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Comment Re:Download? (Score 1) 218

How does CBP know where the upload is? Is the uploaded file publicly accessible or would they need another password to even get their hands on it?

So he's not even back on US soil yet? Habeas corpus does not yet apply.

Defending the concept of a constitution-free tyranny zone for foreigners (where US border patrol somehow still has legal authority?) is fashy enough, but it's really freaking bad when you use it to strip an American citizen of the rights their own country affords them.

Comment Rust is a tech debt killer (Score 4, Interesting) 134

When I make things in rust, the earlier modules just work. Later modules don't turn into accidental integration tests for the first modules. Obviously, I could screw up some business logic, but even that seems to be rare with rust, as I am spending way less time wondering why this or that threading bug can't be replicated, and can focus on the business logic, not the tool.

Comment Not age limits; go after recommendation systems (Score 3) 59

Simply eliminate recommendation systems. All of them; social media, news, shopping, the lot.

This kills doom scrolling, this kills these weird echo chambers where people look up a topic, and end up in a doom feedback loop most cults would be proud of.

If you don't search for it, you don't see it. Full stop.

This would pretty much break the back of the US tech firms in many areas.

I read an article from long ago in the very earliest days of youtube where they came up with a simple new recommendation system and it increased the chances of someone watching another video by something like 17,000%.

That was a simple one to drive traffic. But now, it is getting far more insidious. If you are a man looking at comments on a he said she said relationship video, you will generally see comments supporting the man's side. If you are a woman, you will see comments supporting the woman's side.

Just kill this sort of algorithmic behavior.

These dark patterns are nasty. If you go to that big shopping site, and look up something like, "replacement battery for pixel 7 pro", you will get a screen mostly of the correct item. If you sort by price (the last thing they want you to do) you will get a screen full of spatulas, insoles, and things which they very much know you are not looking for. They want to train you to not sort by price.

These algorithms are toxic to human society. They are a huge reason we are seeing such insane polarization in things like politics, but also why you have people feeling marginalized and attacked, when it is just influencers telling them that this is the case. I live in a place where certain very tiny group rights are not very well respected. I had a member of this group telling me they are going to leave before the government kills them. WTF? While my local government doesn't particularly like them, it isn't sending out death squads. Not only is their mental health more threatened by this sort of social media crap, than by the behavior of the government, the government itself is responding to people who are doom looped into hating this particular group.

This sort of crap is poison all over the world. Under 16 bans and other crap is a tiny step, but the reality is that if the poison is there, it is still bad, and teens will still end up accessing it in droves. If the poison is removed, the age ban largely becomes moot.

Comment Re:Why (Score 1) 330

One downside of a laterally centered driving position is much worse visibility when overtaking. A centered driving position is good for a track car where the chances of overtaking on the left or right are roughly 50/50, but on the street where the odds are heavily biased one way or the other depending on whether it's a LHD/RHD country, having your driver's seat on the correct side makes it much easier.

Comment Re:Of course not! (Score 2, Informative) 122

Also I would point out that there's nothing socialist about modern American fascism, considering that there's very little flirtation with collective ownership of the means of production going on (other than Sam Altman getting Trump to consider having the US government buy the gigantic economic black-hole-bomb he's built), but they do enact deals that look a good bit like socialism for corporations the regime favors...

Comment Re:Of course not! (Score 5, Insightful) 122

The vast majority of voters in any party want the opposite of that but are told to vote for "the lesser of two evils" which admits to an inherently evil system.

This is only possible because the US has first-past-the-post elections, a clunky and primitive voting method that can enable this situation. Moving to more advanced voting methods like ranked choice or STAR voting prevents a two-party stranglehold from forming.

Comment Re:Bye Chrome... (Score 1) 161

I'm a little surprised no one has tried to bring Manifest v2 back in a Chromium fork. It's supposedly open source after all. If it's too complicated to do practically, then really what's the point in Chromium being open source at all.

See also: Android and the ever-increasing difficulty, impracticality, and necessity of getting root access.

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