“You” in a physical sense, sure

Mentally? I can definitely not be here

It really is quite interesting how brazen the “rules for you and not for thee” has gotten

Grand theft copyright and literal cybercrime?

Oopsie doopsie!

Americans could have elected Al Gore in 2000.

Should*

How about “many things” and “the sun”?

Oh he’s definitely done something that means he should be in jail

“premium users”

It’ll probably work like YouTube premium, a cut of that users sub will go to the artist

Anecdotally, creators seem to make more from premium viewers than ad supported ones

My friend, it’s not even top notch, it’s just incredibly overpriced crap

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality-u-s-healthcare-system-compare-countries/

Oh because the system was already pretty corrupt and they’ve recently doubled down on that

AI? Sure that probably contributed

But Reddit has been pushing its users away for way longer than that though

I thought he had a new, more nutjob favourite in OANN or Newsmax or something

Wait, so now the meta is that you have to have a model you can’t control to keep the bubble going?

What an actual manchild

People who are actually done don’t write several essays in a week and set up targeted DDoS

Imagine having such an oversized ego to think that your views are the only correct ones, and then that it’s your duty to enforce them on others in clandestine ways.

Particularly when those views are ultimately not much more developed than those you’d expect a child to hold

A GDPR style carbon fine needs to be a retroactively applied thing to these hyperscale companies.

Every thousand tonnes of carbon they put into the atmosphere should be taxed at 1% of their year’s revenue, not profit.

You want to put 100,000 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in a given year? That should cost you everything you make.

For scale: Elon Musk’s XAi data centres are currently puking 6 million tonnes out a year. That’s double the carbon output of the UK

Holy shit have they finally updated it?

They had Guardian as mixed factuality for years

Unless they’ve completely overhauled all their rankings though, I expect a lot of the more subtle biases will still be present

Edit: from a year ago https://web.archive.org/web/20250816111509/https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/

And it had been like that for a number of years (I don’t make a habit of checking it regularly given my distrust of it)

Lmao just read the readme of the project and got all the red flags I need

Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC) Integration

I can forgive someone with a passing exposure to it not knowing, but MBFC is notorious for having biased rankings.

The regular example I use is the Guardian being placed on the same factuality ranking as breitbart (the nazi rag), but it’s not one case, there’s a general right-wing bias in the rankings.

The developer of this project is very clearly just trying to put their finger on the views of their users

If you buy a phone that doesn’t come with the stock OS with a locked bootloader, just reflash as a precaution.

Identity theft is not worth saving yourself a half hour of messing about

The closest thing to PayPal in Europe is probably Klarna, albeit they put a stronger focus on their credit product, you can use it to just pay up front.

Wero is being rolled out slowly as an alternative to the Visa/MasterCard duopoly, but that’s a bit different to what you’re asking

Edit: I’d forgotten, but Curve bank could be a viable option, but I’m not sure if you can get it outside the UK

As others have mentioned Go and rust are nearly old enough to drink.

And the answer is pretty simple, if an existing language does something differently to how a group of people wants to work, someone will eventually write a language to do it that way.

There’s no single way to solve a problem, and that’s a good thing. If someone wants to whip something up quickly there’s a host of high level languages to do that in, it just probably won’t be especially quick. If you really care about performance, there are low level languages with varying levels of safety measures. Then there’s the whole code style thing, you might be a functional programming monk who is truly at home in APL, others may still long for something a bit more LISPy.

stuff that used to work fine in whatever old language it was in is now rewritten in a new language.

This is an illusion. If a project is moving from one language to another, that’s not a lightly taken decision, and almost definitely means they’ve had it with all the issues brought by the first language. I’m assuming you’re referring to the movement from C/C++ code to Rust that I’ve seen a fair bit.

This one particularly is because in C-like languages, any engineer will make mistakes, and those mistakes may never be obvious enough to be fixed. These kinds of mistakes are what cause those random crashes that never get fixed, but more severely, they often also give an opening for a security researcher (or someone more nefarious) to exploit. No one typically wants their software to be used for making people’s lives worse, so a lot of effort will be put into trying to catch those issues early, and manage the situation when one isn’t. With the advent of AI many projects have seen an exponential increase in the number of security issues they’re dealing with.

Or, they could bite the bullet and move to something like rust which keeps the performance benefits, but removes the ability to even make the mistakes in the first place.

It’s not every day you get to use a word like dilettante, so I figured I’d make a salad

Flukey dilettante regards stochastic parrot as unfathomable prodigy

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