Then again it seems battery life is a lot better this time around, so this should ideally be less necessary.

“Creators led this revolution”

The same way cows lead a slaughterhouse.

Could also be two separate things? I have a) dumped Windows and b) installed Lineage.

We’re outsourcing thinking to a bullshit generator controlled by mostly American mega-corporations who have repeatedly demonstrated that they want to do us harm, burning through scarce resources and rendering creative humans robbed and unemployed in the process.

What’s not to hate.

Not strictly a scam, but there’s a little money to be made creating viral content on Facebook. They receive a tiny portion of the ad revenue from Facebook when they generate engagement.

It’s just Facebook sucking really.

I’m sure you could have a fruitful conversation with the crowd insisting it was written by AI. :)

This is just obviously not the case to anyone who bothers reading it. It’s an original piece of writing.

The only thing that could hint at AI here is the use of em-dashes, which is a bullshit tell—I use them all the time myself as well. They’re right there for anyone with a compose key on Linux.

Yeah, I imagine parts of the US is probably pretty ideal for this. Where I’m from you’ll find remote places where it would make sense, but you probably wouldn’t want to drive around in a rather low riding sports car on the roads in these places. I guess this thing probably won’t be street legal in Europe anyway.

I think chapter 2 does a good job presenting the advantages.

Maybe you inherited someone else’s codebase. A minefield of nested closures, half-commented hacks, and variable names like d and foo. A mess of complex OOPisms, where you have to traverse 18 files just to follow a single behaviour. You don’t have all day. You need a flyover—an aerial view of the warzone before you land and start disarming traps.

Ask Copilot: “What’s this code doing?” It won’t be poetry. It won’t necessarily provide a full picture. But it’ll be close enough to orient yourself before diving into the guts.

So—props where props are due. Copilot is like a greasy, high-functioning but practically poor intern:

• Great with syntax
• Surprisingly quick at listing out your blind spots.
• Good at building scaffolding if you feed it the exact right words.
• Horrible at nuance.
• Useless without supervision.
• Will absolutely kill you in production if left alone for 30 seconds.

Yeah, I understand your point and I think it might be the only way of silencing these trolls. Perhaps making it this explicit is the only way of providing clear enough guidelines, I just feel like it’s a bit bombastic as a point 2.

What left me a bit reluctant was your comment that other communities “are hosted in Germany which is a Zionist police state”. I’ll be the first to criticize Germany (this is precisely what got banned me from [email protected] half a year ago, after all), but this seems a bit bombastic especially when paired with rule 2.

I already got banned for criticizing Germany, I don’t want to get banned for defending them as well! ;)

I guess the problem is that if you take your car to the plane, then your plane somewhere else, suddenly you don’t have your car. And then if you drive somewhere else you don’t have your plane any more.

I think it’s pretty obvious that rental cars and commercial flights make a lot more sense for most scenarios. But I guess it’s possible to imagine scenarios where this vehicle makes sense, either for extensive round trips or for places where car rentals don’t exist but the roads are nevertheless pretty good.

They don’t have a general rule to ban all protests, but they did ban several of them and cracked down on protests pretty effectively early on. As is reported in plenty of media.

Well, the entire thread is still there except my deleted comment reading as follows:

insufficient avenues for engagement beyond voting.

Funny what banning protests does to a country.

So you can see in the thread that I provide sources, such as the New York Times:

The country’s authorities have banned many protests in the name of fighting antisemitism. Critics say such restrictions are discriminatory.

To me, this seems relevant in a thread about how German youth feels that their avenues for democratic participation beyond voting are restricted. Besides, I was not banned for alleged misinformation, but for “derailing”.

Even if I was wrong, which I do not believe I was, I hardly see my comment being worthy of a ban in a reasonably moderated community. Discussion, yes.

Thanks for this! I will contribute for sure.

Edit: I would possibly revisit rule #2 though - making the rule more general, such as “no hate speech”, and specifying that proponents of any hateful ideologies should be excluded. Right now it’s strangely targeted - I guess “no antisemitism” goes under rule 1, but I think rule 2 should be wide enough to also cover “no nazis”.

Edit edit: As frustrated as I am by [email protected], I think I’ll proceed with some hesitation.

I got banned from [email protected] at some point for raising the German response to pro-palestinian protests as a potential democratic problem. Seems European enough to me. 🙃

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I think maybe it does, but I’m a pretty normal user who just used the Murena quick installer to get /e/OS. Reading up on Magisk after some web searches I quickly realized it was more than I could bite over without spending too much time trying to figure it all out. If people insist on making apps I can’t use I’ll just accept that I won’t be using them at this point. Their loss.

I live in Denmark, their state identification app does not work if it detects that the Android ROM is not straight from Google. So when I switched to /e/OS I couldn’t access anything any more. So yeah, in my case the solution was ta give up on one pretty critical app.

Thankfully the solution was as easy as getting one of those old fashioned code chips, and everything else seems to be working fine (including banking apps from other countries). So now I’m rocking /e/OS and I’m pretty sure there is no way I’m ever going back to Google Android.

Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.

My bet would be tax evasion and money laundering. ;)

It’s hard to wrap one’s head around just how freaking rich the mega wealthy are. The 1% is not even the enemy at this point, they are closer to most of us than they are to the billionaire class.

I think it must be seen not in light of the monetary blow, but in light of the fact that the EU is pushing hard for these actors to change directions and to end some of their abusive behaviour.

Traffic fines are made to bankrupt drivers or to finance the state, but to encourage people to drive safely.