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I guess copilot needs all the help it can get?

oh my god, so not the point.

Agreed, it's the exact same as me, I haven't seen someone put it into such succint words before, so bravo.

I think the reason is because I've anchored passkeys into my understanding of how 2FA works, and the pain of migrating 2FA from one phone to another.

So, I don't want to bother with it.

You might find that energy if the alternative is starvation, pestilince and war because a weak king was living in luxury.

You will never know, because you are ignorant to that situation, which is totally fine. Understanding your own ignorance is not a weakness, its a strength- it allows you to be open enough understand other peoples convictions and what confluence of actions may motivated them.

However you’re having a hard time with me specifically because you believe that because you are on the “right side” (an in-group bias more than actual convictions) today, that those values and motivations have always been the right side despite the benefits and biases of hindsight.

Every bigoted person in history genuinely believes they are right, they are righteous - and if only they could push the world to understanding or force people to live by those values, that it would be a better place.

To be clear, I am calling you ignorant and bigoted, because you claim to understand the value system of a person born in the 18th century while uou exist based on a comfortable, peaceful, plentiful life never knowing their environment, conditions, familial ties, how they thought about the world outside, technology or even their own tribal assertions.

Pure. fucking. ignorance.

How can you know? Its quite literally impossible, psychologists believe you can hold approximately 8 competing facts in your head at once, and we are mentally scarred with spoilers, every decision is known and has been talked about to death.

My great grandfather was 17, had to flee Poland (never to return), fought for a brigade in exile in Scotland against the Nazis.

He was also the most racist man I know, prejudiced against people from the next town over in his adoptive home.

He eventually forgot his own native language some time after marrying a woman born in scotland to a predominantly irish migrant family.

So, clearly not a nazi, clearly in support of some kind of migration- but his whole thing is that he made painful efforts to be a great guest in his home, but he never put down his prejudicial mindset. How can this be?

I don’t really know what thats like, even the simple warmth of being able to Video call my mum at a moments notice gives such a significant respite to the crippling loneliness you experience living in another country, its enough salve to keep you going. I can call anyone on earth, summon practically any facet of known human history in seconds, calculate complex mathematics and I have barely felt hunger, scarcity, famine or displacement in my life.

I have his perspective, as barely digestible as it is, and his is one perspective among millions- people who never saw a car until they were already on the other side of a continent- people for whom a job was a lifelong affair, who had tiny close-knit and isolated communities that were forced open by famine or war.

Man, I understand the details, but I can’t put myself in his shoes, theres too many variables and too many perspectives.

And, even though this man fought Nazi’s and assuredly killed people: he did so not knowing about the atrocities being committed- this fact came out very late into the war by his word.

It matters a lot because we can judge easily in hindsight, and because we won.

I’m not a nazi, I don’t agree with their philosophy in hindsight, but lets take the Bolsheviks- who slaughtered people too, who’s values I sort of still believe in.

Would I have been part of the coup in Russia during that time? Would you? How could you fucking know?!?

I can’t recall things my ancestors experienced. Even when they tell me: just like I will have a difficult time conveying how it felt to live during COVID (the uncertainty, the different countries behaving the way they thought best, why Sweden didn’t lock down and Italy did- the death of it) and why anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers are a thing.

Just like explaining how nobody could see the 2008 financial crisis, just like explaining to my children (or great grandchildren, remember that its many generations removed for me and you)- how it felt to fly by air before 9/11.

How can you explain it, you would reach for lossy comparisons like coach travel (will coaches even be a thing? not like they are today, not like they were in 1980 already)

This intellectual dishonesty is maddeningly stupid or an expertly crafted troll, neither are making me think you are engaging seriously.

Yeah, I am literally telling you that I am aware of my ignorance.

That you are not aware of yours reflects poorly on one of us, certainly.

Never been in the same room as a product manager I see.

dunno.

If you gave two people with no other knowledge of computer access: Kubuntu and Windows 11

I'm sure they'd have an easier time with Kubuntu, and this gap has been widening for quite some time in the favour of KDE.

The largest issues seem to be either power users doing esoteric things to their systems, or people who want to work the Windows way.

Drivers (for as much as I can tell) are mostly solved, with some minor touch buttons on some laptops being an issue in some cases.

