The intelligence apparatus of the West has gotten up to some hinky things in the past, but 1. Not to the same degree by a long shot when it comes to end user devices (they're far more likely to monitor communications from datacenters and cooperative platforms) and 2. Even if you're already compromised by 1 nation state, why would you want to be compromised by 2?
I'll take this question in the spirit of the community you posted to. "No stupid questions" refers to the saying "there is no such thing as a stupid question," which is an aphorism meant to destigmatize expressing ignorance. This is supposed to be a place to ask the questions you might be afraid to ask because you assume everybody else already knows.
The other posters are responding a bit comedically at the notion that this community is fundamentally opposed to asking "stupid questions" when it's traditionally been a space for "I've been afraid to ask, but are you supposed to use shampoo or conditioner first?" type questions.
Can you be a little more specific? Typing questions into Google or ChatGPT can get you answers on a broad variety of topics. Quora is a well-known "question and answer" type of site. Stack Exchange is a help site network largely specialized for different kinds of computer code, programming, and a few other topics. Is there something specific or a particular kind of community you're looking for?
But if they do that then they'll go up to three stars and it's even harder to get away then! When you get up to four stars they shut down the bridges and send helicopters and at five stars they start sending tanks--
I jest, but the rapid military escalation of conflict in the GTA games is reflective of the "send enough dudes until the bad guy is dead" modus operandi of American law enforcement.
What I am saying is: either use your guns or make them illegal if you don’t use them anyway.
The people clutching the guns are the same ones with the "blue line flag punisher skull" tattoos and decals. Maybe if the Black Panther party made a comeback though.
Daily Caller readers aren't ever going to read the retraction anyway. Truth doesn't matter to the right in the slightest. Journalists who pretend otherwise are basically larping.
Echoing what others have said that it so far appears to be hallucinated/AI-coined from everything I've seen so far, as well as that I've seen a variant spelled "Arafed."
Part of the reason I like text based better is because it gives me the power of search, literally everywhere. Too many complicated GUIs give me headaches and make me intensely frustrated as I click around seemingly at random, digging into menus or hunting around buttons with labels or icons that I don't recognize.
On the command line, I can just start searching and jump straight to the thing I'm looking for instead of forgetting what I was doing wandering around in GUI land.
This is a really good and entertaining post and thanks for making it
As a guy who burned out super, super, super, super hard to the point that thinking about code--even though I'm good at it--just makes me feel baaaad, I still can't help but chuckle. Like, in my case, providing what I did to the code world was literally all I could do before I stopped being able to contribute because it hurts inside my brain lol.
But at the same thing the fucking most hilarious part of it is you're right 🤣 People do just not see software as "real" if it involves any reading and typing outside a comment box. Buttons and visualizations are truly everything if one wants to code and be taken seriously by anyone but other hackers. 😭😂 I wonder how much low hanging fruit there is out there of software that people could just make a paid GUI for and make a killing
The intelligence apparatus of the West has gotten up to some hinky things in the past, but 1. Not to the same degree by a long shot when it comes to end user devices (they're far more likely to monitor communications from datacenters and cooperative platforms) and 2. Even if you're already compromised by 1 nation state, why would you want to be compromised by 2?