Interesting. I’ve tried Linux phones, they’re not a bad idea per se. It looks like Waydroid is literally just emulating LineageOS, though, so I do start to wonder what the point is.

I suppose one advantage would be you can actually hack your system a bit, instead of having everything locked into the ROM.

And even this improvement wasn’t universally appreciated: some people found error messages they couldn’t ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate “the ease of programming” with the ease of making undetected mistakes.

This guy was writing in the year x86 was first introduced, and I still feel like I see this attitude around.

(He manages to shoehorn in a “kids these days” comment too, though)

Yes, but quality takes actual skill to measure, instead of just a diff.

(Although I guess lines are still better than time in office)

Hmm, was the boss hoping to turn that into a “why do I even pay you” moment?

If you don’t care about installing any particular mobile software, that would work.

LineageOS is the current game in town otherwise, unless you want a Pixel, in which case there’s options like GrapheneOS.

Honestly, that’s great, but you might as well cut to the chase and switch ROMs as well. Google isn’t going to budge.

I can’t tell if they haven’t thought through what that would mean for them themselves, or they know it’s BS but it’s still good for marketing.

A really great recentish article on why, exactly, even if we have the connectome all squared away.

Depaywalled link.

Yeah. Surveillance is covered already.

Overkill. Just find the illegal no-age-collection ISO. Installing with your middle finger raised is optional, but recommended.

Again, that’s what the 6000 remaining employees would be for.

Foresight FTW.

In the end we inplemented NoTaD pointers (“notified on target destruction”, essentially weak pointers but this was back in the day when weak pointers and smart pointers weren’t really well defined) that would discover when the thing they took a precious pointer to was actually no longer valid.

It’s weird to me that programming practice has changed that much in 20 years. That’s still closer to today than to Dennis Richie doing his thing.

Hmm, guy who wrote his own kernel because he didn’t like the ones that existed. I’m sure he’s totally neurotypical. /s

Public service announcement that if you use a VPN, a private browser and Invidious they can’t really track you. Actually just Invidious might be enough, I’ve never looked into it in detail.

I use Tor but it isn’t seamless, and you do have to go for a really low quality setting.

Oooh, the layers of psychology keep piling on. So they’re using a sex worker, who they probably believe is inferior and doing a bad thing, if they’re MAGA, but are themselves into being sexually humiliated within the context of a private interaction.

Yeah, we’re an interesting species sometimes.

I don’t control the governments of other countries and cities.

Presumably you’re in a country with cities. What does that have to do with anything?

Like, the only thing I can think is a “the Irish should stop breeding” argument, which would be pretty ironic if you’re trying to paint me as the colonialist.

We might disagree about the solutions but I don’t think it’s fair to argue that I should never care about the quality of life of people already living in my city.

Great. That includes all of them, even ones that couldn’t afford a larger space, right? And all the ones that do still want to live in your city? That would imply it’s going to be just as big and just as dense.

Even if you redistribute the space available, you just put everyone in medium-sized spaces instead of a mix of big and small, and the total density is the same. We don’t have a magic genie that builds low-density but sufficiently interconnected cities for free; it’s not done because there’s not enough labour and wealth to do it.

TBH maybe our culture took a wrong turn there. Everyone is lonely, parents are stressed with no support network to help them and we can’t afford shit.

Don’t get me wrong, some families are shit, but then there’s also a concept of found family now that could fill that gap.

Lol!

Okay, that’s way too right now. Of course he did.

I can’t be the only person on here that’s fully off the algorithm/surveillance grid. It’s still possible to get caught in bubbles the old-fashioned way, I guess. I try to listen to something/someone new and weird every once in a while.