I'm not comparing Linux of 2007 to now, I'm comparing Windows now to Linux of now- the only real edge Windows has going for it is that it's already installed when you buy your computer.

I upvoted this submission, not because I like this, but because I think people need to see this.

If you are looking at upvotes as a measure of support OpenAI: Don’t.

Dunno, probably just easier to “catch” people who think that they are good people, they think the police is on their side.

Maybe if they could have fined him $1.5B he would have gotten away with it too.

What was Sean Parker sued for again?

in my limited experience with the law, they tend to really go for you if you aren't the kind of person who enjoys breaking the law.

It's almost like they can spot an easy target.

Deal drugs and conduct yourself violently in society, sit with a gang and destroy property... Police seem to have a hard time with you.

Push someone over who is threatening to knock your teeth out when you're walking with your wife and kids... that's an assault charge, because naively you explained what happened to the police, and they're going to make sure you see the inside of a court room for it.

on the flip side, imagine if it's true and everyone immediately suspects that you're a pedophile trying to appear innocent.

Talk about tainted for life.

I was arrested once and interrogated in great detail about how to access the data on a bluetooth usb dongle.

Just to say, I know what you mean.

There's a lot of billionaires, but if they make more money Sweden taxes them.

Sweden doesn't go after the money you have earned already.

There's no standing wealth tax or inheritance taxes that I'm aware of.

if they commit crimes.

I was being sarcastic, obviously.

The circumstances are obviously different, and the sarcasm was my point too: the situation then isn’t the situation now, you can’t possibly hope to compare American history to contemporary Swedish reality. It’s like comparing, as you said: Apples to Oranges.

I'd feel hungry and on the way to work I might grab something from one of the many Espresso Houses in Malmö, I know this because I've skipped breakfast many times and it's just one aspect to my environment.

A better question might be:

A) How does it feel to have the president of the galactic federation of planets outlaw cybernetic implants because they are used to harvest cloned Mycinian DNA illegally - despite such a law preventing the commercial use of home based medical technology.

or

B) How did it feel to be Plato, during the ostraca.

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My point is: I know that the environment my great-granfather lived in is quite literally unknowable to me, despite a living person being able to talk to me about his experiences - it was also barely knowable for him.. "you had to be there".

The same way trying to explain to someone about our upbringing (no cell phones, paper maps, you had to stick to your arrangements because once out of the home there was no communication possible) is very difficult, imagine not having cars, air travel, all news being via the paper (which not everyone purchased) and everyone you know is a labourer.

In that context, with a global political landscape, and a local-first community of folks who could only articulate ideas amongst themselves... Man, I have no fucking clue how I would feel. Just like they'd have no clue about the concept of Espresso House or what would be possible in 2026.

History is really really easy in hindsight. If I have conservative opinions of any sort it's because I prefer to choose options personally that leave us with more choices later.

If this level ethnic replacement happens to be wrong, then it's already too late to do anything about it. That's just true, 15% of a country is already here and there's nothing anyone can do about this humanely.

Asking me how I'd feel if I was born 100 years ago is extremely uncompelling, because I could ask you how my family from then would think about things are today and I can guarantee that they're not going to agree with your perspective on the right approach.

what if you’re wrong?

we’re on year 70 of those 30 years.

The issue is that its unsexy, not “profitable” and it requires land - not to mention that the timeframes needed will make “the next government” look better.

Our governments are recklessly short sighted, and to be fair, even if they were not, their progress would be undone by the disaffected electorate who can be easily convinced that the sitting government is spaffing money up the wall.

You should read my other comments to get a bit more context of why this is an issue in Sweden.

The situation in the US is so absurdly different. It would be like having an opinion on Chinese consumption economics because the local states sales tax was altered. (to use an american example).

Its worth considering that this is a left wing populist party that doesn’t like immigration, and what was actually said (the major controversy) is that even if you are born in Sweden, if you commit crimes and do not make any effort to be Swedish: you probably shouldn’t be here.

How this is represented by people is different than that, and its hard for people who don’t speak Swedish to listen to the original sources, but be assured that in Sweden there is an actual party founded by Nazi sympathisers and it is the second most voted for party.

I get not wanting to support someone you think has immoral views, but check the facts first before blacklisting a company that is filled with people trying to push for a more open, private yet transparent internet.

