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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, it fails in Europe too. I ended up giving away my FP4, because it fails to do even basic stuff like make a call after 3G was switched off in my country.

  Worst phone I ever had, with quite a margin. And the only one I ever kept for under 2 years and the only one I replaced while it was still physically ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Have a look at their impact report. They themselves claim that they don’t spend more than €5 per phone on fair trade or environmental stuff.

  You are only paying more for that phone because they are a tiny boutique manufacturer who has to outsource everything. The fair/eco stuff is just fair- and greenwashing.

  If you buy a phone because you want to look fair/eco, buy a Fairphone. If you actually really care for fair/eco, get an used phone and donate some money to the correct NGOs or charities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software is evolving backwards⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You are mistaking the direction of evolution. Software started out with as much freedom as the hardware could afford.

  In the 80s you ran your program in real mode (or whatever the equivalent mode was on your hardware). No kernel, no OS, nothing in the way. The software ran on bare metal with the ability to do literally anything the computer could.

  In the 90s and early 2000s, safety features were introduced, but customizability was still king. Remember how you could accidentally remove some toolbar from Eclipse and never find the way to get it back? That kind of UI was considered normal back then.

  You had stuff like the BlackBox system that allowed the user to customize the UI like a developer. The user could not only move buttons and other UI elements wherever they wanted, but they could also create their own and use scripting to make them do whatever they wanted.

  Then came the iPhone and Windows 8, and from then on the target became simplification. The downside of the customizability of yesteryear was that things could get complicated and that most users didn’t use or even want these systems. Getting back to the Eclipse example, it was incredibly common back then, that people accidentally closed part of the UI and never found a way to get it back. So that’s when the minimalisation and “less is more” mentality came in. They moved everything that wasn’t used all the time into submenus and to a certain extent, it kinda worked.

  But of course, with MBAs being MBAs, stuff like adding AI buttons to force people to use the next big monetizable thing became more and more prevalent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am two of them⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you didn’t take that as being mean, that’s not what I wanted to be here.

  If you spend 10+ years with an asexual partner, anything that could provide a chance of sex starts to look appealing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am two of them⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like your sexuality is “sexual”. You just want to have any action, but socially you have the chance for none.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software is evolving backwards⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not evolving backwards. It’s being carefully crafted to turn into exactly what corporations wanted from the beginning but couldn’t do due to technical and legal limitations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software is evolving backwards⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Examples:

  • Microtransactions instead of asking for the price up-front
  • Using gambling mechanics in non-gambling games (e.g. loot boxes)
  • Eliminating potential stopping points in the user interaction, like e.g. endless scrolling instead of pagination
  • Using big, visually engaging buttons for the actions they want the user to perform (“Accept tracking”) while using tiny, grey links for the actions they don’t want the user to perform (“Reject tracking”), or even worse, hiding the action they don’t want the user to perform behind multiple menues.
  • Using wording that creates fear or other negative emotions to stop users from performing such actions (“If you cancel your subscription now, you will lose access to this, this, and that. Everything you did will be lost. Do you really want to do that?”)
  • Disguising ads and other non-organic content as organic content. (“I found this product and it cured my hair loss, my potency issues and made me rich at the same time! ~sponsored ad~”)
  • Disguising ads as notifications
  • Disguising ads as the download button
  • Agreeing to do one simple action contains a hidden agreement to a ton of other things

  And many more things like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Combine Eurotruck Simulator with remote controlled trucks and you got a fleet of "self-driving" trucks for free.⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the reason for the weird actions of Tesla Robotaxis!

• Combine Eurotruck Simulator with remote controlled trucks and you got a fleet of "self-driving" trucks for free.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sea cables are probably the most vulnerable point of the internet. There are comparatively few of them (on the order of a few hundreds), they are long, and most of their length is not guarded at all. The only reason I can think of, why nobody has targeted them at large is that it would also cut of the attacker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Read again. I quoted something along the lines of “just as much a development decision as a marketing one” and I said, it wasn’t a development decision, so what’s left?

  Firefox released just as frequently before, just that they didn’t increase the major version that often.

  This does not appear to be true.

  Why don’t you take a look at the version history instead of some marketing blog post? www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/

  Version 2 had 20 releases within 730 days, averaging one release every 36.5 days.

  Version 3 had 19 releases within 622 days, averaging 32.7 days per release.

  But these releases were unscheduled, so they were released when they were done. Now they are on a fixed 90-day schedule, no matter if anything worthwhile was complete or not, plus hotfix releases whenever they are necessary.

  That’s not faster, but instead scheduled, and also they are incrementing the major version even if no major change was included. That’s what the blog post was alluding to.

