I’m trying to think what shattered the illusion for me… Weirdly, one of the first ones was when I was in high school, my Spanish teacher told me that in Spain, they had hardly any computers (she had just visited that summer). I told that to a friend of my dad, and he was like “uh… No, pretty much everyone has them”. Which wasn’t propaganda, but I think they was the first time I felt ashamed of my ignorance

Then in college, I was having a discussion about politics with someone from Paris, and mentioned offhand how it’s different because they’re a socialist country. He laughed and said “what? We’re not socialist”. That was pounded into me since elementary school, that the UK and France were socialists.

The guy owned a business, and I knew this and the fact he was fairly wealthy due to said business… And that’s when the illusion completely shattered, and I realized I was repeating shit I’d been taught without evaluating the information

Propaganda works. On all of us… It works less if you’re aware of it and examine your own beliefs, but that shit creeps in through the cracks. It’s insidious

If banning tik tok ends up galvanizing demand for healthcare reform I’m going to laugh my ass off

So I’m not crazy? I could’ve sworn I looked into it, and it was basically just a credit score where you also get dinged for police interaction or living with someone who committed a crime

Honestly, you’re probably better off without tiktok. Short form video is bad for humans, and it’s much worse if it’s not educational

I’m genuinely sorry for the potential friends you’ve lost, but tiktok was not a good thing… An American controlled version wouldn’t be better, I hope you double down on the fediverse

Because you’re one of their leads, and you too could cold call people from a list if you pay now!

Tencent is an investor there too

It seems unlikely… The vessel wasn’t up to the challenge of anywhere near that depth, and they intended to go that deep from the get go.

I mean, it could be, but Bluetooth shouldn’t work like that - it’s a digital signal with a bunch of failure modes in the spec. You’d have to code it particularly stupidly to have that kind of problem - it’s a very time-synched protocol, even a sudden disconnect with no disconnect signal is something a coder would have to confront explicitly if they were using off the shelf components

I’m not one to bet against bad code, but the decompression seemed to be pretty much instant and within the planned trip, it just seems like it doesn’t survive oscams razor

Nah, the shell cracked, pretty much instant death. Dodgy tech works until it doesn’t, only the first critical failure matters

They also make touch vests, integrate with vibrators, and probably have even wilder accessories these days

I’m going to go out on a limb and say fedora silverblue or bazzite

Basic user? Use flat packs and enjoy easy graphics support, as well as all of the windows compatibility for gaming

Advanced user? Learn to do things in pods/containers or distrobox, it’s easy even if the quick start docs aren’t great (I can find my cheat sheets if anyone is going down that road)

Pro: most stuff just works, and it’s harder to config yourself into a corner you have to research your way out of

Cons: normal Linux install guides need to be modified a bit, it’s not hard but you do have to learn how to do it

2024 was kind of a break. It wasn’t that bad (comparatively), a few things happened that brought us hope, a lot of things happened that suggest things are going to get much worse

Might be the best year of the decade, honestly

I’m working on something along these lines for myself, I think of it like using AI as a filter to create a bubble of good Internet around me

They already have a condition of “sell to an American entity or shut it down”

I think there’s more to it - IIRC, this is Intel’s factory

Things that can mess up a batch- clean room not clean enough, vibrations from walking/vehicles/tectonic activity/lack of mechanical precision, temperature variations, impurities in chemicals or wafers, em interference, static charges, etc

We’re talking a few dozen atoms in the wrong place, the tolerances are minuscule when you’re making modern chips. A small problem in the supply chain, process, or the building itself could all kill your yield

I’m not an expert or anything, but I know this is a very unforgiving field

It’s crazy how the bar is so low that when I hear someone rich be honest about how they only succeeded because they were rich, I respect them more

I’m not sure what you would call it, maybe “pluralized”?

Distributed is the term, and to be more precise - it’s not federated because ownership and control is not distributed, even if the servers are

competitive broadband marketplace

Represents multiple supposedly fierce competitors

I see the problem. Someone must’ve convinced them that opposite day was real in 4th grade, and they’ve been stuck that way ever since

I like the time they implied it would somehow protect people from sexual assault, but just ended up just revealing how personal the data they have can be

They would have to be more scummy and also at least similarly competent… Google can’t innovate for crap, but they’re pretty good at maintaining projects (when they don’t randomly kill them off)

If they stop work on chromium, or belief in the stewardship of chromium wanes, it’ll fragment the ecosystem again. Which is sorely needed at this point - we need to get back to standards and away from centralized control

Imagine Twitter/musk acquires them. Microsoft, Apple, and many other big companies directly or indirectly rely on a chain now controlled by a group known for mismanagement - are they going to wait and see, or are they going to diversify?

They do… It’s just not expected that they won’t

Pains of being a prototype democracy and all… If only the founding fathers had explicitly told us our system would need reform as issues came up