And the Democratic Peoples Republic Of Korea is super Democratic.

https://www.britannica.com/story/were-the-nazis-socialists

I think the other lesson we could draw from America is that we shouldn't let everyone in, they'll kill us, take our place and feel bad about it a few hundred years later... maybe.

Sorry, you speak about this as though you are an American (not sure if you are) but you can't hope to understand the realities of living in a country that just injected 1/10th of its population in a decade.

The demographic of the largest cities in Sweden has changed from 17% foreign born in 1986 to over 55% today- in a single generation. (Malmö, were I live as a migrant myself).

At the same time, the healthcare service is struggling, the police can't cope with the crime situation and there are gangs shooting people and grenades blowing up apartments everywhere.

AND: At the same time, the Geni coefficient remains remarkably low, and income inequality much lower than the US, so this "blame the rich" makes sense in the UK and US, but it's not the problem that Sweden has.

Sweden has mismanaged a lot of its public services (training, then underpaying doctors - leading to them going private, then there being a shortage of doctors which leads to the government paying huge contractor rates for those doctors - which is hugely expensive, so nurses try to avoid you seeing a doctor - which leads to less preventative healthcare, and more serious issues, which is more strain on the healthcare service).

It's not uniquely immigrants fault, they have a role to play in the welfare system and being hugely overrepresented in crime, but it's really not rich peoples fault.

Not in Sweden.

Ok, but then you're saying Sweden is on the hook, in perpetuity, for an entire family tree of a stream of people that seems to never end unless racists take control of migration (which is what has happened now in Sweden).

Honestly, I really understand what you mean, but offering no solution and then talking down anyone who dares talk about it is exactly how extremists got support here in the first place.

If you're not living in sweden please keep in mind: this kind of demographic change is totally unprecedented in all of Europe and in all of history. In less than a 1/3rd of a generation, a decade, 10% of the population of a country was artificially added.

Such a thing has not happened historically unless a country was conquered. -- even then, it took 500 years for Skåne to be Swedish (in fact, many Swedes joke that they're still Danish). Just to say that a cultural shift of such magnitude is going to cause some tension no matter what, nobody has done it at this scale.

To then have those same people and their children, then, cause a disproportionate amount of violent and sexual crime while also being a disproportionate financial cost to the country: absolutely needs some kind of answer.

I'm not saying that Örebro Partiet or SD have that answer, but I sympathise with people who are tired of seeing this happening plainly with their own eyes, and being branded as racists, fascists or nationalists for clumsily trying to talk about it without the right verbiage because they've never had to exercise these kind of thoughts before.

Well, Sweden had to recently ban cousin marriage (it wasn't an issue before) but aside from that (which is a problem for the health service, but not for me personally), there are very differing perspectives towards homosexuality and Womens rights, and it is the second generation that feel most entitled to expressing their dissatisfaction at Swedens attitude towards those topics.

I might be a migrant myself, but I have strong feelings about this too.

Do people still hire QA?

Over the last 16 years all I've seen is people implying (heavily) that they can replace QA with "good enough unit tests"..

Which then inevitably leads to bugs, and performance regressions and developers doing their own QA.

I honestly think that all of this is a psyop to get devs to do more, that and "devops" which is either rebranded sysadmins, or developers working as yaml monkeys between code reviews and feature development.

It's nice to cherry pick inflammatory things that have been stated without their full context.

The context in this case is that he was directly asked:

"What about the people born in Sweden who commit so many crimes and do not integrate at all, live their whole lives on welfare, as we are seeing in the statistics it is mostly the second-generation who are most represented" (I am adlibbing and translating, but this is the question).

Allard then said, as you put it: that being born here is not protection.

Now, that is an extreme position, nobody else would say such a thing, and to be totally clear: it's not possible in the Swedish constitution to strip someone of citizenship (even if they have a claim to another by blood- which is the most common method of attaining any citizenship btw) - it's also against international law to strip someone of a citizenship to leave them stateless.

However there's only 30,000 people (of 2.1M) foreign born people in Sweden whom are otherwise stateless (Palestinians; Balkans who did not reapply after the fall of Yugoslavia), and there is a huge issue with crime and integration.

There are no solutions, but it's kind of valid for Swedish people to be looking at people to ask difficult and stomach-churning questions in some way.