I can't even figure out the mentality needed to post this comment, let alone mod it up. Even the attempt to reframe the proposal leaves the proposal as ugly and racist. And since when was invading a country by military force and imposing your own government the same thing as joining it organically, either because it has a culture you love and believe would thrive in, or because you're escaping persecution?

What a horrific mentality you guys have. What truly horrible people you are. You're not even making an attempt to understand the issues you pontificate on, you just believe the world is divided into "races" that should, for reasons you can't explain, never mix, and must always be in competition with one another.

Jesus.

It isn't OK for the Swiss to do it. Who is telling you that other than white supremacists?

Asylum treaties exist for a reason. And the Swiss will shoot themselves in the foot if they ban skills-based immigration as the world doesn't evenly distribute skills across it.

And, in classic fascist style, it's a dumb law that proffers a simplistic, wrong, answer to a complex question, designed to distract you from the inherent corruption of fascist leadership.

Except that they aren't blocking sideloading. With the planned changes you can still install apps via:

1. Other app stores. The apps will have to be signed by a registered developer account.
2. By one-click installation from a web site. The apps will have to be signed by a registered developer account.
3. By ADB. No registered developer account required.

And for the cases that require a registered developer account, that account can be anonymous and free as long as the number of installs is small.

That would be fun, actually. I'd have to give them slashdot and substack. They'd have no idea what either of them are.

Well, it would be fun until they denied me entry.

FTFY

This is a gaslighting that he'll probably largely get away with, since most Americans -- especially his voter base -- have little contact with tourism or people from other countries.

His ongoing attempts to gaslight them over grocery prices, though, that one's going to be tougher. I'm surprised he's trying that. I mean, he's dumb, sure, and insulated from truth, but surely someone around him is smart enough and clueful enough to tell him that it would be better to sell it as a period of unfortunate but necessary pain on the way to long-lasting economic revival and stability. His base would eat that up, but even his diehard supporters are having a hard time reconciling "grocery prices are down!" with their own grocery bills, and he just keeps repeating it. He can cherry-pick specific item prices or gush about the lower-price of a (conveniently scaled-back) Thanksgiving dinner basket all he wants but people who actually buy groceries (such an old-timey word! <eyeroll/>) can see the truth during every weekly trip to the store.

Yes, but unlike the $20 a month version with AI, it costs $40 a month... /s

You've completely made all of that up, even after having it explained to you that antifa just means anti-fascism. Yes, communists are antifa. So are anarchists. So are democrats. So are liberals. So are people who are merely pro-democracy. So are many people who are anti-democracy.

You've basically taken some Fox News coverage of anarchist protests where antifa signs were waved, somehow conflated communism with anarchism (maybe due to Fox News's own narrating) and then ignored the evidence of your eyes and ears after hearing so many people who aren't communists loudly proclaim they're "antifa", and decided to live in your alternative reality instead.

And the fact you uncritically accept a Fox News narrative suggests, given it's current support for an American fascist regime (big clue even if you for some reason think a gang of con-men who are scapegoating a powerless group, making a big show of treating them inhumanely, building concentration camps for them, and using the military to suppress dissent, is somehow not fascist: why would Fox News misrepresent what antifa means if they were anti-fascist?) you probably lean fa.

Think about that.

Antifa is not a group, it's a general position of being anti-fascist in thoughts and deeds. There may be groups named after antifa, just as there are groups with "conservative", "liberal", "anarchist", etc, but the concept itself is not a group. And unless you're a God-damned fascist, there is no reason to be opposed to antifa.

But you know that, hence your attempts to pretend it is a group, and then point at random anarchist groups (most of whom do not have the word in their names, but who occasionally will describe themselves as antifa because of course anarchists are anti-fascist) and pretend they are that group.

And again, like the previous idiot, how pathetic is it that the modern conservative just stupidly and without even a moment of thought repeats the same lies about terms they've been trained to hate even after having it explained what it means and how they're also wrong about terms like "woke" and "DEI"?

What went wrong with you lot? In the early 2000s, you were not this dense.

Exhibit A ladies and gentlemen: A conservative who has so bought into the idea DEI is evil that even in response to a comment pointing out conservative stupidity and their inability to understand what it is, that points out it's an alternative to a quota system, he replies as if it is one.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is your average conservative in 2025. Stupid, homophobic, racist, and misogynist, to a level so extreme facts don't matter any more to him.

What a fuck up.

These days, the market is more trusting of the statement that better tools and processes require fewer employees to serve the same customers if you call that AI. If you get more of your customers to succeed in using your website or app to do what they need without having a human do anything for them individually, you don't need as many employees doing it. But the market doesn't want to hear that you can cut jobs because your website doesn't suck as much any more, so you say AI and they think you've done something futuristic when you've actually done something practical, and you're vague enough about it that the SEC can't say that you claimed to be doing something you're not.

You may be right but I live in hope that the golden boys will actually do the impossible and kick Fuck to the curb, so that the company can finally attempt the long road back from clusterfuck.

If you're hired specifically to develop a good AI, then you *should* push back against folks that want you do act in ways that would cause you to create an inferior one.

OTOH, for Meta to fail at this is devoutly to be wished for. I'd prefer almost anyone else.

A lot depends on how much you believe their explanation. I don't. In fact, I suspect the person making the explanation didn't know the reason, and either invented what they thought would sound good, or just read something someone else handed them.

Corporations don't have a "central mind" that knows all the things they are doing and why they do them. To get a reasoned answer takes a long time, and usually isn't what they want to deliver anyway.

Since China was already trying to get local chips used rather than NVIDIA, they'll probably be in favor of this move.

It's not a matter of the knowledge not existing, it's that in order to make an HDMI port you need to license a package of patents and agree to them. Random hacker might not care, but Valve, unfortunately, would be sued up the wazoo if it didn't license the package or broke the agreement that goes with it.

A DisplayPort to HDMI 2.1 dongle is the way to go, and honestly I'd either put it in the box, or if it's not legal to do that, advise people to order one at the same time, preferably using language along the lines of "to connect your console to a legacy television or monitor that doesn't support DisplayPort, you can buy this adapter here." If the HDMI group is going to impose arbitrary and nasty conditions, encourage people to switch to DisplayPort. It's better anyway.