  In the before times, a major version number increase indicated major changes. Now it doesn’t anymore, which means sysadmins still need to consider each release a major release, even if it doesn’t contain major changes because it might contain them and the version name doesn’t say anything about whether it does or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  “Privacy”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s where law is not justice.

  I do agree with your sentiment, but if the law defines a driver as a human, which is usually the case, then by definition Tesla cannot be the driver.

  It could even be that the passenger sitting in the driver’s seat of a robotaxi would be defined as the driver.

  And sure, these laws need to be adapted before robotaxis should be allowed to hit the streets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t read too much into the topic, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was as much a marketing decision as well as a developer one.

  Version numbering has no implications on development. Firefox released just as frequently before, just that they didn’t increase the major version that often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You aren’t wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If your argument is that the whole bible is unreliable due to canon selection that’s a totally viable argument to make. But that then goes both ways and means that you can’t make an argument about anything Christ did or did not teach or do. It means, you can neither make the argument that Jesus was for eating animals or against it, because any scripture supporting any of these points was subject to canon selection and thus is unreliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I hated writing pointless essays about topics I don’t care about, and yet I still like to research and debate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is Chrome 121 versions ahead of Android?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the main point here is not to actually claim that Jesus inspired Marx or something like that, but to counter all the fascists and turbocapitalists using Jesus’s name to justify the horrific things they are doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, don’t forget the story where he told his disciples to go fish again, and they returned with a boat so gull of fish that it almost sank.

  It’s safe to say that Jesus was not opposed to eating at least fish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on how exactly the laws are worded, they might even get away without paying fines. Many traffic codes define that only the driver (not the owner of the car) can be fined, and these robo taxis don’t have drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First error to correct:

  We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information errors and deleting errors information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teachers Are Not OK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that most of that is still in effect.

  Especially poor people still spend 12+ hours a day working, and even for middle class people it’s quite common that both parents work 10+h a day.

  Average work hours per year have gone up by ~10% since 1980.

  And when it comes to the jobs: While we like to pat ourselves on our back about how creative our work has become, we are essentially still doing factory work, just on a desk with a computer instead of in the factory with a welding torch.

  Most of the work that most of the people do is still the same mundane, formulaic toiling away.

  Modern education is focussed on teaching kids to learn stuff they don’t care for at exactly the time it’s asked for. Same as at work. If I have to learn a new framework for a project, I have to learn it right now, no matter if I feel like it or not. My boss is not going to wait around until I naturally feel like learning what’s needed for the job.

  That’s why it’s ok that we forget all but the basics the instant we graduate from school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teachers Are Not OK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a nice idea, in theory, but once it touches reality, it falls apart, mainly for two reasons.

  • Not everyone is high-IQ neurotypical with high intrinsic motivation.

  As an extreme example, put someone with ADHD into a Montessori/Walddorf/Unschooling setup (three well-known systems that do pretty much exactly what you are demanding) and that kid will fail hard. That’s the reports you read of 10yo unschooled kids who never cared for learning to read and who are now having an incredibly hard time learning anything at all, because material for that age group expects the kids to be able to read.

  • The most important thing to learn at school is not the subjects/material

  Apart from the very basics (reading/writing/basic math), 95% of the content taught at school can be (and is) safely forgotten once you leave school. There are more than enough reports on the fact that adults fail most school tests if they have to repeat them a few years after leaving school.

  And that’s ok, because what school really teaches you is how to efficiently learn material you don’t care about no matter if you have motivation for it right now or not.

  That’s necessary to prepare the kids for higher education and work.

  When I have to work on a new project with e.g. a new framework or some new stuff I don’t yet know, then my boss won’t wait around until I naturally accidentally find the interest to spend time learning the material. No, the project has a deadline in two weeks and until then I need to learn what’s necessary and do what needs to be done, no matter if I feel like it or not.

  And that lession, which is much more important than the subjects you learn in school, is not taught at all by free-form student-driven learning systems like Montessori, Walddorf or Unschooling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not okay.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t remember when I last saw fireflies. They used to be quite common 25 years ago when I was a kid. Damn, time flies and I’m getting old. And fire apparently doesn’t fly any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Satisfactory] 222 hours in, I have built a factory that makes 20 heavy modular frames per minute. (more pictures and details in description)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Never had Eternity lag before. Impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Satisfactory] 222 hours in, I have built a factory that makes 20 heavy modular frames per minute. (more pictures and details in description)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a game I’d love to play, but right now I still have a semblance of a life left and I’m not sure I want to risk that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I got banned for saying that poisoning an invasive species like cats isn’t any different than poisoning an invasive species like rats, except that cats are cute and fluffy and rats are not.

  It was under a post about the Australian government putting up poison traps to combat the local cat population which is threatening local endangered wildlife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you going to do? Use your semi-automatic peashooter against modern tanks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. Because military bases with big guns certainly don’t have the ability to use said big guns.