People on ALL social media NEED to see what the other side says

I don't "need" to see people saying that Trump is a no-war president, only for those to later complain that Trump does the equivalent of doing wars on other countries.

I don't "need" to see that FEMA cuts are necessary, only for those to later be upset about not receiving the benefits from those cuts during a disaster.

I don't "need" to see a trump-supporting farmer upset that someone who allegedly connect them for $500,000, only to be later upset again that their own president pardoned the conman.

I do not need flip-flopping hypocrisy.

None, because there's allegedly no duty to protect, and using AI is just an extension of this.

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

Plus it would most likely fail because someone calls 911 to order a pizza, because the AI thinks it's a prank call rather than an agent realizing that it's meant as a cryptic call for help. ...

Or even better - some police reports noted that one of the victims turned into a frog simply because it overheard a movie playing in the background. This could lead some criminals to make a single-button "prank call" playback device that plays various prank call recordings, and could make the AI think it's a child doing funny calls to the 911 operator.

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

Source: https://mastodon.social/@TheZe...

In the meantime, I already have at least one alternate browser (e.g. Vivaldi, Pale Moon, Librewolf, Servo). Although it feels like running more than one at a time increases the chance of a surprise memory leak.

Allegedly, developers have to send their ID to Google in order to have an app that can run on android.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Really, the TikTok/Instagram/Shorts are meant for light engagement for a dopamine hit, being shallow on-par with what's found in Fahrenheit 451. Just completely shallow, no critical thinking, no discussion - and perhaps influenced towards sending young people weird videos simply because they're signed out.

Also, it's the quality, not the quantity. The brain-rot algorithm is just as bad as a real-life social pool with endless bullying and bullshit drama - which also has the added effect of complex PTSD.

The licenses state if you change something you must give back,

No, GPL states that if you distribute anything, you must also provide the source code. Presence or absence of change is irrelevant.

See section 4, "Conveying Verbatim Copies", section 5, "Conveying Modified Source Versions", and section 6, "conveying non-source forms".

If a person doesn't accept the terms of the GPL, they may instead treat the software as if the authors said "All Rights Reserved", which means no distribution.

AI learning from Opensourced code is no different than a human doing the same other than at a faster rate

Large-language models don't actually learn, they just determine what's the next token that's statistically likely to be printed.

If you GPLed your code you can't expect anything back from anyone who uses AI to write code that is not a modification of your code.

The only way to avoid distributing things under the GPL is to not distribute anything at all. If a person redistributes software that was originally released under the GPL, they may only do so by complying by the license, and that's a full source code release.

A vibe coder that takes AI generated code taken from a GPL repository must also release their software under the GPL, and the AI system must also abide by that restriction as well.

Where is all the money for this UBI going to come from?

It can come from the same place that banks use to pay a trickle amount of interest on the bank accounts. And yet, banks have not faltered.

Tax the rich?

Considering that wealth is supposed to "trickle down", taxing the rich makes sure that there's no blockage.

In fact I challenge you to ask 100 people in the street (limit yourself to windows only users) if they even knew phoning Microsoft was an option

They wouldn't, because the standard is now to have all computers with an always-on internet connection, and would most likely self-activate as soon as you login to a microsoft account. As it's done in the background, there's no prompt.

On the other hand, those using Windows XP would have seen it as an option, especially if they were one of the few people at the time still on dial-up.

Also, an AI "band" can't go on tour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If Vocaloid can do a concert, the team clearly can go on tour and do the event in different locations with their holograph tech to make them look 3D on stage.

It won't be the same as an acutal band, but it's still possible.

Free Software benefits from bug reports - eventually the software gets better.

Only the legitimate and quality ones.

The author of curl has been receiving a variety of reports that were generated by AI, none of which are legitimate. The latest one seems to involve a function that doesn't exist within curl, meaning he spent time tracking down a bug that didn't exist.

As for the Free and/or Open Source Software paradigm - it requires both "many eyes" and "many hands". Being able to spot problems doesn't mean a thing if there's nobody able to fix these problems.

Perhaps these requirements to drop DEI were not so much about DEI

X11Libre, a DEI-free fork of X11, needed to explain its DEI-free commitment: https://github.com/X11Libre/mi...

And in doing so, the developer used the wrong "power-of-two" operator: https://github.com/X11Libre/xs...

This fork was specifically created because the developer was thrown out of the parent project for pushing code that broke things too much, requiring a mass rollback.

It's only technically correct that a dropping DEI isn't related to DEI. Rather, it's an overt requirement to dislike people based off skin colour. This is consistent with the US's demands on French companies, and their policies that attempt to deport immigrants that don't look like americans.

but about savings and getting the job done.

Python is open source software. Anti-DEI policies run anti-ethical to it, simply because they take contributions from all over the world. Putting in policies that prohibit most of the world from contributing is much more costly, especially since labour is provided by unpaid volunteers - all of whom can decide to split off and create a new fully-compatible software package, "Vyper".

And, considering that "DEI" is the current code word for dark skinned people, I find this unlikely. If the government actually wanted savings and getting the job done, they can make provide efficiency benchmarks in the funding guidelines.

Since they're claiming it's a Weather Balloon, it was really hit by Swamp Gas.

Source is the UFO identification chart..

More like a coder for a previous version of the Apple calculator app:

https://thedailywtf.com/articl...

Note how it drops button presses, meaning 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 75.

You shoehorn a claim with 21K vaccine deaths per month...

Come on, that's a 99.8% survival rate since those vaccines started. Vaccine denialists say that number is perfectly fine, being happy enough to plop the same number on the side of a protest sheep.

Let me know when this death rate approaches the older claims where everyone would die within 2 years of taking the vaccine.

And if you got it, you had to include the sector number in the file name.

Only if you're using a custom loader (e.g. commercial game). Commodore 64 Basic abstracts this with the LOAD and SAVE commands, and the 1541 also takes care of placing files onto any available sector. It's not like most developers needed to memorize the file system just to write a file.

It didn't have any security features AT ALL,

It's basic security feature is restoring itself to factory settings whenever the machine was turned off. This didn't stop viruses, but it greatly reduced the spread, and makes it slightly easier to try detecting if there is a virus on the system. Because there wasn't an obvious soft reset, it was safe.

This is compared to Amiga, where resetting the system didn't always clear memory, or PC, where a virus could sneak itself into a boot sector of a hard drive, and where both systems were designed to allow multiple programs to run at once (as opposed to the C64, where hiding a program in memory might not be practical.)

no logins, no memory protection

This is less important for a single-user and single-tasking operating system.

Logins would be substituted by bringing around disks with you, and memory protection is more of a shoot-self-in-foot approach. Even with memory protection, it doesn't stop assembly code from soft-locking the system, because the executable had a bad assembly code in it.