shiny new truck. I'm going to throw wood and sheet goods in the back. And I can actually see out of the damn thing, unlike anything recent.