steltek @ steltek @lemm.ee

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It's far cheaper than your first car and arguably more important. You find a way when you have to.

Excuse the tangent but you made me look it up. >50% of Americans weren't eligible to vote in 2000 but apparently I need to answer for the Iraq War for the rest of my friggin' life like that was my personal decision.

Stupid lizard brains are too easily tricked with tribalism and anger though. It takes a real conscious effort to curate your feed like that.

Any nuanced opinion on Gaza gets trashed because both "teams" view you as the enemy. You're always pushed towards absolutism.

You can read about it here: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/09/epic-apple-no-imessage-on-android/

Using a dominant market segment to reduce competition in another has always been an antitrust violation. A notable example is MS leveraging their Windows monopoly to force Internet Explorer on people.

Teenagers today suffer unique threats to their health and wellbeing from technology. It may be super easy for you to say "who the fuck cares about the color" but that is far from the case for US teenagers. Willingly setting yourself apart from the group in high school is a precarious move in the best of circumstances.

And for the rest of us, this goes way beyond the color being used. The SMS/MMS fallback in iMessage offers a terrible experience for non-Apple users. Low quality media, inability to manage one's own memeberships in groups, and no encryption. For those worried about the lack of e2ee: Android users participating in an iMessage conversation don't have that today. You're not losing anything from this solution.

Legal disclosures prove that Apple knowingly uses iMessage in an anticompetitive fashion. It's a moat to keep people from switching away from iPhone. They are leveraging their position in the messaging market to shore up their restrictive phone products. I wish US antitrust enforcement was stronger in this area but until then, I hope Nothing has great success in breaking down this illegal barrier.

Really? They're absolutely everywhere on Lemmy:

• IDF has fabricated evidence of Hamas using hospitals.
• Israel is responsible for Hamas' own actions, often including the 7 October attack.
• Hamas are noble freedom fighters against an occupation. The ends justify the means.

Merely challenging some of these points can get you banned on a few instances.

Probably because that's an blindingly obvious Chinese knockoff of Boston Dynamics' Spot. BD doesn't want to sell weapons but the USMC still wanted to try out their ideas so they found a company with fewer ethics.

"Old nerds" were ostracized in school. They got started in tech when it was about coding and tech being fun; there was no crazy money in it. Even the dotcom boom can't hold a candle to the salaries and status swirling around now. It's a different attitude and I think it shows in how you approach work and the workplace.

Ageism is a serious topic in tech and I wonder how each generation will be viewed. Certainly "greybeards" were considered oracles of wisdom and solid foundations.

I don't have an Xbox but I love that mouse and keyboard are considered cheating devices.

They're normalized in some places. I see people wearing them and not just the "Covid isn't over!" folks.

It's absolutely history but just not Civil War history. This is the Charlottesville statue and it's iconic of our contemporary far right nationalist problem. Imagine things like this being a part of an exhibit laying out the turmoil our country is going through.

Edit: A lot of key pieces of history are missing because people didn't look to the future. I think some of it should have been carefully stored in a basement somewhere. Out of sight for at least 20 years.

I thought this was a bug in Youtube. It's intrusive and annoying.

Do other video apps do this? Why?

Wikipedia is anything but anarchy. There's so much bureaucracy it would surprise even Kafka.

I also don't think Elon's psyche is built around an abstract notion of economic systems. He's simply a narcissist that desires shiny things, in a very basic and unrefined way. Rich people just want to add baubles to their menagerie.

Uhh, I dunno how much declassification you're looking for but here's the US Navy's Youtube channel with a video of some test firings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSce3nEY6xk

IIRC, the problem wasn't that it didn't work but that the barrels wore out too quickly to be useful. I suppose they could have put this on a Zumwault like originally intended but that would just be a PR stunt when the main problem was throwing the gun away after 10 shots.

What a strange take when a mountain of evidence is right in front of you. China went from "nothing but cheap labor" to the next world superpower because of exactly this kind of exchange. They have modern cities with rapid transit, EVs, and a top tier domestic tech industry.

The privacy thing was always hiding the real truth. Apple will never be able to compete with Google on ads or tracking: they have neither the engineering chops nor the reach. By being "privacy first", it saves Apple money and cuts off a little of Google's revenue stream.

The benefit to customers was a secondary effect.

I know, right? That quote led me to the brain-bleach-required section of Wikipedia. If you want to ruin a nice Friday too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs

Although above that one, "goombah" can be (not always) used as a slur against Italians? Growing up with Super Mario, that is kinda funny but then also concerning. Like it's been hiding in plain sight.

You were applying "a well armed society is a polite society" to geopolitics. I disagree. Weapons are what you fall back on after all the other options have failed. A "ballot box, jury box, ammo box" sort of deal.

Education and tolerance are the tools of peace. If your leaders are extremists who can't compromise, pointing fingers for who you should hate more, jump to labels and teams, and issue ultimatums rather than dialogue, then you are on a road to war.

The Nvidia thing was a subtle way to point out that you can't "brew install" your way out of every bit of missing OS functionality. The subtly was sadly too subtle.

"Posix" is such a trivial set of APIs that until recently Windows claimed to be Posix compatible (and basically still is???). Darwin, the MacOS kernel, lacks pretty much everything above that slim foundation. No user or network namespaces. No capabilities. Even if you switch to GNU coreutils (ls, ps, netstat, etc), you get a reduced featureset because Darwin lacks /proc, /sys, ioctls, and other knobs&levers to make stuff work the way it does on Linux. Xorg works because X11 was common across all Unixen back then. And on the built in BSD utils, stuff gets weird like ls ~/Downloads -l doesn't work and case insensitivity leads to weird bugs in things like shell wildcards (like ls ~/downlo*/*).

The Linux network stack is complicated because it can do absolutely everything, at insane speeds and scales. MacOS' network features are geared towards being a laptop and not much else. I won't defend Linux as user friendly but it's been my daily desktop for 25 years, I guess I've figured it out. I use and appreciate stuff like VLANs, bridging, nftables, ebtables, etc. If you need to change behavior, there's probably a /proc/net flag that will do it. It's stuff that MacOS hides or simply doesn't have.

No one's going to comment on "professional war crimes investigator" being a thing? His mental health professionals are going to need mental health professionals. You have to wonder how Nihilist his worldview is after 20 years.